Classic. Cheney is thinking 'Just let me take him HUNTING'!!!!!!!!!!!

great foto manipulation , on the same note i found the names busch and rundstadt on this german warmap of ww2 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/10May_16May_Battle_of_Belgium.PNG

LOL! love it!

I'm afraid that I can't agree with wblack, I wish people understood how much of the benefits they take for granted are because of unions. Want a world without them? Read up on what the cities and working conditions were like in the late 1800's and early 1900's when Cholera regularly swept the cities and hundreds died on the job each month. Makes me sad about the future. Nice work, I couldn't agree with you more!

LOL who rattled his cage....

A few responses come to mind: See my selection of video links below for the real Nazi's. In regards to U.S. debt -- and I cannot believe the blathering level of this: it pre-existed the Bush tax cuts. I mean, you might as well believe that unions invented the weekend – never mind all of history going back to the dawn of civilization, historical fact shows that man has enjoyed weekends ever since man began to build cities, the week ending with ritual days and days of rest – references from the Enuma Elish date back more than 5,000 years. The present-day concept of the weekend first arose from the Dies Solis (Day of the Sun) decreed by Constantine, and the Biblical Sabbath. So, don’t thank a union member for the weekend – do a little reading and learn the truth. See Work Week and Weekend Only a dubnik would think unions created the weekend … so don’t be a dupnik. On another front: Truth requires no agreement, it is self-evident. It is a fact that the early period of industrialization saw epidemic, disease, and harsh working conditions. NefariousDrO is right to fear the return of such conditions – unchecked unions and destructive liberalism will surely bring about their return if not mitigated. Harsh working conditions prevailed long before the Industrial Revolution. Just as industrialization did not create these conditions -- unions played no part in the solution. Pre-industrial society was very static and often cruel—child labor, dirty living conditions, and long working hours were long the norm before the Industrial Revolution – it is false to attribute these inherited facts of life to the rise of industry. In the early 19th century, industrialization occurring in Europe and the U.S. caused population density to shift from the countryside to the cities. Labor shifted from rural jobs to urban employment in factories. These changes took place very rapidly, sometimes within a few decades or a generation. The rapid rise in urban population density – not any action of factory owners – created conditions ripe for epidemic disease. Working people lived in very small houses in cramped streets. These homes would share toilet facilities, have open sewers and would be at risk of damp. Disease was spread through a contaminated water supply. Open sewers and poorly maintained water supply spreading disease where an inherited fact going back to the dawn of civilization – these were not the creation of factory owners (who bore no direct responsibility for the condition) and unions played no role in the cure. Public health acts were introduced covering things such as sewage, hygiene and making some boundaries upon the construction of homes. Public Health Acts – Not unions solved these problems as urban society evolved. The conditions for the poor improved over the course of the 19th century because of prosperity, technological innovations, and sanitation laws – all of which led to cities becoming cleaner places. Hygiene and technological innovation fueled by prosperity – not unions – give us the modern world we live in today. Life had not been easy for the poor before industrialization. Exploitive and harsh working conditions long pre-dated industrialization – and prior to the growth of the middle class – the poor did not thrive – they died. The Industrial Revolution created a larger middle class – not unions – and the prosperity created by a growing economy largely wiped out the kind of poverty which previously was the rule. Disease, poverty, and death have been with mankind always going back to the dawn of mans existence. Far from creating poverty, capitalism, in the form of industrial production, at the dawn of the industrial era, gave the poor the first chance they ever had to survive, in pre-industrial times the rule being disease, starvation, and death. The wealth produced in a society (by the productive labor and trade between its members) sets the lower limit of both the standard and quality of life. You cannot elevate the masses by tearing down the producers, Limiting success does not create equality; it spreads poverty to all. Unions do not create prosperity – they are leeches living off the labor of workers and producers. Unions did not give you the modern world, capitalism did -- your modern life-style including twenty-four hour a day electricity, heated climate controlled homes, a vast array of transportation choices, well stocked grocery stores and the ability to make convenience purchases at any hour of the day or night, your home PC (brought to you by Apple, Microsoft, IBM, Dell, and others) your ipod, cell-phone, twitter, HD plasma screen television, instant global communications and information access, along with the hundreds of millions who live productive lives due to advanced medical technology – and I conclude, with full sarcasm: all this is clearly the result of a vast evil corporate conspiracy to give you, the people, exactly what you want and desire. In support of the following I offer these videos as evidence fact. Video Links: Here union thugs interfere with private citizens exercising their right to petition government. Union Thugs Destroy Recall Petitions This video was shot minutes after a union advocate destroyed several petitions at a recall Jim Holperin Rally in Merill, WI. The event had to be moved when the private location originally slated to host the event was threatened with arson. Video shot at a "Moveon.org" sponsored Union Protest Rally In Sacramento on Saturday February 26. In it, you see two union thugs verbally abusing peacefully counter-protesting citizens -- then one of them crosses the street to attacks. Teamster Thug attacks Tea Party Member in Sacramento California at Moveon.org rally In this video police detain union thug after he attempts to destroy audio gear and assaults Tea Party member. Wisc Union Thug Tries Destroy Tea Party Audio SEIU used threats of reprisal and force to intimidate voters. SEIU opened, marked, and altered voters ballots. California healthcare workers testify how they were threatened, intimidated, and forced to initial altered ballots. Workers blow whistle on SEIU election fraud Do you want a bright future? Tune out the left. Tune out the ideology of conflict and suspicion. End corrupt coerced unionism now. America is shackled with crippling chains: tax rates and the looming job-killing monster of Obamacare crippling our business environment and economy; environmental regulations calculated to impoverish us into "green" living; goose-stepping media who sappily salute every lie of leftism; militant class warfare, promulgated by the left, militant “community-organizing” which is nothing more than hate mongering, masking as some sort of faux-Americanism; vast and awful fathomless seas of public debt. The Big Lie: Actions to control unsustainably mounting debt represent “union busting.” Fact: The states are broke – for decades unions have siphoned off hundreds of millions of dollars (and indebted the States to billions in unfunded pension liabilities) in the form of unfair wage and benefit packages which the common hard working American cannot access – no corporation could sustain comparable benefits without going bankrupt and then out of business—only the infinite government dollar supports these corrupt schemes – and does so on the back of the working American. Fact: These actions do nothing to eliminate public-sector workers’ right to association, assemblage, or to petition their government. Even pretending that it is a “rights” issue is a mistake. There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that requires a government to engage in a back and forth negotiation with a collective of workers. Fact: Public sector unions enjoy an unfair privilege which leads to abuse of tax-payer dollars: many represented by these unions are among the highest compensated workers in the nation, they enjoy paying little or nothing for retirement and healthcare benefits and the right to employment regardless of job performance. Granting public-sector union’s monopoly bargaining privileges gives a union, a special interest group, two bites at the apple. First, it uses its political clout to elect public officials. Then it negotiates with the very same officials. As Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour explained in an interview regarding the actions of Governor Scott Walker: “When they have collective bargaining, on one side of the table there are state employee unions or the local employee unions. On the other side of the table are the politicians that (the unions) paid for in the election of those politicians,” Barbour said. “Now, who represents the taxpayers in that negotiation? Well, actually, nobody.” This issue is about union controlled politics, union power, and union entitlement to the money earned by hardworking taxpayers. The Big Lie: Unions have made the fight all about their “right to be unionized” and the fictitious right to “collective bargaining”—which makes their cause even more despotic. Fact: This is not a civil rights issue – there are no civil rights involved. There is no “right to collective action.” The relevant real right is the individual right to petition government. This individual right to petition government is not being compromised. No one’s rights are being violated. The privilege (to collectively bargain) claimed as a “right” does not exist as a right. Coerced unions were always unnecessary, wasteful, and immoral -- and all unions today are coerced unions. Individuals in a “union shop” lose their right to individual action – their cooperation (and their money in the form of dues) is coerced, forcibly taken, and their individual freedom is thus compromised. Fact: If you are a union member you are not free. The freedom to make individual assessment of the facts and chose to act on individual choice is the basic right of all Americans – unions remove this right. Fact: If you are a union member you have no independent voice – your right to individual petition regarding your individual concerns has been removed, made subject to the collective voice of the mob. The tough spirit of independent Americans – who have never tolerated despotism – is coming out, and the days of these corrupt union leviathans are numbered. Do you want a bright future? Tune out the left. Tune out the ideology of conflict and suspicion. End corrupt coerced unionism now.

wblack - you rock dude! Keep it up. As to the image itself. It is very well done. I could not do as well. Having said that, don't know if you could burn and dodge to get the shadows more consistent? But otherwise really good work here. I tried to do an image similar to this (minus the Nazi stuff) and I was working with photos I'd taken myself so I know how hard it is to do what I am asking. Bravo on the image. Not so much on the content of your message.

Where was the "Biblical gift" of the weekend when 12-year-old laborers worked in coal mines for eighteen hours a day, seven days a week and were hauled out on coal cars when they died? My father was a Montana coal miner at that age. When a coal car ran over his hand, his fellow workers and himself were fired for leaving the line to take him to the doctor. When they got to his office, the doctor was in church. So spare me your biblical cr@p about the weekend. The weekend, as well as vacations, holidays, health benefits, retirement, worker safety, and every other labor right in this nation were fought for and won by organized labor, and collective bargaining AND BY NO OTHER MEANS. This country was never better than when unionism was at its apex; And conservatives occupied their rightful place....solidly in THE MINORITY!