So I’m perusing the AJC this morning and in the very back of the Business section there is a small blurb about the Connecticut US District court upholding a judgment against Pratt & Whitney, basically forcing them to remain in CT rather than move their manufacturing plants where they (P&W) want to move them.
The original case press release from Jan 15, 2010 entitled “Attorney General Says Pratt & Whitney Proved In Court Its Own Failures To Lawfully Protect CT Jobs” asserts that the company “breaches its collective bargaining agreement” with the Union and therefore should be compelled to remain in CT for the remainder of the Union agreement. The victory was applauded for forcing Pratt & Whitney to cater to the Union. From the Ameriborn Constitution News: “Congressman Joe Courtney [Dem] joined the members and leadership of the International Association of Machinists (IAM)…[to say to P&W] A deal is a deal.”
Why is this significant? It’s significant because a) it was buried in the paper and b) it is a very significant move by our judicial system to award control of PRIVATE COMPANIES to Unions and the government.
When the courts start awarding control of private companies (and banks) to the government (or Unions), this is a very disturbing lean towards fascism. If you’ll recall, our lovely politicians just changed the rules about how much money Unions can spend on political lobbying and/or advertisements. I also love how it’s the fucking Democrats who are pushing this agenda!! WTF?
Take separately, these two items are easily overlooked or dismissed, but taken together, I think it is showing a very disturbing trend. Hmm, lessee, let’s allow the Unions (and corporations, too) spend as much as they want to get their bought and paid for candidate in office. THEN let’s start setting judicial precedent for allowing Unions and the government to force private companies to have plants where they are told and to bow to the Unions – or risk punishment.
These things together equal FASCISM. Plain and simple. It’s funny that the Democrats – who are always pointing fingers at the Republicans for being Nazis – are the very ones pushing for government seizure of banks and corporations. It’s like Nick says, you go far enough to the right OR left and you will end up with authoritarianism. I agree wholeheartedly.
Does anyone else think these are Very Bad Things to be happening? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
He certainly can NOT take it. Boortz uses his Twitter feed as a dump for all the nasty shit he can’t say on air. He does not understand the point of Twitter and his tweets are horrible. So this morning, I sent him a tweet about how his tweets sound and he, in typical big mouth fashion, didn’t understand what I said, pitched a fit and blocked me. I took the time to write out explanatory tweets, but I’m sure he’s too good to read them.
Yah, he can dish it but gets all pissy when someone calls HIM out. What a total and complete prima donna. He ASSUMES because I’m on Twitter, that I *must* be a liberal or something, since I dared to call him out. I’m FAR from liberal – I’m actually a LIBERTARIAN, like he is! Obviously, he has no problems alienating even his own group! He does exactly what he constantly RAILS about: react before thinking and ignoring any opinion other than his own. Methinks he has smelled his own farts for far, far too long!
HYPOCRITE. He’s no better than Limbaugh or the other GASBAGS that spew bullshit on Talk Radio all day long. (This does NOT include Clark Howard, who is a nice guy and would NEVER behave like the narcissistic talk show assholes.)
Here is his childish DM informing me that His Highness has blocked me. I shall CHERISH it forever!
He can't take it!
He also doesn’t realise that I can follow him with any of my other accounts, but why would I want to? I’ll not listen to his show ever again, either. I wonder if he realises that he PROVED that he is, indeed, an old out of touch gasbag by behaving like one? Eh, probably not.
It’s made may day, I can tell you that! If I can beat down Boortz, then I must be on the right track! HUZZAH!
Last night we had our own episode of COPS in front of our house! Sadly, it wasn’t as exciting as it sounds. There were no escape attempts or guns pulled or even much yelling. Cops do feel the need to be LOUD, I’ve noticed. I tweeted the whole thing as it was going on, so I’ll just give you the tweets:
Woo, we got some po po action in da ‘hood! Dekalb pulled over a white caddy and then hauled off the driver. 3 cop cars? Must be a slow nt!
Too bad all this is in front of my house, so we’re compelled to watch. It’s not COPS action fer sure. Boooring. And loud. :-(
And now: FOUR cop cars! Oooo I think the brothas are having a bad night. They are currently arguing w/the fuzz. Never a good idea!
Heh, the cops have called the tow truck. I think all the crackheads have been hauled off. Cop said it was simple traffic stop until…
The crackpipes were found! Oopsie! I’m just happy the cops are actually patrolling my street!
(we can hear the cops and perps – this is right in front of the house, FYI)
We could hear some of the louder conversation, like when the cop was demanding to know if one of the crackheads owned the car and the crackhead was arguing. We also heard the cops talking to each other about the crackheads being scared when they realised they’d been busted. The whole thing lasted about 20 minutes. 3 crackheads were hauled off and the car was impounded, naturally.
NOW WITH VIDEO!
COPS on Maplehurst!
We got Phil saying more winter, but we got Chuck and Beauregard saying SPRING! Yay! I love the silliness of Groundhog Day, which is why I think it should be celebrated thoroughly! :-)
We are getting our Con schedule put together for 2010. The events calendar on the right has everything we’re confirmed to do and is updated when we add stuff. Connooga is our first con of the year and I hope it’s worth going to. We’re rolling the dice, but the cost is very low due to Dave’s employee discount at Hilton. I don’t have very high hopes as far as the comic goes, but I do hope to have some fun.
I’m trying not to get stressed out about the cons and our total lack of readiness. The book is still just an idea and we’ve no merch. ::sigh::
Hope everyone has a great (if rainy) Groundhog Day!
PSA re: comments
In case you’ve forgotten, I do NOT publish comments from trolls. If you have something relevant to say, I’ll put up the comment even if I don’t know you. If not, you’ll get flamed by me via email and/or published for mockery.
If you leave an irrelevant comment like “you sound dumb” with nothing else to support this assertion (boogerpicker500, how appropriate!), then I’ll berate you via email and your brilliant comment will never see the light of day. If you have the brains to make a point, then it’ll be approved.
So, get creative and have something relevant to say or STFU.
Now, get off my BLOG!
//end PSA