A lack of consistency...by union insistency...

SACRAMENTO — When a company called Ausra filed plans for a big solar power plant in California, it was deluged with demands from a union group that it study the effect on creatures like the short-nosed kangaroo rat and the ferruginous hawk.

By contrast, when a competitor, BrightSource Energy, filed plans for an even bigger solar plant that would affect the imperiled desert tortoise, the same union group, California Unions for Reliable Energy, raised no complaint. Instead, it urged regulators to approve the project as quickly as possible.

One big difference between the projects? Ausra had rejected demands that it use only union workers to build its solar farm, while BrightSource pledged to hire labor-friendly contractors.

Unions...

Incidentally, this is the same hypocrisy thrown towards Wal-Mart on a daily basis. Most folks just whine and complain about Wal-Mart because their political party does so...or their Liberal political candidate suggests it. The whole basis of the friction lives within the fact that Wal-Mart refuses to unionize. As a result, unions do all they can to tarnish Wal-Mart's image with the public hoping that the pressure will lead to unionization (and an instant $300 Million in new member fees).

The above example is no different. This "California Unions for Reliable Energy" is not interested in the short-nosed kangaroo rat and the ferruginous hawk. They are interested in the membership dues. End of story...

$715 Grand babysitters...

A half-dozen public-school principals - including some booted from previous posts - are earning six-figure salaries to oversee rooms full of teachers doing nothing, The Post has learned.

I live in the real world...you know that unforgiving land in which a company will keep you if you're an attribute to their goals. Of course, a prerequisite to it all is that you can't assault your co-workers or...you know...hit on minors...those sort of things.

However, in the ever evolving, and truly nuanced New York City...you get to sit in the "rubber room," collect a full salary...and periodially flex your "free agency" and become part of "turkey trades."

A band of city teachers languishing in so-called "rubber rooms" on disciplinary charges are demanding that their temporary reassignment centers be recognized as permanent chapters of their union - just like schools.

Two things:

1. Unions are bankrupting this country.

2. New York City Education is a great example of just how deluded and incompetent Liberalism truly is.

Oh...did I mention that NYC is way, way deep in the red...and getting deeper by the second? All the while...over 700 teachers and administrators sit around day after day doing absolutely nothing...while getting paid.

Angry yet???? How about this?

The New York Post reports (9-30-07) that the number of teachers waiting in the city's rubber rooms has doubled since 2005. Some 757 teachers now clock in to the nearest rubber room, read magazines or watch DVDs all day, and go home. They make between $42,500 and $93,400 a year, for a total cost to the city of about $40 million a year. The city also pays millions more to rent the rooms themselves, and to pay for substitute teachers to replace those in rubber rooms.

Good NON-work if you can get it...huh?