Honestly, digital distortion just makes this even better. Sometimes dropping acid is just redundant…like when you’re watching the Banana Splits perform “You’re the Lovin’ End.” With stuff like this forming the backdrop and soundtrack to my childhood, is it any wonder I turned out this way?
S 2725 IS
109th CONGRESS
2d Session
S. 2725
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage and to ensure that increases in the Federal minimum wage keep pace with any pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
May 4, 2006
Mrs. CLINTON (for herself, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. JEFFORDS, Mr. LEAHY, Mr. HARKIN, and Mr. OBAMA) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions <hr>
A BILL
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage and to ensure that increases in the Federal minimum wage keep pace with any pay adjustments for Members of Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2006'.
SEC. 2. MINIMUM WAGE.
(a) In General- Section 6(a)(1) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. 206(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
`(1)(A) except as otherwise provided in this section, not less than–
`(i) $5.85 an hour, beginning on the 60th day after the date of enactment of the Standing with Minimum Wage Earners Act of 2006;
`(ii) $6.55 an hour, beginning 12 months after that 60th day, adjusted for that year as provided for in subparagraph (B); and
`(iii) $7.25 an hour, beginning 24 months after that 60th day, adjusted each year as provided for in subparagraph (B); and
`(B) the wage provided for under clauses (ii) and (iii) of subparagraph (A) shall be automatically increased for the year involved by a percentage equal to the percentage by which the annual rate of pay for Members of Congress increased for such year as provided for pursuant to the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1946 (2 U.S.C. 31).'.
(b) Effective Date- The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
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The Trojan nuclear reactor is being dismantled. Assploded, actually. And road trips will never be the same.
How well I remember the first time I laid shocked, awed eyes on this behemoth of nuclear arrogance; it had been raining steadily in Vancouver for three uninterrupted weeks, and my friends Christi and Ken and I had decided to take a wee road trip south for shopping and general recreating purposes.
I don't know what the rain in Spain was like, but the rain in Seattle was exactly the same as the rain in Vancouver, so we just kept driving. At a certain point about halfway to Depoe Bay, Oregon, Christi, gripping the wheel a little too hard and her teeth also, hissed out the side of her mouth, "I hope you two don't mind, but I'm just going to drive south until I see the sun."
We did not think it an opportune moment to wrest control of the steering wheel away from her, nor did we think hers a bad idea in the first place, so we just nodded and continued to passenge passively.
Somewhere south of Seattle and north of the Oregon state line, I saw something looming out of the mists. I know it's a cliche, but some things just loom; this did. At first I thought it was a low-flying plane, because I could see a blinking red light, but as we got closer I realized there were only other red lights, at vast distances from one another, and that they were attached to a structure. A tower. A huge, Orwellian example of nuclearchitecture that did, indeed, loom out of the lead-coloured mists like the solidification of a Greenpeacer's worst nightmare. We just kept driving.
It's not every day that I'm cowed by a building, but it was that day.
And never more:
In less than two weeks, history will be made when the cooling tower at the old Trojan power plant along the Columbia River is brought down.
I imagine there will be cheers. Unless they're a little sloppy, in which case there will be trouble.
The tower will come almost straight down, 150 feet off center, and far away from the radioactive spent fuel rods that are still stored at the site…
If you want to see the demolition, the best way to do that is from your own livingroom because there will be no public viewing spot. KATU News will be airing live coverage of the event on Sunday, May 21 starting at 6 a.m. The demolition is scheduled to take place at 7 a.m.
Yes, I know we've had a ton of videos today, but you MUST see this.
Awesome Daniel Maas NASA Mars Pathfinder Animation set to "Sunspots" by Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor) via Fark.
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