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Comment history for tnmartin
tnmartin (anonymous) says...
at one time, we understood that the term "felony" implied a crime punishable by death. Quickly carried out. This mook should have been executed, publicly, LONG ago. He didn't learn the first or second or third time. Hang him. Today yet.
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tnmartin (anonymous) says...
It may well be what democracy looks like.
But we don't live in a democracy, and never have.
Fortunately.
We live in a federal republic. Intelligent people know this.
Evidently, no one bothered to tell these brickbrains that.
Nor that loud mouths do not generally come coupled to to great intelligence nor wisdom.
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tnmartin (anonymous) says...
to respond to observer2011,
there are several references in your post to 'democracy'. Perhaps, having been handicapped by living so long in the Valley, you are blissfully unaware that the United States of America is not, has never been, and was never intended to BE a 'democracy'. We are a constitutional republic.
There is a difference. Actually, there are several differences.
One of them is that the government at various levels is limited by law. Otherwise, we get the classic example of democracy: three wolves and a lamb voting on the dinner menu.
And we avoid also, hopefully, the sort of 'mobocracy' seen up in Wisconsin, as imported busloads of union thugs attempted to intimidate the elected members of the state legislature. That is reminiscent of Benito Mussolini's Black Shirts,a group that incidentally had more than a slight resemblance to its Marxist counterparts. Or the SEIU.
The legality of public employee unions is relatively recent, and experience shows us that allowing them was A Bad Idea. Time to end that experiment.
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tnmartin (anonymous) says...
Sloganeering.
'Right to choose' is a slogan. It's not an analysis.
If you want body art, have at it.
If you want multiple piercings of your face, go ahead, it's YOUR face. I might think you're a fool and it looks awful, but again, it's your face.
Abortion is murder, murder most foul, murder of the most helpless. Pretending otherwise is something known most frequently as "lying". It is a lie, it is an abominable lie, it is an obvious lie. And those pretending otherwise are contemptible.
'Roe v. Wade' was as awful and evil a decree as was the Dredd Scott decision, or Plessy v. Ferguson, or Kelo. Potter Stewart, Harry Blackmun, W. O. Douglas, and their co-liars should have been unemployed the very same hour and should have lived out their lives under assumed names, emptying bedpans in tropical leper colonies. In truth, they made it up as they went along, and damaged the entire nation in so doing. This was NOT the voice of the citizens, acting through our elected representatives, as is the constitutional structure of this republic. This was the decree of seven old men, who determined to behave like a council of barons.
And that is, in part, why the matter is and remains a source of conflict. The ruling and the attitudes behind such are profoundly corrosive to a once-free nation.
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tnmartin (anonymous) says...
So many questions .....
I guess we don't need to worry about "having big business come and pay very little if any taxes". It may have escaped your attention, but that's not happening here, is it? Most "big businesses", the kind that might be ABLE to hire many workers, avoid this area like the plague. With the attitudes shown here, who can blame them?
As far as paying low wages, I don't know how to say this nicely: some people's work isn't worth more than minimum wage, and some are overpaid even at that. Ask any employer who is saddled with those who WILL not work, which is worse than those who just can't do the job. Want to talk about the idiocy of "rate" in a union operation? I have strong memories of lift truck operators at Packard sitting in the break area for half the day because they'd already made the "rate" number of lifts. By 10:30.
With respect to "educators" and the pay thereof. The issue is not just direct pay, but total compensation cost. If you are paid "only" $45,000 (an arbitrary and probably incorrect figure) but have another $35,000 in various benefits like pension, medical, etc. etc. etc., then the cost of that person is lots more than the salary. And, please, don't tell me that all these teachers are worth that. Some are. Some are worth more. Some should have to pay for the privilege of having somewhere to go during the day, they not only contribute nothing they do real damage. And we all know it. If you don't like a teacher's wage, don't become one. Simple. Incidentally, it's a open secret that the LOWEST average IQ on a college campus, of students and faculty, is in the department of Education. (Social Work comes close, and so do the various ".xxx Studies" groups,) So let's drop the pretensions of great scholarly achievement while we're at it. And, by the way, the idea of a mandatory Master's in Education is so silly only a politician could support it. Fact is, the RESULTS achieved back when the average elementary school teacher was a graduate of a "normal" school, a 2-year program, were better than what we see today. Perhaps the concept should be re-thought.
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tnmartin (anonymous) says...
I have been watching this for more than 50 years now. It's a farce and a tragedy all at once.
There is hardly a place in the United States where the Democrat Party has a stronger choke hold on the local political scene. And there is hardly any place where it is more dangerous to say anything bad about unions of any kind. Evidently the seeds Gus Hall planted here way back when sprouted.
The results?
Is this area a paradise?
Are good jobs going begging on every street?
Are employers vying to come into the area to avail themselves of all these highly skilled unionists?
Are we inundated with those from all over the nation coming here to share in our economic vitality?
Are you on drugs or something???
There's growth all right. Growth of despair, joblessness, and broken families. Our children, and their children, either are leaving or already did, seeking the jobs that the unions and the political thugs they support have chased out.
The only places in the country that are seeing growth are in the Right-To-Work states, the areas that need not bow to Richard Trumka and his ilk.
Hope you're proud of yourselves.
As far as public employee unions, it takes some truly amazing levels of deceit to make that seem like a good idea. Now you see that lazy rude creep at DMV protected by Snivel Service rules, AND by the union. The citizens don't count, and the union collects dues to support politicos who will -and do - agree to unsustainable contract terms. Which has been the case nationwide, not just in Wisconsin, Indiana, New Jersey, New York, California, and Illinois.
Enough of this garbage.
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tnmartin (anonymous) says...
It is also worth noting, as the "writer" of this piece OUGHT to have done, that this CREW operation is not quite a non-partisan "nonprofit government ethics watchdog organization" as the article reads.
It is a far-far-left hit operation largely funded, through operations like the Tides foundation, by Nazi-enabler and Antichrist fan George Soros. Truth and honesty are as welcome to them as garlic and silver crucifixes are to the vampire of your choice.
For the Vindy to be according such operations the least bit of regard as credible sources is to further damage the paper's brand.
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tnmartin (anonymous) says...
Proving, yet again, that the people of the Valley (Remember when it was called the 'Steel Valley'??) would vote for the Devil himself, horns, tail, pitchfork and all, if he was an endorsed Democrat. Fact is, they darn near have, several times. How many times have I heard a notorious scoundrel, a vile chunk of barely human garbage, touted as "a good friend of the working man". No, he was a good friend (or sales agent for) the "working girls", need some examples?
Why SHOULD the Democrap bosses from elsewhere throw us a bone or two? They've got the votes already!
Why SHOULD the pubbies give a hand? they'll never get the votes, so long as the deadheads here have "a moral stance against voting Republican". so why bother?
it has been sad to watch the destruction of this area, It has been sad to watch the creeps and liars who helped destroy it - the union bosses, environazis,liberal fascists, and other creeps - idolized. It has been sad to see the abandonment of good sense that gave us Commuter Aircraft Corp;., Airship Enterprises, pushes for casinos of all kinds, and, eventually, legalized brothels I suppose.
Sad. Predictable. And so pointless.
So wave your "union forever" banners, and vote the straight Donkey party ticket. And continue to bury the region.
Permalink: Valley voters buck trend, but it’s not enough
tnmartin (anonymous) says...
Let us not lose sight of the fact that these "connected" persons did a lot of damage to this community and to a lot of people in it. I know some of them personally. Possibly you do too. And some of the damage we will never add up. The jobs that were not created because someone couldn't buy a zoning change to start one, for example. I know personally a woman who never got to know her grandfather because he was murdered by the mobsters in Niles for not buying "protection".. Can you put an dollar figure on that loss? Those people, all through this Valley, have suffered, and will continue to suffer because we have tolerated among us those who were and are crooks and thieves. And that includes the fixers, the Party bosses and city councilmen and judges and county commissioners and union bosses. And the voters who continued to vote the straight Party line, knowing full well the strong connections between the Mob and the local Democrat Party. We all knew it. And went along, because 'that's just the way it is here". Look what it bought us.
Proud of yourselves?
Permalink: Balancing our image
tnmartin (anonymous) says...
Suit thyself.
For me, any organization that upsets the vile and despicable thugs of the SEIU is OK in my book. SEIU is a RICO case all by itself and the officials thereof ought to be spending the rest of their lives making big rocks into little ones. Their pronouncements on this or any other matter deserve no respect whatsoever. A pox on the lot of them.
Haven't the unions done enough damage to the Valley?
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