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A tribute to the veterans on Memorial Day.
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Can You Help Find Marizela Perez?
No jokes now, folks. It’s zero flak time.
For those of you that may be new to this blog, the zero flak category is reserved for topics that don’t get the usual farce treatment here. This is one of those things that is definitely not a joke. Michelle Malkin’s cousin, Marizela Perez, has gone missing in the Seattle area.
From Michelle’s blog:
MISSING PERSON
Name: Marizela Perez
Date Missing: March 5, 2011, 12:00-12:30 P.M.
Last Seen: Rainier Beach area, heading to UW Seattle campus to meet friends for lunch or study in the UW libraries
Possible Routes: Sound Link Light Rail stations, downtown/Chinatown areas, UW Seattle campus, U-district
Description – Asian female, 5’5” tall, 110 lbs, skinny build, asymmetrical bob with short bangs and brown/red highlights hairstyle, tattoo on left inner arm with the words ‘lahat ay magiging maayos’, last seen wearing denim jeans, light brown suede laced boots, possibly wearing green eye contacts, possibly carrying a plaid backpack with a Macbook Pro laptop, taking medication for depression.
A picture of her is at that link. If anyone reading this is from the Seattle area and might know something about this, let Michelle Malkin know as soon as possible. My best wishes to Michelle and her family.
Update, 3/25/2011: There’s a site out to help in this at FindMarizela.com. You can find more information there.
Update, 3/30/2011: Tip line for any information about Marizela at 1-855-MARIZEL.
The Last of America’s WWI Veterans is Gone
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The last of America’s WWI Veterans, Frank Buckles, has died at the age of 110. Over at RedState, poster “bk” has an article about him you should definitely read. He was a remarkable man.
No Playing Nice in Wisconsin
No jokes now, folks. It’s zero flak time.
All the Democrat Senators in Wisconsin fled to Illinois to defeat a quorum and shut down all legislative action. It would be nice if this latest act of petulance by the Democrats was funny, but it comes on the heels of a lot of union-caused trouble. The governor has a right-to-work bill going through their legislature along with some public sector union benefit and collective bargaining reforms, and the union reaction was predictable. Civil disorder, spin about how they’re for the little guy, and even out-of-state protesters. The President may even be involved.
The trouble for them is that the governor doesn’t have to play nice. In fact, should he decide he’s had enough, he can always offer to rehire some portion of the teachers he just fired due to their “sickout” wildcat striking in exchange for the senators’ return. Or relieve the union trash of their jobs at the rate of about 100 or so every day these childish Democrats attempting to short-circuit the results of an election remain gone.
I’m not the first to think along these lines, but those who can make this happen need to start. The unions aren’t there to play nice, and Obama certainly won’t. Plus, a right to work (not being forced to join a union or pay their dues in order to retain a job) is a worker right the unions there would deny them because they would lose dues they couldn’t otherwise justify taking.
Wisconsin is going to decide a lot one way or the other. If these union tactics work there, they’ll be used nationwide by other public sector unions and Democrat legislators to keep states that no longer wish to be sucked dry from stopping it. Then they lose anyway, only in a far less controlled manner if a bankruptcy occurs.
Best wishes to the governor of Wisconsin. Should he overcome in this matter, he’ll get the ball rolling on the end of public sector union greed. If he also breaks the teachers’ unions, it will mean better educations for America’s children in the future. Godspeed to him.
