Video Shows Runner Smacking Reporter's Butt on Live TV

     A news reporter has called out a man who groped her on live TV while she was covering a running event over the weekend.  Alex Bozarjian 23, who works for an NBC affiliate WSAV  in Savannah, Georgia, was reporting on the local race from the Talmadge Bridge on Saturday.


     “Woah, not expecting that,” she laughs as a runner in a gorilla suit passes by waving at the camera. “Some people also dress up in costumes for this bridge run, so it’s very exciting.”  As she says “exciting”, she abruptly cuts off as a man wearing a navy blue top, hat and dark glasses appears to grope her. She looks visibly shocked as she continues her coverage while staring in the direction of the man.  A clip of the incident has been viewed more than 7.5 million times since being posted to Twitter on Saturday. A tweet by Bozarjian later that day also went viral with nearly 146,000 retweets.

     "To the man who smacked my butt on live TV this morning: You violated, objectified, and embarrassed me. No woman should EVER have to put up with this at work or anywhere!! Do better." Tweeted Georgia TV Reporter Alex Bozarjian on her Twitter page.

 The man at the center of this has been identified as Thomas Callaway.  Quick Bio: 43, married in 2015, stepdaughters, youth minister, Scout master, salesperson for Swedish Match (tobacco, out of Denmark) and 10K race number 7553.  Callaway is, or was,  a youth minister at Pittman Park UMC in nearby Statesboro, Ga. and a Boy Scout leader.  Tommy Callaway told 'Inside Edition' he was going to wave at the camera during Alex Bozarjian's report on a fun run in Savannah, Georgia, and he got "caught up in the moment."

 "I touched her back. I did not know exactly where I touched her … I did not see her facial reaction. I just kept on running, and if I did see her facial reaction, I would have been embarrassed. I'd have felt ashamed, and I would have stopped, turned around and went back and apologised to her."

   The clip has inflamed many--- the utter gall of him to do it, doing it to someone who he sees has a camera right in front of her (and is in the middle of doing her job), the look of horror as Bozarjian realizes what he did, and then the way she tries to quickly get back to work. Within those few seconds, you see the kind of stuff that femme bodies have to deal with all the damn time.



   Bozarjian filed a police report on the incident. On Wednesday, she said she supports criminal charges being filed against Callaway.

     "I want to make it clear that this doesn't mean I can't/won't forgive him," Bozarjian said in a statement to CBS News. "I hope to get to that point eventually, but as in any sexual assault case, it has to be on my terms when I'm ready."

  Bozarjian declined an in-person apology from the dude who slapped her ass, and good for her for not wasting her time on meeting this creep just so he'd give her some half-assed apology where he tries to say it was a mistake rather than being completely in character for him.

It takes a special brand of delusion to believe that we’ll all soon be powered entirely by sunshine and breezes. These days, those peddling that myth are guaranteed to be in on the greatest government-backed rort in history.

Fantastic stories continue to appear about our imminent transition to a world that runs entirely on 100% wind and solar. Albeit, with trillions of batteries – said to be capable of accounting for sunset and the kind of chaos delivered by wind power’s sudden surges and complete collapses.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, no country has ever powered itself entirely using wind and solar power; no country ever will.


WISHING something is so doesn’t make it possible, and nowhere in politics is the gap between aspiration and reality larger than in the push to quickly eliminate fossil fuel use.
Some politicians and environmental activists want to require that all U.S. electricity be generated from renewable sources by the 2030s. That would mean replacing an overwhelming majority of current production, which is generated by coal- or natural gas-fired power plants.  Deploying renewable energy at the scale required to fuel the U.S. economy would require covering state-sized territories with nothing but wind turbines and solar panels. It would also require stringing tens of thousands of miles of new high-voltage transmission lines.  Meeting present-day U.S. electricity consumption with renewables would require 12 percent of the continental U.S. land area for wind.  That translates into 350,000 square miles or an area more than twice the size of California.


Put simply, the push to use nothing but renewables requires disruption or destruction of thousands of miles of natural habitat. Resistance to such measures is growing nationwide, including in the country’s most left-leaning locales. Counties in California have banned or restricted wind projects. In the 2018 Vermont governor’s race, both candidates opposed new wind-energy development. Opposition to wind turbine installation is increasing elsewhere across the country.
Like most, we support using a variety of energy sources — so long as they are economically viable and logistically feasible. Suggesting that green energy use can increase without addressing the latter two factors is wishful thinking, not serious policymaking.


Among those who are unaware, either honestly or dishonestly, are mainstream environmental groups and the political groups that have tied their fortunes to the environmentalist mindset. From this crowd you often hear confident predictions that in some few decades all of our energy will come from renewable sources; wind and solar are the most touted. You sometimes even hear such predictions coming straight from high levels of government.
How credible are such predictions? They clearly lack any and all credibility, and not only for the simple reason that the sun goes down every night, raising the vexing question of what non-fossil-fuel energy source is going to power homes, hospitals, schools, and the Internet between seven p.m. and seven a.m.


The German countryside is now pockmarked with 28,000 wind turbines, rashes of solar farms and lashings of anaerobic digesters making gas out of maize crops. Renewables are now providing more than a third of Germany’s electricity, which sounds like a green triumph. But the cost is enormous. The cost of subsidising all this so far is about €190 billion, and is heading for 500 billion euros in total by 2025
In spite of that, the impact on emissions has been small, even if you count biogas as low-carbon (which it is not). This is because to back up and balance the renewables, while killing off nuclear (to appease greens scared by Fukushima), the country is unable to reduce and has actually had had to expand its coal-burning sector. It has built 10 gigawatts of coal-burning power stations in the past five years.

 If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Business Owners Hit Hard by Minimum Wage Increases

   

     So the news is that some small companies have found they're 'going to have to make significant changes ' because of the recent raises in the minimum wage.  Well good.  It's about time.   This is in no way a bad thing.  The whole business employee model is very outdated for the 21st century.

      Businesses are saying they’re going to have to raise prices, reduce hours or reduce staff, and some businesses are speculating they might have to close, as the price of labor is making it difficult.  Well, now look at that statement.  Out of the dozens of things a business can do to save money the only ones they mention are raising prices, reducing hours or staffs and closing.  Wounder why they don't even mention the other things they can do?  Wonder why they don't mention the 800 pound gorilla of simply reducing their obscene personal profits?  The greedy business owners sit back in their mansions with piles of money and live the high life.  Well, how about take some of the bloated income they make and cut it in half?  

       I'm not even sure why reducing hours is a big deal: just do it.  A business does not need to be open all the time.  A couple years ago many businesses were open from nine in the morning until nine in the evening.  Then many places started to stay open until midnight or even two in the morning.  Then many businesses went to being open twenty four hours a day.  For the next couple years nothing changed, and then things started to go backwards.  Most business stopped staying open twenty four hours and many when back even farther.  Today, it's common for a business to not even open until close to noon and close by six at night.  

       Minimum-wage raises are examples of states and cities leading in the absence of leadership by Congress, which has kept the federal minimum at $7.25 an hour since 2009. These state and local increases, though important, are no substitute for a robust federal minimum because they don’t affect places that will never act on their own to lift minimum wages. Currently, 21 states do not impose minimums higher than the federal rate, and that includes the poorest states, like Alabama and Mississippi, where it takes nearly $20 an hour to meet living expenses for one adult and one child. Even in states that have raised their minimum wages, the levels are still not high enough to meet living expenses for typical workers and families.

      

     But this era’s minimum-wage workforce, while still disproportionately young, is not the teenage burger-flippers of the 1970s.  While there is a perception that minimum wage jobs go to teenagers working at fast food restaurants, that's only a piece of the picture, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Only 45% of the 2.6 million hourly workers who made federal minimum wage (or less) in 2016 were between 16 and 24 years old. Another 23.3% were aged 25-34, meaning that 31.7% of all hourly workers making minimum wage or less were over 34.  A single minimum-wage worker  can’t afford a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country.  Anywhere.  A one-bedroom unit can be had in only 22 counties in five states, including in Washington. But here the relative affordability applies to only a few rural counties. Even in many places with an $15 an hour minimum wage, a person couldn’t afford an apartment working 40 hours a week.  Nearly half of all American's that rent were “cost burdened” in 2016. This is defined as spending more than 30 percent of pre-tax income on rent.  In many places rent can be 50 percent of income or higher.

At least 33% of persons age 18-34 live with parents.  Millennials earn about 80% of what baby boomer did at the same age.  Government taxes, fees, and utility rates have risen as a percentage of income for millennials.  This is not a mystery in any way, shape or form.  The simple truth is that the economy of the United States is not as productive as it once was.  Real money standards of living related to basic needs peaked in around 1972. It is no coincidence that the cost of essential items listed above are becoming out of reach for many if not most people:  Again, these are health care, education, housing, transportation, and retirement.  These are the arease of the econonomy heavily controlled by government.  Americans do not save.  They really can't.