Frank J.

Lately there has been a lot of talk about unions and how Republicans are trying to break up public sector unions, and Senator Sherrod Brown thought it was useful to point out one person who was against unions: Hitler! Strange, I thought the Nazis were socialists and thus real progressive on workers and such, but oh well. (more)

Maybe I was too quick to give up on Middle East peace the other day. I am an engineer, so there is no reasons I can't solve this problem. I know there have been problems in the Middle East for a while -- weeks at least -- but if we look at the factors involved, solutions should be pretty obvious. (more)

Governor Walker has outlined big cuts to the Wisconsin state budget -- which I assume involves not paying the 14 missing Democrat senators. I have a good idea to cut even more from the budget: Why not just get rid of all the teachers? (more)

So. That Middle East -- stuff sure is going on there. (more)

So we have this big hullabaloo (it's a word) in Wisconsin involving the teachers’ union and fugitive Democrats. Now, unions are these things from like five hundred years ago when businesses were telling employees, "You're going to work ninety hours a week for no pay or we'll set you and your family on fire!" And eventually the workers got fed up with their families being set on fire so they organized together in unions and made sure those businesses had no workers unless their demands were met. This forced businesses to give their employees fair pay and safe working conditions... which made the businesses unprofitable so that they had to shut down and move to other countries. So it was all really good for unemployed children overseas. So that's what I know about unions. Oh, and they wore blue in the Civil War. (more)

While I'm guest posting here, I feel the need to speak out on a certain issue. Some blogs -- and I won't name names -- have been promoting discrimination and ridicule against one of society's most vulnerable groups -- pandas. (more)

Let's say you have two apples and someone else has five apples. Now let's say that other person gets three more apples. How many apples do you now have? (more)

While Jim Treacher searches for rare specimens to add to his butterfly collection, other people will be trawling. Like Frank J: “Hello. I’m Frank J. I blog at IMAO.us and sometimes write columns. I am also on the Twitters. I like to write about politics even though I don’t know more than anybody else, but that’s okay because it’s the internet.” (more)

While Jim Treacher continues his lobster roll-tasting tour of New England, other people will be trawling. Like Frank J: “Hello. I’m Frank J. I blog at IMAO.us and sometimes write columns. I am also on the Twitters. I like to write about politics even though I don’t know more than anybody else, but that’s okay because it’s the internet.” (more)

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