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See Teachers Unions Rob Dick and Jane
Post Date: 2011-02-22 13:03:52 by no gnu taxes
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“For the kids!” teachers union members chanted in Wisconsin while protesting Governor Scott Walker’s modest proposal to make public sector union employees contribute 5% toward their pensions and kick in roughly one-tenth of their health care costs. These are benefits most private sector employees would jump at - assuming they still have jobs in Obama’s economy. But the Left is hot for teachers unions so they have declared such measures the stuff of authoritarian regimes, with many protest signs comparing Governor Walker to Mubarak or worse, Hitler. Leave it to the misplaced priorities of the Left to make a hero out of John Walker Lindh and a villain out of Scott Walker. ...
Americans Support Scott Walker
Post Date: 2011-02-22 12:05:43 by no gnu taxes
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Sorry, libs. As you bring chaos to Madison, Wisconsin, Americans are not supporting you in your cause. In fact, we are getting fed up with the demands coming from public employee unions. Scott Walker is a hero, and he is doing exactly what the people of Wisconsin elected him to do. As President Obama once reminded his opponents, "Elections have consequences." Read from Weasel Zippers: Poll: American Voters Support Wisconsin Republican Gov. Over Unions by a 48% to 38% Margin… "Unionized entitlement class hardest hit. 'A sizable number of voters are following new Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s showdown with unionized public employees in his state, and ...
Sarah Palin Has Secret ‘Lou Sarah’ Facebook Account To Praise Other Sarah Palin Facebook Account
Post Date: 2011-02-22 12:03:19 by Godwinson
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Sarah Palin Has Secret ‘Lou Sarah’ Facebook Account To Praise Other Sarah Palin Facebook Account By JACK STUEF 11:32 AM FEBRUARY 22, 2011 Sarah Palin has apparently created a second Facebook account with her Gmail address so that this fake “Lou Sarah” person can praise the other Sarah Palin on Facebook. The Gmail address is available for anyone to see in this leaked manuscript about Sarah Palin, and the Facebook page for “Lou Sarah” — Sarah Palin’s middle name is “Louise” — is just a bunch of praise and “Likes” for the things Sarah Palin likes and writes on her other Sarah Palin Facebook page. “Lou Sarah” even ...
Rasmussen Poll on Wisconsin Dispute May Be Biased
Post Date: 2011-02-22 10:46:16 by go65
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We’ve noted before that the automated polling firm Rasmussen Reports has had problems with bias in a statistical sense: in the election last fall, its polls overestimated the standing of Republican candidates by roughly 4 percentage points on average. A somewhat different issue arises today in a poll the firm conducted on the dispute in Wisconsin between Gov. Scott Walker and some of the state’s public-employee unions. The poll, which included people that Rasmussen deemed to be “likely voters” from across the country, found that 48 percent of respondents agreed more with Mr. Walker in the dispute, while 38 percent agreed more with “the union for teachers and other ...
The Kenyan Usurper Hits Lowest Strong Approval Rating Yet
Post Date: 2011-02-22 09:55:47 by no gnu taxes
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 21% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20 (see trends). That’s the lowest level of Strong Approval yet recorded for President Obama and the lowest Approval Index rating since November. Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove.
American Corporatocracy: Wisconsin Style
Post Date: 2011-02-22 09:49:45 by Godwinson
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American Corporatocracy: Wisconsin Style by Dean Walker February 20, 2011 Originally published in The Daily Censored for Project Censored. This week, in the American corporatocracy, we witnessed Wisconsin Republicans, including their newly minted Governor Scott Walker (no relation to my brother), attempt to bust the unions. To do this, Walker and his Republican allies maliciously manufactured a financial crisis. For decades the lairs on the Right have been scheming to strip workers of their right to collectively bargain with employers. The reason is simple, if you’re a proponent of the corporatocracy, the last thing you would want is an empowered work force. In fact, the real ...
Alaska state rep objects to airport search demand
Post Date: 2011-02-21 18:32:34 by Wood_Chopper
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JUNEAU, Alaska -- An Alaska state lawmaker is making her way back to the state Capitol after refusing a pat-down search at a Seattle airport, a spokeswoman said. Rep. Sharon Cissna underwent a body scan as she was preparing to leave Seattle-Tacoma International Airport Sunday and was then required to undergo the pat-down by Transportation Safety Administration officials, said Michelle Scannell, her chief of staff. Scannell said the TSA called for the pat-down because the scan showed Cissna had had a mastectomy. The TSA, on its website, says security officers "will need to see and touch your prosthetic device, cast or support brace as part of the screening process." Scannell ...
BREAKING: Former abortionist, top pro-life advocate Bernard Nathanson dies at 84
Post Date: 2011-02-21 16:57:59 by Mad Dog
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February 21, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Bernard Nathanson, the former abortionist turned top pro-life activist who is perhaps best known for his role in creating the pro-life video The Silent Scream, died at the age of 84 this morning after a lengthy battle with cancer, reports the National Catholic Register. At one time Nathanson was deeply entrenched in the American pro-abortion movement, having co-founded the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) and overseen 75,000 abortions as director of an abortion clinic. Nathanson’s high-profile conversion to the pro-life movement was sparked by the advent of the ultrasound machine in the early 1970s. He has related how he was ...
Piece of Garbage Bouncer Charged With Assault
Post Date: 2011-02-21 16:53:34 by no gnu taxes
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An online video allegedly showing the beating of a patron inside the locked bathroom of a Southbridge Street strip club last year has led to the arrest of a bouncer at that club.
Easton Byfield, 35, of Thayer Pond Drive, Oxford, was arrested Friday night and charged with assault and battery, kidnapping, unarmed robbery and filing a false crime report. Records show he was arrested at Platinum Premier, 241 Southbridge St. He is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow in Worcester Central District Court.
The video, which was on Youtube.com and other Internet sites yesterday, shows a man being punched several times and money allegedly being taken out of his wallet by the strip club ...
'Cash for kids' judge took $1m kickback from private jail builder to lock children up
Post Date: 2011-02-21 16:16:51 by Mad Dog
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A former judge has been convicted of taking a $1million kickback from the builder of a juvenile jail in the notorious ‘cash for kids’ scandal. Mark Ciavarella sent hundreds of children and teenagers to the private prison for minor crimes after being given the money by the company which ran it. Some of the children jailed were as young as 10 and at least one killed themselves because the excessive sentences ruined their lives. Cash for kids: Mark Ciavarella is confronted by Sandy Fonzo, whose son was locked up by the judge for a minor offence and subsequently killed himself Ciavarella, 61, left the bench in disgrace two years ago after the allegations came to light and is now ...
Why Obama and the Dems Blundered in Wisconsin
Post Date: 2011-02-21 14:29:23 by no gnu taxes
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It is becoming clear that the Wisconsin battle was a strategic political blunder for President Obama and the Democratic Party. The decision by the Democratic Party and its allies to draw a line in the sand in Wisconsin was the wrong strategy, in the wrong state, at the wrong time, on the wrong issue, and executed in the wrong way. The White House, which for the last two years seemed so tone deaf over health care, jobs, and the economy, may again be displaying a stunning political miscalculation. Unless the Democrats pull the plug on their ill-conceived Wisconsin campaign, the statewide and national backlash now beginning to emerge may continue to resonate all the way to the 2012 ...
Number of Solidly Democratic States Cut in Half From '08 to '10
Post Date: 2011-02-21 14:20:52 by A K A Stone
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PRINCETON, NJ -- Gallup's analysis of party affiliation in the U.S. states shows a marked decline in the number of solidly Democratic states from 2008 (30) to 2010 (14). The number of politically competitive states increased over the same period, from 10 to 18, with more limited growth in the number of leaning or solidly Republican states. Click for Full Text!
Something momentous is happening in the United States right now and Barack Obama is too stupid to get it
Post Date: 2011-02-21 13:35:19 by no gnu taxes
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Something momentous is happening in the United States right now and Barack Obama doesn’t get it. In Madison, Wisconsin last week, up to 40,000 public employees, organised by their unions, the Democratic party and the grassroots Organizing for America group that elected the president in 2008, gathered at the state capitol. Teachers left their classrooms, forcing schools to close. Their objective? To rail against an attempt to balance the budget and curtail union power by newly-elected Governor Scott Walker, a Republican. The Democratic party’s response? Its state senators have fled Wisconsin to Illinois, dodging state troopers as they went, in order to prevent the budget being ...
What would Obama do for a living if he actually had to get a real job?
Post Date: 2011-02-21 10:35:38 by no gnu taxes
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Janitor or porter comes to mind, but he's really too stupid and lazy to even do that. The only thing I can figure he's really cut out for is prison bitch. Anybody else have any ideas?
We Stand With Governor Scott Walker
Post Date: 2011-02-21 09:54:37 by no gnu taxes
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On our side Governor Scott Walker, a newly-elected GOP-controlled legislature and tens of thousands of tea party and AFP activists are working to balance the state budget by finally cutting spending and reining in sweetheart pensions and benefits enjoyed by government employees unions. On the other side are a privileged class of liberal politicians and government unions demanding higher taxes and even more spending for themselves and their ideology - all while private sector unemployment still runs high. It looked and felt like the government workers marches in Athens, Greece throughout the week as the Wisconsin government unions, augmented by union activists from around the nation and ...
Approval of the Kenyan White House Resident Plummets
Post Date: 2011-02-21 09:49:03 by no gnu taxes
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The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that 23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-one percent (41%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18 Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the president's performance. Fifty-five percent (55%) disapprove.
Gov. Walker is Right: Wisconsin Union Work Rules are Insane
Post Date: 2011-02-21 09:36:33 by no gnu taxes
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The tax-paying public needs to read these and GET RID of this. If it’s this bad in Wisconsin, can you IMAGINE how pedantic and impossible the work rules are in California? ( I have a mental picture of one Caltrans guy digging a ditch, 3 guys watching and some girl holding the traffic sign wearing a hard hat.) Great insight and reportage this week from the MacIver Institute: After spending several days complaining about Governor Walker’s proposed compensation changes for state employees (as if a 100 percent match on pension contributions and picking up 87 percent of health insurance premiums were raw deals) the union operatives have shifted gears. “It’s about rights, ...
Gov. Walker on Wisconsin democrats: “Democracy is not about hiding out in another state”
Post Date: 2011-02-20 21:51:19 by no gnu taxes
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Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, whose state has become the epicenter of the battle between the public sector unions and government, said on “Fox News Sunday” that his budget is a necessity after years of executives and legislators abdicating from their responsibilities. “For us, we have to do this. For decades, we had leaders who pushed off the problem.” I don’t know if the union members who are protesting outside the state capital realize that either they approve Gov. Walker’s budget, which means they have to put in some of their money to their pensions and benefits, or they can look at layoffs of up to 12,000 people. Things can not go on the way they are. ...
Both sides targeting state senators for recall elections (Wisconsin)
Post Date: 2011-02-20 21:28:55 by go65
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It's been said that state Democrats and labor unions are trying to reverse the results of the November 2010 elections. Actually, it's the outcome of a handful of 2008 races that political liberals and conservatives are now working to undo. Several sources confirmed that Wisconsin Democrats and labor leaders are plotting recall elections for several Republican senators as soon as lawmakers push through Gov. Scott Walker's budget plan to curb collective bargaining rights and require public employees to chip in part of their salary toward their health care and pension costs. "Those are options people are looking at," said Marty Beil, director of the largest state ...
Pro-Walker Troopers Union Repudiates Endorsement In Wisconsin
Post Date: 2011-02-20 21:26:15 by go65
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Tensions remained high in Wisconsin on Sunday as Gov. Scott Walker (R) remained in a standoff with state public employees unions and Democratic legislators over a proposal that would not only require greater employee contributions to state benefits packages but also strip state employees of most of their collective bargaining and union rights. In one development, one of the unions that did support Walker in the 2010 election, the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association (and would benefit from his plan)-- has released a statement repudiating the union's endorsement. "I specifically regret the endorsement of the Wisconsin Trooper's Association for Gov. Scott Walker," ...
Couple shoplifted $5 million from Portland Safeway stores, police say
Post Date: 2011-02-20 20:43:24 by A K A Stone
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PORTLAND -- Safeway officials say they have proof that a local couple stole more than $5 million in merchandise from stores in the Portland Metro area over the past several years. Police arrested Richard Lavern Remington, 52, and Angela Rose Evans, 32, on Tuesday and the couple was arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court Wednesday. The probable cause affidavit showed that Safeway began formally tracking the pair last November after suspicions surfaced they had been shoplifting. Evans told police that the couple stole mostly common items like shampoos, razors, Rogaine, teeth whiteners, conditioners to batteries, DVDs and CDs, according to the affidavit, which also said that Remington ...
If You Did What The WI Dems Did, You'd Be Unemployed
Post Date: 2011-02-20 19:40:39 by no gnu taxes
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The Senate Democrats in Wisconsin that walked off the job today work for the people of Wisconsin, at least that's the way it's portrayed. We now know where the Wisconsin Democrats ran off to. Here's the video of a Tea Party supporter confronting a Wis State Senator at the ClockTower resort, home to the Tilted Kilt restaurant, in Illinois. ... last but not least…beautiful women eager to put a smile on your face and make you feel right at home. The Senator appears to be Jim Holperin from the 12th district. Next time you show up for work and aren't down with what's going on that day, try walking off the job and checking into a nice resort for the day. Let me know ...
A Wisconsin-related Question for you Leftard Idiots: Where’s the Money?
Post Date: 2011-02-20 18:36:11 by no gnu taxes
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Brian Beutler at TPM said Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker “ginned up” a “budget shortfall“. As if on cue, Jamelle Bouie at The American Prospect said Walker’s deficit reducing plan was “a ginned up crisis“. Political fiction writer Steven Benen (that’s what his posts are) says Walker is insincere. The Constitutionally confused Ezra Klein claims the “Badger State was actually in pretty good shape. It was supposed to end this budget cycle with about $120 million in the bank.” All of these truth-challenged individuals are using two pieces of information. One is this report from Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau, the ...
29.4 of Milwaukee Teachers Send Their Kids To Private Schools
Post Date: 2011-02-20 17:16:41 by jwpegler
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More than 25 percent of public school teachers in Washington and Baltimore send their children to private schools, a new study reports. Nationwide, public school teachers are almost twice as likely as other parents to choose private schools for their own children, the study by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found. More than 1 in 5 public school teachers said their children attend private schools. In Washington (28 percent), Baltimore (35 percent) and 16 other major cities, the figure is more than 1 in 4. In some cities, nearly half of the children of public school teachers have abandoned public schools. In Philadelphia, 44 percent of the teachers put their children in private schools; ...
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