Grandma is a union thug

I was flying through Atlanta last week returning from spring break when in the train that runs between the terminals the car I was in was suddenly half filled with a gaggle of elderly women wearing matching hi-viz green tee shirts with a flag and the words "good Bless America" on front and a message on the back saying: 1. I will remember 2. I vote.

I was amused as I knew that there was a union rally in Atlanta the previous day. But these union Grandma's were all flying out of the city without carry on luggage. So curiousity won and I asked the woman who was closest to me what union they were with, instead of answering she looked at her friend and the obvious Alpha Granny who growled (literally) why I wanted to know. I explained it was obvious they were going to a protest and as former union member I supported their right (I didn't add to wear ugly shirts in public). She gave me their local number, but didn't identify the union nor my next question of where they were going, my attempt at breaking the ice failed so taking a picture of the stampeding herd as the door opened at Terminal B was out of the question.

Taking stock of the situation as I waited 5 hours for my flight while some ersatz Romeo penetrated me with his eyes (he literally stared at my crotch for most of the time except when we escaped to the Fox Sports bar for some Bloody Marias) left me disappointed I could not drag more information out the union thugs. They were all white, on the other side of 60, all in matching shirts, obviously representing a union but did not want to disclose which one, were spoiling for a fight before even getting to where they were going, and aside from one woman who appeared to be in her mid to late 70s they were all heavy weights... obese to morbidly obese, and reluctant to tell me where they were going.

It is my contention that if they really believed in the cause they were about to board a plane to rally for they would be talking about it. But from the anger displayed by the group so early in the morning and before getting to the demonstration, and the uniform air of contempt as they stormed onto and out of the train car it occurred to me as though they may have been at a perverse sort of pep rally prior to coming to the airport.

It also occurred to me that none of these people likely had jobs that paid enough to pay enough for them to take a vacation outside the state so it had to be the union that was footing the bill. And they had no carry ons, just purses, so they either checked their luggage, or more likely, were taking a day trip.

Union demonstrations are the new astroturf. Pelosi fired off that invective at the true grassroots TEA Parties, but note how she and the administration are saying nothing about scores of union members being shuttled around the country for finely orchestrated rallies that, like the Town Hall counter protesters of summer 2009, are inciting violence to which the left and their monkeys in the media have chosen to remain blind and ignorant.