Homeless Diver

I have no idea why this is considered a Top News item by Yahoo:

Filipinos among 55 arrested at a gay party in Saudi Arabia

Philippine Star -Thursday, July 31

Around 55 people were arrested by the police in Saudi Arabia at a gay party at a farm near Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia.  The Arab News reported that among those arrested were Filipinos. The Philippine embassy’s labor attaché David Dicang confirmed the report.

“I know that some Filipinos have been arrested in that area and we are trying to help them,” Dicang said.

Dicang however could not comment on the nature of the case. “I can’t confirm or deny reports that are circulating in the media…I am working with the police to help the detained Filipino workers,” he said. — Alexa Villano/philstar

http://ph.news.yahoo.com/star/20080731/tph-saudi-arabia-gay-party-541dfb4.html

just do a google search on the word “contractor” and “killed”. In the past, no one was ever labeled as a “contractor”. like the guy killed at the stadium by a pallet skid…says ‘contractor killed’. Well, duh. But in the past it would have been a person, a worker, etc… was killed. But now the connotation is that contractors are bad and if they got killed, it was somehow the fault of himself or his contacting company. All the services done by just about any city in the USA are contracted jobs. highway maintenance, sewage, electricity, phone building maintenance, ….all of it. Those people aren’t on the cities payroll, they are paid by the company that won the contract.

Been that way for a long, long time. But all of a sudden, its become necessary to use the label ‘contractor’ to set the tone of negativity.