Friday, January 30, 2009

Oh sweet Butterscotch!

My first guitar build live in LA.

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Censorship the ultimate tool to silence dessenting opinion

Censorship and propaganda have long been tools used to silence the voices of dissidents. Every dictatorship in the history of mankind has used censorship as a tool to rule over the masses. What price do we put on our freedoms? What if any justification can be used to explain why we choose to let government or an organization steal our inalienable rights. We must learn from the past, censorship does not protect our freedoms or insure our safety. Censorship does one thing and one thing only it stifles the voices of dissidents. We need a diverse dichotomy of view points in this world, especially today. What gives one group the right to decide how another should talk, write, hear, read, or what they should listen to? No one on this earth has that right, in my humble opinion.

My labor organization, in which I have served for over 23 years, and loved dearly has turned to censorship. The current leaderships fear of viewpoints that differ from than their own are censored or censured indefinitely. For an organization that was started to protect and further workers rights in the Federal Sector to stoop to censorship is an embarrassment!!! Our profession is a very difficult tight knit group, that sometimes eats it's young. We are a group of type "A" personalities personified. We work hard and we play hard, but we never in the past have ever thrown a Brother or Sister under the bus until this leadership took over. It's like some Bush mentality on labor and human rights were morphed into our Unions leadership.

Our former past President has been banned for life from the bulletin board he helped create. Why I ask? Does the current President fear freedom of speech written or spoken by it's membership? Or is he just a vindictive, unskilled, weak little man, with a Napoleon complex as big as his ego? I really don't know the answer to those questions. What I do know is, a labor organization that calls you a Brother with one breath, and then curses your name with the next, is no labor organization I really need to be a part of. I am deeply saddened by these events.
I believe with all my being that freedom of speech is one of the most important rights we all should hold so very dear in our hearts. To have it trampled by an organization that was founded on protecting those rights of it's members is unconscionable.







If you think your feeble attempt to censure my voice for life from our BBS will ever work, then my former friends you are sadly mistaken.


Angry Fokker

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Who will be the next NATCA President ?


I REALLY DON'T CARE WHO WINS, WELL NOT REALLY.

ANYONE BUT PAT IN 2009!!!!!!!!!!!!




If you think playing nice with an employer that hates you for 2 1/2 years will get you reelected, then my friends you are sadly mistaken.

Angry Fokker

Monday, January 19, 2009

Eve of history II

This Eve of History.

On this Historic Eve just 19 hours and some minutes away, I reflect back on many events in my life. This day that we honor the late, great, Dr. Kings memory, it seems ALMOST SURREAL that tomorrow we will inaugurate our first Black President. What a tremendous load our new President has to bare. The hopes and dreams of every American rest on his shoulders. This Presidency more than any other in our history has a worldwide impact. The hopes and dreams of any race, creed, or religion that has dealt with oppression are being held in the balance. But let me remind you that one man cannot fix this Democracy, or this World,, but one Nation, one World, United for the better good of all can!

Tomorrow we celebrate not only history, but the dawn of a new era in our great land. Maybe just maybe, Dr. King's dream may some how now have a chance to come true. We must put our differences aside and come together in a way this country hasn't seen since WWII. We will have to sacrifice, and this endeavor will not be easy, but United we can and will overcome!!!!!!

I hope Mr. President Obama that you realize that those three beautiful ladies in your life are number one. I thank you in advance, for the sacrifices you and your family will be making over the course of the next four to eight years. The world has been waiting for this moment, and your destiny is now Mr. President. Please follow your heart and do what you know is right, the rest will fall into place. God speed my brother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I you don't think that there is only one race on this planet, the human race, then my friends I feel so very sad for you, and believe you are truly mistaken.


Angry Fokker

Thursday, January 15, 2009

A great blog check it out! Help at last?

The bosses who run the FAA have been mistreating the controllers since at least 1981

By Dick Meister

Few government employees have more important responsibilities than the federal air traffic controllers whose primary job is to protect the safety of the ever-growing number of air travelers. Yet few federal employees are more badly treated by their government bosses.

The bosses, who run the Federal Aviation Administration ­ the FAA ­ have been mistreating the controllers since at least 1981. That's when President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,500 controllers who, seeking to improve their onerous working conditions, struck in violation of the law that prohibits strikes by federal employees.

It's been downhill ever since for the controllers. The Bush appointees who've been running the FAA for the past eight years have adamantly refused to grant controllers even the basic right to bargain collectively for a contract that would guarantee them decent working conditions.

The controllers' working conditions are so bad that nearly one-fifth of the controllers have quit over the past two years, reducing their number to the lowest level since 1992.

That has left many traffic control towers badly understaffed and has forced the controllers remaining on the job to work long, fatiguing work shifts of up to 10 hours, with fewer and shorter breaks, and little time to rest between shifts -- often for six days a week, sometimes for all seven days. In some locations, control towers have had to be shut down for hours at a time for lack of controllers.

The shortage of experienced controllers to guide commercial and private aircraft is a serious threat to safety ­ the possibility of improperly guided planes smashing into each other in the air or on runways, or going dangerously off course and crashing. Although there have been no such incidents recently, there have been some two-dozen reports of near-misses in the past year. The shortage of controllers is also a main reason that so many commercial flights are late leaving and late arriving.

The controllers are working under a contract, but it's a contract that was imposed on them by the FAA in 2006 after the agency rejected union demands for improvements during negotiations for a new contract.

Rather than improving conditions, the imposed contract made them even worse. It took from controllers their previous right to take rest breaks after every two hours of their eye-straining, highly stressful work of tracking aircraft paths across radar screens. They lost their right to refuse to work overtime, no matter how stressed or fatigued they might be. The contract also set the pay of new hires almost one-third lower than that of veteran controllers.

"The work environment is horrible, there's no respect for people,² says President Patrick Forrey of the controllers' union, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. Finally, however, air traffic controllers have genuine hopes that their situation might improve substantially, thanks to the election of Barack Obama . The right to negotiate a new contract is what they want -- and need -- above all, and Obama has pledged to try to get it for them.

As a senator in 2006, Obama introduced a bill that was designed to stop the FAA from imposing a contract on the controllers and instead negotiate a new one with them, only to have the bill blocked by Senate Republicans. During his presidential campaign, Obama faulted the FAA for failing to treat controllers "with the respect they deserve."

Obama promises that as president, he'll direct his appointees to the Federal Aviation Administration to do what Bush's appointees refused to do. That is to work with the controllers and their union ³to restore morale and improve working conditions,² in accord with Obama's intent to return to the Clinton-era policy of requiring the FAA and all other federal agencies to work cooperatively with their employees' unions.

That should be ­ and apparently will be ­ a high priority for the Obama administration.

Dick Meister is a San Francisco-based journalist who has covered labor issues for a half-century. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

LIKE RATS OFF A SINKING SHIP !!!!!!!!


In a few days many Managerial types in the Federal sector will be leaving like rats off a sinking ship. And quite frankly I'll be glad to see their overpaid, under worked, worthless asses, gone for good. I know it's good to be the King, but total power can totally corrupt. Your days of impunity are just about over. You will pay for your sins in this life and the next. How can you sit back and treat your workforce this way for over 2 1/2 years? Just because you can? Are you really that petty and childish? What a collection of ass-clowns all of you have become. You would destroy the system to what, flex your collective muscles? Not bargain in good faith, Union busting, Lying to the American people, Good ole boy contracting out of jobs, Basically, Criminal Misconduct. I hope you are proud of yourselves. We will rebuild this great Nation, you can bet your bottom dollar on that simple fact.
So farewell, Don't let the door hit yah where the good lord split yah, TTFN, See you next time.





If you don't think the last 8 years have been an embarrassment to all Americans, then my friends I think you are sadly mistaken.

Angry Fokker

Monday, January 12, 2009

THE BUSH LEGACY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


The Bush legacy in my opinion is simply this: THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THESE UNITED STATES, PERIOD END OF DISCUSSION.

1. THE LOSS OF HABEAS CORPUS.
2. THE SECOND WORST ECONOMY IN OUR HISTORY
3. A NEVER ENDING WAR
4. THE ABUSE OF EMINENT DOMAIN
5. TORTURE
6. THE INVASION OF A SOVEREIGN NATION THAT NEVER ATTACKED US DIRECTLY
7. USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS TO TRAVEL FOR FUND RAISING FOR REPUBLICANS NATIONWIDE
8. ABU GRAVE
9. GUANTANAMO BAY
10.LYING ABOUT INTELLIGENCE (WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION)
11.CONTRACTING OUT WAR TO YOUR FRIENDS COMPANIES (HALIBURTON)
12.DESTROYING THE SEPARATION OF POWERS BY LOADING UP THE COURTS WITH LIKE MINDED INDIVIDUALS
13.DESTRUCTION OF ORGANIZED LABOR FEDERALLY AND MAIN STREAM.
14. SIGNING STATEMENTS ON LEGISLATION PASSED BY CONGRESS IN AN EFFORT TO COUNTERMAND LAWS PASSED THAT HE DISLIKED.
15.AND FINALLY FOR JUST BEING A MORON, WHICH MAKES ME NEVER WANT TO SEND MY GRANDCHILDREN TO AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL, IF THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THAT EDUCATION MIGHT PRODUCE.

THIS HORRIBLE MAN HAD THE AUDACITY TO STAND UP AND ADDRESS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND DEFEND HIS BASTARDIZATION OF THE CONSTITUTION.WHEN YOU ARE SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITY IS TO PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, POSSIBLY THE GREATEST DOCUMENT EVER WRITTEN BY MAN. NOT AT EVERY POINT IN YOUR PRESIDENCY TRY TO CIRCUMVENT THE CONSTITUTION TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS AND WANTS.




IF YOU DON'T THINK HAVING A RUBBER STAMP CONGRESS FROM THE SAME PARTY AS THE PRESIDENT, A JUDICIAL BRANCH APPOINTED BY THE SAME PRESIDENT, AND CONFIRMED BY THE SAME CONGRESS,AND AN EVIL LITTLE MAN WITH NO CONSCIENCE WHAT SO EVER, DOESN'T DESTROY THE SEPARATION OF POWERS, THEN MY FRIENDS YOU ARE SADLY MISTAKEN.

ANGRY FOKKER

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Oh You little Blue Devil!!


Here is my second guitar build. I made this guitar for my Sister. It's called the "Blue Devil" because this guitar wants to fight every step of the way. This guitar has a alder body with Candy Daphne Blue paint and many coats of clear that fought every step of the way. 1952 custom shop reissue pickups, rhythm bridge, (non ashtray so pick is clear of bridge), 1952 Fender reissue pots, custom neck plate, Dean Markley Blue steel strings 10-46 will be used. The tuners will be Fender 1950's reissue, pearl three layer pick guard, all stainless steel screws. I have sanded and buffed this guitar way too many times.I hope she enjoys it. I think the colors and the guitar turned out very well. We painted a pin up girl on the guitar and we didn't like it, so we covered her up, hell hath no fury as a woman scorned, and this guitar is a prime example.




If you don't think that everything in this life has it's own unique spirit, then my friends I think you are sadly mistaken.

Angry Fokker

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Don't ever fear failure!

I never thought I would play guitar, let alone build one. I built this Tele for my best friend Mike V.
It is a solid ash body, with quilt maple top, Lindy Fralin pickups, Wilkinson bridge and tuners, 4way switch, custom neck and control plates, curly maple neck, and Dean Markley blue steel strings. I was afraid and excited at the same time. I really did my homework, but still made mistakes.

It's like Edison said: " I didn't fail one thousand times, I just learned a thousand ways not to make a light bulb ." I think that this is the only attitude to have in this life. I guess I learned how not to put string ferrules in. I learned to be patient. I learned to wait for all the parts,, then set up the guitar drill the holes and then finish the guitar. I've been told it plays better than it looks. I wish Mike much more success with all his future work and thank him for using this guitar on one of his up coming productions.

I would mostly like to thank my father, for teaching me so much in this life, for always trying new things, to always do my very best, to not fear failure, but prepare for success, a man's word is his bond, and anything worth doing is worth giving your very very best. He is the greatest teacher I have ever known! We sometimes have to agree, to disagree, but never forget I love you POP!






Don't ever be afraid to fail, fear of failure will only paralyze you. If you don't think you should take chances in this life and attack what you fear the most, then my friends I believe you are truly missing out, and are sadly mistaken.

Angry Fokker

Friday, January 2, 2009

Tired and Uninspired

Well I have not had much to say as of late. I just want to wish everyone a healthy and Happy New Year. If you have both of those, what else really matters? 2008 has been a very difficult year for many of us. Let's not hope, let's make 2009 the best year ever. We the people must take charge of our own destiny. We must let our elected officials know what tasks we want them to perform. We must all get involved. This is not a time to sit on the sidelines and watch the game pass us by. We must stand up, and take the time to let our new administration know how they are doing, good or bad, and get our great nation back on track. We have suffered threw possibly the worst administration ever over the past eight years. Many of our rights have been trampled or thrown to the wayside. Our economy is in the toilet, most of our large manufacturers are nearly bankrupt, all of our 401k's have been decimated. There is only one direction to climb from the bottom,that is up my friends. Our Fathers and Grandfathers had it much worse during the Great Depression.







If you doubt the true spirit and resilience of our great American people, then my friends I truly believe you are sadly mistaken.


Angry Fokker