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• Commented on SNL: Laser Cats #4 with Steve Martin (KING LEAR)
  ANTINIOUS said: One major point of allowing clips is to drive viewers to watch it in its native medium. I understand that theory, but if the "best bits" are available for free, without commercial, what is the motivation to invest...
• Commented on SNL: Laser Cats #4 with Steve Martin (KING LEAR)
  XENI said: I hate that I can't find a version of this short without 30 SECONDS OF ADS preceding the content. NBC still doesn't get it. Xeni, please expand on this, because I must be missing something. This is a...
• Commented on Stimulus Details
  TAKUAN said: no really now folks, NOW IS THE TIME! Stop grovelling on your knees before what is supposed to be YOUR government and flat out TELL them : You are going to legalize pot. I can't begint to tell...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  AB5TRACT said: Umm, in case you didn't realize this, the companies that held this meeting are not in fact violating any laws. I never said anything else - all the way back to post #3 on this topic: There is...
• Commented on Stimulus Details
  To expand on my earlier post (currently #28), I'm reminded of the Clinotn-era "100,00 new cops on the beat" gift to city and state governments... Trivia question: Anyone remember why many cities and states didn't take the "free" money from...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  BROOKLYNTWANG said: Unions are what happens when employees get together to ask for it with one voice, because they are more powerful that way. When I was in school, we called it ganging-up on someone, but that was a long...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  MDH said: I called you a libertarian, lower case, because I feel you are. I don't intend it to be a dirty word, just trying to hang a label on your viewpoint. Capital L would denote the political party, and...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  MDH said: Every employee IS a stakeholder. I'd counter every employee is a MINOR stakeholder, owners are MAJOR stakeholders....
• Commented on Stimulus Details
  Very simply, the concern I have with this economic "Wish List" we're on the verge of implementing is that many of the items listed (not all, but more than a few) address what I would term "on-going needs", not one-time...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  MDH said: Yeah, because your employees have NOTHING to do with your success - they take no risks whatsoever in working for a start-up unestablished company I never diminshed the contributions of the employees, I simply asserted the owners of...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  BRAINSPORE - no, we're talking abou the "fresh meat" unions will gobble up when EFCA becomes law, not the large, public firms you mention that got bailout money....
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  BROOKLYNTWANG, I said (in an imagined exchange): "You've got a nice little company here, thank you for taking all the risk and starting it and making it successful, but my friends and I just decided to bring our union into...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  BKLYNCHRIS - I never claimed to have been wronged by unions, I was presenting information about "card check" elections and this piece of legislation. Do I have to have been wronged to participate with this discussion? If I read your...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  DRAGONFLY said: Can you, or anyone, explain to me how a secret ballot process didn't allow that freedom? To continue DRAGONFLY's thought: How exactly does the removal of secret ballot create new freedoms? The removal of privacy in the vote...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  RIDAN said: I find the entire idea horrifying and can't believe that we are actually contemplating this. With the House and Senate majotities on his side, and his promise to sign the bill when it gets to his desk, this...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  Asa question I wonder if unions are more effective today because of what that actually do for their members, or if they scare non-union shops into being overly generous to employees to keep the union out? Unions had their place...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  On Secret Ballot rights, again, from folks that don't historically get large donations from labor unions: The Republican substitute amendment, the Secret Ballot Protection Act, was introduced last week (Feb. 2007) by the late Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), a longtime...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  As for coercion, I submit the following (but remember, it is from politicians that don't historically get large campaign donations from Unions): “I began my career with UNITE with a strong belief in worker’s rights and democracy in the workplace,”...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  I haven't found the answer to this question yet, so I put it out to the collective wisdom of the readers here, and I ask this most sincerely: How large does a company have to be before this applies to...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  THEEGOR: If only it were true, but I suspect the White House staffers already drank the kool-aid and would never rise up in solidarity against inhumane working conditions and pitiful wages......
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  From the WIKILEAKS intro: The call shows the firms to be involved in lobbying, effectively with public money. This is what is troubling to me - apparently, if a company takes any bailout $, the general public/federal government gets to...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  ENOCH ROOT said: We bail out CITI and they buy a corporate jet because no one put restrictions on the money. Actually, they ordered the jet three years earlier and ultimately decided not to take delivery. From the New York...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  GRIMC - in reverse order: From WSJ Op-Ed by George McGovern, on loss of private vote: under EFCA, workers could lose the freedom to express their will in private, the right to make a decision without anyone peering over their...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  The NRA (that's National Restaurant Assoc. ;^) is against the Employee Free Choice Act for three basic reasons: 1. A card-check process increases the risk of coercion. 2. Private ballots are a basic American right. 3. An employee’s decision to...
• Commented on Audio: "US heads of industry strategize to keep unions down under Obama"
  The Employee Free Choice Act amends current union law by providing a Card Check procedure to allow the Union to (literally) muscle their way into a company by convincing a minority of the employees (30%) to sign cards asking to...
• Commented on Disagree with a flight attendant? You're a terrorist
  ROBULUS said: Admiralty Law sounds f***ing great! Can I apply it in my car? My dad did, and I quote "If you kids don't stop that I'll turn this car around!" as well as "I'm driving, I pick the radio...
• Commented on Disagree with a flight attendant? You're a terrorist
  NETSHARC said: You don't suppose they have solitary containment on them planes do you? Yes, they usually have between 2 and 6 on most planes, they call them Lavatories, but you can call it home for the duration of the...
• Commented on Disagree with a flight attendant? You're a terrorist
  HEYDEMANN3 said: I bet if we offered them [flight attendants] duct tape by the time the plane landed most of the passengers would have silvery orbs for heads. Oh how the rude would cringe when they hear the RRRRRIIIIIPPPPP!!!!! of...
• Commented on Disagree with a flight attendant? You're a terrorist
  Arkizzle - I believe I left the door open that the AU family might have violatedsome policy, requirement, what-have-you while others assumed they didn't, that was taken by some as defense of the C & BP agent's action, it was...
• Commented on Disagree with a flight attendant? You're a terrorist
  This is what happens when you give under-trained (under-educated seems a bit presumptuous) workers at the bottom of the corporate food-chain an incredible amount of power (to add passengers to the terror watch list on little more than the say-so...