March 04, 2014

UAW's New Complaint to the NRLB: Senators Should Not Be Permitted to Express Their Views on Unionization
— Ace

Sure, why not.

Is this America?

Just over two weeks ago, an election was held at the Volkswagen plant in my hometown of Chattanooga to determine whether the United Auto Workers would represent the workers there. UAW operatives spent two years inside the plant working to organize it. Initially, the UAW tried to take away the workers' right to vote and force its way in through "card check," an attempt to entrench the union without a democratic election. Fortunately, the company insisted on a secret ballot for its employees. They voted on Feb. 14 not to organize, although in the week leading up to the vote, only the UAW was allowed inside the plant, where the union was given an audience with the workers on company time....

On Feb. 14, the workers made their voices heard, with 53% voting against allowing the UAW to represent them. I believe that the workers understood that they were nothing more than dollar signs for the UAW. Obviously, I could not have been happier for the Volkswagen employees, for the community and for Tennessee.

Unfortunately, the UAW has chosen to ignore the employees' decision and has filed objections with the National Labor Relations Board, charging that elected officials like me should not be allowed to make public comments expressing our opinion and sharing information with our constituents. It is telling that the UAW complaint does not mention President Obama's public statement urging the employees to vote for the union.

If the National Labor Relations Board upholds these objections, it would be an unprecedented assault on free speech.

The science is settled. The debate is over. And Eric, I won.


Posted by: Ace at 12:55 PM | Comments (302)
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1 Because shut up, he said.

Posted by: Gaff at March 04, 2014 12:56 PM (J/7bw)

2 And we all fully expect the fair and impartial NLRB to vote with the workers right?  Especially after larding it up with union goons which Republicans gladly caved on.

Posted by: Vic[/i] at March 04, 2014 12:57 PM (T2V/1)

3 Thank you for my Cronkite award. Thought it would be bigger with the kids

Posted by: Ronan at March 04, 2014 12:59 PM (bAXJL)

4 I think it's time we all embrace our new Soviet  style election results. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2014 12:59 PM (TOk1P)

5 What's going on with the NRLB dudes that got bounced by a Federal court?  Did SCOAMF re-send them to the Senate? Or did the title stay pending any further appeal?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 04, 2014 12:59 PM (DQZLr)

6 Jeepers, if you are employed by a auto maker you would have to be stupid to invite Union representation. Oddly, non-union votes matched Obama tallies.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at March 04, 2014 01:00 PM (oDCMR)

7 But Unions == the Middle Class Opocalypse is always banging on about.  Don't these proles know what's good for them?  Unpossible, re-count!

*sputter*

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:00 PM (P7Wsr)

8 Everyone who is shocked that the UAW is requesting that the NLRB follow the Chicago Way of keep counting the votes until the proper result is achieved raise your hands.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at March 04, 2014 01:00 PM (VtjlW)

9 Thank you for my Cronkite award. Thought it would be bigger with the kids

Do they give Pulitzer's for on-air shit, or is it just for rags?

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 04, 2014 01:00 PM (DQZLr)

10 losers

But it turns out Bob Corker was blowing smoke with his "I've heard talk.. blah blah blah"

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 04, 2014 01:00 PM (Z7PrM)

11 Correction: obama's NRLB

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:01 PM (nfBpn)

12 Nobody objects to a union.  The objection is to "closed shop". 

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at March 04, 2014 01:01 PM (z+4T3)

13 Its a lot easier to win when you get multiple bites at the apple. And I'm pretty sure they know which workers need an primer on what happens if you don't vote the right way. I expect a different outcome then last time.

Posted by: Kreplach at March 04, 2014 01:01 PM (Ezq3m)

14 One of us, or one of them?

Posted by: toby928© at March 04, 2014 01:02 PM (QupBk)

15

Seriously folks, one of these days real soon, we're going to see some new  term come down the pike.

 

Something like "misvote," or "erroneous election result."

 

Defined as situations where the result is not as they desire, after which they will lodge complaints as to why the result was not what they deemed good and proper.  Thus, to be overturned.  Out of fairness. 

 

It's coming. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2014 01:02 PM (TOk1P)

16 Wait, I think it's NLRB, not NRLB as Ace has it (and prompted me to repeat it.)

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:02 PM (nfBpn)

17 And the 2014 Sore Loser award goes to - "The UAW!!"

Everyone give them the Finger as they come up to accept their award.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 04, 2014 01:02 PM (kMyr1)

18 "Unfortunately, the UAW has chosen to ignore the employees' decision and has filed objections with the National Labor Relations Board, charging that elected officials like me should not be allowed to make public comments expressing our opinion and sharing information with our constituents. It is telling that the UAW complaint does not mention President Obama's public statement urging the employees to vote for the union."


Objection sustained, VW may now take out Union dues/Democrat campaign donations from their employees.

Posted by: NLRB at March 04, 2014 01:02 PM (IV4od)

19 It's almost like you do not have a right not to be forced into a union.

*srednop*

Posted by: HR at March 04, 2014 01:02 PM (ZKzrr)

20 I officially declare: LOOSE SHIT.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:02 PM (nfBpn)

21

Free speach?  You mean it's ok for me to go off-script?

Posted by: Obama's Teleprompter at March 04, 2014 01:03 PM (evsIn)

22 National
Labor
Relations
Board

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 04, 2014 01:03 PM (DQZLr)

23 They will. Obama has packed the NLRB with his crony's and the only recourse will be appeal to the courts, which VW probably won't do because the German unions own 20% of the company. The next vote will be worse for the UAW so they will try to force card check.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:03 PM (0FSuD)

24

They want to gag...Barky?

He's made a lot of  comments on Unionization.

Posted by: wheatie at March 04, 2014 01:03 PM (BOIJv)

25 And we all fully expect the fair and impartial NLRB to vote with the workers right? Especially after larding it up with union goons which Republicans gladly caved on. Posted by: Vic at March 04, 2014 04:57 PM (T2V/1) The NLRB will vote with the union and nothing will be done about it.

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at March 04, 2014 01:03 PM (R8hU8)

26 I worked at a non-union airport hotel in Seattle in my youth.  The union was constantly trying to get us to join.  My Teamster father told me, "Vote NO and keep your money."

Posted by: kathysaysso at March 04, 2014 01:03 PM (6H6o8)

27 Defined as situations where the result is not as they desire, after which they will lodge complaints as to why the result was not what they deemed good and proper.

Picture it...Wisconsin, 2011.

Posted by: HR at March 04, 2014 01:03 PM (ZKzrr)

28 However, the National Racist Labor Board works, too.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:04 PM (nfBpn)

29 The NLRB, uh, would that be the one with the members illegally appointed during the Presidentially determined Congressional recess?

Yeah this will go well.

Posted by: Hate Miser at March 04, 2014 01:04 PM (UIxS+)

30 Wow....everyone is still here?

Because Hot Air won Best Blog in the Right Wing News poll.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 04, 2014 01:04 PM (QFxY5)

31

Can the NRLB still function legally?  Per the DC Circuit's ruling??

 

The land of the free, the home of the brave...

Posted by: prescient11 at March 04, 2014 01:04 PM (tVTLU)

Posted by: kathysaysso at March 04, 2014 01:04 PM (6H6o8)

33 I had to join a union once. Felt creepy.

Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2014 01:04 PM (fsLdt)

34 Wow....everyone is still here?

Because Hot Air won Best Blog in the Right Wing News poll.

The fansboys left.

The rest of us, no.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 04, 2014 01:05 PM (DQZLr)

35 I hate Illinois Nazis [\s] Detroit Unions.

Posted by: RolandTHTG at March 04, 2014 01:05 PM (QM5S2)

36 The fact that it takes entire regime of laws to protect unions from the same standards we apply to companies and individuals should have been Clue No. 1 that unions are antithetical to a free society.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 04, 2014 01:05 PM (Y/M/K)

37 Except for the ego, I don't see why the UAW is in a lather about this. TN is a "right to work" state. NONE of the workers are going to pay them any fucking dues. NONE.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:06 PM (0FSuD)

38 boo

Posted by: RolandTHTG at March 04, 2014 01:06 PM (QM5S2)

39 The Ace-men are still planning Operation Blogarossa to knock Hot Air from its #1 ranking.


Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 04, 2014 01:06 PM (kMyr1)

40

Three words suffice.

 

Fuck you.  War.

Posted by: prescient11 at March 04, 2014 01:06 PM (tVTLU)

41 Proudly Union to this day.

Posted by: Detroit [/i] at March 04, 2014 01:06 PM (CnA98)

42 I hate too.

Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2014 01:06 PM (fsLdt)

43 Well, so far anyway the right of a congresscritter to say whatever he wants while on the Senate/House floor hasn't been reduced. It's really the most fundamental of all free speech: free speech of representatives during debate (it has been nibbled away at in the UK, sadly). So at least one place where a senator can make "public comments" will remain as long as we have even the tattered remnants of democracy, or a constitution.

Posted by: LGW at March 04, 2014 01:06 PM (+BmfA)

44 34 Wow....everyone is still here? Because Hot Air won Best Blog in the Right Wing News poll. Because?? Because?? MKH has big tits and is on TV.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:06 PM (0FSuD)

45 I hate Illinois Nazis [\s] Detroit Unions. people who don't know which slash to use.

Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 04, 2014 01:06 PM (DQZLr)

46 Hey guys, I just built a trunk for this Jetta, and guess what, I found more votes to join the union in it!

What a coincidence!!!

Posted by: union supporting worker at the VW plant at March 04, 2014 01:07 PM (UIxS+)

47 According to a post by a commenter at Legal Insurrection, the statements by the VW board member who represents German unions to the effect that VW may not expand or locate new facilities in Tennessee because of the workers turning down the union constitutes a violation of section 8 of the Labor Relations Act - management cannot threaten such things to influence a union election.  Of course, the usual case is that management would make such threats to discourage the union vote, this is the opposite, so Obama will decree it unpleasant and therefore unenforceable.

Posted by: Adjoran at March 04, 2014 01:07 PM (QIQ6j)

48 UAW's New Complaint to the NRLB: Senators Should Not Be Permitted to Express Their Views on Unionization if they are Against It. fixed

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 04, 2014 01:07 PM (GrtrJ)

49 Except for the ego, I don't see why the UAW is in a lather about this. TN is a "right to work" state. NONE of the workers are going to pay them any fucking dues. If the UAW isn't careful, it'll be hog feeding time. Toot suite.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 01:08 PM (h1D+w)

50 I hate too. Good .. good. Your hate has made you strong.

Posted by: E. Palpatine at March 04, 2014 01:08 PM (QupBk)

51 So they got to make their pitch on the company's dime??? And then they gonna whine after losing too? VW should tell them to STFU.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at March 04, 2014 01:08 PM (9Bdcz)

52

27 -

 

Not exactly the same thing though, was it? 

 

If the state has a loose recall process, that's one thing.  If elections will not be certified if, say, the powers that be decide there was too much influence from somebody/something they deem to have intentionally misled the peeples....

 

I don't know.  I think we're on the precipice of something we haven't quite seen yet.  I'm not entirely sure what it will look like, but what  we've seen so far are mutterings of tinkering with elections, without them  blatantly doing so.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2014 01:08 PM (TOk1P)

53

Hot Air is decent stories and that's pretty much it.

 

Ace's commentary is second to none. 

Posted by: prescient11 at March 04, 2014 01:09 PM (tVTLU)

54 remember the Volkswagen DASHER?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at March 04, 2014 01:09 PM (nfBpn)

55 VW once made a car for Hitler!!!!!!! Who then traded it to Russia for the Crimea.

Posted by: Bob Beckel at March 04, 2014 01:09 PM (Aif/5)

56 It hasn't been America for quite some time now.

Posted by: Lauren at March 04, 2014 01:09 PM (hFL/3)

57 Everyone tries to forget the VW Fox.  Luckily its  not an eyesore like the Aztek.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 04, 2014 01:09 PM (kMyr1)

58 remember the Volkswagen DASHER? Remember The Thing?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 01:10 PM (h1D+w)

59 Moonshiners Local #227 are joining with the UAW to supply refreshments at next vote.

Posted by: Rock Urroold, News Reporter at March 04, 2014 01:10 PM (Kz9dH)

60 Clearly we have so much to teach the world about freedom.

Posted by: Bevel Lemelisk at March 04, 2014 01:10 PM (TAP/5)

61 The VW Beetle was designed by Hitler.  At least in part.

Posted by: prescient11 at March 04, 2014 01:10 PM (tVTLU)

62 According to a post by a commenter at Legal Insurrection, the statements by the VW board member who represents German unions to the effect that VW may not expand or locate new facilities in Tennessee because of the workers turning down the union constitutes a violation of section 8 of the Labor Relations Act - management cannot threaten such things to influence a union election. Of course, the usual case is that management would make such threats to discourage the union vote, this is the opposite, so Obama will decree it unpleasant and therefore unenforceable.
Posted by: Adjoran
..............
That's silly.. that statement was made AFTER the election.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at March 04, 2014 01:10 PM (Z7PrM)

63 The top of this Cronkite award fits in my ass just perfect... Hey UAW, check it out!

Posted by: Ronan Sinatra at March 04, 2014 01:10 PM (vHRtU)

64 remember the Volkswagen INCINERATOR?

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at March 04, 2014 01:11 PM (nfBpn)

65 Remember The Thing? Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 05:10 PM (h1D+w) I hated the thing

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at March 04, 2014 01:11 PM (R8hU8)

66 It hasn't been America for quite some time now.

We were given the Okie-Doke!

Posted by: bonhomme X[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:11 PM (P7Wsr)

67 I can certainly understand where Elected Officials should not have the right to express a viewpoint.

Just think..
Not a word from them about supporting
Abortion
Gay Rights
Immigration reform
Union building
Support for ACA
Gun Control


Yes....I support them keeping their pie holes shut on these topics.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 04, 2014 01:11 PM (DPkKe)

68 That statement was made AFTER the election.

Fixing that for you:

That statement was made AFTER the FIRST election.

Posted by: GMan at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (sxq57)

69 Mulligan elections, every time a loser loses, beyond a recount, DO OVER. Socialism, the height of stupidity.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (MhA4j)

70 No war today, DJIA up 227.85.

Posted by: toby928© at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (QupBk)

71 Remember The Thing?

I've seen them at car shows.

Posted by: HR at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (ZKzrr)

72 Remember The Blob?

Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (fsLdt)

73 I hated the thing

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at March 04, 2014 05:11 PM (R8hU



IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!

Posted by: Benjamin J. Grimm at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (tv7DV)

74 VW once made a car for Hitler!!!!!!! Check the glove compartment of your new Ford. I've got a little present for you. It will explain it all.

Posted by: Zombie Henry Ford [/i] at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (CnA98)

75


Democrat Bob Beckel Smears VW; Blames Union Defeat in TN on Hitler and the Nazis


Bob Beckel: Volkswagen has the kind of unionization (in Germany) it does because VW had a long, storied history with Hitler and the Nazis.

Bill Hemmer and Andrea Tantaros: Ah, come on!

Hemmer: “We don’t have enough time.”

Beckel: “See, that’s the problem. That’s the problem. You know, you can’t raise these things because history dictates a lot of things. If you don’t think that Volkswagen had a long, storied history with the Nazis, it’s the reason they got unionized in Germany when the Americans took over.

Tantaros: “Bob, Volkswagen did not have to invite UAW to the table and have conversation, and they did, and they left it up to the workers. Leave it at that.”

http://tinyurl.com/k3le4wu

Posted by: Hepcat at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (Q4mug)

76 Citizens United! That's us!

Posted by: UAW at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (nbGZj)

77

57 -

 

I had one of those.  Back when I was driving 25-30 thousand miles a year... I ran that sucker into the ground, almost literally.  When I went to trade it in with  about 130,000 miles on it, I think the engine was about to fall out. 

 

I wouldn't exactly recommend it, but it did what I needed it to do, which was not kill me paying for gas. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2014 01:12 PM (TOk1P)

78 61 The VW Beetle was designed by Hitler. At least in part. Posted by: prescient11 at March 04, 2014 05:10 PM (tVTLU) The hair cut.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 01:13 PM (MhA4j)

79 Will they at least install hot water in the showers when building the camps? 

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at March 04, 2014 01:13 PM (kUgpq)

80 IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME! Hahaha.

Posted by: toby928© at March 04, 2014 01:13 PM (QupBk)

81 Remember The Thing? Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 05:10 PM (h1D+w) I hated the thing The East German judges gave it a 10.0.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 01:13 PM (h1D+w)

82 btw, Sen Jeff Sessions said the phrase "flim flam" while criticizing obama's policies. So expect that to be the latest racist dog whistle. You heard it here first.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:13 PM (nfBpn)

83 Russia has invaded for less.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at March 04, 2014 01:13 PM (LJaTq)

84 MKH tits... yummy...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 01:13 PM (vHRtU)

85 Remember my member?

Posted by: A Wiener[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:13 PM (P7Wsr)

86 OT : Asteroid passing Earth will be closer than the Moon. http://tinyurl.com/mhnchzf

Some commenters have called this an obvious aggression against Russia requiring a military response.

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 04, 2014 01:14 PM (hn70M)

87 I hate Tennessee Nazis.

Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2014 01:14 PM (fsLdt)

88 Because if not I'm keistering one of those black vinyl solar heated shower bags.

Posted by: Baron Von Ottomatic at March 04, 2014 01:14 PM (kUgpq)

89

56 It hasn't been America for quite some time now.

 

The Leftists think that all the cool countries have tried socialism/communism...and so, of course we have to do it too. 

 

The Left: "Hey, this fascism stuff is cool if you're the one who gets to do it!"

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at March 04, 2014 01:14 PM (BOIJv)

90 Asteroid passing Earth will be closer than the Moon. In fairness, it's passing uncontested.

Posted by: toby928© at March 04, 2014 01:15 PM (QupBk)

91 Remember The Thing? Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 05:10 PM (h1D+w) I think The Thing has become sort of a cult car. http://tinyurl.com/84eeqjl

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:15 PM (0FSuD)

92 According to a post by a commenter at Legal Insurrection, the statements by the VW board member who represents German unions to the effect that VW may not expand or locate new facilities in Tennessee because of the workers turning down the union constitutes a violation of section 8 of the Labor Relations Act - management cannot threaten such things to influence a union election. Of course, the usual case is that management would make such threats to discourage the union vote, this is the opposite, so Obama will decree it unpleasant and therefore unenforceable.

Posted by: Adjoran

Problem: no VW member is quoted as such on the record. It was Sen. Corker that said:

"he has talked to VW leaders numerous times and “there’s not a push by the executive leadership or the board toward the UAW.”

“I know for a fact that at the highest levels of VW, they’re aware that if the UAW became involved in the plant, it would be a negative for the future economic growth of our state,” he said."

It's heresay.

UAW is bitching about Corker not VW from what was reported last month. It's a stretch to think he's interfering with the negotiations when he spoke to a newsreporter on the matter.

Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 04, 2014 01:15 PM (Y/M/K)

93 So, did TangoNine bail or what?

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 01:15 PM (vHRtU)

94

57 Everyone tries to forget the VW Fox. Luckily its not an eyesore like the Aztek.

 

the Aztek was proof positive that GM should be nuked from outer space.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at March 04, 2014 01:15 PM (oDCMR)

95 Gun Control

Yes....I support them keeping their pie holes shut on these topics.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 04, 2014 05:11 PM (DPkKe)


Are you kidding, every time a politician opens his mouth about gun control sales skyrocket.

Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 04, 2014 01:16 PM (WdbF7)

96 Private sector union support is the thing I hate least about the old line Democrats -- ie before the progtard new Left took it over. Public sector unions are cancer and should be illegal. But private sector unions are, mostly, self-limiting.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 04, 2014 01:16 PM (ZPrif)

97 I don't know. I think we're on the precipice of something we haven't quite seen yet. I'm not entirely sure what it will look like, but what we've seen so far are mutterings of tinkering with elections, without them blatantly doing so.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2014 05:08 PM (TOk1P)

 

 

--------------------------------------------

 

 

You're right.  I've felt it for some time now, even to suggest that the fix is already in for the 2014 and 2016 elections.  It's the most basic vestige of a free republic, the vote.  I think they're far along in the process of corrupting that too. 

Posted by: Soona at March 04, 2014 01:16 PM (jT/qa)

98 86 OT : Asteroid passing Earth will be closer than the Moon. http://tinyurl.com/mhnchzf

Obama's massive ego is pulling in all sort of space debris.

Posted by: Hepcat at March 04, 2014 01:16 PM (Q4mug)

99 Because Hot Air won Best Blog in the Right Wing News poll. Because?? Because?? MKH has big tits and is on TV. Posted by: Nip Sip I guess we'll have to bring out our 'big guns'!

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 04, 2014 01:16 PM (l3vZN)

100 The Nazis issued a request for a People's Car.  Companies such as Mercedes also tendered car concepts, look in the official Mercedes history book The Star and the Laurel on page 248 at the Type 130.  But the Nazis chose Dr. Ferdinand Porsche's design for the new Kraft durch Freud Wagen [KdF].

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 04, 2014 01:17 PM (kMyr1)

101 The Union's position is that Senators can't run their mouths?

Posted by: Jean at March 04, 2014 01:17 PM (4JkHl)

102 That said, fuck the NLRB.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 04, 2014 01:17 PM (ZPrif)

103 the Aztek was proof positive that GM should be nuked from outer space. Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at March 04, 2014 05:15 PM (oDCMR) Next to the Gremlin, truly the ugliest car in the world.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:17 PM (0FSuD)

104 Remember The Blob?

I'm working on the weight, no need to bring it up now.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at March 04, 2014 01:17 PM (YEelc)

105 the Aztek was proof positive that GM should be nuked from outer space.

Somewhere, a division of designers and engineers shakes their heads every time that thing is brought up. 

Someone should write a book.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:17 PM (P7Wsr)

106 63-tsk tsk. That's as evil as making a gobble gobble joke about Barney Frank.

Posted by: ejo at March 04, 2014 01:17 PM (GXvSO)

107 National Labia Racism Board? They have a website? I'm asking for a friend...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 01:18 PM (vHRtU)

108 Remember Kraftwerk?

Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2014 01:18 PM (fsLdt)

109 I guess we'll have to bring out our 'big guns'! Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 04, 2014 05:16 PM (l3vZN) Wait, NDH is going on TV? or Anna?

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:18 PM (0FSuD)

110 I frequently ask the guys in our plant why they are in the union. (Texas is a RTW state and joining the union is optional) The most frequent answer is, "well they protect us." "From what?" "Well we can't get fired and our salaries are protected" "And the guys who aren't in the union, and all of us non-union employees have the same protection because of state law yet we don't have money taken out of our paycheck for it." Then they don't know what to say. But they continue paying those dues because they swear they're getting something extra. Fools.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 04, 2014 01:18 PM (GrtrJ)

111 The Type 181 Safari, aka the Thing, is a collectors item.  In three years of sales in the US, only 26,000 were sold.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 04, 2014 01:18 PM (kMyr1)

112 "Next to the Gremlin, truly the ugliest car in the world."

Ahem.

Posted by: AMC Pacer at March 04, 2014 01:18 PM (kUgpq)

113 remember the Volkswagen DASHER? If there is one of those still operable I would be surprised. It's corporate twin Audi Fox was junk too.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 04, 2014 01:19 PM (l3vZN)

114 AMC Pacer WAGON!!!!!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 01:20 PM (vHRtU)

115 Good story. On a similar topic of 'WTF is going on?" has anyone read about that unconstitutional Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) paid by the Fed, unaccountable to Congress and endowed with the power to decree law? Last I heard they mentioned that they had already examined tens of millions of private citizens' financial transactions but were taking out all the personal, you know, stuff like names before storing them in their database they're using to make capitalism different and better.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 04, 2014 01:20 PM (z626/)

116

Unlike Putin, our govt could never be involved in the death or harassment of journalists...

 

RIP Andrew Breitbart, Michael Hastings.  Glenn Greenwald and James Rosen, we're pulling for you guys!!!

 

Who's being naive here.

Posted by: prescient11 at March 04, 2014 01:20 PM (tVTLU)

117 I beat my wife.  I did that because I am a Democrat and exempt from all civilized norms.  So, you workers at VW, beware!  I'm coming for you next.

Posted by: Alan Grayson at March 04, 2014 01:20 PM (B5y+v)

118 I could get behind this story more if it didn't involve Corker.

Posted by: SH at March 04, 2014 01:20 PM (gmeXX)

119 "Next to the Gremlin, truly the ugliest car in the world." Ahem. ::cough::

Posted by: ld hunting joke at March 04, 2014 01:20 PM (fsLdt)

120 Derp

Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2014 01:21 PM (fsLdt)

121 The NLRB is in obama's hip pocket.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 04, 2014 01:21 PM (t3UFN)

122 ermmm ... exactly when did the Executive branch ( the NLRB ) get the power to silence members of the legislature?

Is this some kind of executive order?

And exactly how does this little union thug think Princess Obama is going to enforce this for him?

Posted by: Kristophr at March 04, 2014 01:21 PM (c6N69)

123 So apparently Ed Schultz on MSNBC hasn't even mentioned Ukraine in 5 days. That's odd.

Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 04, 2014 01:22 PM (ZPrif)

124 "Next to the Gremlin, truly the ugliest car in the world." Ahem. Posted by: AMC Pacer at March 04, 2014 05:18 PM (kUgpq) Yo! have you seen my sexy windscreen?

Posted by: Pontiac Trans Port at March 04, 2014 01:22 PM (W6iIX)

125 The NLRB is Unconstitutional.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:22 PM (4ElUX)

126 Next to the Gremlin, truly the ugliest car in the world.

I don't know.  There are some strong competitors in the field.

Wartburg 353 series for example.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:23 PM (P7Wsr)

127 Who's Eric?

Posted by: L, elle at March 04, 2014 01:23 PM (2tljF)

128 Dumpster fire at Big Tony's tonight.

Posted by: redenzo at March 04, 2014 01:23 PM (WCnJW)

129 hmmmm BBC News (World)Verified account ‏@BBCWorld Russia willing to talk to #Ukraine interim government on economic issues, senior MP Alexei Pushkov tells @BBCNewshour http://bbc.in/1dnQKx6

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 01:23 PM (ZPrif)

130 Backpfeifengesicht ... I learned a new word today thanks to Prof. Reynolds!

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 01:23 PM (vHRtU)

131 The Thing was based on the WWII -
Volkswagen Kübelwagen

Posted by: phreshone at March 04, 2014 01:24 PM (Q6pxP)

132

116 -

 

You can suggest these things in the comments section of a blog.  If you  try to assert it elsewhere, given the lack of  evidence, no one will take you seriously. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2014 01:24 PM (TOk1P)

133 Who's Eric? That was ace's "What's the frequency Kenneth" moment.

Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2014 01:24 PM (fsLdt)

134 Hey, the Gremlin, Pacer, and Pinto had an excuse - panic over Jap imports and high fuel costs. But possible excuse can GM make for the Aztek? They approved the design and thought there was a willing market for the thing.

Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at March 04, 2014 01:25 PM (oDCMR)

135 I was promised MKH titties, now give...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 01:25 PM (vHRtU)

136 I'm waiting for the NLRB to  start filing lawsuits against states with Right to Work laws.

Posted by: Soona at March 04, 2014 01:25 PM (jT/qa)

137 ..."unprecedented" assault on free speech... College students, the TEA Party, and those who criticize the "prophet" of Islam might disagree.

Posted by: Beagle at March 04, 2014 01:25 PM (sOtz/)

138 As much as Corker pissed me off with his bullshit on the floor following Cruz's allnighter, he is right here, and has been a strong voice in the fight.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 04, 2014 01:26 PM (DmNpO)

139 I was promised MKH titties, now give...

May I interest you in your Aunt Clara's bits?

Posted by: Ed Gein[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:26 PM (P7Wsr)

140 Because??

MKH has big tits and is on TV.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 05:06 PM (0FSuD)

For all we know, Ace has awesome tits.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 04, 2014 01:26 PM (QFxY5)

141 127 Who's Eric? Posted by: L, elle at March 04, 2014 05:23 PM (2tljF) ********* Cantor. Had to look it up too--I forgot. ugh/

Posted by: tasker at March 04, 2014 01:26 PM (RJMhd)

142 Dem Rep. Alan Grayson's own personal #waronwomen http://t.co/iEZ2RXXQwU

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 04, 2014 01:26 PM (DmNpO)

143 She's recently deceased.

*nudge*
*nudge*

Posted by: Ed Gein[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:27 PM (P7Wsr)

144 "Next to the Gremlin, truly the ugliest car in the world." Ahem. Posted by: AMC Pacer A car with a truly fat ass.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 01:27 PM (h1D+w)

145 If the UAW isn't careful, it'll be squealing like a hog feeding time. Toot suite.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 05:08 PM (h1D+w)



Chattanooga is rather close to the Chattooga River and Tallulah Gorge...where much of Deliverance was filmed.

Posted by: Country Singer at March 04, 2014 01:27 PM (r/e1Q)

146 Ok so Obama filled the NRLB with diehard unionists who likely believe you should have to be in a union in order to work in the US. I get this sense though that the far left would be pretty happy to cast off the old private sector blue collar unions since their membership are mostly white blue collar males.

Posted by: The Fool at March 04, 2014 01:27 PM (cGlgB)

147 For all we know, Ace has awesome tits.

Ewoks have a whole bunch of nipples, like cats.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:27 PM (P7Wsr)

148 OT Some time back (months? weeks?) someone insightful wrote an essay pointing out the the real left/right division is this country is no longer north vs. south nor even coasts vs. flyover, but rather urban vs. rural, with the suburbs as the battleground kingmakers where elections are decided. To be precise: Cities are almost all now liberal, and rural areas are all now conservative. This is true in the north, the south, the coasts and the interior. Question: what was the name of the author or of the essay? Or where did it appear? Any clue appreciated.

Posted by: zombie at March 04, 2014 01:28 PM (mizYg)

149 Industrialization, Dechristianization/"Proletarianization," the Democrat Party, and all of the wars put an end to the America that once was. The America which would found new cities just because it felt like it. The America which didn't spend all of its time worrying about celebrity ass holes. The America which would create instead of redistribute. The America of the creative individual.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:28 PM (4ElUX)

150

139 -

 

Have you tried the veal?

 

IYKWIM... and Ed, ITYD.

Posted by: Albert Fish at March 04, 2014 01:28 PM (TOk1P)

151 I had a friend with a Vdub Fox. I liked it. Good mileage at the time and dependable. And I've had two VW; both were complete shit. What was wrong with them besides the ugly?

Posted by: Daybrother at March 04, 2014 01:28 PM (1dJNL)

152 Looks like UAW took a page from McCain's campaign finance reform UNCONSTITUTIONAL law. Obviously, unions need as much cleansing of leadership as each major political party does. Wash out their mouths with soap. Too much of a good thing; and everyone involved taking more than the original cooperative arrangement between members/leaders. Always demanding MORE! Applies to employers as well. Obama's I Won America cancelled contract law #1 agenda achievement. A "safety net" does not guarantee quality of workmanship. But all said and done, without some organization, it isn't as if employees can count on labor laws being enforced for worker safety, etc., when construction or mining interests cut costs at the loss of safety measures. I reference the dead construction workers in the Southwestern right to work States, some buried alive and some fallen from collapsed scaffolding. Sure, the safety regulations are on the books. But where's the law and code enforcement? AWOL. And without a labor organization to help pay legal fees, how is a laborer (family) to sue big business' lawyers successfully for injuries, dismemberment (death)?

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 01:28 PM (MhA4j)

153 Uh-oh ---- A judge has granted a temporary protective injunction against U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, after his wife filed paperwork accusing the Orlando congressman of shoving and injuring her during an incident this weekend. Lolita Grayson's petition for the injunction, dated Monday, says her husband pushed her against a door, causing her to fall to the ground, during a confrontation Saturday at their home on Oak Park Road, near Windermere.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 01:28 PM (ZPrif)

154 The UAW lost the election primarily because of faulty ballot design. The dead giveaway was Pat Buchanan coming in second.

Posted by: Gristle Encased Head at March 04, 2014 01:28 PM (+lsX1)

155

And where is your evidence that Putin took out journalists?

 

Rosen is confirmed.  So is GG.  I need no evidence of that.  It's in frigging court filings.

Posted by: prescient11 at March 04, 2014 01:28 PM (tVTLU)

156 123 So apparently Ed Schultz on MSNBC hasn't even mentioned Ukraine in 5 days. That's odd. Posted by: Costanza Defense at March 04, 2014 05:22 PM (ZPrif) ******** Maybe it's like Fight Club.

Posted by: tasker at March 04, 2014 01:28 PM (RJMhd)

157 I can give you the inside skinny on the Aztek. Pontian Division needed a vehicle to increase its appeal to the young. The Aztek was designed as a go anywhere car appealing to the young and free and was very well received as a concept at the shows. When it came time to put the idea into production the bean counters entered the picture and demanded that the concept be built on an existing mini van platform. This caused the proportions to get tall and narrow. It truly was a do or die moment for GM and Pontiac and they decided to try and maximize the profits and ended up failing miserably.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 04, 2014 01:29 PM (l3vZN)

158 But possible excuse can GM make for the Aztek? They approved the design and thought there was a willing market for the thing. Posted by: Chaos the other dark meat at March 04, 2014 05:25 PM (oDCMR) Good point. I even saw one at a car show in Las Vegas that they had tricked out to be a sort of camper. They had a propane stove built into the tail gate. I suggested that might not be too safe if someone hit them from behind. The dumb fucks had never thought of that. It was gone the next day. Top men!

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:29 PM (0FSuD)

159

136 I'm waiting for the NLRB to start filing lawsuits against states with Right to Work laws.

 

If states can make their own Marijuana Laws...then other states can make their own laws about freedom from mandatory union membership.

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at March 04, 2014 01:29 PM (40W9K)

160 Depends upon how you define based.  More like inspired by the Type 82 Kubelwagen.

The Type 181 shared a wider pan with the Type 141 Karmann Ghia.  The outer body was similar but with diffrerences beyond things like safety bumpers, different front fenders, and larger taillights.  The WWII version hood was flat and spare tire sat on it, Type 181 the hood was recessed so the spare tire did not block the view as much.  Internally 12V electrical system, synchro transmission, and a 1600cc motor.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 04, 2014 01:29 PM (kMyr1)

161 Why do prominent economists never point out how terrible unions are?

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:29 PM (4ElUX)

162 Hey, the Gremlin, Pacer, and Pinto had an excuse - panic over Jap imports and high fuel costs. But possible excuse can GM make for the Aztek? I don't see a problem with it.

Posted by: Citroen at March 04, 2014 01:29 PM (SY2Kh)

163 148 OT Some time back (months? weeks?) someone insightful wrote an essay pointing out the the real left/right division is this country is no longer north vs. south nor even coasts vs. flyover, but rather urban vs. rural ****** Mao?

Posted by: tasker at March 04, 2014 01:29 PM (RJMhd)

164 The NRLB would be right up there with federal agencies I would like to see banned. Probably behind the Department of Education and EPA.

Posted by: SH at March 04, 2014 01:30 PM (gmeXX)

165 What was wrong with them besides the ugly? Posted by: Daybrother at March 04, 2014 05:28 PM (1dJNL) can't score any hotties

Posted by: Teenagers at March 04, 2014 01:30 PM (W6iIX)

166 But, of course, unions created the Middle Class. Because Shut Up.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:31 PM (4ElUX)

167 Does that mean some parents actually named their daughter Lolita? That's insane. Who would do that? Did they name their other daughter Jailbait?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 01:31 PM (ZPrif)

168 Hey, don't laugh about The Thing. Look at the prices those fuckers are going for. http://tinyurl.com/lx2jon3

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:31 PM (0FSuD)

169 "It is telling that the UAW complaint does not mention President Obama's public statement urging the employees to vote for the union."

Fen's Law sees all, knows all, explains all.

Posted by: torquewrench at March 04, 2014 01:31 PM (gqT4g)

170 Is ace had tits he wouldn't get any work done.



Hmmm......

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 04, 2014 01:32 PM (hn70M)

171 I had a  VW  Golf eons ago.   That was a butt  ugly car  too,  but it handled like a sports car. 

Posted by: BurtTC at March 04, 2014 01:32 PM (TOk1P)

172

Point of Order:

 

MKH does not have big titties.

Posted by: prescient11 at March 04, 2014 01:32 PM (tVTLU)

173 Hmmm... as labor law is State Law... How is there even a National Labor Relations Board??? Where in the Constitution is Congress's POWER to regulate Labor Relations between a Company and its workers?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 04, 2014 01:32 PM (84gbM)

174 Did they name their other daughter Jailbait?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 05:31 PM (ZPrif)


I wish.

Posted by: Barely Legal Grayson at March 04, 2014 01:32 PM (tv7DV)

175 You see, obama's Hand is invisible, even when it is visible, because shut up, that's why.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:32 PM (nfBpn)

176 Those with weaker and/or nonexistent arguments usually attempt to intimidate those with actual arguments into "going along to get along."

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:32 PM (4ElUX)

177 My congressman, the accused spousal abuser, who remains crazy.

Posted by: Beagle at March 04, 2014 01:32 PM (sOtz/)

178 Toot suite. Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 05:08 PM (h1D+w) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWed1dERQws care to dance?

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 01:32 PM (MhA4j)

179 Orlando Sentinel -- According to the petition, Lolita Grayson was preparing to take the couple's two youngest children to a play date when Alan Grayson "showed up, unannounced," and asked to speak to her inside. After she refused, retrieved his mail and asked him to leave, Alan Grayson "then deliberately and with force pushed [Lolita Grayson] very hard against the front door, causing [her] to fall to the ground as a result," the petition states. She told her husband not to touch her, then pushed him in the face and kneed him in the stomach "in order to protect and defend herself," before calling 911, her petition says. As she was talking to the operator, Alan Grayson told his wife, in the presence of their children, that she "would receive nothing" in their divorce and would be left "in the gutter," the petition states. Photos filed by Lolita Grayson's attorneys with the petition show large bruises to her left leg and left shoulder. Her complaint alleges that, "from time to time" in the past, her husband "has battered [her] and the parties' minor children," though she has not previously sought an injunction against him. The petition says she now fears for her safety, citing the latest incident and his "history of physical violence toward" her.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 01:33 PM (ZPrif)

180 This is the left wing UAW. Of course they don't believe in free speech.

Maybe we should sue them for opening their big fat mouths. When they get tired of spending money on lawyers, sit them down and have a nice forceful conversation about civility and freedom of speech.

Posted by: gork at March 04, 2014 01:34 PM (phsxf)

181 Union membership is in the Constitution, just like how men having husbands is in the Constitution.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:34 PM (nfBpn)

182 Actually to be serious. Democrats noticed that phenomena ages ago. The unions always break down their trucks in the burbs on election day. Bypasses are nice for that.

Posted by: tasker at March 04, 2014 01:34 PM (RJMhd)

183 An asteroid is headed this way. But even though it will come closer than the moon, astronomers say it will pose no danger. The newly discovered asteroid, called 2014 DX110, will hurtle between the moon and Earth on Wednesday. DX110 will pass an estimated 217,000 miles from Earth. That's approximately nine-tenths of the distance between the moon and Earth. The asteroid is an estimated 45 to 130 feet across. Relatively close approaches like this occur all the time, although DX110 is extra close.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 04, 2014 01:35 PM (t3UFN)

184 How do you expect the unions to win elections if the voters have access to information and stuff?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at March 04, 2014 01:35 PM (8ZskC)

185 'MKH does not have big titties.' Pics or etc. In any case they are still yummy. And I had an Audi Fox, a Pacer Wagon, and a Pontiac Transport over the years. Oddly enough the Pacer drove extremely well, was reliable as hell, and with the back seats folded down was a righteous fuckmobile that say a lot of action in it's day...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 01:35 PM (vHRtU)

186 Lolita Grayson's petition for the injunction, dated Monday, says her husband pushed her against a door, causing her to fall to the ground, during a confrontation Saturday at their home on Oak Park Road, near Windermere. Good. How that idiot got reelected is a mystery to me. Almost as big a mystery as TFG getting reelected, but we know now how that happened: with a little help from his henchmen in the IRS and a few other agencies.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:36 PM (0HooB)

187 Not surprised about Grayson. My experience with human nature showed me that the more self-righteous and judgemental one is, the more skeletons they hide.

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:36 PM (nfBpn)

188 Leftists view the economy as consisting of nothing but workers, organizers, bureaucrats/lawyers/politicians, and exploiters. And the organizers and bureaucrats/lawyers/politicians must organize the workers against and protect the workers from the exploiters.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:36 PM (4ElUX)

189 Question: what was the name of the author or of the essay? Or where did it appear? Any clue appreciated. Back in the comment section of LFG (sic) I made the comment way before the '08 McCain/Obama election. I've repeated it, uh... repeatedly since. But since I hide under the relative obscurity of the internet, and have zero presence (I hope), and despite bringing Chaz J a zillion hits and mention in the NYT for something I dropped on his doorstep, I still want no acclaim for stating the obvious.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at March 04, 2014 01:37 PM (CnA98)

190 Unions inspire one thing in their workers: mediocrity. I've never met such a huge bunch of slackers until I started working in a place that had a union.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 04, 2014 01:37 PM (GrtrJ)

191

173 Hmmm... as labor law is State Law...

 

How is there even a National Labor Relations Board??? Where in the Constitution is Congress's POWER to regulate Labor Relations between a Company and its workers?

 

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It was created by FDR, wasn't it? ...Back in the 30's?

 

Posted by: wheatie at March 04, 2014 01:37 PM (40W9K)

192 171 I had a VW Golf eons ago. That was a butt ugly car too, but it handled like a sports car. The current VW Bug is a Golf with the Bug's sheet metal.

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:37 PM (0FSuD)

193 To name your daughter 'Lolita' would require and utter and complete lack of knowledge of literature... in other words, progtards...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 01:38 PM (vHRtU)

194 The asteroid is an estimated 45 to 130 feet across.


Pfft.

Posted by: The Chicxulub Meteor at March 04, 2014 01:38 PM (8ZskC)

195 Society is made up of classes engaged in constant competition for finite resources. Collectivism and kyrocracy.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:38 PM (4ElUX)

196 The Type 181 Safari, aka the Thing, is a collectors item. In three years of sales in the US, only 26,000 were sold. I'd wager money that somewhere, somebody stuffed an American V8 into one.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 04, 2014 01:39 PM (SY2Kh)

197 Shut the fuck up. Sometimes you need to shove a bitch. The fucking broad was asking for it. She dropped a sandwich on the kitchen floor and refused to pick it up. Shit happens.

Posted by: Alan Grayson at March 04, 2014 01:39 PM (oFCZn)

198 Leftism is imbecilic.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:39 PM (4ElUX)

199

The NLRB will uphold the UAW's objections, free speech be damned. For one thing, the NLRB's board members have been making technically illegal decisions ever since Obama appointed two of them during what he claimed was a Senate recess but wasn't a Senate recess. Thus, a majority on the NLRB board is beholden to Obama; they're his people. The UAW (and other unions) are Obama's biggest cash cows.  Those damned Tennessee workers will vote again and they'll keep voting until they get it right and they'll like it.

 

My late maternal grandfather was a UAW man for 35 years. He loved his union and his job at Chrysler. I think he'd think that push for card check was un-American. He hated communists and communism yet Bob King, current (and soon to retire) UAW President, is a publicly professed Marxist-socialist. That spinning sound you hear is my grandfather in his grave.

 

Strange, we don't hear the term 'un-American' used much any more, maybe because we've lost sight of who and what we are as a people. Until we get it together, two-bit bullies like Putin will push us all over the playground.

Posted by: troyriser at March 04, 2014 01:40 PM (V9ol4)

200 It's okay, folks; Grayson's wife is a Republican.

Posted by: things you might hear soon at March 04, 2014 01:40 PM (nfBpn)

201 Is Alan Grayson gonna have to choke a bitch tonight?

Posted by: Alan Grayson at March 04, 2014 01:40 PM (S0eIZ)

202

Is this America?


Fundamental Transformation, Yo!!

Posted by: Prez McFascistFuckwad at March 04, 2014 01:40 PM (YTCbH)

203 zombie Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide Is Splitting America JOSH KRONNOV 30 2012, 11:17 AM ET The Atlantic

Posted by: tasker at March 04, 2014 01:40 PM (RJMhd)

204 Don't forget the time Alan Grayson mowed down people at a bus stop in his Mercedes.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 04, 2014 01:40 PM (kMyr1)

205 >>> 133 Who's Eric? That was ace's "What's the frequency Kenneth" moment. Posted by: eleven at March 04, 2014 05:24 PM (fsLdt) Hahaha! I just heard that song for the first time a coue weeks back and then heard the back story on the song. I was thinking it was the Ace version of "Where's Joe?" And thanks Tasker.

Posted by: L, elle at March 04, 2014 01:40 PM (50c0S)

206 An asteroid is headed this way. But even though it will come closer than the moon, astronomers say it will pose no danger. The newly discovered asteroid, called 2014 DX110, will hurtle between the moon and Earth on Wednesday. DX110 will pass an estimated 217,000 miles from Earth. That's approximately nine-tenths of the distance between the moon and Earth. The asteroid is an estimated 45 to 130 feet across. Relatively close approaches like this occur all the time, although DX110 is extra close. Posted by: Nevergiveup at March 04, 2014 05:35 PM (t3UFN) Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Mmmm. Blondies with whipped cream. at March 04, 2014 01:40 PM (VtjlW)

207 O/T I just read that Lois Lerner fears for her life if she testifies. It's at The Daily Caller. I can't believe HA won over Ace!

Posted by: Carol at March 04, 2014 01:41 PM (z4WKX)

208 Josh Kron Nov 30, 2012 don't know why the gap was dropped.

Posted by: tasker at March 04, 2014 01:41 PM (RJMhd)

209 Why, is Lois Lerner testifying against a despotic boy-king, or something? oh wait..

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:42 PM (nfBpn)

210 Chipotle Inc. is warning investors that extreme weather events “associated with global climate change” might eventually affect the availability of some of its ingredients. If availability is limited, prices will rise — and Chipotle isn’t sure it’s willing to pay. “Increasing weather volatility or other long-term changes in global weather patterns, including any changes associated with global climate change, could have a significant impact on the price or availability of some of our ingredients,” the popular chain, whose Sofritas vegan tofu dish recently went national, said in its annual report released last month. “In the event of cost increases with respect to one or more of our raw ingredients we may choose to temporarily suspend serving menu items, such as guacamole or one or more of our salsas, rather than paying the increased cost for the ingredients.”

Posted by: Speedy Gonzales at March 04, 2014 01:42 PM (e8kgV)

211 Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please *teases cock* Sorry, what's that?

Posted by: SMOD at March 04, 2014 01:42 PM (S0eIZ)

212 It was created by FDR, wasn't it? ...Back in the 30's? Posted by: wheatie at March 04, 2014 05:37 PM (40W9K) Yup... and then reengineered by Congress... during the 30's... How does an unelected board, who is NOT a court, have the power to subpoena?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 04, 2014 01:42 PM (84gbM)

213 I have a movie deal after I retire, 'The Men Who Stare at Then Sodomize Goats.' Check it out the weekend after election day 2014...

Posted by: Robert King, UAW President at March 04, 2014 01:42 PM (vHRtU)

214 The Chicxulub Meteor ---- Pfft.

Posted by: Vredefort Meteor at March 04, 2014 01:42 PM (sOtz/)

215 Zombie: PJ Media (I believe you might be familiar with them). Interview excerpt: MR. DRISCOLL: Fred, last question. Near the end of The Revolt Against the Masses, to bring it full circle with the start of the book, you write that, “Sinclair LewisÂ’s 1920s never went away.” Do you see this cycle of punitive thinking ever coming to a conclusion in the future? And if so, how? MR. SIEGEL: ItÂ’s funny you would say that. ItÂ’s exactly whatÂ’s on my mind, that itÂ’s important that the next president, whoever he or she will be, recognize that the country is deeply polarized between the metropolitan populations and the rest of the country. And any attempt to create a new alignment ‑‑ excuse me, a new realignment which Bush tried, and is at fault for this, and Obama tried, and is also at fault, is going to fail. We have to govern in the future with a recognition of our differences and the fact that those differences are not going to be overcome. So we have to figure out a way to give more power to the states, to allow states and localities to go their own way. Just as many localities are now saying no to marijuana, other states and localities will say yes to it, we have to have a kind of moral pluralism in the country, or else weÂ’re going to con ‑‑ weÂ’ll continue fighting over the Scopes Trial. MR. DRISCOLL: This is Ed Driscoll and weÂ’ve been talking today with Fred Siegel, the author of The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class. ItÂ’s published by Encounter Books, and available from Amazon.com and your local bookstore. And Fred, good luck with the new book, and thanks once again for stopping by PJM Media.com today. MR. SIEGEL: Thank you for having me, Ed.

Posted by: Daybrother at March 04, 2014 01:43 PM (4ehPI)

216

199...My late maternal grandfather was a UAW man for 35 years. He loved his union and his job at Chrysler. I think he'd think that push for card check was un-American. He hated communists and communism yet Bob King, current (and soon to retire) UAW President, is a publicly professed Marxist-socialist. That spinning sound you hear is my grandfather in his grave.

 

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The UAW used to be rather conservative...they supported Nixon, and even held rallies for him and busted some hippies' heads.

Posted by: wheatie at March 04, 2014 01:43 PM (40W9K)

217 Alan Grayson. One of the lowest scumsucking douchewagons of the Left.

Posted by: DangerGirl at March 04, 2014 01:43 PM (GrtrJ)

218 Didn't Ace suggest a new Brit TV series not too long ago titled Mind The Gap!?

Posted by: soothsayer at March 04, 2014 01:43 PM (nfBpn)

219 Oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please Brb, mowing a bullseye in the backyard...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:44 PM (0HooB)

220 @207 Salem Communications owns HA, that's how they got MKH and MKH on TV. They have a shit load of radio and media stuff. Ace is not in same league. Money talks, ewoks walk. http://tinyurl.com/ycr7t3a

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:44 PM (0FSuD)

221 The Siberian lava traps...  for the win.

AlextheChick, only if DX110 decides to veer and smite DC.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 04, 2014 01:44 PM (kMyr1)

222 Obama's Pentagon jumps on the global warming bandwagon. DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT Pentagon calls effects 'threat multipliers'... http://drudge.tw/1fFmBfn

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 01:44 PM (ZPrif)

223 This will be fun to watch. A creation of the legislature telling legislature members to STFU. Need balls the size of the wookies to pull that off.

Posted by: Bob from table9 at March 04, 2014 01:45 PM (jsa6I)

224 Just how laughable do things need to get?

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 04, 2014 01:45 PM (iN2E+)

225 Anna Puma @ 100 Wow...I was given that book when employed at Mercedes-Benz of NA, 1986 (100th anniversary). I donated it to the Toyota museum in Torrance for their manufacturer's history section. Also, may Bob King die a slow death of face cancer. Whatta commie rabble rouser.

Posted by: bp_nj at March 04, 2014 01:45 PM (ph70Q)

226 "212 It was created by FDR, wasn't it? ...Back in the 30's? Posted by: wheatie at March 04, 2014 05:37 PM (40W9K) Yup... and then reengineered by Congress... during the 30's... How does an unelected board, who is NOT a court, have the power to subpoena? Posted by: Romeo13 at March 04, 2014 05:42 PM (84gbM)" It's the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Thoroughly Unconstitutional. But Progressive!

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:46 PM (4ElUX)

227 Did... did someone just call the Aztek "ugly"....?

Posted by: Walter White at March 04, 2014 01:46 PM (T+Zre)

228 @210 "..Vegan tofu..." Isn't that redundant the same way "assless chaps" is?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:47 PM (0HooB)

229

210 Chipotle....


There bottom line must be hurting so they have to raise there prices. "Climate Change" is just as good a reason as any, albeit dishonest. I have never ate there before. Its an easy decision but I probably won't know. There is a nice Mexican place right up the street from me. Plus, I can cook and I'm pretty good.

Posted by: puddleglum at March 04, 2014 01:48 PM (YTCbH)

230 Chipotle Inc. is warning investors that extreme weather events “associated with global climate change� might eventually affect the availability of some of its ingredients. If availability is limited, prices will rise � and Chipotle isn’t sure it’s willing to pay. There will always be cats...

Posted by: rickb223 at March 04, 2014 01:48 PM (h1D+w)

231 I hated the thing

It's Clobbering Time.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:48 PM (DL2i+)

232 Didn't Ace suggest a new Brit TV series not too long ago titled Mind The Gap!?

I'm enjoying a Brit show called Pramface.

It's about a couple of young kids who are strangers who get pregnant at a very young age, and the consequences of that.

Pramface refers to the exhausted face you see on new parents, but I like to imagine it's a next generation "happy slap".  Take a baby buggy to the head while the attacker yells, "Pramface!"

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:48 PM (P7Wsr)

233 Legal Insurrection ‏@LegInsurrection 1m German homeschool family can stay in U.S. http://nblo.gs/UqEYA

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 04, 2014 01:48 PM (DmNpO)

234 I regret to inform you all that I have ass cancer that is gradually eating it's way north. I shall spend my final productive time as Special White-house Adviser on all things ass.

Posted by: Robert King, UAW President at March 04, 2014 01:48 PM (vHRtU)

235 Did ace quit commenting again?

Posted by: Dr Spank at March 04, 2014 01:49 PM (hn70M)

236 Can Grayson's constituents who did not vote for him get a temporary protective injunction against him shoving his BS down their throats?

Posted by: Jen at March 04, 2014 01:49 PM (3wFh7)

237 Isn't that redundant the same way "assless chaps" is?>>

Chaps are only assless when they are not being worn.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 04, 2014 01:50 PM (wrS2o)

238 213 I have a movie deal after I retire, 'The Men Who Stare at Then Sodomize Goats.' Check it out the weekend after election day 2014...

Posted by: Robert King, UAW President at March 04, 2014 05:42 PM (vHRtU)

You're doing it backwards. First you sodomize them and then you stare at them. Otherwise, how do you know they got the message?

Posted by: The Chicago Way at March 04, 2014 01:50 PM (IN7k+)

239 Rats, obvious joke is like 1st ya gotta just post and see what happens.

Posted by: DaveA[/i][/b][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:50 PM (DL2i+)

240 "Siberian Traps" Some say that could be related to an antipodal impact hit down by Antarctica. As I said before, if true, that had to be a Monday.

Posted by: Beagle at March 04, 2014 01:50 PM (sOtz/)

241 203 zombie Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide Is Splitting America JOSH KRONNOV 30 2012, 11:17 AM ET The Atlantic Posted by: tasker I ♥ U !!!!!!

Posted by: zombie at March 04, 2014 01:50 PM (mizYg)

242 217 Alan Grayson. One of the lowest scumsucking douchewagons of the Left.

Posted by: DangerGirl


Thats only because I retired.  

Posted by: James Moran at March 04, 2014 01:50 PM (YTCbH)

243 7 But Unions == the Middle Class Opocalypse is always banging on about. Don't these proles know what's good for them? Unpossible, re-count! *sputter* Posted by: bonhomme at March 04, 2014 05:00 PM (P7Wsr)[i/] It's quite amazing. Being chastised about being "on the wrong side" of history from idiots who refuse to accept the existence of human behavior, to not voting in our best interests because we don't like dues extorted for political uselessness. How could we be so wrong? *smirk*

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 04, 2014 01:50 PM (iN2E+)

244 Na it was The Gap Band Burn Rubber On Me

Posted by: tasker at March 04, 2014 01:50 PM (RJMhd)

245 Ok, back from delivering pies. What did I miss?

Posted by: garrett at March 04, 2014 01:50 PM (0mRKW)

246 115 Daybrother, Is that board a result of that Dodd-Frank Bill?

Posted by: Carol at March 04, 2014 01:51 PM (z4WKX)

247 "222 Obama's Pentagon jumps on the global warming bandwagon. DRUDGE REPORT ‏@DRUDGE_REPORT Pentagon calls effects 'threat multipliers'... http://drudge.tw/1fFmBfn Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 05:44 PM (ZPrif)" That's depressing.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:51 PM (4ElUX)

248 bp_nj, that is where I found my copy.  At a library sale for fifty cents.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at March 04, 2014 01:51 PM (kMyr1)

249 241 203 zombie Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide Is Splitting America JOSH KRONNOV 30 2012, 11:17 AM ET The Atlantic Posted by: tasker I ♥ U !!!!!! Posted by: zombie at March 04, 2014 05:50 PM (mizYg) *********** Baby, I know you from a long, long time ago.

Posted by: tasker at March 04, 2014 01:51 PM (RJMhd)

250 Alan Grayson. One of the lowest scumsucking douchewagons of the Left. Posted by: DangerGirl Thatsonly because I retired. Posted by: James Moran still here!

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at March 04, 2014 01:51 PM (zOTsN)

251 Chipotle Inc. is warning investors that extreme weather events “associated with global climate change” might eventually affect the availability of some of its ingredients. If availability is limited, prices will rise — and Chipotle isn’t sure it’s willing to pay.


Posted by: Speedy Gonzales at March 04, 2014 05:42 PM (e8kgV)



I'm pretty sure this how it played out in the boardroom:



"We've got to drop employees due to ObamaCare.  But we have to figure out how to do it and be able to certify that they weren't let go because of ObamaCare."



"Come up with some cockamamie global warming shit to explain it."

Posted by: Country Singer at March 04, 2014 01:51 PM (r/e1Q)

252 Ok, back from delivering pies.

What did I miss?

If you didn't eat any pie, you missed pie.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:52 PM (P7Wsr)

253 Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 04, 2014 05:50 PM (iN2E+) And as a special bonus... They are also the ones who say Global WARMING is a huge problem... as we enter an Ice Age... Talk about the 'wrong side of history'!!!

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 04, 2014 01:52 PM (84gbM)

254 215 Daybrother Thx!

Posted by: zombie at March 04, 2014 01:52 PM (mizYg)

255 At least Grayson didn't tip Guam over.

Posted by: Hank Johnson at March 04, 2014 01:52 PM (Aif/5)

256 shit

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 04, 2014 01:53 PM (iN2E+)

257 233 Legal Insurrection ‏@LegInsurrection 1m German homeschool family can stay in U.S. http://nblo.gs/UqEYA Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 04, 2014 05:48 PM (DmNpO) Imagine the private education all those financial funds spent on legal defense could have provided those persecuted home schooled AND LITERATE kids, university tuition...

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 01:53 PM (MhA4j)

258 Actually soothie Could be the The Dazz Band-- Let It Whip!

Posted by: tasker at March 04, 2014 01:53 PM (RJMhd)

259 "231 I hated the thing It's Clobbering Time. Posted by: DaveA at March 04, 2014 05:48 PM (DL2i+)" Heh. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 01:53 PM (4ElUX)

260 Russia said it had successfully test-fired an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) on Tuesday, with tensions running high over its military intervention in Ukraine's Crimea region. wow seems more of a threat than global warming

Posted by: thunderb at March 04, 2014 01:53 PM (zOTsN)

261 Were VW Bugs designed to float a bit?

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 01:54 PM (MhA4j)

262 Regretfully, my barrel time shall be short.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 04, 2014 01:54 PM (iN2E+)

263 WashExaminer The effects of climate change are "threat multipliers" that will force the Pentagon to rethink how it engages in training, missions and humanitarian aid around the world, the Defense Department said Tuesday in its Quadrennial Defense Review. The review, released every four years, steps up calls made to address climate change in the last version. It noted climate change would "aggravate stressors" such as "poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions — conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence." Curbing greenhouse gas emissions is tantamount to alleviating resource competition and land, home, and infrastructure destruction caused by extreme weather that has been associated with climate change, the review said. That also could affect the military's installations and operations, it added. "The department’s operational readiness hinges on unimpeded access to land, air, and sea training and test space," the review said. "Consequently, we will complete a comprehensive assessment of all installations to assess the potential impacts of climate change on our missions and operational resiliency, and develop and implement plans to adapt as required." The review said investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy and water security would help mitigate some of the challenges presented by climate change.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 01:54 PM (ZPrif)

264 Chipotle Inc. is warning investors that extreme
weather events “associated with global climate change” might eventually
affect the availability of some of its ingredients. If availability is
limited, prices will rise — and Chipotle isn’t sure it’s willing to pay.

A buddy of mine has a used-jeans business.  He buys them in bulk from multiple sources.  On the website he informs shoppers he doesn't wash them to protect the environment.  That's a fib.  I think Chipotle is fibbing too.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/i][/b][/s][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:54 PM (P7Wsr)

265 I shall spend my final productive time as Special White-house Adviser on all things ass. Posted by: Robert King, UAW President at March 04, 2014 05:48 PM (vHRtU) Wait, so this means you are going to WORK?

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:54 PM (0FSuD)

266 The Turkish Air Force scrambled eight F-16 fighter jets after a Russian surveillance plane flew parallel along its Black Sea coast, the military said on Tuesday, amid increased tensions between Russia and the West over Ukraine. The incident occurred on Monday and the Russian plane remained in international airspace, according to a statement on the website of the military General Staff. wheeeeeeeeee

Posted by: thunderb at March 04, 2014 01:55 PM (zOTsN)

267 Chipotle is always packed when I go there. Their marketing strategy of being ecoier than thou appears to be working.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 01:56 PM (ZPrif)

268 Were VW Bugs designed to float a bit? "A Volkswagen will float, definitely. A Volkswagen will not float indefinitely." Cue the commercial of a Bug in a swimming pool from the '70's.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 04, 2014 01:56 PM (0HooB)

269 Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 05:54 PM (ZPrif) Weirder to Weirdest administration so far beyond insane

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 01:56 PM (MhA4j)

270 233 Legal Insurrection ‏@LegInsurrection 1m German homeschool family can stay in U.S. http://nblo.gs/UqEYA Thanks be to God.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2014 01:56 PM (oMKp3)

271 On the website he informs shoppers he doesn't wash them to protect the environment.


...unwashed used clothing.

Greenies are fucking crazy.

Posted by: HR at March 04, 2014 01:57 PM (ZKzrr)

272 266. thunderb Moocher's contribution to Americans, Get Moving! ...military exercises, media exercises, leaving us in the dark to guess wth

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 01:58 PM (MhA4j)

273 246 115 Daybrother, Is that board a result of that Dodd-Frank Bill? Posted by: Carol ----------- Yes I believe so. It was Elizabeth Cherokee Warren's baby. It is supposed to tell all financial institutions how they may conduct consumer business via extra-legislative regulation. I also read over at Zero Hedge that something like 46% of all small banks have been bought and sold or gone belly up since Dodd-Frank while 26% of "too big to fail" banks are now 'too bigger to ever fail".

Posted by: Daybrother at March 04, 2014 01:58 PM (Ea6HQ)

274 Cue the commercial of a Bug in a swimming pool from the '70's.>>

Or the Magazine ad that said "Ted Kennedy would have been President If he drove a Bug"

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 04, 2014 01:58 PM (wrS2o)

275 198 Leftism is imbecilic. Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 05:39 PM (4ElUX) Leftism is infantile. It's why they go so spastic when they're called on their stupid shit, long before it crashes and burns. They just expect new toys to play with and control.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at March 04, 2014 01:58 PM (iN2E+)

276 93 So, did TangoNine bail or what? Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 05:15 PM (vHRtU) Why would he? Did someone say "cum" in a comment again?

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2014 01:58 PM (tzp8R)

277 Cue the commercial of a Bug in a swimming pool from the '70's. Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 04, 2014 05:56 PM OK it's in Italian and it's from Sleeper. http://tinyurl.com/kdlfrl7

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 01:58 PM (0FSuD)

278 Thanks be to God. *** Except that it comports with the left's view of selective enforcement.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at March 04, 2014 01:59 PM (DmNpO)

279 jeans guy doesn't wash to save money Chipotle is just signaling they are going to increase their prices more likely their produce is more expensive because of the killer winter

Posted by: thunderb at March 04, 2014 01:59 PM (zOTsN)

280 Unfortunately, I didn't steal any slices of pie.

Posted by: garrett at March 04, 2014 01:59 PM (0mRKW)

281 Greenies are fucking crazy. It's not a requirement but it does help.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2014 01:59 PM (oMKp3)

282

251...I'm pretty sure this how it played out in the [Chipotle] boardroom:

 

 

"We've got to drop employees due to ObamaCare. But we have to figure out how to do it and be able to certify that they weren't let go because of ObamaCare."

 

 

"Come up with some cockamamie global warming shit to explain it."

 

 

Posted by: Country Singer at March 04, 2014 05:51 PM (r/e1Q) 

 

-----------

 

Thank you. I was thinking the same thing.

 

I wonder what other 'acceptable excuses' companies will come up with to provide cover for their Ocare layoffs...

 

 

Posted by: wheatie at March 04, 2014 02:00 PM (40W9K)

283 276 93 So, did TangoNine bail or what? Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 05:15 PM (vHRtU) Why would he? Did someone say "cum" in a comment again? Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2014 05:58 PM (tzp8R) lol

Posted by: Alan Grayson at March 04, 2014 02:00 PM (oFCZn)

284 "263 WashExaminer The effects of climate change are "threat multipliers" that will force the Pentagon to rethink how it engages in training, missions and humanitarian aid around the world, the Defense Department said Tuesday in its Quadrennial Defense Review. The review, released every four years, steps up calls made to address climate change in the last version. It noted climate change would "aggravate stressors" such as "poverty, environmental degradation, political instability and social tensions — conditions that can enable terrorist activity and other forms of violence." Curbing greenhouse gas emissions is tantamount to alleviating resource competition and land, home, and infrastructure destruction caused by extreme weather that has been associated with climate change, the review said. That also could affect the military's installations and operations, it added. "The department’s operational readiness hinges on unimpeded access to land, air, and sea training and test space," the review said. "Consequently, we will complete a comprehensive assessment of all installations to assess the potential impacts of climate change on our missions and operational resiliency, and develop and implement plans to adapt as required." The review said investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy and water security would help mitigate some of the challenges presented by climate change. Posted by: Flatbush Joe at March 04, 2014 05:54 PM (ZPrif)" Lolpoverty!

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 02:00 PM (4ElUX)

285 268. BackwardsBoy That's what I thought I remembered their only "plus" to driving back in the 60s, days of cheap gas and huge automobiles that would squash a bug on the road.

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 02:01 PM (MhA4j)

286 Except that it comports with the left's view of selective enforcement. I understand the broader point, but on this particular battlefield, I am glad that this good family will not be a casualty.

Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2014 02:02 PM (oMKp3)

287 OK, only six hours left till Lent. Drink up now!

Posted by: Nip Sip at March 04, 2014 02:02 PM (0FSuD)

288 Nood

Posted by: Buzzsaw at March 04, 2014 02:02 PM (wrS2o)

289 "270 233 Legal Insurrection ‏@LegInsurrection 1m German homeschool family can stay in U.S. http://nblo.gs/UqEYA Thanks be to God. Posted by: grammie winger at March 04, 2014 05:56 PM (oMKp3)" :-) Later, all. God bless. :-)

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at March 04, 2014 02:02 PM (4ElUX)

290 Baby, I know you from a long, long time ago. A bunch of us go back a long time ago to the earliest days of that brand new invention known as a 'blog'. I'm sure the NSA has pics of us, taken surreptitiously from our own built in cameras, posted on some blackboard somewhere. My list of internet aliases must be about ten pages long. I recognize peeps here at AoS from long ago, from other places, with the same or similar nics and am pleased they haven't given up the fight.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at March 04, 2014 02:02 PM (CnA98)

291 Someone has already mentioned the new thread....yes?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 04, 2014 02:03 PM (DPkKe)

292 Well, the TX polls close in 2 hours, when early results will get posted, and our precinct will have its powwow. outta here

Posted by: panzernashorn at March 04, 2014 02:03 PM (MhA4j)

293 '287 OK, only six hours left till Lent. Drink up now!' working...

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 02:04 PM (vHRtU)

294 "We're going to layoff 2% of our workforce...to set them free to pursue their dreams."

Posted by: Boardroom Excuses to cover for ObieCare Layoffs at March 04, 2014 02:04 PM (40W9K)

295 210 Chipotle Inc. is warning investors that extreme weather events “associated with global climate change” might eventually affect the availability of some of its ingredients. If availability is limited, prices will rise — and Chipotle isn’t sure it’s willing to pay. “Increasing weather volatility or other long-term changes in global weather patterns, including any changes associated with global climate change, could have a significant impact on the price or availability of some of our ingredients,” the popular chain, whose Sofritas vegan tofu dish recently went national, said in its annual report released last month. “In the event of cost increases with respect to one or more of our raw ingredients we may choose to temporarily suspend serving menu items, such as guacamole or one or more of our salsas, rather than paying the increased cost for the ingredients.” Posted by: Speedy Gonzales at March 04, 2014 05:42 PM (e8kgV) So much bullshit on their part. You know what happens when there is a shortage of there preferred specially raised steak? They put up a piece of paper saying that because of supply issues they are using conventionally raised beef. These assholes are just using it for an excuse to increase their prices from inflation. Subway raises their prices too. You don't see them offering excuses as to why.

Posted by: Buzzion at March 04, 2014 02:04 PM (tzp8R)

296 I'm giving up not drinking for Lent.

Posted by: OG Celtic-American at March 04, 2014 02:04 PM (vHRtU)

297 "I recognize peeps here at AoS from long ago, from other places, with the same or similar nics and am pleased they haven't given up the fight."

Offers a firm Laurel and Hardy handshake.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 04, 2014 02:05 PM (DPkKe)

298 @263 This drives me nuts because the policies the govt enforces in the name of global climate change are a threat to national security. Cases in point - blocking the keystone pipeline, tightening EPA regs to the point of forcing coal plants to close.

Posted by: Votermom at March 04, 2014 02:05 PM (GSIDW)

299 That's what I thought I remembered their only "plus" to driving back in the 60s, days of cheap gas and huge automobiles that would squash a bug on the road. I remember that phrase clearly from the commercial, yet can't find it on this Intarwebz thingy.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit[/i][/u][/b][/s] at March 04, 2014 02:06 PM (0HooB)

300 @263 Crazy talk. Breaking: some radical deniers point out climate change and extreme weather have existed forever.

Posted by: Beagle at March 04, 2014 02:07 PM (sOtz/)

301 One other thing, zombie, if you look at a 'county by county' map of the presidential election results from '08 and '12 you will see that the country is red. Except for the cities.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron [/i] at March 04, 2014 02:23 PM (CnA98)

302 This is not surprising.  When Conservative types lose elections, they lick their wounds and vow to do better next time.  When Liberals lose, there's Something Wrong!  The election was fixed/rigged/wrong/broken!  Losing is not an option for them.  Do whatever it takes to have another election to get the Correct result!  Doesn't anybody remember "dangling chads"?

Posted by: John at March 04, 2014 04:29 PM (Or5yv)

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