Exposed on the borderline: Socialist Morphs Into Free Market Nut Case
3/22/2007
All play and no work makes Luke a dull boy
Drivers’ heading into New Richmond on Wisconsin Route 65 from the south probably noticed this license plate on a car parked by a large sign on the property to be purchased with voters approval of a $93 million referendum ballot question on April 3. A tentative purchase price of $3.3 million for the 110 acres land has been agreed to by the District staff and the seller.
3/21/2007
Blogs Of The St. Croix Valley -- An Introduction
Welcome bloggers from around the world! It's hard to believe that the St. Croix River Valley of the Wisconsin-Minnesota borderland is ground zero of the rapidly expanding blog phenomena. Like everything you read on blogs, this is definitely true. To get you familiar with the blogs of the SCV, we thought we'd start this new feature with a introduction to the evil and ugly step sister of the SCV blogs -- On The Border Whine.
Operated out of a damp basement in Hudson's "skunk hollow," this blog has prided itself with attracting a wide variety of posters and comments. When ask what he attributed his blog's ability to draw such a wide variety of viewers, blog admin Killbore said it is probably the fact that so many prisons now have Internet access. He said that prisons are choosing his blog to be the startup page for their Internet portal. Prison officials hope this, plus porn-blocking filters, will have a calming effect on prisoners. When asked to explain this, one prison official say the theory is that, if the OTBL blog can numb viewers' brains so effectively, they figure it may numb other sensitive areas of the body.
Below is shot of a typical post on the On The Border Whine blog. Notice the nice picture of a river. Readers will quickly see the post titled “The moderate left–warning X rated” by Bob Ziller makes little or no sense to anyone who has passed eight grade with the minimal amount of effort. Ziller mentions a JPN. This is a blogger who operates another blog in the SCV. That blog, AboveTheBorderLine, is known for taking the "high road." Instead of slandering local community members, dedicated public servants and local reporters making less money that workers at the local MacDonald's, the ATBL blog is know for providing useful, interesting, heart warming posts that delight readers of all ages and political persuasions. More on that blog later.
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Of course, hip bloggers know that any good post will generate an excess of insightful, intelligent discussion. It doesn't take long to realize there are no hig bloggers on the OTBW membership roles. Discussion comes in the form comments to the post. The OTBW blog generates a great deal of discussion of the variety you would find on a audio tape loop. In the true spirit of the maxim "Sometimes even a blind squirrel finds a nut," an intelligent comment is accidently posted on the OTBW blog site. Below are the comments that have been made so far to Mr. Z's post. With the exception of the hyper-intelligent comment by dratsum (that's "mustard" spelled backwards), the comments to this post are similar to comments commonly found on OTBW posts.
We hope you found this post helpful. We explore more of the St. Croix Valley blogosphere in future postings. Please feel free to leave you comments below.
The Battle of Boondoggle staring Mr. Peanut
Self-proclaimed "resident slacker freak" Luke the Blogger finds someone new to roam Boondoggle with in the form of self-proclaimed "social commentator and stay-at-home crank" O. Nonimous. Sarcasm and humor abounds. Kowboy Kurt, Lil Bill and Dr. Spiritmynutsitch finally get McJobs in the fast food industry. This leads to the world's record in shortest careers. Meanwhile Mr. Keebler and company arrive just in time for drive thru service as the chaos erupts inside the OTBL hot tub. The calm of the spring Boondoggle night is shattered when a hold-up attempt by a duct-tape encased jogger wearing a pink headband goes awry, thanks to the chaotic intervention of the robber's unintended hostage: a hyperactive, cigar-smoking six-year old named Boobbie O'Stickit.
Mr. Peanut reminds you to "think less and cut-n-paste more."
3/20/2007
How to diffuse a blog bomb
By Nora Carr
Thanks to the proliferation of blogs on the internet, cyberspace is becoming an increasingly popular forum for would-be political critics and journalists to express their displeasures with state and local officials, including school board members. But, as eSchool News columnist Nora Carr points out in her latest column, elected officials who take offense to such commentary on public blogs should weigh their options carefully before going on the offensive.
March 16, 2007—A venerated public relations mantra goes something like this: "Never get in an argument with people who buy their ink by the barrel." With the advent of the internet, it's time for an update: "Never get in an argument with a blogger."
Just ask Lawrence, N.Y., school board trustee Pamela Greenbaum, who recently asked the Manhattan Supreme Court to force Google Inc. to reveal the identity of an anonymous blogger called Orthomom.
Reportedly an Orthodox Jewish housewife who lives on Long Island, Orthomom regularly tackles school district and community issues on her blog.
The blog unabashedly supports the rights of private school parents and the conservative--and growing--Jewish community.
Read more @ eSchool News.
3/19/2007
3/18/2007
OTBL - Rent A Thug - It's Good for Business
Tearing down public education is hard work. It takes strength and
determination, even if brainpower is not a prerequisite. In short,
Public Ed. destruction is a job sometimes better left to PROFESSIONALS.
That's why Ontheborderline.nyet (Education Naysayers Who Mean Free Market
Education Business) have developed a new, effective product for taxpaying concerned citizens in St. Croix Co. Why leave all the thugary to the educrates, and teacher spouses with Cadillac Health Care Plans. Like any good business ontheborderline.nyet knows the competitive advantage outsourcing can bring to the bottom line.
Local officials trying to pick your pocket with school referendums? School board elections coming up and you need a concerned citizen stooge to represent you, the taxpayer? Look no further. Rent a Thug is your answer (Results Guaranteed )!
The next time you need intimidation of School Board Members and other pesky educrates, forget the "do it yourself amatuer approach", Check out our "Rent A Thug" program instead. It's fun, it's easy, and it won't cost you an arm and a leg. Just choose the and appropriate level of Thugary and payment plan right for your budget.
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You'll be glad you did.
Actually, corporations aren't the root of all evil...
As always, there is confusion over at ontheborderline.net. They are thinking someone on associated with this blog thinks that corporations are the root of all evil. Of course that's nonsense, but it gives them a chance to call someone who doesn't buy their colostomy bag of misinformation a "communist." Always remember: you can always tell an ontheborderline.net blogger, you just can't tell him much. 
The correct answer is "the love of money is the root of all evil."
"No, it's not. In fact that line does not appear in the Bible, rather it is a misquoted cliche. The Good Book actually states, "For the love of money is the root of all evil." (Timothy 6:10). There is quite a difference."
Modern society is corrupted by the lust for money, money, money BY Ronan McSherry
"I believe being an American is more then looking to make money at the expense of others and hope we can all take a look at the morality of our own professions, investments, purchases and lifestyles to make the country better. And this is hardly news - one need only look as far as the first book ever printed to see the abandoned ancient wisdom that says "Love of money is the root of all evil".
Read: Are your investments killing America? by Gustav Wynn.
"Love of money is the root of all-evil. GW Bush is a symbol, much more evident than his icon of devotion, the Red on white, Crooked Cross."
Read: How To Regain Our Freedom Forever! Part I of Two Parts by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo.
"Music has lost passion and exploration and as an avid fan of music it makes me sick. Music is about self-expression, not money. It just proves true that money is the root of all evil and is capable of destroying anything."
Corporations ruin originality, artist's self-expression in today's music by Scott Recker.
King Kurtass Is Korinated
"As the self-annointed KING of St. Croix County I, and ONLY I, will determine who can speak out in the communities where the Rivertowns newspapers are published. If you speak out against a referendum you will be silenced. If you write a letter against a public official you will be silenced. If you ask for ANY accountability at all from your government employees you will be silenced. Our newspaper have an agenda and we will see to it that it is carried out. As the publisher I HAVE SPOKEN!"
Luke The Kook
3/16/2007
Hudson High School: Fix sought for overcrowding
There's a interesting story in today's St. Paul Pioneer Press about the overcrowding at Hudson High Scool and what to do about it. It will be interesting to see what the blind-leading-the-deaf have to say about it at the ontheborderline.net blog. It's always important to get the OTBL cowboy's anti-community perspective. One thing you can count on is that between everyline posted over there, the implied chant is "it's my way or the highway...it's my way of the highway..."
It must be interesting for a person to go through life telling people "You seem to be an intelligent person. It's too bad you can't see things the right way -- my way."
Hudson / Fix sought for high school's crowding
District working to relocate administrators
BY KEVIN HARTER
Pioneer Press
Faced with an increasingly overcrowded high school, Hudson School District administrators are focusing on moving out to make way for additional classrooms.
Moving the 25 school administrators and staff out of the wing they now occupy at the high school would free up enough space for seven classrooms. But where the offices would move to remains undecided as three options remain under consideration.
In the coming weeks, district Superintendent Mary Bowen-Eggebraaten said, the school board likely will choose between moving into rented trailers, leasing office space somewhere in town or buying a building to move into.
A special community meeting will then be scheduled, possibly in April.
Read more.
3/15/2007
A "Secret" Government: Nothing New Here
A friend sent me a link to the 1987 Bill Moyers documentary "The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis." Watching this refreshes the memory about what we are witnessing in Iraq, in the Justice Department, the FBI and throughout the slog of the Bush presidency. It gets scary when the wheels come off the war wagon. It gets icky when you lift up an old board out in a field and put the light of day on the creepy thinks lurking underneath.
This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer's 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive ... all » Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American people. The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the National Security Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack cocaine. The significance of the documentary is probably greater today in 2007 than it was when it was made. We now have a situation in which these same forces have committed the most egregious terrorist attack on US soil and have declared a fraudulent so-called "War on Terror". The ruling regime in the US who have conducted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are now banging the war drum against Iran. We have the PATRIOT act which has stripped us of many of our basic civil rights justified by the terror of 9/11 which is their own doing.
Watch the full show (90 minutes).
"Trickle Down" Economics -- Nothing New Here
“From 1946 to 1961 we thought in terms of dollars rather than of people. We thought in terms of gross national product rather than in terms of gross national product one that Herbert Hoover employed in 1930. By pouring in money on the top, we hoped that some would reach the bottom. But in feudal societies the few at the top kept practically all of it. Millions were stolen and banked aboard. What was not stolen was used to entrench those who already owned and controlled the nation.”
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
Democracy’s Manifesto: A Counter Plan for the Free Society
Published 1962
Chavez & Bush: A "Domino" Theory
CARACAS, Venezuela — Hugo Chavez has called President Bush a devil, a donkey and a drunkard. But on Wednesday the Venezuelan leader said his comments were "nothing personal."
Chavez, who had stepped up his verbal assault during Bush's Latin American tour this week, suggested that the two adversaries might eventually overcome their differences and even play a game of dominos or baseball together.
"One day, if maybe George Bush and I survive all of this, we will reach old age, and it would be good to play a game of dominos, street baseball," Chavez said on his weekday radio program.
But he said his comments about the American leader were "nothing personal" and that his opposition to Bush was due to "deep ethical, political, historic and geopolitical" reasons. Chavez has fiercely opposed U.S.-backed free trade policies and criticized the Bush administration's handling of Iraq and other foreign policy decisions.
Chavez said Bush was part of a long line of elitist U.S. administrations that have become accustomed to abusing the rest of the world, acting unilaterally and violating human rights. He also taunted the U.S. leader for skirting questions about Chavez during his Latin American tour in the past week, comparing him to a matador avoiding the bull with his cape.
"The president of the United States takes out his cape as always, Ole!, because he doesn't want to respond" to pointed issues raised by the Venezuelan leader, Chavez said.
Bush on Wednesday completed a tour of Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and Guatemala. Chavez went on something of a shadow tour of Bush's trip over the same period, visiting several regional nations including Argentina, where he led thousands in an anti-bush rally.
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