I finally sent John Boozman the letter I've wanted to write for a long time
I got an email from Congressman Boozman’s office the other night, with the title “Card Check Challenges the Ideal of Democracy /Supports Secret Ballot Protection Act,’ which repeated the usual Chamber of Commerce fear-mongering lies about the Employee Free Choice Act:
. . .also known as Card Check, the job killing legislation that removes the ability for secret ballots to be used before a union can become a certified bargaining agent for all employees, exposing employees to intimidation by union bosses or employers.
He goes on to write:
We must not be forced by an employer, union, or set of coworkers to do anything against our free will. I strongly believe Card Check will erode the freedoms of American employees and expose them and their families to greater opportunity for threats, intimidation, and retribution for expressing their opinions.
And finally, after wading through some more glorious hypocrisy
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At a time when Arkansas families are faced with tough budget decisions because of this economic climate, it doesn’t make sense to vote for legislation that would force workers to pay union dues, forcing them to bring home even less money.
There’s only so much felgergarb (http://www.cuparius.com/words/odd/swearwords.html) one should have to take in one email from an elected official one doesn’t have a lot of respect for in the first place, and this was just way too much. So I grabbed my trusty keyboard, and pounded out the following message to the honorable John Boozman:
How does misleading people (telling lies) about the EFCA and the secret ballot issue equate with your much ballyhooed Christianity?
Richard S. Drake
Fayetteville
There was, as you might expect, no response.
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And if you still haven’t gotten the word on the Employee Free Choice Act yet . . .
The good folks at Arkansas Indymedia have a good piece at:.
http://arkansas.indymedia.org/newswire/display/23907/index.php
Sadly, the anti-union folks have way too much money at their disposal, and way too many people like Boozman who are all too willing to spread their propaganda.
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Quote of the Day
"Wow! you are so . . . well, you just ain't right."- Pam Hudson
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The Poetry of Brenda Moossy.
A program featuring several of the poetry performances of the late Fayetteville poet Brenda Moossy will run on Community Access Television next week. The program is made up of Brenda’s performances at various public performances and appearances taped at the studios of C.A.T.
Days and times:
Sunday - 7:30pm
Thursday - 7:30pm
C.A.T. is shown on Channel 18 of the Cox Channel line-up in Fayetteville. Those outside the Fayetteville viewing area can see the program online at:
www.catfayetteville.org
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Beware this Book Department
It was bound to happen eventually. With all the success of The Da Vinci Code A few years ago, someone dusted off that dreadful bestseller from the early 1990s, The Celestine Prophecy, and sent it in the direction of unsuspecting readers everywhere. Words fail me when I attempt to describe the moronic, badly written plot. Life is just way too short to waste on crap like this.
If your eye should happen to fall upon it in a bookstore, run to the next aisle as quickly as you can. And if someone masquerading as a friend should happen to buy you a copy? Well, it makes a perfect book for the bathroom - a place it should never, ever leave.
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Letter to the editor: About time this question was asked
This letter appeared in the Northwest Arkansas Times this morning. It echoed what many have been asking lately.
Is burning best?
Crews and dump trucks have begun the Herculean task of cleaning up the tree debris from the recent ice storm. But how are towns disposing of the branches? Just down the road from me in Springdale (just off of North 40th Street), crews are running a huge bonfire night and day. Is this really the best use of all the fallen wood - which now stands at 150,000 cubic yards in Springdale alone? Burning is both wasteful and fills the skies with smoke and carbon emissions. Can't the wood be turned into mulch, or at least buried somewhere?
Stuart Buck / Springdale
