The swearing-in was dominated by one of those guys who speaks for the full two minutes on every topic on the agenda, and its always to rail on some indeterminate cause, usually a procedural nicety that no one on earth cares about. He argued with the newly sworn School Board about whether he was permitted 2 or 3 one minute speaking times in a annual meeting rather than a regular meeting. The fact that the President of the school board bothered to argue with the guy demonstrates either that he is truly uncynical or explains why the Oakland Unified School District can't find its ass with both hands. (Sorry for the florid speech, mother in law).
Then I went to hear Jon Hiatt, General Counsel to the AFL-CIO and Steven Greenhouse, labor reporter for the NYT, talk about the Employee Free Choice Act. That had its own insane open mic guy; it was a man with a thick accent complaining that unions are not doing enough to keep foreigners from taking American jobs. A real head-scratcher. He lost an already-impatient audience with that one, obviously.
So a busy first day of unemployment, unlikely to be replicated tomorrow, as I am planning on just going to buy some light bulbs for the kitchen.
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Get the really long lasting light bulbs. Then you won't have to go out again for years.
I'm still trying to figure out who, exactly, was disrepectful. I mean, who shows up for a swearing in (of herself for a public office) in jeans! Not in my day, which is still this day by the way. MIL
In her defense, they were really nice jeans and you wouldn't necessarily know they were jeans (they were very dark) if you had never seen Rebecca in anything but jeans. She also wore a jacket and nice buttoned-down shirt. She seems constitutionally unable to be persuaded by the artifice of her position, and I think its a good sign that she won't be bowled over by some of the stronger, and more intransigent, members of the council.
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