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I see things are still as stupid as ever. Fresh from the DOJ's Blatantly Unsurprising Revelation Department: The government is against criminal background checks......I'll try and contain my amazement. I take a month off to decompress only to come back and see that Speaker Johnson is playing footsies with the Deep State cronies. Wish I could say I was shocked. I did chuckle a bit. What an absolute dumpster fire. Trust no political figure. Well, back to my finely ground organic espresso blend and then it's off to the garden....ankle deep in the "sheetz." Sanity....as it were. Grounding with Creation pays emotional and spiritual dividends.
I had to hire people in various positions I held over the years and surprise, surprise, it was ALWAYS the black women who committed fraud, embezzled, etc., when given roles they were involved with money transactions!!! Plus. our maintenance manager was always distressed because the blacks he hired didn’t want to work and he was black!!!! This is what happens when one minority is told they never have to be responsible for anything! Yes, there are some good black employees, but the percentages are against them! We had a black woman promoted in our jewelry vault to a manager and given more security clearance, and within a few months we found out she was stealing diamonds!!!!!! Yep…..they do it to themselves!
Yes, but unfortunately, my experience has been the reverse! Or they didn’t want to work as hard as us white women! It’s amazing how many times we just wanted someone to apply themselves and yet it was like asking them to cut off a limb. I had one black women I became very good friends that traveled to our office for an insurance agency I worked for. All the rest really were pretty pathetic. Beyond the criminal employees, nothing we did would improve their attitudes, efforts, etc. but because some people didn’t want to fire them for the obvious reasons, they were shuffled around to jobs that they could be ignored for being unproductive! Of course that was a government office that used taxpayer funds!!!! This is very prevalent in government offices because most aren’t accountable to their constituents because it’s too easy to get more taxpayer dollars by lying why they need it! So if they needed more money pass a levy or increase fees!!! The majority of companies I worked for wouldn’t tolerate that and it shouldn’t it be tolerated! I used to consult for public entities who had financial issues!! People have no idea how abusive they are with public funding!
A Democrat high office-holder, political appointee leading some agency under maybe Bill Clinton, wrote in the WaPo when she left office a column about how to handle incompetent or lazy federal government employees, and her advice was to ignore them, because you only had time to either do your real job or work to oust those employees. As a federal manager of employees, I chose to try to oust those employees, but it was very frustrating, because it does indeed take away from much of the real job, that required my professional qualifications. A department manager under me was investigated for discriminatory hiring because she chose a candidate from Guam over a black candidate. One day I noticed that one of my employees, whose office was next to mine, wasn't there. I tracked him down, and he was . . . at home! He said he was on his break. Even the union, which hated my guts and complained about me incessantly, supported me on that one.
When I worked for a small so cal city I ran into the same thing, it was all around me. Man in city truck reading a paperback where he couldn't be seen, the ability to "visit" with others when you have work to do at your desk, or even visiting for hours with you boss. I wish I could say I never did that, what was great at first turned into a farce,so I retired early.
Thy only solution is discrimination. That is, to discriminating between those who are willing to give a good day's work and those who do not, between those who are capable and those who are not, between those who are moral and those who are not. And this means getting the government totally out of the business of running businesses.
Discrimination means being able to tell differences, like the difference between Good and Evil. Discrimination is how we learn ... and as simple as going through life being able to tell the difference between an apple and a pear ... or for that matter, the difference between male and female.
Government uses discrimination not to learn, but as a control manipulation mechanism for political gain.
I worked for a huge international corporation, there were 3 of us in the department, 2 white, 1 black. The black lady told everyone incessantly how hard she worked and that she never made mistakes. We didn't do that. If asked to do something extra or to work a holiday, she would scream and yell at the bosses about how abused she was by the company. They would usually back down. IF they didn't she would threaten to file a discrimination suit.
That place was scared to death of all the black employees.
OMG! I can't believe they put up with that crap!!! Exactly why most people who have good work ethics don't want to work with people like her!!! I've seen in everywhere! Government is the worst for discriminating against its good workers and empowering the bad ones who do very little and always cause trouble.
Attorney Margot Cleveland wrote an excellent column one time, maybe in The Federalist, talking about what she had to do to be successful in life, starting with her paper route, I think it was, when she was very young. There was much more to it than that, as she described what sounded like a very difficult road to success. It made me realize that I, too, had a similar story, getting up to study for pre-med at 3am before my full-time job, then going to my later full-time classes, not to mention the actual medical training and practice that came later - lots of getting up at 3am. It made me realize that in some ways we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves, by not telling those whom we privately criticize as lazy about what it actually takes to be successful, if one isn't rich and famous, but has to work for it, like most of us. Telling them opens us up to accusations of racism and even of legal consequences anymore, sadly, so here we are. I reflected that my black neighbor complained that "the Josés" were "taking all the jobs" from black men. I didn't say that I thought it may be in large part because "the Josés" put in 8 hours of hard work every day. George W. Bush's best phrase was "the soft bigotry of low expectations."
I have the same work ethics, but you can't instill that in others who were never raised to be accountable about anything. They were raised to hate "whitey" not realizing that thank God whitey worked, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten all those welfare benefits. Plus my sons watched me work from home for years and learned their work ethic from me! I left my full time job so I could raise them and worked part time from home. One Christmas they both asked me if they could get their own desk, filing cabinets, and other office things so they could work too!!! I taught them how to answer the phones when I received business calls, take a message, do copying, use the computers, etc. Today they are very successful and I attribute that to developing a strong work ethic early in life. My clients and co-workers loved it when they answered the phones and were always so professional at a very young age. So it does start at home, good or bad! Now if a young adult realizes something isn't right with how they were raised and wants to do a good job, that is a rarity!
Yes, that is a gift that too many parents don't give their kids. We were not perfect parents, we screwed up too. But from the time they were about 5, they had chores. We gave them the basics, but if they wanted the luxury thing (we talked a lot about needs vs wants - you NEED shoes, if you want the swoosh that's on you), they had to work to pay for them, via extra chores, and later, walking dogs, raking leaves, and when they turned 16, a part time job. Made them save for college, and strongly encouraged giving as well. They are now 28 and 30 and constantly complain about the poor work ethic of their similar age co-workers. My son a
is responsible for some hiring of entry level workers, and said he prefers to hire older workers for that reason.
I didn't realize that was his quote. But that is exactly what this lowering of expectations for minority students in education is as well.
And you are right, most successful people have put in insane hours, and made a lot of sacrifices, and often have some level of talent, to get where they are. Getting somewhere just because someone has 'checked a box' will benefit a slacker, but only up to a point, and then the Peter Principle (people rise to a level of their own incompetence) applies. That level of incompetence is lower for someone who was promoted or hired due to some fake qualification (and may not just be diversity hires, ass-kissers get there too) and at some point they still don't get ahead, as the incompetence catches up with them.
Academia (non-faculty) is also a safe haven for POC (tbh, I should have added “all”) slackers. Colleges and universities love to hire POC because diversity! but holding them accountable (after probationary period expires) becomes a full-time job so supervisors eventually give up.
Not in sports though. Look at the demographics of college football & basketball. Coaches’ sign whom they deem can actually contribute in a productive way.
The playing roster for each game is by merit.
Other college sports are similar. Who can perform & who can’t (or won’t).
Yes. I saw a comedy piece the other day - hey, why are there no asians in the NFL?! Where are the hispanics in hockey? And so on, it was pretty funny, and made the point about the absurdity of all of this.
Ugh. Worked for City Government for 30 years. Although most city employees were lazy and unaccountable as a general rule, the worst were the black women. One came to work wearing the attire of a hooker…I kid you not!
I believe you!!! LOL!!! I was elected Fiscal Officer for 18 years and came from the private sector. It was quite an eye opener seeing the mentality of most long time government workers, especially at the county and city levels. We didn’t have the luxury of deep pockets and we’re accountable to our constituents. I can’t say the same for the others! When we went to county meetings it was as if the employees were doing us a service just letting us into the office with the people we were meeting. Half the time we would stand and wait until they finished a personal conversation or personal phone call, instead of interrupting their call or conversation. Amazing they were never told that wasn’t acceptable.
My dad had a similar experience. He owned a company. He only had one black employee because, in his words, “they don’t want to work.” He had a lot of Latino and white employees, but he said that he wouldn’t hire anyone who won’t do the work. I’m sure there are a lot who will. It just wasn’t his experience. It also depends on if they’re American or foreign born. Foreign born will work hard, although I don’t know about the ones coming in now.
So what this proves and I ve been saying all along, is that blacks commit more crime than other races. So to discriminate against felons, unfairly targets blacks why? Wow. Sad that one has to write this down.
It's why I keep praying for God's will "to be done on earth as it is in heaven" it will take a GOD MIRACLE to save our once great Constitutional Republic.
I think "justice-involved," is meant to invoke "social justice," although in the subconscious not the conscious mind. I was really thinking about the use of the term "newcomers" also, since Governor Poisy Hat here in MI is paying 500 bucks a month to anyone who puts one in their spare room, including in Islamist enclaves, and at first it seemed like a term from dystopian sci-fi, or the series "V," but it is also what pastors and rabbis and reverends say to the congregation when they want to welcome visitors. This term is also used at 12-step meetings. So Reverend Rainbow Dementia in the White House (or his globalist cult handlers) want us to perceive the US now as a big pseudo-therapeutic religious cult, which goes along with all their holidays, and lying pronouncements and V for Vendetta rants with orchestral swells. Many of those newcomers were justice-involved before they got here. The government is fused with human traffickers, extremists, and drug cartels and mafias. Justice involved you might say.
I have a son in prison; he doesn't use that term. Does everything we say have to go through the filter "I don't want to hurt their feelings"; when the sometimes the truth hurts but can redeem.
I don't understand this, except that it is a privately owned company and that makes our corporate oligarchy unhappy.
Many jobs ask if you have been arrested for a felony on applications.
Back in the early 90s. in suburban NY where I lived, there were 2 privately family owned pharmacies that had been there since the late 1940s. Enter newfangled CVS which opened across the street from them and in a couple of other locations in my small town. The intent was clear: Corporate oligarchs are here to destroy small business. And they did. Those once successful business owners could not compete with the big. shiny, new fangled stores.
In my parents' adopted hometown back in the 1980s-90s, one former pharmacy's storefront became a carpet store. The last pharmacy my mother used was a few blocks away, in a former carpet shop. Literally, one place went from drugs to rugs, and the other from rugs to drugs.
As stated, it really has nothing to do with discrimination or background felony checks. It has everything to do with their in-reception of biden coming in to get his daily ice cream cone. They probably knew immediately based on the reception this business wasn’t gonna kiss his ass or pretend to like him in any way. This is a totalitarian regime and communist dictatorship we are being forced to live under - if we don’t bow to them they WILL come after us. This is just more handling of the political opponent to make us afraid so if he stumbles into your business you WILL clap and you WILL do what we say or we will use the law to bankrupt you, throw you in prison or ruin you so you never see the light of day again. It is intimidation at work. Just ask any person who even thinks about attending a peaceful protest against the regime these days. Why don’t we see the protests like the other countries? Because the regime will imprison you unlawfully for years and get away with it. There are no checks and balances. Those are days of old gone by. THIS is the new normal they created for us peasants. This is Obummers new America. He fundamentally changed it just like he said he would. Buckle up if you own a business in the path of the wandering ice cream man. But ALWAYS fight back! Do not shrink back or cower. Fight to the end.
What’s really gross is that it appears that it’s lawfare.... Biden received a not so great reception when he visited a Sheetz, so immediately after decided to sue, even thought they’d been atrempting to work to a resolution on this issue for 8 years. Really makes it seem like someone at the DOJ saw the footage and decided it was an opportune moment to strike. Even if that’s not the case,that’s the optics.
I was a General Manager at Sheetz, in multiple stores, for 13 years, throughout Pennsylvania & one Maryland store. They literally do background checks on every single applicant. Their policy was always, if the applicant has a felony, of any kind, they are NOT hired. I remember one young woman in particular that applied for an assistant position. She had moved to Pa from somewhere in the midwest. She had great credentials, was very experienced in C-store management. Sheetz would not allow me to hire her because she had a conviction for vehicular homicide in a drunk driving incident, five years prior. Even though she had stopped drinking & turned her life around. She was not a “minority”. I can give many examples. They have a “zero tolerance” policy on drug use, so a prior conviction on drugs, also makes them ineligible, and if an employee is caught with drugs, or drug paraphernalia, it is grounds for termination, regardless of race. I saw it happen many times. I am not sure what their dispute for eight years is all about. I left the company in 2016.
It’s a sticky wicket. Supposedly, convicted felons who served their time have “paid their debt to society” and should be given second chances. Many prove themselves worthy. Recidivists, not so much. Private business owners should have the right to accept or reject taking the risk and perhaps err on the side of grace, but no govt entity should dictate one way or the other.
Having to repeatedly go through background checks and being rejected solely on the basis of being a former offender, is a big contributor to recidivism. Should one who has paid his/her debt and strives to make an honest living be branded for life? Our society needs to learn forgiveness. There are plenty of criminally minded people who have never served time, and there are also plenty of decent people who need a second chance.
It is Fascism; the GVT-Corporate Complex owns and controls everyone esp. small businesses and owners and sets up impossible requirements and ever-changes them, everything is an opportunity for lawsuits and claims and violations at any given moment. Set up a DEI , pay protection $$$, and payout to all those denied employment over the past 8 years then SHEETZ can carry on as if this isn't extortion and assault on Liberty; until the next opportune time. If they set up shop in CO they can expect to celebrate employee transition-days and FAKE Wedding Anniversaries.
Thanks for your first hand knowledge here. It is interesting and helpful.
I don't really like living in a world where background checks and drug tests are required in order to be hired. I've never tasted alcohol or used drugs or had a criminal record in all my life, but I resent the idea of being treated as though one might be a criminal just to get a job or become an adoptive parent, etc.
I think those things give government and businesses too much control over ordinary lives. But the government has also made it illegal to use common sense and wisdom about deciding who to trust in hiring. So businesses turn to what seems straightforward and indiscriminating with these background check requirements. And they still get in trouble!
But it would be better if business people could use discretion and good judgment about whether someone has reformed and deserves a second chance. It would be more humane and godly. Yet it also opens up businesses to being sued if they hire someone who goes on to do something wrong. We live in a world that has become so complicated. Trust in society is going down by the day. It's become hard to treat people fairly and kindly and still stay in business, so I sympathize with Sheetz.
Another aspect to consider, and I can’t speak to any other business, is that at Sheetz, every employee, regardless of position, shared in a bonus pool that was paid quarterly. As the GM, one of my obligations was to maintain tight controls, obviously the company wanted to make as much profit as possible. But I always looked at it as, my role was more beneficial to my staff. The better the controls & higher the profits (the bottom line), the better the bonus was for the staff. So, by not hiring people, with say, a criminal record for theft, it was deemed lowering the risk. Any kind of theft, whether cash or merchandise, hit the bottom line, which reduced the bonuses the staff worked so hard for. Even when the theft was recovered, my employees never saw it. It went straight to the company. I think if you were to query the staff, they would choose a co-worker without a criminal record, every time. That’s not to say that we didn’t have thieves occasionally, that had no criminal record. They were always caught. And they were always terminated.
I agree with you all. I think the point I was trying to make, was that Sheetz did not discriminate against minorities. Their policies applied to everyone, equally. Unfortunately, that’s not good enough anymore.
Gardening, yes. I do have a small area tilled up in back, and got it raked up yesterday so I can drop in a few pepper and tomato starts today, before the rain comes in. I haven't been able to have a vegetable garden the last two years, because of my 2021 illness. The man who now mows my yard tilled up a spot for me.
Funny story- 20 years ago we bought a new home in the CA desert. There was nothing but barren sand all around. I felt really odd for months until I got some fake plants for decor. Just seeing the fake foliage made me feel better! Then I added some real plants around the front door- definitely made us all feel at ease. My cats did not want to leave the plants to come inside! I think there’s symbiosis.
I was a victim of reverse discrimination in '94 as a teacher. I subbed at a school for a year and finally got the job but at the last moment a minority applied so they hired her instead to adhere to the minority quota. I knew life wasn't fair, but it wasn't even about me but the children.
I was positive and pressed on and even subbed for her BUT I don't know how she graduated HS! Her teacher notes were written in such bad English I was shocked and angry that they did not hire the best person or care that she was uneducated herself. That is the pubic education system and it is much worse 30 years later. Public ed does a background check but how to criminals and pedos get jobs?
It has been such since the 80’s when “affirmative action” was jammed down our throats. Whatever name it goes by, it destroys human flourishing. There is a strata of the population that will toe a line of it serves them, such as staying off drugs and out of trouble with the law, so they can get a job and have food and shelter. When you get food and shelter without meeting reasonable requirements for a job, why bother? And, if you’re in a job, you have to perform or get fired. When firing is not a threat to your food and shelter, and drug and other crimes are punished mildly if at all, these people will sink to the lowest level of effort they can. So that strata of people is unleashed upon us all in life and in the workplace.
*Should be either Summa Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude (with the former being the highest honors). I think that would be a great bumper sticker to have 😁 Far too little respect is given to having actuel sense!
Trickle-down immorality, trickle-down incompetence, trickle-down slave culture; rather than elevate and raise standards, the Massa-Class Plans make us all slaves, subjects, chattel, and lesser-thanz by diluting excellence, mal-education, mal-hiring and proclaiming that it is equitable and just and fair
I came to this substack for covid news and Jeff never disappointed, but lately it’s been everything but covid. I don’t blame Jeff as there is now a concerted effort to make covid disappear. Even the most lockdown states have quit doing covid case and death dashboards. Even though a strange 2 to 3 week illness had friends and family down for the count, it was called influenza, but strangely resembled all the symptoms of covid. Still, Covid is gone, but the wheels of deep state government churn on.
I had to laugh at all the stories they put out saying covid suppressed the usual flu that has plagued the world every year since who knows when. Then suddenly it "disappears" or takes a break so covid can have center stage? I don't think so. Boy do they think we are dumb.
"...when covid "broke out", flu disappeared." More true than you know.
Personal anecdote: mid March 2020, ISO stats on the new covid I went to the CDC website. Easily found covid data among all, including for comparison the decades longstanding P&I (pneumonia and influenza) data. A couple of days later I went back for an update. P&I data was gone. Disappeared. I searched for 20 minutes. Couldn't find it anywhere, and it should have been easily located as it had been for decades. Made no sense. Knew then, 2 seconds before lockdown, something was funky. 🤔 The rest is history. Thanks for reading.
Sisters (and brothers), we have just been through what is probably the most confusing period in modern history in the West excepting if you were one of those in Europe having bombs dropped on your head in WWII and then it didn't matter if you were English, German or French, it was all the same bombs. We have all been the victims of the largest psyops in human history and those who planned and executed the plandemic have been working on this long before Trump even thought of being a politician. He was no more responsible for the plandemic than Biden was, though Biden willingly went along with it and relished in the power it gave him over us. They are two men cut from entirely different bolts of cloth.
What we have to understand is that we are STILL being victimized by their psyops. They WANT us fighting each other over who is responsible for what happened. At least half of what we think we know is total psyops and misdirection. This is all part of their plan to keep us blind to the truth and to cover their trail. They throw up straw men and false leads and we fall for it, always having our eyes distracted from seeing the actual culprits responsible.
We fell for the lie that there was an actual virus, that it was spreading into a pandemic, that it was deadly, that it originated in some second-rate Chinese lab and that we needed a miracle cure that they somehow managed to cook up, manufacture and were ready to distribute in a matter of WEEKS! IT WAS ALL A LIE! It was all psyops. And still is.
Now they want to keep us fighting with each other over the false rabbit trails they feed us while they roll out their next two phases of their operation: the military take-down of the American people and the conversion of humanity into trans-humanist slaves with no free will. As we speak, a foreign army is being trained, organized and armed inside the US by the Dept of Defense drawn from the over 20 million people that have crossed over our southern border since Biden took office. There are secret military training camps in the interior of the US that are training an army of more than 2 million non-Americans that will be deployed against us when the time is ripe. The fight over the border is just more theater to distract us. The border will never be closed as long as Biden is in office but in any event, the invasion is a fait accompli. It is too late.
The plandemic itself was a military campaign, planned and executed by the US Dept of Defense using politicians and drug companies as fronts. The bio-weapon shot was developed and manufactured long before the "covid" was released, all on Defense Dept contracts under military law. Think about it. Even without direct evidence, no other organization has the capacity, skill set and funding to create such a campaign other than the US Defense Dept. But Dr. David Martin has documented the actual evidence proving all of this. Dr. Ana Mihalcea along with others have documented the proof of the trans-humanist design of the bio-weapon shot. It is heavy reading but if you have not familiarized yourself with their material, then you are uninformed.
For more evidence, see these two links:
US Military is the Largest Investor in mRNA Synthetic Biology
(You can scroll down and click on 'read for free')
America is being invaded and destroyed with the help of our leaders. Michael Yon has spent his life covering wars, so he recognized right away what was happening. Yon joined Tucker to unveil the shadowy nonprofits that are fueling the migrant crisis currently unfolding on our southern border.
For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
"...for it does not subject itself to the law of God..."
Funny, how the law of God always seems to be the bedrock for "...the things of the Spirit" yet we spend no effort anymore in the church on Biblical law. Why is that?
This REALLY says it all. Anyone else in the media talking about this?
“Perhaps the most ironic and hilarious part of this Sheetzy story is that the federal government — including the EEOC which is suing Sheetz for using criminal background checks in hiring — itself requires applicants to undergo criminal background checks…”
When I'm out there (central PA) which unfortunately is rare, I always fill the tank at Sheetz--best gas prices. Didn't know it was family owned--a major plus for me.
I see things are still as stupid as ever. Fresh from the DOJ's Blatantly Unsurprising Revelation Department: The government is against criminal background checks......I'll try and contain my amazement. I take a month off to decompress only to come back and see that Speaker Johnson is playing footsies with the Deep State cronies. Wish I could say I was shocked. I did chuckle a bit. What an absolute dumpster fire. Trust no political figure. Well, back to my finely ground organic espresso blend and then it's off to the garden....ankle deep in the "sheetz." Sanity....as it were. Grounding with Creation pays emotional and spiritual dividends.
Isn’t it RACIST of the Biden Admin to suggest that Blacks are the criminals being checked???
(Sorry, I know I could ask that more eloquently. Jeff beat me to my coffee!)
I had to hire people in various positions I held over the years and surprise, surprise, it was ALWAYS the black women who committed fraud, embezzled, etc., when given roles they were involved with money transactions!!! Plus. our maintenance manager was always distressed because the blacks he hired didn’t want to work and he was black!!!! This is what happens when one minority is told they never have to be responsible for anything! Yes, there are some good black employees, but the percentages are against them! We had a black woman promoted in our jewelry vault to a manager and given more security clearance, and within a few months we found out she was stealing diamonds!!!!!! Yep…..they do it to themselves!
I’ve worked with great black women and horrible destructive ones.
And I can tell you from experience that the truly great keep their distance from the horrible!
Yes, but unfortunately, my experience has been the reverse! Or they didn’t want to work as hard as us white women! It’s amazing how many times we just wanted someone to apply themselves and yet it was like asking them to cut off a limb. I had one black women I became very good friends that traveled to our office for an insurance agency I worked for. All the rest really were pretty pathetic. Beyond the criminal employees, nothing we did would improve their attitudes, efforts, etc. but because some people didn’t want to fire them for the obvious reasons, they were shuffled around to jobs that they could be ignored for being unproductive! Of course that was a government office that used taxpayer funds!!!! This is very prevalent in government offices because most aren’t accountable to their constituents because it’s too easy to get more taxpayer dollars by lying why they need it! So if they needed more money pass a levy or increase fees!!! The majority of companies I worked for wouldn’t tolerate that and it shouldn’t it be tolerated! I used to consult for public entities who had financial issues!! People have no idea how abusive they are with public funding!
A Democrat high office-holder, political appointee leading some agency under maybe Bill Clinton, wrote in the WaPo when she left office a column about how to handle incompetent or lazy federal government employees, and her advice was to ignore them, because you only had time to either do your real job or work to oust those employees. As a federal manager of employees, I chose to try to oust those employees, but it was very frustrating, because it does indeed take away from much of the real job, that required my professional qualifications. A department manager under me was investigated for discriminatory hiring because she chose a candidate from Guam over a black candidate. One day I noticed that one of my employees, whose office was next to mine, wasn't there. I tracked him down, and he was . . . at home! He said he was on his break. Even the union, which hated my guts and complained about me incessantly, supported me on that one.
When I worked for a small so cal city I ran into the same thing, it was all around me. Man in city truck reading a paperback where he couldn't be seen, the ability to "visit" with others when you have work to do at your desk, or even visiting for hours with you boss. I wish I could say I never did that, what was great at first turned into a farce,so I retired early.
Thy only solution is discrimination. That is, to discriminating between those who are willing to give a good day's work and those who do not, between those who are capable and those who are not, between those who are moral and those who are not. And this means getting the government totally out of the business of running businesses.
Discrimination means being able to tell differences, like the difference between Good and Evil. Discrimination is how we learn ... and as simple as going through life being able to tell the difference between an apple and a pear ... or for that matter, the difference between male and female.
Government uses discrimination not to learn, but as a control manipulation mechanism for political gain.
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I worked for a huge international corporation, there were 3 of us in the department, 2 white, 1 black. The black lady told everyone incessantly how hard she worked and that she never made mistakes. We didn't do that. If asked to do something extra or to work a holiday, she would scream and yell at the bosses about how abused she was by the company. They would usually back down. IF they didn't she would threaten to file a discrimination suit.
That place was scared to death of all the black employees.
OMG! I can't believe they put up with that crap!!! Exactly why most people who have good work ethics don't want to work with people like her!!! I've seen in everywhere! Government is the worst for discriminating against its good workers and empowering the bad ones who do very little and always cause trouble.
All the mean girls I worked for were white women.
No diversity there!
Attorney Margot Cleveland wrote an excellent column one time, maybe in The Federalist, talking about what she had to do to be successful in life, starting with her paper route, I think it was, when she was very young. There was much more to it than that, as she described what sounded like a very difficult road to success. It made me realize that I, too, had a similar story, getting up to study for pre-med at 3am before my full-time job, then going to my later full-time classes, not to mention the actual medical training and practice that came later - lots of getting up at 3am. It made me realize that in some ways we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves, by not telling those whom we privately criticize as lazy about what it actually takes to be successful, if one isn't rich and famous, but has to work for it, like most of us. Telling them opens us up to accusations of racism and even of legal consequences anymore, sadly, so here we are. I reflected that my black neighbor complained that "the Josés" were "taking all the jobs" from black men. I didn't say that I thought it may be in large part because "the Josés" put in 8 hours of hard work every day. George W. Bush's best phrase was "the soft bigotry of low expectations."
I have the same work ethics, but you can't instill that in others who were never raised to be accountable about anything. They were raised to hate "whitey" not realizing that thank God whitey worked, otherwise they wouldn't have gotten all those welfare benefits. Plus my sons watched me work from home for years and learned their work ethic from me! I left my full time job so I could raise them and worked part time from home. One Christmas they both asked me if they could get their own desk, filing cabinets, and other office things so they could work too!!! I taught them how to answer the phones when I received business calls, take a message, do copying, use the computers, etc. Today they are very successful and I attribute that to developing a strong work ethic early in life. My clients and co-workers loved it when they answered the phones and were always so professional at a very young age. So it does start at home, good or bad! Now if a young adult realizes something isn't right with how they were raised and wants to do a good job, that is a rarity!
Yes, that is a gift that too many parents don't give their kids. We were not perfect parents, we screwed up too. But from the time they were about 5, they had chores. We gave them the basics, but if they wanted the luxury thing (we talked a lot about needs vs wants - you NEED shoes, if you want the swoosh that's on you), they had to work to pay for them, via extra chores, and later, walking dogs, raking leaves, and when they turned 16, a part time job. Made them save for college, and strongly encouraged giving as well. They are now 28 and 30 and constantly complain about the poor work ethic of their similar age co-workers. My son a
is responsible for some hiring of entry level workers, and said he prefers to hire older workers for that reason.
Very well done! We did the same and it paid off!! It was how we were raised!
I didn't realize that was his quote. But that is exactly what this lowering of expectations for minority students in education is as well.
And you are right, most successful people have put in insane hours, and made a lot of sacrifices, and often have some level of talent, to get where they are. Getting somewhere just because someone has 'checked a box' will benefit a slacker, but only up to a point, and then the Peter Principle (people rise to a level of their own incompetence) applies. That level of incompetence is lower for someone who was promoted or hired due to some fake qualification (and may not just be diversity hires, ass-kissers get there too) and at some point they still don't get ahead, as the incompetence catches up with them.
It's cultural, not race per se.
Academia (non-faculty) is also a safe haven for POC (tbh, I should have added “all”) slackers. Colleges and universities love to hire POC because diversity! but holding them accountable (after probationary period expires) becomes a full-time job so supervisors eventually give up.
Yes, college academia loves DEI!
Not in sports though. Look at the demographics of college football & basketball. Coaches’ sign whom they deem can actually contribute in a productive way.
The playing roster for each game is by merit.
Other college sports are similar. Who can perform & who can’t (or won’t).
Yes. What a novel idea: having a job based on performance/merit. 😉
Yes. I saw a comedy piece the other day - hey, why are there no asians in the NFL?! Where are the hispanics in hockey? And so on, it was pretty funny, and made the point about the absurdity of all of this.
Cliches don’t just happen.
Ugh. Worked for City Government for 30 years. Although most city employees were lazy and unaccountable as a general rule, the worst were the black women. One came to work wearing the attire of a hooker…I kid you not!
I believe you!!! LOL!!! I was elected Fiscal Officer for 18 years and came from the private sector. It was quite an eye opener seeing the mentality of most long time government workers, especially at the county and city levels. We didn’t have the luxury of deep pockets and we’re accountable to our constituents. I can’t say the same for the others! When we went to county meetings it was as if the employees were doing us a service just letting us into the office with the people we were meeting. Half the time we would stand and wait until they finished a personal conversation or personal phone call, instead of interrupting their call or conversation. Amazing they were never told that wasn’t acceptable.
My dad had a similar experience. He owned a company. He only had one black employee because, in his words, “they don’t want to work.” He had a lot of Latino and white employees, but he said that he wouldn’t hire anyone who won’t do the work. I’m sure there are a lot who will. It just wasn’t his experience. It also depends on if they’re American or foreign born. Foreign born will work hard, although I don’t know about the ones coming in now.
Actually...they "do it" to ALL of us - we are ALL connected in this "game" we call "life"!
No man is an island
Hired employees for MANY years - always checking backgrounds, ALL applicants, ALL shapes, ALL sizes.
Where is the lawsuit against EEOC for the discrimination and racism they engage in?
Exactly! I've had these silly, part-time retail jobs and ALL of them required criminal background checks--and I wasn't a "regular" employee!
So what this proves and I ve been saying all along, is that blacks commit more crime than other races. So to discriminate against felons, unfairly targets blacks why? Wow. Sad that one has to write this down.
Would Biden be able to pass the background check? Hunter couldn't.
I had never heard the term "justice-involved individuals" before. Kind of like all those "newcomers" invading the country.
Yet the J6 prisoners are called insurrectionists and President Trump is called a felon. Two tiered justice system…so sickening
It's why I keep praying for God's will "to be done on earth as it is in heaven" it will take a GOD MIRACLE to save our once great Constitutional Republic.
And folks living just lives are not involved with justice....
Um, not under Xiden.
I think "justice-involved," is meant to invoke "social justice," although in the subconscious not the conscious mind. I was really thinking about the use of the term "newcomers" also, since Governor Poisy Hat here in MI is paying 500 bucks a month to anyone who puts one in their spare room, including in Islamist enclaves, and at first it seemed like a term from dystopian sci-fi, or the series "V," but it is also what pastors and rabbis and reverends say to the congregation when they want to welcome visitors. This term is also used at 12-step meetings. So Reverend Rainbow Dementia in the White House (or his globalist cult handlers) want us to perceive the US now as a big pseudo-therapeutic religious cult, which goes along with all their holidays, and lying pronouncements and V for Vendetta rants with orchestral swells. Many of those newcomers were justice-involved before they got here. The government is fused with human traffickers, extremists, and drug cartels and mafias. Justice involved you might say.
My soul weeps for my grandchildren - what kind of world will they live in?
A dystopian one...if we don't fight back.
Wow Cynthia, that was pretty darn good.
Later Jay
HELL NO!!! People in DE have called the Biden family "dirty" for decades!!
I have a son in prison; he doesn't use that term. Does everything we say have to go through the filter "I don't want to hurt their feelings"; when the sometimes the truth hurts but can redeem.
I don't understand this, except that it is a privately owned company and that makes our corporate oligarchy unhappy.
Many jobs ask if you have been arrested for a felony on applications.
Back in the early 90s. in suburban NY where I lived, there were 2 privately family owned pharmacies that had been there since the late 1940s. Enter newfangled CVS which opened across the street from them and in a couple of other locations in my small town. The intent was clear: Corporate oligarchs are here to destroy small business. And they did. Those once successful business owners could not compete with the big. shiny, new fangled stores.
I always go to the small, independent stores, but the CVS and Riteaid’s are buying them all out!
CVS would be nowhere without being in bed with Big Health Insurance prescription plans!
CVS owns Aetna
In my parents' adopted hometown back in the 1980s-90s, one former pharmacy's storefront became a carpet store. The last pharmacy my mother used was a few blocks away, in a former carpet shop. Literally, one place went from drugs to rugs, and the other from rugs to drugs.
My dad owned a chain of carpet stores in NoCal. Buy rugs not drugs. Great tagline.
And Walgreens as well. Complete with a health clinic right in the lobby. How convenient.
WalMart did this to almost everywhere-USA. Now look at "all" the choices we have........ and the power and sway they have is obscene.
Later Jay
Here's my favorite Steve Earle song about that
Burnin' It Down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVO91U7E3rE
Who’s being racist? Government for arresting them in the first place. Also, why can’t they be on a jury? 🤔 I’d turn it right around in their face.
I thought the same thing, mzlizzi.
I used to work for the post office. I’ve worked in multiple hospitals. I’ve had numerous background checks and I’m white.
How can it be racial discrimination if they background check ALL applicants?
As stated, it really has nothing to do with discrimination or background felony checks. It has everything to do with their in-reception of biden coming in to get his daily ice cream cone. They probably knew immediately based on the reception this business wasn’t gonna kiss his ass or pretend to like him in any way. This is a totalitarian regime and communist dictatorship we are being forced to live under - if we don’t bow to them they WILL come after us. This is just more handling of the political opponent to make us afraid so if he stumbles into your business you WILL clap and you WILL do what we say or we will use the law to bankrupt you, throw you in prison or ruin you so you never see the light of day again. It is intimidation at work. Just ask any person who even thinks about attending a peaceful protest against the regime these days. Why don’t we see the protests like the other countries? Because the regime will imprison you unlawfully for years and get away with it. There are no checks and balances. Those are days of old gone by. THIS is the new normal they created for us peasants. This is Obummers new America. He fundamentally changed it just like he said he would. Buckle up if you own a business in the path of the wandering ice cream man. But ALWAYS fight back! Do not shrink back or cower. Fight to the end.
Actually, I go further. The Guberment (Biden) is using 'law' as a terror weapon. Sheetz is being terrorized ... and the rest of the country with them.
FACT: we now live in a Terror State.
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They should have just refused to serve him.
In a Free Country, like we used to have eight-three some years ago, anyone could refuse to serve anyone for any reason. I remember when it was so.
🤣 That would have been awesome—refusing to serve a white guy!
Exactly!!!!!
Great solution to the background check issue: just don't hire black people, or hire one for every store. . .
What’s really gross is that it appears that it’s lawfare.... Biden received a not so great reception when he visited a Sheetz, so immediately after decided to sue, even thought they’d been atrempting to work to a resolution on this issue for 8 years. Really makes it seem like someone at the DOJ saw the footage and decided it was an opportune moment to strike. Even if that’s not the case,that’s the optics.
I’d bet the Sheetz owners are MAGA. That’s why.
Well they’re working aren’t they?😉
Typical narcissistic behavior: The narcissist either overtly or covertly punishes the people who do not worship him or her.
I was a General Manager at Sheetz, in multiple stores, for 13 years, throughout Pennsylvania & one Maryland store. They literally do background checks on every single applicant. Their policy was always, if the applicant has a felony, of any kind, they are NOT hired. I remember one young woman in particular that applied for an assistant position. She had moved to Pa from somewhere in the midwest. She had great credentials, was very experienced in C-store management. Sheetz would not allow me to hire her because she had a conviction for vehicular homicide in a drunk driving incident, five years prior. Even though she had stopped drinking & turned her life around. She was not a “minority”. I can give many examples. They have a “zero tolerance” policy on drug use, so a prior conviction on drugs, also makes them ineligible, and if an employee is caught with drugs, or drug paraphernalia, it is grounds for termination, regardless of race. I saw it happen many times. I am not sure what their dispute for eight years is all about. I left the company in 2016.
It’s a sticky wicket. Supposedly, convicted felons who served their time have “paid their debt to society” and should be given second chances. Many prove themselves worthy. Recidivists, not so much. Private business owners should have the right to accept or reject taking the risk and perhaps err on the side of grace, but no govt entity should dictate one way or the other.
Having to repeatedly go through background checks and being rejected solely on the basis of being a former offender, is a big contributor to recidivism. Should one who has paid his/her debt and strives to make an honest living be branded for life? Our society needs to learn forgiveness. There are plenty of criminally minded people who have never served time, and there are also plenty of decent people who need a second chance.
It is Fascism; the GVT-Corporate Complex owns and controls everyone esp. small businesses and owners and sets up impossible requirements and ever-changes them, everything is an opportunity for lawsuits and claims and violations at any given moment. Set up a DEI , pay protection $$$, and payout to all those denied employment over the past 8 years then SHEETZ can carry on as if this isn't extortion and assault on Liberty; until the next opportune time. If they set up shop in CO they can expect to celebrate employee transition-days and FAKE Wedding Anniversaries.
Thanks for your first hand knowledge here. It is interesting and helpful.
I don't really like living in a world where background checks and drug tests are required in order to be hired. I've never tasted alcohol or used drugs or had a criminal record in all my life, but I resent the idea of being treated as though one might be a criminal just to get a job or become an adoptive parent, etc.
I think those things give government and businesses too much control over ordinary lives. But the government has also made it illegal to use common sense and wisdom about deciding who to trust in hiring. So businesses turn to what seems straightforward and indiscriminating with these background check requirements. And they still get in trouble!
But it would be better if business people could use discretion and good judgment about whether someone has reformed and deserves a second chance. It would be more humane and godly. Yet it also opens up businesses to being sued if they hire someone who goes on to do something wrong. We live in a world that has become so complicated. Trust in society is going down by the day. It's become hard to treat people fairly and kindly and still stay in business, so I sympathize with Sheetz.
And unfortunately, narcissism is the real pandemic in our society.
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Another aspect to consider, and I can’t speak to any other business, is that at Sheetz, every employee, regardless of position, shared in a bonus pool that was paid quarterly. As the GM, one of my obligations was to maintain tight controls, obviously the company wanted to make as much profit as possible. But I always looked at it as, my role was more beneficial to my staff. The better the controls & higher the profits (the bottom line), the better the bonus was for the staff. So, by not hiring people, with say, a criminal record for theft, it was deemed lowering the risk. Any kind of theft, whether cash or merchandise, hit the bottom line, which reduced the bonuses the staff worked so hard for. Even when the theft was recovered, my employees never saw it. It went straight to the company. I think if you were to query the staff, they would choose a co-worker without a criminal record, every time. That’s not to say that we didn’t have thieves occasionally, that had no criminal record. They were always caught. And they were always terminated.
That’s a good counterpoint to erring on the side of grace. Law-abiding employees shouldn’t have to bear the risks of working with convicted felons.
I agree with you all. I think the point I was trying to make, was that Sheetz did not discriminate against minorities. Their policies applied to everyone, equally. Unfortunately, that’s not good enough anymore.
So true. They need to look down on people—or there will be hell to pay. Their world view can’t be questioned.
Time for the C&C community to get behind Sheetz!!
Drive Forth & Multiply!
Lawfare = Terrorism
I took a week off; came back things are worse. Yikes! I’m headed to the garden as well
A garden is a place where one can feel good! Even relaxed.
I did the same. Took a break from Substack and built two 4’x8’ new gardens. Three weeks and the vegetables are already growing.
Nice, my seeds are slowly starting. For me there is nothing better that working in the dirt
Is this another one of those scam accounts? I wouldn't click it.
Reported you moron Lisa
Go away
Gardening and indoor plants are infinitely better for your mental health these days.
No wonder God’s presence was in Eden- an utterly beautiful garden.
Gardening, yes. I do have a small area tilled up in back, and got it raked up yesterday so I can drop in a few pepper and tomato starts today, before the rain comes in. I haven't been able to have a vegetable garden the last two years, because of my 2021 illness. The man who now mows my yard tilled up a spot for me.
Funny story- 20 years ago we bought a new home in the CA desert. There was nothing but barren sand all around. I felt really odd for months until I got some fake plants for decor. Just seeing the fake foliage made me feel better! Then I added some real plants around the front door- definitely made us all feel at ease. My cats did not want to leave the plants to come inside! I think there’s symbiosis.
There are so many succulents that require no maintenance 💕
I was a victim of reverse discrimination in '94 as a teacher. I subbed at a school for a year and finally got the job but at the last moment a minority applied so they hired her instead to adhere to the minority quota. I knew life wasn't fair, but it wasn't even about me but the children.
I was positive and pressed on and even subbed for her BUT I don't know how she graduated HS! Her teacher notes were written in such bad English I was shocked and angry that they did not hire the best person or care that she was uneducated herself. That is the pubic education system and it is much worse 30 years later. Public ed does a background check but how to criminals and pedos get jobs?
It has been such since the 80’s when “affirmative action” was jammed down our throats. Whatever name it goes by, it destroys human flourishing. There is a strata of the population that will toe a line of it serves them, such as staying off drugs and out of trouble with the law, so they can get a job and have food and shelter. When you get food and shelter without meeting reasonable requirements for a job, why bother? And, if you’re in a job, you have to perform or get fired. When firing is not a threat to your food and shelter, and drug and other crimes are punished mildly if at all, these people will sink to the lowest level of effort they can. So that strata of people is unleashed upon us all in life and in the workplace.
All of it planned and implemented to move in the NWO by a bunch of luciferians...
It is Biblical and I just have to appreciate all the beauty and good and trust Jesus.
Exactly! You must have graduated Magna Summa Cum Laude from the School of Common Sense!
That sounds like a great bumper sticker slogan idea 😁
Yeah!
Graduated Magna Sum Laude
School of Common Sense
*Should be either Summa Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude (with the former being the highest honors). I think that would be a great bumper sticker to have 😁 Far too little respect is given to having actuel sense!
How did she get where she was?
"The soft bigotry of low expectations." - George W. Bush
AKA racism - the assumption that she couldn't do better because she's black.
Trickle-down immorality, trickle-down incompetence, trickle-down slave culture; rather than elevate and raise standards, the Massa-Class Plans make us all slaves, subjects, chattel, and lesser-thanz by diluting excellence, mal-education, mal-hiring and proclaiming that it is equitable and just and fair
Missed you, Eric…
I came to this substack for covid news and Jeff never disappointed, but lately it’s been everything but covid. I don’t blame Jeff as there is now a concerted effort to make covid disappear. Even the most lockdown states have quit doing covid case and death dashboards. Even though a strange 2 to 3 week illness had friends and family down for the count, it was called influenza, but strangely resembled all the symptoms of covid. Still, Covid is gone, but the wheels of deep state government churn on.
That's funny, when covid "broke out", flu disappeared. Now covid is gone and the flu is back? What's wrong with this picture????
I had to laugh at all the stories they put out saying covid suppressed the usual flu that has plagued the world every year since who knows when. Then suddenly it "disappears" or takes a break so covid can have center stage? I don't think so. Boy do they think we are dumb.
"...when covid "broke out", flu disappeared." More true than you know.
Personal anecdote: mid March 2020, ISO stats on the new covid I went to the CDC website. Easily found covid data among all, including for comparison the decades longstanding P&I (pneumonia and influenza) data. A couple of days later I went back for an update. P&I data was gone. Disappeared. I searched for 20 minutes. Couldn't find it anywhere, and it should have been easily located as it had been for decades. Made no sense. Knew then, 2 seconds before lockdown, something was funky. 🤔 The rest is history. Thanks for reading.
Yup. Obvious psyops but it's all ignored.
What surprises me now about C&C is not the drop in convid coverage, but surely it is now evident that Trump is and has been part of the problem?
Gee, are we forgetting who has actually been controlling the levers of power in the WH the last 3 years?
Be careful, they hang you around these parts if you say anything bad about trumperman.
Troll much?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Yep. Lord forbid you are allowed a different opinion. Thank you Anna!
Sisters (and brothers), we have just been through what is probably the most confusing period in modern history in the West excepting if you were one of those in Europe having bombs dropped on your head in WWII and then it didn't matter if you were English, German or French, it was all the same bombs. We have all been the victims of the largest psyops in human history and those who planned and executed the plandemic have been working on this long before Trump even thought of being a politician. He was no more responsible for the plandemic than Biden was, though Biden willingly went along with it and relished in the power it gave him over us. They are two men cut from entirely different bolts of cloth.
What we have to understand is that we are STILL being victimized by their psyops. They WANT us fighting each other over who is responsible for what happened. At least half of what we think we know is total psyops and misdirection. This is all part of their plan to keep us blind to the truth and to cover their trail. They throw up straw men and false leads and we fall for it, always having our eyes distracted from seeing the actual culprits responsible.
We fell for the lie that there was an actual virus, that it was spreading into a pandemic, that it was deadly, that it originated in some second-rate Chinese lab and that we needed a miracle cure that they somehow managed to cook up, manufacture and were ready to distribute in a matter of WEEKS! IT WAS ALL A LIE! It was all psyops. And still is.
Now they want to keep us fighting with each other over the false rabbit trails they feed us while they roll out their next two phases of their operation: the military take-down of the American people and the conversion of humanity into trans-humanist slaves with no free will. As we speak, a foreign army is being trained, organized and armed inside the US by the Dept of Defense drawn from the over 20 million people that have crossed over our southern border since Biden took office. There are secret military training camps in the interior of the US that are training an army of more than 2 million non-Americans that will be deployed against us when the time is ripe. The fight over the border is just more theater to distract us. The border will never be closed as long as Biden is in office but in any event, the invasion is a fait accompli. It is too late.
The plandemic itself was a military campaign, planned and executed by the US Dept of Defense using politicians and drug companies as fronts. The bio-weapon shot was developed and manufactured long before the "covid" was released, all on Defense Dept contracts under military law. Think about it. Even without direct evidence, no other organization has the capacity, skill set and funding to create such a campaign other than the US Defense Dept. But Dr. David Martin has documented the actual evidence proving all of this. Dr. Ana Mihalcea along with others have documented the proof of the trans-humanist design of the bio-weapon shot. It is heavy reading but if you have not familiarized yourself with their material, then you are uninformed.
For more evidence, see these two links:
US Military is the Largest Investor in mRNA Synthetic Biology
(You can scroll down and click on 'read for free')
https://karenkingston.substack.com/p/us-military-is-the-largest-investor-f27
America is being invaded and destroyed with the help of our leaders. Michael Yon has spent his life covering wars, so he recognized right away what was happening. Yon joined Tucker to unveil the shadowy nonprofits that are fueling the migrant crisis currently unfolding on our southern border.
https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-michael-yon-border-invasion/
If the garden is large, may I suggest some “justice-involved individuals" to assist in your efforts?
Anybody know what happened to that yellow-handled shovel?
Did seem rather odd that, as he walked out of the yard, anyone could be so very well-endowed.
That was funny. You gave me a smile.
exactly
All of you mirror exactly how I feel! Back to the garden is an excellent idea!
Just had to get two background checks to do a part-time (post-retirement) lifeguarding job. I'm a 60+ year old white chick. So........
I waited only for C&C to show up, now can go out to garden.
Yes it does—- grounding!
All a distraction until they build enough drones and satellites to destroy all humans on Earth:
https://romanshapoval.substack.com/p/5g-satellites-a-threat-to-all-life
Welcome back Eric. We missed you!
Welcome back Eric!
The news never changes, just the characters do.
Welcome back, Eric!
For those who are according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind set on the flesh is hostile toward God, for it does not subject itself to the law of God, for it is not even able to do so, and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
— Romans 8:5-8 LSB
"...for it does not subject itself to the law of God..."
Funny, how the law of God always seems to be the bedrock for "...the things of the Spirit" yet we spend no effort anymore in the church on Biblical law. Why is that?
Not all churches!
True that
Too convicting to the folks sitting in the pews.
Mrs. "the Knife"
Once again Amen for your choice of scripture today.
This REALLY says it all. Anyone else in the media talking about this?
“Perhaps the most ironic and hilarious part of this Sheetzy story is that the federal government — including the EEOC which is suing Sheetz for using criminal background checks in hiring — itself requires applicants to undergo criminal background checks…”
I predict a sharp uptick at all Sheetz locations. It’s the Reverse Bud Lite Phenomenon.
When I'm out there (central PA) which unfortunately is rare, I always fill the tank at Sheetz--best gas prices. Didn't know it was family owned--a major plus for me.