Union Man ~ by Glen Shulfer
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Troops Assist With NC Tornado Recovery
As you may have heard on the news, North Carolina took a major hit with tornadoes last week. In case you haven’t seen anything on the news about what our …
2012 Poll Watch: New Hampshire vs. Obama
Polls are polls, they can be skewed one way or the other based on many factors but the 2012 election is ramping up so I suppose we better start getting set for many, many polls ahead. First one for me, this one from The Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College on a key battleground State, New Hampshire:
Now you can’t even ask Obama about transparency [Reader Post]
From Whitehouse.gov
Transparency — President Obama has committed to making his administration the most open and transparent in history
This Man Is Not A Subversive Enemy Of The State
He’s a quiet man, barely five foot tall. He moves with the slow fluid movements of a horseman and I can vouch for him, he handles and cares for his horses well. His name is Adrian Menlee and he is from Puebla in Southern Mexico. He is a groom and it is his job to care for the horses of a wealthy patrona. There is pride in his voice as he speaks of his horses and their different personalities. The farm is cleaner than many homes and his horses are not afraid of humans, a fact that makes my job so much easier and attests to the fact that these horses are enjoying their life.
I always try to engage the grooms in conversation; many of them are from different areas of the world and it is interesting to hear of their lives and ambitions. You see these people are doing the work that Americans refuse to do. I know there are American grooms on the race track and on the traditional horse farms of Kentucky and the South, but there are logical reasons for these Americans working as grooms.
A Few Simple Ideas [Reader Post]
We need a program for government waste, fraud and abuse of whistle-blowers. If someone is doing a job which is essentially worthless, and he is able to show this, give him 6 months salary and transfer him to a different job (and end that job). If someone can make a case that an entire department is a waste of taxpayers’ money, give him 2 years salary, lay off the entire department, and end all funding to that department sector.