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Obama’s Big Martini: Destroy America’s National Security

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Most Americans, get up, brush their teeth, go to work, come home, feed the family, get the kids to the game— then help the kids with their homework, (if they have kids) walk the dog, watch TV and go to bed. If they have time, they might watch the news, but what most of us hear on the news is very shallow. Yesterday we heard Obama compare the Republicans to rich fat cats who invite you to dinner, drink their martinis’, walk out, then leave you with the check…

People looking up from their mashed potatoes might say,  “Well heck YEAH! It’s not Obama’s fault!”

The statement is more than absurd, because, if there is one man on the planet Earth who is spending taxpayers money and dining on steak, lobster, and thousand dollar dinners, while spending millions a day just for his own upkeep with all his traveling expenses, it’s Obama. Comparing ‘President’ Obama’s extravagances to Mitt’s Romney’s expenses, is like comparing a Saudi King to an well off Irish potato farmer.

Mitt spends his own money….Obama spends ours. Who’s the rich fat cat here?

And yet, he pulls it off because this kind of “rich VS poor” is the progressive/communistic norm, and has been for quite some time. History is just not taught in school anymore.  

Obama is a progressive/Marxist, so he talks like one.

What the average citizen NEVER thinks about is just how well organized the “progressives/leftists/socialists” are and how long they have been around, and how globally connected they are, and as Vladimir Lenin once said, “The goal of socialism is communism.”

The communists planned many martini’s ago to take over the United States one baby step at a time, and one of those baby steps is to destroy the National Security of the United States.  Last week, Obama took a rather big stomping foot step in that direction.

Here’s what the average citizen does not know: Vast organizations have worked throughout the years, diliengently setting up leftist organization to undermine the National Security of the United States.

The radicals socialist in the Democratic Party think that American’s military is like an evil hell hound.

From Robert Chandler’s “Shadow World”–  

“From the beginning, the Institute of Policy Studies (Their mother Ship) had held a devil theory of the United States saying it was necessary to tear down the “national  security state” and replace it with a “just security state.”

To them, a “just security state” is where the United States rids itself of all superiority in weapons.

Here is a list of organizations that, according to Mr. Chandler, have connections with the left;

The Democratic Socialist of America (DSA) —The Congressional Progressive Caucus is supported by them— 70 members.

The Center for National Security Studies (CNSS) They attacked the FBI and CIA so successfully, they created the “wall” between the two, that lead to the 1993 World Trade Center attack.

The Center for Defense Information (CDI) Their mission to turn the public against the armed forces.

The World Security Institute (WRI) : They pump out propaganda designed to weaken support for national security programs.

The Center for International Policy (CIP)

The National Security Archives, Digs up national secrets, and sends them to Russia to be used as propaganda against us.

The War Resisters League Connects Marxists, progressives, socialists, churches, unions and others. They were the first to blame the U.S . for the attacks on 9/11.

The American friends Service Committee (AFSC) Here’s a surprise: Socialist Quakers.

Women’s’ International league for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) And that freedom includes in their own words:

“It is necessary to change the capitalist system. It is also necessary to change the patriarchal system in order to eliminate the imbalance between men and women–”  

(Hillary and Obama are strong on this “women’s” war.)

The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) Love…love…love—They preach a world with no war, no racism, no militarism, no injustice…they hang out with all of the above.  

Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) Works with the Communist Party, USA. John Kerry and Jane Fonda are their big hero’s.

Center for Constitution Rights (CCR) Don’t let the name fool you. The leaders LOVE Castro.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU )Founded by a communist

The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL)

National Lawyers Guild “Putting human rights before property rights” All these lawyers help Muslim terrorists. And Nobody finds it chilling when Leon Panetta, a New York Lawyer who worked for the Clintons is now our  Defense Secretary…a lawyer. Right. Comforting.

W. Anthony Lake, a man who had been railing about abolishing the CIA for years, served as National Security advisor to President Clinton. He was also an advisor for Obama. 

So, you have millions of people being indoctrinated that America should disarm. That’s been their goal for quite some time, and now too many national security leaks have come out, you have to wonder…isn’t this a win/win situation for Obama?

The damage that Obama has done recently to our National Security is by most accounts—egregious. Everyone is talking about the Times article, which makes Obama look tough, in order to get more votes.

Michael Reagan thinks it was Joe Biden that leaked this to the Times. He write this;

Everyone in the Washington-New York Axis of Evil knows that’s why there has been a string of White House national security leaks. Each of the leaks has been a transparent attempt to pump up President Obama as a tough warrior who deserves re-election because he’s been intimately involved in the killing of Osama bin Laden, the cyber-sabotage of Iran’s nuclear program, and choosing which specific terrorist gets blasted to heaven by a U.S. drone. Everyone also knows the leaks have damaged our ability to operate our future military and counter terror operations, and they put our intelligence agents and commandos at risk.


Nobody Thinks Obama told Biden to leak this stuff. After all…where was Obama when all this stuff came out in Times Magazine? Sipping a Martini? Obama plans to get up from the table, and stick us all with a bill so high, untold generations will become paupers. Not to mention, he will leave us defenseless against future attacks, which to a progressive like Obama is a “just securtiy.”  

I have a good friend who says that one day, we will wake up and turn on our TV’s and there will be a man who will say—-

“Welcome America…This is the new America—From now on this is what will happen.”

1984. How could Orwell predict the future so well? Because, Orwell was a socialist. That’s how long they have been working on their stealth progressive plans.  And while some poor doctor is doing 33 years in jail for helping Obama catch bin Laden, Obama is somewhere tonight…dining on the finest food money can buy.

Get Chandler’s book—you’ll learn a lot more from it, than watching the news.

(Robert Chandler is a strategist who has worked for the United States, Air Force, the White House, the Departments of State, Defense, Energy, and Justice and the CIA. He is a retired Colonel and Vietnam veteran, and holds a PhD in political science.)

June 14, 2012 Posted by | Barack Obama, communism, Congress, Uncategorized | , , , , , | 2 Comments

Nobody’s Fool: David Horowitz

Nobody’s Fool: David Horowitz

Whenever I hear one of my friends say they “voted” for Obama, I can’t for the life of me figure out that they didn’t see that he was….trouble. Once in power, he has revealed, from his own lips, his Marxists tendencies. He hides his ties with leftist/Marxist buddies, but he still has them all over his administration. So I realized the reason my friends voted for Obama is because they have never really learned the real difference between a democracy, a Republic, communism, socialism, Marxism or fascism.

Oh sure, they’ve heard the words…but I’m sure none of them ever believed in a million years any of that could happen in America. They believe everything they pretty much hear on TV.

That ignorance has been by design.

In our American school systems, conversations comparing different political systems is as rare as an elephant on the moon riding a bike. But…David Horowitz, a former communist, is Nobody’s Fool. He has been fighting this war on progressives at the university level. And he is a fierce fighter, because if anybody knows a communist, it’s David, and he is out to inform everyone who will listen.
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His parents were communists, whose self-stated goal is combating “leftist indoctrination” in academia. Phil and Blanche Horowitz were long-standing members of the American Communist Party and avid supporters of Joseph Stalin. For nearly a decade, Horowitz’s rejection of Marx remained a private matter. In the spring of 1985, however, Horowitz and longtime collaborator Peter Collier wrote an article for the Washington Post entitled, Goodbye to All That. The article explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for President Ronald Reagan (Wikipedia)

Yes, David saw the light! Hallelujah!

Nobody Thinks it’s important to realize (and also scary) that the communists here (who had plans of infiltrating and taking over America’s institutions) had to not call attention to themselves, so they made the word “progressive” an accepted American euphemism for socialism and Marxism. They had to get in ‘power’ and well, telling everyone in America what you REALLY believe in would not get them there. (Read Shadow World by Robert Chandler) And progressives are all about ‘social justice” aren’t they now? Pelosi, Hillary, Obama, Holder….and half our Congress.

Nobody explains why ‘social justice’ is not what we want better than David:

Far from being progressive, the left’s demands for ‘social justice’, if realized, would destroy the very basis of social wealth…In the modern world, competition is not the contrary of cooperation, but the form that cooperation must take in order to coordinate the activities of millions of people unknown to each other, pursuing goals that are not common and cannot be shared. The profit margin is the engine of wealth not only for the rich but for the poor was well. In the real world, the attempt to plan economic systems produces inefficiency and waste: the attempt to redistribute wealth diminishes well being and individual liberty: the attempt to unify society crushes its freedom: the ambition to make people equal establishes new forms of tyranny and submerges human individuality in totalitarian designs.

Yes, the progressives are really Marxists in disguise. Hard to believe, I know, because Hillary Clinton says she is a proud progressive…and we also have a bucket load of them in Congress, which Allen West pointed out.

To which Bill Clinton came out right away to nip that in the bud. How DARE he even suggest it! The last thing the progressives want the Americans to know in an election year, is that they believe in the Marxists redistribution/communist party that founded them. So..watch Bill as he protests too much…And you will realize, why many of my friends will vote for Obama…again…(sigh) Nobody Thinks, we need more Davids.

 

NO…these are NOT the droids you are looking for…

June 7, 2012 Posted by | communism, progressives, Uncategorized | , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Tea Party BUGS Van Jones, Let’s Keep It Up!

Nobody Reports

WHAT?

The tea party patriots are smashing down every institution that our grandfathers built? What is this man smoking?

Uh…the only people who have been dismantling the great American institutions are the liberal democrats..and their friends, the very proud avowed communists, as this man is. What’s even more amazing that the there are people out there who think our schools are great, and that the tea party wants to tear down American institutions.

The tea party want the unions to stop DESTROYING our children’s minds. To a democrat it’s okay if your kid stays dumb…as long as the teachers get their big checks and benefits. How DARE you want to destroy their livelihood.

As for unions…

Jefferson didn’t belong to no union.

Washington didn’t belong to no union.

I’m pretty sure Abraham Lincoln didn’t belong to no union.

The only thing American about unions is the teamsters, who worked hand in hand with the Mafia and the democratic party.

Van Jones is a communist. It’s time everyone start calling him what he is: delusional.

 

 

May 29, 2012 Posted by | Angry Citizens, tea party, teachers, Uncategorized, Union | , , , , | Leave a comment

The Savage of Unions

Nobody’s Opinion

It was past midnight when I ran into one of my neighbors who was out walking her little dog, Elvis. She was moving she said, and we got to talking about how the whole North County of St. Louis had deteriorated, and it was good that she was getting out. We both admitted the “downfall” had started decades ago…around the 70’s. I remember many white families moving away from the “black” exodus North, as it was called back then, and stopped to wonder…just how slowly the changes had taken place.

Now, I’m about as prejudice as the next man. I don’t like mean people. I don’t like dishonest people. But short of that, if you are decent, and caring, take care of your family and your house, I really don’t care what color you skin is. I always judged the person first, and have since I was a kid.

But, I’ve watched my neighborhood go from being 80 percent white to 75 percent black throughout my lifetime, and while many white people that I know have left, I have no intention of moving away. …unless the crime gets too bad and I must.  I like most all my black neighbors, but the few who I don’t like, I wouldn’t get along with even if they were white. I get along with less of my white neighbors than my black ones. Like I said, skin color doesn’t man a thing.

I mention this because I’m setting this up:

We started talking about current events and then she was talking about how she was glad to be moving away from the “blacks.” By today’s standards, she was a ‘raciest.’ BUT…not racist enough–she  supported  Obama. “I voted for him” she said proudly.

(Nobody Wonders: Does Obama want the “racist” white people to vote for him?)

“Uh…you must be union.” I said.

“Yes, I am. You know I would never vote for Romney, he wants to take the Social Security from old people! You know, many people need Social Security and Medicare!”

Even if I gave her a lesson in simple economics, I knew she wouldn’t listen.

The fact that Obama was one of her hated “black” people didn’t even come up. As long as she got her big paycheck, which she attributed to Obama, she was voting for him.

As I listened to this rant by Michal Savage today,(see below) who puts what many of us feel into words…and I remember how hopeless I felt after I realized just how many people are like my neighbor. They are listening to all the “sound bites” and not even questioning Obama.  And then I realized that every union man, and most likely everyone that works for the unionized government will vote for him. That’s half the country. The ones making the money now, think that they will lose it if they DON’T vote democrat.

It’s a lie, but you can’t tell them that. After all, most of them just got a raise.

The nation of “have” and “have-nots” will not only be the “rich” but the “union” members vs. the rest of us. The numbers for the “rest of us” is getting slim.

The unions ruined America. They’ made almost twice in salaries (adding their benefits) as what the private sector makes.  Like the rioters in Greece, they have been making so much money for so long, they don’t see the cliff coming down the road. And why should they?

Human nature is all about survival.

In a way, I envy my neighbor. I know in ten years from now I will be in the minority in my own neighborhood. And it won’t be the blacks, or the Asians, that I will want to get away from..It will be the Muslims.

They have come to take over. I will be a stranger in my own land.

Not that our politicians seem to care. They have already left this land. Bill Clinton was on TV today, and all he could talk about was how he was saving the world. Obama will be doing the same thing years from now.

Not too long from now, the money will run out. Our debt beats all other nations on earth. Greece is filled with people who can’t find food or work because their govenments promised them all too much money. Once they were happy campers, getting paid well, taking long vacations. Now, some are killing themselves in the public square, life is just too hopeless.

So, will we become Greece one day? Is that why Obama is having military exercises in the cities? Is that why drones will be appearing over our nation? They know what’s coming?

I know what Michael Savage would say…how about you? What do you think?

 

May 20, 2012 Posted by | Barack Obama, Uncategorized, Union | , , , , , | 2 Comments

Do American Women REALLY Suffer? Try Asking the American Man

Nobody Wins—

When the Republicans are always on defense.  (I had a busy day…sorry I’m late.)

Ahhh…here we go again: Remember when Obama threatened that if we didn’t pass his stimulus plans or raise the debt limits, or pass his health care plans, then: (1)  No one would get any of their social security checks,(2) veterans would not get paid (3) women would die in the streets without birth control (4) Republicans would poison our water and air, and (6) American Idol would be canceled.

Okay, so he didn’t threaten to cancel American Idol. After all, they put pictures of him up there all the time….but he might have to shut down the internet if we keep complaining. The point is every time this man wants something, he threatens doomsday scenarios. The “war on women” that the Democrats launched, is a joke. Women aren’t dying, and they have it better now than they have ever had it. More women are graduating college, more women have more rights. Where in the world is Obama coming from?

He just makes this stuff up.

Today it was the single women he was trying to scare by sending out his attack dog Hilary. (Oh no, not another one.) He needs the black’s vote and the single women votes, and anyone else who is getting food stamps.  The rest of us are already sick of him.

He’s continuing his rich VS poor communist strategy  hoping to point out that Mitt Romney’s wife is a rich woman, who unlike all the rest of you poor single women who HAVE to work, is married to a rich man, and even though she has five sons (and had breast cancer and MS) somehow her life is really easy, unlike his wife Michelle who is having such a tough time taking vacations all over the world.

Obama wants you to be angry about her life being so easy. Presidents never say these things themselves, (Republican Presidents do the same thing.) so Obama brought out his advisor…Hilary Rosen…to inform everyone that Mitt’s wife is spoiled.

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They want you to think Obama was not involved in this.  (Giveaway…It was the first thing Jay Carney said today:  “I don’t know what he thinks about this.” at the morning press conference.

Oh sure. Right.

Ahem: Like many “women” who are at home, for some odd reason, a reason that most feminists who either don’t have kids, or have nanny’s who watch their kids, can’t seem to fathom–and like Mitt’s wife— I had things to do today. I did not have a glorious government job to go to…no, I had other things to do that I didn’t get paid for.  Therefore I didn’t have the time either to “tweet” or “blog” a response to Hilary Rosen’s “tweet” attacks on Mitt’s Romney’s wife. The “She never worked in her life” subject was headline news on every radio station, every television station, and probably somewhere in another galaxy.

While the more important news of North Korea launching missiles at us!! Was…uh…not so important.

This was just another creative  democratic well-planned attack war to get us all talking about what Obama wants us to be talking about–women. And to a Democrat, all women should work and give their kids totally over to the government to raise. God forbid they stay at home and make cookies.

Michelle came out right away and tweeted an all women deserve respect,” and then we saw clips of Obama saying, “We didn’t have the luxury for Michelle to not work.” –showing you the well-coordinated machine in work. They make their point: hit hard below the belt than come out and say “Oh..that’s not what we meant…oh no.” And to prove it they send in the “good” cop.

Today it was Axelrod.

“I could not disagree with Hilary Rosen any more strongly, her comments were wrong and family should be off-limits. She should apologize.” Jim Messina, Obama Campaign Manager “Also disappointed in Hilary Rosen’s comments about Ann Romney. They were inappropriate and offensive.” David Axelrod, Obama campaign advisor “families must be off-limits on campaigns.”

Obama repeated that message: “Family should be off limitsafter he makes the attack on Mitt’s wife.

Brilliant, you must admit.

Following the interview, Rosen herself tweeted, “I’ve nothing against @AnnRomney. I just don’t want Mitt using her as an expert on women struggling $ to support their family. She isn’t.”

Nasty. And tell me, what makes her such an expert? She’s rich and not struggling either, how does she know?

Now…while the conservatives think they won this argument today, they should think again. The Obama’s personally came out ”sympathetic” and then, like the idiots we have witnessed for too many years, FOX news put on Barbara Bush to defend her.

BIG Mistake.  Anyone would have been better than Barbara Bush.

Once again…Barbara came off as the “rich” person who instead of making sound remarks about the issue, was defending the “rich” habit of giving money away…and how much money she has given away, and how her husband always made a good living…and also Mitt’s wife has given away..yada yada,  yada..playing right into Obama’s hand the main points that, they ARE very rich snotty Republicans.  We’re very glad you’re nice, and sweet, and give to charities even though you’re rich Barbara, but that’s not the issue.

What she should have said was that since Obama has wreaked the economy so badly, teachers are being laid off. (A point Jay Carney kept bringing up). Teachers are being laid off because of the democratic unions. Mothers are suffering because they can’t pay the high inflationary cost of food and gas because of Obama tripling our deficits, and not producing a budget, and handing out money like a criminal who just stole an American Express card with no limit.

Is what he is doing criminal? You bet.  

You know, the more the Bush’s appear in public, the worse it’s going to be for Mitt. It’s bad enough that he is carrying the “Bush’s” mantle. Obama was voted in because of the unhappiness with the BUSH  dynasty…don’t they get that? Too many Americans, it’s not much different from the Russian people not wanting Putin back in office. The Bush Family, we found out, are the Rockefeller branch of the party that most of the conservative Americans don’t want to see again, and every time they pull out the Bush’s when Mitt’s in trouble, it’s going to hurt him.
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Now, I know that it’s only human nature to want your children’s children to continue in the “public service” occupation of ruling the nation…but it’s NOT American. And like the Russian people, we are tired of dynasties. Even the nicer ones. Go home you guys. Let him win his own race.

In the meantime, the Democrats ran a black President (that you can’t criticize because of the color of his skin, and who just sent out a “gay” Democratic attack dog, who you can’t criticize because Hilary has a lover named Elizabeth, and two twins.

The democratic party is the party of threats…and if that doesn’t work, they use the children card, the race card, the gay card…the “pity the black, women, gay, underdog” ….whatever it takes to keep their power. They are now a Marxist/Socialist party trying to run as Jesus’s Christ’s party.

So, you want to know if the women really have it that bad in America like Obama is saying?

Just ask the American man…he’ll tell you the real truth.

April 12, 2012 Posted by | Barack Obama, Uncategorized, Women's Rights | , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Two American Ladies: Fought the Unions

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Sometimes we don’t appreciate our parents when they’re alive as much as we should. Ten years after my mother had passed away, I remember reading Katherine Graham’s autobiography. Katherine was just like my mother, although on a National scale. My mother was a Republican and Katherine was a Democrat, but the one thing they had in common was they both inherited companies from their fathers. Katherine inherited The Washington Post from her father, Eugene Meyers (who was a Federal Reserve Governor) and my mother inherited her father’s printing company, Hart Printing, which was certainly no Washington Post, but it did do major advertizing for big companies like Anheuser Busch, and Brown Shoe.

I won’t go into the details of how remarkably alike they were but to say that, in one chapter in her book, Katherine talked about the most difficult time she ever had: How proud she was that she managed to keep the Post in business when the printers went on strike, in 1975. Katherine explained in great detail how the few people left in the building, herself included, and various managers and secretaries, had to try to get out the Post paper all by themselves: run the pressed, manage the paper’s delivery, etc…and how they work like dogs until the strike was over. There was a happy ending in this, because The Washington Post, is still in business, due no doubt in part, because of its political connections.

The 1975 strike did not break The Post.

My mother’s company did not fare so well when her printer union workers went on strike around the same time. My mother and father both had to work 18 hour days to keep the place running and open. The worry and heartache took a toll on her as I remember, and it was hard for a daughter to watch. The only thing my mother couldn’t do was lift the paper and feed the presses…but she did everything else. She did the estimating, accounting, receptionists, ink, layouts, all the photo department, and bindery. Like Katherine, she did it with her intellingence and will power.  My father ran the presses with some help from some friends.

The whole city of St. Louis was never the same after that printer’s strike of 1975. Most of the printing business left St. Louis because of the strike, and went overseas and to other cities. The one sole Republican newspaper here in town, The Globe, folded, eventually leaving The Post Dispatch the only press standing. The Post Dispatch is very liberal and now begs for customers in grocery aisles.
My mom kept the jobs for her union employees for as long as she could, but not one of those men realized how lucky they were to even have a job to come back to. They had no idea how much money she sacrifice in her own salary…to keep the plant going. They should have thanked her…but not one of them did.
They all retired and lived great lives…and all traveled the world.

While they all had guaranteed early pensions and healthcare, my mother lived off of her SS checks and Medicare for the rest of her life. She couldn’t afford to give herself a pension because all her money went back into the company…to keep it going. After the strike getting work was a daily struggle.

I was thinking about Katherine and my mother the other day when I read these two passages in Mark’s Steyn’s new book After America:

“Obama, faced with a US automobile industry that so overcompensates it workers it can’t make a car for a price anybody’s willing to pay for it, the president handed over control to the very unions whose demands are principally responsible for that irreconcilable arithmetic. Mrs. Thatcher took on the unions and destroyed their power. In Detroit entire blocks are deserted, and the city is proposing to turn commercial land back into pasture. This is America and no bombs fell. And the physical decay is a nothing to the deterioration of human capital.. 44 percent of adults in the city have a reading comprehension below grade six level. Nearly half could not graduate from elementary school.”

“At number 27 is a lady who retired from teaching in the local school at the age of 59 and lives on an annual pension of $78,255 exempt from state and local tax with gold plated health benefits and everything inflation proofed. At number 29 is a guy exactly the same age who owns a hardware store, can’t afford to retire, has health issues and crummy provision of amelioration thereof, yet will be working till he dies, while his neighbor enjoys a lavish two decade retirement that he paid for in his taxes. This is a recipe of civil war and no gay hedonist or fire breathing mullahs need be involved.”

Unions have ruin this country….and most of Europe. All unions. Look what the teachers unions have done to our educational system. And ironically, all the major American companies because of the unions and their outlandish benefits, have taken their manufacturing to China, where there are no unions, and people work with hardly any protections. Add to that, the state pensions which are breaking the state budgets and it’s a no brainer…something has to give. People that have never had their own business give no thought to the work and money that is involved in keeping a business going. We have become a spoiled and ingorant nation in so many ways.

Back when Henry Ford decided to pay his men a nice salary so they could afford to buy his cars…it was a great idea, and money was plenty. But then the union bosses got greedy. The hourly wage of a union man went way over market value price…and the price of everything else went up.

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If the dollar collapses (as many predict) or if Mitt Romney is elected and he somehow manages to do what he says he want to do: cut all federal pensions and pay scales down to the private sector level, there will a lot of mad people.

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If Obama gets reelected and the pay for government workers keeps going up, there will also be a breaking point among the people who just can’t afford to pay for someone’s else’s wonderful retirement anymore–and those people will start getting pretty angry. So, what side do you think will win?
Nobody Knows…but I’m sure Mark will not reprimand my saying: it’s really FUBAR. Unions: if you belong to one, you love them. If you don’t…you hate them.

Nobody Thinks they should all be busted…starting at the top. What have we got to lose?

And on another note: Both these women ran those companeis for years…they were…the top bosses, and this was way before Gloria Steinem put on her little bunny tail.

March 26, 2012 Posted by | Uncategorized, Union | , , | 3 Comments

Education: There’s a Better Way….Find it.

Nobody’s Opinion

Not many candidates are talking about our very poor educational system. They all give lip service to it, but the fact is, it’s an overgrown behemoth bureaucracy  of cancerous stagnation, that decade by decade, does nothing but leave too many forever in “service” jobs.

If you watched this video you cannot but conclude that: maybe that’s the plan.  

As the film suggest: the problems of our education or lack of thereof, has not been a big concern of our government. It’s NEVER been on the top of any party’s agenda: the subject is dropped once the President gets in office. The reason: unions and the money they supply.

George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” was noble in thought, it’s just that the schools had already left everyone behind so badly, nobody could catch up. 

Higher education may be no better off. Both the so-called best online colleges and the so-called best traditional colleges are still not serving students well. Thirty percent of college and university students drop out after their first year. Half of all students never graduate.

Still, despite the odds, there are some who do not let our poor educational system get in their way.

There was a small piece tonight on Sixty Minutes about an autistic boy savant named Jake, who was going to graduate from college at age 14. He excels in higher mathematics.  He had an unbelievable memory, which helped, but it was his passion and his love of numbers that is driving him to be probably the next Einstein.

Not all of us are born with “supercharged” memories in our brains. As Thomas Edison once said, “We have to learn how to think.”

Sadly, we are in serious short supply in that area: thinking.
One of my favorite books in my library is The Diary and Observations of Thomas Edison, and in that book is a whole chapter on Education: Here are a few quotes from Edison from that chapter:

“I am frequently asked about our system of education. I say that we have none. Our system is a relic of past ages. It consists of parrot-like repetitions. It is a dull study of twenty-six hieroglyphs.”

“Groups of hieroglyphs. That is what the young of this present day study. Here is an object. I place it in the hands of a child. I tell him to look at it. If we begin before we have hardened and dried his mind he studies the object with kindling enthusiasm. The mind of the child is naturally active. Why should we make him take his impressions of things through the ear when he may be able to see?”

 (Later he claims that’s why he invented motion pictures…to teach.)

“The folds of the brain grow deeper through observation; they grow fallow from disuse. If we educate too abruptly–if we cram the mind with facts memorized for themselves alone, what comes? Pure atrophy.”

“The trouble with our educating as generally followed is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mould. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and lays more stress on memory than observation.”

He goes on to say what happens to our kids from not being challenged but rather…bored to death:

Bad teaching promotes: “A flagging interest, which leads quickly to the habit of listening without hearing, of looking without regard to the existence or non-existence of interest. At present, most young leave their schools only partially educated, and rapidly forget a large part of that which they have been taught. They fail to learn because the methods of teaching are wrong. They forget because the methods of instruction have made them actually dislike knowledge. “

Now, remember, this was back in Edison’s day.

He goes on:

“Universities fail: Careful thought convinces me that this is because the men who run them never have been out in the great world of struggle. Professors usually are men untried in any sort of competition comparable with that which their students eventually must face. Speaking generally, such men cannot impart the right ideas to the boys, for they themselves are ignorant.”

Nobody Thinks this is one of the very reason we have failed in America: Too many of our teachers know nothing about the everyday world, or even how to use the subject they are teaching in the real world.

Not many algebra teachers can tell you HOW to use algebra, or why—or even who uses it and when. I know, I’ve asked almost every algebra teacher I ever knew, and they had no clue.

Too many of our leaders come from some of these many ignorant teachers, most of them from Harvard, who Henry Adams trashed with delightful abandon in “The Education of Henry Adams.” (You can imagine how I loved that.)

For instance: Daddy Bush, a Harvard alumni, while President, had never been in a grocery store. He was shocked, when he visited one, at the price of bread, and how the items were scanned by the cashier.

 It’s hard to believe, how removed from ordinary life some of these people are.

Can you imagine what Edison would think of the schools system we have now? Where kids are not only not being taught how to think, they are being stuffed with meaningless crap like: recycling, diversity, global warming, sex, gender issues, and the trashing of our own history?

All you have to do is watch Jay Leno’s boardwalk to see all the college graduates who don’t even know how many moons the earth has.

“The main objection that I have against a college graduate is that he objects to work, especially if it is dirty. He does not want a job with much work to it, and when he does get a position, he expects to be appointed foreman at the end of the sixth week. Most of the men working for me have never gone to college. Those college graduate that I have usually show a lack of imagination. They scarcely have any suggestions to make in their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments. “

And so, we are ruled by those Harvard constitutional lawyers who “scarcely have any suggestions to make their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments.”

Nobody Thinks…that’s also the point: the daily routine of our leaders can’t get much better, and that’s why “we the people” need to think: Do I leave my child’s education to the public school system?

Or is there a better way?

“There is always a way to do it better..find it.”…Tom Edison.

January 15, 2012 Posted by | education, Uncategorized | , , , , , | 2 Comments

Hiroshima, Detroit, and Wisconsin?

Nobody Cares

After the Union vote yesterday in Wisconsin, where the people spoke and said that they wanted their union bargaining rights to stay intact, we only have to think of what the Unions did to Detroit, and why Chief Executive Alan Mulally of Ford Motor Company announced last July that he was going to go into Asia and boost worldwide sales by 50 percent by 2015. He is building Chinese factories as fast as he can.

THAT’s the America spirit!

So, why did Japan take over our auto market to become the number one in the world?

Let’s look: Here is Hiroshima, 66 years ago. (email)

What is the story here? What happened to the radiation that lasts thousands of years?

Hiroshima: 1945

We all know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in August 1945 after the explosion of atomic bombs. However, we know little about the progress made by the people of that land during the past 65 years.

Hiroshima-65 years later–

What has caused more long term destruction-the A-Bomb, or the U.S. Government welfare programs created to buy the votes of those who want someone to take care of them?

Japan does not have a welfare system. Toyota does not need unions.

Work or do without. (Nobody would like to add, the US has paid for the defense of Japan, money they could also save and use to build themselves up.)

(Thanks to Pattie)

Hiroshima...now

 

Detroit,now

 

 

 

 

 

November 9, 2011 Posted by | Union | , | 2 Comments

Email: Scott Walker, Hero of the Working Massas

Nobody Get Email

Life can be simple if you follow the signs. Today as I was minding my own business, laying around reading such nebulous facts like…In the year1996 the  spokesman for the CIA was Chase Brandon, who happened to be a cousin of Tommy Lee Jones, who happened to be Al Gore’s old college roommate. Chase’s job was to give access to previously restricted areas to the media and Hollywood. And then I thought..mmmm, Ron Perry used to be Al Gore’s campaign manager, a fact we should make him talk about. It’s such a small world in the elite power structure called Washington/Hollywood, don’t you think?

Like I said, I was minding my own business when I got a call from Minnesota from a conservative black man who wanted $100 dollars to help Scott Walker.  He wanted money, not for Scott  Walker, but to keep the unions from starting up recall elections throughout the country.

When I didn’t give, he lowered it to $50, then $30. Well, I’m following the Steve Jobs rule of “no charity but my own” at the moment and  so I come to the “follow the signs” moment of clarity.

Today, being the lazy day that I don’t write but POST emails…I knew exactly what email to post…I had gotten my sign. (Thanks to Tom Beebe)

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Why in the world is this not being reported and talked about by our politicians.

Nobody Says–(Why indeed? Why isn’t China being talked about? Why isn’t Marxism being talked about? Why isn’t Michelle trying to force us all into a rehashed version of Hitler’s state vegetarian diet being talked about?)

Governor Walker deserves many accolades for his actions and grief in dismantling the WEA. Please pass this on…..

The Democrats and the Liberals are keeping really quiet about this. Remember the violent and disgusting demonstrations over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing away with collective bargaining for Teachers unions? The results are in. Some school districts went from a $400,000 deficit to a $1,500,000 surplus as a result. They are even hiring new teachers, not firing like the Liberals said would happen. Why?

It seems that the insurance company that provided all the “so-called” benefits to the teachers was an insurance company owned and operated by the teacher’s union. Since that outfit was guaranteed to get the insurance business from the teachers, and the state had to pay for it (not the teachers) the insurance company was increasing annual costs every single year to become the most expensive company in the state. Then the company was donating millions and millions of dollars to its favorite democrat politicians who, when they got elected, guaranteed to keep funding the union’s outrageous costs. In other words, the insurance company. It was a “pass through” for Wisconsin taxpayer money to go directly to the democrat politicians.

Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in every single State that allows collective bargaining. No wonder the States are taking it away.

(Nobody thinks this was what my phone call was about.)

Now the State of Wisconsin is free to put the insurance contract out for bids and, lo and behold they have saved so much money it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result, none of the teachers had to be laid off, everyone got a raise, etc. etc,..and the taxpayers of Wisconsin don’t have to pay more taxes to fund the union’s political ambitions.

If you weren’t aware of the reasons Gov. Walker was fighting to take away collective bargaining, it gives you an idea of the problem the Republican Party has. Outside of one or two, none of them know how to speak up and explain properly what the problem was. We could sure use a Ronald Reagan now, someone who could explain things for people to understand, since we know that people don’t like to read anymore.

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Here’s what Tom Beebe wrote, the reader who sent me this email, back during the demonstrations:

Let us acknowledge the right for all workers to collective bargaining with the limitation that it is a right, but should not be a condition of employment. The results of collective bargaining are often to the detriment of the workers. The UAW got sweetheart deals, and the management looking the other way when workers got less and less productive. Result? Check out the nearest lot for Hondas, Nissans, and Toyotas, and check out Detroit’s dismal streets or available manufacturing space here in Fenton Missouri.

The public sector is much the same in that negotiators across the table from the unions are as corrupt from the unions are as corrupt, perhaps even more spineless than those of the Big Three who gave away the store to the UAW. So let us seek legislation that would require public sector contracts be put to the vote of the taxpayers, just as the UAW contracts and member behavior were put to the vote of the car buyer. Unions and management’s last best offers to on the ballot for a binding vote by the electorate. And should we feel the politicians charged with representing us have made too generous an offer to the unions, we need only to look down at the ballot to find the opportunity to throw them out.

 

October 22, 2011 Posted by | capitalism, teachers, Union | , , , | 2 Comments

Nobody’s Perfect: Hoffa VS Cockoo Man

Nobody’s Perfect

 This week’s contest for less than desirable traits among the earth’s vast network of DNA mud slugs, is between Jimmy Hoffa Jr. and the “I’m Cuckoo for Coco Puffs”  man.

Let’s start with Jimmy. Just as the coconut doesn’t fall very far from the coconut tree, Jimmy Hoffa Jr. is pretty much the carbon-nut copy of his prison-abiding papa. (May God not rest his soul wherever it is.)

Obama is also a close carbon f his Muslim communist father— so who is surprised that they are getting together?  When helping Obama get elected on Labor Day by speaking for him in Detroit, the lovable son of the AFL-CIO, Jimmy Hoffa,  Let’s beat their brains out,—  said he wanted to “Take those sons of bitches out!” Jimmy Jr. has declared war, evoking images from the movie Independence Day, comparing tea party people to slimy aliens.

The “tea party ” people, according to Jimmy, are the reason BIG companies are sending jobs overseas.  Right— if union members believe that it’s the tea party people that are sending their jobs overseas, then they also believe  that Richard Nixon pardoned Jimmy Hoffa Senior because he thought the man was innocent.

Speaking as a warm-up forIf they bring a knife to the fight, we’ll bring a gun.” President Obama,  Jimmy attacked the “tea party.” Yes, those people who elected in a landslide, more conservative representatives  in sixty years, and who went to Washington, and…

Didn’t do a thing to stop Obama.

Oh…those people are dangerous. Still, they are out there like maggots just waiting to rot out Jimmy’s plan for billion-dollar union trust funds in order to put more judges and politicians in their pockets, so the stakes are high. Building a global union is going to take money.

General Jimmy is not only busy with running UPS, (Our Post Office’s main competition.) his union warriors are fighting hard for another strike.

“I don’t want to see any more concession,” said Gary Farris, a Kentucky based Ford plant employee. “I’d like to get a raise we haven’t had a raise for a long time.” (duh)

So, this strike has nothing to do with the following news, as we all know, aliens have taken over the Ford company:

 US auto giant Ford has started construction on a $1 billion manufacturing and engineering complex in India as it bets on the country to help drive global growth, a company statement said on Tuesday

Now, let’s to the other warrior: Mr. Bayon Andre Wonace.

Cuckoo Man

“The man was marching like a drum major, holding the sword (samurai) moving it up and down in rhythm with his marching cadence.”

If you were on traveling Interstate 65 in Indiana on Sunday afternoon near U.S. Highway 30, you would have seen this brave warrior, marching no doubt to Detroit to join Jimmy.

I’m having trouble picking between the two, they are so much alike, its’ scary. Jimmy just has a better way with words.

Forget the tea party people: the real danger to America is having organized union thugs forever joined at the hip to Presidents.  President George Bush appointed Jimmy Jr. to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. And, despite what they tell you on the news, it’s going to get bigger and bigger with the help of our Presidents.

Frustrated with the AFL-CIO’s lack of emphasis on organizing, the Teamsters Union and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) split from teh AFL-CIO on July 25, 2005. The group of breakaway unions, which later included the Laborer’s United Farm Workers and United Food and Commercial Workers Union, formed their own group named the Change to Win Federation.

If I had to pick the lesser of the two evils, I’d pick the Cuckoo for Coco Puffs man. At least he’s aware that he’s nuts.

 

 

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September 6, 2011 Posted by | communism, Uncategorized, Union | , , , , , | 2 Comments

Consider the Source: Stephen King

Nobody’s Perfect: 

How can you not like this guy? He is an American Icon. He has lead us down the deep dark avenues of his deep well of pain, and gotten paid big bucks for it. One of my favorite movies of all time,  is Stephen King’s movie, The DreamCatcher. (What’s yours?) The guy is a genius..and thank god he gets up every day and puts on his rock and roll, and writes. 

 But, when he comes out and attacks the tea party candidates in Maine and Florida, (see video) the ONLY candidates that do NOT belong to the millionaire Plutocracy called our Congress, you have to wonder…what drug is he on now?  As my mother’s always said when someone says really off- the-wall comments: Consider the source.

So let’s consider the source of Stephen King.

Since he was so bold some time ago, to say that everybody who can’t read, joins the army…insinuating that the army is filled with ignorant people, ( he paid for that comment, and trys to make up for it here) I feel it’s time to point out some very common- sense things about Stephen King.

Consider his source.

His father deserted his mother, Stephen’ s older adopted brother, and himself, when he was two. He went out for a cigarette and never came back. Stephen found an old H.P. Lovecraft book that had belonged to his father in the attic and decided to become a writer. You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to go down that road. Being a genius, (and suffering from fatherless trauma)  he got hooked on comic books, reading, and discovered he had talent for writing so he became an English teacher.

Teachers, no matter how brilliant they are: live in a dream bubble. University life is completely removed from the rest of money-making society. (Not all are like that, but here in the States…the majority are.)  Add cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, heroin, LSD, opium (and that’s just a few) and mix that cocktail to the “I know everything”  because I’m a university professor, and you start to see a real connection between Charlie Sheen, and Mr. King. Obviously, Stephen suffers from deep depressions and writing has been his lifeline to salvation.

In his book, “On Writing,”  Stephen admits he reads mostly fiction, which explains his complete ignorance on politics. Whatever political news he reads, he probably reads what he craves: which is the liberal sites. And when it comes to politics, Stephen is about as boring as they come.  Stephen King…is a member of the elite, and it’s a club he feels he deserves. (And who are we to argue?)

 Besides, he is so busy writing six hours a day, (according to him)  he has little time for reading, which is why he got hit by a car walking and reading at the same time.

 Stephen is a democrat. These arguments he gives…supporting unions, and trashing the newly elected ‘tea party’ men, are almost funny coming from him, but in this, he is no original.

 He wants to be taxed more. They only take 28%. But…if you say…Hey write a check King, whose stopping you?— He then tells the crowd that he donates money..that the government doesn’t take. Well, that a good thing isn’t it?  If the government had it, his money would go to abort black babies, instead of building them libraries.

 Stephen has a brain lapse somewhere  between Carrie and the last valium he took.  

 He complains that his mother once went to a Republican government and asked for help. Instead of blaming his REAL father for his mother’s hard life,  he blames the state.

As for saying that military guys are “stupid,” let’s just say, those guys have seen REAL nightmares: dead bodies, buddies blowing up, scary things that Stephen King, would run and hide from and couldn’t even handle. They live  nightmares, and experience fear every day.

 Stephen King only imagines it.

 If you put Stephen King on the battlefield in Iraq or Afghanistan, he would be the first one off the field.  And his statement was so stupid, those military men could care less. They live in the real world…Stephen, does not.

 No matter how rich Stephen King becomes, he will never see the world besides the painful one that he has invented in his mind. And since he can’t seem to get over that intellectual hurdle called the ‘truth’ due to his bottomless pit of pain—

 Nobody feels sorry for him. (Go ahead and take that BOTH ways!)

 Next time you get that extra tax money, Stephen, I think you should donate about a million copies of your books to those poor ignorant boys in the Armed Forces, free of charge. Help them escape reality.

 You want them to learn how to read…don’t you?

UPDATE: You know, I watched this video again, and maybe I was a bit too hard on the guy, he does make a few good (but lame) points.

Nah.

He would like us all to “thank a union” for the benefits of mankind, but thanks anyway Stephen— I’m going to thank a soldier. And maybe you haven’t noticed, but not everyone in the Unions can read.

I’m just saying.

March 14, 2011 Posted by | Union | | 7 Comments

Join the Union…Bring a Moose!

Nobody Flashes:

Wisconsin lawmakers sent a bill eliminating most collective=bargaining rights for the state’s public-employee unions to Gov. Scott Walker on Thurday, setting a precedent other states could follow in the broadest move in decades to curb unon rights.

This was my favorite video from the Wisconsin Union Strikers. It seems Sly and the family Stone have been revived and booked for a encore. The “cop” is a stripper (I don’t know, I kinda doubt that one) and the deer could be anyone ….but by the way he plays the horn, I’d guess he’s from the Fred Flinstone’s “Find a Mouse and Kill It.”  By now, the American hero, Scott Walker, has stunned in this order: Jesse Jackosn, Jesse Jackson Jr., Joy Bearyourheart, and Michael Moore…who was so beside himself, he attacked Oprah on National TV with a pair of handcuffs, that no doubt, he got off that stripper cop.

Micheal also took it upon himself to make himself the head of the NEA and cancel all the schools all over the country for Friday, in a day of celebration.

What? You don’t think that most of the kids in America will not be celebrating becuase Micheal Moore said they could take the day off?

Jesse Jackson acts like these people are going to…float down the Mississippi and Sting like a bee…not necessarily in that order. But, before you feel sorry for them, here’s some statistics.

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For anyone who thinks teachers are underpaid this is the official excel DPI database of teachers wages by school district. Look up your own district.  

The current budget repair bill would have them paying about 5.8% towards their own retirement….right now, we the taxpayer, pays 100% of their generous retirement, and most of us pay 100% of our own retirement too.
 
AVERAGE WAGE AND BENEFITS (remember this is for about 9 months of work)
 
TEACHERS:

Milwaukee         $86,297
Elmbrook          $91,065
Germantown      $83,818
Hartland Arrwhd    $90,285     (highest teacher was $122,952-lowest was $64,942)
Men Falls          $81,099
West Bend       $82,153
Waukesha        $92,902
Sussex              $82,956
Mequon            $95,297
Kettle Mor       $87,676
Muskego          $91,341

STAFF:
 
Arrowhead – Bus Mng – Kopecky – $169,525
Arrowhead – Principal – Wieczorek –   $152,519
Grmtwn –  Asst Princ – Dave Towers – $123,222
Elmbrk  –  Burliegh Elemetary – Principal Zahn-  $142,315 (for a primary school!!)
Madison – Asst Principal – McGrath – $127,835

UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN STAFF (2009) (salary alone):

Michael Knetter – Prof of Bus  –  $327,828
Carolyn Martin -Chancellor Mad-  $437,000
Hector Deluca – Prof of Nutritional Science – $254,877 (really??)
 
(source:Madison.com -as the UW removed salaries from being posted online in 2007- why if they are so low?)  

How about some other “public servant job” ?  What do they make?  
 
Madison Garbage men (2009) (salary only):

*  Garbageman, Mr. Nelson earned $159,258 in 2009, including $109,892 in overtime and other pay.
*  Garbageman, Greg Tatman, who earned $125,598
*  7 Madison garbage men made over $100,000
*  30 Madison garbage men made over $70,000
 

MILWAUKEE CITY BUS DRIVERS (salary only):
 
136 Drivers made more than  $70,000
54 Drivers made more than  $80,000
18 Drivers made more than  $90,000
  8 Drivers made more than  $100,000
Top Driver made  $117,000 (Source WTMJ)
 
(The average private bus driver makes $9-13 an hour (about 20,000 yr) with no pension, or healthcare.)  
AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CONTINUE PAYING 100% OF THEIR GENEROUS RETIREMENT?
THEY HAVE SHUT DOWN SCHOOLS AS THEY DON’T WANT TO PAY 5.8% OF IT THEMSELVES

March 10, 2011 Posted by | Uncategorized, Wisconsin | | 2 Comments

Harry Reid: Never Met a Bunny Branch Prostitute He Really Liked

Nobody Wins: Harry Reid came out today and announced that he wants to outlaw prostitution in Nevada. When he said, “the time has come for us to outlaw prostitution,” the crowd in the Assembly chambers was silent. Not only were they silent, but in the front row, sitting with about 8 other prostitutes, was a big beautiful blond, who started crying.
You can just imagine what she was thinking. Would she then have to go out on the strip and join all the other prostitutes lined up on every corner, with Jose standing right behind her telling her to hustle? Standing there with all her calling cards. No one to watch her back. Thinking of endless nights in jail..paying fines. No more protection. No more steady clients.
 
“Here honey, call me!”
 
I don’t know about you…but if you’ve ever been to Vegas you can’t walk far without some pretty young thing soliciting you with “call me” cards. Most of them can’t speak English. All I kept thinking when I walked pass them was, “My god..what if there is some kind of Ebola on these things, and I catch it?” They practically stuff them in your hand, and those girls are everywhere.
 
Why…is he doing this? So that all the illegal prostitutes will support him when he gets rid of term limits? Are the illegals crying because too many Mexican maids have been laid off? Or is this just a ploy to GET them all to unionize?
 
Cocaine, is against the law, marijuana is against the law, murder is against the law, being illegal and in this country is against the law—and YET…there is an over abundance of them all.
 
Yeah, that ought to work there Harry. That’s using your pea brain.
 
Harry said, “Let’s have an adult conversation about an adult subject.”
Finally. Let’s. Okay Harry…If you are going to outlaw prostitutes in Nevada, then it’s only fair that all the prostitutes in our Congress (and that includes our executive branch) should be fined and put in jail for the obvious prostitutes that they are. Clean up all the prostitutes in Washington D.C, Harry, first.
 
Trying to clean up prostitution in Nevada, is like trying to ban sea gulls from the San Francisco Bay, or seeing Harry Reid quit his job after shamefully admitting what a pea brain he is. Won’t happen in my lifetime.
 
So, what is this really about? Maybe he just wanted to get in the news, and be popular again. Wait…that won’t happen in my lifetime either. That blond can stop crying now.

February 23, 2011 Posted by | politics, Prostitution, Union | , , | 2 Comments