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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 09:57 AM
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Focus on the Family planning layoffs
November 13, 2008 - 4:09PM
MARK BARNA
THE GAZETTE

Focus on the Family plans an unspecified number of layoffs, and will be announcing specifics in the next few of days, Focus spokesman Gary Schneeberger said Thursday.

This comes on the heels of Focus' announcement in October that 46 employees would be reassigned or laid off next year due to a restructuring of its distribution arm. Focus has a staff of about 1,200 people.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/focus_43380___article.html/family_layoffs.html

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch. I almost feel sorry that a bunch of bigots are out of a job. I wonder if their local Mormon temple is hiring? Since the only thing that these two groups have in common is their hate for the gays.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 09:58 AM
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1. Bwaaaaaaa!
:rofl:
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:01 AM
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2. Let's hope demand continues to slip for groups like this. n/t
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 11:46 AM
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19. Their funds and membership rolls have been on the decline for many years.
I've watched them dwindle and will continue to laugh as they finally render themselves insignificant.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 12:09 PM
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23. They keep stealing the same people from each other. "We're
the most bigoted, come to us. No, we're the most bigoted, come to us."
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:01 AM
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3. So Long Guys, And Have a Great Depression!
That's how you know this isn't just your garden variety recession. When the money for hate dries up it's getting really, really bad.
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JackBeck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 01:32 PM
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24. Fascinating observation.
I never quite looked at it that way before.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:01 AM
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4. Maybe they can get a job at Joe's Plumbing service?
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:02 AM
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5. I guess it's hard times for the Right-wing Religious Nutball industry too....
n/t
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yellowcanine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:03 AM
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6. Donations down on account of Jim "Weiner Dog Abuser" Dobson being an asshat?
How sad for them.
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bluedawg12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 11:00 AM
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15. I will never forget how he beat his little dog
and then the sick puke that he is, wrote about it in his book.

Beat dogs? Then, what are the chances he "focuses" the same rage on his family?
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NC_Nurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:10 AM
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7. Oh darn.
:nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

What's a brainwashed moron to do?
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:11 AM
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8. I hear the KKK is hiring - however the entrance exam is murder
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Sabriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:14 AM
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9. Has the downturn reached the hate sector?
To date, it's been a relatively stable sector of the country, but going forward, the forecast is for major shrinkage and perhaps some consolidation of revenue sources.

(I've always wanted to use the phrase "going forward.")
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:17 AM
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10. What's America coming to when hate can't make a profit? n/t
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:18 AM
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11. But, But, But, They're A Non-Profit
Must be even harder to sell hate at a discount.
The Professor
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texanshatingbush Donating Member (435 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:35 AM
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12. Hate for gays and.......
.....love of Mammon. I know because I know some of the Focus on the Family vermin. Their love of Mammon trumps everything else. They just try to disguise it by cloaking it with Jesus robes.
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redwitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:38 AM
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13. Who are they getting rid of? Mom? Uncle Charlie, Gramma Rose?
I'd lay off my kids, they're really expensive.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 10:42 AM
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14. I had forgotten to check in with the Rude Pundit
Thanks for the reminder.
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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 11:10 AM
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16. Mormonism is a cult.
I liked your idea that FotF people should go to the Mormons since they have the one thing in common. But besides that and a belief in a god, that's all they have in common. Fundamentalists believe Mormonism is a cult.
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 11:18 AM
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17. 1200 employees?? I guess I didn't realize how big a business hate was...
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 11:20 AM
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18. they're aborting jobs?
say it ain't so.
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Gin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 11:50 AM
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20. New Name: > Focus on The Bottom Line
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 11:52 AM
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21. 1200 people work for that hate-fest?
sad
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-14-08 12:03 PM
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22. Time for them to start focusing on their own damn families.
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