Video: Letterman releases last appearance of Bill Hicks

I didn’t even know this existed, last night David Letterman has Mary Hicks, Bill’s mom, on his show and released a 1993 appearance, Bill’s last, which originally did not air.

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John Walsh from America’s Most Wanted finally gets justice, sons murderer identified

” Fla. police have officially declared that deceased convict Ottis Toole killed 6-year-old Adam Walsh, son of “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh, in 1981. - from YouTube/CBS

For many years John Walsh, the creator and host of America’s Most Wanted has been a man I admired. His personal tragedy of his son Adam being murdered and decapitated and no one being convicted led him on a mission. That it should never happen to anyone. Many murderers and other criminals have been brought to justice because of Walsh’s campaign.

YouTube Video from CBS

You can read more on the story of Adam Walsh and learn about Otis Toole at the America’s Most Wanted site and more on Otis Toole at WikiPedia

Music for the tradesman: Tig Wired

Tig Wired, who according to their website is:

TIG WIRED is music geared towards the people who work in the industrial service areas, welders, fitters, riggers, brickies, tin bashers, boiler hogs, pipefighters, inspection guys, scaffold gods and the like…you get the picture..you’ll get the meaning too!!.
If you like good solid music with a taste for blues, rock, reggae and some new age stuff, then you are gonna love this site….

Gotta Be Safe

Shutdown Blues

Welders weld, and the fitters fit
Riggers rig, that’s the gist of it
Foremen push their motley crews
Boys all wear the coveralls of blue
They rhythms set everybody knows the tune
Here comes the shutdown blues

Come-a-longs and chain falls too
Sparks they fly from the gouging crew,
Flag men calls to swing out the boom

Boys all wear the coveralls of blue,
The rhythms set everybody knows the tune
For the shutdown blues

I got a buddy who can sing the blues
He drives a Hog sports mean tattoos
If we were careful we could spring him loose
And let him take us where there ain’t no dues

Toxic gas and asbestos dust
The long hard hours is killin’ us
Super-heats and the re-heats too
The boys still wear the coveralls of blue
The rhythms set everybody knows the tune
For the shutdown blues

The steam chief grins ‘cause his job’s on time
Gonna see that unit go back online
Turn a profit in a day or two
And all the boys know just what to do
The rhythms set everybody knows the tune
For the shutdown blues

I paid a visit to the house of ruin
Been here before and it ain’t nothin’ new
I caught the sunrise from the room of blues
And headed back to meet my X ray crew
I could get wired I could get black and blue
I could go crazy by the time were through
But I caught the sunrise like I always do
And headed back to do this job for you.

The x ray crew is shootin’ welds all green
Erectors happy with his mean machine
The moneys good the hole watch through
Do you catch the feeling, you get the meaning to?
The rhythms set, everybody knows the tune
For the shut down here comes the shut down
Ohh the shutdown blues

You can catch the band at their website or at:

Buy the Tig Wired CD here

Video: Boston Ironworkers support for the Jimmy Fund

Added some nifty widgets to the site, Labourstart photo’s and a video bar

I am really happy to be finding so many nice widgets around the net lately, it’s getting easier to grab wonderful content and bring it to you. the newest stuff I have is the Industrial, Labour and Trade Unions of photo’s from around the world and a video widget featuring one of the great artist on YouTube, please note I’m still testing all this stuff out, Just like the labor news widget I created with the use of YahooTubes on the top right, and the addition of the Amber Alert badge.

I’m trying to make this site one of the best for info for working people.

Later,
Joe

Video: The value of a dollar

The video that explains the value of gold Vs.the dollar on YouTube

Wal-Mart to destroy historic Civil War battlefield

NYC Iron Workers video from 1902, and Modern Day Higerise Workers

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Bill Hicks – Life is just a ride…

The World is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real, because that’s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round, and it has thrills and chills and is very brightly colored, and it’s very loud. And it’s fun, for a while.

Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they’ve begun to question, ‘Is this real, or is this just a ride?’, and other people have remembered, and they’ve come back to us and they say ‘Hey, don’t worry. Don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.’ and we KILL THOSE PEOPLE.

“Shut him up! We have alot invested in this ride! SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.”

It’s just a ride.

But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that. You ever noticed that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn’t matter, because … It’s just a ride.

And we can change it anytime we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear wants you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead see all of us as one.

Here’s what we can do to change the world right now, to a better ride:

Take all that money we spent on weapons and defense each year and instead spend it feeding, clothing, and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and WE CAN EXPLORE SPACE, TOGETHER, BOTH INNER AND OUTER, forever … in peace.

– Bill Hicks (1961 – 1994)

Sunday’s Mad As Hell Movie Clip

32 years later, where are we?

Network 1976:

8.1/10 by almost 23,000 users at IMDb (Internet Movie Database)

Mr.beale learns about money