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The ASSociated Press has Organized Labor at Crossroads With Feud.

A politically charged feud over the future of organized labor comes to a climax this week when nearly 1,000 delegates gather to celebrate the 50th year of the AFL-CIO.

Four of the federation’s 56 affiliates, representing about one-third of its dues-paying union members, are threatening to leave Chicago before the convention begins Monday and, eventually, bolt the AFL-CIO itself.

A divided House of Labor threatens the Democratic Party, which relies on the AFL-CIO’s organizing powers on Election Day, and could affect the livelihoods of 13 million workers represented by the federation’s affiliates. Whether the civil war jolts organized labor from its slumber or hastens its decline is a subject of intense debate.

“Divided we fall,” said Gerald McEntee, president of a government workers’ union who hopes to keep the AFL-CIO intact.

On the flip side, Andy Stern of the Service Employees International Union is leading an effort to overthrow his former mentor, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, and radically overhaul the federation. He has formed a coalition of seven reform-minded unions, including the four threatening to quit the AFL-CIO if their demands on not met.

The radically socialist SEIU will help destruct the moderate union movement, AFL-CIO.

Say good bye to the American Labor Movement.

Looks like the Democrat Party will have to find another cash cow.

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The ASSociated Press has Schwarzenegger Cuts Ties With Competition.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has cut business ties with an annual bodybuilding competition that bears his name, taking another step to distance himself from makers of nutritional supplements.

The governor was paid a fee each year to attend the bodybuilding event called the Arnold Classic, where dietary supplements are heavily promoted.

“That financial relationship is over,” spokeswoman Margita Thompson said Saturday. “He wanted the people to know he’s focusing on governing and didn’t want this to be viewed as a distraction.”

The truth is there has been no real conflict of interest and no quid pro quo for any California legislation. Like a true Hollywood type though Arnold is adverse to confrontation and any appearance of impropriety.

This FLAP is much ado about Nothing.

Technorati Tags: Schwarzenegger, Arnold’s Classic

Dentist and Internet Dental Forum founder, Dr. David Dodell, has developed the Dentalcast Podcast network which brings you the latest in dental techniques and information via a regular “Podcast” radio show.

The feed is: http://www.dentalcast.net/podcast/dentalcast.xml.

Flap says check it out.

You will be glad you did.

Technorati Tags: dentalcast.net, dentalcast, Internet Dental Forum, Podcast, David Dodell

Patterico has asked his readers to tell departing/retiring editor John Carroll why the Los Angeles Times circulation has gone down.

Back in February, I asked these questions:

Do you read the L.A. Times? If so, why? If not, why not?

If you have cancelled your subscription, tell us why.

What bugs you about the paper? Is there anything about it that you do like?

I got 89 comments — most of them from people who had canceled their subscriptions due to their perception that the paper slants the news to fit a leftist perspective.

If you have not contributed to that thread, please do so now. Don’t leave comments on this post. Click on this link and tell John Carroll why you do (or don’t) read the L.A. Times.

Flap did.

So, go here and give the new editor, Dean Baquet, something to ponder.

Los Angeles Times Editor John S. Carroll, left, announces his retirement to news staff. Managing Editor Dean P. Baquet, center, will succeed him on Aug. 15. Publisher Jeffrey M. Johnson, right, praised Carroll’s leadership, saying, “We are indebted to him for his extraordinary legacy of journalistic excellence and wish him every happiness in the future.”

Michelle Malkin weighs in with GET THE L.A. TIMES A CLUE

JOINING FOR PEACE - Mohamed Fouda, leader of the Islamic Center of the North Valley in Lancaster. left, is greeted by rally organizer Abdul-Wahab Omeira at a peace rally Friday in Palmdale

An anti-terror rally was sponsored Friday night by Antelope Valley, California, Muslims.

“Islam is Peace,” the signs read as about 100 Muslims and supporters from across the Antelope Valley offered that message to their fellow residents in a street-corner rally Friday evening.

Drivers answered by honking their horns and returning peace signs. Two sheriff’s squad cars idled in the old K-Mart parking lot for security, but deputies said no problems were reported.

Asema Sultan immigrated to the United States from Pakistan 24 years ago and has lived in Palmdale for 15 years.

The sign she carried said: “Not in our name.”

“Killing any person is not right,” she said. “Jihad is an inner struggle, not killing people.”

Indeed.

HT: Instapundit

This funny cartoon is from Roll Call via the blog From the Bleachers

HT: Confirm Them