Morning Report: The left hook
So yesterday, this thing happened that really didn’t make a lot of news because it wasn’t controversial and no one completely lost their sh*t over it doing things like, you know, tearing down tents with women and children inside them and then cutting them into ribbons and keeping those pieces for souvenirs. Like, no one even noticed.
I can’t even hide the sarcasm on that. That was just pathetic. Yes, America, Michigan, who by all rights was due to suffer a nuclear accident followed by an ensuing zombie apocalypse before it declared that workers should not have to, by law, join a union and have dues extracted out of their paycheck and directed into the coffers of the Democratic party against their will as a condition of their employment. I mean, people. The zombies were going to be unionized.
1. The good news is that unions, while heavily schooled in “agitating” have apparently not been heavily schooled in the slow march of technology, so yesterday, when they decided to run around like lunatics and rip people’s tents down, lots of people caught it on camera.
2. At least one union member celebrated the bill’s passage by cold-cocking Stephen Crowder. And while it is true that pretty much everyone has fantasized about cold-cocking Stephen Crowder at one time or another, the response, in this case, was inappropriate and also battery.
3. At least one Michigan elected official has not yet learned that the Internet is forever. Also, he drinks your milkshake. HE DRINKS IT UP.
4. And because yesterday wasn’t crazy enough, the Seventh Circuit overturned Illinois’ provision against concealed carry. The state has 180 days to craft a law in compliance with earlier Supreme Court decisions regarding firearms, and an infinite amount of time to convince gang bangers to obey said law.
5. Homeland Security is loaning out unmanned drones to local police forces. Because, in this scenario, absolutely nothing could go wrong.
And a couple more, since I missed a great deal of blogging yesterday because I was busy fighting with idiots on Twitter who decided it was appropriate to wax poetic about the dismal future of Detroit, a city potentially run by bears, under a system that would allow for Michigan to become competitive in an evolving workforce landscape, from their cushy offices in West Coast universities.
BONUS #1: As it turns out, despite what he said before, and what he claimed during the campaign, the Obama Administration has not taken raising the minimum age for Medicare, or instituting a Medicare “means test” that would require seniors who can afford to go without food to pay for their medication to do so.
BONUS #2: Richard Mourdock, who lost his race because he opened his big fat yap, is very angry at the dastardly liberal media who quoted him correctly.
BONUS #3: Al Franken didn’t need to read the Affordable Care Act before he voted for it because he knew it would be awesome and unicorns and fairy dust. Now, he’s pissed that there were things he didn’t know about in the law he didn’t read. Go figure.
BONUS #4: Michelle Obama would rather not hand out these toys.
BONUS #5: That woman in the photo up there is a member of the MEA. As in, the “Michigan Education Association.” The rat behind her has the governor’s name misspelled on it. In a way, this both demonstrates exactly why Michigan stopped making civics a requirement for it’s elementary schoolers – seems it’s a bit tough even for the adults – and exactly why Michigan was probably very ready to rethink this “union thing.”
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There’s no better advertisement for the aptitude of publick skool teechurz than the misspelling of the Governor’s surname on a giant poster.
Particularly when the teechurz are publicly whining about how their highly-specialized skills are undervalued by taxpayers.
It’s not like the Governor has a difficult last name to spell—”Snyder” is somewhat of a common name. It’s definitely not “Jones” or “Smith,” but it’s not like he’s from Serbia and there’s 15 consonants to contend with, including a couple of “z”s and “v”s.
Use “its” for the possessive, not “it’s”. You’d have more credibility in smacking down the stupidity of others based on spelling and grammar if you paid more attention to these things yourself.
*Eyeroll.* One, I’m not in the business of teaching other people how to spell or use grammar, and these people are – or at least they claim to be. And using an apostrophe inappropriately is a far cry from spelling the name of the governor you’re protesting wrong.
Don’t you roll your eyes at me, young lady!
Fuck, er, I mean Buck,
I was typing fast, so I misappropriated “it’s” when I ought to have written “its.”
You caught me red-handed, Sherlock.
Did you also just catch my above spelling error of YOUR name ?
But hey, “it is” no big deal to misspell someone’s name, right ?
Ironically, by saying that I have no credibility to criticize the teechurz because I made a grammatical error, doesn’t that infer the teachers lack credibility to teach since they can’t proofread a giant poster ?
Do you also believe that only current or former NFL players have the credibility to yell at the tv when a player on tv fumbles the ball or drops a pass ?
Anyhow, I’m not claiming to be an underpaid public servant.
I do claim to be overpaid for what I do.
No, I get your point. I wasn’t trying to be confrontational. I read this blog daily and await new posts like a lab rat yearning for my next hit of crack cocaine. In short, I’m a big fan. There’s no need to jump ugly on me. I’ll take second to none in criticizing the public school teachers’ union. I’d put them right in the top 3 of reasons why this nation is presently heading down the toilet.
The “it’s” versus “its” thing just bugs me and it happens a lot on this blog. I didn’t say that if you make a grammatical error you are hereafter disqualified from ever commenting on any similar situation. To attribute that to my remark is just silly.
I doubt that these people are so incredibly dumb they don’t actually know how to spell “Snyder”. That’s quite a stretch, isn’t it? Most likely what occurred here is a very stupid error and somebody figured “better a misspelled sign than no sign at all.” There’s a LOT more to criticize in their policy positions than what is clearly just a foolish, albeit glaring, error. I was attempting to tweak Emily’s nose a bit by pointing out the silliness of criticizing a silly error when also making a silly error yourself in the same vein. As it’s difficult to convey tone on the internet, it didn’t come across well. For this, I sincerely apologize.
Dude, I think you were tweaking me, not Emily.
Nonetheless, “it is” all water under the bridge as far as I’m concerned, but you gotta learn to keep your eye on the ultimate prize.
Learn where and when to pick your fights.
This is why we lose so many elections and public relations campaigns—-because our side doesn’t keep our eye on the ball. The sanctimonious Rick Santorums, RIck Perrys, and Newt Gingriches of Team GOP established a healthy predicate for the left wing media to paint Romney as a “vulture capitalist”—because they wanted the short term benefit of attacking Romney as a “vulture capitalist !” at the expense of the long term goal of ultimately defeating Obama. And the left wing media will always be acquiescent to such dumb-ass GOP “strategery.”
When we have public skool teechurz cluelessly holding up a giant poster which is clearly misspelled as they’re marching specifically in the name of scolding taxpayers for failing to recognize the priceless value of public school teachers to society, we have to ridicule it. Milk it !
Because if we don’t mock it, the left wing media sure as heck won’t.
It’s as if Roseanne Barr gave everyone a lecture on how they’re too fat, and I were to raise my hand and say, “Uh, excuse me, Ms. Barr, but you’re, uh, kinda fat, aren’t you ?” yet you sit there and say, “how can you question Roseanne Barr when you need to lose ten pounds yourself !”
It doesn’t matter what my weight is since I’m not the one sanctimoniously scolding people for their weight.(Incidentally, I happen to be a California health nut.)
Cheers.