Saturday, April 28, 2007

High Crimes and Misdemeanors at Faneuil Hall!

Our day at Faneuil Hall started out very well. The Tayshuns, Ascencia N. Titlement and Porsche DeCosta Lotta-Dough shared a few laughs with our Georgie (background) in our richly appointed pavilion...


...Ascencia flirted with D'Oyle Fields (or was it the other way around?)...


Porsche bribed a cop...


...and D'Oyle gracefully forced a mime to kiss his shoes!


Suddenly, things took a distinct turn for the worse! A Veteran for Peace 'conned' Dee Foress and Austin Tayshun out of a Billion dollar bill, only to try to do the same thing with Porsche seconds later (take a look at his face in that second photo. He is so-oo-oo busted!)!


Then, an everyday American tried to steal our money right from our Georgie's feet seconds after Austin Tayshun turned his back!!


But the worse was to come! A town crier rang his annoyingly loud bell and announced that 'the people' would try our Georgie and our Dick for 'high crimes and misdemeanors' in a citizens' impeachment! We were outraged!


Scary-looking Revolutionary Guards pushed through the crowd with Georgie and Dick!


They called our guys 'prisoners' and forced them to listen to charges against them! Horror!!


A 'judged' presided over the 'impeachment' and 'trial' but refused to allow us to speak up for our boys! And look at the impenetrable wall of Raging Grannies behind the judge. That kind of thing is intimidation!

Nevertheless, we Billionaires did our best to prevent the impeachment, chanting, "Bush is Innocent!" and "Cheney is Innocent!" We yelled "Nay!" when we could finally vote, but there were simply too many great unwashed middle classes against us -- it was all to no avail.

Our boys were impeached, 'convicted' and stripped of their crowns in a most humilating fashion!


They were then led to 'prison' where they joined our Rummy and our Condi. Hey! When were Rummy and Condi convicted?!?! And that kid has Dick's crown -- that can't be right!

Is it really so easy for the people to triumph over us? Stay tuned...

UPDATE: One of the attendees documented our efforts to support our boys! Thank you, darling!

UPDATE: Here is a photo of our fantastic crew voting "Nay!". But, without recourse to 'campaign contributions' and 'charitable donations', we really had no hope of prevailing. How sad.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

Hotel Workers Win! 'Outrage'!!

Hotel workers reached a historic agreement with three luxury hotels
early Tuesday afternoon. The contract is settled. Management caved. It is a sad, sad day for Boston's luxury hotels when they are forced to pay a living wage to their workers.

All of the rebellious workers' demands were met -- and then some. This is a very bad precedent for the wealthy since now they may need to pay more for their luxuries! For some reason, the union thanked us Billionaires for our assistance and have invited us to a celebratory party this weekend (time and date TBA; check the event listing above).

They write,

Thank you for all of your support and work in this contract campaign! The threat of a boycott was incredibly valuable to our campaign. Your ideas, phone banking, research, delegations, and sit-in participation were absolutely key to us pulling off the victory . We will let you know when a celebration is planned and hope that you all will attend...


But what did we do?!? We just paid one little visit to the Park Plaza to buck up management when the union was held at bay because of an injunction! That isn't so much, is it?

Oh wait, Jobs With Justice says our visit worked since management realized that even if they kept the workers away from the hotels, other people would still be able to take action. Hmmmmmm... Good to know for the future!

Monday, April 09, 2007

Billionaires At the Park Plaza Hotel!

Although we often stay at the Park Plaza Hotel for kicks, we paid a special visit this evening because obstreperous workers of the hotel are threatening to strike! It seems that the rabble wishes the company which owns the hotel, Starwood, to pay its Boston workers about the same as workers at Starwood hotels in other cities. They are also asking the company to provide them with a pension plan. Porsche DeCosta Lotta-Dough and D'Oyle Fields ask, "What for? So they can retire instead of working until they drop?!"

Currently, management personnel are training to be replacements for the workers if they strike. Porsche presented the General Manager, Mickey Schneider, with a document of support for this strategy. After all, we wouldn't want the service to decline or anything horrible such as that! Mickey was quite gracious and assured us that negotiations would work out just fine. We certainly hope so. What ever would we do with mintless pillows?!

After shoring up management, D'Oyle and Porsche tried to break down the door to one of the strike trailers cluttering up the vista. Those inconsiderate workers had not only parked this trailer within sight of the hotel, but then plastered it with gaudy posters.

The posters read, "Unite Here!". We believe that is just wrong!