Still Rolling Back Progress
Wal-Mart has once again received the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) lowest possible rating in its recently released ”Buying for Equality 2009” guide. HRC’s guide rates retailers and other corporations on their respective company policies that support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals including anti-discrimination protections, domestic partner benefits, diversity training, and transgender wellness benefits. Companies are scored from 0 to 100, with passing retailers receiving HRC’s “green” rating.
This year, Wal-Mart remains in HRC’s do-not-buy zone with a “red” rating. Wal-Mart’s overall score, 40 out of 100, remains stagnant from the HRC’s 2008 guide.
Other retailers such as Best Buy, Sears (Kmart), Target, and Walgreens all received HRC’s highest possible rating with scores of 100 out of 100. Costco, CVS, and Home Depot also received HRC’s green rating with scores of 93, 90, and 85, respectively.
Since 2007, Wal-Mart’s policies that support LGBT employees have been stalled after Wal-Mart bowed to the pressure of conservative critics and withdrew its support from the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. In doing so, Wal-Mart cited its policy to “avoid highly controversial issues”.
Yet, the real controversy continues to lie within Wal-Mart’s non-inclusive policies which perpetuate the treatment of LGBT individuals as second class citizens with second class rights. Until Wal-Mart makes the necessary changes to guarantee all its employees equal and fair rights, as HRC suggests, consumers should make the choice to shop elsewhere.
To download the complete Buying for Equality 2009 guide, visit the Human Rights Campaign.
Posted by Michael Mignano on Monday, December 01, 2008
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COMMENTS
I could have sworn I just read a post from SDV about Wal-Mart’s homosexual agenda. *rolls eyes*
Someone in USA
Monday, December 01 at 06:29 PM
To find out more about Someone’s pro gay schizophrenia on behalf of Walmart, just type in www.gays4mccain.com
bbrd in
Monday, December 01 at 08:18 PM
How are you SDV? Bearing false witness again, I see.
Someone in USA
Monday, December 01 at 08:41 PM
It seems to me that what bbrd is trying to say is that Someone would rather be trampled to death by gay Bentonvillians at a Walmart in Arkansas.
Sen. Larry Craig carefully back in the closet
Monday, December 01 at 08:54 PM
ON THE EDGE OF COMMON SENSE
by Baxter Black, DVM
COOL SQUARED
COOL = Country Of Origin Labeling.
In the grocery store this new law now means that you will be allowed to purchase beef (and other meat) that is guaranteed to be born and raised in the United States.
Will you?
Is that a consideration when you go to buy a car? A television set? A pair of boots? A tool? A tractor? Strawberries? Wine? Or Gasoline? (Sorry, this last one was a joke!)
Should you? If you are in a business that sells and manufactures an American product, then you certainly hope the rest of the country prefers to buy something “Made in America.” And, in these hard economic times, buying American will benefit your neighbor’s job security as well.
Granted, origin is not always clear. For instance, Toyota’s headquarters is in Tokyo. It’s listed on the Japanese stock exchange. It is a Japanese company. They are called foreign cars. Yet they have a manufacturing plant in Alabama! Ford Motor Co. headquarters is in Dearborn, Michigan. It is on the New York Stock Exchange. Henry Ford invented it! Yet the Ford F150 pickup is built in Mexico!
Can both or either be labeled American under COOL regulations? I suspect there will eventually have to be ‘variations’ of COOL. One of the difficulties implementing the ‘American Label’ on beef, for example, is that packing houses process Mexican cattle that come into Texas feedlots, and use beef shipped to their plant in refrigerated trucks from packing houses in Canada.
In one days’ processing it is common to hang these carcasses side by side, for ground beef to be commingled and the specific origin of each to be lost. Maybe we could establish categories like, Pure American Cool, Quasi American Cool or Possibly American Cool. It would depend on the percentage of U.S. raised beef in the mix. Other factors to be considered would be the amount of Canadian grain in the ration, the number of Mexican cowboys on the ranch, or the presence of Irish whiskey behind the seat of the feedlot managers’ pickup! A lot of details remain to be worked out.
There was a restaurant in Arkansas that offered squirrel stew. It was quite popular and was always crowded. One customer inquired of the owner how they could find so many squirrels? “Well,” said the owner, “We do have to cut it with a little mule meat. But,” he said, “only ten percent.” “Really,” said the customer. “I guess that’s fair.” “Yup,” said the owner, “One mule for every ten squirrels!”
But I wonder, are they American squirrels?
Hill Billy Deluxe in
Monday, December 01 at 09:38 PM
The reason I posted the COOL item as Hill Billy Deluxe in the gay section comments was to get away from the guy being trampled to death in New York. Walmart needs to keep that off the front page at all cost.
bbrd in
Monday, December 01 at 09:53 PM
In the WalMart/Bentonville doubleminded ethical gray area and two faced indifference to Christian morality in WalMart’s previous embrace of ‘gay rights’ and the ‘gay lifestyle’, WalMart has shown that they are no friend of Christianity for many reasons. Now that they have dressed up as a reformed gay Judas they think everything is OK once again with the Biblical interest in America. More ungodly happy horseshit from Bentonville in need of public relations.
WalMart- After the highly notable stampede death of one of our own workers from the ‘love of money’ frenzy that we brought to our own front door, what better thread to announce that we will keep ‘screwing over mankind’ for a Merry Christmas season.
SanDiegoView in WalMart is a hyperconsumption cult
Tuesday, December 02 at 07:55 AM
How are you SDV? Bearing false witness again, I see.
You bet he is (good catch, Someone).
bbrd in
Tuesday, December 02 at 09:32 AM
More ungodly happy horseshit from Bentonville in need of public relations.
For a so-called “Christian”, you have a real potty mouth, SVD…
bbrd in
Tuesday, December 02 at 09:35 AM
The part I like best...is where in addition to ddrb proving that bbrd/Someone are the same WalMart troll, bbrd/Someone and RDS get beat up regularly/daily by a woman.
WalMart- We are helping to burn down America’s economic house. We ought to know...we are the arsonists who are using the made in China matches.
SanDiegoView in WalMart is America's #1 poverty engine
Tuesday, December 02 at 10:13 AM
SDV,
“WalMart has shown that they are no friend of Christianity for many reasons.”
By being respectful to all of God’s children and not favoring one over another, I think Wal-Mart is more tolerant than you are!! Just because YOU think it is ‘right’ to discriminate against people who don’t think as you do, doesn’t mean everyone else should too!! After all, Wal-Mart is a retail business, there to serve the entire ‘public’, not just thin-skinned Christians, such as yourself!!
“bbrd/Someone and RDS get beat up regularly/daily by a woman.”
First, ddrb couldn’t beat her way out of a wet paper bag, second, under your Christian Biblical view of women, doesn’t the Bible say that she should keep her mouth shut and be subservient to men?
RDS in
Tuesday, December 02 at 10:45 AM
Do “Christians” really want to keep a whole class of citizen at a socio/economical disadvantage? Before you retalliate to the question, it is a joke. Until we actually have a seperation of church and state, we will always have the laws made and enforced according to religon. What I wonder is..........the Bible mentions adultry and divorce more than homosexuality, when are we going to deny health insurance to divorcees and adulterers?
Wal-Mart start paying your way! in Baraboo, WI
Tuesday, December 02 at 12:18 PM
Baraboo: Well,that’s what Pastor Rod Parsley of Ohio has advocated. You remember him,along with Pastor John Hagee- they were selected by John McCain as spiritual advisors,early in his failed Presidential run. Here’s a little excerpt from Daily Kos. ~~~~~~~"Oh, and in case you missed that above--Parsley literally claims that the 11 September attacks happened as an explicit call from God to commit genocide.
In a stand shared by (among others) Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps, Parsley has accused Sweden of being anti-Christian due to not giving neopentecostal dominionists an out in their hate-crimes laws covering LGBT people (notably Ake Green, whose case ended up being acquitted on appeal despite a sermon which literally compared LGBT people to cancerous tumours).
There’s actually a reason why Parsley may be a bit concerned on that. As it is, Parsley--along with many, many other pastors of Assemblies and “Assemblies daughter” churches--uses the thoroughly debunked claims of Paul Cameron to claim that LGBT people are inherently diseased and criminal. Cameron’s group, the bogus “Family Research Institute”, is considered a hate group by Southern Poverty Law Center--in part because Cameron has literally advocated rounding up LGBT people in concentration camps and ultimately hanged: ~~~~~~~~~~Note: I’ll post the link. Incidentaly,Parsley and Palin and Hagee are all of the same Assembly of God sect.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 01:03 PM
Daily Kos: Here’s why McCain may have stepped away from Rod ParsleyMay 23, 2008 ... Not two weeks ago, John McCain was heralding both John Hagee and Rod Parsley as “spiritual advisors”; this is quite the change from today, ...
www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/23/144213/917/393/521338 - 51k
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 01:06 PM
ddrb
that is EXACTLY what scares me.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa
Shows just how much trouble this country can get into when our President talks to God.
If all men are created equal, give them health insurance.
When we legislate morality, we are in great trouble. Just look at the colonial settlers to see how many acts of Christianity they committed. I would hope we have progressed in 230 years, but after Bush I am starting to think we are right back in 1730.
Wal-Mart start paying your way! in Baraboo, WI
Tuesday, December 02 at 01:15 PM
Baraboo:Shows just how much trouble this country can get into when our President talks to God....and God keeps puttin’ him on hold.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 01:52 PM
“the Bible mentions adultry and divorce more than homosexuality, when are we going to deny health insurance to divorcees and adulterers? “
Umm divorcees don’t get insurance from their former spouse, and the mistresses of adulterers don’t get insurance as part of the family plan either so your argument really holds no water. No one is denying them insurance. They just don’t recognize them as a family, and therefore aren’t included on family plans just as the other groups that you mentioned are not.
Dave in
Tuesday, December 02 at 04:27 PM
U.S. Department of Labor
www.dol.gov Search / A to Z Index
December 2, 2008 Plans > COBRA
Subtopics
Compliance Assistance
Consumer Information on Health Plans
Continuation of Health Coverage (COBRA)
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Fiduciary Responsibilities
Health Benefits Education
Mental Health Benefits
Newborns’ & Mothers’ Protections (Newborns’ Act)
Participant Rights
Plan Information
Portability of Health Coverage (HIPAA)
Womens’ Health & Cancer Rights Protections
Health Plans & Benefits
Continuation of Health Coverage — COBRA
DOL Web Pages on This Topic
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, DIVORCE, and other life events. Qualified individuals may be required to pay the entire premium for coverage up to 102 percent of the cost to the plan.
COBRA generally REQUIRES that group health plans sponsored by employers with 20 or more employees in the prior year offer employees AND their families the opportunity for a temporary extension of health coverage (called continuation coverage) in certain instances where coverage under the plan would otherwise end.
COBRA outlines how employees and family members may elect continuation coverage. It also requires employers and plans to provide notice.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: COBRA provides a temporary extension of benefits to a divorced person.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 05:26 PM
There is an old lie about that needs to be crushed with simplicity.
The lie goes, ‘You can’t legislate morality.’
The truth is that you can only legislate morality. The question is whose morality are you going legislate, God’s or Satan’s?
Universal health care does not entirely change the consequences of your personal actions. The financial aspect becomes spread to your fellow citizens in a non-discriminatory blanket coverage irrespective of personal behavior. However the hurt to yourself and others non-financially is still unmitigated.
Billy Graham wrote an item years ago entitled, ‘The Sin of Tolerance’ and the title itself illustrates the problem of not clearly drawing a line on sinful behaviors.
The passage from the Psalms reads ‘You that love the Lord, hate evil.’ We have become a society that has dropped its guard as to what constitutes ‘evil’. Therefore the pollution of pornography, homosexuality and the same sex marriage crowd, drunkenness and addictions to tobacco etc. This also illustrates the problem of lost conscience many have with the WalMart busniess model. The ‘love of money’ as the root of all evil (1 Tim. 6: 10) means nothing to them at all as dead head psychopaths who make excuses for WalMart bringing a cultivated mania to their front door to trample society to death over cheap Chinese crap. Consumerism and materialism WalMart style with a $2 billion advertising budget annually to influence people into a riotous mania.
WalMart- Forget about ‘loving one another’, extinguish the life of a man with stampede dollar nihilism courtesy of WalMart.
SanDiegoView in WalMart: The Judas of American retail
Tuesday, December 02 at 06:27 PM
And divorcee’s still are not getting insurance from their former spouse. They have to pay for it own their own in addition to the administrative fee in order to acquire the extension of benefits. Wrong again just many of your other posts.
Vicky in
Tuesday, December 02 at 06:29 PM
I wonder if WalMart employees are offered COBRA? COBRA offers coverage THROUGH one’s former spouse’s coverage ,not FROM the former spouse himself or herself. That would imply self insurance.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 06:39 PM
Braden v. Wal-Mart was filed in March and is currently seeking class-action status—claims that the company breached its duties as a fiduciary by allowing its 401(k) plan participants to be charged “unreasonably expensive” fees. In its answer, Wal-Mart said DISCLOSURES about such things as “how investments options were selected” or “revenue sharing arrangements” are “demonstrably IMMATERIAL to ANY investment decision faced by participants.”
In addition, Wal-Mart accused the suit of disregarding the relation of the FEES to the overall COSTS of administering the plan and ignoring “the economics of participant directed individual account plans.” The company pointed out that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) does NOT call for plan fiduciaries to consider ONLY price when selecting investment options OR select the least expensive options.
The case was filed on March 27, 2008, against Wal-Mart on behalf of the Wal-Mart Profit Sharing and 401(k) Plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA. Braden v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., alleges that Wal-Mart and others, as fiduciaries of Wal-Mart’s retirement plan, failed to act solely in the interests of the participants and beneficiaries of the Plan, and failed to exercise the required skill, care, prudence, and diligence in administering the Plan’s assets from January 31, 2002, through the present.
The complaint claims Wal-Mart selected and offered to Plan participants UNREASONABLY expensive retail funds, despite the ready availability of reasonably priced high-quality investment options. As a RESULT , the plan SQUANDERED tens of millions of dollars of participants’ retirement savings in order to pay for overpriced mutual funds, which, on top of everything, significantly UNDERPERFORMED their benchmarks. This resulted in larger fees being spent on inferior products.
Based on conservative estimates, the Plaintiff in Braden estimated Wal-Mart’s actions have caused the plan to waste over $60 million of participants’ retirement savings on excessive fees and unreasonable expenses alone – and will continue to do so at the rate of $20 million per year if allowed to continue. In addition, the complaint describes at length what the Plan WOULD have been worth had it made responsible investment choices – for example, at year end of 2007, the Plan Investment Options were worth $2.861 billion, while an investment in index funds would have been worth $3.002 billion, or $140 million MORE.
The suit is seeking Wal-Mart and defendants to “make good to such plan any losses to the plan,” as well as any other equitable or remedial relief as the court may deem appropriate. The plaintiff is seeking the Court to adopt the measure of loss most advantageous to the Plan, putting the participants in the position they would have been had the plan been properly administered. This could be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It is believed this class action could number over 1,000,000 participants.~~~WMW~~~NOTE: The Dept. of Labor info upthread about COBRA also includes topics of ERISA and FIDUCIARY duty. I thought it was timely and topical to post this under the circumstances.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 06:50 PM
Alright lets try this argument then........The church is running our country. Because marriage is a religous rite, while a civil union is a legal partnership. If the votes going before the public are to define marriage as between a man and a woman, fine. Civil unions are a different matter. Unless the church wants to step out of politics. I couldn’t care less what two people do inside their own home, as I am not there. Who am I to say that my values and beliefs are any more improtant or “right” than anyone elses. That would be egocentric. I guess walmart is comfortable telling the country what is right or wrong. Maybe the four Walton children are the new Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John.
Wal-Mart start paying your way! in Baraboo, WI
Tuesday, December 02 at 07:38 PM
This illustration rings better on morality and influence-
WalMart culture, WalMart advertising, WalMart economic psychopathy and the WalMart business model and the Walmartization of America.
WalMart spending $2 billion annually to whip people up into a WalMart mentality with WalMart economic morality had nothing to do with a ‘door busting’ frenzy killing a man at the Valley Stream WalMart.
Yeah right.
You should see how ‘influence’ rigged it up in 1938 to storm Jewish stores and shops on Kristallnacht.
These guys had nothing to do with anything either-
Joseph Goebbels Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda in Nazi Germany.
Gunter d’Alquen appointed by Himmler as head of the Wehrmacht propaganda department.
Max Amann President of the Reichspressekammer (Reich Media Chamber)
SanDiegoView in WalMart- We created an economic mob mentality
Tuesday, December 02 at 08:54 PM
ddrb,
“In a stand shared by (among others) Fred “God Hates Fags” Phelps”
One of SDV’s main role models!!
If it were up to SDV, the Christians would have a big ‘homo hunt’, where homosexuals would be rounded up and burned at the stake!!
RDS in
Wednesday, December 03 at 12:08 AM
“I wonder if WalMart employees are offered COBRA?”
By COBRA’s own definition, and Walmart’s size > 20 employees, absolutely former spouses are offered coverage. But guess what, it’s still the FORMER SPOUSE who has to pay for it and not an obligation of the divorced spouse (unless there is some form of consent/agreement as part of the divorce). So divorcees STILL don’t get insurance from their former spouse.
Vicky in
Wednesday, December 03 at 07:24 AM
That should say the DIVORCEE would still have coverage via COBRA from the FORMER SPOUSE’s policy but it’s the DIVORCEE who is obligated to pay for that coverage unless there is some other agreement as part of the divorcee.
Vicky in
Wednesday, December 03 at 08:53 AM
‘Vicky’s’ first post…
“All these complaints about how Walmart makes bad decisions, how people lack spelling checks in their posts and how no one else “gets it” when she can’t even reconcile how she was DUMB enough to buy a home to live in built at the footsteps of a Walmart store. Talk about in denial and bitter.”
“She must wake up every morning and drink her coffee while staring out her window at that big “WALMART” sign and just cringe. Dissing Walmart is her driving force in life. It’s sad.”
‘Vicky’ in
Monday, December 01 at 12:18 PM
Then this from bbrd again right afterwards…
“Your apparent pleasure in Ad hominem attacks and dissing me, a private citizen,is an even sadder reflection upon your life...”
“You must’ve hit a nerve—keep it going, Vicky :-)”
bbrd in
Monday, December 01 at 01:12 PM
How did ‘Vicky’ know in the first post that ddrb was a woman or that she lived near a Walmart? You would need to be a long time reader to know those facts.
‘Vicky’ is another figment of the bbrd/Someone damaged internet persona, another fraud from bbrd/Someone’s jealousy and envy against ddrb who got the better of you again bbrd/Someone/Vicky.
-----------------------------------
“Someone,how do you reconcile that with the pattern of intendely personal insults,slander and intentional lies you and your alternate self bb have leveled against me for a year now?Remember,bbrd links to your site.”
........
“Well,SDV, what’s the diagnosis?”
ddrb in
Friday, November 28 at 05:30 PM
ddrb,
It is obvious that Someone/bbrd is the same desperado/imbecile. Your note of this trollism adds to the definition of Walmartsycophantpsychophobia- The strange, obsessive and abnormal fear of WalMart being disliked by others.
SanDiegoView in WalMart is SIFE business theology cult
Saturday, November 29 at 08:20 PM
At this point the diagnosis is also considerable alarm that bbrd/Someone/Vicky is internet stalking ddrb and has seriously emotional and confidence issues.
SanDiegoView in WalMart is business theology for psychopaths
Wednesday, December 03 at 09:11 AM
OK, you wanna play the cloak-and-dagger game, SVD?
I think you, the one and only SVD, are ddrb/Google Gal, among others.
Sounds plausible to me…
bbrd in
Wednesday, December 03 at 10:27 AM
What I wonder is..........the Bible mentions adultry and divorce more than homosexuality, when are we going to deny health insurance to divorcees and adulterers?
Wal-Mart start paying your way! in Baraboo, WI
Tuesday, December 02 at 12:18 PM
Umm divorcees don’t get insurance from their former spouse, and the mistresses of adulterers don’t get insurance as part of the family plan either so your argument really holds no water. No one is denying them insurance. They just don’t recognize them as a family, and therefore aren’t included on family plans just as the other groups that you mentioned are not.
Dave in
Tuesday, December 02 at 04:27 NOTE: COBRA provides a temporary extension of benefits to a divorced person.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 05:26 PM
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And divorcee’s still are not getting insurance from their former spouse. They have to pay for it own their own in addition to the administrative fee in order to acquire the extension of benefits. Wrong again just many of your other posts.
Vicky in
Tuesday, December 02 at 06:29 PM~~~~~~~~~~Note: That’s better. Vicky’s wrong again.
ddrb in
Wednesday, December 03 at 01:12 PM
I wonder if WalMart employees are offered COBRA? COBRA offers coverage THROUGH one’s former spouse’s coverage ,not FROM the former spouse himself or herself. That would imply self insurance.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 06:39 PM
That should say the DIVORCEE would still have coverage via COBRA from the FORMER SPOUSE’s policy but it’s the DIVORCEE who is obligated to pay for that coverage unless there is some other agreement as part of the divorcee.
Vicky in
Wednesday, December 03 at 08:53 AM~~~~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: I fail to see any incorrect info transmitted by ddrb.
ddrb in
Wednesday, December 03 at 01:19 PM
If you want to put “temporary” in the same classification as “permanent” then you are correct that the divorcee can get to continue their health insurance, via COBRA, from their former spouses provider as long as they pay for it + administrative fees. But then again we all know that “temporary” and “permanent” are not the same thing. Ask that divorcee how well they are doing with that coverage after 18 months.
SanDiegoView, if you think I am “bbrd” or “someone” or any other figment of your imagination you are sorely mistaken. I may not have written much on this site but from what I’ve obsorbed over the past few weeks of observing it gives me easy insight as to who people are and their backgrounds. You though are by far the craziest of the bunch with the stuff you post.
Vicky in
Wednesday, December 03 at 05:32 PM
NOTE: COBRA provides a temporary extension of benefits to a divorced person.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 05:26 PM ~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: Just for the sake of further clarity, the word “temporary” was included in my very FIRST comment, NOT as after thought or correction, later.I do hope that any and all employees who may visit this site is aware that this COBRA benefit is an option,under certain circumstances, to provide you a temporay extension of your company’s healthcare,whether you are divorced or not....as long as your company has 20 or more employees.PLEASE read the post upthread from the DOJ for yourselves.
ddrb in
Wednesday, December 03 at 06:20 PM
U.S. Department of Labor
www.dol.gov Search / A to Z Index
December 2, 2008 Plans > COBRA
Subtopics
Compliance Assistance
Consumer Information on Health Plans
Continuation of Health Coverage (COBRA)
Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA)
Fiduciary Responsibilities
Health Benefits Education
Mental Health Benefits
Newborns’ & Mothers’ Protections (Newborns’ Act)
Participant Rights
Plan Information
Portability of Health Coverage (HIPAA)
Womens’ Health & Cancer Rights Protections
Health Plans & Benefits
Continuation of Health Coverage — COBRA
DOL Web Pages on This Topic
The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, DIVORCE, and other life events. Qualified individuals may be required to pay the entire premium for coverage up to 102 percent of the cost to the plan.
COBRA generally REQUIRES that group health plans sponsored by employers with 20 or more employees in the prior year offer employees AND their families the opportunity for a temporary extension of health coverage (called continuation coverage) in certain instances where coverage under the plan would otherwise end.
COBRA outlines how employees and family members may elect continuation coverage. It also requires employers and plans to provide notice.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~NOTE: COBRA provides a temporary extension of benefits to a divorced person.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 05:26 PM~~~~~~~~~~~~For ease I’ve posted the info and original comment again.
ddrb in
Wednesday, December 03 at 06:26 PM
bbrd,
“I think you, the one and only SVD, are ddrb/Google Gal, among others.”
I think you just may be right, as noted in the last post by ddrb:
“I fail to see any incorrect info transmitted by ddrb.
ddrb in
Wednesday, December 03 at 01:19 PM”
Why would anyone confirm their OWN info., using their own handle?
Vicky,
As you probably know, the anti crowd, likes to discredit people, by claiming they are either ‘other’ people or paid bloggers!!
Nice insight on the mentality of SDV!!
RDS in
Wednesday, December 03 at 06:34 PM
RDS: Someone/bbrd...............Bob akaDonald,etc. etc.etc. do it all the time. Don’t seem you have a problem when you talk to yourself - or about yourself in second third,fourth identity. But it’s a problem if I refer to myself by own handle? Get real,bub. But, I DO enjoy that it’s got your tail waggin. LOL!
ddrb in
Wednesday, December 03 at 06:53 PM
ddrb (SDV, Ken V. or whoever you are this time),
“But it’s a problem if I refer to myself by own handle?”
Nice try, but you can’t wiggle your way out of this one!! Face it, you just slipped up and posted as the WRONG persona!!
RDS in
Thursday, December 04 at 12:20 AM
RDS: LOOK at the context of the post ,for GOD’s sake.Look at my Wednesday 1:19 P.M.post where Ive got my post and the"Vicky" post together,in the same block,for comparison.It was for the purpose of CLARITY in comparing the two posts ,side by side. My conclusion stated that the ddrb post did not transmit any inaccurate information---[in comparison to the Vicky post]. You know,I have read that one of the hallmarks of deceitful people is that over time they become to believe everyone else to be deceivers,too.Your trackrecord of intentional deception is well established. Why in the world should I care one whit if you or your ilk choose to believe me or not,Bob? I DON’T. Oh,and BTW, I WAS correct in my statements about COBRA,and not in error as intimated by “Vicky"although she did her best to try and keep confusing the issue.
ddrb in
Thursday, December 04 at 01:39 AM
(SDV, Ken V. or whoever you are this time)
Leave me out of it. If you want to go toe-to-toe with me, RDS, you won’t have any doubt who you’re messin’ with.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. ~ George Carlin
Ken V in Texas
Thursday, December 04 at 06:53 AM
Confusing the issue? What in gods name are you talking about? Do you mean by YOUR standards that “temporary” = “permanent”? Would an employee still consider himself employed if he were in a state receiving severance? What twisted mind do you have to even believe that? Talk about going out on the limb with stupidity to back you up.
It makes more sense every day how you made a bad life decision to live next to a Walmart and feel that bitterness every day. How did you end up living there in the first place is what boggles my mind. And what do you do in life that you can spend 24x7 time with internet searches and blogging on this post? Do you have a life?
Vicky in
Thursday, December 04 at 08:51 AM
No doubt now that Obama will be our new President, the high profile trampling incident at WalMart, and the prospect of the EFCA becoming law-the WalMart shills are becoming more shrill and incoherent than usual.I suspect the obfuscation will only get worse.However there isn’t enough mendacious smoke and sideshow mirrors to conceal what’s going on with Vicky. My personal circumstances have nothing to do with insurance coverage,or with the RIGHT for people to maintain a temporary extension of their coverage,even if fired or divorced. I DO hope that WalMart associates and new visitors to this site will read the COBRA info for themselves and takke a pro-active approach.No doubt there will be an influx of new readers, with the trampling incident.Maybe even the family of the victim will visit this site. And what a revelation of corporate think that visit would be.
ddrb in
Thursday, December 04 at 10:36 AM
My personal circumstances have nothing to do with insurance coverage,or with the RIGHT for people to maintain a temporary extension of their coverage,even if fired or divorced.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.
No doubt there will be an influx of new readers, with the trampling incident.
Then they’ll read one of your posts and promptly leave, like always.
Let’s face facts, my dear—while it made for a couple days’ worth of interesting talk, it wasn’t exactly the world-changing event you are playing it up to be (with respect to the deceased and his family).
See what happens when you steer the ship off course?
bbrd in
Thursday, December 04 at 04:01 PM
“No doubt now that Obama will be our new President, the high profile trampling incident at WalMart, and the prospect of the EFCA becoming law-the WalMart shills are becoming more shrill and incoherent than usual"- ddrb
Another INSIGNIFICANT RANT!
You forgot to mention Obama’s pick for Secretary of State- none other than Billary Clinton, who will never let Walmart go down! Hell, she may get re-elected to the board of directors some day! She wont burn, that bridge, for you liberal clowns!
From your rant above, wouldnt that be talking politics ddrb? Guess your agenda changed from caring about people to politics! Do you ever read the crap you copy and paste or write?
SDR in
Thursday, December 04 at 05:32 PM
Here’s a refresher.
If YOU do, then that says more about YOUR priorities than theirs or mine.But then agian your post pretty well illustrates your priority....and its politics,not people.
ddrb in
Tuesday, December 02 at 12:41 PM
Wouldnt that be the Pot- calling the Kettle- black.
Your continued hypocrisy---
lends a lot of credence to Vicky’s post above.
SDR in
Thursday, December 04 at 05:46 PM
ddrb,
“You know,I have read that one of the hallmarks of deceitful people is that over time they become to believe everyone else to be deceivers,too.”
Wouldn’t that be a good description of people like Screwedby, SDV and yourself who kept claiming Someone and bbrd, were the same people and after that, claimed everybody on the pro side was everybody else!! Also, there is the constant paid troll, shill, etc., etc.!!
“Your trackrecord of intentional deception is well established.”
Show me one time I have ever tried to ‘deceive’ anyone!! You can’t, because I haven’t!!
Ken V,
“Leave me out of it. If you want to go toe-to-toe with me, RDS, you won’t have any doubt who you’re messin’ with.”
Gee, that sounds kind of like a threat, I thought people weren’t supposed to do that!! Besides, are you ashamed of being associated with your ANTI Wal-Mart buddies? Especially, the one that loves to see your posts and calls you affectionately - “Oh Great Master Ken Tzu: Mon Ami”?
RDS in
Thursday, December 04 at 07:51 PM
“I DO hope that WalMart associates and new visitors to this site will read the COBRA info for themselves and takke a pro-active approach.” (btw, nice spelling) We’ll I’d love to know how your “advice” adds anything to peoples lives considering the fact that by law you must must receive an election notice within 14 days of the administrator receiving notification of the qualifying event. Don’t you think people are smart enough to care about their OWN lives without intervention from people like you? And don’t get me started on the joke legislation called EFCA which in practice doesn’t even come close to anything like “free choice”. It’s nothing short or union scare and intimidation tactics at its best. While your at it I’d love to hear “what’s going on with Vicky”. That should be some good reading.
Your hubris is quite evident in your posts. I’m only pointing out the hypocrisy. You profess to know so much and pass along so much good advice but your past life decisions leave you less than a great role model for people to follow or listen to. And I’m still trying to figure out how you have time to post 24x7 and do all of the cutting and pasting from Google searches. But I guess that’s how you got your nickname on this board. Maybe with all of the claims of the “shills” out there you should be at the top of the list and maybe this is your full-time job.
Vicky in
Thursday, December 04 at 08:16 PM
Nice try bbrd/Someone/Vicky, but you will never get a pass for being a complete WalMart worship troll and internet fake. ddrb has posted excellent materials and has always gotten the better of you. If you don’t like it, then leave. Or is it that your desperate agenda compels you to remain on this walmartwatch site? ddrb, you are too dangerous for the WalMart propaganda slobs. They know talent against WalMart and that is why they remain here attempting to dilute, evade, pollute and crap flood the comments on this site.
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SanDiegoView in WalMart needs propaganda to survive
Friday, December 05 at 04:59 AM
Gee, that sounds kind of like a threat...
If the idea of going toe-to-toe without all the identity obsfucation threatens you, RDS, then so be it.
When I take issue with something you, or anyone else, posts you won’t have to guess who you’re flaming with. Unlike many here, I have never felt the need to change my posting name.
As always, I remain---
Ken V in Texas
Friday, December 05 at 08:14 AM
...who kept claiming Someone and bbrd, were the same people...
RDS, that’s good for a laugh every time I read it because these anti-types are just too narrow-minded to think in a nation of 300 million, there actually may be more than a “few” like-minded people, here on WM’s side. If they want to believe I’m Someone or even you, who am I to trample on their fantasy world?
Show me one time I have ever tried to ‘deceive’ anyone!! You can’t, because I haven’t!!
Looking back at different postings under multiple variations of your name, I didn’t see any deceit—Googly’s just grasping for straws, at this point…
And don’t get me started on the joke legislation called EFCA which in practice doesn’t even come close to anything like “free choice”. It’s nothing short or union scare and intimidation tactics at its best.
Looking at SDR’s post, he/she does have a point—the Clintons are too closely-tied to WM to let something like this happen (besides, didn’t WM’s biggest growth spurt happen on Bill’s watch in the 90’s?).
Nice try bbrd/Someone/Vicky, but you will never get a pass for being a complete WalMart worship troll and internet fake.
I’m not looking for your approval as your opinions don’t mean squat to me....
If the idea of going toe-to-toe without all the identity obsfucation threatens you, RDS, then so be it.
Advice for RDS - given your exposure on this site, don’t bother, as even though I totally disagree with Kenbo’s points of view, I can’t see where he has pulled any of the crap SVD and the rest, have…
bbrd in
Friday, December 05 at 10:55 AM
bbrd,
“even though I totally disagree with Kenbo’s points of view, I can’t see where he has pulled any of the crap SVD and the rest, have…”
You are quite right, so far, Ken has added little to the content of this site, other than a few quotes from others!! You know what they say about ‘bringing a knife, to a gunfight’, Ken is basically unarmed!!
As for SDV, he is as phoney as a $3.00 bill and ddrb, is a internet ‘wanna-be’!! Notice how lately both SDV and ddrb have been praising each other, do I smell romance in the air? Ken-Tsu is out and SDV is in!!
RDS in
Friday, December 05 at 12:16 PM
I’ll do anything to avoid substantive discussion and keep up the personal attacks. We have nothing else to offer and we need affirmation regularly. Speaking of romance, what say bbrd you and me get a room somewhere? And bring Vicky your inflatable fake friend!!
RDS in
Friday, December 05 at 02:55 PM
I agree. Ken does not post under multiple identities. I have encountered him all over the anti-Wal-Mart part of the Internet (Topix, Planet Feedback, WWS, WMS, here, etc.) and he is always Ken V, just as I am always Someone in USA.
Someone in USA
Saturday, December 06 at 10:07 AM
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