Monday, May 30, 2011
Some information about ATU 757 is revealed to the eyes of the public (it's about time)
I have been participating in reviewing some of the financial documents of our local and there are questions that need answering.
Here is just one example:
According to the March year to date financial report our union was $170,936.00 in the hole.
Now according to the April monthly report the union went a further $ 66,727.00 into the hole.
Obviously accounting standards will show that the year to date should show that our union is now $237,663 in the hole.
But our year to date report shows that the union is $282,122.00 in the hole!
There is $44,459.00 unaccounted for!
Where the hell is it?
We need answers, NOW!
What's going on at ATU 757
The Evolution Of The TriMet MAX Map 1: The Portland-Gresham Era
The MAX system was still a very simple system, but the graphic treatment over this time suggest the attitude by the agency and the public went very quickly from "shiny new fun toy" to "just another part of the system" – albeit a very shiny, fun part of the system.
http://zehnkatzen.blogspot.com/2009/04/evolution-of-trimet-max-map-1-portland.html
http://zehnkatzen.blogspot.com/2009/04/evolution-of-trimet-max-map-1-portland.html
The Subtlest Of Actions
It should also be brought up that traffic should not be a damned excuse to prevent access to relatives of fallen veterans from accessing the memorial on Memorial Day. I'm pretty sure that relatives of veterans aren't guaranteed to be wealthy or to have a car- there's no guarantee for a new car with every application. There are a number, I'm sure, of veterans or their families, friends or associates who take or rely on the bus. That's just common knowledge. I don't care if it's 10 people or 100 people, you shouldn't be preventing this right from people who have sacrificed so much. It's a slap to the face!
Cameron Johnson
You did a great job on this post, Cameron!
Cameron Johnson
You did a great job on this post, Cameron!
Millions Need Not Apply
Millions of Americans who lost their jobs to the recession and fell behind in payments to creditors are being penalized again, this time by companies that use credit records to screen job applicants. Five states have limited the use of credit histories by potential employers and about 20 are considering similar measures that deserve to become law.
NY Times
NY Times
Carbon Output Highest in Human History; USA, Russia & Japan Prepare to Reject A Binding Agreement. Meanwhile, Medicine Pervades the Earth We So Abuse
The official for the governments of the USA, Russia, Japan and some of the other great nations will engage in convoluted, disassembling prevarication in doing so. They certainly won't be rejecting just an agreement because it is insufficient or unenforceable. They will simply be rejecting it to protect the short-sight interests of the corporatist overlords who they serve. But consider yourself forewarned, if the great nations fail the future; the future will reciprocate.Words of Power
Memorial Day: Enter Hitler, Release 2.0
So, who's left? ("Do we have to say?") So, the Sarah Palin campaign - and, make no mistake (I love that phrase!) it is a campaign - trafficks in code and buzzwords about the shame of being losers. Her bus tour rolls heavy under the rubric: "One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." Recognize those phrases? They are from the national oath that we are all trained to recite in the first grade. Most of Sarah Palin's followers got through the first grade - and are proud of it. The phrase that really rings out, though, is "justice for all." For a nation of tattooed, hopelessly fat, angry people without jobs or incomes, filled with shame, this phrase resonates. How come no justice for us?
Here's to another presidential race including the Joe the plumber and 'I can see Russia from my house!' person. Saturday Night Live is probably very excited too see her enter the race (sort of), so they can do another great production to make fun of her.
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