Tomorrow the machinists vote on their contract. Follow this link for live coverage of the vote. However it comes out, I hope that Governor Inslee is wooing Aerobus to build a plant here. Imagine all the good things that would mean ..Aerobus gets all the advantages of Washington’s investment[...]
Posts Tagged ‘South Carolina’
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: racism remains in Japan
The excuse of Japanese imperialism in WII was that Japan was (just) acting like a European power. But European Imperialism was about one thing .. race! Japan prime minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Japan’s war shrine shows that Japanese racism is still there. Shinzo Abe’s public [...]
December 18th, 2013 - 3:28 pm § in America
Responding to an email complaint
A relative who lives in South Carolina has complained that posts here about that state are unfair My reply: As for posts about SC, they really are nothing new. Like many here in Seattle I have been angry that Boeing moved its assembly plant to avoid paying skilled workers a fair wage and becaus[...]
December 10th, 2013 - 4:10 pm § in Uncategorized
Racist States: South Carolina Part 3.: Mandela was not an American!
Sheriff Rick Clark of Pickens County*, S.C., refused to lower his flag for Mandela, who “did great things for his country and was a brave man but he was not an AMERICAN!!!” The post did not comment on whether the sheriff was referring to the flags of the Union of the Confederacy. [...]
Racist States: South Carolina Part 2.
Today the Palmetto State celebrates this heritage. The Daughters of the Confederacy run the Confederate Museum in Charleston and the Confederate flag flies over the state’s capital, it is not really surprising. Organizations like The League of the South call for the independence of the old So[...]
Racist States: South Carolina Part 1.
Boeing’s new home: South Carolina (comments based on Dahl and other sources) Boeing’s move to the union free state, South Carolina, needs to be placed in perspective of this state, the state that twice tried and once succeeded in creating a civil war. Hitler in this century would ha[...]
December 8th, 2013 - 11:46 am § in Misc.
Racism Ain’t Only In South Carolina!
Oh, That Racist Tea Party! The Haters, Hillbillies and Histrionic Doomsayers of Westchester Members of the White Plains Tea Party, the biggest and most active in Westchester, don’t fit the cartoonish stereotypes of maladjusted, gun-toting loners bent on toppling the government. Westchester, 20[...]
December 2nd, 2013 - 12:13 pm § in The Ave Scene
THE Ave Challenge: What is wrong with this picture?
Something is Wrong With This Ad from the Washington Aerospace Partnership Click the ad to find out what is wrong![...]
Hypocrisy in South Carolina: The AG’s view of Bipartisanship
β Award: South Carolina AG Views on Non Partisanship Attorney General Alan Wilson is taking the helm of an organization that works to elect more Republicans into that slot across the country. While Wilson claims that he is looking forward to working with his Democrat[...]
Boeing workers vote Jan 3 .. what were they expecting for Christmas?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Unionized workers at Boeing Co (BA) will vote on January 3 on the company’s latest proposed contract, according to a statement issued by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers just before Christmas, Cartoon is a mashup derived from work by [...]