More labor pains
Yesterday, there were reports, accompanied by supporting video, of a striking Verizon worker placing his daughter in front of a vehicle crossing a CWA picket line. Presumably the truck was carrying nonstriking workers, at whom this working class hero cursed and swore as the truck passed when girl moved out of the way. It is to be hoped that a child protective services agency will look into this, but most northeastern public employees are unionized, so the hope is probably slim at best.
http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2011/08/verizon_strike_picketing.html
Bed Soros
Left-wing angel and sporty senior citizen George Soros, 80, is being sued by a former girlfriend for $50MM. Adriana Ferreyr, 28, is a Brazilian soap opera star with whom Soros had dated for 5 years before breaking up with her, and reneging on a promised gift to her of a Manhattan apartment. Subsequently they reconciled long enough for the old goat to get her back in bed. In the course of love-making, the geezer whispered that he had given the apartment to another woman. Very smooth. A fracas ensued, during which Ferreyr said Soros slapped her and tried to choke her. Soros denies the assault.
The Leopard's Limb compliments Soros on his no doubt Viagra-furnished virility, and predicts an out-of-court settlement, kept under seal so that no one can be called a Soros loser. Presumably, Ferreyr will enjoy her new NYC apartment, and next time will get it in writing.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ex_suit_vs_billionaire_hits_home_1WkMc2LdCpnWCi5DzJ7A6J
Moore on the Wild West
O. T. Rush re Tombstone: Sounds like quite a lively place at one time. Your census of Boot Hill reminds me of the (probably apocraphal) epitaph on an Old West grave marker:
Here lies the body of Les Moore
One shot from a .44
No Les
No Moore
No pain, no gain
Roblo on taxes and the deficit/debt: Not to defend President Obama, but we were spending on deficits and had accumulated quite a bit of debt before he took office. Do I agree with his subsequent policies? For the most part, no, but a lot of damage was done prior to his White House occupancy.
The fact is we spent money we shouldn't have spent, arguably on things we should not have. But, we elected to so do, and by that election also chose to undertax ourselves so as to avoid any pain. We were in error: avoidance was actually postponement. The postponement has ended.
As for your stats re taxing the wealthy, I'll accept your numbers re those making over $10MM/year as yielding $500B, but what about raising the high marginal rate starting at $500K a high, taking the rate back pre-Bush tax cuts? I don't think many people earnng the then-equivalent of $500K jumped out windows while that high marginal rate was in effect.
And welcome back, as of last night. Don't be a stranger.
Word watch
One of today's LTE writers closed with "Man up," as has that noted orator Sarah Palin. Throw up.
Good morning Staballoy and all.
ReplyDeleteRoblo - as soon as I posted the comment I wished I could've corrected it. I could not. I should have retracted my comment publicly as I did with another non-sensical comment I made to ASL within the same time frame. It's a symptom of exhaustion.
Throw up.
Les Moore is, of course, buried in Boot Hill. Most are familiar with his epitaph, but few with the circumstance. He was a stagecoach agent. He and another agent got into an argument over a package and in the true tradition of the times began blazing away at each other. Both died.
ReplyDeleteA few other favorite epitaphs from those days:
Bill Blake
Was hanged by mistake.
Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona
Here lays Butch.
We planted him raw.
He was quick on the trigger
But slow on the draw.
Silver City, Nevada
Here lies a man named Zeke.
Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek.
Cripple Creek, Colorado)
I commend readers to this site for a collection of epitaphs:
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Here's the imdb info on Miss Ferreyr.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.imdb.com/name/nm1222268/
Judging from her pictures, I'd say that even in one's 70's no Viagra would be needed.
Speaking of The Earps, Tombstone etc, a year ago I bought a book called Wyatt Earp Speaks! By Earp and others, written by John Richard Stephens. Many accounts written by the players of that time and place are in the book as well as court testimonies, letters and other documents. Some fact, some shady opinion and some bold face lies. Interesting to see how each player viewed himself and his place in that little world.
ReplyDeleteDotnet...I saw miss Ferreyr's photo. You are correct. No Viagra needed.....a healthy nap, probably so.
ReplyDeleteWW...While she is definitely all the Viagra one would need, it would still not be worth $50MM to me to tap that nor any other girl for that matter. If I were in Mr. Soros' position, I would carry some legal docs with me in case I found myself in a potentially very happy situation. It may be a bit of a mood-killer to say before getting any of this, please sign here, but it would save a lot of trouble afterwards.
ReplyDeleteDotnet...I agree. Kind of a pre nup without the nup. If nothing else, she could file a charge of "assault with an antique organ". In my shady past, I learned you don't make empty promises to Latin women and then fool them. A sure way to wake up dead.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in L.A., late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel (WW, I met him) was the sports newscaster for KROQ-FM radio. His approach to his subject matter was frequently comical. He delivered the news in a whimsical (and sometimes off-color) manner.
ReplyDeleteWhen long-time sports announcer Harry Caray died, Kimmel parodied one of Harry's signature lines about home runs, loudly rasping, "He could be! He might be! He is! He's OUTTA HERE!"
WW, Soros will plead to assault with a friendly weapon.
ReplyDeleteRe signed agreements and the like, I have been told that the Rev. Billy Graham never allowed himself to be alone with women other than close family members. I'm not really familiar with Rev. Graham's theology, but his prudence re appearances has been commendable. He avoided any comparison to such fine men of the cloth as Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggert.
ReplyDeleteStaballoy...likely a very "limp" excuse.....Kimmel gets off some funny ones at times. The only actors I ever met were Carol Burnette and Dennis Weaver. The first at a taping of her show and the second at a scene shot on the Long Beach pier.
ReplyDeleteIn my next life I am going to be a preacher...
ReplyDeleteAmen, brother.
ReplyDeleteWW, I saw a number of Hollywood folk out there: Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Jamie Lee Curtis (not doing that scene she did in "Trading Places," unfortunately. Went to a premiere, courtesy of the above-mentioned KROQ radio, saw Michael Douglas and Sean Penn. Attended a dinner at which John Lithgow spoke, a really nice guy and excellent speaker. Then there were the pols and sports figures, but that's for another day of name-dropping.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, I was then, as now, just a middle-class guy with a middle-class job, living in a middle-class neighborhood. Was just very lucky to have some first-class experiences.
Re the Billy Graham business. That is actually an old time church tenet. I knew several men, one of my great uncles included, who lived by that idea. All are dead now.
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, it is as much about avoiding temptation as it is about appearances. Man is a flawed creature. The spirit is strong, but the flesh is weak.
Personally, I like being "alone" with women I am not related to, the more the merrier.
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ReplyDeleteLester Moore's tombstone...
ReplyDeleteSorry, failed experiment...guess I will return to the Alfa.
ReplyDeleteGood evening, O.T.
ReplyDeleteI "zoomed" my screen to 200%, saw the grave marker a bit better. I liked it as an avatar. I'm soon to retire Bucky Beaver, and return to the planetary nebula.
Preacher biz: resist everything but temptation? Vice is nice but incest is relative.
ReplyDeleteYeah, especially here in the South.
ReplyDeleteFor Today (Friday)
ReplyDeleteMr. LASSING is correct in that “The debt approaches $15 trillion “ - but use of the word “recent” in describing the debt crisis suggests lack of historical perspective … and his definition of “taxing” through the word “penalizing” is also distorted.
While we [Americans] certainly need to encourage “hard work and investment”, and those that do should “reap the rewards”, let us be careful what all that means. Coal Mining and Suckering Tobacco both qualify as True Hard Work, but the rewards reaped are black lung and a bad-back. Investment in an enterprise which requires equipment or labor or both is different than shorting stock in a bear market.
Missing in Mr. Lassings analysis is the simple detail that business owners directly lower their penalizing (taxes) through capital investment and expenses including labor. Also missing are the tax avoidance strategies of these “investors” - compensating themselves in stock or dividends, not to mention the company car – all of which are de facto wealth distribution... upwards …provided legally by the same “big government” for which he feigns resentment.