OPEIU LOCAL 512'S ON-LINE 'ZINE
A bi-weekly update of events & items of interest
Vol.III Issue 10
CAMPAIGNS, ALERTS, & ACTIONS OF INTEREST
The views of the editor not necessarily reflect the official opinions of OPEIU Local 512 or the International Union.
Back On the Bus
Every day in America, 85,444 workers lose their jobs. 14.7 million people are jobless, underemployed or have given up looking for work. 43.6 million people have no health insurance. 4,227 people file for personal bankruptcy. 12,878 workers are injured or made ill by their jobs. 6.8 million people are in the workforce but are still poor. 11 million children attend broken-down schools.
These are the almost-numbing statistics about the state of America's working families. They are among the most important parts of the case against George W. Bush. How could somebody do so little while so many hurt?
Worse, many Bush policies exacerbate these problems. His proposal to take away overtime pay from some 8 million American workers will surely increase the number of people who work but are still poor. It will also mean bosses demand more time at work and less time for families, children and self.
Tax breaks for corporations that export jobs are another kick. If the benefits of globalization were the creation of information technology (IT) and other white-collar jobs, these benefits bypassed America. India, the Philippines and other countries were the winners in that contest. More than 14 million white-collar jobs could be shipped overseas during the next few years, according to a University of California, Berkeley study.
What's missing from this accountant-like recitation of the economic restructuring of today and the future? People. The ripple effects across our nation and our economy reach families and homes.
Those stories of struggle in the Bush economy were the focus of an eight-day, 19-city bus tour across the heartland by 51 jobless or struggling Americans. Sponsored by the AFL-CIO, the Show Us the Jobs tour included a representative from every state and Washington, D.C. After beginning in St. Louis, the tour traveled through Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania before stopping in our nation's capital. I joined the tour as AFL-CIO staff to help bus riders write online journals (blogs!) from the bus and jockey Internet exposure for the tour.
Waking Up from the American Dream
At a tour stop in Rochester, Minnesota – home to an IBM regional training center – bus riders spoke out about the outsourcing crisis that began with 2.8 million manufacturing jobs but now reaches into white-collar and IT jobs. Washington state bus rider Myra, 40, was working an IT job at WatchMark Corp. for two years. One day, her entire department was informed they would be laid off in one month. Worse, they were told to train their Indian replacements or lose their severance package. Still without work after a 10-month search, Myra's unemployment benefits just ran out.
"My life has changed drastically over my 10 months of unemployment. I've cashed in my 401(k), can no longer afford health insurance and can just barely pay the rest of the bills. I no longer plan for the future; I just try to make it through the present. I've even resorted to selling a number of my things on eBay to get money for essentials."
"I think that my biggest struggles throughout this experience are the constant feelings of powerlessness and paralysis. I did everything I could to succeed. I got a good education. I paid off big student loans. I worked hard at my job. But I now realize that it doesn't matter what I do to make myself a marketable employee if there are no policies in this country to protect our jobs from being sent overseas to someone who will work for 1/16th the price. I can't compete with that. You could say that I woke up from the American dream."
The failure of the American dream was a common theme among the bus riders. Texas bus rider Jim, at a stop in Youngstown, Ohio, expressed the relief he felt because, though jobless, he didn't have a family to support. "What has happened to the American dream?" that a young man celebrates the marketability his lack of a family provides, asked Linda, the Nevada rider.
The Electrolux Tragedy
These stories of job loss aren't isolated to individuals. Entire communities and families are devastated when it is a company town that takes a hit. Greenville, Mich., is home to an Electrolux refrigerator factory. Electrolux has announced its plan to shutter the plant and move it to Mexico. The plant's 2,700 workers will lose their jobs.
The tour stop in Greenville was very emotional for the bus riders and the community. As riders stepped off the buses and walked into the Greenville High School gym for a rally, people lined the hallway and silently applauded or thanked them.
As the rally proceeded, Ember, the 15-year old granddaughter of a local Electrolux worker and member of UAW Local 137, read a letter from the mayor. Before she began to read the letter, she shared that her family is without work. This teenager – crying a little now – recounted that her family might lose their home, their car or worse. She's afraid, asking, "What will we have?" and goes silent, in tears. The crowd paused in silence, but then in a deep baritone voice from the back of the room, a crowd member shouted out, "You've got us," and the crowd applauded.
A local union leader stood up to recount the story of their efforts to save the Electrolux jobs. At a meeting, a company executive explained that the fate of the Greenville factory was set. In fact, the company would have moved the jobs to China rather than Mexico, except the refrigerators were too big for the shipping containers used on container ships that go from China to the United States.
The lesson was clear: the fate of the Greenville families is tied up in the torrent of the global economy.
The Power of Coming Together
It isn't only jobless Americans who are feeling hit by the Bush economy. Kansas representative Randy, 48, has been out of the military since 1979 and has worked at Boeing for the past 24 years as an engineering technician in a metrology laboratory. Randy is doing the same job for Boeing that he was trained to do in the military, and because of the Bush administration's overtime pay take-away, he will likely lose his right to overtime pay. A one-line provision buried in the Bush regulation uses military service as criteria for stripping Randy and other veterans of their right to overtime pay.
"How do you tell the people who are laying down their lives in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, 'Thank you very much for your service, and now that you're home, no overtime pay for you?' This just is not fair."
Parts of the tour were like visiting an economic war zone. There were hundreds of heart-wrenching stories we heard just in our everyday interactions. It would've been easy to lose hope, but many of the riders were on a mission.
Dawn, the Arizona rider, provided a clear analysis of what needed to happen. In her online journal, she took the heart-grabbing stories of all the bus riders and turned them into powerful calls to action for America when she wrote:
"I am just a regular American, and I have to make a difference. You have to. We have to. We have to stand up and say, 'We're mad as hell, and we're not going to take it anymore.' We have to be willing to work – not just at our jobs but also for our jobs. We've got to get out in the streets, on the radio, in the newspapers, knocking on doors, standing in front of crowds – whether we want to or not."
"There is no 'someone' who is going to fix America. There is only us – you and I and all of our regular American friends and family and colleagues."
Sounds right to me.
Tom Matzzie is online mobilization manager at the AFL-CIO and rode the bus on the Show Us the Jobs tour.
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OPEIU Local 153 Scores Big Victory
1000 Prudential Insurance Agents Join OPEIU
Nearly 1,000 Prudential Financial Inc. agents across the country are now
members of a white-collar 
union
following a vote tallied Tuesday, April 20.
The Office and Professional Employees International Union, Local 153, won the right to represent agents in 34 states who work directly for Prudential, but not agents who are independent contractors.
"This is a large unit of insurance agents, a group primarily commission-based and not traditionally thought of as the type of workers that are unionized. We are breaking new ground here and are now looking forward to negotiating a contract with Prudential that best represents our members' interests," OPEIU International President Michael Goodwin said in a news release.
Mail-in ballot results counted at the National Labor Relations Board's Newark regional office had 64 percent of agents voting in favor of union representation.
Of the nearly 1,000 agents eligible to cast ballots, 617 voted to unionize; 151 voted against.
In a statement released Tuesday, Newark-based Prudential said it respected the decision of its agents to unionize.
"We will negotiate with the union in good faith," the company said.
The successful vote for OPEIU comes almost two years after the union lost a similar bid to represent nearly 2,000 Prudential agents. In votes tallied in April 2002, 811 agents voted against union representation, versus 748 who voted in support of the union.
Congratulations to our friends at Local 513!
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Prudential-Union.html
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FROM THE MICHIGAN STATE AFL-CIO
April News Letter Is Available
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Lied About ... UNITE! and HERE Merge to Become Stronger Legislative Update Could Your Members Cost Us the Election? Michigan Labor's May Day Campaign Kick Off Event |
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Appointed Administration Steals Overtime From Millions
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HOUSE DISHES UP PAY CUTS FOR AMERICAN WORKERS The Bush Administration’s Idea of Fairness: Everybody Gets a Cut—Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Pay Cuts for Workers |
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George W. Bush's new overtime rules pick up his pace for lowering living standards for American workers and putting more dollars into the bank accounts of his corporate campaign donors. The most anti-worker White House in the modern political era just gave workers their biggest pay cut in history. Millions of workers could potentially lose thousands of dollars each year as a result of the Bush Administrations actions. Bush shoved the pay cut through over the objections of both Houses of Congress and millions of workers. The rewritten overtime rules open the door for employers to reclassify jobs so that workers who've always earned overtime would now become exempt. Lead workers in grocery store deli, dairy, produce, and meat departments could now be classified as managers and have their pay slashed under the new Department of Labor (DOL) regulations. Health care industry technicians and nurses, among millions of other workers, could also be reclassified out of overtime pay. |
Take Action
More on the great OT robbery:
http://www.aflcio.org/yourjobeconomy/overtimepay/ns04202004.cfm
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/2519990
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From The Same Party That Brought You The Great Overtime Robbery
State Republican Party Chair Says Michigan Workers Are Paid Too Much
The Grand Rapids PressSo, who does Betsy DeVos think is getting paid too much?
The Republican state party chairwoman raised the issue
Tuesday when she issued a press release saying high wages were partly to blame
for Michigan's economic woes.
"Many, if not most, of the economic problems in Michigan are a result of high wages and a tax and regulatory structure that makes this state uncompetitive," DeVos said in the prepared statement.
The press release was issued as DeVos criticized Gov. Jennifer Granholm for pinning the blame on President Bush for Michigan's loss of nearly 200,000 manufacturing jobs. Granholm was in Washington, D.C. with U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow touting plans to protect manufacturing jobs.
Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Butch Hollowell wasted no time in pouncing on the comments.
"I hate to tell Betsy DeVos this, but high wages are not a bad thing," Hollowell said. "They're good, and we need more of them."
DeVos, a longtime West Michigan GOP activist who owns the Grand Rapids holding company Windquest Group, and whose husband's family owns Alticor Inc., said she only was referring to the realities of the global economy.
"When you see jobs going to our neighbors to the Southeast -- South Carolina, Virginia and Alabama -- their economic climate for job creators is much more hospitable than ours," DeVos, of Ada, told the Press Tuesday.
All three states DeVos mentioned are right-to-work states, which have few unions and lowered wages. According to the Bureau of Labor statistics, right-to-work employees earned $5,333 less a year in 2001 than workers in union jobs.
DeVos said right-to-work laws must be considered, along with other solutions to regulations and high taxes on businesses.
"States with right-to-work environments have an advantage in attracting new jobs," she said. "The fact we have high wages in some areas, there will continue to be adjustments as job creators adjust to the realities."
Greenville refrigerator maker Electrolux announced plans earlier this year to send thousands of jobs to plants in South Carolina and Mexico, the latter of which pays workers $2 an hour, noted Lupe Ramos-Montigny, the Kent County Democratic Party chairwoman.
"To be competitive, we have to resort to getting paid less than the minimum wage?" Ramos-Montigny said. "Is that what she's saying? If that's the case, it won't work, because people won't be able to survive."
Editor's note:
While Local 512 has a firm policy of not telling the membership how or who to vote for, please consider if it is in your best interest to support and vote for people who think like this!
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Hard
Travelin': The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie (American Music Masters)
by Robert
Santelli
A good biography of America's troubadour!
Index:
Way down yonder in the Indian nation: Woody Guthrie, an American troubadour / Mary Katherine Aldin -- Remembering Woody / Harold Leventhal with Robert Santelli -- Hobo's lullaby / Peter Seeger with Robert Santelli -- Going back to Coney Island / Arlo Guthrie -- Beyond folk: Woody Guthrie's impact on rock and roll / Robert Santelli -- Woody Guthrie's recorded legacy / Jeff Place -- Democratic visions, democratic voices: Woody as writer / Craig Werner -- Classic in its own little way: the art of Woody Guthrie / Ellen G. Landau -- Woody Guthrie's American century / Charles F. McGovern -- Your land: the lost legacy of Woody Guthrie / David R. Shumway -- Woody the Red? / Ronald D. Cohen -- Fanfare for the little guy / Robert Cantwell -- Deportees: Woody Guthrie's unfinished business / David Marsh -- Biblio/discography / Guy Logsdon.
You can buy this book with the lick of a mouse! Powell's is a unionized on-line book seller. As a Powell's partner, percentage of each sale goes to Local 512. What a deal!
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0819563919-3
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Virus
Alert!
As
of April 26, 2004, 11:22 AM (PST), TrendLabs has declared a MEDIUM Risk Virus
Alert to control the spread of WORM_BAGLE.X. TrendLabs has received several
infection reports indicating that this malware is spreading in the US and
Europe.
This memory-resident worm propagates via email and network shares. The email it
sends has varying subjects and attachment file names. It drops copies of itself
using specific file names in folders that contain the string "shar" in
their folder names. It also terminates several antivirus and security programs.
It runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.
TrendLabs will be releasing the following EPS deliverables:
TMCM Outbreak
Prevention Policy 107
Official
Pattern Release 869
Damage
Cleanup Template (DCT) 325
For more information on WORM_BAGLE.X, you can visit our Web site at:
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_BAGLE.X
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Upcoming Training from Michigan State University's Labor Education Program
Interest Based Bargaining for Union Negotiators
Wednesday, May 5;
UAW Local 724, 450 Clare St., Lansing;
Instructors: Julie Brockman and John Revitte
This
seminar is for officers and bargaining committee members who must understand
recent trends
in interest-based bargaining (IBB) in contract negotiations.
Whether called mutual gains or collaborative, IBB problem-solving techniques are
becoming more common in labor relations, and unions can’t afford to lose @
win-win bargaining. The session will cover how to separate people from
problems, focus on interests and not positions, and select workable options for
mutual gain. Bargaining basics on preparing negotiation teams and members,
developing bargaining proposals, planning effective strategies, and anticipating
management demands, when using IBB, will also be covered.
Advanced Grievance Negotiation Skills
Friday, June 11;
Northwestern Michigan College - University Center, Traverse City,
Room 204, 2200 Dendrinos Drive, (Boardman Lake Campus);
Instructors: Michelle Kaminski and John Revitte
Stewards, committeepersons and officers will discuss advanced grievance and arbitration problems and work to improve their grievance and arbitration skills. Role play practice and discussions will cover how to gather complete evidence, make better use of witnesses and documents, prepare winning arguments, and write more effective grievances. The seminar will cover arbitration standards in discipline, past practice and contract interpretation cases, and review duty of fair representation and other legal responsibilities and rights. Participants are encouraged to bring their contract to the seminar.
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National Association Of Letter Carriers Has Spring Food Drive
Help Stamp Out Hunger on May 8
Donations Help Stock Pantries Across the Country During Key Summer Months
On Saturday, May 8, Campbell Soup Company will join forces with the National Association of
Letter Carriers (NALC) to Stamp Out Hunger! across America. Stamp Out Hunger! is the nation's largest single-day food drive and has netted nearly 600 million pounds of food for the needy since its inception in 1992.
To help Stamp Out Hunger! on May 8, simply leave a sturdy bag containing non-perishable foods, like canned soup, canned vegetables, pasta, rice or cereal, next to your mailbox before the time of regular mail delivery. Also, make sure that food items are in non-breakable containers, such as boxes and cans. The nation's 240,000 letter carriers will then collect the donations and deliver them to food banks and pantries in their local communities. Participation in Stamp Out Hunger! is an easy and convenient way to help alleviate hunger in the more than 10,000 cities and towns in all 50 states and U.S. jurisdictions where letter carriers work each day.
"Stamp Out Hunger! is a simple way for people across the United States to help one another," said Larry McWilliams, President, US Soups, Sauces & Beverages. "Food banks need to be replenished constantly, especially in the summer months when supplies are often low. Stamp Out Hunger! comes at a perfect time to help make sure that food banks are prepared for those summer shortages."
According to America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest hunger relief organization, 23 million people, including 9 million children, live in households that experience hunger or the risk of hunger. This represents one in 10 households in the United States.
To encourage postal customers to donate food on May 8, Campbell and the United States Postal Service (USPS) sponsored the production of a reminder postcard being mailed to more than 105 million homes. This mailing, to generate awareness and participation for this year's Stamp Out Hunger!, is one of the five largest mailings in the country, according to the USPS, just behind the U.S. census and federal income tax forms.
Campbell has also enlisted the help of Olympic gold medalist figure skater Sarah Hughes to help get the word out about the food drive to homes across the country. Hughes will appear in a nationally distributed public service announcement that will remind people about Stamp Out Hunger! and explain how donations will be picked up. Hughes also teamed up with Campbell and the NALC for the 2003 effort.
"The more than 240,000 letter carriers across the country are proud to serve the communities that we walk through every day," said William H. Young, NALC president. "Serious hunger affects many of our neighbors, but with food donations from our customers on May 8 and the help of Campbell Soup Company, we can make a tangible difference in the fight against hunger."
For more information about Stamp Out Hunger! in your community, ask your letter carrier, contact your local post office or visit
www.nalc.org.
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7th Annual Detroit Writer / Worker Festival
May 1, 2004
Fellow
workers
Join
us for the 7th Annual Detroit Worker/Writer Festival…
…for an evening of working class poetry, songs and
stories, for tales from the front lines of the social justice movement and for a
celebration of worker solidarity.
Saturday,
May 1, 2004
Admission
is FREE!
Doors
open at 6:30 p.m. to review display of visual arts.
Program starts at 7:00 p.m.
“
Hat” will be passed for a worthy social justice organization
Refreshments available from The Wobbly
Kitchen!
Sponsored by UAW Local 1981, the National Writers
Union.
Labor donated.
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Having a hard time understanding the new rules? So do many others. Here's a good nutshell explanation based on a house of mystery analogy. It was supplied to us by e-mail from our friends at the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO. To subscribe to their excellent e-mail reports contact them at:
Bush's new rules on overtime pay create "House of Mystery"
The Bush
administration last week announced changes to the nation's wage-and-hour rules
that will 
mandate
overtime pay for previously ineligible workers in low-paid managerial jobs but
exclude from overtime pay many more workers in high-income jobs and certain
middle-income professional and technical positions.
The new rules are so complex they create a "House of Mystery" for overtime pay. Let's take a tour:
The basement room, in which all workers must receive overtime pay regardless of their duties, was expanded to include jobs that pay up to $23,660 per year. That's up from $8,060 per year. This will expand coverage to lower-paid workers who had been previously classified as exempt from overtime. Most workers in this category are bosses, like retail store managers and "top person in charge" at restaurants. These workers will now automatically qualify for time-and-a-half pay when working more than 40 hours in a week.
But a new roof was constructed, at $100,000 per year, above which workers will be excluded from overtime pay. This is the first time that the overtime rules will include an explicit high-income exclusion. There will still be a limited "duties test" to be applied to these jobs, but the test is so broadly written that almost any job paying more than $100,000 per year that involves office work or non-manual labor will be exempt.
Between the basement and the roof, the new rules construct rooms that will maintain overtime pay for some workers but add barriers and trap doors for many more.
A new safe room was constructed for police, firefighters, EMTs and first responders. These workers already qualified for overtime pay under more general, but sometimes disputed, criteria. Now, under the new rules, their jobs will be explicitly listed as eligible for overtime pay. The new rules also dropped a provision that would have used prior military training as a criterion to exclude from overtime pay jobs that are performed primarily by veterans. These changes maintain the status quo for these workers.
But many more workers whose jobs pay between $23,660 and $100,000 per year will lose their right to overtime pay.
Trap doors were added that will eliminate overtime pay for tens of thousands of workers employed as insurance claims adjusters, computer network, internet and database administrators and for an unknown number of workers who are considered to be "team leaders."
And workers in almost all professional and many technical occupations will be subject to complex "duties tests" that could relegate them to newly-exempt status. Those most likely to suffer loss of overtime pay are some journalists, mortgage loan officers, funeral directors and physical trainers.
"The Bush overtime changes will take money directly out of the pockets of workers and put it into the hands of the President's campaign contributors," said AFL-CIO President John Sweeney. "This has to be one of the biggest pay cuts in American history... It is a huge windfall for large corporations."
Contact President Bush and your representatives in Congress and urge them to preserve overtime pay for all hard-working American workers.
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On The Web
Links of Interest
http://www.aflcio.org/aboutaflcio/wip/
http://www.tennessean.com/opinion/letters/archives/04/04/50335302.shtml?Element_ID=50335302
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/8519280.htm?1c
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The view from here and there
When I take a
long time, I am slow. And now a true story that would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad..... April 23, 2004, 9:27PM Have a Barbie with that pink slipBy DAVE BARRY From Houston Chronicle Every now and then, on this crazy planet we call Earth, you come across a story so darned heartwarming that you need to take a prescription antacid. This is such a story. I found out about it from alert reader David Rankin, who sent me the Jan. 3 front page of the Sevier County, Tenn., Mountain Press ("Sevier County's Daily Newspaper"). On it is an article by J.J. Kindred about a Danville, Va.-based textile company, Dan River, which was closing its Sevierville plant and laying off workers. Evidently, some savvy individual in management realized that the workers would be unhappy about losing their jobs. And so, to cheer them up, the company gave workers "something extra" in their severance packages -- something that would make these layoffs truly special: Barbie dolls. I swear I am not making this up. According to the Mountain Press, the "severance package" included a $100 Wal-Mart gift card, a Dan River cap, a calculator, a plaque and "three red-headed Barbie dolls." That's right: three Barbie dolls. And all redheaded! The Mountain Press published a photo of one worker's severance Barbies, still in their boxes, smiling with radiant perkiness and ready for some layoff fun. We can only imagine the reaction of the workers when they went to the plant personnel office and received these beauties: Management person: John, we're sorry about letting you go after 23 years at the plant, but to "soften the blow," we're giving you these. Worker: But ... but these are ... Management person: Yes! Barbies! Three of them! And they're identical! Worker: Wow! These will be a huge hit with my four boys, ages 15 through 26! This is the best layoff ever! Incredibly, according to the Mountain Press, some workers were not thrilled with their Barbies. The Mountain Press contacted a "human resources" official at Dan River headquarters, who wouldn't comment on the Barbies but did say "we are doing our best to help the employees" and "we have the best management staff around." No doubt! Probably some of them are MBAs! But this is one of those situations where, before implementing a plan -- even a seemingly flawless and airtight plan, such as giving dolls to grown-ups who are losing their jobs -- management should have consulted with a normal, noncorporate human, or even a reasonably bright hamster. ("We have good news and bad news: The hamster liked the Wal-Mart card, but it made doots all over the Barbies.") Speaking of Barbie: I assume you have heard she is no longer with Ken. I'm serious. Mattel made an official announcement about this, which was all over the news. Barbie has apparently taken up with a new doll named Blaine, an Australian surfer with one of those asymmetrical surfer-dude haircuts, so he looks as if the various surfaces of his head were cut by different barbers with seriously incompatible views on how long hair should be. Blaine also has the kind of muscular physique that women actually do not find at all attractive, according to my wife whenever I ask her why she is staring at a Bowflex commercial. I'm not sure how I feel about the Barbie-Ken split. On the one hand, I can see why Barbie would not be satisfied with Ken. I have a 4-year-old daughter, so our house has a thriving, teeming Barbie colony. This colony is serviced by one lone Ken, and frankly he is not up to the task. I say this because Ken doesn't seem to notice that the Barbies are constantly getting naked. No, I don't know why the Barbies do this. I don't want to know. All I know is that often, after my daughter has been playing with her Barbies, I'll walk into her room, and there will be naked Barbies everywhere, and Ken will be displaying absolutely no interest in them. Lately, in fact, Ken has been off in a corner, sitting in Barbie's pink Jeep, with Pinocchio. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But my point is that I can see why Barbie has dumped Ken. But that doesn't mean I'm happy about Blaine. If Blaine thinks he's getting into my daughter's room, he's stupider than he looks, which is pretty stupid. With a better haircut, he could have a career in management.
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