On The Border Whine...

Two Bobs and a Doug

It's always great news when I open up the new editions of the Hudson Star Observer andthe New Richomnd News and see a letter by Bob Muchlisnki or Bob Baumann. It's not just because their letters are alwlays so well written, articulate, informative and humorous, it because I know I will be able to click on to the ontheberline.net blog site and read the some more whiney OTBL "why's-everybody-always-picking-on-me" posts. Remember, the "doctors" at OTBL have all taken the hypocritical oath.

This week is no exception. Bob M. has a letter in both the Hudson and New Richmond papers. You can tell these letters are very effective at exposing the hypocrisy that oozes throughout the OTBL blog site. The OTBL'ers can't counter with facts so they rely on personal attacks. There's at least two posts that point out that Bob M's wife is an art teacher in Hudson who makes an estimated $57,000. Ok and the point is?
And then she will get retirement beneftis...and the point is?

Followers of the OTBL, if they haven't figured it out by now, should know that their message is basically a three-chord redneck song: public school teachers get paid too much, their union is evil and everybody is against our obviously perfect platform. Below are a couple of interesting excerpts from the current OTBL posts:

Under the heading posted by N. Onimous: HSO/Hudson Teachers’ Union Continue to Show Agenda:

"Hudson Star Observer editor Doug Stohlberg, along with Bob Baumann and Bob Muchlinski continue to show their agenda of belittling and taunting the concerned citizens of the Hudson School District.

First let us set the record straight. Mr. Stohlberg has had a history of taking sides in the education debate in Hudson. At one time he even contacted school officials PRIOR to the printing of certain letters to the editor in order to print a rebuttal from the officials WITH the opposing letters! Does this sound like an unbiased editor?

So Doug Stohlberg and his paper are a JOKE. He can't even follow his own rules in the very first week he talks about them! I would recommend that people who have concerns about government run education voice their concerns ontheborderline, because the HSO will allow for vicious personal attacks from the spouses of NEA Union Members to go unchallenged."

I find it interesting how the OTBL posters of right-wing propaganda pumped out by the likes of the Heritage Foundation or the CATO Institute or Rush Limbaugh or Ann Clouter or a variety of reactionary, regressive, redneck blog sites, can expend so much energy on calling anybody biased. Of course, at OTBL, it's their way or the highway. It's also interesting that they are experts at a running a community newspaper and how much work goes into a teacher's job -- when none of them have apparently never done these jobs. The have found their niche of confusing their cheap, trash talk with free speech.
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Also under the heading posted by N. Onimous: On and on and on goes the Art Teacher’s Husband...

"Another week of the HSO and another letter by Bob Muchlinski, who happens to be the husband of Mary Muchlisnki. Mary is an Art Teacher at the high school making a combined salary/benefit package of $57,600+(est.). As it stands right now, the taxpayers of the state will have to amass $1.5 Million in order to cover Bob and Mary's pension and healthcare costs when she retires early at 55. But this is only a current estimate. I'm sure it will go up in the future.

Anyway, Bob wrote a serious letter this week, void of his usual sarcasm (see full letter). You see Bob has a couple of different personalities and you don't know if he is going to go Beep! Beep! or play on the emotions of the readers. Either way his letters are always good for a laugh. Per usual Bob received the premium placement from his friend Doug Stohlberg."

Does anybody get the feeling the N. Onimous is a little off-balance and jealous of Bob M. and his wife. Did you readers know that the OTBL'ers have even done posts that pick on Bob M's daughter. They are real, credible professionals over there. If we refer to them as the "dark side," there are definate reasons.

Do any of you readers have any guesses as to who is N. Onimous? If so, put your guesses in the comments to this post. (I personally think it's the OTBL admin. You'll see N. O. spliced inbetween admin posts and in the same time frame.) In this post, NO is complaining about where the HSO places its letters to the editor. Must be the vast left-wing conspiracy creeping into Hudson. 45 years ago, when Doug Stohlberg was my Pee Wee couch, I didn't noticed any of those conspiratorial leanings. After watching about 20 episodes of Twilight Zone during the SciFi networks marathon last weekend, I guess I should have see it then.

Maybe these OTBL'ers should checkout what the Hudson city workers get paid and their retirement packages. That would be an interesting comparison. Does anybody have any figures on this?

The Hudson Star-Observer must be doing something right, if it can piss off people on multiple sides of the issues. As the local school board races heat up, remember that the OTBL'ers are not interested in improving public education -- they want it dismantled. They want the union busted and they want your tax dollars to pay for their kids to go to private schools. It's a clear-cut agenda.

Although I've never met Bob B. or Bob M., my hat is off to them for their excellence in letter writing and their dedication to keeping the torch of truth burning bright as they hold back the evil darkness that lerks ontheborderline.net.