You spend all that time obsessing about security-- background checks, drug tests, credit checks, buildings full of cameras, and then yet more background checks-- because you yourselves are thieves. Professionals, at that. It's all there is to you inside and thus it's all you can see outside, in the rest of us. No matter how many times the tests ( Read more... )

"I went & sold my soul so I could pay my rent ( Read more... )

Two months after my layoff, the State Government has finally seen fit to start doling out my $140 a week. Huzzah!


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"...People voted with their feet in 2010 because of the refusal by Obama to deliver the “change” he had promised. They were angry that Obama and the Democrats essentially carried out the policies of Bush, bailing out Wall Street and the banks at the expense of Main Street. [See back articles in The Organizer newspaper on this question.]

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"...There is a much longer conversation to have about what an effective strategy of working people and unions should look like but one thing is clear -- rank and file union members in Wisconsin are a million miles ahead of the bureaucrats who legally control their unions. Witness Marty Beil from AFSCME and Mary Bell from WEAC's unsolicited and ( Read more... )

My first, last, and only ever link to anything regarding Facebook, no doubt.

General Strike In Wisconsin page ( Read more... )

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Since you last heard from me, I was laid off from my temp job. Then denied Unemployment. (Four times, in fact, which means I'll be filing four different appeals.)

( ...No more cryin'/We're together... )

( Yeah, this one's been building for a while... )

With any luck, this is my penultimate month on LJ. So why am I getting the sudden urge to create tags right and left? It doesn't make any sense, does it? Oh, well.

( Vice is its own reward... )

This morning's rant started out as a throwaway comment over at SMBIVA regarding the shooting du jour. But since this is Sunday morning, I didn't have the looming prospect of the workday to keep my spiel short. So I'm enshrining it here, with minor alterations as they occur to me ( Read more... )