{"id":5727,"date":"2011-06-23T06:27:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningseditionists.com\/msblog\/?p=5727"},"modified":"2011-06-23T09:28:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T13:28:04","slug":"thursday-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.morningseditionists.com\/msblog2\/2011\/06\/23\/thursday-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watched the President’s speech last night (not that I watched<\/em><\/strong> it last night; I watched it because it was thrust upon me at the start of my recording of KO). Well, I watched for a few minutes. Then he started sounding like the teacher in a Charlie Brown cartoon “wah-wah-wah-wah, wah, wah, wah” so I skipped forward. I think I missed some stuff about baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet. <\/p>\n

Aaron Sorkin has come to the same conclusion about Facebook as I have<\/a>. Namely, that it should be shunned like a perverted Amish Sexter (or a perverted sexting Jewish Congressman). Damn kids.<\/p>\n

No movement on Gay Marriage here in NY, though I’m starting to have my doubts that it will ever happen. We’ll see, I guess. As reported by the Albany Times Union the other day<\/a>, the NYS Senate “remains in a same sex marriage holding pattern,” which I think is like a Dirty Sanchez, except with more cuddling. But I’m not up on all that stuff, so I could be wrong. Might be some sort of kinky Amish thing for all I know.<\/p>\n

Speaking of getting screwed, the largest NYS public employee union – CSEA, my former brothers and sisters – has come to a tentative agreement with Governor Snotball<\/a>. Basically, Snotty held the layoff gun to their heads, and told them to sign or else. We’ll see if the membership ratifies it. <\/p>\n

The agreement locks the union into a 5-yr agreement with three years of no raises followed by a 1% raise halfway through the fourth year and a 2% raise halfway through the fifth year. It also calls for 9-days worth of furloughs over the first two years (5 days the first year – which, combined with no raise, amounts to about a 2% pay cut), and substantial increases in the neighborhood of 5-6% (depending on if you’re single or not, and it has two-tiers where the lower pay grades get screwed slightly less than the upper ones) on health care costs.<\/p>\n

As for layoff protections, there appears to be enough wiggle room in there where Governor Snotball can come back and screw everybody over again down the road. <\/p>\n

Next up is the #2 State Union – PEF – which will probably follow suit (once the first union caves in, the dominoes fall), and then my union – UUP – having let the other guys do the dirty work, will see what they can get. <\/p>\n

Personally, I’m not really looking forward to losing 9 days worth of pay or paying more for health insurance that I don’t actually use very often. My property taxes are only increasing, as are all my other expenses. <\/p>\n

But, hey, it’s not about me. It’a all about preserving the way of life of the Wall Street millionaires. I mean, who else is gonna contribute to Governor Snotball’s presidential campaign? Not me. I’ll be too busy fighting with the cats over their food. <\/p>\n

I’m thinking Science Diet dry food might go pretty well with soy milk. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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