Read ‘em and Weep
August 22nd, 2008 by NSwiftLet Go of the Past and Allow Offshore Drilling - George Skelton writes in the LA Times (h/t The Foundry)
So there’s a gusher of hypocrisy here: The state that is the biggest consumer of gasoline in the nation — but produces less than 40% of what it uses — is opposed to drilling for more oil off its shores. We’re slackers not pulling our weight.
Who Often Blocks Alternative Energy Projects? Radical Greens - Las Vegas Review-Journal editorial
They represented the handful of environmental extremist groups that are all for a renewable revolution, as long as it doesn’t involve the construction of wind turbines (they might kill birds), solar power arrays (they take up too much land and displace threatened bugs and rodents) or transmissions lines (they ruin scenic views), and as long as it doesn’t allow this country’s metropolitan areas to grow larger.
Don’t believe it? Head over to www.lightsonOregon.com to see more radical opposition to alternative energy sources.
The Foundry has a great update on the state of card check and unions.
The president of California’s largest union local, the 160,000-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Los Angeles, yesterday announced he would take a leave of absence and the local would be placed in a temporary trusteeship. Tyrone Freeman’s departure comes after an in-depth series of Los Angeles Times articles detailing how Freeman fleeced union members — who make about $9 an hour caring for the infirm and disabled — of over $1 million in 2006 and 2007 alone.
And it gets worse from there. The LA Times articles the blog mentioned are well worth a read to get caught up on what will definitely be an important issue next year.
Readers interested in checking into union activities on their own can go to www.unionreports.gov and read up on things like the non-salaried dispersements and perks union bosses get.
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Truth hurts, don’t it?
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
sickle, stop being such a DICKle.
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Cmon, why can’t I troll this place in peace?
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:58 pm
The only peace I get is from the thought that you are too busy sitting in your basement and harassing the people on this website to go out and actually do something about the nonsense that you come up with on these blog comments every day.
Please dickle, keep doing what your doing. After all, it’s one less nut job poisoning minds out in the real world. Have a nice day
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 pm
“Who Often Blocks Alternative Energy Projects? Radical Greens”
Complete and total baloney. What part of the phrase “handful of environmental extremist groups” do you NOT understand?? The size and impact of these groups is extremely small.
Keep that anti-union spin right on coming…lol…
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Yeah, anti-union spam like noting the fact unions make up less than 10% of the private workforce (private workforce excludes government workers). Since 90%+ of all people somehow survive the eviltudiness of capitalism without unions, aren’t the unions the spammers?
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Spammers, spinners, same crap.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
“Yeah, anti-union spam like noting the fact unions make up less than 10% of the private workforce (private workforce excludes government workers). Since 90%+ of all people somehow survive the eviltudiness of capitalism without unions, aren’t the unions the spammers?”
Yea, chalk that low union membership number (which just spiked up in one of the highest spikes in several decades BTW) due to very active & encouraged union busting…it’s, unfortunately, a whole industry now. What a “coincidence” that real wages and/or total compensation are basically flat or in decline as union membership has declined over the last many decades…not…