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IAFF: Mission Impossible
A Million Little Pieces IAFF General President Harold Schaitberger, by failing to either stand up to Donald Trump or defend his own members, has severely weakened the IAFF. For an international union...
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IAFF: “Not the Words of a Labor Leader”
IslaFire Weighs In “The lack of an endorsement for POTUS is truly embarrassing and may forebode a difficult time when HRC is elected. The excuses I heard behind the scenes at Convention were silly and...
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USS Weiner
Director Comey FBI Director Richard Comey fired a shipboard cruise missile yesterday. Mrs. Clinton, whom I strongly support, says Comey’s decision to launch is “deeply troubling.” There is a lot of...
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Safety: Beminio and Martin
Second Amendment Martyrs Officers Beminio and Martin Two Iowa police officers, Anthony Beminio and and Justin Martin, were ambushed, shot and killed yesterday. Their apparent killer, Scott Michael...
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Schaitberger’s IAFF: Crashing
The Future Betrayed Our Dear Leader The IAFF Executive Board’s cowardly decision to sit out the 2016 US presidential election is a big win for that group of ancient white men but a big loser for...
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Trumped
Reality TV Star as US President As writer Doris Kearns Goodwin would say, “this is no ordinary time.” Folks will talk for months about how Clinton lost but the Washington Post had an extraordinary...
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Now, That’s a Veteran
Sergeant Bill Mohr Out touring with high school seniors from Kansas yesterday on a crisp and glorious Fall afternoon, we walked from the White House down to the World War II Memorial with the...
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Let the Fun Begin
Reasons HRC Everyone from Robert Reich to Robert Redford has weighed in on Donald Trump. Reich suggests that Trump’s victory is due to economic fears which is certainly true, but like a plane crash...
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Schaitberger IAFF: What’s the Plan?
The Deal with Trump Our Dear Leader Since Harold Schaitberger and the IAFF executive board sat out the election and helped to ensure an anti-union US president as a result, it is time for them to tell...
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“America’s Most Alarming Story”
The Bear Interferes The Washington Post has an opinion piece by Eric Chenoweth,  co-director of the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe, upbraiding us collectively for our failure to be...
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Pensions: Disaster in Dallas
That Firefighter Brotherly Love? The Dallas Police and Fire Pension Fund needs a $1.1 billion dollar bailout from the city in order to avoid insolvency as a result of a combination of actions all...
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Pensions: A Texas Haircut
Rookies Get the Shaft As previously reported, the pension fund for Dallas firefighters is lurching towards insolvency because of bad decisions by the trustees, but they have a fix for that. For those...
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Response Times: Canada
IAFF vs CUPE The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) is none too happy with the Ontario Professional Firefighters Association’s move to begin providing fire-based EMS first response. According to...
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Fire Survival: Oakland, Dead Right There
The “Ghost Ship” The death toll in this weekend’s fire at an Oakland, CA, warehouse being used as an entertainment venue is at 33 and may rise higher still. Ten of the 20 deadliest fires in US history...
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Drain the Swamp: Bob Dole
Old Men, Old Tricks President-elect Trump’s recent kerfuffle-making call to the president of Taiwan wasn’t such a newbie gaffe after all. Turns out that former US senator and failed presidential...
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Leadership: The Day After the Day (Of Infamy)
December 8, 1941 Battleship USS West Virginia The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on the 7th of December was a rude wake-up call for Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short, the Navy and Army...
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Pensions: Bank Holiday in Dallas
Bully for the Mayor Don’t you just hate it when someone starts off an article by defining a word? Sorry, here goes. pen·sion (penSHÉ™n/): a regular payment made during a person’s retirement from an...
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Walk-About
Just Drop It Off On the way to the Natural History Museum yesterday I walked down 12th St., NW, passing beside the former “Old” Post Office which is now the new Trump International Hotel. Besides...
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Wall of Honor, One Spot Left
MIA That’s Miami International Airport, not Missing In Action, though it could apply. I was walking through the airport yesterday, something I have done many times, when I (finally) noticed what is a...
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Words: A Tree Falls
Angeles Forest There was a horrible accident in the Los Angeles area this past weekend when a large tree fell on a wedding party killing one person and injuring others, including a young child. Perhaps...
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