Obama, Clinton want Australian-style gun confiscation <br /> <br />The National Rifle Association is tying President Obama and Hillary Clinton to Australia's gun buy-back program, arguing the two Democrats want to confiscate American guns. <br /> <br />The video, released by the NRA's Institute for Legislative Action, includes clips of Obama and Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, offering positive comments about the Australian gun "confiscation" program. <br /> <br />The NRA's message is part of a broader pushback against executive actions on gun control announced by Obama. <br /> <br />The new video opens with a clip of Obama at a CNN town hall in which the president dismisses the idea his administration is trying to take everyone's guns away. <br /> <br />"We are creating a plot to take everybody's guns away so that we can impose martial law," he quipped, wiht some sarcasm. "Yes, that is a conspiracy." <br /> <br />With foreboding music, it also highlights comments Clinton made at a New Hampshire town hall in October that Australia's firearm confiscation and buyback is "a good example" that is "worth considering." <br /> <br />http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/266454-nra-obama-clinton-want-australian-style-gun-confiscation <br /> <br />Obituaries Keep Requesting Loved Ones Not Vote for Hillary <br />Nationwide Movement Grows <br /> <br />An Arkansas man has requested in his obituary that loved ones do not vote for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election, making him at least the third individual to do so since Clinton launched her campaign in April. <br /> <br />The obituary for Richard Buckman of Beebe, Ark., reads, “In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Hillary,” mirroring text that was included in a recent obituary for a deceased New Jersey woman. <br /> <br />Buckman died on Aug. 22 at the age of 75, three days after news broke that the obituary for 63-year-old Elaine Fyrdrych of Gloucester Township, N.J., advised funeral goers, “Elaine requests, ‘In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Hillary Clinton.’” <br /> <br />Indeed, such requests have become something of a trend. The obituary for a 81-year-old North Carolina man who died the day after Clinton launched her presidential campaign also asked loved ones to refrain from voting for the Democratic presidential candidate. <br /> <br />http://freebeacon.com/politics/obituaries-keep-requesting-loved-ones-not-vote-for-hillary/ <br /> <br />Concordia University executive hired to slash budget makes off with $235,000 in severance after 90 days <br /> <br />Concordia University gave a $235,000 severance payout to an executive hired last year to help deal with budget cuts. Sonia Trudel had been on the job for 90 days when she left the university. <br /> <br />Trudel, a chartered professional accountant, joined Concordia on Aug. 17, first as a special adviser to the university’s president, and then, as of Sept. 21, as chief financial officer. <br /> <br />When it hired Trudel, Concordia said it was “impressed by her experience, which includes working for public institutions that have faced funding cuts similar to those we are dealing with.” <br /> <br />On Nov. 16, Concordia announced Trudel had “stepped down by mutual agreement.” <br /> <br />http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/concordia-university-executive-hired-to-slash-budget-makes-off-with-235000-in-severance-after-90-days-on-job <br /> <br />When the French clock off at 6pm, they really mean it <br /> <br />A new labour agreement in France means that employees must ignore their bosses' work emails once they are out of the office and relaxing at home – even on their smartphones <br /> <br />Sweden trials 6-hour work day: what would improve your work-life balance? <br /> <br />Just in case you weren't jealous enough of the French already, what with their effortless style, lovely accents and collective will to calorie control, they have now just banned bosses from bothering them once the working day is done. <br /> <br />Well, sort of. Après noticing that the ability of bosses to invade their employees' home lives via smartphone at any heure of the day or night was enabling real work hours to extend further and further beyond the 35-hour week the country famously introduced in 1999, workers' unions have been fighting back. Now employers' federations and unions have signed a new, legally binding labour agreement that will require employers to make sure staff "disconnect" outside of working hours. <br /> <br />http://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2014/apr/09/french-6pm-labour-agreement-work-emails-out-of-office
