I am all sour on them, sorry, and thus I'm neither reading or posting much. Sorry. Save your anger and hatred for the damn union bus drivers of Boston.
"A scramble across city as school drivers strike; Angry words fly; prospect unclear for resumption" by James Vaznis and John R. Ellement | Globe Staff, October 08, 2013
Boston school bus drivers went on strike Tuesday morning — with no advance warning to families — leaving thousands of children stranded at home or at bus stops as the city grappled with its first such strike in more than two decades.
Drivers showed up before dawn, but most refused to board their buses to protest myriad grievances, from payroll problems to a new Web page that allows parents to track their children’s buses.
Related: I Finally Caught the Boston Globe School Bus
And they didn't even show up?
Bus yard managers eventually ordered them off the four lots and locked the gates, as union members shouted back and forth, with police cruisers parked nearby.
It remained unclear whether the drivers, who work for a private company contracted by the city, would return to their jobs Wednesday morning. Mayor Thomas M. Menino urged families to make contingency plans after the company unsuccessfully sought a federal court injunction to end the strike. He also said schools would open an hour early to accommodate parents dropping off children while trying to get to work.
Menino portrayed the strike as illegal. The union contract forbids strikes, and participants could face termination. The union’s parent organization, the United Steelworkers, and the local’s president, Dumond Louis, urged drivers to return to work, exposing a potential division within union ranks.
They just lost the strike.
“I am extremely angry,” Menino said at an evening press conference at City Hall. “These are selfish people who only want to cause disruption in our city. . . . This union cannot stop our schools from educating young people. The only thing in jeopardy here is their own livelihood.”
As if that is what they were doing.
Related: Menino rages as arbitrator grants major raise to police
He may have anger issues. Good thing he is stepping down as mayor then.
In ways large and small, the strike disrupted the fabric of life in the city.
Oh, you God-damn ba$tard bus drivers!! You DISRUPTED the FABRIC OF LIFE!
I'll bet they were the ones behind the mortgage-backed security scam that robbed pensions and the fraudulent foreclosures on homes across this nation! That might have been crime that did pay, but at least it didn't disrupt the FABRIC of LIFE!
Wars created over lies blared by mouthpiece media bullhorns? Didn't disrupt the fabric of life. ENDED IT for MILLIONS of PEOPLE, but at least it didn't di$rupt the fabric of life, hell, it might have even helped it, huh?
How is that for some FERMENT, huh?
Parents scrambled to find alternative transportation; some simply walked their children more than a mile to class.
I'll bet the walk was safer than Chicago!
Dozens of police officers getting off their midnight shifts pitched in, as well, driving students to their schools.
Finally, the GOOD GUYS STEP IN!
In the old days we would send those good guys in to bust some of those bus-driving skulls and that would have settled that!
Absenteeism skyrocketed across the city, as 9,600 students missed school, nearly three times the normal number. Schools were forced to reschedule tests and cancel afterschool athletic events and other extracurricular activities.
I'm sure a lot of kids breathed a sigh of relief at the rescheduling of tests! At least the drivers will know how the kids feel next time they pick 'em up! Ever hear a full bus erupt with cheers and applause?
Councilor at Large John R. Connolly and state Representative Martin J. Walsh, aiming to replace a retiring Menino, both assailed the strikers....
And Walsh is supposed to be a good labor Democrap.
Related:
"What should have been a headline-grabbing day for Walsh was overshadowed by a strike by school bus drivers, thrusting another high-profile labor dispute into the race for mayor."
I don't care about Boston's mayoral race, so why would I care about New York?
Steve Kirschbaum, chairman of the bus union’s grievance committee, said members are simply asking that its contract be honored by Veolia Corp., which oversees the bus fleet for the city.
I'm not even going to bother typing it, if jou know what I mean.
He characterized the situation as an “illegal lockout,” saying Veolia ordered drivers off its property under the threat of arrest.
“If they really care about the students of Boston, come and show respect to those of us who drive the city’s most precious cargo,” Kirschbaum said. “We stand prepared to negotiate any time, anyplace, anywhere.”
And you abandoned them at the bus stop so any old pervert could abduct them.
The strike rippled far beyond the city’s system, affecting even charter, parochial, and many private schools that rely on the yellow buses....
You bastards! You selfish bastards!
“The bus drivers did an injustice to the students,” said Erin McGrath of Dorchester, who had to take the day off from work to transport her son to and from the Condon School in South Boston. “They have a contract — live by it. You don’t do this to children.”
Yeah, YOU HAVE A CONTRACT!
Funny how those are NO GOOD when they have to GIVE BACK BENEFITS and PAY MORE for them, but hey, it's not some state executive or administrative position or an iron-clad contrct to some CEO, so.... you know.
The strike is the latest debacle for the city’s school bus system... as outrage swept across the city, confusion emerged over whether the union’s leadership or a faction of the group was orchestrating the strike. The union president was booed when he ordered drivers at the Readville yard to go back to work at 8:30 a.m., but he was more tempered in his comments when he spoke later. He was flanked by two representatives from the national union who faced jeers when they called the strike illegal.
During the request for the emergency court injunction, an attorney for the union, Patrick Bryant, blamed the strike on a group of rogue employees led by Kirschbaum....
Another trouble-making jou-know who?
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Related: Sunday Globe Special: Brockton School Bus Strike
Guess they finally called it despite the contract.
Damn ba$tards!!!
"Students adrift due to bus driver strike, parents jump in" by David Abel and Meghan E. Irons | Globe Staff, October 08, 2013
Some walked their children for miles across the city, while others borrowed cars, took public buses, or found friends and relatives to help out.
Well, back in the old days I had to walk 20 miles in the snow and rain with holes in my boots, and then 20 miles back home after school.
At least we didn't have perverts lurking on every corner, or if we did we knew them, didn't know about it, didn't say anything, or thought it was normal and nothing wrong from a trusted summer camp counselor. Suppose they could have been driving buses, too. That is where the prey, 'er, precious cargo is.
Many parents, most of whom learned about the bus drivers’ strike shortly before the school day was scheduled to begin, were late, miffed, and stressed out as they improvised to get their children to school.
“This isn’t fair to parents or to kids,” Mohammed Audu, 39, of Roxbury, said after dropping off his 5-year-old daughter about 20 minutes late to the John F. Kennedy Elementary School in Jamaica Plain.
Damn right! Damn frikkin' right!
He then had to take his other daughter to school, and she would be even later, which in turn meant he would be late taking his wife to a doctor’s appointment.
They DISRUPTED the FABRIC of LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“They need to settle their differences, soon,” he said.
With all but 30 of the school system’s 650 buses off the road, Audu’s concerns echoed across Boston, as many parents missed work, some students missed school, and both saw their routines upended.
I'll bet the kids did not mind, but you get the biased slant coming from the Globe.
Parents and students waited for buses that never came....
A lot of us wait for things that never come, like truth in an Amerikan jewspaper.
They could not understand why the bus drivers would strike.
Good way to dehumanize those f***ing greedy Selfi$h bastards!!!!!!
“It’s so last minute,” said Lydia Lopez of Dorchester. “It’s not right. What really concerns me are the children who were outside waiting for their buses, and their parents were already at work. It’s just sad.”
Yeah, it is.
Lopez’s children arrived 45 minutes late to the William Monroe Trotter School after they had to hop on a public bus.
Oh, the horror. At least debt enslavement by criminal banks doesn't disrupt the fabric of life.
Outside the school in Roxbury, Brenda Medina said she had not learned about the strike until her 11-year-old son called her around 7 a.m. from his bus stop, a half hour after his bus should have arrived.
“He said, ‘Mommy, I’ve been standing here waiting for the bus, and there is no bus,’ ” she said.
With PERVERTS LOOSE in BOSTON?
Those God-damn bus driving $cum!!!!!!!!!
She gathered her other children, ages 6 and 1, taking her oldest to school in Roslindale, her 6-year-old to first grade in Roxbury, and her 1-year-old to day care. “I ended up packing everyone in PJs in the car,’’ said Medina, who lives in Roxbury. “We had breakfast in the car.”
Not all parents were able to accompany their children on their journey. Some pupils had to branch out on their own.
In that city?
At the John P. Holland Elementary School in Dorchester, a fifth-grader said she had to take a taxi.
With all the rapes occurring in them?
“It made me feel nervous,” said the 10-year-old, whose mother gave her fare so she could get to school on time. “This never happened before.”
Getting children to school was only half the challenge. At the end of the day, they still needed to get home....
And did the greedy, $elfish, $hit-$cum bus drivers think of that?
No, they were only thinking of their own wallets!
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You know what you all ought to do out there in Boston? Tie the bus driver to the back of their buses and do a pick-up route and see if he can't keep up hoofing it. That would get the $elfi$h $on-of-a-bitches to get their heads straight!
Also see:
Boston school bus drivers fault ‘mismanagement’ by company
The Globe doesn't want to hear it:
Boston bus driver strike demands firm response from city
I gave you mine.
Bus drivers report back to work in Boston
Pu$$ies!
Are they going to get paid for the furloughs like the federalis?
Speaking of those devils (thanks, Obomber):
"Obama, GOP escalate the rhetoric on shutdown" by Noah Bierman and Matt Viser | Globe Staff, October 09, 2013
WASHINGTON — The economic warning came Tuesday as stocks fell sharply and consumer confidence, as measured by Gallup, has fallen by more than it has in any week since the Lehman Brothers collapse of 2008, the beginning of the global economic crisis....
Uh-oh.
Obama, in a press conference lasting more than hour, went to extraordinary lengths to explain to ordinary Americans why he believes “paying ransom’’ in exchange for raising the debt ceiling is “nonnegotiable.’’
That's what you have to do when pushing an agenda of illuSion and deceit. I'm so grateful I never watch those things anymore.
He compared the need to pay the government’s debts to consumers’ need to pay the mortgage, and said Republican demands would be like workers insisting they will burn down the factory if they don’t get a raise....
What OFFENSIVE RHETORIC coming from President a$$hole here! Look at where his mind-$et is fir$t! PAY the DAMN BANK FIRST!
Related: Getting Back to Business in Bangladesh
Also see: Bangladesh garment factory fire kills at least 10
Nothing has changed, not a God-damn f***ing thing despite the alleged attention of the corporate pre$$. $ee why I'm $o $our on the Boston Globe the$e days?
"Bangladesh has begun work on its first nuclear power plant, which is to have two Russian-designed reactors and cost up to $4 billion. Relations between the two countries have been close since Russia backed Bangladesh in its 1971 war of independence with Pakistan. There have been growing global concerns about the safety of atomic power since a powerful earthquake and tsunami damaged a nuclear plant in Japan in 2011."
Yeah, well, that situation has just been getting worse and the Globe has left it alone since Friday even though six workers were reported to be contaminated with radiation during this "latest"(??) leak. Interesting that the Bangladeshis are going with the Russian design and not the Fuku/GE design, 'eh?
Strange how the banking article never made my printed paper (although I will go back and look at the unread sections to check just in case) either.
Time to leave Bangladesh again.
He said negotiating before the government is open and the debt ceiling raised would continue the cycle of constant fiscal standoff.
“I know the American people are tired of it,” Obama said. “I apologize you have to go through this stuff every three months, it seems like. And Lord knows, I’m tired of it.”
I'm tired of you, and why are you not haranguing Bangladesh like you are Iran?
Oh, right, and besides Bangladesh $erves the $lave labor function that grea$es the bottom line of corporations.
Boehner said it was “shameful” that military families are not receiving bereavement pay as a result of the shutdown.
What is even more shameful is the endless wars and occupations for empire that were built on damnable lies.
He said the House would vote on Wednesday to pay those families. But Democrats have largely refused to approve such piecemeal measures, accusing Republicans of cherry-picking politically popular programs to spare from the shutdown.
I'm going to start cherry-picking Globe $hit because this $ucks.
Senate Democrats, meanwhile, began pressing the case for a vote planned later this week that would raise the debt ceiling without conditions. But it was unclear whether it would clear the 60-vote threshold needed to advance. Even some Senate Republicans and Democrats who previously spoke out against shutting down the government indicated on Tuesday they may vote against it, saying they would like to see deficit reduction and other changes negotiated as part of an agreement to raise the nation’s borrowing authority.
“We’ve got to negotiate. That’s what we’re here to do,” said Senator Joe Manchin, a moderate Democrat from West Virginia. “I’m looking at a big package that fixes our long-term debt.”
Just got that: Sunday Globe Specials: Fiscal Cliff Fraud
The tax "increase" was tax CUT -- and we are being $erved the $ame of plate of $hit again?
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Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew has marked Oct. 17 as a crucial date for increasing the debt limit because the nation could no longer borrow more money. But there was even debate among many Republicans over the flexibility of that date, in part because Treasury can use incoming revenue to pay some bills.
Some even suggested prioritizing payments to bond-holders, though Obama warned that delaying Social Security and other payments would send a dangerous signal to the financial markets.
Yes, the DEBT-HOLDERS are ALWAYS FIRST in LINE, and God forbid we send a "dangerous signal" to "financial markets!"
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Coverage of the DC woman who was killed in the car chase has disappeared (the recall of furloughed CIA employees while telegraphing a false flag is also unmentioned in my Globe). Why no Zimmerman treatment, PP$$?
And I see no use in Yellen about nothing when it is the institution that is the problem. She is simply going to be the fall guy, 'er, woman, for the easing of money-printing that is propping up the stock market -- the resulting drop in which will be blamed on everything but the cause, the private central banking $cheme it$elf.
I gotta calm down....
"US policy clouds approvals of medical marijuana" by Kay Lazar | Globe Staff, October 09, 2013
Doctors at Massachusetts community health centers have been advised not to authorize any of their more than 638,000 patients to obtain marijuana for medical purposes because the centers fear they would lose their federal funding.
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers has advised its 36 federally funded facilities to hold off on issuing patient marijuana certifications under the state’s new medical marijuana law, because use remains illegal under federal law.
Health center physicians who believe marijuana might be beneficial for certain patients and authorize its use could be committing a “potential violation of federal law and could result in legal and financial exposure for community health centers,” according to a statement from the League.
This disconnect between state and federal marijuana law is cropping up in other areas as well; some rules restrict tenants who use medical marijuana from living in federally subsidized housing, or prevent Vet....
I forgot to read the rest of that article upon the turn in. Must have been the marijuana. Never you mind the heroin, cocaine, or whatever else is behind the violence, deaths, and robberies in our communities.
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Oh, I didn't read anymore because I stopped reading today's Globe six pages in. Why I am even bothering to buy it any more is beyong me $ave for one rea$on: habit. Gotta break it soon.
"Europe rejects strict e-cigarette law" by Andrew Higgins | New York Times, October 09, 2013
STRASBOURG, France — In a decision likely to resonate in the United States and in other countries struggling to get a grip on a galloping market for e-cigarettes, the European Parliament endorsed on Tuesday a more permissive approach to their sale and use.
The use of electronic cigarettes, primarily by smokers looking for a way to kick their tobacco habit, has skyrocketed, with sales growing so fast that some Wall Street analysts predict the battery-powered devices could surpass cigarettes within a decade. But the products and their use have outrun any rules on either side of the Atlantic for regulating them.
After a while you realize tho$e are the intere$ts that is always at bottom in my corporate pre$$.
Europe’s new rules for e-cigarettes, contained in a draft law known as the Tobacco Products Directive, fill a legal vacuum around the product. Some governments in Europe have tried to rigidly regulate and even ban e-cigarettes, but this has led to a flurry of often successful court actions by e-cigarette companies determined to defend their product.
In the United States, too, efforts by the Food and Drug Administration to devise e-cigarette rules have been tied up by industry litigation.
The agency has said it intends to announce some form of regulations.
The industry is dominated by small operators who import lithium batteries, raw nicotine fluid, and other materials from low-cost production centers such as China.
Meaning the large cigarette conglomerates are not getting their $moke, and thus mu$t $ick governments on the $mall $uppliers before buying them out and taking them over.
Instead of smoke from burning tobacco, users ingest the nicotine in the form of vapors from the heated fluid — an alternative to smoking commonly referred to as vaping....
That doesn't sound good at all, and yet the state and federal government are all bunged up about medical marijuana!
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Be $mart, kids, Don't $tart smoking.
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Sorry for the smoky bitterness today, folks. Washing it down with Boston Globe whine didn't help.
