Port Whine: Big Labor’s Occu-punks
My column follows up on Monday’s blog coverage of the West Coast Port Shutdown by the Occupy Wall Street movement (the D12 primer is here if you missed it) — and exposes how the so-called Big Labor progressives and their propaganda tools are the nation’s biggest enemies of economic and technological progress. It’s no coincidence that businesses using cutting-edge technology and automation are now being targeted and demonized while a man who blames ATMs (which have been around for four decades) and automation for his skyrocketing unemployment rate is sitting in the White House.
Chaos is the progressive Luddites’ goal. Chaos is the reality — and enablers like left-wing Oakland Mayor Jean Quan are reaping what they sow:
In Seattle, police used “flash-bang” percussion grenades to break-up demonstrators and made arrests. Police Detective Jeff Kappel said protesters hurled flares, bags of paint and debris at officers and police horses, injuring one officer. Two others were arrested in Oakland for ignoring orders to unblock a gate where trucks were entering the port, reported interim Police Chief Howard Jordan.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan is concerned about how the protesters will affect the people of the city this holiday season. “People have to think about the consequences,” she said. People have to think about who they are hurting. They are saying, ‘We want to get the attention of the ruling class.’ Well I think the ruling class is probably laughing, and people in this city will be crying this Christmas. It’s really got to stop”…
They’re not getting the message. Neither are the clueless elites at Time Magazine, who celebrated “The Protester” as their “person of the year.” But it looks like more on the left side of the aisle are getting tired of the mob. The liberal Los Angeles Times editorial board pans Occupy’s second act:
“The shipping industry didn’t get America into this economic mess, and there is little it could do to get us out. In times of rising joblessness, it’s common to blame foreign competition for the losses at home. But blaming ports or shippers for the changes wrought by an increasingly global economy is sort of like fingering automakers for urban traffic congestion. In its search for a new direction, Occupy Wall Street would probably do better to occupy the National Mall than San Pedro.”
So did the Portland Oregonian:
As the picketers meandered from one terminal to the next, they took a day’s pay away from almost 400 International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers who were told to avoid the protests and stay home on Monday. It’s doubtful that large exporters and ship-owning companies such as Goldman Sachs were affected in any way by Monday’s protest — but hundreds of Oregon families took a holiday hit to their paychecks.
Moreover, the picketers interfered with the deliveries of dozens of locally based companies trying to get their products to the port — and to markets beyond — costing them and their Oregon employees many thousands of dollars. That probably didn’t win a lot of new converts to the Occupy movement.
Still, if you glanced at the news coverage of the protests you got an unusual peek at a typical day of economic activity at the port — workers managing loads of animal feed and straw from Willamette Valley ryegrass fields, aircraft parts from Aurora and shipments from Oregon’s major international companies, including Columbia Sportswear, Intel and Nike.
By coincidence, on Tuesday a South Korea trade officer, Juseong Lim, was in Portland to speak to Oregon business and government leaders about the recently approved Korean free trade agreement. Lim said the agreement will erase high tariffs in his country and clear the way for more Northwest products — everything from beef, blueberries and other Oregon agricultural products to knives, backpacks and other equipment produced by this state’s cluster of outdoor equipment-makers. “Oregon should be a big supporter of this agreement,” Lim said.
So should everyone on the West Coast. Every day, on average, seaports from Seattle to Portland to Los Angeles and San Diego generate more than $700 million a day in economy activity creating more than 260,000 employment hours and more than $9 million in wages. Every day.
The Korean free trade agreement will spur still more economic activity. So will efforts such as Gov. John Kitzhaber’s recent trade mission to Korea, China and Japan. Oregon already exports nearly $1 billion in goods to Korea and has even larger trading relationships with China and Japan.
The Occupy movement shut down the port on Monday apparently to make some kind of garbled statement about big financial companies that contributed to the global economic meltdown. What they demonstrated, instead, is that if you’re looking for the beating heart of Portland’s and Oregon’s economy, you’ll find it down on the docks.
In related news, GOP Rep. Darrell Issa is challenging the White House on whether it is allowing Occupy DC to camp illegally in McPherson Square for political purposes. In NYC, Occupy Wall Street chief flack and former public school teacher Justin Wedes was caught attempting to commit Americorps fraud and refuses to answer questions about the ripoff. And following up on my reporting last week about the Scholastic News Occupy whitewash, Susanne Hiller at Hot Air illuminates Scholastic’s hypocrisy problem.
A NYC eatery closes down as a result of the Occupy blockades.
And in case you missed it, here’s Neil Cavuto schooling an Occupy Portland tool.
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Port Whine: Big Labor’s Occu-punks
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2011
Scruffy progressive protesters locked themselves together across railroad tracks, blocked traffic and shouted profanities at police on Tuesday in a coordinated “West Coast Port Shutdown.” Truckers lost wages. Shippers lost business. This is what the Occupy Wall Street movement calls “victory.”
Aging Big Labor bosses toasted one another from the sidelines as they declared the “rebirth of the labor movement.” What’s really going on? It’s an old-school power grab by a decrepit union wrapped in self-deluded social media do-goodism.
Peace-loving agitators wielding guitars and iPhones may earnestly believe they stood up to corruption and stood up for workers this week. A socialist website promoted the port shutdown as an expression of “solidarity” for the workers’ “struggle.” One Oakland, Calif., agitator decried “exploitation by capitalism” as the shiftless busily divided their work blockages into what they called — chortle — “shifts.”
In reality, it’s the young Occupiers who are being exploited as human shields for the economy-strangling agenda of the violence-prone International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU). These ignorant punks are putting the “front” in “waterfront.”
Few remember now that the left’s three-month-long “Day of Rage” festivities kicked off in September at the Port of Longview, Wash. — a far cry from Goldman Sachs and the rest of New York’s financial district. Unionized longshoremen stormed the port there and took a half-dozen guards hostage. They damaged railroad cars, dumped grain, smashed windows, cut rail brake lines and blocked a train for hours while the ILWU and AFL-CIO cheered them on.
The violence followed a similar outburst in July, when longshoremen tore down a chain link fence on EGT’s private property and blocked railroad tracks to prevent a grain delivery — a clear violation of the 1946 Hobbs Act, which makes it a crime to employ robbery or extortion to impede interstate commerce.
Despite breaking federal law, violating a judicial restraining order and committing systematically planned sabotage and trespassing, most of the union thugs got away with wrist slaps. The ILWU received a $250,000 fine to cover damages from the vandalism — a fine that will be paid with rank-and-file workers’ hard-earned dues money.
So, what’s their beef? No, it’s not about the “right” of unions to “organize.” It’s not about the welfare of the “99 percent.” It’s about one union losing its seven-decade-old grip on West Coast port operations. It’s about six-figure-salaried union suits at the ILWU, established by bloody radical Marxist Harry Bridges, throwing a lawless tantrum against economic efficiency and technological progress.
The ILWU is trying to break the will of EGT Development, a multinational agribusiness that recently built a $200 million grain terminal in Longview. It’s a state-of-the-art facility with unprecedented automation features that will speed unloading, increase shipping capacity and bring in tens of millions of dollars in lease and tax payments alone to the region.
EGT needs a nimble 21st-century workforce. The entitled overlords of the ILWU, who have ruled West Coast ports since the 1930s, are demanding a monopoly on the company’s master control system, control over the work hour structure, excessive mandatory breaks and extortionist man-hour “premiums” to bail out the union’s underfunded pension. “We’ve worked these elevators since 1934, and we’ve always been in that master console,” local ILWU President Dan Coffman told public radio.
EGT refused and instead brought in an outside contractor with a different union to fill about 50 jobs. But the ILWU water-carriers in the Occupy movement don’t care about those workers. Or the American farmers who have been hurt by the port saboteurs. Or the independent non-union truckers who were forced to forgo work in the name of worker empowerment. Trucker Hai Ngo of San Leandro, Calif., told the San Francisco Chronicle: “The Occupy people handed out flyers to us, but never asked what we thought before they planned this. I will lose about $350, and at holiday time that hurts. It’s just a waste of our time and money, and won’t accomplish anything.”
Unfortunately, Ngo and blue-collar workers like him are collateral damage in the ILWU’s ruthless battle for Big Labor survival. Coffman, who has stoked violence for months, vowed earlier this year that “we will fight to the end to secure what is rightfully our turf.”
And now the gasping longshoremen’s union has a whole new set of Occu-tools to do the dirty work for them.
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…….and let’s not forget that OWS was largely begun by Obama and his divisiveness.
Bet you he’s sitting around with Axelrod, Daley and Jarrett and they’re all just laughing out loud and patting each others backs.
Obama was the true enabler of this mess.
Does Mayor Quan understand she is part of the “ruling class”? Does her statement mean that she is laughing at her fellow leftists? Does she have a brain in her head?
And… the higher he climbs on a pole, the more you can see his butt.
Divide and conquer.
Rhetorical questions, right? You DO realize she’s a lib/prog, right?
When God was handing out brains, she thought He said it was going to rain and went and hid. (like all lib/progs, I might add)
Little known but important fact: At each level of the political hierarchy a liberal achieves, a prerequisite exists for the removal of a spoonful of brain matter. The implications are…. well, you can figure that one out.
I was just going to say that, too. I had it highlighted so I could quote from the great Oakland Mayor Jean Quan about “the ruling class.”
Great minds, etc.
I work at a union shop, although I’m company myself and not union. Funny thing is, on this issue, almost all the union workers here agree that these port protests are misplaced/misdirected, and only hurt blue-collar workers.
Since when are any Dems concerned about ‘consequences’?!
What about the consequences of…
Unsustainable debt?
Morbidly obese deficits?
Social engineering?
Punishing success?
Subsidizing failure?
‘Saving’ us from ourselves?
Aaaaaaaaaaaargh!!!
It’s not the “rebirth of the labor movement”. It’s a power grab by the government-sponsored government employee unions and their internationalist communist brothers. And we taxpayers are paying for it.
Thank God our “conservative” GOP candidates are taking this on eh?
Crickets. It’s all “anybody but Obama” all of the time.
China has a gigantic port at Veracruz, Mexico, you know the products they unload there aren’t intended for Mexican consumers nearly so much as they’re headed here.
The longshoreman have drastically harmed trade for their own selfish aims a long time.
The occupy kids not having a clue is a red flag of itself, they’re that much easier to manipulate by the 1% of their movement.
Growing up, we always looked for the “union label” in products we bought.
Now we look for the union label to avoid buying those products.
Do the unions not have a modern public relations department? Don’t they see how counterproductive their efforts are? They must be spending every dime of the dues they collect on the Democrat party.
Nothing else makes any sense.
Obviously not. She is a walking talking oxymoron – or just a plain ol’ moron.
No. Far left is based in relativism – no absolute truth. Apples are oranges, if you really believe it.
A rhetorical question, no?
Rightfully? Last I checked, that wasn’t one of your “rights” according to the highest law of the land, the US Constitution. Unless there’s a Harry Potter-esque Amendment 9 3/4, visible only to members of the lunatic fringe, in which case it makes perfect sense.
The irony is the unintended truth of his statement. Yes, they will fight to the end… the end of their role in the economy because they’ve strangled their host to death.
Thump, thump thump. Sounds like somebody’s beating that same tired drum again.
That includes most of the Democrat Party as well. They have subverted the proper function of our Federal Government from that of national security and the wise and prudent nurture of commerce, to the that of direct and draconian Socialist control of every aspect of American life.
Without the complete reaffirmation of the primacy of the Constitution, free enterprise and individual liberty, we are finished as a republic.
MM said:
Dan Coffman said:
So historic precedents ( i.e pesky Laws etc. ) only matter when they support their twisted straw position. Got it. Does Mr. Coffman even vaguely know what the Hobbs Act is?
This is a capitalist lie. Only the State as guided by the prescient and Most High One Obama (PBUH) with the aid of his faithful Quisling apparachiks can do these things.
Spoken like a true hoodlum. As a national security and commerce issue, I would suggest that all unions be thrown out of ports and industries critical to the economy. I’m not a Ron Paul fan but I would bet he would be open to that. Bachmann and Santorum too for that matter.
Labor Unions have a long, sorry history of violence and mafia-style tactics. Corruption, extortion and murder since these “unions” began. It is time to bust them all and get our country back to fairness for ALL workers. By fairness, I don’t mean wealth redistribution…I mean this…
When someone drinks on the job, or goes out the the car at lunch and smokes dope, or does something equally egregious…they should be FIRED! Unions protect their workers even when they are hopelessly criminal. Teachers unions won’t allow a teacher to be fired, but instead put the bad ones in a room and pay them full salary for doing nothing.
This sh!p has to stop!! I know that unions have a lot of power. But we need to take back our country. Start with getting the Union Organizer in Chief out of OUR HOUSE in DC. Get rid of the Attorney General who protects criminals. Then work all the way down until they are ALL GONE. This country is infested with such evil, I can feel it physically…it is taking a toll on my nerves and sometimes even shakes my faith that God is still in charge of our country.
I know it is wrong to think this way…but there are days when I ask God to strike these people down with a flash of lightening or something..anything to stop this madness. He is being mocked everywhere and His patience is not limitless.
RedDog said:
Especially considering how ‘affluent’ places like Longview, WA are. Two industries there, the Port and meth.
Apparently now they’ve merged. You can’t live in the PNW without having friends that grew up there. Grinding poverty, abysmal weather, zero opportunities. A place not even locals have a sense of humor about “being a great place to be from“.
Their economic foolishness aside, the protestors’ stupidity is further proven by their willingness to place themselves in the path of a train. Those things can’t come close to stopping on a dime, and in any argument between a train and a human being, the train always wins.
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HI MARSHALL_WILL–#21. When I was a senior in university a friend and I drove from Reno, Nevada to the Seattle World’s Fair via the Pacific Coast highway from San Francisco. A truly beautiful drive–through towns with lots of commercial fishing, logging and agriculture businesses. The Seattle area was thriving also–lots of industry.
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Now logging and mining have been killed by the “greenies” and Spotted Owl huggers. Fishing is gone. Big influxes of Kalifornia “tree huggers” selling their homes and fleeing the killer taxes and living costs have retired to the PNW and have brought their failed social and economic policies North. They want to tear down the Columbia River dams that provide so much needed electrical power and reliable water for agriculture–so they can protect the little fishies!
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And the solid blue Kali, Oregon, and Washington State governers, mayors, and the U.S. Department of (social) Justice refuse to enforce the trespassing, sabotage, and RICO laws against these “occupier” tools and their corrupt Union buddies. It should be 30 days in the Juzgado every time they are videotaped and arrested. With much bigger fines and jail time for the Federal beefs. They can work on their drum circles and chants there–and maybe even score a bath or two. The rape and drug problems will be less in the slammer than in their tent cities.
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They really are working for the communist “ideals” espoused by Comrade Obama and His democrat / socialist / marxist / statist / socialist Ilk. At the expense of the American Economy and People at every turn. Vote them all out of office in the next elections. They are working for the enemy.
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John Bibb
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Pysically, the train wins. Ideologically the protestor wins, in his mind, by being a willing potential martyr for the cause he advances.
Except for the abysmal weather, its a microcosm, not dissimilar of many communities run for decades by local dems and of what our statist elites seem to have in mind for the entire nation for our, but not their, future.
John Bibb said:
I’m fairly sure your intent wasn’t entirely flippant there. Now we have an entire Class that’s graduated from Public Nuisance/hobby-rapist to bonafide Domestic Terrorist without so much as an arrest record?
We don’t even know who this people are. Their anonymity is their greatest weapon. Nice job West Coast Dimaprogs! Btw, in addition to the Hobbs Act ( like we need anything additional? ) the sheer number of Uniform Commercial Codes and ICC’s broken are melting the nixie tube.
Better Governing Through Selective Enforcement
Hold the phone – these punk/thug union boys are supposed to be the 99%?
“In 2010, total labor union density (the percentage of workers—both public and private—belonging to a labor union) was 11.4% in the United States. …”
Y’all are coming up a bit short, no?
Export goods equals import money. These people are idiots. I am sick of stupid people trying to run the place. Seriously – get the f%^k out of the way stupid people. And that includes the entire administration and most of Congress. yes – I’m steaming.
Never forget that their actual goal is the destruction of the American economic system. They have the same goals as Al Queada.
Automating most of shipping would reduce an enormous amount of waste. This is the future BTW, and they know it. Robots don’t pay union dues, so fat-cats and crooked politicians will stand against it.
And “their” includes Obama.
Can someone convince more of those bozos to stand on the railroad tracks?
Just wanted to let folks know that Hot Air has another open registration TODAY..C’mon and sign up..:)
excuse me, hi. Could I see the title?
Hey Dire, thanks for the heads up!
Re: the protestors–are the trains actually moving? Huh? Huh? (jumps up and down with excitement)
(And lest anyone get upset, I am not advocating this–just engaging in a quick fantasy….that probably should never have been elucidated. My bad.)
When all you have is a hammer, every thread looks like a nail.
Michelle, I would have gone your pun just a little further with “Port Whine Stain”.
AlohaGuy said:
And you stand by that statement!? I have a Barron’s MBA Desk Ref. right here and I’m not afraid to use it..?
I’m sure if you went on the various Dem-assigned talking points.org’s it would be explained at length that not only does..? But quite the inverse actually yes ahem. In spite of popular misconceptions…
Better Governing Through Selective Memory
Dexter #37–perfect!!
The gal is so clueless–and/or doesn’t care that the people being hurt financially ARE the 99%. Sheesh.
Yes indeedy. The unions are perpetuating a myth. I just read it was 30 years ago this year Reagan fired every striking Air Controller in the country and replaced them, with barely a glitch in traffic or safety. The union – “PATCO” – folded two months later.
A few years before that, Iacocca walked into the UAW and said “I got thousands of jobs at $17/hr. I got no jobs at $25. You’ve got until morning to decide. If you don’t help us out we’re declaring bankruptcy in the morning and you’ll be out of work.” Biggest concession UAW ever had to make.
The unions no longer have any real muscle or clout so they make threats – like the mob is still behind them. All bark – no bite. Kind of pathetic really.
You are welcome..Hope you and others sign up today..
Hope the train wasn’t stopped in time, doubt it was. Stand there you dumb ass if that’s all the intelligence you have.
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She is dimmer than a broken light bulb, wasn’t saying that when the occupiers where causing trouble in her Oakland. Typical liberal, dumber than a pile…you choose what works for you.
swede said:
The Professional Left loves to pretend there’s no upside to Outsourcing say for instance. There have been numerous tech pub. articles that show it alleviates U.S workers by outsourcing drone/repetitive chores freeing them up to do more technical, rewarding work.
But… if you’re going to pay $25 ( Lee Iacocca 1980′s Inflation Adjusted $’s! ) you’ll be surprised what just no longer qualifies as ‘menial’!
So they want their cake and lower rung-paid for bennies too! I know Michelle has brought out the Apocalypse Now logo before and for the ILWU this IS the time! For the rest of us ( it’s Wednesday )
Well, what’s even worst is I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach, thanks the milktoast challengers we have, that Obama Act II is in the wings. I hope Congress can hold off the onslought of signed and sealed socialism headed our way then. (but not holding my breath).
James Greenidge
Queens NY
(O Boeing, why did you cave??)
Mr. Coffman, what, exactly, do you mean by “to the end”?
I don’t think it means the same thing to you as it does to me (I spent 22+ years in the military).
What is it you deem important enough to fight “to the end”?
God, country, family… union control of loading elevators?
From The Bellingham Herald
Since their overland commerce is being blocked by the OWS protesters, I recommend we declare Bellingham to be the home of the U.S.’s newest spaceport and spacecraft manufacturing and repair facility.
To ensure employment, we should immediately begin a crash program to build and launch Orion class spacecraft there.
Aw hell, Pournelle and Niven already beat me to it…
Somehow, the sequential detonation of dozens of nuclear bombs in the Bellingham area, as part of the launch process, just appeals to me sooo much…
What would keep Boeing from creating a spin-off subsidiary company, based in a right-to-work state, subcontract work out to them, and slowly over a period of decades, sell-off Boeing assets to the subsidiary, then sell off the subsidiary and declare bankruptcy?
They get out from under the unions, they continue business in a rational State, all that will have really changed is the name of the company and the names of those employed.
And when all you have is a skillet, every OWS head looks like a target!
Ah yes, Iacocca. I was always fascinated with the acronym of his name:
I
Am
Chairman
Of
Crysler
Corporation
of
Amercia.
Question of the day: Should the Federal Government be in charge of all our ports, instead of the Mafia, or is that currently redundant?
One wonders how solid the union would remain if the occupunks knew how much the longshoremen pull down. Well into the six figures folks.
Mr. Coffman: Unless you have a deed to that property or you are majority owner of the company, it is NOT rightfully YOUR turf! In speaking so, you are no different than the street gangs in our major cities and, increasingly,in small cities and towns. As I think about it, even your threats of and actual violence and extortion are strikingly similar to the street gangs.
That explains alot about the progs/libs, Whirled Peas!
My niece is in Ferndale, CA. Humboldt County – Weed Central, where the public sector criminal meets the private sector criminal. Lots of under the table payoffs.
John. Very common out East too. They are infiltrating the South in the same way. Stacked the political deck in their favor then cashed out and moved South to maximize their exploitation. Once in and settled, they agitate to create the same government service entitlements they were accustomed to back home. A pernicious tactic.
I would wager they have no problem hurting white collar workers. People who chose to get an education instead of a trade. People who applied their interests and skill sets to other lines of work than blue collar work. People who often, as in the case of longshoreman, make less than their blue collar counterparts. Class is not always defined as just wage differences but types of work.
Or do they just hate the people who came up with an idea, worked hard and long, invested their entire families savings and future under great risk, continue to make decisions daily that may jeopardize everything they have worked for, employ and support lots of people and their families, to start a company so they could do better in life.
Yet the guy who did none of that and just wants to do something without risk, complains about the guy not giving him enough of the reward from that risk and effort and thinks they have some right to disrupt, place additional burden on the owner, and extort what they want.
I’ll side with the guy who took risk and worked hard over the extortionist type any day.
The ILWU President declared solidarity with the Occupy movement in October, and now he complains when the Occupiers occupy the ports, calling them third-party protesters who are trying to co-opt the ILWU’s struggle. Reality just bit ‘em on the nose. Be careful what you wish for.
#OccupyIrony
Oh yes, a real classic of science fiction. I’ll never forget the description of what it was like to be on that spacecraft with the atomic bombs going off under it in sequence.
“God was knocking on the door, and he wanted in bad.”
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
twitter appears to be down.
either that, or I’ve been banned from twitter?
Q: How many snouts does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Very well stated, Speakup!
While it may not seem like it at times, God is in charge not only of our country but of the entire universe (Col. 1:15-17). Fortunately, that is a fact not dependent on our feelings. BTW, Happyscrapper, thank you for your support of those of us on here who are believers in Jesus Christ and state so.
Two. I still haven’t figured out how they got in that light bulb.
OT but related…. The Purple Shirt Thugs (SEIU if anyone is confused…or just arrived on this planet recently) were out in force in NYC today near the NewsCorp building. Cops everywhere.
Something about School Workers Contracts. No doubt they feel more money needs to be sucked out of the rest of the tax payers wallets.
It is especially important for us Christians to speak up and stick together, as the attacks and smears ramp up. This is prophesied, so it is not a surprise. Still, it is upsetting to think how many people out there are so full of hate and just can’t tolerate anyone with faith. Evil is growing very quickly.
I also appreciate the fellow Christians on here and get a lot of strength from all of you!
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Spacey going mobile perhaps?
“What they demonstrated, instead, is that if you’re looking for the beating heart of Portland’s and Oregon’s economy, you’ll find it down on the docks.”
That’s why they call it…Port land.
mobile–huh; no way. I got booted off the site & had to log back in. Just wanted to see if it still ‘worked’.
(it took me years to finally get a cellphone. I hate it.)
For a while I was troubled because I felt like Tim Tebow was trivializing Christ by bringing Him up and connecting Him with Tebow’s football playing. There is no reason to believe God would care about the outcomes of football games.
I have since re-thought, and I wish him every success, as I know he he has to be ruining football for the Americans for Freedom From Religion, and as long as his run continues, he’ll be in the news and causing their heads to explode.
I know… I’ve got some repenting to do.
Thank you Ronald Reagan:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/census-shows-1-2-people-103940568.html
Ilovemycountry said: sum Wyrm, sub terra
Hiraghm, it’s really hard to get banned from Twitter. But you might have managed it!
Maybe all the tweets about the Scott Walker recall crashed it.
I see that once again, my attempts to wish ILMC into the cornfield have been foiled…
Occuthugs are truly a gift to conservatism and they’ve arrived at the perfect time in our recent history. Even left wing loons in the media and Democrat Party are distancing themselves from these street scum, but they are inseparable. The Occuthugs are exactly the kind of mod created by socialism. Look at Greece, Spain and Portugal and the Occuthugs that they’ve created. Americans get a glimpse of America of the future if we don’t do something now to stop it.
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas!
ILMC is what Bram Stoker had in mind when he wrote ‘Lair of the White Worm’
“It’s a Good Life” was much better as a short story than it was on the Twilight Zone…
You know, if it wasn’t for an absolutely corrupt attorney general, the entirity of ILWU leadership would be behind bars for CRIMINAL damage to EVERYTHING.
Oh yeah, ILMC, you remain criminally misguided as well.
My wife hates all modern technology and especially the cell phone. She will openly mock people who use them in restaurants. If they give her sass she throws down on them.
my quote is from Wangerin’s ‘Book of the Dun Cow’.
I can see why you married her.
I despise the modern-day addiction of the mobile phone. I’ve seen young people sitting with each other in a cafe or whatever & they’re texting, or checking their phones for messages. I wanna yell ‘if you want to talk to your friends, they’re sitting across the table from you, you dumb twat.’
Why does someone need to be on the phone all the time?! You’re not Donald Trump, making the big deal.
“He went wordless, and wordless he sat beside her. He knew the size of her sorrow.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., The Book of the Dun Cow
Found out something interesting from someone claims to “know about unions” today. Apparently, you don’t have to pay any union dues, but the union will still give you full health insurance benefits, rehab if you need it, and a full pension. I think it would be interesting for MM readers to call their local union office and see how we can all get in on this fabulous deal.
poor Pertelote. Chanticleer didn’t really ‘get it’ until the end.
So ILMC is the cockatrice?
Uhm… None… they’ve invented torches.
I think of that line whenever I encounter environmentalism.
well, I had ilmc quoting Wyrm, because the quote worked in this case. If ilmc was a character, I’d say it was more of a lowly basilisk.
Heh, that was going to be my second choice. Obviously I gave ILMC too much credit to begin with.