Moe Lane

…you can safely ignore the first seven minutes or so: it’s just the standard union solidarity BS. It’s at about 7:37 that the union-supported homophobia, crude sexual invitations, and patented tough-guy sneak-attack slaps start:

Gotta love the tolerant Northeast (Providence, RI, I believe).

Via Hot Air & Michelle Malkin.

Best part: that’s an AFSCME rally. Mr. Gay-hater is probably a government employee.

Moe Lane

PS:

Hey hey
ho ho
You’re on film now, don’t you know
Hey hey
ho ho
Union goons are kinda slow
Hey hey
ho ho
Ain’t the same rules any… mo

(pause)

OK, clearly I shouldn’t quit my day job.

This Inside Higher Ed article (H/T: Instapundit) on Columbia’s (and the rest of the Ivy League’s) contempt for the military does its readers a grave disservice: it adamantly refuses to even acknowledge that colleges that ban ROTC from campus are ineligible for federal funding.  This is an annoying, yet ultimately unsurprising omission, given that the only way that anybody can even have a ‘debate’ on this subject is by ignoring the clear will of the American electorate, which is currently involuntarily subsidizing the ‘right’ of academics to remain anti-military bigots.  But there is no debate.  There is no negotiation.  There is merely the law, and whether it is being complied with.

Seriously, let us quote the Solomon Amendment, yet one more time:

(a) Denial of Funds for Preventing ROTC Access to Campus. – No funds described in subsection (d)(1) may be provided by contract or by grant to an institution of higher education (including any subelement of such institution) if the Secretary of Defense determines that that institution (or any subelement of that institution) has a policy or practice (regardless of when implemented) that either prohibits, or in effect prevents -

(1) the Secretary of a military department from maintaining, establishing, or operating a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps (in accordance with section 654 of this title and other applicable Federal laws) at that institution (or any subelement of that institution); or

(2) a student at that institution (or any subelement of that institution) from enrolling in a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training Corps at another institution of higher education.

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From Jim Geraghty, who is as pissed off about Tabitha Hale getting hit by a union goon as I am, but is somewhat better able to maintain an even strain:

I’ve never been personally protested, but I look forward to that day. I’d love to look into the eyes and ask… why are you here? What are you doing with your lives? How little do you have in your lives to do that you can take time out of your day to stand there and wave a sign and shout in the hopes that someone, anyone around you will see or hear you and be persuaded? Have you no hobbies? No book you would rather be reading?

Are you that desperate to feel a sense of connection and shared purpose, and have failed so utterly at generating that sense of satisfaction and self-worth in every other aspect of your life, that you think that this is only way you can experience a frisson of purpose and mission and satisfaction with effort expended for a worthy cause? That worthy cause is filling the void of people yelling at me at this time and place?
You’re here because deep down, you fear no one loves you, don’t you?

Nobody does love them, of course. If people loved them, then they wouldn’t have to find meaning in the act of going to a protest and hitting a woman.

Moe Lane

PS: Extra, bonus quote from Tabitha herself: “[Pro-union agitators have] been comparing themselves to the Egyptians ousting Mubarak. Looks like they’re not too far off, given that they share the tendency to assault women with cameras.”

The Wind Cries Mary, Jimi Hendrix

Needed that.

This is, possibly, the palate cleanser of all palate cleansers.  You’d watch this.

DO NOT LIE TO ME.  YOU’D WATCH THIS. You’d hate yourself for it, but you’d watch it.

I’m too pissed for words right now.  Somebody tell me something nice and peaceful and fun.

He is a CWA (Communications Workers of America) goon.

He hits women.

Tabitha Hale of Freedomworks is a friend and RedState colleague; which is the secondary reason why there is currently a red haze across my vision.  The primary reason, of course, is because I cannot abide men who hit women.

Moe Lane

…on public sector unions.  Gov. Kasich is unamused at the notion that it’s somehow unacceptable to even note that public employees are getting great deals on healthcare at taxpayer expense – and by great deals I mean ‘Ohio public sector employees are paying between one half and three-quarters what Ohio private sector employees pay:’

The 9%/23% number there*, by the way, is one of the better ratios out there for private sector employees. And by ‘better’ I mean ‘better for the tax payers.’ To give an idea: one large part of the sturm und drang being witnessed in Wisconsin right now is over public sector employees having been told that they will be expected to double their contributions to their own health care plans from 6% to 12% – which is half the Ohio number (or, for that matter, the Wisconsin number of 20%-23%), and even worse when you look at national ones.  I understand that people are upset that their unsustainable sweetheart deals are about to go belly-up.  I do, truly.  But they are sweetheart deals, and they are unsustainable, and the country can no longer afford to ignore the fact that government employee unions have been raiding the public treasury in exchange for tawdry partisan  political patronage.  So as a practical matter the subject’s kind of closed. (more…)

I’m fine with our side cleaning up after ourselves, but really…

DaTechGuy is right: this is like the ultimate irony. Or symbolism. Or something.

H/T Instapundit.

But you knew that already.

Of course the president of the Milwaukee Wisconsin Teachers Union condones using fake doctors’ notes as coverage for an illegal strike. Otherwise, he’d have stopped the practice forthwith.

Moe Lane

PS: If you can read this, you probably shouldn’t thank a Wisconsin public school teacher.

PPS: Megyn Kelly is highly entertaining in this video.

…to the time vortex.

NSFW, to a level that would impress the National Profanity Association – but damned if that last day wasn’t art.

The Entertainer, Scott Joplin

Call me a non-purist, but I like this one maybe a little better than “Maple Leaf Rag.”