Democrat Bloggers Stalk The Borderwhiner Night!!

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
'Tis some blogger," I muttered, "phoning to my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer,
Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
"Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee -- by these angels he hath
Sent thee respite---respite and nepenthe from thy memories of dear Willi lore!
Quaff, O quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost blog letter!"
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!"

And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is blogging
On the pallid bust of danielson just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a blogger's that is dreaming.
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted---nevermore!






















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OTBL Brain Trust Goes Off Meds- Adopts New Anthem

It appears that a few of the OTBLers have gone off there meds and are indulging in late night fantasies of Democrats conspiring to impune their "good" reputations.
Sounds like an overdose of outdated Koolaid to me. After a hectic day of frantic phone calls and frenitic self induced paranoid delusions the OTBL brain trust has decided on a three fold strategy to kickstart their stalled political bandwagon.
Here it is in a Nut shell:
1. Digitally shred the evidence of division between OTBL and Tea Party Goers.

2. Create an outside threat to the common cause of the OTBL fruitcake farm amd the Down South Tea Pary members and make some wild accusations of wrong doing by those who oppose their rugged individualist brand of economic philosophy.
3. Create a sense of comradery by adopting a new OTBL Anthem.

The words of which are as follows:

1.Create an outside threat to what the OTBL fruitcake farm amd the
Down South Tea Pary members have in common their hatred of the government
and make some wild accusations of wrong doing by those
who oppose their rugged individualist brand of economic philosophy
2.Create a sense of comradery by adopting a new OTBL Anthem.



One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Call Alice
When she was just small

When men on the chessboard
get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving slow
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When logic and proportion
Have fallen and are dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Remember what the doormouse said:
"Feed your Head










Take Your Meds!"


Well the Anthem's a good idea!

Alice Wiese & Danielson Rabbit Rejected from Mad Hatter's Pierce County Tea Party

"Oh dear, oh dear ... we'll be late for tea-time with James - the Pierce County Mad Hatter!!" said Danielson Rabbit.

"Hurry, hurry!" said Alice Wiese.

When they arrived, James The Mad Hatter refused to allow them to stay at his Pierce County Tea Party, suggesting instead that the two losers look up the word 'DENIAL'.

The End

Druggie Limbaugh Arrested On Drug Charges

Family Values In Illegal Prespriction Form

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Rush Limbaugh was arrested Friday on prescription drug charges, law enforcement officials said. Limbaugh turned himself in to authorities on a warrant issued by the State Attorney's Office, said Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office.

The conservative radio commentator came into the jail at about 4 p.m. with his attorney Roy Black and bonded out an hour later on a $3,000 bail, Barbera said. The warrant was for fraud to conceal information to obtain prescription, Barbera said.

Black said his client and authorities reached a settlement on a single count charge of doctor shopping filed Friday by the State Attorney will be dismissed in 18 months.

Vote Republican: It's Worth $100

New York Times, April 27 — Senate Republicans tried on Thursday to get the upper hand in the escalating political battle over high gasoline prices by proposing a $100 rebate for taxpayers. The Republicans say they believe that their new proposal, which was announced at a news conference attended by several senators facing re-election this year, could strike a public chord, particularly with its promise of a $100 check to millions of taxpayers.

It's Kristol Clear

Bill Kristol is a major player in the group called "Project for a New American Century" (PNAC), which envisioned America attacking the Middle East since the mid-90's. He was interviewed by Steven Colbert:

COLBERT: Speaking of thinking alike, you were a member, or are a member of the Project for a New American Century, correct?
KRISTOL: I am
COLBERT: Were or am?
KRISTOL: Were and am.
COLBERT: How’s that Project coming?
KRISTOL: Well it’s…
COLBERT: How’s the New American Century? Looks good to me, right?
KRISTOL: I think it, I…I’m speechless.
COLBERT: Really?
KRISTOL: Yeah, we’ve sort of, the Project for a New American Century, we’re one of the few people…
COLBERT: Come on, it’s a terrific New American Century, right?
KRISTOL: Well, I think we’re doing ok.
COLBERT: You, Rummy, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Pearle, Feith, all you guys, right?
KRISTOL: Well, we fought back after 9/11 and I’m proud of what we’ve done in Afghanistan and in Iraq, yes.
COLBERT: Well, this is pre-9/11, you guys had the Project in the 90s?
KRISTOL: Absolutely, and we thought we should have been fighting back more in the 90s.
COLBERT: Right, we should have invaded Iraq, you know, then you said.
KRISTOL: We should have, actually.
COLBERT: Exactly.
KRISTOL: If we had finished the job in 1991 it would have been a lot easier.
COLBERT: A lot of people are bailing on this whole Iraq war idea. But you’re not, right?
KRISTOL: Correct.
COLBERT: You’re still onboard?
KRISTOL: I am onboard.
COLBERT: The grand experiment?
KRISTOL: No, it’s not a grand experiment.
COLBERT: It’s not? It’s a little experiment?
KRISTOL: No, it’s an unfortunate necessity that you cannot allow dictators to kill their own people and you cannot allow dictators to threaten their neighbors.
COLBERT: Which dictator do we take down next?
KRISTOL: Well, I wish we could take down more, actually. You know, it’d be nice to…
COLBERT: Wait a second, we cannot allow dictators to kill their own people. That’s a very simple statement sir, which I support wholeheartedly. Back it up!
KRISTOL: I’m with you.
COLBERT: Who do we go after next? Iran? Come on!
KRISTOL: I think we may have to take military action against…
COLBERT: Let’s get some boots on the ground, sir!
KRISTOL: I wish…we may have to do that. We have to do that in the Sudan.
COLBERT: Is the military option on the table in Iran?
KRISTOL: Absolutely, absolutely. And in Sudan.
COLBERT: Ok. How about the nuclear option in Iran?
KRISTOL: No, no.
COLBERT: Come on!
KRISTOL: No, I differ with you on this.
COLBERT: The President says…
KRISTOL: You’re a tougher guy than I am on this.
COLBERT: I’m a neo-neocon. You guys aren’t tough for me.
KRISTOL: I’m an anti-nuke neocon and you’re a pro-nuke neocon.

A Drop By A Drip

"They have had 7½ years to develop a sound energy policy, and now they have nothing but excuses, bad ideas and -- as the clock runs out -- one last play." GEORGE W. BUSH, during the 2000 campaign, criticizing the Clinton administration’s release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease high heating-oil prices.

"We'll leave a little more oil on the market. Every little bit helps." PRESIDENT BUSH, on Tuesday, announcing suspension of daily deposits into the reserve.

WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE: PASS/FAIL of Spending Controls

FAIL: Assembly rejects local spending limit bill

The Wisconsin Assembly tonight killed a constitutional amendment that would have clamped tight spending controls on state and local governments - but a vote is still planned on an amendment to limit only state spending.

Read more: Milwuakee Journal Sentinal

PASS: Assembly passes state spending measure

Madison - The state Assembly this morning called for the first constitutional limit on state spending but refused to recommend similar controls on local governments.The Assembly voted, 50-48, to limit growth of state government's general fund - its single biggest account, which will spend more than $19 billion this year - to 90% of the average growth in personal income over the previous three years. The general fund includes $11.8 billion in state taxes, fees, and about $6.5 billion a year in federal aid.Nine Republicans joined all 39 Democrats in voting against the amendment.

Read more: Journal Sentinal

OTBL Dr. Bil Provides Macroeconomic Justification for $3.00+ Per Gallon

Dr. William A. Danielson. Ph.D. Economics, Yale University:

"One of the core concepts of economics is known as the minimum efficient scale - a point where long run average costs are minimized. It explains why we have some industries with relative few, but typically very, very large companies, and why we have some very small but numerous ones in other industries. There are profound free market reasons for this, and for any government official (such as President Bush) to ignore this purely for political purposes is simply obscene."















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Minimum Efficeint Scale

I find it interesting how Exxon spins its profit picture and tells how it's invested X number of dollar into inproving its efficiency and upgrading its facilities. All that is well and find, but, if the price of a barrell of oil was at $35, they be on K Street in DC bribbing their elected lackies into giving them bigger government handouts to survive. The corporate welfare state...
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The minimum efficient scale (MES) is the output for a business in the long run where the internal economies of scale have been fully exploited. It corresponds to the lowest point on the long run average total cost curve and is also known as the output of long run productive efficiency. The MES is rarely a single output - more likely it is a range of output levels where average cost is minimised where the firm achieves constant returns to scale. The MES will vary from industry to industry depending on the nature of the cost structure in a particular sector of the economy. When the ratio of fixed to variable costs is very high, there is great potential for reducing the average cost of production.



The extent to which economies of scale can be exploited in the long run will vary between different industries. In some the minimum efficient scale is reached at a relatively low level of output. The internal scale economies are limited and there is room for many separate businesses to achieve the MES. With a natural monopoly, the cost structure is different. For example, in industries where massive networks or national distribution channels are required, the overhead costs relative to the running costs are likely to be high. There is also likely to be great potential to exploit technical economies of scale. As a result the MES may be a high proportion of total market demand. There may be room only for one business to fully exploit the economies of scale available in the industry. We assume for a natural monopoly that the long-run average cost curve falls continuously over a very large range of output. This is shown in the diagram below.


Learn more: Economics Tutor.

Now, do you see any problems in what Dr. Bill says above?

Borderwhiners On Safari Spot Three RINOs: Mark Green, Sheila Harsdorf and Kitty Rhoades

Luke: "What is the quickest way for Mark Green to lose votes from conservatives in St. Croix County? Have Kitty Rhoades introduce him at a campaign rally in Hudson."

N. Onimous: "Green is a career politician. He has no intention of cutting spending or reducing the tax burden in Wisconsin. Green will lose in November ... he is nothing more than the same whore in a different dress."

cub: "I thought that was a different shade of lipstick. Or was that a pig? Or Sheila?"

CINDY NAILS IT!!

Cindy Jahnke - Hudson's Progressive Pummeller of Pachyderms - hit the nail on the head in the Hudson Star-Observer. Read on:

Dear Editor:

It's called the T.P. bill. You've heard about it - the so-called Taxpayer Protection Act. You know why it's called the T.P. bill? Because you'll be pulling the toilet handle and you can watch as your road system deteriorates, your children lose out on education, your senior care is drastically cut and your police protection erodes.

Grover Norquist's famous quote - "My goal is to cut government in half in 25 years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub" - is coming back to haunt the Republicans. Republican Gov. Bill Owens from Colorado, who strapped himself with a TABOR law, is backtracking big time. According to the Washington Post, '"Midway through his second term, Owens is working to persuade Coloradoans to suspend the limits he championed and let the state government spend $3 billion more in tax money than TABOR would allow."

You see, their president Bush yanked millions of dollars of federal dollars to fund his war and tax cuts for the rich. On the other hand, Gov. Doyle was strapped with a $3.2 billion deficit from a Republican governor and still balanced the budget while providing funding for schools and without increasing taxes significantly.

You can keep voting for the Republicans with their clever gimmicky bills that do irreparable harm to middle class and poor folks or you can vote for change. The T.P. bill is coming up for a vote on April 28. Call your legislators and tell them to flush the T.P. bill down the toilet where it belongs.

Cindy Jahnke
Hudson

















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Ziller: "Liberals Are Insatiable!"

Bob Ziller on OTBL: "Liberals just don’t get it. They are obsessed with sex and want three backups before and after pregnancy: condom, pills, and abortion."

That's right Bob! Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1959!!

FLASHBACK 2000: Canidate Bush Tells President Clinton How To Handle OPEC

"In a feeble attempt to appease the public this week, Bush said he will temporarily divert oil used to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve into the market to drive prices down."



by Evelyn Pringle

While on the campaign trail in 2000, Bush told President Bill Clinton how to handle OPEC, in public no less. “What I think the president ought to do," he said, "is he ought to get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots."

And in a brilliant, highly educational follow-up comment, Bush informed the audience: "One reason why the price is so high is because the price of crude oil has been driven up."

"OPEC has gotten its supply act together," Bush advised listeners, "and it's driving the price, like it did in the past."

"And," he said in direct advice to Clinton, "the president of the United States must jawbone OPEC members to lower the prices."

Apparently, Bush has lost the phone numbers for OPEC members, or they are refusing to take his calls, because I think its safe to assume that he did not "jawbone" members of the OPEC cartel.

That said, if Bush is not in the mood for "jawboning," he could at least use a little pillow talk with his buddies in Saudi Arabia and get them to open the spigots.

During campaign 2000, Bush told Americans that he had an energy plan that would reduce gas prices at the pumps and here we sit 5 years later, with the highest prices in history.

The high energy costs are affecting everyone, from commuters and consumers, to public and private programs. The damage is devastating everywhere.

Since Bush took office, gas prices have increased 62.5% from $1.44 per gallon in January 2001 to $2.34 in March 2006. The average household with children will spend about $3,343 on transportation fuel costs this year, an increase of 75% since 2001, according to the Energy Information Administration, Retail Gasoline Prices, and Household Vehicle Energy Use: Latest Data and Trends, November 2005.

Read more: Media Monitors Network.

President Bush: The Spin Zone

Bush's approval ratings slide to new low
Poll: Only one-third say he's handling his job well

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush's approval ratings have sunk to a personal low, with only a third of Americans saying they approve of the way he is handling his job, a national poll released Monday said.

In the telephone poll of 1,012 adult Americans carried out Friday through Sunday by Opinion Research Corporation for CNN, 32 percent of respondents said they approve of Bush's performance, 60 percent said they disapprove and 8 percent said they do not know.

Read more: CNN Poll.

Presidential Radio Address

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The stock market prefers Democratic presidents

Democrats, it turns out, are much better for the stock market than Republicans. Slate ran the numbers and found that since 1900, Democratic presidents have produced a 12.3 percent annual total return on the S&P 500, but Republicans only an 8 percent return. In 2000, the Stock Trader's Almanac, which slices and dices Wall Street performance figures like baseball stats, came up with nearly the same numbers (13.4 percent versus 8.1 percent) by measuring Dow price appreciation. (Most of the 20^th century's bear markets, incidentally, have been Republican bear markets: the Crash of '29, the early '70s oil shock, the '87 correction, and the current stall occurred under GOP presidents.)
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