A Little Perspective

Mark Steyn hit it this morning when he remarked upon the list of 500,000 on the watch list, and that it is not easy to check that list instantly.
Steyn remarked that if you buy a book on Amazon.com, and access that site 8 years later, the site will instantly remind you of that previous book [...]

Pure, Blind, Dumb luck

I saw our Homeland Director on two TV news/opinion shows this a.m. She appeared either clueless, or restrained — either way it was not reassuring.
The Obama administration appears to treat this ‘attack” as a criminal matter at home, while it engages in war abroad — not just Afghanistan and Iraq, but in Yemen. Yemen appears [...]

Hugo Learns Fast…

From the Wall Street Journal: “Venezuela Warns on Toyota Plant
“Venezuela’s president has threatened to expropriate Toyota’s local assembly plant if it doesn’t produce more vehicles designed for rural areas and increase technology transfer.”
President Obama needs to send an envoy to teach Hugo how to do these things with greater subtlety!

Reform The Public Pension Program?

 

All negotiations regarding pay and pension for public employees to be done in PUBLIC. (It’s OUR Money!)

 

Pensions to be figured ONLY on “base pay” — ignoring “spiking” final pensions by including overtime, and extra pay and benefits.

 

All disabilities to be figured and determined after retirement, stopping “Chief’s illness” where police and firepeople get disability in [...]

The Cops ARE The Robbers!

 
Four retiring Parsippany cops share $900K in sick, vacation pay
By Eugene Paik/For The Star-Ledger
December 23, 2009, 5:31AM
PARSIPPANY — Four township police officers, each with more than 24 years of experience, will retire by the end of the month.
They’ll also receive nearly $900,000 during the next several years for unspent time off.
Like other retired Parsippany officers [...]

“Putting Their Lives on the Line”

The unions will tell you that “they put their lives on the line for you” – and it is true, but they do not rank in the top ten of “Dangerous Jobs” as published in many places and as determined from statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The following 10 occupations had the highest fatality [...]

Too Little, Too Late

“L.A. schools chief targets poor-performing teachers”
December 17, 2009 
(Quote) In what he described as a “sweeping new policy,” Supt. Ramon C. Cortines today announced that the Los Angeles Unified School District would begin aggressively weeding out poor-performing teachers and administrators.
“This district can rightly be criticized for the promotion of ineffective teachers over the years,” he said [...]

Copenhagen Is a Leftist Plot to Steal

Copenhagen has little to do with Global Whatever, it is just another excuse for poor countries to us AGW (read “White Guilt” for being economically successful) to demand a transfer of wealth from rich countries to poor countries.
At the conference, Venezuela’s Chavez got a rousing ovation with this line “our revolution seeks to help all [...]

Here It Comes Again!

Today’s Op-Ed column in the NC Times alerts some to the fact that Rep. Gutierrez (D-Il) is pushing an amnesty bill for illegal aliens. That bill has the support of the Latino Caucus, and the Black Caucus – but more importantly it has the support of the SEIU – one of the most politically powerful [...]

The Servants Become the Masters

My post on the obscene pay of the Vallejo firemen is proof that it is not JUST the obscene benefits that unions cause — it is the pay as well.
Of course that pay then transfers to obscene retirement.
But it is more than JUST pay and benefits as determined by retirement pay AND medical for life [...]