Widely-respected progressive columnist Juan Gonzalez nails SEIU's megalomaniac would-be dictator Andy Stern to the wall in a column in today's New York Daily News.

SEIU President Andy Stern is a threat to labor soul

SEIU President Andy Stern is pushing ahead with a plan despite several scandals.

Andy Stern, head of the nation's fastest-growing union and a chief proponent of labor reform, is about to reveal himself as a colossal scam artist.

Stern, president of the 2million-member Service Employees International Union, plans to kick off the new year with a stunning assault on democracy within his union.

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Hillaryism

Defined as the belief that one is intrinsically superior to clinging members of the cult of Hillary Clinton.  The targets of this vial hatred are referred to as Hillaryists or Hilbs, as in "he's a freekin' hilb*, let's bust his balls."

Like racism and sexism before it, Hillaryism is found in all levels of society and raises it's ugly head in social circles and the work place.  Stories are beginning to come into this news room of people being threatened with loss of their job should they not seek a cure for what psychologists believe may be a fundamental problem in the hope receptor capacity of certain individuals.  

Cures range from the controversial mind wipe to the simplistic but often dangerous rally attendance wherein an affected individual is dragged kicking and screaming by his/her loved ones into a rally so their ears may finally hear the voice.  Thankfully it normally takes only one treatment to cure even the toughest cases.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is fast tracking a study as to the viability of adding Hilbs to the list of disabilities covered under the ADA.  Check back later for updates.

* HILB is a derivation of the derogatory term HillBot.

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Obama's Two-Step Add to Hotlist

by TheGolem, Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 11:23:06 PM EST

Obama Dances the Two-Step

Hillary's plan for fixing NAFTA includes a series of steps which requires legislation to regularly review trade agreements every five years. She has spoken out against manipulation of currency by China as well as other unfair practices.

Senator Obama plan is the Obama two-step. The one step is to oppose NAFTA and the second step is not to oppose it - or so it would appear because he presented himself as a staunch opponent of NAFTA while his economic advisor told the Canadians, "not to worry" - his opposition to NAFTA were just words.

In Ohio in 2004 before an agricultural group he provided a much different story. As reported by (AP) Associated Press on September 8th, 2004, it said: "Obama said the United States should continue to work with the World Trade Organization and pursue deals such as the North American Free Trade Agreement." (AP - Sept 8, 2004)

And in The Decatur Herald and Review on September 9th, 2004, it is reported: "Obama said the United States benefits enormously from exports under the WTO and NAFTA."

So who is the REAL Barack Obama? What is he and what does he stand for? He stands for whatever is politically expedient at the moment.

Continue reading at: http://inyourface.info/ArT/Alpha/ObA.shtml

Hank Roth (on the InterNUT since 1982)

CRYPT: http://pnews.org/crypt/
Worm Hole: http://up-yours.us/
BIO: http://inyourface.info/bio/

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The Spiral of Silence is a theory from the communications sciences, first articulated by Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, useful in understanding the polarization between supporters of the two remaining liberal Democratic Senators running for our party's nomination.

Briefly, the Spiral of Silence theory holds the following:

The phrase "spiral of silence" actually refers to how people tend to remain silent when they feel that their views are in the minority. The model is based on three premises: 1) people have a "quasi-statistical organ," a sixth-sense if you will, which allows them to know the prevailing public opinion, even without access to polls, 2) people have a fear of isolation and know what behaviors will increase their likelihood of being socially isolated, and 3) people are reticent to express their minority views, primarily out of fear of being isolated.

The closer a person believes the opinion held is similar to the prevailing public opinion, the more they are willing to openly disclose that opinion in public. Then, if public sentiment changes, the person will recognize that the opinion is less in favor and will be less willing to express that opinion publicly. As the perceived distance between public opinion and a person's personal opinion grows, the more unlikely the person is to express their opinion.

What we're seeing presently playing out on blogs, and there arguably more harshly on those few blogs that support Senator Clinton, is a further elaboration of Noelle-Neumann's theory.

I call it the Spiral of Hate. >>>

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Since we've had a few blogs decrying Obama supporters, and their supposed characteristics of rabid attacking, ignorance, cultism, and the like, I thought we'd take a journey to a deep, dark place-

Hillaryis44.org.

There is no Obama equal to this site- it is almost universally derided in the blogosphere, outside of places like Taylormarsh.com, and occasionally this very site indeed. Spend some time on places like FARK.com, for instance, and you can see this in full force. It was my first view of Clinton supporters; an unpleasant one, to say the least.

Now I've found sites like MyDD, and I know these people truly are in the minority. That being said, I've yet to see anyone act in this manner, even on the "great orange devil," Kos. If I e ver saw an Obama supporter act in such a manner, I would be over them so fast they wouldn't know what hit them. Being passionate is one thing... being stupid is another.

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