Comments on: Word Of The Day For WGA: Opportunities http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:27:33 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: MarieRoget http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1210351 MarieRoget Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:43:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1210351 <p>Thanks for the kind words, mui1.</p> Thanks for the kind words, mui1.

]]> By: MarkH http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209825 MarkH Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:35:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209825 <blockquote> <p>CEO’s run companies into the ground…(and) leave with millions in severance;</p> <p>hmmm, there’s a job I’m eminently qualified for… </p></blockquote> <p>“there’s a job I’m emineminentenently qualified for…” — Dubya</p>

CEO’s run companies into the ground…(and) leave with millions in severance;

hmmm, there’s a job I’m eminently qualified for…

“there’s a job I’m emineminentenently qualified for…” — Dubya

]]> By: ekunin http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209516 ekunin Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:18:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209516 <p>I do not believe my marching on a picket line which is 60 miles away or buying pickets hamburgers will influence the producers one bit. I believe if 10,000 people did the same thing, the result would be no different. I agree with eCAHNomics (23) that the producers hope to break the writer’s union. They may succeed. Solidarity is hard to come by. There already are cracks in the dike.</p> <p>John Edwards is right when he says large corporations are not pushovers. It will be difficult for him to take them on, assuming he is elected president, when both sides of the aisle in Congress have, for the most part, been bought and paid for.</p> <p>I know attempts to reach consensus and act upon it strikes many as socialistic. Perhaps they are, but Ben Franklin is as right today as he was in his day. The choice is hanging together or separately. Hanging together means finding a way to fight fire with fire.</p> I do not believe my marching on a picket line which is 60 miles away or buying pickets hamburgers will influence the producers one bit. I believe if 10,000 people did the same thing, the result would be no different. I agree with eCAHNomics (23) that the producers hope to break the writer’s union. They may succeed. Solidarity is hard to come by. There already are cracks in the dike.

John Edwards is right when he says large corporations are not pushovers. It will be difficult for him to take them on, assuming he is elected president, when both sides of the aisle in Congress have, for the most part, been bought and paid for.

I know attempts to reach consensus and act upon it strikes many as socialistic. Perhaps they are, but Ben Franklin is as right today as he was in his day. The choice is hanging together or separately. Hanging together means finding a way to fight fire with fire.

]]> By: mui1 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209440 mui1 Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:42:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209440 <p>MarieRoget, I know I would be sad if you stopped contributing. Who else would thought of the idea of sending Lieberman <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=5W9QDIV_XNs" rel="nofollow">a Phil Ochs song</a>. (One tailor made for HoJoe.)I think things got so contentious over the Democratic primary, that some of us have called a tacit temporary truce. We are all pretty much progressives after all. Please don’t leave.</p> MarieRoget, I know I would be sad if you stopped contributing. Who else would thought of the idea of sending Lieberman a Phil Ochs song. (One tailor made for HoJoe.)I think things got so contentious over the Democratic primary, that some of us have called a tacit temporary truce. We are all pretty much progressives after all. Please don’t leave.

]]> By: MarieRoget http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209231 MarieRoget Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:29:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209231 <p>Since we’re @ the very end of a thread (& what I thought earlier was an airport ride turned out to be not one, still waiting for ride to a delayed flight)…may I say that I think I’ll only be reading here from now on, not commenting except perhaps very very occasionally, if at all.</p> <p>Comments here seem so inbred, so chat-roomish & exclusive lately, I’m not interested much, except in the links people post, which are extremely informative & helpful. Thanks, commenters who include links. Many commenters are using FDL day & night as a personal chat room w/backchat on political opinions thrown in, which I can get many places elsewhere if I really want it.</p> <p>I’ll just read from now on. FDL is a great place for that, & thanks for that. Thanks for the great headline posts, Jane, Christy, and one & all. You are doing a great job on the front page posts this election year.</p> Since we’re @ the very end of a thread (& what I thought earlier was an airport ride turned out to be not one, still waiting for ride to a delayed flight)…may I say that I think I’ll only be reading here from now on, not commenting except perhaps very very occasionally, if at all.

Comments here seem so inbred, so chat-roomish & exclusive lately, I’m not interested much, except in the links people post, which are extremely informative & helpful. Thanks, commenters who include links. Many commenters are using FDL day & night as a personal chat room w/backchat on political opinions thrown in, which I can get many places elsewhere if I really want it.

I’ll just read from now on. FDL is a great place for that, & thanks for that. Thanks for the great headline posts, Jane, Christy, and one & all. You are doing a great job on the front page posts this election year.

]]> By: Christy Hardin Smith http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209185 Christy Hardin Smith Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:34:34 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209185 <p>One thing that folks who live on either coast can regularly do is join in with the WGA folks who are picketing. Jane and Howie have done so several times with the WGA-W, and a number of our readers in the NYC area did so with the WGA-E not too long ago. Anyone who lives in those areas where WGA actions are ongoing can find information about this on their websites. They pretty much always welcome some extra support.</p> One thing that folks who live on either coast can regularly do is join in with the WGA folks who are picketing. Jane and Howie have done so several times with the WGA-W, and a number of our readers in the NYC area did so with the WGA-E not too long ago. Anyone who lives in those areas where WGA actions are ongoing can find information about this on their websites. They pretty much always welcome some extra support.

]]> By: ekunin http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209088 ekunin Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:22:07 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209088 <p>Contributions help (everything on United Hollywood was a solicitation of one form or another). I was thinking of something more personal and committed. Its easy to give money especially if you have it. Our problem, and its general, is most of us think “this too, shall pass” and after it passes we return to what was before. If that’s true, and only time will tell, all we need do is wait.</p> Contributions help (everything on United Hollywood was a solicitation of one form or another). I was thinking of something more personal and committed. Its easy to give money especially if you have it. Our problem, and its general, is most of us think “this too, shall pass” and after it passes we return to what was before. If that’s true, and only time will tell, all we need do is wait.

]]> By: RayDuray http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209075 RayDuray Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:15:57 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209075 <p>Version Two: “It was a dark and moanless knight…”</p> Version Two: “It was a dark and moanless knight…”

]]> By: RayDuray http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209068 RayDuray Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:14:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209068 <p>Re:<br /> </p><blockquote>I think I must be missing out on the Ray-teasing on every thread. How did this start anyway?</blockquote> <p>My mother meet my father at the Trianon ballroom…</p> Re:

I think I must be missing out on the Ray-teasing on every thread. How did this start anyway?

My mother meet my father at the Trianon ballroom…

]]> By: eCAHNomics http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209055 eCAHNomics Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:09:37 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/01/17/word-of-the-day-for-wga-opportunities/#comment-1209055 <p>You’ve got mail.</p> <p>Though I saw Selise online within the last couple of weeks, but can’t remember exactly when.</p> You’ve got mail.

Though I saw Selise online within the last couple of weeks, but can’t remember exactly when.

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