Thursday, November 04, 2004
This is the time of year I like least. Birthday coming up. Lot of dead leaves on the ground & hanging on trees. Dreary rainy days & pale sunny ones. Shorter & shorter days We get six to eight weeks of this climate, depending on winter's timing. So I break it down into sections. Halloween to Birthday. Birthday to Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving to Winter Solstice. Solstice to the New Year. That leaves two months of deep winter (anything can happen in March).
I wonder if the huge NJEA teacher's union Convention - which starts today, followed two weeks later by the League of Jersey Municipalities convention have anything to do with seven Atlantic City casinos settling a strike by Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees? The Union got everything it wanted except for length of the contract. During what is a slow time for the casinos, NJEA brings 50,000 members & allies to town for at least one day, & were already taking all their business to the five non-strike casinos. The League brings thousands of gambling, boozing public employees, heavyweight local & state politicians, candidate wannabees, lobbyists, plus banks & businesses that sponsor free-for-all buffets & "hospitality" suites. Not many of these people would cross a picket line, either. & at the exhibit hall one can stock up a year's supply of pens, postits, mousepads & other office doodads, & some tee shirts & hats.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
I wonder if the huge NJEA teacher's union Convention - which starts today, followed two weeks later by the League of Jersey Municipalities convention have anything to do with seven Atlantic City casinos settling a strike by Local 54 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees? The Union got everything it wanted except for length of the contract. During what is a slow time for the casinos, NJEA brings 50,000 members & allies to town for at least one day, & were already taking all their business to the five non-strike casinos. The League brings thousands of gambling, boozing public employees, heavyweight local & state politicians, candidate wannabees, lobbyists, plus banks & businesses that sponsor free-for-all buffets & "hospitality" suites. Not many of these people would cross a picket line, either. & at the exhibit hall one can stock up a year's supply of pens, postits, mousepads & other office doodads, & some tee shirts & hats.
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