Union Logic

July 17, 2010

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. Tweet

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Paying the Visa with the MasterCard

July 14, 2010

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 [...]

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Bacon.

July 12, 2010

Oh the humanity. 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, [...]

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I thought Capitalism was bad? Shouldn’t he be happy?

July 8, 2010

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Not from Yale?

July 6, 2010

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 [...]

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Pump it Up

July 6, 2010

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 [...]

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On the Balance of Probabilities

July 5, 2010

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],” [...]

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Sixty Four Feet is a Felony

July 3, 2010

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 [...]

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How do you say “Get a Job” in Quebec?

June 29, 2010

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 [...]

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Never let a crisis…

June 27, 2010

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 [...]

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