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No they are that stupid and believe their twaddle. I have an older brother who suffers from this illness. He is extremely intelligent in most things that have nothing to do with freedom or politics.
darwin-t on September 26, 2010 at 11:02 PM
I have the same brother. Fortunately, I haven’t spoken to him in 30 years. All that dope really toasted his brain. And he lives in Michigan and it’s all Bush’s fault.
Lanceman on September 26, 2010 at 11:05 PM
That is the biggest laugh that I have had all day long, and right on the money too!
Look, here is how it goes in the real world of factory work, NOT EVEN MANAGEMENT DRINKS. It is too dangerous, against OSHA regs, and oh so many laws these days.
KP is an absolute moron!
Kermit on September 26, 2010 at 11:06 PM
It was Carlson that made the point:
Factories have large fast moving metal objects moving artound, it’s probably not a good idea to be lit up while operating them.
It was Powers that stated, “we don’t know if they were lit up or not”.
And then talks about bankers…. give me a break
That’s like Obama saying; “You can keep your doctor under my plan“
Kini on September 26, 2010 at 11:10 PM
I’d rather the dude managing my portfolio weren’t three sheets to the wind either, but my jacked up portfolio isn’t likely to cost me my life. My jacked up Sebring might, or it might cause someone else theirs. That she can’t see the distinction here is mind-boggling.
NoLeftTurn on September 26, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Actually, jerry, I do have an idea. I live in San Diego and many of my friends were shipyard workers at NASSCO. Over the years I heard so many tales of these near death experiences that I concluded my rigger buddies were crazy as hell to even work in a shipyard.
Thank God you made it out alive!
Gang-of-One on September 26, 2010 at 11:14 PM
I love it! This is why they are gonna lose big in November!
yubley on September 26, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Class Warfare.
Bankers make money and if their performance sucks, then they get fired.
Whereas the union jacks produce a Chappaquiddick mobile, and get another raise.
Kini on September 26, 2010 at 11:22 PM
I think KP was “in character” during this show…
d1carter on September 26, 2010 at 11:23 PM
:) thanks.
jerrytbg on September 26, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Somehow I don’t think you’re The Lone Ranger on that score.
BTW, took a look-see at your website. Good stuff!
Gang-of-One on September 26, 2010 at 11:25 PM
Wow!
I thought that I was the only one with a brother like that. He has two degrees and still doesn’t understand that the gubmint will dump him into the ocean of flotsam deadbeats and takers as soon as they don’t serve any useful purpose.
belad on September 26, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Powers talks like she has first hand experience parting with the three martini bankers.
I wonder how loose Powers gets after a few?
Double standard and double vision
Kini on September 26, 2010 at 11:27 PM
I must have the only brother who is truly toasted yet still a Conservative Republican. My brother Danny is a study. Even with his gray matter toasted he loves the military, hates liberals, has trouble affording health care but railed against ObamaCare (we help him) and he’s even against legalizing pot even though that’s his braincell killing drug of choice. I love him. I just wish he could keep me and my younger brother Dave straight. He calls us by each others names.
hawkdriver on September 26, 2010 at 11:27 PM
parting = partying
Kini on September 26, 2010 at 11:29 PM
At least he’s still a thinker….
Whereas Powers gets along by her looks, and not her gray matter.
Kini on September 26, 2010 at 11:35 PM
And with Clinton it was said that ‘everyone lies about sex’…
According to her logic? So long as anyone else in the country has a few during lunch… these guys get a pass.
Yeah… But at least they weren’t adding salt to their beer.
And if he’s caught in a situation that gets him fired… I’m not defending his drinking either.
BTW… As strongly as she asserts the ‘bankers drinking lunch’ thing… makes me wonder if she drinks her lunch in the same places as the bankers do…?
RalphyBoy on September 26, 2010 at 11:36 PM
If lap-dancing is involved, then my Libertarian side begins to get aroused.
Kini on September 26, 2010 at 11:42 PM
lol, Danny is still a pretty handsome middle aged Casanova. He gets the woman. But Geez I still worry about him. He would so hit on K Powers. Regardless of her politics.
hawkdriver on September 26, 2010 at 11:42 PM
Many have the same problem. Neal Boortz (talk show host) has the same brother.
I know some highly intelligent people who smoke dope regularly. I guess it comes down to the individual. Some can handle their drugs, most cannot.
Lanceman on September 26, 2010 at 11:46 PM
OT.Saw it at Doug Ross@ Journal
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/jad_monster_ball_Z7Km37ydJJJHSxgrxPtfbJ
President Ahmadinejad had dinner with Louis Farrakhan and members of the New Black Panther Party
journeyintothewhirlwind on September 26, 2010 at 11:52 PM
Liberal thought pattern: “exposing those workers for violating company safety rules and smoking pot and drinking during work hours got them fired.”
My thought pattern: “those factory workers who violated safety and company policies by drinking and doing drugs on the clock got themselves fired.
This message brought to you by logical thinking.
RDuke on September 26, 2010 at 11:52 PM
Yep, through the years I’ve wanted him at my bigger milestone military career events. But it’s been hard because the Army is death on any association with drugs. I guess my retirement ceremony in October will be safe though. If he comes stoned, I guess the worse that could happen is they’ll ask me to take him off post. :-)
hawkdriver on September 26, 2010 at 11:54 PM
I didn’t watch the video. Did they really get fired?
hawkdriver on September 26, 2010 at 11:55 PM
Can’t say for sure, but let’s say they did. Their actions got them fired – not somebody pointing out their actions.
RDuke on September 26, 2010 at 11:57 PM
hawkdriver and RDuke
Guys,
They were just suspended, without pay….
linky
According to union rules, they’ll just get a pass and be back on the job, when the heat is down.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 12:00 AM
I thought it was a cool song that they used in busting these bums..:)
Dire Straits on September 27, 2010 at 12:02 AM
Thanks
hawkdriver on September 27, 2010 at 12:02 AM
I did watch the ox News video of them drinking and smoking. They should be fired, no?
hawkdriver on September 27, 2010 at 12:03 AM
“Fox” news…
hawkdriver on September 27, 2010 at 12:04 AM
Way back when I was a GM engineer, I saw lots of dope smoking and drinking around and in auto plants. The workers didnt’ care. They did lousy jobs and sometimes deliberately sabotaged the product. How much of that has changed, I couldn’t say, but this report suggests that it’s not much.
NNtrancer on September 27, 2010 at 12:10 AM
KP needs a good spanking…
Think movie “McLintock!” with John Wayne, Maureen O’Hara, and the proper implement…
I volunteer…
Khun Joe on September 27, 2010 at 12:15 AM
I hope some day Powers looks back on some of the stuff she has said and realizes how ignorant she sounded. Like many liberals, she finds herself in the position of trying to defend the indefensible.
hawksruleva on September 27, 2010 at 12:18 AM
What’s always baffled me is how liberals can be so lenient with individual violations of the rules, while the same liberals are busily implementing more rules, harsher penalties, and wider restrictions.
I think it has something to do with their belief that individuals can not be held accountable for their actions.
hawksruleva on September 27, 2010 at 12:21 AM
I worked on a Chrysler engine line in Michigan during the summer of ’77. I was a 19 year old girl, paying my way through college. The money was great. The work was easy. I QUIT AFTER JUST 1 WEEK! Many of the guys on the line were stoned/drunk and kept inviting me to get high in the parking lot during every break. (they get frequent breaks!) I was too afraid to even go into the break room, so I would just stand by my station and hold back my tears. It was a nightmare! Little Miss Powers needs to experience a week like that and then she needs to think about putting herself, or her family, in a vehicle that those clowns produced. After college, I bought a Datsun – it was “keyed” – someone ran their key along the entire side of it. I don’t have anything nice to say about the UAW or the creepy mentality it has created. And I certainly don’t have anything nice to say about the foolish Miss Powers.
redwhiteblue on September 27, 2010 at 12:22 AM
First, there should be an end to union double standards.
A Walmart worker and Wall Street Banker would have been canned, fired, dismissed, thrown out on the street for demonstrating such recklessness during work hours. They are returning to work inebriated.
I’m reminded about driving while drunk. They are an accident waiting to happen.
Second, make them do a drug and alcohol test.
There cannot, and should not, be one set of rules for unions and another for us slubs trying to make a living.
It’s not fair that our tax dollars are going to pay for their pensions and health care, while we have to live withing the rules, and they don’t.
A three martini banker can always take a cab back to the office. These guys are working with other, that could get hurt, or even, killed.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 12:22 AM
Get in line….
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 12:23 AM
Excellent post Kini..Book’em Danno!..;)
Dire Straits on September 27, 2010 at 12:25 AM
When I went to Huntsville to start training for just the academics part of my new job, first morning, first order of business was a drug test. I guess UAW, not so much.
hawkdriver on September 27, 2010 at 12:33 AM
Many years ago I used to have a job where we had a half-hour lunch. We routinely had 3 or 4 beers and 2 joints for lunch. The boss pretended not to notice, but one day I realized that if I cut off my finger or my hand on the table saw the people in the emergency room would not pretend they didn’t notice. I left the job because it was easier than backing out on my lunch buddies.
They chose to hang together. They got themselves fired.
deewhybee on September 27, 2010 at 12:34 AM
Yeah, their hatred of the better made import always amazed me. I remember the 70s bumper sticker that said, “Hungry? Eat your import.” I guess today you could have one that says, “Hungry? Eat your union card!”
hawkdriver on September 27, 2010 at 12:36 AM
Thanks!
:D
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 12:37 AM
I simply muted the volume and watched. KP is bearable that way. Enjoyable, even.
pugwriter on September 27, 2010 at 12:38 AM
Excellent post HD..:)
Dire Straits on September 27, 2010 at 12:39 AM
“But officer, other people were speeding…”
Yeah, good luck with that.
Ronnie on September 27, 2010 at 12:40 AM
Liberals never carry their thoughts to their logical conclusions. And they usually consider themselves to be the elite, and thus immune to any ramifications of the policies that they put forth. For both of these reasons, liberals should never be allowed to hold political office.
hawksruleva on September 27, 2010 at 12:43 AM
Ahh, us evil republicans forced them to drink their forties of beer and smoke weed on the job as the loonie, K Powers, informs us and all for a measely 75 bucks an hour..
They are not hurting anybody? Until the install those seat belts incorrectly because they’re high? Brakes.
She is either losing it or trying to regain credibility with the loonie left.
dthorny on September 27, 2010 at 12:49 AM
I won’t either, and not only because of this. Furthermore, Fords are built by the UAW too, and I am hesitant to do business with Ford because of that.
At this time in our country’s history, I see breaking the union movement both private and government as critical to our survival as a nation. That comes before propping up our balance of trade.
slickwillie2001 on September 27, 2010 at 12:58 AM
It is not like they are building anything important.
AshleyTKing on September 27, 2010 at 1:00 AM
Yeah, but this is my fav:
Look for the union label
when you are buying that coat, dress or blouse.
Remember somewhere our union’s sewing,
our wages going to feed the kids, and run the house.
We work hard, but who’s complaining?
Thanks to the I.L.G. we’re paying our way!
So always look for the union label,
it says we’re able to make it in the U.S.A.!
yubley on September 27, 2010 at 1:02 AM
Democrats in 2012… NO MORE FIRINGS. YOUR JOB IS YOUR RIGHT!
Mojave Mark on September 27, 2010 at 1:03 AM
The Jeep Cherokee is the best they have to offer..Anything else made by Chrysler is junk..:)
Dire Straits on September 27, 2010 at 1:06 AM
..:)
Dire Straits on September 27, 2010 at 1:07 AM
Liberal parent to child: “You were caught drinking today after school, you will be severely punished.”
Child to liberal parent: “But Johnny did it, too.”
Liberal parent to child: “Oh, well, why didn’t you say so? Run along then.”
I pray every night that we can save our country from the scourge of liberalism.
oldoldbabs on September 27, 2010 at 1:19 AM
She’s been trying hard to reach the annoyance hight of all. This encounter is one of her worst.
Lanceman, get yourself together – meant well for you.
AP, your reasoning prowess and wit are worlds elevated from this idealistic dove-brain, who thinks she’s cute and deserving. She’s one annoying twit, with a few functioning cells.
Schadenfreude on September 27, 2010 at 1:20 AM
Proud owner of a Honda CRV.
If the UAW, SEIU, AFL-CIO, and other Public Unions would learn to live within their mean, like the rest of America, then there wouldn’t be any of this hostility against them.
Instead, they practice the axiom of biting off more than they can chew. At the American consumers and taxpayers expense. The union bosses laugh and continue to suck at the teet of the American taxpayers. Supported by their elected democrats that bow like Obama does to international terrorists.
Unions, like the once that Powers would defend, pervert the American Capitalist system of fair work and justice. They are destroying their markets, destroying their future.
They are pricing themselves out of a job. They are threatening, with the help of Obama, to swindle the private sector employees of their 401(K)’s and IRA’s.
Drunks, drug addicts, and crooks. This country is being run by the worst of all gangsters. Democrats.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 1:24 AM
The UAW has produced a frighteningly dangerous mentality. The class warfare mentality and nonsense that Kristin Powers babbles about are perfect examples of the mindset of Liberals. They are greedy, envious, and bitter. My grandfather helped start the UAW in the 1930s. When I took my damaged Datsun to him in 1977, he helped me buff out the scratches and taught me how to change the oil and other maintenance stuff. He said it was a “great little car” – this was a man who had spent his life building American cars! He told me that the UAW had become a “monster” and it wasn’t anything like what he had originally been a part of. I remember that he talked about how the 30-and-out plan would destroy the auto industry – and America. He was right. All anyone has to do is look at Detroit and the surrounding areas. Facts are stubborn things.
redwhiteblue on September 27, 2010 at 1:26 AM
Ps…I love the Hungry? Eat Your Union Card! slogan.
redwhiteblue on September 27, 2010 at 1:31 AM
Yeah, and look whose moving into the neighborhood.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 1:42 AM
Sneak Preview of the Hijacking of the 2010 Election?
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canopfor on September 27, 2010 at 2:51 AM
Robert’s Rules of Order, make no sense anymore.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 2:58 AM
Thought you had a cold and went to bed early?
Feeling better?
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 2:59 AM
Nice find canopfor, kudos my friend!
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 3:08 AM
canopfor on September 27, 2010 at 2:51 AM
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Thought you had a cold and went to bed early?
Feeling better?
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 2:59 AM
Kini: Aloha my Pacific friend,well,its a tad miserable,
sleep a few hours,then up for a few,made myself,an
onion,garlic,beef broth,boiled hot water tottie:)
I do my best work,er,Intell Hunting Ops,at night!:)
canopfor on September 27, 2010 at 3:25 AM
And to think I just mix a little Jameson and Twinings Irish Breakfast Tea along with a heated snooker of Balvenie to kill any cold.
A Shabu-shabu sounds excellent. Recover soon my friend, we need your insight and wellness.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 3:45 AM
In case anyone is wondering what Shabu-Shabu is….
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 3:48 AM
In case anyone is wondering what Shabu-Shabu is….
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 3:48 AM
Kini: Porridge and meat,sacrilegious,haha,ahem!!
Cooking with dog,glad it wasn’t cooking with,
as ACE would say,Kitteh!!:)
canopfor on September 27, 2010 at 4:04 AM
canopfor on September 27, 2010 at 3:25 AM
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And to think I just mix a little Jameson and Twinings Irish Breakfast Tea along with a heated snooker of Balvenie to kill any cold.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 3:45 AM
Kini: That would surely kill me or cure me,hehe!:)
canopfor on September 27, 2010 at 4:07 AM
Seriously, an Egg McMuffin wouldn’t be this complicated, if it didn’t taste so good.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 4:51 AM
LOL and keeping on topic, I give you, Fish Heads, but NOT the kine you think.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 4:56 AM
Has Powers ever lived outside the bubble of American Exceptionalism?
I don’t think so.
More like sticking your fingers through the cage of the wild ocelot and expecting it not to bite you.
Living in a Walt Disney world is only confined by the gates of the entrance.
Hey, this works also.
Lights are on, but nobuddy’s home!
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 5:21 AM
A Leftist whining about “double standards.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
Lockstein13 on September 27, 2010 at 5:31 AM
Powers is weak.
Ricohoc on September 27, 2010 at 6:16 AM
No. it’s not an act, and yes she is.
khacha on September 27, 2010 at 6:32 AM
She didn’t like it because she had to sit between two conservatives and she wanted more face time on camera. Of course like the liberal that she is, she had no argument to defend these morons, but she just had to keep whiiiiining about how there is a double standard.
flytier on September 27, 2010 at 6:33 AM
That is the most profound and accurate statement on this thread yet.
Because the Unions are too aligned with Communism, and the unions think the American people are just too stupid to realize their economic demise, will be under Obamacare.
Expect the Marxist Democrats Talking Heads, to use the last 8 years to justify their claims of an Obama inheritance of an economy already destroyed. What was the unemployment rate then? Why did Gas/Oil suddenly rise in 2006?
Yet, the pictures and statistic‘s, prove over and over again, that we are being lied to by the Democrats.
Democrats are pretty good at Rewriting History.
When our tax dollars are going to pay for Union Pensions and Health Care, then we the are owners of their property.
It’s time to take that property back.
Kini on September 27, 2010 at 6:47 AM
Didn’t that video come from a local news channel? Those people were suspended long before Hannity aired it.
Kafir on September 27, 2010 at 7:03 AM
Someone tell KP that gov’t underwriting goofy mortgages had nothing with stoned guys on Wall Street. Maybe we need random drug and alcohol tests in DC!
Some genius there should have pointed out that the Wall Street types are employed at will and few coworkers get crushed with the papers they are tossing around. Further, the meltdown had nothing to do with wheels falling off mortgages at 60.
IlikedAUH2O on September 27, 2010 at 7:43 AM
Most companies have a zero tolerence policy when it comes to drugs and alcohol. Factory workers probably sign an acknowlegement of that policy when they hire on. I do not know if Wall Street has such a policy.
Guest1.1 on September 27, 2010 at 8:47 AM
I think getting high and drinking on the job is a fireable offense no matter what you do for a living. Anyone that says otherwise is drunk and/or high.
watson007 on September 27, 2010 at 8:49 AM
The workers won’t be fired. It is considered an illness now, and they will get one more chance after undergoing therapy. If they are caught a second time, then they can be terminated. I’ve been through this as a supervisor a couple of times. My people were on the road driving instead of in a factory building cars. Just as bad.
Kissmygrits on September 27, 2010 at 9:28 AM
KP is off the rails.
csdeven on September 27, 2010 at 9:53 AM
The autoworkers drinking lunch video goes a long way towards explaining why my Jeep turned out to be a Jip®
RalphyBoy on September 27, 2010 at 10:25 AM
Someone needs to start a ‘No Union’ movement. Take a pledge to not shop at union stores, to not buy union cars or any other goods made by a union, to not use the services of any company that is unionized, etc. Step one, -a database of who is and who isn’t.
Unfortunately we have no choice in dealing with our own government ‘workers’.
slickwillie2001 on September 27, 2010 at 10:43 AM
Great, all KP has to do is produce a video of a wall street exec face down in a pile of nose candy. And no, the two Stone Wall Streeet movies are not factual videos.
booter on September 27, 2010 at 10:58 AM
Not much more to say but with this type of thinking we will forever be hurt by such activity as you can always find someone else who did the same type of thing and focus on them. We are screwed. I see it from all parts of the political spectrum.
CWforFreedom on September 27, 2010 at 11:26 AM
Ok, given my druthers; if I have to try one drunk/stoned.
I’m going to pick a calculator over a welder for my occupational hazard. KP doesn’t seem to get that part of the problem is having these guys drunk/stoned is really dangerous for them and all the other workers.
I’ve never read of an issue where a drunk banker got 4 of his co-workers hospitalized in an industrial accident.
gekkobear on September 27, 2010 at 12:31 PM
If I had to live and work in Detroit I’d probably be doing the same thing on my lunch hour…
MestizoMaverick on September 27, 2010 at 1:04 PM
Heck, it’s probably going on INSIDE the White House knowing this administration!
Susanboo on September 27, 2010 at 3:06 PM
Sorry about the sarc. I meant, Jesus man, those are cars you are building. You know, the vehicles I drive my kids in.
AshleyTKing on September 27, 2010 at 9:45 PM
One of the many reasons I dislike Sean Vanity. It pains me so that Mark Levin is so close with him. Kirsten Powers is right; admit it.
Levinite on September 27, 2010 at 10:27 PM
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