3/30/2011
3/28/2011
Dear Gov. Walker You Ignorant Slut
Reggie Marselus Lenexa
3/26/2011
Your tax dollars at work, lining the pockets of Banksters
Shareholders Speak out to the Bank of Montreal
Some links that explain what this is all about.
CtW Investment Group
http://www.ctwinvestmentgroup.com/fileadmin/group_files/Problematic_GP_payment_final.pdf
Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
3/25/2011
3/24/2011
Dairyland Hogwash
Wisconsin Republicans Get Paid Off In D.C.
Wisconsin state Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, the consigliere for Gov. Scott Walker in the legislative fight to eliminate collective bargaining rights for public workers and to make it easier for the governor to transfer public property to campaign donors in no-bid deals, traveled to the nation's capital recently to collect tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from Washington-based lobbyists for corporate interests.
Fitzgerald was the "star" of a lavish fundraising event at the offices of the BRG lobbying group. The "B" in BRG stands for Barbour, as in veteran GOP fixer Haley Barbour, who is now the governor of Mississippi and a potential 2012 Republican presidential contender.
Along with Fitzgerald, who this week made news when he attempted to bar Democratic senators from voting in Assembly committees (only to be forced to back off after the move stirred a public outcry), Republican Sens. Glenn Grothman and Alberta Darling attended the D.C. bash. Both Grothman and Darling -- who chairs the powerful legislative Joint Finance Committee and is thus the point person for Walker's budget plan -- are the targets of recall campaigns.
Also making the trip were Fitzgerald's brother, Jeff, who in the true Banana Republican tradition serves as Assembly speaker, and Robin Vos, one of Jeff Fitzgerald's lieutenants in the Assembly.
Absent from the gathering were the other 16 Republican state senators, including Senate President Mike Ellis, who took the lead in forcing majority leader Fitzgerald to back off his attempt to deny Democratic senators the vote.
Capitol aides say that Ellis and a number of other senior senators have grown increasingly ill at ease with Fitzgerald's erratic behavior and with his inability to recognize the damage that could be done to Republicans by flying into Washington to pick up corporate money in return for passing Walker's plan.
"There's just no way to spin this as a positive," said one aide, who suggested that Ellis would look "like a bagman." (Notably, Congressman Sean Duffy, a Republican from northern Wisconsin, contacted media outlets to emphasize that he had not been invited to the event and would not be attending.)
On the chance that anyone might miss the "bagman" point, more than 1,000 workers, students, retirees, union members and their supporters were expected to attend a mass protest Wednesday evening outside the BGR headquarters in Washington.
Among the groups sponsoring the event were: Public Campaign Action Fund, AFSCME, Public Citizen, USAction, Common Cause, People for the American Way,MoveOn.org, the Center for Media and Democracy, Code Pink, Center for Community Change and Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
Fitzgerald and his Republicans traveled to Washington "to collect their payoff from corporate lobbyists after the GOP lawmakers voted last week in the dark of night to strip teachers, nurses, snowplow drivers and others of their collective bargaining rights," explained AFL-CIO Washington, D.C., Metro Council president Jos Williams.
"These politicians might be willing to subvert our democratic process to move Wall Street's corporate agenda, but we're fighting to bring balance to our economy and protect middle-class families."
JOHN NICHOLS
Progressive Populist
3/21/2011
Thank These Brave Republicans!
Even Republicans are starting to see the Light about Walker and his so called "Budget Repair Bill".
See Milwaukee Journal Sentinal
"Walker's fellow Republicans said Wisconsin needs the mandate to ensure that waste is recycled - and not thrown into landfills.
In the 2011-'13 budget he unveiled this month, Walker eliminated the recycling requirement for local units of government.
His plan also would take away the state subsidy that communities use to help fund recycling.
Walker's proposal surprised many. But until now, much of the criticism has come from recycling advocates or Democrats, including Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.
Now the four Republicans say Walker is making a mistake. They include Senate President Mike Ellis (R-Neenah)
Robin Vos (R-Rochester,) co-chairman of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee, which will hold hearings across the state on Walker's budget.
Sen. Rob Cowles (R-Green Bay)
and Rep. John Nygren (R-Marinette) also took issue with Walker.
It's been my observation that being a member of the GOP and thinking for oneself are mutually exclusive activities. These four legislatures are proving me wrong. Good for them.
Please send letters of support to them for standing against Walker when they disagree.
The Right Wing Agenda In A Nutshell
The following is a letter to the editor from the San Angelo Standard-Times that sums up the right wing agenda. It's by Kelly D. Clover of San Angelo 
It's sad that millions of Americans are so badly misinformed as to what Rick Perry, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, John Boehner and other right-wing Republicans really stand for. Here is their real agenda:
• Destroy the middle class. Create a society in which a few multimillionaire corporate executives and CEOs control almost all the nation's wealth. Almost everyone else will be dirt-poor.
• Do away with almost all regulation of business with no regard for the consequences. Allow American industry to ignore pollution, unsafe working conditions and unsafe products so they can increase their profits.
• Use voter ID laws to inconvenience young adults in the hope that they won't vote. (Many young adults don't have driver's licenses.) Use the bogus claim that such laws are needed to prevent fraud.
• Replace critical safety nets like Social Security and Medicare with much less reliable privatized systems. Use skyrocketing entitlement costs as an excuse to employ these bogus remedies that would place seniors at the mercy of the Dow Jones industrial average or money-hungry insurance CEOs.
• Use the public schools as a political indoctrination tool. Rewrite history and social studies textbooks to promote a partisan or ideological agenda. (Texas is now doing this.)
• Use one-sided talk radio, Fox News and other right-wing propaganda outlets to mislead and indoctrinate the general public. Shut down or discredit any media sources that are not right-wing. (They are trying to shut down PBS and NPR by cutting off their funding.)
• Use religion as a political indoctrination tool. Get people to think they are out of favor with God unless they support the Republican political line. (Pat Robertson, Glenn Beck and God's Learning Channel are all using this type of propaganda.) Robertson made the situation in Wisconsin worse by purposely misrepresenting what was going on.
3/20/2011
3/19/2011
3/18/2011
Beck - Limbaugh's Take on Japan Tragedy
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GOP Blitzkreig on the Middle Class
This is about a whole lot more than teachers unions.
This is part of a Repbulican Blitzkreig on the middle class.
What is a Blitzkreig you ask?
Wikipedia explains it here. It's a "Lightining War".
"Through constant motion, the blitzkrieg attempts to keep its enemy off-balance, making it difficult to respond effectively at any given point before the front has already moved on."
Compare that notion with what is happening throughout the Midwest.
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3/17/2011
3/15/2011
Which Union Would Jesus Bust? - Ask Scott Walker
Perhaps he'd start with the Carpenter's Union?
"As the stand off between workers and Governor Scott Walker continues in Wisconsin, religious leaders have weighed in on the dispute. Roman Catholic bishops came out on the side of the unions, urging the governor to protect worker’s rights. Many mainline pastors, including Lutherans, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Congregationalists, and American Baptists have written letters, issued statements, and preached sermons supporting labor, unions, and collective bargaining. In Madison, interfaith prayers and proclamations have upheld and encouraged the teachers, police, firefighters, and other public employees in their resistance to the governor’s plan to break their union.
This is an impressive religious group by any standards — particularly so in Wisconsin where traditional faith still plays an important role in the life of a large number of its citizens. Wisconsin is almost evenly split between the three largest American religious groups: 29 percent are Roman Catholics; 24 percent are evangelical Protestants; and 23 percent are mainline Protestants.
Yet none of these prayers or sermons has swayed Scott Walker. He has steadfastly stayed on his original course, unfazed by the full weight of Roman Catholic authority or the mainline social justice tradition pressing upon him and urging him toward compromise and change."
Full Article Here:Sojourners.
"And this is why Scott Walker’s religion is actually dangerous in the public square. Because it lacks the ability to compromise, it is profoundly anti-democratic. Many faith traditions actually possess deep spiritual resources that allow them to participate in pluralistic, democratic, and creative political change. But those sort of traditions tend emphasize the love of God and neighbor over strict obedience to an unyielding God. Despite anything Scott Walker might say, the confident dictum of the old hymn, “Trust and Obey” is not the best way to govern a state."
3/14/2011
3/13/2011
Even Bullshit Goes Stale...
"Like other factors of production, labor is also valued according to its usefulness in satisfying human wants."
Ludwig von Mises
3/11/2011
3/10/2011
Welcome To Madtown
"...As the Senate voted Wednesday night, cries of “Shame! Shame! Shame!” were audible in the chamber.
The people, by the hundreds, and then the thousands, had raced to the Capitol to let their representatives know what all the polls have confirmed: this legislation is opposed by the overwhelming majority of Wisconsinites. Its supporters — billionaire campaign contributors and Washington-based think tanks — may have won a round Wednesday night.
But it was a surprise attack rather than an honest win.
And it will inspire an appropriate response: Protests now, and the recall and removal of Republican senators in short order.
Some of the Republicans may think that “cooler heads will prevail.” They are wrong. The cool heads, the calm and rational Wisconsinites, will be busy in coming days: collecting signatures of recall petitions."
Capitol Times editiorial
March 10, 2011
3/09/2011
Koch Party
"Here was a great guy, advocating all the things I believed in. He wanted less government and taxes, and was talking about repealing all these victimless crime laws that accumulated on the books. I have friends who smoke pot. I know many homosexuals. It's ridiculous to treat them as criminals—and here was someone running for president, saying just that."
David H. Koch
Speaking about Roger McBride the man who inspired him to understand that politicans like Scott Walker operate like prostitutes
A Page Out of Hitler History
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Connecting a lot of dots-Joseph Stalin Helped Fund Walker's Attack on Public Education -Koch Industries, Inc. -- Company History
Koch Industries, Inc. -- Company HistoryCompany History:
Koch Industries, Inc., a diversified petrochemical company, is the second-largest privately held firm in the United States, trailing only Cargill. The bulk of Koch's revenue is derived from the transport of oil by pipeline, truck, and ship, but it also drills, refines, markets, and trades oil and gas products in the United States and around the world. In addition, the firm has substantial coal, chemical, and real estate interests, and raises many thousand head of cattle on ranches in Kansas, Montana, and Texas. About 80 percent of its multibillion-dollar assortment of assets is owned by two of the four sons of Fred C. Koch, founder of the company, while two other sons were bought out in 1983 after a bitter and continuing struggle among the brothers for money, corporate control, and pride. Traditionally a very secretive company, Koch has seen various lawsuits and investigations in the 1980s and 1990s pull away some of its veil.
Founder Battled Big Oil and Made Initial Fortune in the Soviet Union
The son of a Texas newspaperman, Fred C. Koch earned an engineering degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1920s. Koch invented a new and more efficient method for the thermal cracking of crude oil, the process by which oil is heated to effect a recombination of molecules yielding higher proportions of usable compounds, especially gasoline. With the dramatic growth in the use of the automobile in the first quarter of the 20th century, refiners were constantly trying to improve their cracking technology, and Fred Koch's innovation was apparently good enough to draw upon him the wrath of the major oil companies. Protective of their tight control over every aspect of the oil business, the majors began a series of lawsuits against Fred Koch that would last 20 years and involve over 40 separate cases, eventually being resolved in 1952 when Koch won a $1.5 million settlement. Then as now, the international oil business was in the hands of only a few firms, which meant that Fred Koch would encounter the same obstacles wherever oil was bought and sold.
In the late 1920s there was at least one country in the world where oil was not bought and sold, in the usual sense--the Soviet Union. The Soviets had been trying to take advantage of their immense oil reserves since gaining power in 1917, and under Joseph Stalin the drive to industrial efficiency was pursued with ruthless speed but without the benefit of Western technology. Fred Koch offered to build oil refineries in the Soviet Union that would be more efficient than those in the West. The young engineer's ideas were welcomed, and he was awarded a large contract to coincide with Stalin's first five-year plan, beginning in 1929. The contract called for construction of 15 refineries for an initial fee of $5 million, from which Koch and his partner, L. E. Winkler, are said to have netted a $500,000 profit. Koch's work in the Soviet Union necessitated sojourns in that country, offering the Texas farmboy an intimate look at the Soviet system while providing the cash he would later need in building his U.S. empire.
3/07/2011
2012 GOP Race To The Bottom: Glenn Beck
"Jackbooted government thugs are raising an army of undead beatniks to help them bind and shackle all white people. That's how reverse racism works, which is why we must enslave them befroe they enslave us. That is how the free market works."
Glenn Beck
2011 Nut-PAC Convention
North Hudson 2/29/2011
Waiting for Scott Walker to Erect the Statue of Libertaianism
Emma Lazarus Poem The New Colossus: Listen
It may be time to take that speed reading course you've thought about taking.
Why? Because time is running out if you plan on borrowing books from the state library system. One of the provisions of Scott Walker's "Budget Repair" bill is to eliminate Wisconsin's Interlibrary load program.
You can "READ" about it here:InterLibraryLoan.
But that's why you'll need that speed reading coarse, because who knows how long that there will be books in Wisconsin's libraries?
It's just one more element of the Scott Walker/Koch agenda to keep American voters stupid. I don't have to time or inclination to search, but I'm willing to bet somewhere out there in the vast wasteland of internut anti-knowledge, there's a rewritten version of Emma Lazarus's poem.
I'd imagine it being titled "The New Corporatist"
Coming soon to Wisconsin , (who knows maybe it's in the "budget repair bill), Scott Walker's proposal to erect a "Statue of Libertarianism" at every gateway to Wisconsin, next to the "open
for monkey business sign.
The Heart of The REAL Beast
Koch Brothers are the Three Corner Hat Haberdashers at the heart of the Tea Party Movement.
The real story of Americans For (Billionaire) Prosperity
"They use Rednecks to do their dirty work for them"
100 Billion dollars can buy a lot of lies.
These guys founded the CATO institute.
This is the heart of the Beast.
This is a must listen.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129425186&sc=tumblr&cc=freshair
3/05/2011
Thurston Howell III Protests "Americans for Properity" Empty Bus Tour
Sheila Hardorf and her minions (estimated at 100 by WCCO News ) gathered at the Hudson House this afternoon. While in the comfy confines of their conference room, a crowd several times as large held anti-Walker signs, chanted and gathered signatures on a petition demanding Hardorf' be recalled.
Harsdorf was quoted as saying "That's part of the process". She neglected to mention the other part of the process, stripping Wisconsin Public employees of their collective bargaining rights and introducing unnecessary Voter ID legislation as a means of suppressing opposition voters .
Film at 11:00.
Ed Shultz Tells it Like It IS- An attack on public education
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3/04/2011
Thoughts On The National Debt In 1829
"... The management of the public revenue--that searching operation in all governments--is among the most delicate and important trusts in ours, and it will, of course, demand no inconsiderable share of my official solicitude. Under every aspect in which it can be considered it would appear that advantage must result from the observance of a strict and faithful economy. This I shall aim at the more anxiously both because it will facilitate the extinguishment of the national debt, the unnecessary duration of which is incompatible with real independence, and because it will counteract that tendency to public and private profligacy which a profuse expenditure of money by the Government is but too apt to engender. Powerful auxiliaries to the attainment of this desirable end are to be found in the regulations provided by the wisdom of Congress for the specific appropriation of public money and the prompt accountability of public officers..."
President Andrew Jackson
First Inaugural Address
March 4, 1829
3/03/2011
What Country Are We In?
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Obey said on Wednesday that he was denied entry to the Capitol for the first time in his five decades of visiting and serving in Madison.
"I think the governor is a political bully and a political thug," said Obey, who urged the governor to stop locking citizens -- and in some cases legislators -- out of the building and begin negotiating with the 14 Democratic senators who fled to Illinois when it became evident that the governor and his legislative allies were seeking to limit debate on what the Democrats see as a union-busting bill.
"I think the governor has needlessly divided the state," said Obey. "I can't think of a bill that will do more to weaken the future of Wisconsin. This is an anti-education, anti-union budget, and people ought to understand that."
Law Enforcement Refuses To Support Walker's Coup d' etat
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3/02/2011
The Way The "Kochie" Crumbles
A CEO, a Tea Party Member and a Union Worker walk into a restaurant and sit at a table. On the table is a plate with a dozen cookies. The CEO reaches over, takes 11 cookies and says to the Tea Party Member, "Hey," pointing to the Union Worker, "I think the union wants a piece of your cookie."
It's A Dog-Whip-Dog World
"You can tell Gadhafi is getting more and more desperate. First, he says the protesters are all on drugs. Remember that yesterday? He said they were all on drugs. Then he blamed the uprising on al Qaeda. And today, he said it's all the fault of the teachers union."
Jay Leno
The Upside Down World of Scott Walker: Improving Education by Cutting Billions in Education Funding.
Would this kind of logic work anywhere?
Would you more likely to win wars by cutting defense spending?
Would the Space program reach new heights by cutting their budget by 8-10%.
Only a fool would believe this. Governor Walker thinks we are all fools.
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3/01/2011
2012 GOP Race To The Bottom: Sarah Palin
"Dolphin-loving food co-op members are perverting our cultures so they can pack you into Priuses and take you off to a place to be slaughtered."
Sarah Palin
Speaking at the 2011 Nutpac Convention
North Hudson, Wisconsin
Feb. 29,2011
Quote of Note
"We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their
right to strike." Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933
On Tuesday, Republicans plan to move on with business as usual in hopes that they can put the pressure on their exiled Democratic colleagues to return. As long as the self-described “Wisconsin 14” remain in Illinois, they cannot be dragged back to the Capitol by the sergeant-at-arms.
2/28/2011
2/27/2011
Praise Allah! A Fair and Balanced World
"It was reported today that Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi described President Obama as an African of Muslim decent. Immediately after the speech," Gaddafi "was given his own show on Fox News."
Conan O'Brien
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