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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on January 16, 2012, 11:01:57 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002170673
Oh my.
Omaha Steve (31,045 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
I forgot to mention I now have over 31,000 posts
Whhhooo!
Chief Crying Hatchet ratcheted up his post count today, what with all his campfires about Martin Luther King, Jr., at which no primitives seem to be showing.
There was one, adulatory of Ralph Abernathy. One wonders if Chief Sobbing Bull recalls that in 1980, Ralph Abernathy endorsed Ronald Reagan for president.
Probably not.
The Straight Story (36,629 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
1. noob
CaliforniaPeggy (93,002 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. Congrats, my dear Omaha Steve!
To one of the most intelligent and interesting posters here on DU!
Here's to many, many more!
dweller (12,421 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
3. You've been a torch for the working man O'Steve
if you had to pick, which post would you repost?
Omaha Steve (31,045 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
10. This one probably
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=367x11906
Okay, I went to look; it's from June 18, 2008.
Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-18-08 05:01 PM
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My dad was an 11 year old scab in 1931 by Omaha Steve on the Denver Post blog
http://blogs.denverpost.com/lewis/2008/06/15/unions-mak...
Mr. Lewis,
This is in response to your article today “Grinding axes over unionsâ€. I’m witting from Nebraska. We are a right to work state. I’m the son of a scab. My father was 11 years old in 1931 and quit school to support his family during the depression. He was one of fourteen children. My grandfather was in jail for bootlegging. (He was also a bigamist). My dad crossed the picket line. He was working a quarry in Southern Indiana. The company used young children to place explosive charges deep in small holes from a drill. On his way home one night, several out of work men taught a young boy why he should have stayed in school and shouldn’t cross the line.
Although after W.W.II my father worked in a union shop in Omaha for 32 years, he never joined. He had good pay and benefits for a third grade education. He didn’t like it when in 1980 I started organizing for the GAU in a non-union print shop. I was fired once the company felt I had the votes to get the union in. While my case wound through the system for over three and a half years, my wife’s union wages at US West keep us from starving. The best work a union trouble maker could find during that time was a paid picket for ten weeks in the Omaha area Hinky Dinky stores strike.
My case file:
http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Board%20Decisions/261/...
My story doesn’t end here. On February 20th last year I was fired in blatant retaliation for filing an ADA complaint against my employer. Because a contract was in force, my case moved much faster this time. Five days before a scheduled arbitration hearing, I was offered reinstatement with back pay and wages on June twentieth. Four months. My union paid all the legal fees (approximately $5,000) and asked nothing in return.
I can’t understand people not wanting to pay union dues. When your outside looking in, things are much different. I don’t feel what my father did all those years was right. He did earn a retirement, decent wage, and more. His experience from 1931 had nothing to do with his career in Omaha. The right to work law weakens unions. Just as it was designed to do in 1947. Nebraska was one of the first states to use right to work in 1947.
Regards,
[real name omitted out of respect for Omaha Steve's privacy]
Shop Steward AFSCME local 251
Okay, back to the original campfire:
JDPriestly (28,964 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
7. Thanks for your posts.
Rhiannon12866 (44,996 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
9. Congratulations, Omaha Steve!!!
And they've all been keepers! Here's to 31,000 more!
Nay (4,811 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
11. Good heavens, Steve! Get a life! (Just kidding, just kidding--I love your posts)
DCBob (10,870 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
12. good job!
you are a keyboard warrior!
Surely Bob's being sarcastic here, using "keyboard" with "warrior."
DataException This message was hidden by Jury decision.
One wonders what that was all about.
Cirque du So-What This message was self-deleted by its author.
One wonders what that was all about, too.
Poor Chief Lachrymose Horse; his self-congratulatory campfire's gone awry:
pintobean (4,780 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
21. He's been PPR'd
You might want to edit or delete before one of his friends alert on you. Your post can be seen as a personal attack. I wouldn't risk it with a jury.
Cirque du So-What (6,914 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
22. I had considered alerting on that post instead of replying to it
but I've got a dismal track record on DU3 so far. Of the three alerts I've submitted, the majority of jurors voted to leave it alone. In addition, I got a bunch of unsolicited commentary, including, 'get a life,' 'grow a thicker skin,' and one accusing me of 'cyber-stalking.' Is it any wonder I've gotten a bit trigger-shy where submitting alerts is concerned? IMO the 'jury system' stinks on ice!
pintobean (4,780 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
23. I once had a juror give me shit for a spelling error, without comment on the post or alert. It made me laugh, but jeez, why are you on a jury? Yeah, it stinks. A lot of us are trigger-shy. Jury duty requests have dropped off the table.
The Straight Story (36,629 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
16. Takes less than a minute to post, so maybe 10 min a day...what was your point again?
Every minute of your day is productive? If so, why ya replying and not out living your life?
Do you have a FB account perhaps?
MineralMan (39,414 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
17. Yes, and...
What possible interest do you have in what people do? How is that significant to you? Insulting a DUers for participating in DU just isn't on. 12 posts a day is not all that many. I can type 12 posts easily, while browsing DU for just an hour.
Have as much of a life as you can, won't you?
Obamanaut This message was self-deleted by its author.
BumRushDaShow (6,388 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
19. Congrats!
You are truly one of DU's most loyal and busiest Union bees!
hfojvt (27,739 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
20. In the post 31,031 if all is said and done ...
I do miss the milestone threads, but 31,000 is not a real milestone. Once you get over 10,000 posts the milestones move to every 5,000 posts, same as they did for the 100s.
I don't think Chief Bawling Arrow thought his self-congratulatory campfire would burn this way, but there it is, there you have it.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002170673
I don't think Chief Bawling Arrow thought his self-congratulatory campfire would burn this way, but there it is, there you have it.
I thought Steve's disability would prevent him from fellating himself, but I was mistaken. Perhaps the City of Omaha's workers compensation provider should look into that.
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We're not using his name?
A declared candidate for public office?
He and Marta have thrown their socialist caps into the ring.
The voters of Bellevue need to know they're in danger of two avowed socialists gaining access to the public pursestrings.
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The jury thing is kind of embarrassing.
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We're not using his name?
A declared candidate for public office?
He and Marta have thrown their socialist caps into the ring.
The voters of Bellevue need to know they're in danger of two avowed socialists gaining access to the public pursestrings.
No, don't misinterpret that.
Anyone can feel free to use his name, as he's a public figure.
It's just that for me, specifically, I don't want my fellow Nebraskan to accuse franksolich of violating his privacy.
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You gotta laugh. He starts out talking about his father but it's all about him in the end. Pops must have been so ashamed of his weepy baby.
BTW, the pseudonyms are hilarious !!! :lmao:
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You gotta laugh. He starts out talking about his father but it's all about him in the end.
It was actually interesting. I didn't realize his current disability scam ran all the way back to February 2007.
Five years of no work, no disability, but full pay.
No wonder he's travelling the country in a quest for autographs from every cast member of "F Troop".
Voters of Bellevue need to be aware of that.
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"F Troop"
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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You gotta laugh. He starts out talking about his father but it's all about him in the end. Pops must have been so ashamed of his weepy baby.
Of course it's always about Chief Blubbering Bison.
He once wrote something about the 1/64th part of him that's Native American, one of the great-something grandmothers and her sufferings. It was really good, but then my fellow Nebraskan ruined it by including himself in it, as if he'd suffered the same things she had.
It's really ridiculous when Omaha's Ed Norton does that, and he does that a lot.
It's as if the 1/8th part of franksolich that's eastern European Judaic would warrant my suggestion that I'd suffered much of the same things these long-ago ancestors did, which of course is bullshit.
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So, he's one of 14 kids, huh? I can think of one that his mother should have used a Rusty coathanger on.
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So, he's one of 14 kids, huh? I can think of one that his mother should have used a Rusty coathanger on.
No, that was my fellow Nebraskan's father who was one of fourteen.
As far as I know, Omaha's Ed Norton just has a sister, but whether older or younger than him, I dunno.
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No, that was my fellow Nebraskan's father who was one of fourteen.
As far as I know, Omaha's Ed Norton just has a sister, but whether older or younger than him, I dunno.
OK, I'm sorry. Steve's old man sounds like a pretty good fellow, solid citizen type.
It's Steve she should have used a rusty coathanger on.
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OK, I'm sorry. Steve's old man sounds like a pretty good fellow, solid citizen type.
It's Steve she should have used a rusty coathanger on.
It's kind of hard to differentiate, when my fellow Nebraskan puts himself into his stories of his ancestors; it confuses one as to which person's he's talking about. He's trying to come across as being just as heroic as the old man was.
Perhaps the big guy should take writing lessons from franksolich, who's written a great deal about his own ancestors, without jamming franksolich into any of the stories.
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CaliforniaPeggy (93,002 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. Congrats, my dear Omaha Steve!
To one of the most intelligent and interesting posters here on DU!
Here's to many, many more!
If he is your best then you guys are in real trouble! :rotf: :rotf:
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If he is your best then you guys are in real trouble! :rotf: :rotf:
The CaliforniaPiggy primitive's just confused.
In her perception, my fellow Nebraskan is a nice guy, and she can't understand why "certain people" are "picking on" him. She thinks they're naughty, doing that.
But the CaliforniaPiggy primitive has got to understand that not all primitives are "nice."
In fact, damned few of them are. Maybe three or four out of circa 3,800.
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Just what the world needs another post from "Dances with my little pony". It must be a real bitch that OmahaSteves need for attention pretty much beats out any womans on DU except for maybe UGP.
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Chief Crying Jag
Chief Weeping Woosie
Chief Tears On Cheeks
Chief Red Eyes
Chief Blowing Nose
Chief Sen So Tiv (his Lakota name)
Chief Him Cry Some
Chief Clee Nix Ti shoo (his Navaho name)
Chief Boo Hoo Hoo
did I miss any?
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Chief Crying Jag
Chief Weeping Woosie
Chief Tears On Cheeks
Chief Red Eyes
Chief Blowing Nose
Chief Sen So Tiv (his Lakota name)
Chief Him Cry Some
Chief Clee Nix Ti shoo (his Navaho name)
Chief Boo Hoo Hoo
did I miss any?
I dunno, but I suppose sooner or later I'll post a poll giving the options of all the names our fellow Nebraskan's been baptized, letting members select their favorite monicker. There's about 25 of them now.
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I expect the weeper's political career will parallel that of the DUmp whackjob in upstate New York a couple of years ago.
He got the DUmmies all excited about his campaign for democrat committeeman, or council, or some trivial postion like that,
then announced he couldn't get anyone to sign his nominating petition.
Then he went back to posting full time in the DUmp's mental illness group.
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I expect the weeper's political career will parallel that of the DUmp whackjob in upstate New York a couple of years ago.
He got the DUmmies all excited about his campaign for democrat committeeman, or council, or some trivial postion like that,
then announced he couldn't get anyone to sign his nominating petition.
Then he went back to posting full time in the DUmp's mental illness group.
Yeah, that was the mdmnumbers primitive.
He wanted to run for the.....gulp!.....city council of Newburgh, New York.
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Yeah, that was the mdmnumbers primitive.
He wanted to run for the.....gulp!.....city council of Newburgh, New York.
I think I may have been behind that primitive's car this summer, when work took me through Newburgh. The ass end of it (a Toyota minivan, IIRC) was covered with "Tax The Rich"-type bumper stickers.
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I know you're over here reading, Chief Sitting On His Brains. I've got a few things in this story I want to point out to you. Pay attention to the bolded parts.
Omaha Steve (1000+ posts) Wed Jun-18-08 05:01 PM
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My dad was an 11 year old scab in 1931 by Omaha Steve on the Denver Post blog
Mr. Lewis,
I’m the son of a scab. My father was 11 years old in 1931 and quit school to support his family during the depression. He was one of fourteen children. My grandfather was in jail for bootlegging. (He was also a bigamist). My dad crossed the picket line. He was working a quarry in Southern Indiana. The company used young children to place explosive charges deep in small holes from a drill. On his way home one night, several out of work men taught a young boy why he should have stayed in school and shouldn’t cross the line.
At the age of 11, your father decides that helping your grandmother and 13 of your aunts and uncles stay fed, housed, and clothed in the absence of your bootlegger grandfather is more important than pretty much anything else going on. So much so he enters into a quarry to place explosives to feed the family. Up to and until a group of union goons, your brethren, decided to teach him a lesson; one he would never forget.
What bravery these union shit-stains showed! Beating up a child who was trying to make a wage so none of his siblings or mother starved! It's a wonder they don't have a shrine built to them at the edge of the old quarry!
:whatever:
Funny thing is, Chair Warrior, you would have been one of the cowards jumping that 11 year old little boy, wouldn't you? Big, brave, hard working, keyboard warrior like you? Kicking a little kid's ass with two or three of your closest friends wouldn't make you think twice.
So, if your story is to be believed, your father had more character and honor in his 11 year old little toe than you have in your whole bloated body.
Tell us, He Who Lives Off Of Others, did your daddy ever look at you and regret that he carried you home in a bundle instead of wiping you off of your momma's chin? I'll bet he did.
Although after W.W.II my father worked in a union shop in Omaha for 32 years, he never joined. He had good pay and benefits for a third grade education.
I don’t feel what my father did all those years was right. He did earn a retirement, decent wage, and more.
Damn, and without union representation. What does that tell you, squaw?
His experience from 1931 had nothing to do with his career in Omaha.
Sure it didn't, keep telling yourself that, Runs With Commies.
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From what i have seen so far Runs with Commies would be an embarrassment in most Indian tribes. He acts more like a squaw then any warrior
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At the age of 11, your father decides that helping your grandmother and 13 of your aunts and uncles stay fed, housed, and clothed in the absence of your bootlegger grandfather is more important than pretty much anything else going on. So much so he enters into a quarry to place explosives to feed the family. Up to and until a group of union goons, your brethren, decided to teach him a lesson; one he would never forget.
What bravery these union shit-stains showed! Beating up a child who was trying to make a wage so none of his siblings or mother starved! It's a wonder they don't have a shrine built to them at the edge of the old quarry!
:whatever:
Funny thing is, Chair Warrior, you would have been one of the cowards jumping that 11 year old little boy, wouldn't you? Big, brave, hard working, keyboard warrior like you? Kicking a little kid's ass with two or three of your closest friends wouldn't make you think twice.
So, if your story is to be believed, your father had more character and honor in his 11 year old little toe than you have in your whole bloated body.
Damn you're good, sir.
Awesome.
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I think I may have been behind that primitive's car this summer, when work took me through Newburgh.
I wonder if those nuts at OCC have gone bellyup yet.
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Is Omaha Steve still running for office? If so, he should cut a quick commercial telling the good voters of Omaha of his major accomplishment!
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I wonder if those nuts at OCC have gone bellyup yet.
Don't know. If I get the chance this year, I'll check.
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Damn you're good, sir.
Awesome.
Thanks, Frank. I wonder if Chief Shows His Ass-Crack When He Sits Down liked it.
:-)