SAG UpDate

A campaign by the Screen Actors Guild to persuade members of a smaller rival union to vote down a new contract has foundered, an outcome that could weaken SAG’s leverage in its negotiations with the Hollywood studios.
Members of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists on Tuesday approved a new three-year, prime-time TV contract, [...]

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More over 70s ‘are enjoying sex’

BBC NEWS | Health | More over 70s ‘are enjoying sex’
Damn! Life is good and smiles are where it is at……Peace!

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Over 70 Sex!

Since I am an old fart this is good news for us aging radicals.
More couples over 70 are having sex – and finding it satisfing – than in previous generations, a British Medical Journal survey suggests.
Swedish researchers asked 1,500 older people across a 30-year period about their sex lives.
The number of people saying they had [...]

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Nazi Doctor Is Alive

Nazi-hunters say they have strong evidence that the most wanted member of Hitler’s regime – known as Dr Death – is hiding in southern Chile.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre believes Aribert Heim is in Patagonia, where his daughter is known to live.
Heim is said to have documented the victims he tortured and killed at Mauthausen concentration [...]

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Conversation With Info Ink

This was a conversation I had with one of my readers on the nuke question. Unfortunately the conversation was terminated before we could finish and hopefully more will be had.

lobotero: and?
ss: looks like everything gives off pollution of some sort…just don’t like the nuclear waste 1/2 life of 240,000 years
lobotero: yep…that [...]

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I Have Got To Know!

I have asked this question before and have still not gotten an answer from anyone. What is Joe Lieberman up to? Is he a handler? Is he trying to make a case for VP?
Everywhere McCain goes so goes Lieberman……is he there to keep McCain from making bonehead statements? Why is he [...]

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What Is McCain Really Saying?

“America’s better days are not behind her–they are a head”
That is a cute do nothing little slogan that will impress uninformed voters.
Ask the auto industry who spend their time trying to break unions and screw workers to see the Japanese sneaking up from across the water.  They have fallen way short in the innovation thing.  [...]

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SAG Will Not Strike–Asner

Ed Asner, who played TV newsman Lou Grant in the seminal 1970s sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show, told reporters Tuesday that a strike is unlikely.
Asner, a lifelong political activist, served as president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1981-1985 and played a prominent role in the union’s strike in 1980.
Asner’s remarks carry significant weight [...]

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Today In Labor History

09 July
New England Telephone “girls” strike for seven-hour workday, $27 weekly pay after four years’ service – 1923
United Packinghouse, Food & Allied Workers merge with Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen – 1968
Five thousand demonstrators rally at the state capitol in Columbia, S.C. in support of the “Charleston Five,” labor activists charged with felony rioting [...]

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US Congress Approval Rating

The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. Most voters (52%) say Congress is doing a poor job, which ties the record high in that [...]

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