Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Beginning any statement about your political views with “Hey hey, ho ho.”
–Item #38 on my list of telltale signs that you might be a clueless idiot.
Couldn’t help thinking back to that when I read the following:
On Saturday, September 18th, Andrew Breitbart faced a situation similar to that endured by EMS for over three years during the SEIU’s corporate campaign to force unionization on its employees (See Andrew Breitbart Forces President Obama’s Protesters to Fold Up Shop).
He and Glenn Beck faced an unruly crowd chanting “Hey, Ho, Breitbart and Beck Must Go,” a scene that my employees and I faced constantly during the ordeal. The chant then was “Dave Bego and EMS must go!” From an originality perspective, the SEIU has not progressed much in the five years since the campaign against EMS!
Of course, if you continue to read the article at the link behind the link, you discover these are day laborers hired for cash, not really union members. That’s right, in addition to being a parade of idjits, it’s a scam.
Unionization has been peddled to us, as I understand it, as a codification of our constitutional right to assemble peaceably and petition our government for grievances. In practice, assemblies such as this don’t always remain peaceful, and we’ve found unions define their reason for existence around the process of petitioning someone other than the government…unless the government’s shop happens to be the one being unionized. It would be more accurate to say to say assemble in some way and petition somebody for redress of grievances, which starts to deviate from the text of the First Amendment.
The phrase “SEIU’s corporate campaign to force unionization on its employees” interests me, since I’m still arriving at this with the codification-of-First-Amendment mindset. Why does the First Amendment, or some codification of it, need to be forced on people? Why do you need a corporate campaign to proliferate such a, er, um, …freedom? In fact, going back to the beginning of the organized labor movement, how come we need a whole new set of laws to buttress, or codify, or reinforce or augment or amplify or modulate one of our constitutional amendments in the first place?
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