It's a living!

I have found a couple of idiots in the threads who have a rather unique perspective on the reichwing quest to eliminate unions from our employment landscape. They think that unions are holding them back in their quest for more pay and that they, and you and you and you, can better negotiate your wages, all by yourself. Interesting. I wonder who told them that?

One of them reports that she was told by her boss that he wanted to pay her more money but that if he did, he'd be in violation of the union contract. She's never mentioned the union or what type of work she does but, I don't think it involves rocket science or brain surgery. Likely she makes widgets in a factory. She's also very upset that lesser employees than she make as much money as she and get the same raises. The outrage.

Like alot of people who don't belong to unions, she feels that unions were once a viable force in this country and they did some good but, now they just support democrats so, fuck 'em!

Yikes. Unions are supporting democrats AND keeping individuals from getting their due in the lucrative widget-making business.

So, thank you, union men and women of the past for your blood, sweat, tears and collective bargaining but, we don't need you anymore and can do oh-so-much better without you. The bathwater is dirty now, out with the baby! Thanks too for the 40 hour week, 8 hour day, overtime, child labor laws and all the other evils you wrought upon us. These things all *seemed* nice and necessary at the time and we enjoy them now (thanks to you all, admittedly) but we don't need you and your dues (and support of democrats) anymore.

Of course what the widget-making gal is missing here is that ALL of those other perks will go missing too once unions are on life's milk carton. She doesn't realize that and suspects they all would have evolved naturally WITHOUT unions as employers realized that, to keep good workers, good workers should be rewarded. Even OSHA, she said, would exist today, brought into creation by employers concerned for the safety of their employees.

Could you imagine a bunch of fat-cat mine owners sitting around, lighting their Cubans with hundred dollar bills and creating an organization to oversee their safety efforts and fine them tens of thousands of dollars for violating their regulations?

Sheesh. I'm not union. Never have been and likely, never will. But, I do have a dog in this fight. I have friends and relatives who are public and private sector union people and I, as a tradesman, also value the past struggles of the unions and the aforementioned good things they brought us. I know that when the unions are gone, those benefits will be gone too. Without collective bargaining, without the prescence of unions, wages will be whatever employers want to set them at. The same with work hours. Safety costs money. Fuck safety.

And fuck the widget-maker if she thinks she's special. There's 300+ million people who all feel they are special. Sans her union- sans ALL unions- when she asks for a raise she'll GET a cut in pay. If she doesn't like it, she can lump it. With a labor pool over 300 million, her boss will have no trouble getting someone to take her job at HIS price. Eight dollars? Five? Two? Who knows?
I'm sure corporations salivating (masturbating?) at the prospect. It might get ridiculous at first, bordering on slavery or indentured servitude but, it will even out. I promise you won't be making what you used to, no matter what you do for a living.

"....do for a living...." Those words will soon be literal in our country. You will be taking what your given because....you ARE working for a living. Without unions, there will be no recourse. No one will have your back.

The republicans/teapublicans are already trying to also get rid of unemployment insurance, workmens compensation, the minimum wage- anything that *smacks of socialism* and might inhibit corporate profits.... As if that weren't insane enough, it's more insane that ordinary working people would support them in this. That's like wanting to make love but going to a prison to do it. Oh- you'll get fucked for sure. you just won't have any control over where, when and how much.

Forget what the unions have fought for while you give it away. That you are willing to give it away shows how weak, foolish and ignorant you are. This is America. From the ashes of this insanity, brave men and women will one day rise up against the oppression. It will take blood, sweat and tears. People will die. But in a few generations, these brave men and women will prevail. All will benefit from their struggle and we'll have what our brothers and sisters had back in the 20th century, what the fucking pussies of the 21st willingly gave away. Their chidren's children will have all this too....

Or, we could fucking fight to keep what we have....now? Ya think?

Not Thy Brother's Keeper

Like alot of Teapublicans, *Raptorkitty* and *prioroffenses* hate absolutely everything about liberals, Obama and all things relative to the current administration. They even hate their relatives who might be relative to the Obama administration.

The Teapublicans want to eliminate every government service that might have a whiff of socialism about it. Whether it be education, social security or- more simply put- ANYTHING that could be paid for with taxes that might help those who can't help themselves. RK and Prior belive that life is every man, woman and child for themselves unless a church wants to help out. That's OK as long as it is a Christian church and not some mosque that is merely a front for terrorists. They have guns and live in the crime-free country parts of Michigan and Colorado, respectively. These are idyllic utopias where neighbors help each other out (which is "OK" too, maybe a loophole?) no one gets pregnant out of wedlock, and everyone practices family values. Practice- hell- they LIVE family values!

Yet both recently wrote in the threads how each had a sibling that was lost to them because of the "liberal values" of alcoholism/drug abuse and homelessness.

Yes. These two equate these things with liberals. The guy downtown, begging for change (dare I say: HOPEing for CHANGE?) just might as well be the Democratic Senator from Illinois. No difference. Same ideals, though the Senator might dress a bit better and likely has a home, he just begs for other peoples money, just the same.

RK and Prior HATE this. To illustrate this, they told the stories of their *tough love* approach to the wayward, *liberal* siblings. They refused to give them money lest they might blow it on cigarettes, beer or gambling. Some family members took issue with this but, they held firm. RK confessed to once giving her brother a gift card and regretting it because he likely spent it on his bad habits. Twenty years of tough love and the guy hadn't changed. Liberals- what are ya gonna do??!! Some just people just don't get it.....

And some of those people are RK, Prior and the teapublicans. They don't get it. I suggested to RK that, in lieu of cash, perhaps she could sent her brother clothes.

"I don't know what he likes to wear!" she protested.

Sheesh. Like homeless people have a dress code? Had she ever seen any? Many wear coats in summer because they have no place to store their winter threads. They're not fashionistas. If you're really concerned that your hard-earned money *might* go towards vices, clothes or food would seem to be the way to go for the homeless family member.

But, RK and Prior insisted that "real Americans" pull themselves up by the bootstraps and improve their lives without government help, just as the founders intended! (Ferrerman note: A google search of the Constitution couldn't find this intention of the founders. By golly, that piece of paper is more widely interpreted than even the Bible!)

But, I digress. These two soul-less bastards, much like the teapublicans themselves, are simply cheap. They just don't get that, if your *liberal* sibling has been depending upon the kindness of strangers to get by in life, for the last 20 years, it just mightcould be they have mental/emotional issues that bootstraps and tough love just ain't gonna cure. How long do these people- the teapublicans- have to pound on the square peg until they realize that it's just NOT going to fit into the round hole?

The teapublicans seem to think that a little bit of Darwinism is needed to thin out the herd. To expedite this, eliminate ALL social services to the poor and commence bootstrap-pulling. Those who can, will. Those who can't, will die and no longer be a burden to society. Homeless children should encourage their homeless parents. Or else....

Charity begins at home, after all.

Evidently, it ends there as well....

How NOT to measure your penis.

Don't use this blog! Boy, if your manhood is defined by my alleged lack of readership, you've already got a dick that is seriously in danger of being mistaken for lady parts. Oh my!

This space seems to be a constant source of contempt by so many of my enemies, all of which claim to be non-readers of my blog and all-knowing about myself and my life. Which begs the philosophical question:

*If a Ferrerman has a blog and ABSOLUTELY NO ONE reads it, how can anyone know what is in it?*

My completely imaginary friend, Hegel, mentioned to me this morning on my imaginary Facebook site, that I never mention my blog on the threads but others constantly do. If they're not reading it and habitually gloating that only one (probably imaginary) person officially does follow my blog, why do these enemies talk about my blog at all? Why do they post links to it? It's like saying: "Hey everybody- read this blog that NOBODY READS!" Tell your friends!

Like Yogi Berra, whom I'm pretty sure doesn't read my blog might say: "Ferrerman's blog is so unpopular, everybody goes there to not read it".

This blog isn't my dick, folks. My other blog is better and more my heart and soul (as well as interesting stories about my dick and where it's been....) but, that one isn't my dick either. But, because this space has been trolled so much in the threads by not-so-dedicated, non-readers, I sure as hell don't advertise that blog either. Suffice to say, it is devoid of talk of Ferrerman, Topix or dregs. I write about that shit here. A few select people have crossed over, as it were and everyone else just knows about that one, not this one. It's better that way. There's a whole wide world of wonderful readers out there.

Here, however, there is a mix of good Topix folks and the usual dreg suspects like sublime and rational.

Sub and rat are bullies. They don't understand that I bully the bullies because I can and because someone should. Dedicated non-readers know that bullying is what the dregs are all about. It's like their own version of Fight Club. They are always on the lookout for new members, oblivious to the fact that even the old members- the founders- can't stand them anymore. Honestly, I don't think I defeated A770, 3e and Teri as much as I gave them a good excuse to bail on this bunch. Not to diminish the abject evil of A770 and 3e cause they were, indeed, wrapped pretty tight. Teri was OK, just kinda a lost follower type. With any luck, she moved on. Don't know. I think every dreg knows they are one seemingly false move from getting cast aside like MaryAnn was. (By the way, was there ever a poster as genuinely nice as her? What scumbags could abuse her or stand by as others did? Truly disgusting)

So, yes, I still fuck with them here and there because someone has to. But, i'm pretty much phoning it in, going through the motions. It's like trying to talk politics with a teabagger. You can link them to facts but you cannot make them think. When the dregs are not fighting amongst themselves, they can always fight with Ferrerman and build themselves up by believing their own lives are so much more enriched because, at least, they are not Ferrerman, he of the little dick and NO friends nor family nor blog followers.....

Thanks for reading! See ya next post!

Of course, I WOULD say that, wouldn't I?

TEACH THIS!

The average teacher in Wisconsin makes $51,000 a year. That is, when the average teacher in Wisconsin isn't making $100,000 a year.



Figures lie and liars figure so, suffice to say, unless they are living under a bridge and walking to their baby-sitting jobs, they are millionaires.



I wrote about this in a more personal way about four months ago on my other blog. Some of you know I have teachers in my family and amongst my friends and I told their stories there. This blog is a bit more eclectic and rife with trolls so, I tend to leave the personal stuff out, for personal reasons.



I'm disgusted at the current situation in Wisconsin. Teachers aren't being singled out there as much as Unions as a whole are but, much of the insane crap I've read lately does focus on them as if teachers were solely responsible for the current poor economy and Bristol Palin's loss on Dancing With the Stars.



No one gets into teaching to get rich or control the world. I don't care if you liars figure teachers pay at 180 days a year, the nine month school year or over twelve months, it ain't lucrative. No one on Wall Street is thinking of giving that up to teach economics. The billionaire Koch brothers are not grumpy because they chose the wrong path in life. The same is true of the state's snow-plow drivers. Extrapolate THAT, m-effers! Those guys don't plow in July, even in Wisconsin! How rich and coddled can it get? The same could be said of unfavorable Police and Fire Unions (who don't support a republican governor). They just sit around waiting for crimes and fire and eating donuts or chili while they do this. And all of these professions actually get paid ridiculous amounts of TAX DOLLARS for this nonsense!

Well, probably only a few really crazy people think they should do these jobs for free but, every right-thinking conservative agrees that they get paid entirely too much for what amounts to baby-sitting, be it children, fires, crime or snow. Plus, worse, they get benefits for this fleecing of the tax-payers, things like insurance and vacations as if they were you or someone really important.

Some of the first to be murdered in a communist revolution are teachers. The communists don't want any educated people around tipping off the peasants about their true intent. Well, I'd be doing my history teachers of my past a disservice if I were to imply that wealthy, teapublican businesspeople were communists so, I'm not saying that. Nor am I saying that there intent is to murder teachers. It hasn't come to that yet and likely never will. But, by trying to break the Unions and by disrespecting teachers as they are, they are waging a war on America with what amounts to a *cultural revolution* without machetes and AK47's.

It's every bit as evil as communism even though it- so far- lacks the violence. Sad that it's not foreign invaders but our own citizens perpetuating this obscene revolution. Who will protect us from us?

"First they came for the Trade Unionists...."

I Was Just Joking!

Alleged journalist, Nir Rosen, has caught flack for joking that actual journalist, Lara Logan, was *just trying to out-do Anderson Cooper" when she was brutally sexually assaulted in Cairo this week. Another alleged journalist, Debbie Schussler, agreed with him. Both consider Logan a *war-monger*. I don't think that's on her resume or her job description at CBS News.

Rosen at least, claims he was *joking* with friends on his Twitter thingy when he made his comments and he apologized and seemed heartfeltingly disingenuous in doing so. It was the ol': "I was just JOKING! Can't YOU take a joke???!! Sheesh.....SOME PEOPLE.....

One of the dregs, a middle-aged, childless woman- Angela- regularly trots out her favorite joke about child rapist/murderers. In it, a child rapist murderer is walking his victim into the woods. The child says s/he is "scared". The killer responds: "You're scared? I'm the one who has to walk out of here all by myself!"

Well, fuck me. I failed to see the humor in this the first twenty times she told this joke. Two thousand tellings later, I still won't.

I don't get Nir Rosen's humor either. You could say, *well, he's a man and men are crude....*
So, how then do you explain Debbie or an Angela? Aren't women supposed to be genteel and compassionate about issues of rape, especially when they concern women and children- the two groups most preyed upon in society by rape? Are these women ahead of the curve of other women? Or are they men, trapped in the bodies of women? Women have diseased minds too, I guess. Perhaps some always did. Can't blame it on the feminist movement but, evidently there IS equality when it comes to perverted *humor*.

It's just that, isn't it just a little more grotesque when it comes from the ovary bearing gender?

Words DO hit harder than fists sometimes.

Could An Egyptian Revolution Happen Here?

Of course not. We don't have enough Egyptians here to pull one off and, the one's we do have probably love it here so, that's NOT gonna happen.

There's supposed to be a Tea Party revolution going on here as we speak but, it's not like any revolution you've ever seen or heard of before. It's financed by the billionaire Koch brothers and only our nations wealthiest 2% will benefit from whatever their efforts bring. Those fellas are probably familiar with the adage, "When there's blood in the streets, it's time to buy property". though they might encourage certain people to *talk* about blood in the streets, I don't think they really see that as wise business in this country, at this time. I hope they don't.....

If you got the nations angriest people to surround the White House and chant for President Obama to step down, you'd have only 2% of the population and, well, that's not much of a mob even if they bring along their servants.

The Koch brothers and their friends probably would find chanting and rock throwing beneath them anyway. Their tactic is to get other, less million/billionaired types to do their protesting for them. Stunt Protesters if you will or Kochsuckers as I call them because, well, they ARE suckers to be screaming for the rights of people who wouldn't even let them in the back door of their various homes unless it were to fix a sink or tidy up. Their first thought may have been to hire illegal aliens to swarm the White House but, that wouldn't have been fiscally responsible as those illegals are otherwise occupied doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do. By that I mean, everything. It would also be confusing to the media and the rest of Americans to have (mostly) Mexicans protesting taxation of millionaires. I don't think there are too many Mexican millionaires in this country. The police or military wouldn't even have to break up such a gathering. It would only take a few contractors in pick-up trucks needing a few men to break up such a crowd.

So instead they got thousands of the nations chubbiest, poorest spellers to take up their cause in various smaller protests around the nation. And they enlisted a failed governor (Palin) and several good looking blondes (MEGYN!) on FOXNEWS and one funny looking blond(?) Glenn Beck to promote their cause. (FUCKING IRONY ALERT! This is probably tax deductable!) And instead of blood in the streets, we get hundreds of threads on Topix and hours of cable news devoted to this stupid, non-revolution which is nothing more than one party's sour grapes at losing an election. Nothing more.

The average Egyptian in the streets today would laugh at us if he knew what our current revolution were truly about. I wonder if past revolutionaries- especially our own founders- aren't spinning in their graves when they look at those who look at our current situation so gravely? Any person whose ever shed blood at the hands of thugs employed by a dictator would cry at what our *revolutionaries* cry about.

It's embarrassing. I don't know what will become of Egypt and Tunisia but, I hope they never get to the point where THEY are the greatest nation in the world and have to deal with the revolutionaries that can't think straight, like we've got now. It's despicable.

I wish I could say it was "un-American" but, it is decidely American. Very sad.

Spoiled Brats

I saw where some teapublicans took issue with the Obama's Superbowl menu. It's so hard to tell with these people but they seemed to have issue with the President eating at the taxpayers expense and eating things that weren't on any guidelines that Michelle Obama might have in her campaign to combat childhood obesity. It mightcould be that they are IN FAVOR OF childhood obesity since Mrs Obama is against it or they just like fat kids. Maybe it's constitutional, under one of those amendments that isn't THE SECOND, like that "pursuit of happiness" thingy-a-doey. "We have a right to be morbidly obese!!! Nay, since those Obama's are against it, we have a duty...."

Sheesh. There is just absolutely nothing that the first couple do that these 'tards can't find fault with. If Obama came out today, against teapublicans dousing their faces with gasoline, lighting those faces and then putting the fires out with screwdrivers, you would see a run on gas stations and the Home Depot like nobody's business!

Brats, chips, cheeseburgers and beer for a SuperBowl party? Suddenly that's "un-American"?

I wonder what Sarah and Todd had- Mooseburgers maybe? I wonder if they were even together yesterday....

Meow!