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This is how lots of middle class people feel - like the government unions get an inside deal: Response to Wisconsin Teachers' Union:

Did you ever hear Hound Dog Taylor?

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Did you ever hear Hound Dog Taylor?

Yes - one of the great Chicago Maxwell Street blues men, slide guitar player extraordinaire. Wrote one of the more famous songs in blues history - "Give Me Back My Wig".

Swift justice for pirates The Russians do it the right way - you screw with us, we'll mess you up. I'm reminded of the period of time when Lebanon was blowing up and Westerners were being kidnapped right and left. One Russian diplomat was kidnapped, but oddly was released the next day. The reason was that the KGB very quietly said to the kidnappers "we know where you families live, we know who your neighbors are and we know who you are". Presto changeo - diplomat returned. I heard that story from a friend who was an assistant Naval Attache' at the time.

#1 Tom Francis on 2011-02-26 07:40 (Reply)

Re Response to Winsconson. I can entertain a discussion about Education but that was pure drivel.

Envy is a poor platform for discourse. Teachers work well past 8 months and well past contracted hours. They're held accountable for elements of academic achevement that are beyond their control. They work a minimum of a 4 year interview to gain the protection tenure affords and contrary to popular opinion, competent administrations can oust tenured teachers truly deserving to leave. They just have to be on the ball to do it.

Gotta say, it's pretty depressing to read anything about my profession these days. I sometimes wonder why, if it's such an easy and comfortable living, doesn't everyone try to be a teacher. I mean, it sure looks pretty easy doesn't it?

Cripes.

#2 Dose Amigo (Link) on 2011-02-26 10:03 (Reply)

DA:

All jobs are difficult, with their own challenges. As far as I know, few teaching jobs go unfilled.

#2.1 BD on 2011-02-26 11:02 (Reply)

"work a minimum of a 4 year interview to gain the protection tenure affords"

In the private sector, almost nobody has tenure.

I would, however, point out that there is more to this issue than the insurance and pension contributions, which the public employees have said they will pay. The governor wants to eliminate collective bargaining for everything but wages. The public employees unions say that is the real issue.

#2.2 class factotum (Link) on 2011-02-26 11:23 (Reply)

I was going to say that teaching isn't any harder now than when I was a kid, but that's not true - partly because of the insane administration.

The question not asked in the video was why are they in a union. The answer is for raw political power. The union collects dues so they can try to pick their boss who will be much more friendly to them at the "bargaining table". The canard that it is for the sake of education is exposed by the dreadful performance of many of the schools even given the ridiculous cost. As the video says, the unions give good teachers a bad name.

#2.3 mudbug on 2011-02-26 11:38 (Reply)

¡Córcholis, Dose!

Government jobs for government slobs keeps soundin' in me head.

Most teachers are government employees and many won't work for government on principle.

#2.4 Leag on 2011-02-26 12:59 (Reply)

Re Where have the good women gone?

Blogger Whiskey has a similar post up. He says women have no one but themselves to blame.

His thinking is that birth control and financial independence enables them to pursue alpha males for sex and adventure while ignoring the betas.

When they finally decide marriage is a good thing they are shocked to find that men generally don't want them anymore.

Whiskey explains more eloquently than I can.

[url] (http://whiskeys-place.blogspot.com/2011/02/where-have-all-good-men-gone-why.html) [/url]

Paging Doc Mercury. I tried to activate the link. We will see if it works. An experiment to see if a feeble mind can understand your written directions.

#3 feeblemind on 2011-02-26 10:23 (Reply)

Forwarded your US Army "Whiner" form to family in the military. Now viral. Thanks to the creator. Sorry not to give credit, but then...

#4 jma on 2011-02-26 10:41 (Reply)

Did you ever hear Hound Dog Taylor?

I was in the Air Force in 1974, training at Chanute and Hound Dog played on base Labor Day weekend. Thought I liked the blues before, I was hooked after that.

#5 Randazzo the Magnificent on 2011-02-26 10:48 (Reply)

Stalin lives in Wisconsin! "The best things in life are free/ When you steal them from the bourgeoisie!" You gotta be kidding me.

#6 bill on 2011-02-26 10:49 (Reply)

Hound Dog rules! His sidekick Brewer Philips deserves some props, also. His vocals and guitar work on the recorded version of Kansas City are brilliant. One of my favorite guitar leadbreaks ever. I would have loved to have seen them live.

#7 B Moe on 2011-02-26 11:14 (Reply)

Here is a list of some of the cuts that the Republicans have offered to make on their ideological side. Does anyone here know what these projects are: $1 million for a Customs and Border Patrol solar-powered batteries program to $341 million for Army Corps of Engineers construction." Most particurlarly I would like to know what, if any, Corps of Engineers projects were scheduled for strengthening the border. Is that what the Republicans are offering to cut?

#8 apple pie on 2011-02-26 11:48 (Reply)

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