SEIU Purple Army blunder of the day
Never mind…
SEIU bosses got their members and local citizens in Hastings PA all worked up about an evil shale driller in their neighborhood. They organized a noisy picket, demanding that the driller pay more taxes and staging a theatrical tollbooth display in order to collect.
Only…there’s no shale drilling going on in their neighborhood. And there won’t be.
SEIU stands for Sorry, Error in Unionizing!
When union workers and environmental activists picked a Hastings-area site to protest inaction on a Marcellus Shale severance tax, they made one mistake.
Marcellus activity isn’t occurring within miles of it.
Service Employees International Union officials issued an apology Monday, saying they mistakenly set up their protest Thursday – and a makeshift tollbooth asking the industry to pay its fair share – next to a surface well property that has been around for years and isn’t set up for shale drilling.
…The union, with environmental officials and area parents, set up protests at three western Pennsylvania sites Thursday to urge for the shale drilling industry to pay its fair share.
Bhaerman said local workers from an area nursing home told them about an apparent drilling site near Third Avenue, just outside of Hastings, and the union didn’t do enough homework on it.
A permit search Monday by the Mirror showed no Marcellus gas permits approved within several miles of the site.
Question: If hapless SEIU members collected sick pay while on protest duty, will they have to give it back now?
Question: If the drillers are evil, aren’t all the Pennsylvania-based companies that manufacture drilling equipment and employ untold numbers of Americans evil, too?
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Another question; do those same manufacturers employ union workers?
Extortion, plain and simple.
Of course! We must picket ALL of them! And they must all be fired! Isn’t it the goal to destroy the jobs and economy of this once great nation? So…Unions, do your duty and keep up the good work!
/sarc off
Just what I was thinking. Things like the drilling moratorium have really damaged the economy, and particularly union workers, because their companies are more vulnerable due to their higher operating costs.
Question – Does Progressive Education result in mass lemming protests?
Question to SEIU: How much did Venezuala and Iran pay you to conduct this protest?
The first thing I thought was ‘are those union idiots protesting a company that also has union idiots?’
It proves Brietbart’s point about bussing in people to protest things they know nothing about…(well, ok; that’s a lot of things.)
Ha! it’s like that AT&T Flash Mob commercial where a guy doesn’t get his email and shows up at the wrong time. (snork)
From the SEIU website:
That ‘they’ have created. Excuuuuse me!?
Put an 80 IQ idiot in charge of thousands of 70 IQ idiots, and one can never tell what may happen.
SEIU? Oh yea, that’s that terrorist organization that specializes in extorsion. They should be prosecuted under the RICO laws. A ‘makeshift tollbooth’…sounds like probable cause to prosecute.
Dumb is as Dumb does. How
f’nstupid.they must be desperate, sorta like the mistaken identity protest in colorado, remember that one? perhaps the seiu needs to send its members to nea members, and learn a thing or two.
I would bet my house that not one of those idiots knows what shale,drilling, or natural gas is.
Mindless tools. When this all collapses, I’m not feeding them.
A typcial rally for SEIU: Stir Every Idiot Up.
Unfortunately, that is exactly what we will be forced to do. It’s called taxes. They will take OUR money and give it to the very people who hate us for earning money! What is the matter with you? Makes perfect sense!
/sarc off
We hate gas, oil and electricity! We want to live in caves!
It also proves Breitbart’s point about how to combat them. Use their own abysmal stupidity against them. They were misled by workers at a nursing home. Lets create a campaign of disinformation spreading all kinds of rumors about various fictitious blind-rage-inducing proposed actions by the usual suspects and watch the fun! We can lampoon them into complete irrelevance! I’ll bring the popcorn.
Gee, I was thinking about the subject of shale oil drilling today, am I evil?
Is SEIU the union of pepetual outrage?
This is the ONLY news outlet (I know of) where I get to read and see articles like this demonstrating the stupidity of liberals and union thugs. Thank God we have this site to archive and retrieve for reference. I have used this site countless times to debate and win my arguments with liberals in Minnesota.
“For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.” – Clopton’s Law
Speaking of Breitbart…I will be meeting him on June 17th-18th at the RightOnLine Conference at the Hilton in Minneapolis!! And our heroine, Michelle Malkin will be there too! Also, Ed Morrissey, Mary Katherine Hamm, Michele Bachmann, Tim Pawlenty, John Fund, S.E.Cupp, and more! Past speakers included:
•Judge Andrew Napolitano
•Congressman Mike Pence
•FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell
•Herman Cain, radio talk show host
•Curtis Sliwa, radio talk show host
•Stephen Kruiser, Fox News Channel contributor
I can’t wait!!!
Michelle…if you read this, I hope to introduce myself to you!
Rent-a-mob FAIL!
Curious Revisionist spin isn’t it? Winning WWII and the unprecedented economic growth that followed had nothing to do w/ the creation of the Middle Class! SEIU ‘invented’ the middle class. Who knew..?
Membership to the Middle Class needn’t be earned and is a ‘Right’ of course. Purple dunce cap w/ each new membership.
Goonions.
These people will stop at nothing. They are stupid and dangerous…a very scary combination. I don’t intend to confront them unless I have my skillet concealed somewhere on my body.
Hey Martha they’re protesting some guy named Shale.Do you want to go?
Question: If the drillers are evil,
Look! Dentists!
No, of course they really don’t want to live in caves….stupid public indoctrinated people without the sense needed to figure out how they benefit from producing petroleum for products that are created right here in the USA so we can be less dependent upon foreign oil.
The dolts would be first to complain and whine if they end up living in caves due to their own actions.
Even more tolerable Leftists here move in lockstep w/ greeners on the matter of fracking. Fits the whole contaminated water table/environment narrative!
More “settled science”.
I am jealous, HappyScrapper! Please let MM know how much we love her and admire her untiring work.
Is Michelle going to be peddling unautographed copies of “Culture of Corruption”? Just askin’.
Napoleon: Lucky!
Hey Happy, give MM a hug and noogies from me. Please tell her how grateful we are for her tireless efforts to inform.
Todd DiLamuca: Oh, oh, here comes the noogie ambulance! [ starts to pound Lisa's head ] Here’s those special get well noogies – don’t worry, my dear, these have all been sterilized! What a tragedy!
Lisa Loopner: [ hits Todd with pillow ] Cut it out, Pizzaface!
Phil…you are so funny!! But actually, the only mention of autographing books is Breitbart’s book. No mention of MM’s. I am going to bring my copy and hope she will give a “hey” to happyscrapper! That is, if I get to her. I believe it is a very large group and sold out!
I will if I get the chance! It may be hard to get to her. Maybe I will have kind of an “IN” if I tell her I am happyscrapper. Or maybe she will avoid me for that reason! Who knows???
None of us is as dumb as all of us.
Apparently this protest was just as successful as the last one. I guess they don’t realize that their days of influence are over.
Just say you’re ILMC, you’ll jump to the head of the line, if only to be used as a bad example.
Not sure what a “noogie” is! And if I get a chance to hug her, I will be unbelievably thrilled!
If I talk to her, I am going to tell her I am happyscrapper and I really appreciate that she hasn’t banned me, because she was probably tempted to do so a few times!
SEIU – Ayn Rand’s definition of “looters” circa 2011.
It is this sort of group which helps Detroit have a 50% literacy rate.
Regards,
Peter H.
Bite your tongue, er, finger!! Just the thought of saying I am Ilovemyboytoy made me throw up a little. Can’t.do.it.
Is it really that high? Methinks that percentage is overly optimistic.
The very reason I love seeing the furthest reaches of the Prog Agenda tentacles wither with atrophy. They’re just going thru the motions.
Doesn’t mean the wind down/mop up won’t be ugly though? And it doesn’t get any uglier than this!
I find it amazing that the regressives are so blind they can’t even see how destructive their agenda is. Every single liberal city in this nation is failing. The conservative-run cities are the successful ones. What part of that don’t they get? What is it that they think is so good about socialism? It doesn’t work. Never has. Never will. These people are truly insane.
And here’s one that describes Paul Krugman to a Tee.
Obamacare is gonna take away your medicare, but we all know the GOP has a better plan for taking it from granny and giving it to the insurance companies.
Dumb, meet Asses….
When the s*it hits the economic fan, these same fools will be on their knees begging for someone to come digging for that nasty shale oil. These fat ingrates have never been hungry a day in their lives but let’s see what happens when they can’t afford their smart phones and HD flatscreens.
Union members are by nature dumber than door knobs. Otherwise they would not belong to a union. If you can’t make it on your own, then get the hell off the earth you worthless piece of $hit. And why is it that every time you see some of these same old morons, they all look like welfare mothers and run away dads? Worthless, that’s what they are.
Phil, I like it, mind if I use it?
I’m sure the SEIU will take credit for shutting down the shale drilling operation, that never was.
Word to the SEIU: Vulgar, thuggish and stupid is no way to go through life.
Rush just said that the press will now tout this as a “total capitulation of Netanhyahu to Obama”. Watch for it. Rush is probably right. The MSM is a worthless pile of propaganda junk reporting…lies, corruption and disgusting twisted observations. I won’t know if they distort this or not because I can’t bear to watch any more!
The Dems in PA have been in a snit ever since new Gov. Tom Corbett introduced his budget proposal, which reduced education funding to balance the budget while avoiding special taxes on the gas drillers. The point the Dems are missing is that the drillers will ALREADY be paying plenty of $$$ for income taxes, real estate taxes, school property taxes, etc.
Sorry. Wrong thread!!
Ya know, they are probably making a LOT more than I am, and I try to dress nicely for work every day. It’s a case of self-worth and self-esteem. They have to BELONG to a crummy union to feel like they are somebody, instead of making something of themselves on their own. Useless.Human.Beings…I think.
Useful IDIOTS! It is garbage like this which gives “working” a bad name. These people don’t need a union. They are not “working” for a living. They are PROTESTING for a living.They don’t make anything, contribute anything or do anything that doesn’t involve sucking off those who do work and produce. How is this contributing to the general welfare? This is sponging off skills and talents of those who never resort to whining for a living. The nanny state has produced a group of low life parasites.
Fracking is the controversial process used in shale-oil drilling. Some say fracking is highly pulluting to the purtity of deep aquifers. I don’t know about that.
But I think the SEIU protesters just got “fracked.”
SEIU channels Roseanne Roseannadana:
Whaddaya tryin’ to do, make me sick?
It’s always something! If it ain’t one thing, it’s another…
Never mind.
Shows the stupidity of the membership of the American Sturmabeilung; they need taxpayers to fund their various redundant bureaucracies and yet are attempting to prevent the employment of those very taxpayers.
You’re right. Mixed in with the union goons, I suspect there are professional protestors, getting paid by unions and like minded non-profit organizations and sent out to demonstrate, while others are simply picked up off the street and offered some cash by the organizations to be transported to a demonstration so they can hold up ready made signs and be told what to shout out.
Is it odd of me to conjure up a vision of pigs whenever I hear the SEIU mentioned?
SEIU-EEE!
Who’s for $10 gas in PA?
I actually feel somewhat sorry for the rank-and-file union members, because they just don’t seem to have a clue that they are the “useful idiots” of the left.
Perhaps you are a wee generous about the IQ points…
The answer is yes, because they allow Americans to live in the middle class.
Marxists #1 enemy is the middle class.
Check out the signs the goons are carrying. They appear to be hand written but on examination you will notice that the letters on both signs are too similar. Both signs were either written by the same person or they are now using mass produced signs made to look like they were hand written. AstroTurf has been replaced with FieldTurf. It looks more like grass but is still plastic.
Not if you work on a farm.