The Ramble for 12-26-11 Voting Rights, Vs Ensured Leftist Rule;Lugar’s an Idiot;Substantial Penalty for Early Withdrawal

Sloatsburg,NY– I’m here after driving most of the day. A quick run from rochester to Bethlehem Pennsylvania, then over to Quakertown for a loadfew of paper towels. —

• Voting rights:

  Over at questions and observations, Bruce McQuain in his usual

Horseheads,NY– This is one of those places you wonder “How’d  they come up with that name?” Cooler and windy today, with Showers on and off. One more trip I think, then to the house. Gotta get the camper ready for

(New York City)-– I’m actually not far from where I was the other day, at Middle Village. Just up the Metropolitan Bvd, in fact. A nice drive this morning. Now, it’s about a 5. 1/2 hr drive, though so

Dumbo’s Priorities, from Rush Limbaugh:

The price of oil around the world is skyrocketing.  The Saudis are talking about ramping up their production.  How about the crisis in the Middle East?  I mean, for heaven’s sake, “a crisis

I do some hiking and more than a wit bit of trail maintenance.   Needless to say,  I have opinions on both.   The only publicly funded and maintained trails in decent repair are those ADA compliant monstrosities that got funded with

Welcome, one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the sphere…The BitsBlog Nightly Ramble

This is the “Outdoor Advertising” Edition

• WILL OBAMA PAY THE PRICE ON CUTTING MEDICARE?  Byron York asks that question today.  I

Welcome one and all to the most intense nightly read anywhere on the ‘sphere… Bitblog’s Nightly Ramble.

Friday, and lots of fresh snow up the ground in Bitsville, today. A lot of it coming from the Obama people, and congressional

• Has anyone noticed? Ace did… Obama’s back to wearing a flag pin. Boy, I could make a whole seperate post on the stuff we have on file from when this subject first came up. So does Ben Smith. My

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) – Construction union thugs used the state Department of Motor Vehicles database to target nonmember workers and their families for violence, property damage and threats of sexual assault, federal officials said Tuesday as they announced the arrests

• No, Billy, she’s not done, yet, nor will she be. You of all people will understand that the woman is all about power, and the obtaining of it. As such, she’s not going to back off, even come next

Being a railfan this one caught my interest:

PARIS, Nov. 21 — As a national transit strike stretched into its second week, arsonists disrupted high-speed train service on four main routes on Wednesday. Government officials called the fires a “coordinated

So American auto companies have been struggling for these last twenty years, trying to keep things afloat, and usually not succeeding by much.  What does the united auto workers union figure is the answer to that problem?  A strike.

DETROIT

Interesting site, LaborPains.ORG.

They make a few points, today:

• Union membership is down to 7.4 percent of private sector employees and down to 12 percent overall (government employees are highly unionized, at a rate of 36.2 percent) – that’s down

Since today is supposedly a day in celebration of unions, and since my position on unions is fairly well known, perhaps I should make an effort to catalog some of our comments about them in the past.

Unions are Killing