Rex Kickass

I think that all workers deserve the right to be heard and have a seat at the bargaining table. Striking isn't always the wisest option, but it happens sometimes - and sometimes it's necessary. I don't really know if it was necessary in 1987 however.

I just want to chime in here. We appreciate all the love you guys give Soxtalk, but let's not go overboard on bashing other guys' boards here. We are all Sox fans, some of us choose to express our appreciation differently. That's why there are different White Sox communities. Rather than focusing your anger on other White Sox fans or their message board, why not focus it where it belongs? For example, on the Indians, or the Cubs, or, say, certain Chicago columnists who find themselves on ESPN all the time.

That was Bill Burroughs who killed his girlfriend Joan Vollmer while playing "William Tell" in 1948 in Mexico.

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman was on the list. Yet no Maude.

QUOTE(BigSqwert @ Oct 11, 2007 -> 07:03 PM) Cool. I'll be looking forward to it. Portishead recorded arguably the best track on the Gainsbourg tribute album last year.

Barack Obama: Your grassroots are showing. I think this is pretty awesome.

Very true. I wonder why they didn't think about that.

I did this once. Because I'm a big dork.

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Tippecanoe and Top Cat too?

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 12:19 PM) Ann Coulter is to conservatives what Britney Spears is to musicians. I wouldn't go that far. Seriously, why you want to insult Britney like that?

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 12:43 PM) Just think, we could have another President Garfield! Farm subsidies directed towards lasagna ingredients! A president who sleeps less than Mr. Bush! Picturing Tim Russert..."Mr. Odie, as Vice President, what would your response be to an attack that removed the President" "SLURP!" I support President Heathcliff, thanks.

It's a Saturday only show. I wouldn't read that much into it.

Ann Coulter is boring.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 10:47 AM) Further proof that peace through strength works. It can work if exercised correctly, but I think that change in the Soviet Union and its satellite states, came about through forces bigger than Reagan or the US. Most of that change came internally, and was ultimately fostered by IMO the detente and relationship that the US developed with the Soviet Union and other states. Personally, I believe that it was Gorbachev's relationship with Reagan and later Bush that helped him start reforms that would ultimately unravel the communist system. That being said, Reagan's foreign policy wasn't particularly peaceful. But then again, neither was Clinton's, or even Carter's. After all, it was in 1980 that Carter proposed the largest increase in defense budgeting and US forces in decades.

QUOTE(NUKE @ Oct 12, 2007 -> 10:40 AM) Had we not been there with huge armies of our own, backed by nuclear weapons, then that would indeed have happened. Not really. Not by 1981 anyway. After 1968, Moscow was mostly in a defensive posture in Europe. The Hungarian Coup in 1956 followed by the Prague Spring of 1968 made most communist parties in non-satellite Europe mostly irrelevant, with the exception of the Italian Communist party because it was the only one that did not take significant direction from Moscow. The truth is, the USSR rather enjoyed the barrier between East and West, because accomodations like a divided East and West Germany helped fund a crumbling economy.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Oct 10, 2007 -> 05:42 PM) And it's already settled. No link yet, just saw a breaking news thingy. Speculation is its similar to the GM deal.

QUOTE(Rex Kicka** @ Oct 11, 2007 -> 12:36 AM) IIRC, on FreeRepublic, they also posted the family's home address and phone number. Sorry, it was just their address.

IIRC, on FreeRepublic, they also posted the family's home address and phone number.

Happy Birthday and such.

Chrysler is owned by a holding company I thought. This strike seems to be over some different sticking points. UAW is trying to shoulder the responsibility for the legacy pensions that Chrysler is actually currently responsible for. However to do that, Chrysler needs to contribute to a pension fund run by the UAW. Chrysler is balking. Chrysler is also balking at the guarantees in job security that GM agreed to. Most likely, any compromise from Chrysler will probably be to contribute significantly to the pension fund in order to get out of job security guarantees. This will be a different contract than GM got, simply because the situations are so different. The question is will the AFL-CIO led UAW realize this and act resiliently, or will they, like so many other things that AFL-CIO unions do, fail to realize changing times and wither on the vine. Chrysler wanted this strike. With a 71 day inventory, they can literally shut down for two weeks and possibly be better off. Ideally, Chrysler seeks to keep a 60 day inventory. By striking now, Chrysler sort of has an advantage. I'm not sure that this was the smartest idea on behalf of UAW.

QUOTE(NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 10, 2007 -> 11:17 AM) Like the GM and Ford strikes, this may get the workers some relief short term, but it will end up biting them in the ass long term. Not a smart move. There was no Ford strike, at least not yet. The GM strike actually ended up giving UAW workers some longer term job security anywhere from 5-10 years so I fail to see the long term ass biting here.

QUOTE(sox4lifeinPA @ Oct 9, 2007 -> 09:05 AM) I'm totally offended. The dollar menu at McD's is a huge hot button topic. What would be the socio-economic ramifications of taking away the dollar menu at mcdonalds? ----> Rev. Al would be picketing! And poor Ben from Growing Pains would be out of a spokesperson job again.

I'd go in a heartbeat.