In an update to my very first post here at FaBA, the Texas Supreme Court has ordered state officials in Texas to return the more than 400 children to their families starting next week. The Judge asserted that Child Protective services "failed to show an immediate danger to nearly all the children swept up from the ranch", which is pretty much exactly the argument I made here. Kudos to Texas, and hopefully now they can focus on persecuting those who are guilty of crimes, instead of the dozens who aren't.
Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary for the Bush administration, published a book called What Happened about his experience in the White House. McClellan has a scathing review of the Bush presidency, and accuses the President and his staff of many things including dishonesty and propaganda about the Iraq war. The reaction has been obvious: Ad Hominem attacks from everywhere, and succinct denial of everything in the book. The Fox News Channel coverage of the book is as dismissing as possible, while other Networks are talking to the man and asking difficult questions like "Are you a hypocrite?" because of his statements while working in the whitehouse about other "Tell-all" books.
Brazilian officials have released photographs taken from an airplane of an isolated tribe living in the jungles near Peru, almost completely unconnected to modern civilization. This is one of approximately two dozen such tribes that are being threatened by illegal logging and the general encroachment of civilization. I find it amazingly interesting that tribes like this still exist in our day, that are so disconnected from modernity that they were firing arrows at the airplane taking the picture.
The employees at Caterpillar who are unionized under United Auto Workers are protesting a decision by the Caterpillar company to make all of its properties 100% smoke free. The move was made by the company after the smoking ban was put in place in Illinois, where most of its factories reside. The company claims that the policy is in place to "ensure that everyone who works on or visits Caterpillar property has access to the healthiest and safest work environment possible". It appears that the employees were perfectly happy being unhealthy, and that they would prefer if the company stayed out of their business. The UAW has stated that there will not be a strike over the policy, but that it will definitely be discussed at their next negotiation meeting.
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