Carter had a bit of a health scare this week, as the Associated Press reported yesterday:
Carter has landed in Washington after spending two nights in an Ohio hospital, where doctors said a viral infection likely gave him stomach problems.
Carter, wearing a dark blazer, walked down the steps of a private jet Thursday at Reagan National Airport, stepped into an SUV and drove away.
If you find yourself despairing about the state of our great country, just think about how unlikely it would have seemed, back in the malaise days of 1979, that Jimmy Carter would one day return to Washington via Reagan Airport.
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1. Can we not use the inflammatory word "scabs"?
2. Can we post videos inline?
3. Can we use Capital Letters properly?
4. Rantburg is a war on terrorism blog. What the hell is this off-topic nonsense doing here?
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1. Can we not use the inflammatory word "scabs"?
Scabs only get inflamed if you keep picking at them.
As for unions hiring non-union labor,
1) it makes economic sense
2) it confirms my belief that irony is the fundamental building block of the universe.
3) someone is missing an opportunity to organize workers. Imagine: a union of non-unionized workers. see point 2.
Watching the union spokesman trying to dance around the questions is priceless. :-D
Well worth the time to watch.
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Q: How can you tell they're non-union?
A: They appear to be sober.
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And they're actually working, reg joe.
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The local unions have been doing this for years; they gather them up at the local Homeless shelter so they can march in front of some business not using union personnel for a project.
#3
I once had an argument like that, the other person simply refused to discuss, only parrot what THEY wanted to say, it was much like talking to a tape recorder set on playback.
Shut up and listen asshole.
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A lot of right-of-center bloggers are skeptical of this scenario ever coming to pass; I’ll get to their objections in a second. But for a moment, let’s just realize that we’ve learned in the past decade or so that American politics can unbelievably unexpected turns rapidly. The president can get caught having sex with an intern; the presidential race can come down to a couple hundred votes and hanging chads in Florida; the New York skyline can be suddenly and horrifically altered with thousands dead; the hated dictator who gassed the Kurds can turn out to not have stockpiles of WMDs, the world’s most wanted terrorist can pop up the Friday before an election to offer an ultimatum; a Florida congressman can get caught doing unspeakable things with House pages; within five years an unknown state senator from Chicago with an unpronounceable name can become the leader of the free world, beating in succession two of the biggest names in American politics.
Hillary Clinton will say, a million times, that she’s no longer interested in running for president, that she likes her current job, that it is plenty challenging, etcetera. And by and large, she’s been a good soldier for the past two years. But it’s really hard to believe that every last drop of the desire to be president left her in summer of 2008, and you wonder if she keeps Bill up lamenting, “He’s just like I said he was. He’s so unprepared for all of this. He’s never dealt with rejection and adversity on a scale like this. Remember the 3 a.m. ad? Remember the Saturday Night Live parody of the 3 a.m. ad?”
“Hillary, it is 3 a.m.”
“And somewhere, a phone is ringing, Bill! And I should have been the one answering it!”
Will it happen? Probably not. But the likelihood is now more than zero, and each poll like this showing rank-and-file Democrats surprisingly “meh” on Obama moves it one notch further away from zero. Hillary won’t do it if she doesn’t think she can win, and won’t do it unless she can plausibly argue that the party’s grassroots wants her to. She’s not there… yet.
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Oh well. By 2012 it will have been four years of being called a racist for opposing Obamas socialist machinations. If Hillary runs, perhaps being labeled a misogynist will be a refreshing change of pace.
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I had'nt seen that SNL skit before, that was Hilarious as well as dead on Target, what a bumbling idiot.
Sitting here chuckling, don't want to laugh out loud. (Wife's asleep)
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It should actually be no "Morning Jolt" at all for dedicated readers at this site. The planned single term of Obama, and the coming ascension to total power of the Hildebeast have been discussed here for months.
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By 2012, there might be even more disgust and anger at entrenched incumbents and career politicians and Hillary embodies both. Hell, she is the fucking example of both. I can't see her doing too well unless the political mood becomes a lot more mellow in 20 months, which I seriously doubt.
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B - Geraghty has a morning email blast ("Morning Jolt")of political news of the day that is free, similar to Rich Galen's "Mullings". Both are fun reads
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Thanks for the tip Frank, I'll ck it out.
Sometimes I wonder "Why is that frisbee getting larger"....? Then it hits me.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Hillary Clinton will say, a million times, that she’s no longer interested in running for president, that she likes her current job, that it is plenty challenging, etcetera. And by and large, she’s been a good soldier for the past two years. But it’s really hard to believe that every last drop of the desire to be president left her in summer of 2008, and you wonder if she keeps Bill up lamenting, “He’s just like I said he was. He’s so unprepared for all of this. He’s never dealt with rejection and adversity on a scale like this. Remember 
