Having worked in corporate grocery stores for several years, “manager” is usually very limited in hiring/firing and is more of a babysitter and a way to get someone to work 60 hours for a 40 hour salary.

Welcome to corporate consolidation. The “manager” may have been “cashier dumb enough to give up hourly for twice the hours and 3/4 the income in salary.” Speaking from experience.

A morning around here, driving past a couple Latino guys on a stoop:

You should meet my MIL. Her dad died when she was a baby so her mom went back to college, got her degree, and became a teacher, all without having to rely on the government, and people today should be like her.

Black guy using an Amex Black will get talked about for his EBT card.

I would like to license a copy of your powerpoint.

She scored a pretty goal from way downtown a couple weeks ago. That’s Ellis’s favorite.

I like the Davidson and I’m glad she’s coming in before Sauerbrunn is gone, because I am a huge fan of that sort of defender and want her to learn from the best.

True, but with Short eternally hurt and Smith not only an early pull last game, but less than marginal on a subpar Spirit team, Hinkle starts to look more solid with her crosses and corners. Defensive depth has not been an Ellis strong point.

like she’s doing now by going on the grift-o-matic that is 700 Club.

It’s a shame she’s been playing well on a good team this year, because I’d rather she was relegated to an afterthought in USWNT history.

Ah, ad hominem attacks.

The actual reason was the mom and the kid looked different. There was no policy or legal authority for anything other than assessing the child’s age for lap-riding purposes. Everything you’ve then said about Southwest policy, TSA and abduction is either irrelevant or patently false. The GAO report which you posted, in…

Yeah, it’s such a shame that this story doesn’t report that TSA didn’t allow them on the flight when they didn’t have a birth certificate.

Ah, yes, the Government Accounting Office. Frequently their civil aviation reports are cited as being higher than the Constitution as a source of American law.

No. It’s still just you reaching to claim the airline was in the right when there’s no policy or authority for what they did, but you’ve chosen to be an Internet Hero and What About The Children? so we’ll keep rolling with you on this one.

You mean TSA that let them on the flight, without birth certificate, once they cleared the overreaching gate agent? Maybe you shouldn’t be using TSA as your straw man in this one.

It’s not missing key facts. It’s missing the facts that you got called out for assuming and now you’re blaming the author for people calling you on your attempts to blame the parent because someone you know once had something happen to them.

but maybe the “mother” was a lizard person from Egypt with plans to take the child away from the father by devouring him, head first, as she had already done when she replaced the birth mother.

I’m still awed by all the people saying “but the policy!”