“God Hates Scabs”

The Westboro Baptist Church is hated by pretty much everyone. There’s a good reason for that – they’re crazy, bigoted (by anyone’s definition) and blame every single bad thing in the entire world on society’s acceptance of homosexuals. Equally universal has been the condemnation of their funeral pickets. Do I need to go into details? No,…

Sponsor a child – not a spoilt 40 year old bully out to destroy

Saw this on The Hand Mirror earlier: Thus I’m helping to raise funds – for the campaign, and for the families.  There are queues of union members outside the Maritime Union office door in the morning to apply for hardship, literally to feed their kids, and I can tell you honestly that they look to…

Wisconsin Unions Bully Shop Owners

A story of bullying from Wisconsin. UNION GROVE – The government workers union is threatening to boycott numerous businesses here for declining to display a poster stating their support for “workers rights.” Many Union Grove businesses Tuesday received a letter from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Each of them declined to…

Andrew Klavan on Public Sector Unions

Unions have their place, but there’s always got to be balance. I do love the way he ignores what happens when the private sector fellow gets “taught a lesson”. Sadly, many US unions seem to believe that plants shutting down and moving only means that the unions were not strong enough. But I digress… Hat Tip New…

US Politics Quote of the Day

From Ed Driscoll “…It’s one thing to be called a violent teabagger. It’s another to be called a violent teabagger while you’re being assaulted. They’ve been comparing themselves to the Egyptians ousting Mubarak. Looks like they’re not too far off, given that they share the tendency to assault women with cameras.”

Wisconsin

I suspect many NZers would be completely unaware of what’s going on in Wisconsin. I must confess that I’ve only picked up the second half of the story, so was interested to read this article this morning. For in the end, the images and messages tell the story. The showdown in Madison pits pampered public…

Seen on a comments thread somewhere…

For the record, Guyton’s claim comes from this blog via The Standard: The Auckland office was supposed to swing into action with the first stages of the ‘Escalation Process when Schools are Not Implementing National Standards’. (A copy was obtained under the Official Information Act.) The first stage involves ringing up the principal and board…

Apology as disgusting as the offense

Caught, but not really repentant. Ms Campbell’s post was picked up by bloggers Whaleoil and Kiwiblog. Her page has now been made private. On Salford School’s website today Ms Campbell said she regretted and withdrew her comments. “I feel passionately about National Standards and I am immensely frustrated by the damage they will do to…

Unions just feathering their own nest?

There was a letter read on 9 to Noon today from (I think) John Barnett, head of South Pacific Pictures. It was very interesting, and if anyone can get hold of a copy it would be well worth posting. It seems that professional actors in this country do very well indeed (90k average salary), and…

Outrageous Costs

Helen Kelly still doesn’t get it. Council of Trade Unions (CTU) president Helen Kelly said no-one would resent The Hobbit films being made here, but the cost was “outrageous”. “That a foreign corporation can come into this country and demand that workers’ rights in this industry be removed — and that’s effectively what’s going to…