Sunday, July 15, 2018

VT Nurses Strike

Smack dab in the middle of a two day Nurses Strike at the Medical Center in Vermont, Youngest and  Daughter*in*Law had to spend 24 hours at the hospital so that her pregnancy could be monitored.  All is well, and the baby is fine.  But I have to tell you a wonderful thing.  Daughter*in*Law wore a red dress to be in solidarity with the striking nurses, and brought along a Bernie action figure, since he has been strongly backing the nurses!  📿💪


http://www.wcax.com/content/news/UVM-Medical-Center-nurses-rally-on-day-2-of-strike-488146761.html

Posted by listener at 1:00:00 AM

14 comments:

  1. Anonymous7/15/2018 11:14:00 AM

    Well you ain't done nothin' if you ain't been called a red;
    if you've marched or agitated, you're bound to hear it said.
    So you might as well ignore it, or love the word instead;
    cause you ain't been doin' nothin' if you ain't been called a red!

    --Alan

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    1. listener7/15/2018 06:51:00 PM

      Love it, Alan!! Thanks!! :-D

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    2. Anonymous7/15/2018 09:29:00 PM

      Here’s a good performance.[Click]

      —Alan

      P.S.: Looks like either the sun is gentle in Vermont, or the folks on the picket line slathered on a lot of sun screen. If they don't want to look like boiled lobsters when they return to duty, that is.

      P.P.S.: I remember back in the 1970's when there were nurses' strikes here and there all over the country, and their pay was increased considerably. Roughly doubled, as I recall. Nurses were very seriously underpaid back then.

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  2. puddle7/15/2018 08:30:00 PM

    Never was called Red (to my face), but grew up in a family of fellow travelers, lol!

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  3. Anonymous7/15/2018 09:15:00 PM

    Trump, Treasonous Traitor[Click] By Charles M. Blow.
    The title is redundant, but after all, it is the NYT. Mr. Blow fails to refer to the President’s oath of office, which also seems a trifle odd.

    California Is Preparing for Extreme Weather. It’s Time to Plant Some Trees.[Click]

    —Alan

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    1. Catreona7/16/2018 12:17:00 AM

      Redundant, but nice alliteration. And oh, so true!

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  4. Catreona7/15/2018 10:20:00 PM

    The idear of HRC on the Supreme Court makes me barf!!! Mrs. Obama, now, that's an idear I could enthusiastically get behind.

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  5. puddle7/15/2018 10:40:00 PM

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIu29su9Xr8

    red. . . .

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  6. Catreona7/16/2018 12:11:00 AM

    Alan, I very much enjoyed your link. Great song. That led me to a few songs by The Ramblers (superb) and eventually to the unaired episode of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour that got them fired. YouTube must have changed their logarithm or something, because the suggestion bar doesn't seem to work the way it used to. But you can still have a grand time toodling around on YouTube.

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  7. Catreona7/16/2018 12:27:00 AM

    My grandfather, being a union organizer, was routinely called a communist. My mother talks about being called that to her face growing up.

    Less egregious perhaps but demonstrating just as much ignorance: When I studied Russian in college, and even when I changed colleges and people found that I had studied Russian, some called me a communist. My ultra-left political views didn't help, but my Russian was the real cause of the reaction. I hate ignorant, self-righteous, loudmouth people!

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    1. listener7/16/2018 02:05:00 AM

      When I told my parents that I was taking German in high school, my father got very upset. He felt as thought I was showing signs of being a German sympathizer. WWII wasn't that long ago at that time, and anything German was still verboten. But I had not lived through it, and I was interested in the language. So I told him not to worry. After all, someone has to study German so that going forward we can crack their codes. At that he laughed and said Okay.

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  8. Anonymous7/16/2018 01:21:00 AM

    Cat--tell me a bit about the Smothers Brothers episode that got them fired; what all did they do?

    As for Communism, near as I can figure, it is some sort of theoretical prehistoric social organization. As for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, it is ironic that one of the first things the Bolsheviki did was to destroy the soviets. Come to think of it, another thing they did early on was to "recruit" Czarist army officers, they being the only ones available. (The officers' families were given special housing to assure loyalty.) When I was young I worked at a hot spring resort that had a lot of guests from the Russian emigre community of San Francsico; no communists there, certainly.

    --Alan

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