Non-union protesting non-union hiring?

Veterans who apply for jobs on Capitol Hill aren’t receiving critical federal job-placement benefits because Congress has largely exempted itself from a law that aids post-military employment for vets, a new congressional report shows.

A groundbreaking report by the Office of Compliance on the state of the congressional workplace is now urging Congress to apply the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act to its own hiring habits.
"For a lot of our members, it's really difficult to have them come out, either because of parking or something else," explains Vincente Garcia, a union representative who is supervising the picketing.

So instead, the union hires unemployed people at the minimum wage—$8.25 an hour—to walk picket lines. Mr. Raye says he's grateful for the work, even though he's not sure why he's doing it. "I could care less," he says. "I am being paid to march around and sound off."

Not in this house

Veterans who apply for jobs on Capitol Hill aren’t receiving critical federal job-placement benefits because Congress has largely exempted itself from a law that aids post-military employment for vets, a new congressional report shows.

A groundbreaking report by the Office of Compliance on the state of the congressional workplace is now urging Congress to apply the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act to its own hiring habits.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39707.html#ixzz0tfweoPCc

Empty Gestures

In the news this morning, Al Qaeda terrorists set off 2 bombs in Uganda which killed at least 64 people at a viewing of the World Cup. In response, Hillary Clinton condemned the bombing. Take that, Al Qaeda.

Black Hole Blowing Bubbles

A relatively small black hole has been spotted blowing bubbles with diameters of more than 300-1500 light years.

Robert Soria of the University College London and colleagues pored over images and data from the European Southern Observatory and Chandra X-ray Observatory, zeroing in on an unusually large remnant from a supernova explosion. Its host galaxy appears in the Sculptor constellation of Earth's southern sky, around 12.7 million light years away.

They discovered three hot spots in the x-ray emissions, all in a row, and identified the central one as the core of a black hole a few times larger than the sun. The two spots flanking the core are produced by jets colliding with interstellar gas.

A nearby star feeds the black hole, giving it energy to shoot a flood of particles out each side at near the speed of light. These jets are much more powerful than expected for a black hole of this size, blowing bubbles that expand faster than the speed of sound. The finding suggests that more of the energy spent by a black hole goes into accelerating matter - rather than emitting x-rays - than previously supposed.

I don't understand any of this, but love knowing someone does.

The San Francisco earmark

Nancy Pelosi has sneaked a $10 billion government-union bailout, and another $10 billion in domestic spending, into the supplemental military-spending bill.

The war supplemental was only supposed to be $37 billion as it was — that’s $20 billion in grease to pass $37 billion in war spending. Bad form, Nancy. Way to let the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan know exactly where they stand on the political totem pole back home!

Read it all here.

Post Office Logic

The post office says that postal usage has dropped so much lately due to the use of online bill paying, e-mail, and companies like Fed-Ex that they need to raise the price of stamps to increase revenue. This suggests that they have adopted the premise that if they raise the price of something the public will consume more of it rather than less. Amazing.

World Cup

Since the rest of the world seems to be engrossed with the World Cup being carried out in South Africa with horrible horns in the background, Best View has attempted to watch some of the games. The first thing I wonder is how in the world our game ever came to be called "football". The other thing I noticed is how much better the best teams control the ball with both feet and head. If there was more scoring, the game would probably catch on better here in the U.S.

Swimming in China