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Democrat Senator's absence to cost Wisconsin $165 Million
Post Date: 2011-02-28 06:44:03 by BO69
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By choosing to pander to their public sector union supporters and financiers rather than serve the hard working taxpayers of Wisconsin, the 14 Democrat Senators who are cowering in the People’s Republic of Illinois will bear the responsibility for $165 million in additional debt service costs. Lost amid the well organized protests in Madison and dwarfed by rumors of crippling strikes in the wake of meaningful fiscal reform is today’s deadline for debt restructuring. Governor Walker’s proposed budget repair bill contains a provision for: Debt Restructuring-The bill authorizes the restructuring of principal payments in fiscal year 2010-11 on the state’s general ...
FIRST EVER! – Austinites outbid Police in gun buyback counter-program (UPDATED)
Post Date: 2011-02-27 21:56:16 by A K A Stone
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EXCLUSIVE – DeadlineLive.info Today in Austin TX – Activists were successful in buying TRUNKS full of usable firearms that would have otherwise been destroyed (or ended up in the hands of “terrorists” – as we have seen before how cops confiscate guns and resell them to cartels…) About 40 gun buyers, both independent and otherwise, stood in front of the Austin Police Gun Buyback Event offering CASH for the guns they were about to turn in to the city for food cards. As people rolled up, we approached them with our offers, and paid them hard cash after inspecting the guns to make sure they were operable. (the Police were unbelievably cooperative in the process) ...
Rallies In 50 States Support Wis. Protesters
Post Date: 2011-02-27 20:37:45 by Brian S
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(CBS News) Updated 5:00 p.m. EST Protests kicked off around the country today as the group moveon.org organized noontime rallies in all 50 state capitals as a sign of solidarity for union workers in Wisconsin battling collective bargaining restriction measures. Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker's recent legislation on public workers' rights has sparked a passionate debate nationwide over the rights of public sector unions and the need to balance unsteady budgets in all 50 states. An estimated 1,000 union workers carrying signs and chanting "people power" gathered at the Colorado state Capitol in support of Wisconsin public employees who face the elimination of ...
VIDEO: Republican Governor Mitch Daniels Suggests Health Care Rationing
Post Date: 2011-02-27 20:35:07 by Brian S
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Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels suggested health care rationing Sunday as a way to cut Medicare costs. This video is from Fox’s Fox News Sunday, broadcast Feb. 27, 2011.
WISCONSIN: Protesters Win A Round; Police Say They Won't Force Union Activists Out
Post Date: 2011-02-27 20:30:20 by Brian S
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UPDATED 7:51PM ET -- Wisconsin state police say they will make no forcible removals of protesters from the state Capitol on Sunday evening. “A decision has been made to do what they’ve been doing all week long and that is to do everything to keep things peaceful and keep people safe,” Peg Schmidt, spokeswoman for the police command in the Capitol, told the Wisconsin State Journal Sunday evening. “There’s not going to be any forcible removal.” Officials say they hope to clear the building through voluntary compliance, though the possibility of protesters leaving of their own volition seems nebulous at best. Protesters continue to sing and chant "We Shall ...
Photographing cows or other farm scenery could land you in jail under Senate bill
Post Date: 2011-02-27 09:05:22 by A K A Stone
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Taking photographs from the roadside of a sunrise over hay bales near the Suwannee River, horses grazing near Ocala or sunset over citrus groves along the Indian River could land you in jail under a Senate bill filed Monday. SB 1246 by Sen. Jim Norman, R-Tampa, would make it a first-degree felony to photograph a farm without first obtaining written permission from the owner. A farm is defined as any land "cultivated for the purpose of agricultural production, the raising and breeding of domestic animals or the storage of a commodity." Media law experts say the ban would violate freedoms protected in the U. S. Constitution. But Wilton Simpson, a farmer who lives in Norman's ...
Largest Crowds Since Vietnam War March In Wisconsin
Post Date: 2011-02-27 02:13:37 by Brian S
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(Reuters) - A crowd estimated at more than 70,000 people on Saturday waved American flags, sang the national anthem and called for the defeat of a Wisconsin plan to curb public sector unions that has galvanized opposition from the American labor movement. In one of the biggest rallies at the state Capitol since the Vietnam War, union members and their supporters braved frigid temperatures and a light snowfall to show their displeasure. The mood was upbeat despite the setback their cause suffered earlier this week when the state Assembly approved the Republican-backed restrictions on union collective bargaining rights over fierce Democratic objections. "I'm deeply honored to be ...
100,000-Plus in Madison for Rally for Workers’ Rights
Post Date: 2011-02-26 19:48:31 by Brian S
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MADISON, WI (FDL) – In what has been billed the largest rally in the history of Madison, over 100,000 people packed the Capitol Square for a “Rally for Workers’ Rights” to protest the budget repair bill and the proposed stripping of collective bargaining rights from public employees. Madison Police told AFL-CIO spokesman Eddie Vale that they estimated the crowd at 100,000 30 minutes before the 3pm rally. As Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, who graced the stage, said, it’s 40% of the March on Washington, which he attended. Here’s Peter Yarrow leading the crowd in a song. Yarrow told me before going on stage that he was proud to see the spirit of the past ...
SOD GATES: Future Defense Secretaries Pushing Ground War 'Should Have Their Heads Examined'
Post Date: 2011-02-26 16:47:00 by Brian S
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In his last speech to West Point Cadets as Secretary of Defense on Friday, Robert Gates warned the future Army officers of ever fighting a ground war like the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. He went on to say that any future defense secretary that thinks fighting any other ground wars is a good idea, "should have his head examined." Gates also told the cadets they should get ready for the Army to lose a lot of funding from the government, as the future of any other conflicts would rest on the shoulders of the Air Force and the Navy, with air assaults and naval assaults being the primary forms of engagement that the military should use. The role of the Army and the Marines would ...
Gingrich: If Palin Took Obama Actions, There Would Be Calls for Impeachment
Post Date: 2011-02-25 19:29:57 by A K A Stone
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In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV Friday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Barack Obama’s decision not to fully enforce the Defense of Marriage law eventually could lead to a constitutional crisis, as he has directly violated his constitutional duties by arbitrarily suspending a law.
Gingrich even suggested that, if a “President Sarah Palin” had taken a similar action, there would have been immediate calls for her impeachment. Asked directly whether President Obama could be subject to articles of impeachment, Gingrich said, “I think that’s something you get to much later. But I think clearly it is a dereliction of duty. Clearly it’s a violation of his ...
Ronald Reagan Called Union Membership ‘One Of The Most Elemental Human Rights’
Post Date: 2011-02-25 17:34:32 by go65
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As the Main Street Movement of students, workers, and other middle class Americans erupts across America, many conservatives have invoked the legacy of former president Ronald Reagan to demand that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) not back down from his push to end collective bargaining for his state’s public employees. In a prank call with the Buffalo Beast’s Ian Murphy, where Murphy pretended to be right-wing billionare David Koch, Walker himself even fantasized about being just like Reagan. Yet conservatives may be shocked to learn that their idol Reagan was once a union boss himself. Reagan was the only president in American history to have belonged to a union, the AFL-CIO ...
Tea party vision for Mont. raising concerns
Post Date: 2011-02-25 14:17:31 by Skip Intro
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HELENA, Mont. – With each bill, newly elected tea party lawmakers are offering Montanans a vision of the future. Their state would be a place where officials can ignore U.S. laws, force FBI agents to get a sheriff's OK before arresting anyone, ban abortions, limit sex education in schools and create armed citizen militias. It's the tea party world. But not everyone is buying their vision. Some residents, Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer and even some Republican lawmakers say the bills are making Montana into a laughingstock. And, they say, the push to nullify federal laws could be dangerous. "We are the United States of America," said Schweitzer. "This talk ...
Wis. Assembly passes bill taking away union rights
Post Date: 2011-02-25 13:46:31 by Capitalist Eric
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly took the first significant action on their plan to strip collective bargaining rights from most public workers, abruptly passing the measure early Friday morning before sleep-deprived Democrats realized what was happening. The vote ended three straight days of punishing debate in the Assembly. But the political standoff over the bill - and the monumental protests at the state Capitol against it - appear far from over. The Assembly's vote sent the bill on to the Senate, but minority Democrats in that house have fled to Illinois to prevent a vote. No one knows when they will return from hiding. Republicans who control the ...
Psst. No Shutdown During A 'Government Shutdown'
Post Date: 2011-02-25 12:57:57 by Brian S
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Social Security checks would still go out. Troops would remain at their posts. Furloughed federal workers probably would get paid, though not until later. And virtually every essential government agency, like the FBI, the Border Patrol and the Coast Guard, would remain open. That's the little-known truth about a government shutdown. The government doesn't shut down. And it won't on March 5, even if the combatants on Capitol Hill can't resolve enough differences to pass a stopgap spending bill to fund the government while they hash out legislation to cover the last seven months of the budget year. Fewer than half of the 2.1 million federal workers subject to a shutdown ...
GOP Inquiry Finds No Evidence That ‘Climategate’ Scientists Misused Data
Post Date: 2011-02-25 11:46:33 by Brian S
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WASHINGTON – A Republican-led federal probe of climate scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found no evidence that they manipulated data, after leaked e-mails in 2009 sparked the "climategate" controversy. The investigation was conducted by the inspector general of the Commerce Department. It reviewed the 1,073 leaked messages, particularly the 289 that were exchanged with NOAA scientists, and interviewed NOAA chief Jane Lubchenco and her staff about them. "We did not find any evidence that NOAA inappropriately manipulated data," the inspector general concluded in a recent report. It also cleared Lucbhenco for testifying before ...
Secret Service Interviews Georgia Constituent Who Asked Who Will `Shoot' Obama
Post Date: 2011-02-25 11:35:44 by Brian S
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By now you may have heard that GOP Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia failed to condemn a constituent who asked aloud who will "shoot" Obama at an event in Athens on Tuesday. The news is quickly going national as we speak. The Athens Banner-Herald reports that Broun responded to the question -- who is going to shoot Obama? -- with this answer: The thing is, I know there's a lot of frustration with this president. We're going to have an election next year. Hopefully, we'll elect somebody that's going to be a conservative, limited-government president that will take a smaller, who will sign a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. Not exactly a ringing condemnation. ...
Meeting Young Obama~a young man anticipating a Marxist-Leninist revolution
Post Date: 2011-02-25 10:48:08 by Happy Quanzaa
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My first meeting with young Barack Obama raised strong feelings and left me with a positive first impression. At the time, I felt I'd persuaded a young man anticipating a Marxist-Leninist revolution to appreciate the more practical alternative of conventional politics as a channel for his socialist views. I met Obama in December of 1980, a couple of days after Christmas, in Portola Valley -- a small town near Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. I was a 23 year old second-year graduate student in Cornell's Government Department, and had flown to California to visit a 21 year old girlfriend, Caroline Boss. Boss was a senior at Occidental College, where she had taken a class in the ...
Survey: 61% of U.S. Teachers Buy Food for Hungry Students
Post Date: 2011-02-25 10:13:02 by Godwinson
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Survey: 61% of U.S. Teachers Buy Food for Hungry Students Posted on February 23, 2011 A new survey of 638 US public school teachers has shed light on how our education system is dealing with the national epidemic of childhood hunger. With 1 out of every 6 Americans living in poverty (nearly half of all black children are poor) and with 1 out of every 7 of us relying upon government food assistance, it’s no secret that we’ve got a major problem with childhood hunger. But numbers and statistics can only tell us so much. Our nation’s teachers often find themselves on the front lines of the battle against childhood hunger and what they tell us, combined with numbers and ...
Teacher's Unions Hate Kids, Love Money
Post Date: 2011-02-25 09:54:28 by no gnu taxes
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Given a choice of volunteers manning a library or shutting them down, guess which choice a teacher's union wants to enforce? Nope, you're wrong, the kids just don't matter. After all volunteers are not "qualified". “You’re putting unqualified people into the library who are not certified,’’ Newman said (Anita Newman, teacher's union thug), calling it the basis of the grievance. “We don’t want to ruffle feathers, but you’re responsible for the children. We don’t use volunteers for recess or lunch either.’’ You see "grievance" mentioned above. Yep, the Teachers unions in Bridgewater and Raynham ...
Why do Wisconsin teachers hate Wisconsin’s kids?
Post Date: 2011-02-25 08:33:50 by no gnu taxes
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Why do these teachers hate Wisconsin’s kids? A reader named Tom from Des Moines, Iowa, emailed me and asked some pertinent questions of these recalcitrant teachers. I have asked some of these questions here myself and I have heard a few of them floated on Twitter, Facebook and the radio, but it is good to have them all in one post. The teachers, says reader Tom, keep claiming that it’s all “for the kids” yet their actions here prove that the kids are last on the list as teachers worry more about safeguarding their unions, their high salaries and lucrative benefits. So if the teachers care about the children, why are they: * With Schools Closed, special meals for kids ...
Dems hiding in plain 'spite'
Post Date: 2011-02-24 22:49:37 by A K A Stone
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HARVARD, Ill. -- Wisconsin state Sen. Dave Hansen, the assistant minority leader, thought he was staying at a secret location in Harvard, Ill., just south of the Wisconsin border. That was until a group of picture-taking party activists from the Northern Illinois Tea Party showed up at the Heritage Inn and Suites off of Route 14. Hansen, officially outed, looked like a deer caught in the headlights of a speeding tractor trailer. >www.nypost.com/rw/nypost/2011/02/24/news/photos_stories/24.1n006.democrats1--300x300.jpg"> Hansen and several other Democratic refugees were forced to find another location. "We're not about to give in yet," Hansen later said. ...
PayPal Freezes Account of Group Raising Money for Bradley Manning
Post Date: 2011-02-24 19:42:14 by A K A Stone
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PayPal has frozen the account of a group that has been raising money for the legal defense of accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, citing a failure to meet PayPal’s requirement for nonprofit groups. According to Courage to Resist, a military veterans advocacy group that has been raising donations for Manning’s defense, PayPal froze the account after the group refused to link its PayPal account to its checking account, which would give the online payment provider access to funds in the checking account. “We exchanged numerous e-mails and phone calls with the legal department and the office of executive escalations of PayPal,” said Jeff Paterson in a press release. ...
House is right to repeatedly buck the hateful anti-American Democrats and the evil Obama
Post Date: 2011-02-24 17:55:12 by no gnu taxes
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In recent days and weeks, the House of Representatives approved four major pieces of legislation that, if they become law, could stagger the big government mindset responsible for massive deficits and draconian regulations. On three separate bills, the House overwhelmingly voted to prevent federal agencies from spending money to implement Obamacare, and to cut $61 billion from the federal budget and this week to cut off funding to the U.N.'s questionable global warming panel because it "whipped up a global frenzy about a phenomenon which is statistically questionable at best," as Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., put it. Controlled by Republicans since January, the House last ...
Boeing wins $35 billion Air Force refueling tanker contract
Post Date: 2011-02-24 17:21:02 by go65
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Boeing won the U.S. Air Force's $35 billion contract to build 179 aerial refueling tankers, Pentagon and Air Force officials announced Thursday. Boeing's 767-based NewGen Tanker competed against EADS North America's Airbus A330-based KC-45 tanker in the Air Force's third try at starting to replace Eisenhower-era Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers. An initial 2003 lease deal for new Boeing tankers fell apart under a cloud of scandal. The Air Force then chose a Northrop Grumman-EADS tanker over a Boeing offering in 2008, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates threw out that result after congressional auditors found serious flaws in the process. This award may also be appealed. Boeing ...
Nebraska May Permit ‘Justifiable Homicide’ In Defense Of The Unborn
Post Date: 2011-02-24 15:49:00 by Brian S
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Legislation introduced in Nebraska includes a "justifiable homicide" clause that could be used in defense of a fetus, potentially offering legal cover for the killing of abortion providers. The bill, LB 232, was put forth by Nebraska state Sen. Mark Christensen, who fiercely opposes abortion even in cases of rape, as Mother Jones first reported. It would allow any third party the chance to use self-defense as a legal justification for killing someone believed to be threatening the life of a fetus. Although it may not have been Christensen's intent, critics fear that the language it could make way for legalized killings of abortion doctors, who are already frequent targets of ...
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