Anybody Out There?
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The goons lost! Eat worms and die you scum.
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Anybody Out There?
Maybe. Maybe not.
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UAW loses vote to unionize a VW plant in TN. You know what they are blaming the loss on?
After 53 percent of the workers voted against his union, King said he was outraged at what he called “outside interference” in the election. He wouldn’t rule out challenging the outcome with the National Labor Relations Board.
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80 degrees in the Hill Country yesterday, 44 now.
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Mornin Yall
Seems like I recall my dearly departed Pop (God restim) always planted his first round of ‘maters today (Feb 15th) – shouldn’t be anymore frost
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What did the testicular cancer survivor do when he won the lottery?
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#1 That made my weekend. I love the hubris of the thugs:
After 53 percent of the workers voted against his union, King said he was outraged at what he called “outside interference” in the election.
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“It’s never happened in this country before that the U.S. senator, the governor, the leader of the House, the legislature here, threatened the company with no incentives, threatened workers with a loss of product,” King said. “We’ll look at all our options in the next few days.”Outside interference??? The union goons are outsiders. Corker, the governor, the state legislature, they belong there. The plant’s in Tennessee, you moron.
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#1, #3 and #7
It sounds to me like the UAW defeat will be investigated, and with today’s NLRB and DOJ, it would not surprise me if the vote was thrown out. -
Did Bronco’s bogus “recess appointments” to the NLRB get removed yet, or is that going to be in the courts until 2017?
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The SCOTUS heard the case in January with a decision expected this summer. It’s kind of a moot point now that Scary Harry eliminated the filibuster for presidential appointments.
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OC pic: Is that the crow that solved the 8-step puzzle? Is it looking for another peanut now?
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What 8-step puzzle?
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A man is in a Hospital bed wearing an oxygen mask over his mouth. “Nurse” he mumbles “are my testicles black?”
The nurse raises his gown, holds his penis in one hand and his balls in the other. She takes a close look and says, “There’s nothing wrong with them sir.”
Man pulls off the oxygen mask, smiles at her and says very slowly: “Thanks for that. It was lovely but listen very very carefully … Are-my-test-results-back -
Just 87 votes shy is a bit scary, but seeing how union reps were allowed to roam the plants to “campaign” – with goon sticks I’m sure – the vote was probably closer than it would have been.
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The crow and the 8-step puzzle:
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Love that the UAW lost, but I agree- the DON (Department of Nojustice) and the NLRB will work together to make that vote null and void. We ARE talking the Obama administration, after all.
I’m visiting Lovely, Aggie Beau, and Sunshine this weekend. I got here yesterday afternoon, and Sunshine lit up with a big smile when she saw me. And I don’t think it ‘cuz I look funny, either. We had a great afternoon. We played “Baby Hat,” which she loves (I put her belly on top of my head), and I ate her tummy, which she loves, and I held her a lot, which I love. She spent her first night in her nursery all by herself, so putting her to bed was special – she kept looking around at her surroundings, but when she finally decided to go to sleep, it was like turning out a light!
I spent most of my time making her laugh or feeding her dinner. I babysat while Aggie Beau to Lovely out on a date night, so I had Sunshine all to myself.
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Just 87 votes shy is a bit scary
Still, it’s 53-47%. That’s two points higher than Bonnie Prince Barry’s “mandate” in 2012.
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Sunshine lit up with a big smile when she saw me.
Musta been gas.
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Actually, the UAW numbers are, or should be, even worse for them. The total work force at the VW plant is 1,550. They only count the ballots cast now. If 713 had been the pro vote the plant would go union with less than 50% of the work force voting for it. Only 626 out of 1550 voted for the union.
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I just had a new kitchen faucet installed. It’s the new-fangled high arch type, which I swear you could fill a 5-gallon bucket in my kitchen sink now. Not that I am planning to do that. But that reminds me, I might haul some water to my adopted Monterrey oak next week.
I had hoped to be getting my other knee done before the middle of March. My ortho doc is affiliated with the UT Medical School and will be on spring break (!!) for a week after that. But I needed to have my annual physical done first, and I can’t have it done until the last week of March. Since our old GP retired last year, we decided it would be convenient to stay with the doc who took over the practice. But he only works at our location in the mornings, so the time to schedule for routine things has more than doubled. -
#19 GTO:
212 did not vote. I’m surprised the NLRB did not cast some of those. Maybe some lost ballots will turn up.
I have no doubt that they will try and Franken the vote, however, they also know that we are watching. . . .
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TT: Given your love for dance, this one is just for you.
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OJugEars wants to have another billion dollars to try and convince everyone that “climate change” is real. Funny, in the 70’s it was global cooling, then in the 2000’s it is global warming (both of which were vigorously promoted by the same Paul Ehrlich or however youspell his name) now it is climate change. Of course it is man made climate change and the US is completely responsible.
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Tap, tap, tap. Helloooo, is anybody here? Everybody outside soaking up the lovely weather before it all goes to ice crystals again? Started at 39 at 6:30 and has so far managed to get to 66. Much better than a week ago, certainly no complaints about it.
Spouse and I enjoyed Valentine’s dinner at the Sugar Land campus of Houston Museum of Natural Science last night. Dining tables were set up on the first floor this time, amongst the gemstones and minerals exhibits space. Appropriate since the lecture after dinner was on gems and precious stones given by the museum’s curator of gemstones and minerals, who is fond of the Sugar Land campus. This time dinner was observed by skeletons of a T. Rex and a velociraptor of some sort standing in front of Rex, eye sockets aimed right at the diners. Dinner with the Dinos for real. 🙂
Very good dinner and excellent lecture. The curator has a great sense of humor that kept everybody tuned in. He went through the months of the year and the birthstones attached to each month, describing the stone’s chemical makeup, origins in geological formations, natural colors, man-caused enhanced coloration by irradiation, historical significance and value, relative values in purchase prices, values to serious gemstone collectors. The Houston Museum of Natural Science has significant endowments for its collections, some of which have been donated outright and others enabled by funds to purchase. Diamonds are not the most valuable gemstones generally available today, rubies are.
Audience questions covered the value of so-called chocolate diamonds currently being advertised–good advertising campaign, not so fine diamonds. Are there black diamonds? Yes, rarely, and they are so full of inclusions and flaws as to be of no value. Are blue diamonds found in nature as well as being color enhanced? Natural blue diamonds exist and are rare, therefore very expensive. The famous Hope Diamond is naturally blue–and big.
Every couple had a small geode in a plastic box at their dining chairs as a gift. It looked for all the world like a generous piece of divinity candy, ‘cept when you lifted the box it was heavy. One lady at our table tried tasting hers. Yikes. A museum rock expert was available to crack the gift geodes for the guests to see what might be inside, but the line was too long to wait so ours is home in its box, its secret whatever it is still a secret. 🙂 -
Michelle Malkin skewers this admin for rank corruption and abject failure.
HEADLINE: 5 years later: How’s that Wreckovery working out for ya?
Ifn it were an R pulling garbage like the current occupant, there would be crowds with clubs and pitchforks in front of the white house.
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I’ve gotten roped in on a search for a Midland High School classmate’s long lost heartthrob from the 70’s. He was easily found to have been living near San Diego most of his life but it has become very difficult to get current phone #s. I think Kalifornia went to unlisted cell phones decades before the rest of the USA did.
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#22 Bone
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Monkey fighting snakes on a Monday Friday flight is on AMC tonight. Like their version of Blazing Saddles I suspect much will be lost in the translation.
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Shannon is home and doing okay.
Thanks for the prayers and heartfelt concern from everyone.
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Lobotomy? I thought he had a foot problem!!!
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#28 – BITE ME Bootzso! 🙂
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#28 #32 #33 😀
#31 Texpat, glad to hear Shannon is doing OK.
58 in Fredericksburg today.
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An Alabama medical clinic whose chief revenue generator was unable to practice medicine – and generate revenue – because his medical license had been revoked by the State of Alabama. Its award: $662,586.
A psychiatric hospital – located more than 100 miles from the Gulf – that saw a pre-spill cut in rates paid to it by government programs and private insurers. Its award: more than $2 million.
A nursing home in Central Louisiana that shut down almost a full year before the spill. Its award: $662,834.
A dental service – located more than 200 miles from the Gulf – whose own sworn statement to its insurer says that water damage unrelated to the spill caused over $47,000 a month in lost income for three months in 2010. Its award: $137,518.89.
A Floridian who claimed to be a builder of custom homes despite having no active contractor’s license in the state of Florida, and no payroll. The claimant’s award: $274,944.98.
A wireless phone store in Louisiana that was closed for all of 2010 as a result of a fire predating the oil spill. Its award: $135,258.94.
A Louisiana lawyer, located approximately 200 miles from the Gulf, who lost his license four months before the spill. The claimant’s award $172,253.
A wheat farm located more than 200 miles from the Gulf that elected not to grow in 2010. Its award: $266,730.
As part of its filings on November 7, BP asked the District Court to allow for an examination of the Claims Administrator’s policies regarding these claims and stop payments to those who did not suffer a loss as a result of the Deepwater Horizon accident. BP requested these amendments because the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals expressly stated that the issue of claimants collecting funds for harms unrelated to the oil spill should be given “the attention it deserves” on remand, and because as the Claims Administrator admitted to the Fifth Circuit, the settlement program has paid claims “for losses that a reasonable observer might conclude were not in any way related to the Oil Spill.”For full on rage effect, here is the complete list.
I love this from America’s farmers: Claims paid for crops they couldn’t grow over 100 miles from the Gulf = $90,102,048
And lawyers collected $65,041,405 because the oil spill out in the Gulf prevented them from filing slip&fall lawsuits down at the local courthouse. -
The Mrs is on a cleaning binge. . . . . . .I think I’m gonna hang out in the garage.
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#38
Wow. If claims this far fetched where honored, imagine the just as ridiculous-yet not so obvious damages claims made by businesses that actually operate in the Gulf and/or the coastline.
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Well, to counteract Debbie Downertexpat’s post above, here’s the feel good story of the weekend.
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#41 Sarge
Almost half the states in the country have made pitches to Remington, included Arizona, Oklahoma, Michigan, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. But in the end, the company chose Huntsville, Ala.
Alabama figured this out a long time ago, but it took a while before the Yankees figured out that the south was the place to be. Believe it or not, their first attempt was to get Michelin to open a tire assembly plant in Midland City back in the 70’s. Something fell through and they opened a condom factory there, (insert corny joke here), then they went on to become one of the first states to have an automobile plant south of the Mason Dixon Line. As a side-bar one of my nephews first job was a QA at the rubber factory, ( insert REAL corny joke here), and no, they didn’t invite volunteers to help out. They inflated the dang things until they were as big as a beach ball to test them. 😉
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There’s a rubber plant out on the Ship Channel.
Goodyear makes synthetic latex.
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#41 Sarge
I just came back here to post that press release from Yellow Hammer. -
Good afternoon Hamsters. Mostly overcast all day so far with a few patches of blue sky that pop in now and then. Increased humidity is a welcome addition to dried out skin and noses.
Texpat #38
Good for BP exposing the fraudulent payments to fake victims of the oil spill that the gov’t administrator paid out so willingly. Sic ’em 5th Circuit. -
Adee = blog slayer
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#38, 45: I would like to see BP sue the claims administrator for gross negligence, and go for triple damages. Gross derelection of duty to fairly administrate the damage fund. I would like to see a forensic audit of the personal finances of the claims administrator and those of his family and friends, more likely than not there is some unaccounted for income.
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#47 Bonecrusher:
I would like to see . . . .
Yeah, right. I would like to see the Astros win the pennant. That ain’t gonna happen either.
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FA: I guess that same line will fly just great when one gets audited by the IRS then, won’t it?
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HEADLINE: NCR: U.S. GUNS, NOT OBAMA, TO BLAME FOR MEXICAN VIOLENCE
In the second installation of a three-part series on “gun violence in Mexico,” the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) continues to blame the U.S. for gun violence in Mexico, while viewing Fast & Furious as a legitimate attempt at law enforcement which just happened to go wrong.
According to NCR, Obama tried to reinstitute an “assault weapons” ban in the U.S. as a way to keep Mexico safer. He also pledged to “keep increasing the pressure on the gun traffickers.”
NCR claims part of the pressure on traffickers included Operation Fast & Furious, which turned out to be a “botched 2009 operation to track gunrunners that resulted in ATF agents losing between 1,400-2,000 firearms,” most of which were “assault weapons.” Only half were recovered, and one was “used to kill a U.S. border agent,” Brian Terry, in December 2010.Seems to me that the reporters at the NCR have been sniffing too many RFU emissions.
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Read the scathing comments on the article in #50 and the unmasking of the lefty liberation theology bunch making the lunatic claims.
Sounds like the socialist liberation theology garbage the brothers the Fathers Berrigan very publicly pushed in the 60s and 70s and Father Pflager pushes today in Chicago. Prime examples they were/are of the need for caution and careful evaluation of candidates for ordination to the priesthood. Holy Orders once conferred can’t be taken back no matter how scandalous the miscreant’s subsequent behavior.
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