No jokes now, folks. It’s zero flak time.
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 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.
No jokes now, folks. It’s zero flak time.
I won’t go into too much trouble with what by now is all over the mediasphere. A lunatic went on a killing spree in Tucson, AZ, hospitalizing Congresswoman Giffords and killing a nine year old girl, among others. If found guilty, this animal should at the very least never know freedom again.
Now is not the time for politics, except for those on the left who never let a crisis go to waste.
In the world according to them, we need gun control. We need to tone down the rhetoric and establish some new rules for that too. Despite any and all evidence to the contrary, this couldn’t possibly have anything to do with anyone other than the Tea Parties and Sarah Palin. Those on the left are all reasonable people, you see, and conservatism is the sole source of hate and rage in this country. Just ask them.
For a one-click fact stop in that regard, Michelle Malkin may have the most definitive post on leftist ‘reasonable’ rhetoric and behavior you’ll ever see to date. If nothing else, the fact they would try to make political hay out of this is enough to know the liberal character and sincerity for rational discourse for what it is. Michelle’s post will just drive it home.
No jokes now, folks. It’s zero flak time.
Something (no one really knows what it is as of this post, but we’re guessing ‘missile’) launched thirty five miles offshore from Los Angeles. That’s bad news in and of itself, but NORAD still doesn’t know what that something was. Ballistic missile, airplane, or whatnot.
Granted, while I might half-jokingly wonder if California’s lot would improve if something were to remove Los Angeles from existence, the potential of getting nuked is no laughing matter. The fact no one still knows what happened for certain really isn’t funny. If this had been for real, we would be shafted.
