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The Best Billboard Ever

Posted by Eric in Conservatism on February 16, 2010

If only it were real…

After reading Michelle Malkin’s piece this morning, I just had to go to the original site and look at the photos.  By permission of the original owner, I’m posting the photo here.  I must say – I sure do:

Why yes, yes I do. (Photoshop by: W.E. Messamore)

Sometimes I love Photoshoppers.

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Teamster Strike Blocks Blood Delivery

Posted by Eric in Health and Fitness, Politics on December 15, 2009

The American Red Cross in Philadelphia, PA, is accusing a local union, Teamsters Local 929, of blocking a blood delivery to a two-year-old girl, whose life depended on the blood delivery.  According to the article, the union members refused to move until they were told about the girl.  As a result the Red Cross got an injunction against the union so they would stop interfering with blood deliveries to hospitals.  The union went on strike December 3 after a failure to negotiate a new contract.

The reason for the strike?  According to the union, unfair labor practices and pay.  But, according to the Red Cross, there have been no unsafe labor practice complaints by the Teamsters Union. The court that awarded the injunction agreed with the Red Cross. 

The Red Cross is struggling, like other organizatios, through the economic slump.  As a result,  non-union workers are under a pay freeze until June 30, 2010.  This has been a major contention during the contract negotiation, and the union refuses to agree to a pay freeze.

“We are simply asking union employees to make the same sacrifices that their non-union colleagues have already made,” said Anthony Tornetta, Communications Manager for the Red Cross Penn-Jersey Blood Region. “Their refusal to do so remains a significant issue in these negotiations.”

The union workers are covered both by the International Brotherhood of  Teamsters and the SEIU, and being encouraged to strike by the organization Change to Win.  Their mantra?  They will not stop “until every man, woman and child has quality, affordable care they can count on“.

Change you can believe in.

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The Defense of our Nation

Posted by Eric in 9/11, Politics on December 14, 2009

In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.

George W. Bush

Unfortunately, I don’t think our current president realizes this.  He is neither clear-eyed, nor a realist.  He continues to use diplomacy as though it’s the be-all, end-all of all arguments.  He wants to reduce our nuclear deterrent, while other nations strive to increase theirs.  He wants to essentially cut our defense appropriations.  He is consistently weakening us, and he has obfuscated our purpose as a nation – not only in foreign policy, but in domestic issues as well.

We The People need to wake up and realize what is happening to our country.  Every day we see the vitriol and hatred increase, not only from the left, but from the fringes of the political right also.   And now it seems as though the fringe left and fringe right are turning on themselves as well.  What will it take for this country to come together, as we did after 9/11?  Will it take another terrorist attack, or will it take something worse (i.e., revolution)?  I pray to God not.

I just continue to see the moral decline of this country, and it saddens me.  This is not the country I remember from my childhood, and it’s certainly not the one from September 2001.  We were united.  We all suffered – even those of us who didn’t have any immediate family or friends to die in the terrible attacks of that day.  I saw a patriotism and a love for God and country like I had never seen before.  What happened?

If things do not improve soon, I truly see a revolution or civil outburst happening soon – certainly not as widespread and devastating as our Civil War, but still dramatic in its own right.  We’ve already seen what happens when people are upset with tuition increases.  What do you think will happen when the people of this country finally get tired of the continuous “tax and spend” coming from Washington?  I foresee it being far, far worse.

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Obama’s Nobel Speech: My Analysis

Posted by Eric in Politics on December 10, 2009

I didn’t get to watch it, but I have read it – a couple of times.  As a conservative and a Christian, I will applaud Obama and his speechwriters for developing and delivering a speech that does, in fact, edify America and champions our cause against global terrorism.  Below are some excerpts of the speech that jumped out at me.

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Harry Reid: Race-Baiter Extraordinaire

Posted by Eric in Politics on December 9, 2009

This would be funny if it wasn’t so blatantly wrong and serious.  Actually, I take that back.  It’s NEVER funny to play the “race card”.  Alas, Harry “The war is lost” Reid does it again.  On the Republicans opposing the “public option” in healthcare:

“If you think you’ve heard these same excuses before, you’re right,” Reid said. “When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said, ‘Slow down, it’s too early, things aren’t bad enough.’”

WRONG, Harry!  It was the Democrat Party who opposed the abolition of slavery:

The Southern Democrats endorsed slavery, while the Republicans denounced it. The Northern Democrats said democracy required the people to decide on slavery locally. The Constitutional Union Party said the survival of the Union was at stake and everything else should be compromised.

Although the bill was supported by a majority of both parties, it was Democrats in key positions that opposed the legislation.

The bill was reported out of the Judiciary Committee in November 1963, and referred to the Rules Committee, whose chairman, Howard W. Smith, a Democrat and avid segregationist from Virginia, indicated his intention to keep the bill bottled up indefinitely. It was at this point that President Kennedy was assassinated. The new president, Lyndon Johnson, utilized his experience in legislative politics and the bully pulpit he wielded as president in support of the bill.

On June 10, 1964, Robert Byrd, the Democratic Senator from West Virginia (and a member of the KKK, I might add), delivered a long-winded speech during a filibuster – 14 hours, 13 minutes - opposing the legislation.  Albert Gore, Sr. (D-TN) also opposed the legislation.

Harry Reid should be forced to apologize for this blatant and outrageous lie, and for playing the race card on a total non-race issue.  If he doesn’t, he and all those who support him should be forced out.

It’s time for this demagoguery to stop.

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