I
spent a goodly time at the dentist Tuesday, and chose from the waiting
room liberry a copy of Rolling Stone (Sept 17, 2009). Had I
ever read a whole issue before? Don't think so. First
thing were reader letters. Here's all you need to catch the
general drift of the mag's political slant, in case you thought a rag
celebrating drugs and Hollywood might be conservative.
Is that great, or what? Miss Suzanne Phipps finds a judging panel
comprised of Gergen, Krugman, and Moore-the-Oaf quite
satisfactory, but where was the diversity? Wonderful self-parody,
that. Since mags like this, I'm guessing, constitute a great % of
this
segment of the entertainment world's reading material, there should be
no surprise that the industry is mindlessly leftist. I was not.
Particularly delicious is the Threat Assessment
(shown above), where the three best things to occur for we the
people were Justice Sotomeyer, Obama bowling a 141, and Mexico
legalizing pot. Conversely, the three greatest threats to
the Republic are Rep. Michelle Bachman threatening to run for
President, "Sleaze ball" Tom DeLay "Dancing with Stars," And Exxon
getting some Green award. What a world they live in.
An article by Guy Lawson, "How the Cartels Work,"
was so engaging that I was compelled to smuggle the copy out in
order to finish it. Oh stop. I'll return it my next visit -
Jan 19. You can read the article here, but I found that this video
captured about 90% of the written content, so I recommend
that. A real mess, that, and we have nowhere near the
political will to do anything about it.
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Well Rhode Island is distinguishing itself again and not in a good way. Our Governor has been stuck by the Legislature to "fix" the mess they left of the deficit. He had to cut $60 million and asked the State employees to take 12 days off over the next year. All but one union - council 94 in Providence agreed. They balked at the Governors demand that he could move people from areas of no or little work to areas where they are needed - like unemployment which is a banner industry in this state. Well for their effort council 94 will be subject to 1000 layoffs or more and the Governor gave them to Oct. 2 or down the axe will fall. Serves them right and I hope the presidinks of the locals are the first to go. Fuck them - the greedy bastids. Their line is he should cut contract labor blah blah blah. That is already being done - their "sacrifice" only nets the state $18 mil. Cry me a river you greedy sumbitches!!!
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If they cut the contract labor, who would do the work?
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Government workers are a lot like the section crews that I used to see along the Great Northern Railroad when I was growing up in northern Montana in the late 40s and early 50s. There would be eight or ten on a crew. There would be one, or maybe two, actually working while the rest stood around bullshitting and leaning on shovels.
ReplyDeleteWere it not for contract laborers nothing would get done in government blue-collar work.
And just read in the next town over Woonsocket there is another nutjob that is running for mayor who is proud of the fact he has not voted since 1999 because Bush was "selected not elected". I am telling you this place is just going to hell FAST!!!
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