Big Business to Employees: Get Fired If Get Operation to Prevent Breast Cancer

From Denny: Now if this doesn't make you angry. This woman gets fired because she found out, after testing her DNA, that she had an 80% chance of getting the dreaded breast cancer. So, as a preventative measure, she got a double mastectomy to avoid getting sick.

Now, it turns out, her employee figured they could fire her and save some money on their health insurance premiums. Talk about depraved indifference. Now what were these guys doing violating her privacy in the first place? What has her health condition and DNA have to do with her job performance? Answer: none.

Let's see, just how many laws and sense of decency did this energy company violate? Try the Genetic Information Non-discriminaton Act as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act for starters. Health privacy and human rights should be added to the list. Here we go again, women are being treated like second-class citizens in their own country. When is this garbage going to stop?

As long as there are no laws getting enforced there will be egregious corruption and injustices like this case. Just think of all the cases not brought to court because people are so afraid to make a health claim for fear of getting fired from a job they need to pay their bills. In this state of Louisiana doctors are complaining there is little surgery to be had because people injured on the job work with injuries just to avoid getting laid off.

The real inconvenient truth here is that her employer figured out she was a liability as she was getting closer to age 40 and they wanted to start thinning out the employee herd. They went for the older and sick - or those who possibly would be getting sick in the near future - and started firing them.

As long as our current federal government sits on their hands and does nothing to stem this tide in the work place it will only get worse. So, Mr. President, what do you - and this idiot Senate of inconsiderate destructive jerks - plan to do about it? Women and the entire public are tired of these kinds of constant in-your-face injustices.

Pelosi does her job exceedingly well. She has enough toughness to invite the Republicans once and if they refuse she cuts them out from further negotiations. They hate her and respect her. Reid waffles and rarely does his job, achieving a drop of what the Democratic agenda was supposed to be: helping the middle class.

When are you, Mr. President, going to quit listening to the wrong advisors in your administration that are telling you to go softly on Big Business - effectively telling the middle class "Oh, just eat cake if you are hungry!" Mr. President, quit being mollified by these guys who are telling you to sideline the big reforms and just keep the campaign money rolling into the coffers. This is no way to run a transparent and truly ethical government. Stand up for the middle class and be counted.






Pamela Fink Says She Was Fired After Getting a Double Mastectomy To Prevent Breast Cancer: (ABC) Fink Says Her Doctors Told Her She Had an 80 Percent Chance of Getting Breast Cancer


A Connecticut woman claims she was fired despite years of glowing reports by her employer after she told them she had tested positive for the breast cancer gene and would undergo a double mastecomy as a preventative measure.

"I was a great employee and I did really great work," said Pamela Fink, 39. "The only thing that changed from the time that I had a great review to when I didn't was my two surgeries."

Fink has filed complaints at the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities as well as the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that she was fired from the Stamford, Conn., company MXenergy because of her genetic testing results.

She is claiming that by doing so, her employer, MXenergy, a natural gas and electricity provider, violated the Genetic Information Nondiscriminaton Act as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act.





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This Weeks Editorial Cartoons 21 Nov 2009

From Denny: It was a busy week in the news, the kind to lampoon. Women were up in arms throwing rotten tomatoes at some fed panel without qualified specialists deciding to change cancer detection guidelines for breast cancer. Women just feel like they are short-changed by the insurance companies.

Terrorists are finally getting tried in some kind of court whether military or civilian, starting with the controversial New York trial to begin soon.

Health care legislation continues to wind its way down the halls of Congress. Asking these guys to do the decent thing by the middle class has become an act of Congress...

Prez Obama's trip to China and Japan was a bit controversial when Americans saw that deep bow to the Japanese emperor and then no reciprocal similar greeting to Obama as a head of state. Of course, China is a sticking point ever since Prez Bush made them our banker. How do you tell off your banker? Answer, you can't.

Oh, and the GOP continues to disintegrate as dementia specialists. Bringing up the rear is weird Palin selling a book of lies, even in the face of factual emails to prove they are lies. Unbelievable. What is more unbelievable is that the book is supposed to be number one on the best seller list. Oh, come on, folks, just how stupid do you really believe everyone really is? The top 4 money guys for the Republicans have a history of buying up large blocks of book printings just to make their dog in the show look more important than they really are. Palin is no exception.

Here's the week's cartoons, enjoy!

New York petitioned the feds to try the idiot terrorists in New York courts. Opinions are divided: some want the revenge of trying the terrorists on New York soil, others are worried about bringing terrorists onto American soil from Gitmo. Note to "selves" worried about bringing terrorists onto American soil: get real; there already are terrorists on American soil, many of them home-grown domestic ones like Timothy McVay and other white supremacist groups.





Women were not happy about the change in breast cancer health care guidelines from a panel without a breast surgeon or a cancer specialist weighing in:



The continuing health care struggle just to legislate basic decency back into this country:











The GOP on slow decline self-destruct:





An exercise in greed and poor political judgment, The GOP Palin Nightmare:





Here are a couple of news links of the latest Palin weirdness:

Anger, disappointment after Palin stiffs fans at Indiana book signing

Fox uses 2008 rally footage to claim Palin getting huge crowds on book tour - and this is why Fox "News" is known as Liars News.

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President Obama's trip to China and the reminder these guys bought up our debt who President Bush was only too willing to sell them, encouraging Americans to go deeper into debt. Remember the slogan when terrorism struck back in 2001? Bush declared to America, "Go shopping!" That was his idea of how to keep the economy from crashing after a national disaster: make the little people pay for it. Put the middle class in the poor house. Now that's a plan all the while calling their political party the party of fiscal good sense...

Meanwhile, back in the real world Obama is left with the balancing act of a relationship with human rights abuser China also as our banker.









The state of jobs and the American economy:





And America's favorite villain of the moment... It is disgusting how Congress has yet to get serious and take these jerks to task:



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