Three times since the first of the year I have met a new person, and in conversation, when the question of what they do comes up the answer has been:

I work as an auto worker, or as a union steelworker, or a union electrician. Each time I have asked what job they do for the union, but that isn’t what they do. They are skilled trades, working for the corporations that pay their salary.

All three are paid by large corporations. Ford, in two instances, and Mittal in the other.

Yet they don’t identify as employees of the corporations that pay their salary. They identify as working for the UNION.

Strange.

Interesting mindset.

One I cannot fathom. 

“Thousands” of protesters at Albany. (closer to 10K

Kinda underreported by the National TV media….

Not like the “Occupy” protests.

Nearly the same amount of people though.

And Zero incidents with the gun law protesters. Unlike the Occupy folks.

But the media can’t report without bias.

Or at least some convention…

That left handed drill bits should be marked in an OBVIOUS way to prevent people from trying to use them in a “normal” rotation.

It was only when I attempted to sharpen it that I realized that the twist was reversed.

Which explained why the damned thing didn’t cut the first time.

Ground swallows man whole while family watches.…

Ground eats you. Earth swallows you whole while in bed.  Kinda freaky.

Wonder what sins he committed that caused the gods to take him?

Despite Barry’s prediction of a few days ago, I woke up and found that the world hadn’t ended, that essential government was (so far) still operating, that no one was starving, and that the United States was still here, still operating and still functioning.

Strange.

According to the news media, none of this was supposed to happen. Everything was going to come to a screeching shuddering smoking halt, and people were going to be tossed instantly into starvation and our country into chaos.

As it is, nearly no one (except the military) has noticed so far.

I am sure that the cuts will have consequences and that there will be repercussions down the road. However, the end didn’t happen.

What is going to happen though when all the  folks get their free Obamafones cut off?

Story HERE

That Barry’s talk today…that “press conference” was pathetic.

I almost felt sorry for him.

Almost.

But than again, this mess is of his own making. All the way around. The Sequester was his, the failure to negotiate was his, the refusal to cut spending was his, the insistence on additional taxes was his….

I guess I can’t help but smirk at his discomfiture.

That the Federal government has to put the cuts in services in the most obvious and painful places, in places that everyone will see and be affected by (and that the press will gleefully point to).

‘Cause if they cut most of government we might not notice for a week or 12….and then we’d wonder why we need those departments…..