The union’s Mr. Garcia sees no conflict in a union that insists on union labor hiring nonunion people to protest the hiring of nonunion labor.
Illinois is borrowing money it will have to repay eventually to repay the pension money it already spent to pay for other spending it couldn’t afford then and can’t afford now.
It’s a good thing the US government isn’t run by the Chicago Democratic gang right? Right?
It looks like the Blackhawks aren’t the only team that will be ditching contracts.
For as charming and vibrant as they are, it is simply impractical to keep pigs as pets on a farm. They don’t produce milk like the farm’s dozens of goats, can’t be sheared for wool like their sheep, don’t lay eggs, herd, chase vermin or scare away predators. They’re simply not useful, from a strictly practical standpoint, so to buy and raise a piglet is a commitment to turning it into food. That doesn’t make the act of their slaughter any easier to watch.
Josh Kilmer Purcell and Brent Ridge, the pigs’ owners, are fledgling farmers and yes, they have a reality show about it – Planet Green’s ‘The Fabulous Beekman Boys’ – but they are by no means unserious when it comes to the welfare of the animals they raise.
Don’t forget. Pigs are only meant to eat. Yes this was on the home page of CNN.com.
Another Harvard professor joins the US government gravy train.
Berwick is the founder of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and has spent decades as a practicing physician and a Harvard professor, according to the blog post.
Is it just me or is Harvard faculty the farm team for the White House Appointees. It is sort of like being the farm team for the Baltimore Orioles or the Washington Generals. Getting called up to the big club is a demotion.
About five years ago, Hunter says, he invested almost $70,000 in an invention: an inflatable raft that would sit under furniture. The pitch was that when high-rainfall areas were flooded, consumers could pump up the device, allowing a sofa to float and remain dry. “The guy I invested with came back and wanted me to put in more, about $500,000,” Hunter says. “Then I met [Butowsky], who just said, Hell no! I wound up never seeing that guy—or any of my money—again.”
Sikora, medical director of CancerPartnersUK, was hired by Libyan authorities to help determine al Megrahi’s life expectancy in July 2009, The Sunday Times reported.
“It was clear that three months was what they were aiming for. Three months was the critical point. On the balance of probabilities, I felt I could sort of justify [that],” Sikora said, according to The Sunday Times.
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He said he wasn’t pressured. “There was a 50 percent chance that he would die in three months, but there was also a 50 percent chance that he would live longer,” Sikora said, according to The Sunday Times. via CNN.
So the Libyans pay a doctor to write a report that a terrorist will die within three months. The terrorist actually may live 20 years but hey, it is a coin flip these days on whether Dr. Sikora’s life expectancy estimating racket is accurate or not.
Dr. Sikora should serve the rest of al Megrahi’s life sentence.
Transparency never has been a reality from the current POTUS. You would have noticed this before the last Presidential election if you had bothered to ask any questions rather than acting as part of Obama’s campaign team.
Oh, and for those of you on the left that think the Coast Guard is just working with BP on this, you may want to take the blinders off before you end up just being another useful idiot in November.
A group of Quebec protesters say people from their province were targeted at last weekend’s G20 summit and arrested simply for speaking French or having fleur-de-lys license plates.
Hmmm, something smells fishy.
So says the CLAC, Montreal’s Anti-Capitalist Convergence group, which said Monday that only 125 of its 450 members who had taken buses to Toronto had returned.
Many of its members were detained over the weekend and remained unaccounted for.
The anti-capitalist, anti-state, anti-authority group describes the controversial Black Bloc tactics, blamed for many of the incidents in Toronto, as a legitimate form of protest.
Smashing windows is a legitimate form of protest? And you are wondering why they were targeting you?
The protest tactic sees people using black clothing to blend into larger crowds and, in many cases, taking advantage of that anonymity to escape arrest for vandalism.
“We respect a diversity of tactics. People are angry, particularly in the context of an event like that,” said Mathieu Francoeur, another CLAC member.
“For us it’s vandalism against certain institutions . . . it’s symbolic and doesn’t compare with violence in general in society.”
But organizers for the Quebec-based group said they were surprised by the targeting of French-speaking protesters.
One member who was detained on Sunday said she and two other Quebecers driving along College Street were stopped only because they had a Quebec licence plate.
Camille, a slight redhead who refused to give her last name, said police then rifled through her possessions and found some black clothing.
She also had a lawyer’s telephone number scrawled on her arm and an anarchist book in the car.
Ever think the license plate NUMBER could be used to identify you???
The CLAC organizers deflected allegations that people affiliated with their group were in large part responsible for the damage.
The CLAC says about 1,000 members went in Toronto, but were immediately targeted as soon as their buses pulled into the city on Friday.
“Anyone who had the protester look,” Francoeur said.
“There was institutionalized profiling, and we figured it might happen, but we never thought politicians would also give police carte blanche to do as they pleased.”
The CLAC had spent months organizing trips to Toronto to protest the G20.
But the spokespeople said they did not produce a video that appeared on their website entitled “Mon voyage a Toronto” (My trip to Toronto); the video shows off different points of interest using skulls as landmarks.
The Montreal protest group is planning to hold a demonstration on Thursday to denounce police handling of the G20 protests.
OK, let me get this straight. You think it is because you are from Quebec that you were arrested? If the police didn’t target you I would say they had really bad intelligence. They should have kept you all on the busses for a week and give you Lake Ontario water to drink in used Starbucks cups and cold McDonalds to eat.
get fixed before you can use it.
When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker accident occurred off the coast of Alaska in 1989, a Dutch team with clean-up equipment flew in to Anchorage airport to offer their help. To their amazement, they were rebuffed and told to go home with their equipment. The Exxon Valdez became the biggest oil spill disaster in U.S. history–until the BP Gulf spill.
The Jones Act and the unions. Intended consequences. There is the ability to waive the act but that would go against the real goal of cap and trade legislation that the Dems (and BP) are trying to get in place.
From Wikipedia: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff temporarily waived the U.S. Shipping Act for foreign vessels carrying oil and natural gas from September 1 to September 19, 2005.
