SAG UpDate #8

This is a statement released by SAG on 28 July 08.
Dear Screen Actors Guild Member,
The Screen Actors Guild National Board of Directors met Saturday and passed a resolution reaffirming its support for the National Negotiating Committee.
The resolution passed unanimously with a vote of 68 – 0 and states:
It is a core principle of Screen Actors [...]

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Don’t Chew The Gum, It Taste Like Rubber!

I usually do not spend too much time writing about these little societal parasites, but this one is just too damn good to pass up.
In recent conversations I have said that Mylie is the next trainwreck waiting for that all important 18th birthday.
According to the New York Daily News, Lifestyles Condoms wants Miley Cyrus, the [...]

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Are They Qualified To Be President–Info Ink Commentary

This is something that the media keeps throwing into their different analysis of the election. Clinton was qualified because of her experience in Washington as a Senator and the First lady, McCain is because of his military service and his interment and his Senate experience, Obama is because he is fresh and wants to change [...]

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Airline Problems Are The Fault Of Pilots

United Airlines sued its pilots’ union on Wednesday, asking it to halt slowdowns that it said had led to the cancellation of hundreds of flights in the last 10 days.  

The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Chicago, seeks a preliminary injunction against the Air Line Pilots Association and four pilots — Steven Tamkin, [...]

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Want To Save The US Economy?

If you want to do your part to save a sagging American economy, then go on a DIET!  I cannot make this crap up!  There is really a push for this.
David Pimentel of Cornell University and colleagues have drawn on an extensive body of existing studies to highlight the wastage in the US food production [...]

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Today in Labor History

31 July
Members of the National Football League Players Association begin what is to be a two-day strike, their first. The issues: pay, pensions, the right to arbitration and the right to have agents – 1970
Fifty-day baseball strike ends – 1981

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Could Rove Be Charged?

A committee of the House of Representatives recommended contempt charges on Wednesday against Karl Rove, who was President George W. Bush’s top political adviser.
The House Judiciary Committee voted along party lines, 20 to 14, to cite Rove for defying its subpoena to testify in an inquiry into improper political meddling in the department.
But the panel’s top Republican, [...]

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So You Want A Toyota Prius?

With gas prices going through the roof, everyone is looking and buying alternatives to the gas guzzlers made by American automakers.  But as usual, there is always another side of the story.
The magazine, In These Times, has done a piece on the environmental friendly Toyota Prius. It may be friendly toward the environmment but it [...]

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Iraq Electrocution UpDate

House Democrats presented documents they say appear to contradict KBR as to the death of Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth, 24, of Pittsburgh, who was electrocuted in a shower Jan. 2.
Revelations that soldiers are dying in Iraq because of faulty wiring have caused an uproar on Capitol Hill.
Gordon Heddell, the Defense Department’s acting inspector general, told [...]

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Baghdad’s Amusement Park

Now here is a really good idea.  Let us concentrate people at an amusement park–there is a great idea in a country full of suicide bombers.  Please tell me this is just fanciful thinking.
Disneyland  goes to war-torn Iraq, with a multi-million dollar entertainment complex, to be built on a 50 acre lot adjacent to the [...]

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