Displaying 481 To 510 Of 1,116 Comments I made mobiles out of them by cementing them face-to-face and stringing them up with fishing line and pieces of bamboo. I just can’t bear to throw anything away; it seems wasteful. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 20, 2011 @ 6:53 am Just sounds like another example of the kind of false equivalency we’ve grown to expect from the mainstream news. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 20, 2011 @ 6:37 am Employment at Will…what does it mean? Especially inside the capitol building itself. What with the echo effect and all, I bet those pipes were almost deafening! » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 3:27 pm It really is inspiring. If I remember right, the firefighters aren’t even the one’s being affected by the cuts; they’re just marching in solidarity. Many of them are in full dress uniform, and they all look really dignified and serious. This is great. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 3:25 pm Uh oh! When they break out the bagpipes, you KNOW something serious is going down! I love it. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 2:14 pm Sometimes people wise up. It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. I know it seems hard to believe right now, but one day your state and mine might turn blue. A long time ago, the South had company towns. The big bosses owned EVERYTHING, and workers were absolute peasants. Things are better than that now. The South may not move quickly, but I will not lose faith. MLK said something that I have always found inspirational: “The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice.” » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 2:02 pm That sure is sad. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 12:32 pm Exactly. Employment is a business deal between employer and employee. Another false concept one hears a lot these days is that the employer creates jobs. It’s like out of the goodness of his heart, as they say. The employee is expected to feel pure gratitude for the sheer beneficence of the provider. Nonsense. An employer makes the business calculation that he can take whatever value the worker creates and charge a little bit more than that for his overhead and his profit. Nothing wrong with that, but it should be seen for what it is: a business calculation. Too many people seem to think that wealth and all good things spring from the forehead of their “betters.” This is not true. Lincoln put it well when he said “Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 11:50 am It is. Thanks for the article, by the way. I had to read it twice. I like that you talked about employees being “at the mercy of the employer for their livelihood and thus their ability to survive.” That sure is a good point. Sometimes progressives wonder why more people are not outspoken about important issues, or why more people do not march in the street or demand better working conditions. The fact that so many really ARE at the mercy of their employers’ whims probably has something to do with it, particularly in these times of high unemployment. Most folks just want to keep their heads down, to take whatever crap they have to, just to keep their jobs. Oftentimes employers take advantage of having the upper hand and humiliate their workers because they can. I’ve seen grown men told to get down and wipe a spot off the floor before their boss’s feet. I’ve seen grown men called “boy” by the “boss-man” who is only a few years older. It can get pretty disgusting out there. Not much human dignity in that. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 10:44 am I caught that show too. She really made it plain what was motivating the Governor, that it was more about union-busting than addressing the budget. I liked that she summed up the funding difference between D’s and R’s if there were no unions this way: she described it as “Bake Sales versus Billionaires.” Maybe generalizing a bit, but a colorful phrase. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 10:15 am The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has a few things to say about Employer’s rights: Article 23: Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment. Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection. Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests. That’s something else, isn’t it? The first time I read this document, I was shocked, saying to myself, “Wow, we’re supposed to get all those things, like human dignity and all?” » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 7:20 am I know what you mean. My state of Georgia is also a “right to work” state. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 5:03 am But there’s a fast-growing consumer base in China and other countries as well. What happens when the citizens of the United States are no longer valuable to the multinational corporations even as consumers? » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 5:01 am Sarah Palin Watch: The Death of Death Panels I think that’s precisely her fate. And if she manages to trademark her name, she won’t even get to see it on a answer-card in Trivial Pursuit. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 12:35 pm Very thorough, and very good article. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 12:05 pm It’s a very thorough answer to the question, “Where ya from?” Thanks for sharing this with us. I was born in Chattanooga myself. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 21, 2011 @ 3:01 pm Proud To Be Liberal By Brian Elroy McKinley Really well explained! » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 3:53 pm I can certainly understand that. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 12:29 pm No, I was first! Honest! » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 10:51 am I’m the same way too. This is me; I yam what I yam. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 10:23 am Cenk was explaining the other day about why he thinks it’s important to be on cable. He said, “look at this picture of Obama in the Oval Office.” (I couldn’t see the picture he was talking about, because I was listening by way of podcast, but I could imagine it.) Apparently the picture showed Obama looking a TV screen that was divided into four quadrants, each showing a different channel. One is permanently set on FOX, another on MSNBC, and another on CNN. The fourth is changeable. Cenk said that this is part of the reason he felt that he needed to be on cable. He said that it’s important to be heard in the Oval Office, as well as the millions of people who watch cable news. Again, I haven’t seen him on MSNBC, but he says that he isn’t sticking to any transcript, but doing his usual thing. His usual thing is being honest, and telling it like it is (as he personally sees it.) I don’t always agree with the guy, and sometimes he’s annoying, but I do appreciate the strength and honesty of somebody who will tell you what he really thinks. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 19, 2011 @ 8:21 am And never play cards with anyone named after a city. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 1:00 pm True, the name-calling and snark got pretty old pretty fast. I made thousands of comments on that site, and only resorted to name-calling once (after too many glasses of whiskey one night, I called somebody an idiot.) Name-calling is almost never necessary. Also, I never indulged in those cutesy respellings of people’s names and things. Like “Rethuglican;” I saw that one a lot. It doesn’t persuade anyone to your point of view, and it doesn’t appeal to anyone except people who agree with you to begin with. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 12:58 pm I like to listen to the first half of The Young Turks podcast. The first part is usually political news, and the second part pop-culture (which I don’t listen to.) I don’t have TV, so I don’t know what Cenk is like on MSNBC, but the podcast is pretty good. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 12:24 pm Fanned & Favorited. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 7:53 am Wow, you’re right! I can really see the resemblance. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 7:21 am I admire your positive attitude. It’s a real reminder for me to try to see the good in things, instead of getting hung up on the negative aspects. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 7:05 am Creepy lookin’ fella. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 7:00 am Friday Music Thread–The Woodwinds–Flutes and Reeds Very cool. » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 3:56 pm Always been my favorite band! » Posted By Buddy McCue On February 18, 2011 @ 3:54 pmComments Posted By Buddy McCue
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