A few recommended reads on the Unions, Wisconsin, Obama’s speech to U.S. Governors and more: Via The New Yorker is this must read: Union Blues From The Atlantic: Obama to Governors: Don’t Vilify Public Workers Gov. Scott Walker responds to President Obama… Michael Boomberg… Limit Pay, Not Unions New York Times… Majority in Poll Back Employees In Public Unions Keith Olbermann dishes the New York Times on FOK News Channel And… Obama Backs Easing State Health Law Mandates. Sphere:...
Monthly Archives: February 2011
Charlie Sheen: Off The Rails
I find myself compelled to read pieces on all the various interviews with Charlie Sheen, the whopper apparently being the TMZ interview. I usually avoid reading this stuff but I felt compelled to tune in because I’ve lost a couple of people dear to me to drugs and alcohol. There’s that sense that people get that they are invincible when they are hooked in deep with drugs and alcohol and Charlie Sheen lays it all out right here: Sheen,...
Union Support Noted at the Oscars
Last night watching the Oscars there was not much said in the way of politics during any of the acceptance speeches, save for a couple of winners thanking their union crews and Charles Ferguson, the winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary for Inside Job. Ferguson said during his acceptance speech: Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after a horrific financial crisis caused by massive fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail and that’s wrong.”...
A Parable of America
Breathes there an American with a soul so dead that s/he is not profoundly and deeply insulted by this, I cannot hope to help. But I don't want to ever be stuck in the same room with 'em....
Old Battle Begins Anew: Senators Want To Legalize Cheap Drug Importation
It’s the can-Charlie-Brown-kick-the-football-this-time equivilent of Senate legislation, but an odd-bedfellows coalition of Democrats and Republicans are trying once more to cut drug costs for millions of Americans by allowing the reimportation of FDA-approved prescription drugs from other countries. With little fanfare, Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) this month introduced their Pharmaceutical Market Access and Drug Safety Act, which would allow U.S.-licensed pharmacies and drug wholesalers to import FDA-approved medications from countries with tough safety standards, such...
Wisconsin: 100,000 Strong
Hilda Solis the Secretary of Labor said on Saturday that “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) is trying to force workers in his state to give up their rights.” Solis, speaking at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) Winter Meeting, accosted Walker and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) for their efforts to reform collective bargaining rights for public workers in their states. “We know that many states are facing tough budget decisions. We know there’s room for shared sacrifice,” Solis said....
Monument Valley National Park Meets the Brothers Koch
We took their land away from them (as we took half of Mexico in 1846) and pretend that THEY'RE the aliens, and what the HELL do you mean it's FIVE DOLLARS to visit Monument Valley National Park??!?!
ABC-TV: Oscar-Worthy, But Journalistically Unsound
The last segment on every Friday’s broadcast of ABC-TV’s “World News,” with Diane Sawyer, is a “Person of the Week.” Usually, those persons have gone out of their way to do something good for people, or have lived a long and distinguished life, or by their example give inspiration to others. Recent “persons of the week” have included a very special caregiver, a wheelchair-bound teen who does wheelchair tricks, and a homeless man who returned $3,300 he had found....
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