Einstein was smart enough to join a UNION

[yurbud]

Some Republican congressman posted a video reinforcing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3mw49mk_x0">the stereotype that all union members are foul-mouthed, ignorant, blue collar goons.

I wonder if that's what he thinks actors like Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, his neighborhood cop, firemen, and elementary school teachers are like.

Even Albert Einstein was smart enough to join a union and advocate that others do the same.





full-sized images at http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2009/02/einstein-was-smart-enough-to-join-union.html">Professorsmartass.com

[muntrv]

1. The repuke rep is confusing freepers with union members.

[yurbud]

2. but a freeper doesn't care if your kid drinks piss--you should have bought bottled water.

[4 t 4]

3. Say yes to unions. They built this country

[jberryhill]

6. Naw.... the good stuff was built by slaves....

Like the White House and the Capitol.

But, unions or slaves, them's yer choices.

[yurbud]

10. rich liked slavery when labor was scarce, now that labor is plentiful...

they don't want to be responsible for the upkeep of a slave year round. Better to use an illegal immigrant that you can have work for you for a while, then call ICE when it's time to give them their paycheck.

[yurbud]

4. vote this up on digg, reddit, etc, so wider audience sees it (got negative votes on reddit) LINKS:

http://buzzflash.net/story.php?id=1002216

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7wq5g/einstein_was_smart_enough_to_join_a_union/

http://digg.com/political_opinion/Einstein_was_smart_enough_to_join_a_UNION

http://www.jabberwonk.com/flinker.cfm?cliid=l6fjc

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. He was also smart enough to be a Socialist, Pacifist, and anti-Zionist.

[yurbud]

8. write on all counts

[rockymountaindem]

9. Wikipedia seems divided on his stance on Zionism

Einstein was a socialist Zionist who supported the creation of a Jewish national homeland in the British mandate of Palestine.<66> In 1931, The Macmillan Company published About Zionism: Speeches and Lectures by Professor Albert Einstein.<67> Querido, an Amsterdam publishing house, collected eleven of Einstein's essays into a 1933 book entitled Mein Weltbild, translated to English as The World as I See It; Einstein's foreword dedicates the collection "to the Jews of Germany".<68> In the face of Germany's rising militarism, Einstein wrote and spoke for peace.<69><70>

Einstein publicly stated reservations about the proposal to partition the British-supervised British Mandate of Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish countries. In a 1938 speech, "Our Debt to Zionism", he said: "My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state. ... If external necessity should after all compel us to assume this burden, let us bear it with tact and patience."<71> In a 1947 letter to Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Einstein stated that the Balfour Declaration's proposal to establish a national home for Jews in Palestine "redresses the balance" of justice and history.<72>

The United Nations did divide the mandate, demarcating the borders of several new countries including the State of Israel, and war broke out immediately. Einstein was one of the authors of a 1948 letter to the New York Times criticizing Menachem Begin's Herut (Freedom) Party for the Deir Yassin massacre (Einstein et al. 1948).

Einstein served on the Board of Governors of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In his Will of 1950, Einstein bequeathed literary rights to his writings to The Hebrew University, where many of his original documents are held in the Albert Einstein Archives.<73>

When President Chaim Weizmann died in 1952, Einstein was asked to be Israel's second president, but he declined, stating that he had "neither the natural ability nor the experience to deal with human beings." <74> He wrote: "I am deeply moved by the offer from our State of Israel, and at once saddened and ashamed that I cannot accept it. "<75>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_einstein#Zionism

[yurbud]

7. I left two critical words out of the chalkboard photoshop. Here's revision: