J. Justin Wilson is the corporate version of that creepy hit man from No Country for Old Men. Oh he'll get you. When I told a fellow Campaign for America's Future staffer I was going to take on J. Justin Wilson, he immediately hide under his desk and called his children to tell them he loved them and then cried - hard.
Wilson started off his career working for candy makers arguing on FOX News that junk foods weren't making kids fat.
J. Justin Wilson became famous appearing on ABC News attacking men that played Santa Claus in shopping malls. Apparently, J. Justin Wilson was outraged that a group of shopping mall Santa Clauses was encouraging young children to eat healthier. Wilson said it was an assault on Christmas that Santa Clauses would encourage young children to eat a few vegetables along with the chocolate in their Christmas Stockings.
In a November 2007 Fox News Interview, he claimed what was making young kids fat was not that they were eating too much junk food but that they were not out "rough housing" enough. Yes J. Justin Wilson did indeed advocate little kids beat each other up in order to lose weight as opposed to simply eat less junk food.
He's that bad ass!
But beating up little kids was chump change for a true cul de sac cowboy like Wilson. He now advocates for illegally firing 30,000 workers for expressing their constitutional right to join a union as the senior researcher at the Wall Street funded "The Center for Union Facts".
Basically J. Justin Wilson is the pastel polo shirt, boat shoe wearing version of Shaft. Yachtsman fear him, union thugs like myself even more.
I heard that J. Justin Wilson was going to meet me in the schoolyard for advocating for the Employee Free Choice Act last week. I expected an ass kicking not seen since I admitted to my grade school friends that I watched "My So Called Life" with my older sister, Megan.
I feared what Wilson might say to counter my argument about how EFCA would fix the economy. Maybe workers should just beat up other workers for spare change instead of asking corporations to pay those more. The remarkably physically fit George W. Bush could come out of retirement to inspire working class Americans to get in shape for kicking each others' asses.
And man did Wilson "bring it on"... slamming me exclaiming:
The battle over EFCA has become less a battle about EFCA, and more a proxy battle in a larger conflict about political sway, public opinion, and economic ideology.
Oh man that's rough, the Employee Free Choice Act is about who has a say in the economy - working people or Wall Street. I'm stumped. Somebody call Paul Krugman, I am in a tough bind here.
WAIT WAIT, no he is right! EFCA is about working folks having a voice in the economy and our democracy.
But this guy is suppose to be the top researcher at the nation's top anti-worker front. Has he researched which side he is on? Wall Street.
Or perhaps he has researched it and he knows there is no real good argument against regular people having a voice in the economy. Wall Street was only able to push through its corporate agenda in part due to the decline of the labor movement. It's no coincidence that CEO pay rose from 42 times what the average worker made in 1980 to 364 in 2006 while union membership declined dramatically from 20 percent of the private sector workforce in 1980 to just over 7 percent in 2006.
Wall Street was only able to destroy our economy once they destroyed most of our unions. Not even a corporate thug like J. Julius Wilson can push around the American people on that point. BAM!
J. Justin Wilson is the corporate version of that creepy hit man from No Country for Old Men. Oh he'll get you. When I told a fellow Campaign for America's Future staffer I was going to take on J. Justin Wilson, he immediately hide under his desk and called his children to tell them he loved them and then cried - hard.
Wilson started off his career working for candy makers arguing on FOX News that junk foods weren't making kids fat.
J. Justin Wilson became famous appearing on ABC News attacking men that played Santa Claus in shopping malls. Apparently, J. Justin Wilson was outraged that a group of shopping mall Santa Clauses was encouraging young children to eat healthier. Wilson said it was an assault on Christmas that Santa Clauses would encourage young children to eat a few vegetables along with the chocolate in their Christmas Stockings.
In a November 2007 Fox News Interview, he claimed what was making young kids fat was not that they were eating too much junk food but that they were not out "rough housing" enough. Yes J. Justin Wilson did indeed advocate little kids beat each other up in order to lose weight as opposed to simply eat less junk food.
He's that bad ass!
But beating up little kids was chump change for a true cul de sac cowboy like Wilson. He now advocates for illegally firing 30,000 workers for expressing their constitutional right to join a union as the senior researcher at the Wall Street funded "The Center for Union Facts".
Basically J. Justin Wilson is the pastel polo shirt, boat shoe wearing version of Shaft. Yachtsman fear him, union thugs like myself even more.
I heard that J. Justin Wilson was going to meet me in the schoolyard for advocating for the Employee Free Choice Act last week. I expected an ass kicking not seen since I admitted to my grade school friends that I watched "My So Called Life" with my older sister, Megan.
I feared what Wilson might say to counter my argument about how EFCA would fix the economy. Maybe workers should just beat up other workers for spare change instead of asking corporations to pay them more. The remarkably physically fit George W. Bush could come out of retirement to inspire working class Americans to get in shape for kicking each others' asses.
And man did Wilson "bring it on"... slamming me exclaiming:
The battle over EFCA has become less a battle about EFCA, and more a proxy battle in a larger conflict about political sway, public opinion, and economic ideology.
Oh man that's rough, the Employee Free Choice Act is about who has a say in the economy - working people or Wall Street. I'm stumped. Somebody call Paul Krugman, I am in a tough bind here.
WAIT WAIT, no he is right! EFCA is about working folks having a voice in the economy and our democracy.
But this guy is suppose to be the top researcher at the nation's top anti-worker front. Has he researched which side he is on? Wall Street.
Or perhaps he has researched it and he knows there is no real good argument against regular people having a voice in the economy. Wall Street was only able to push through its corporate agenda in part due to the decline of the labor movement. It's no coincidence that CEO pay rose from 42 times what the average worker made in 1980 to 364 in 2006 while union membership declined dramatically from 20 percent of the private sector workforce in 1980 to just over 7 percent in 2006.
Wall Street was only able to destroy our economy once they destroyed most of our unions. Not even a corporate thug like J. Julius Wilson can push around the American people on that point. BAM!
A Long Island woman lost her $500 down payment, after learning that the hitman she’d hired to kill her husband was actually an undercover cop. Though Susan Williams wanted her husband gone, she worried she didn’t have the funds to pay for a full kill. According to DA Kathleen Rice, "Initially it was, 'I want him hurt,' then it became, 'I want him gone.'” But when she was offered a bargain price she gladly accepted. "When the $20,000 amount was thrown out" by the purported hit man, "she then made it clear what she wanted him to do," the DA said.
The 43-year-old mom ordered the hit after her husband failed to pay $11,000/month child support, saying he couldn’t afford it, reports Newsday. He claims she admitted to being unfaithful during their marriage, even sleeping with her boss (who she later accused of assault and forcing her to have deviant sex). But her lawyer says Williams’s ex-husband is “not a nice guy,” adding that "There's a long history of problems, physical and sexual."
For his part, the husband Peter Williams is just happy to be alive: "I am thankful that the person that my wife sought to help in hiring a hit man had the decency to contact the appropriate authorizes—otherwise I would probably be dead," he said.
Hisham Talaat Mustafa, a billionaire Egyptian real estate tycoon, was sentenced to death last year for paying a hit man to murder his Lebanese pop star girlfriend, Suzanne Tamim. Luckily, someone's remembered that he's a billionaire. Let that man go!
An Egyptian court has now accepted "the appeal presented by the defendants on procedural and content basis" and ordered a retrial for Mustafa. "The reasons will be issued later," explains the AP. We're just going to go with "that's how things work in this world of ours."
[Previously]
This afternoon's incident at an Internal Revenue Service facility in Utah, in which several people were removed on stretchers after an "unknown substance" was found, appears to be the latest in an alarming rise in threats against the agency's employees.
According to the Treasury Department's Inspector General for Tax Administration, the number of threats against IRS employees increased 21.5% from FY 2008, when there were 834 threats to FY 2009, when there were 1,014 threats.
Over the past four years, there appears to be a "steady, upward trend" in threats against IRS staffers, a TIGTA official told Dow Jones Newswires last week. The most unnerving incident in recent memory occurred just two weeks ago, when Joseph Stack flew his plane into IRS offices in Austin, Texas, killing one employee nearing retirement.
Other notable attacks on the tax-collecting arm of the government in recent years include:
In March of 2009, Randy Nowak hired a hit man to kill an IRS worker auditing his tax return and to burn down IRS offices in Lakeland, Fla. He was sentenced to 30 years in jail.
In 2008, Earnest Milton Barnett rammed his Jeep Cherokee into the IRS's Birmingham, Ala., offices and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
I wish this were just a bad joke, but Beck isn't messing around -- he's painting bull's-eyes on the backs of progressives.
Will somebody tell me why, in this era of forced multi-tasking, it took 11 people to kill just one Hamas leader. Mossad rank-and-file must have a really strong labor organization, the Union of Assassination Experts..the UAE. Obviously, they are killer negotiators.
There they were in a Dubai hotel (the UAE in the UAE). Since they were captured on video did they get talent fees? Did they get lunch? If not, was there a meal penalty? Do they have a shop steward to file grievances?
Compare that to the American way of taking people out. We outsource. As often as not we employ private contractors. When you think about it, that's nothing new. A generation ago, the government would simply ask some Mafia figure to send a lone hit man to do our unsavory jobs.
From our safe distance, the dirty work can seem so sanitary. But the moral issues are messy, particularly for those who can only see the world divided in a battle of good versus evil. It's a lot more complicated than that as we see in the agonizing debate over the Bush administration Justice Department attorneys who concocted legal rationalizations for torture, rendering and who knows what else.
At the behest of their patron Dick Cheney, John Yoo, now a law professor and Jay Bybee, who has become a federal judge called "Your Honor", enthusiastically stretched the limits with their memos that brushed aside human rights traditions and common decency with their twisted logic. They also swept away any pretense that the U-S was a country that, by definition, always stood/stands on the high road.
After months of convoluted hand wringing a task force has finally decided, in effect, that as crazy as their logic seemed to be, punishing Yoo and Bybee would be inappropriate second guessing. A sub text is the contention that brutality is necessary when the nation's survival is at stake.
To sterilize things our propagandists come up with neutral terms in post 9/11 times like "Enhanced Interrogation" instead of "Torture" or the spooky "Termination with Extreme Prejudice" instead of "Murder". It becomes so much easier to stomach. It's all a James Bond movie. Or Maxwell Smart. Killing capers.
The latest one was taped in Dubai, with a hit squad about the size of a movie crew. Apparently they were successful, so don't be surprised if there's a sequel. There always is.
