Monday, February 28, 2011

A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party and a CEO are sitting at a table.

As I knew, Karl was originally from Wisconsin, so we have actual people from Wisconsin in on the debate - from his FB friends, so farm they are on the wrong side, but I am posting their side, not just my raging spiels.

A unionized public employee, a member of the Tea Party and a CEO are sitting at a table. In the middle of the table there is a plate with a dozen cookies on it. The CEO reaches across and takes 11 cookies, looks at the tea partier and says,"look out for that union guy, he wants a piece of your cookie".
With thanks to Craig
4 hours ago ·  · 

  • You, Ted Butler and 5 others like this.

    • Karl Blessing I had to repost it that is more susicnt(SP) then any other comentary I've heard
      4 hours ago · 

    • Sandra Kuehn Gregoire Actually the union guy would grab the whole plate demand all the cookies or he would destroy them and the plate and file grievances against the other two for trying to take what was 'rightfully' his. :)
      2 hours ago · 

    • Gershon Wolf Actually the union guy would have let the cookies burn in the oven because he got off at 5:00 on the button, but of course, I still support the unions. (literally) The GOP, the CEOs and overpaid scumbag apointees, the tea party and the governor DO NOT have the workers' best interest at heart. They are pigs. The unions, in general, also get greedy, like anyone else in a negotiation. But that is what negotiating is all about. To remove someones RIGHT to negotiate is FASCISM.
      Remember, they brought us overtime pay, the WEEKEND, equal pay for women and minorities, decent hours for truckers so they don't fall asleep behind the wheel and die and kill others, and got your grandma out of the sweat shop, fire safety code at the workplace is from them (remember the shot of the sweatshop girls jumping out of a burning building because they were locked into their workplace by the boss?) Thank God for the unions. Fire fighters, cops, garbagemen, teachers, have a right to negotiate and strike. Obama is busy right now talking about "the best and brightest" in public service. That is a negotiation. Not forcing someone to accept whatever comes form the pigs who have proven themselves over and over to be greedy pig scumbags. i.e. the CEO from AIG who had his own petting zoo and private jet while he was denying claims that were suppose to save the lives of people who had been paying their premiums regularly. These governmental, tea party and GOP pigs are cut from the same cloth.

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      Sandra Kuehn Gregoire 
      Teachers union in WI sitting on $316 million slush fund culled from premiums paid by state under 'cost of healthcare' and used to fund candidates of their choice. I'm a teacher married to a police officer and neither of us support the union thuggery holding WI taxpayers hostage. Property taxes in WI are outrageous and most of that goes to finance these golden benefits state employees have. If you think corporations are greedy, you should listen to these union workers. Unions and colluding school boards/municipalities are slamming through contract negotiations for massive wage/benefit increases before municipalities get option to control costs. But they're all SAYING they are willing to pay their share; however, their ACTIONS are the direct opposite.
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      Gershon Wolf So the alternative is to revoke their negotiating "privilege"? Isn't it a democratic right? My Dad was a teacher all his life, and he made shitty money for the work he put in, while piggies became millionaires on his insurance premiums and taxes. Even so, I didn't hear him complaining about the unions. I think he appreciated that they were negotiating for his retirement fund. And making sure he didn't get replaced by a young teacher willing to work for less, the moment he had his first medical issue? Don't you read the papers?

Monday, February 21, 2011

about the 2 poems, and the (non-) relationship conflict

I was reading her blog


that night, going into the past months' archives to find out what she's been writing about me. Nothing good, I'm afraid. In fact, if my name were on it, it would be slanderous, but my name wasn't on it. (more like “you”, “he” “you know who you are” type of thing. After what I thought was a long time (maybe not as long as I thought) she didn't seem to learn a thing. I'm going to post her poem without her name on it because damned if I do and damned if I don't. Kind of like our old relationship, either way I do something, she wouldn't like it, so, like what the fuck? Right? It seemed that she had one decent poem a while back, but she took it down and replaced it with more nasty stuff. So this is what I'm dealing with. (She puts “copyrighted” or whatever on them. I doubt she really copyrighted anything. Doesn't that cost money? She probably just wrote it down. Anyway, some of the stuff she supposedly “copyrighted” is decent, but some of it is garbage, and I can't imagine why she would write “copyright” on it, as if someone might steal it and say it was theirs. Humph. Right. Well, this is almost as much time as I'm gonna spend on this non-relationship. She used to hate me because I didn't put hours and hours and hours and hours every damn day discussing The Relationship, so I couldn't get on with my day and my life fell apart. And it never did any good anyway, even when I put the whole day in on it, just so she'd know that I was concerned. And I was. Just not concerned enough to stop eating and shitting.

Or was it just a shadow I was chasing?” is an allusion to a Bob Dylan song,
Mr. Tambourine Man. And the promise was the one referred to in her poem. (The one that disappeared)
(Her poem is below mine, I had saved it)
The last time we spoke I had complained about my kitchen being void of certain items she took. They were hers, technically, so she got all defensive and I had thought she missed the point. However, she called back and left a message which I never responded to, that said I want to do something positive, so tell me what you need for the kitchen, and I'll bring it over.
Like I said, she missed the point. I can't even articulate it without poetry, and possibly an analogy. She HATED analogies. Part of the baggage I had to deal with (She admitted that that had nothing to do with me, it was from a previous BF. I just had the fallout from it all over me.
I just can't explain the kitchen thing. I speak and it's as if I am speaking ancient Greek to a deaf cat.
The call before that call and the call that lead up to it...
I said You shit up my house and she hung up. And called back to tell me why she hung up, so I told her why I said she shit up my house, and that the house was never hers. We still disagree on that.
If you have a house, a home, and you buy a million dollars worth of furniture for it, for example, it's still not yours if your behavior turns it into a strife-den, and the neighbors are ready to kick it out. What makes a home is peace and respect, neither of which I could get. It was like a war – a major effort to deprive me of peace and respect...and liberty, liberty granted me by the US Constitution.
Am I speaking Ancient Greek to a deaf cat? Fuckin' makes sense to me.
She also broke into my room (technically breaking and entering is breaking a barrier, an invisible line, where you have been told not to go.) and stole 3 pages of nasty names and adjectives she had screamed or scoffed at me in a period of like 2 or 3 weeks. She thought that that would make it go away, just like the disappearing poem. But it didn't. I was called, among the other nasty names, a pathetic loser. I can't take that talk from anyone, much less from someone who wants to share my skin.
The biggest beef I had right away with her poem was about this stanza:
When you think about
The sad and painful things
That live inside your heart
And that I loved them too
Just 'cause they're part of you

It's complete bullshit. The sad and painful things inside my heart she collected and used for ammunition against me, getting personal, mentioning my ex-wife and my kid, and any other idea she could get her hands on to make me sadder and madder, heavily sprinkled with every insult and snotty sarcastic phrase she could wrack her distrurbed little brain to come up with. And then she writes sweet little poems and posts pretty little pictures It especially irks me that she should post the paintings of Adam and Eve, the paintings that were lost/damaged in a move somewhere (not my fault). Why does it irk me? Because it says like this:

God said unto Eve, "I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."


The poems tell the rest.




My poem:



The One Kind Poem



The one kind poem
Or should I say the much less nasty one
Disappeared
As if
It would mean I never read it
Or printed it
Out.
(But I did) not have to write: (But I did). Right?

And although it was , as usual, misguided and one-sided
(Your side)
It almost sounded like it (almost) resembled
Someone I once knew
And Loved
Someone wanting a promise honored
A promise that was never made.
Someone who was hungry
But walked right past their food
Without even noticing it,
Complaining.
While the food rotted.
No, but I thought that I was the one who was promised
Something. Someone.

Or was it just a shadow I was chasing?

It was, must have been, yes, because
You ran from your own house
Because you didn't like the rules
To someone else's house
Where the rules are exactly the same, plus one:
There you are alone
(Or at least minus me.)

And the more light shone
The more the shadow faded
Until
I knew
It was a shadow all along.
And all along I really Loved
No one but who I wished you were
While you Loved
Who you wished I was.

And so we lost
Nothing, really.


How can a just a mere shadow
Leave such a horrible void
In The House?
I guess it can
Because even a little shade
Can keep me from getting burned.
Her poem:



Someday

When we were growing up
It was a game to us
To love and to play
And then run away.
And we thought we knew
All there was to know
In such a rush to grow...
Now it's all behind us
And yet it drives us on
Things that didn't go right
The things that went wrong...

I wrote this song to you
Because I Hope
That you want to be
The one you promised me
So long ago, So long ago.

When you think about
The sad and painful things
That live inside your heart
And that I loved them too
Just 'cause they're part of you
Will you let yourself feel
And find a way to heal
Will you finally see
All the love within me
Or will you let the dream die
To keep it all inside
Where it's easier to hide
It away, Hide it away...

When you don't know what to say
And you can't keep it all at bay...
Forever... Don't hide it away...

When you wanna make it go away
And you won't talk to me to day
Will you ever?

I'm singing this song for you
Because I hope
That you really want to be
The One You Promised Me

Did you forget that I know
Much more than I show
I've known you for So
Long

And I Hope
So Deep In My Heart
That You Really Want To Be
The One You Promised Me
So Long Ago, So Long Ago.

more of the "sending kids to jail to make money" scam that Micahel Moore so expertly made his thesis on in his movie. This kid is DEAD.

http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2011/02/20/nr.lemon.mom.judge.cnn?iref=allsearch




more of the "sending kids to jail to make money" scam that Micahel Moore so expertly made his thesis on in his movie. This kid is DEAD.
abcnews.go.com
Mother blames Pennsylvania judge for her son's death, yells at him as he exits court.
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    • Gershon Wolf this guy-asshole-judge was convicted, and I hope he gets rammed up the pooper in jail. How's that for cruel and unusual punishment. There should be a special crap and roach infested jail just for corrupt judges, cops and DAs. Now you wanna know what I REALLY think. ?
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Friday, February 18, 2011

Ilse DeLange - I'm not so tough (live @ BVD)

In the Studio with... Dweezil Zappa

Camarillo Brillo & Muffin Man

Camarillo Brillo

Camarillo Brillo - Zappa cover acoustic folk version

Tequila - cover

Tequila - cover

Won't Get Fooled Again - cover

Shakedown Street. in the Shuk, Jerusalem

Country Boner - Cover/Tribute

Dear Penis Cover/Tribute

Gesher Tzar Ma'od - by Rav Nachman of Breslev - Covered by Gershon HaGadol

New Speedway Boogie - Cover/Tribute

Show Them To Me - Cover/Tribute

The Shuk: An Israeli & Jewish Musical Experience For Everyone!

The Shuk In Jerusalem Israel pre Shabbat

Deal /Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo -Dead cover medley

Eyes Of The World in the Shuk, Jerusalem

I Am a Rock

Sympathy For The Devil - Cover/Tribute

Thursday, February 17, 2011

The one kind poem

The one kind poem
Or should I say the much less nasty one
Disappeared
As if
It would mean I never read it
Or printed it
Out.
(But I did) not have to write: (But I did). Right?


And although it was , as usual, misguided and one-sided
(Your side)
It almost sounded like it (almost) resembled
Someone I once knew
And Loved


Someone wanting a promise honored
A promise that was never made.
Someone who was hungry
But walked right past their food
Without even noticing it,
Complaining.
While the food rotted.
No, but I thought that I was the one who was promised
Something. Someone.






Or was it just a shadow I was chasing?


It was, must have been, yes, because
You ran from your own house
Because you didn't like the rules
To someone else's house
Where the rules are exactly the same, plus one:
There you are alone
(Or at least minus me.)


And the more light shone
The more the shadow faded
Until
I knew
It was a shadow all along.
And all along I really Loved
No one but who I wished you were
While you Loved
Who you wished I was. 


And so we lost
Nothing, really.


How can a just a mere shadow
Leave such a horrible void
In The House?
I guess it can
Because even a little shade 
Can keep me from getting burned.



Wednesday, February 16, 2011

This is a good shpiel Rachel M Tells it: John Boner is bad at his job.

http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/16/6064374-i-think-john-boehner-is-bad-at-his-job


I will look for the transcript. They post the transcripts there the site, but I don't know if I can copy and paste them.
OK, I found out. There's a link on the Maddow blog on the right column, but the transcripts don't come out till like a couple of days after the broadcast, so I see transcripts there from shows from a few days ago. pretty cool.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41581501/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/


here's another good one (video):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/ns/msnbc_tv-rachel_maddow_show/#41612565





Being the speaker of the House is constitutional position. You are third in line to the presidency, and you have constitutional responsibility to conduct the business of the House. You have a lot of very sober
responsibilities.
In real terms, though, day to day, you function as leader of your party in Congress. And for the Republicans this year, Mr. Boehner is the only constitutional officer of any rank who is a Republican. John Boehner is the Republican Party's guy in Washington.
And when you look at the evidence, regardless of what you think about the Republicans' agenda, whether you are for it or against it, I think John Boehner is bad at his job.  -Rachel M

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

more of my healthcare shpiel

leftake.com
Senate leaders from both political parties have agreed to hold a vote on legislation repealing President Obama's health care overhaul -- a top priority of GOP congressional leaders.
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    • Tom Rætz
      That's a dangerous bluff I wouldn't want to play out. You have to remember that buying their own insurance is not out of the question for most of these people. And also that these are the people who write the laws, and if they call your b.....See More
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    • Gershon Wolf 
      basically, we are fighting for socialized health care, like Canada. No one talk about it, but I believe that even if we get the public option, so we can all actually get the same , or at least same quality, health care plan as a congressperson or governor, there might be no stopping private citizens or anyone for signing up for offshore Cadillac plans. The present insurance companies can just set up offshore and sign people up online. I had an insurance plan with a company in England called BUPA international, and I was not actually in UK or a UK citizen. They went ahead and payed my bills. The funny thing was that the premium for that plan was exactly DOUBLE for people making claims from USA health providers. So, there is no stopping rich people from getting better plans, and no stopping congresspeople from getting better plans. In the meantime, we are fighting to have the same quality health care that they have NOW, that's the point. If it's good enough for them it's good enough for us. One GOP guy finally came out and said what the problem was. maybe it was Boner, maybe it was Leberman. He said that if you had a house that burned down, you don't call and get insurance on it AFTER the disaster, you get it BEFORE. makes sense. Otherwise, the insurance companies would go out of business. They need to make their money on people paying regular premiums, obviously. However, if it is standard policy for everyone to pay a premium as a tax, right out of their paychecks, like we do for Social Security and workman's comp, then BOOM we have socialized health care (or at least that option), regulated practices (no more pre existing condition bullshit, because everyone pays), and the insurance companies WHO PLAY BY THE RULES, thus earning the right to do business in America, will get their profits. They don't need to make billions of dollars off of us. If their top guys take home $250,000 instead of millions, then they won't have to rag about losing money. The trend is to spread it around, and to them that is like communism or something. Well, most other civilized countries do it, and they are not communist. We are just socializing health care like we do the fire departments, police departments, libraries, etc. which you are already paying for with your taxes. If we go back to The Constitution, which is out guide, the WELFARE of the people is protected and we have the facilities to make that happen in the modern age of computers and electronic banking. There's nothing stopping me from getting the same health care as a Senator except 1. Their greed,2. greedy people who don't want to kick in out of their paychecks for it, 3. millionaires who just got tax cuts instead of tax hikes, and the fact that my income is 788 per month.