83rd Annual Academy Awards

Acceptance Speech of Charles Ferguson, Oscar Winner of Best Documentary Feature for Inside Job

Today In Labor History

Women and children textile strikers beaten by Lawrence, Mass. police during a 63 day walkout protesting low wages and work speedups – 1912

Washington’s Birthday

George Washington
Farewell Address:
“Avoid Foreign Entanglements”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington’s_Farewell_Address

Presidents’ Day

My Favorite President: Harry S. Truman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman

Man Created

Genesis 1:26-28
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

14th Anniversary

My 14th Year Anniversary at Chrysler Group LLC

Valentines Day

Patty and I with our red on.

The 53rd Grammy Awards

Tribute to The “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin

Lincoln’s Birthday

The Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal”

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow, this ground– The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.

It is rather for us, the living, to stand here, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Today in Labor History (1)

It’s “White Shirt Day” at United Auto Workers. Today marks the anniversary of the 1937 sit-down strike that gave union bargaining rights at the automaker. The mission was to send a message that “blue collar” workers deserve the same respect as their management counterparts. Don’t get your shirt any dirtier than the boss gets his.