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May 16, 2011 - 06:46pm PT
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GOTTA KEEP THE MONEY FLOWING TO THEIR DEM PROTECTORS:
FROM INSTAPUNDIT:
UNION WHISTLEBLOWERS beaten and harassed after they accused bosses of looting.
Unionized phone company employees say they were beaten or threatened after they accused their labor bosses of looting their coffers through various scams.
One member of Communications Workers of America Local 1101 said that after he reported a time-sheet padding scheme, a thug beat him so badly his spine was injured.
Another says he found a dead rat in his locker, while a third said a union officer warned that suspected informants should be brought off company property and “taken care of.”
The threats come to light as the U.S. Labor Department is probing charges that union bosses lined their pockets at the rank-and-file’s expense.
Shocking.
UPDATE: A reader emails:
Please keep my name private if you choose to post this rant. I too am a member of a public employee’s union that recently put up a vote for additional withholding for a strike fund. It failed as most of the members learned for the first time that nearly all of our dues go to Washington to pay enormous salaries and benefits for union bosses, and to fill the coffers of Democratic politicians who promise that the gravy train will never end.
For what its worth, I make less than I could in private practice, but about equal with private agencies. Given my family size, I am just below the poverty line.
Ouch. But I think that if public employee unions learn more about the finances, their enthusiasm for the unions will cool.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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May 16, 2011 - 06:59pm PT
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No Coot, Fatty has not.
He is a liar, and has insulted all professions who work hard to EARN their certifications.
He is THE consummate "fraud". He is a prodigious liar and a very ignorant man.
His mother dropped him on his head when he was a baby.
CPA my ass
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May 16, 2011 - 07:11pm PT
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ANARCHISTS -- DO YOU KNOW WHAT "ANARCHY" MEANS?
PEOPLE UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT: “So these ‘anarchists’ object that the state might cut back on its income transfers and payrolls. That is, they object to the state reducing its size, scope, and power. Odd anarchists.”
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May 16, 2011 - 07:11pm PT
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OOOOH THOSE EVIL RICH!
BUT WAIT -- ALL THESE DEMS ARE SO RICH. ARE THEY EVIL?
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Gary
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Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 16, 2011 - 07:11pm PT
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fattrad, should Obama invade Israel?
Israeli soldiers opened fire on the rock-throwing demonstrators, leaving at least 12 people dead and scores wounded, officials said, at the Lebanese border village of Maroun Ras and along the Golan Heights border with Syria.
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May 16, 2011 - 07:15pm PT
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Dems' thuggery knows no bounds
By MICHAEL A. WALSH
Posted: 10:30 PM, May 15, 2011
Orrin Hatch, the senior senator from Utah, didn't mince words the other day on Hugh Hewitt's national radio show. The Democrats, he said, "play politics very, very tough, they play it well, and they don't give a damn about what's right and what's wrong."
He was speaking about battles in Washington, but an even more vivid example can be found in Wisconsin, where the Democrats are still trying to overturn the 2010 elections.
Blindsided last fall by the election of Gov. Scott Walker, the loss of both houses of the legislature and the US Senate seat held by ultraliberal Russ Feingold, the Democrats have simply refused to accept defeat and instead are continuing the fight by any means necessary.
Lawmakers' weeks-long flight from the state to prevent a vote on Walker's reformist budget made national news; less well-covered tactics have included recounts and recall petitions as well as threats and intimidation.
Never mind that Walker's limits on the public-employees unions' collective-bargaining privileges were rather modest. Federal unions have never had rights like Wisconsin's; other states, including Indiana, have adopted similar limits without a hint of the sky then falling.
Even Massachusetts is considering restricting municipal unions' collective-bargaining rights on health benefits to save cash-strapped cities and towns an estimated $100 million in the coming fiscal year.
The bill has passed one house of the Legislature and is pending in the other. Union officials in the Bay State are fuming, as but so far there have been no mass sit-ins, no occupation of the State House, no death threats against the legislators.
Massachusetts, you see, is a wholly owned Democratic Party subsidiary -- so there's no war if they seek something that's so outrageous when sought by Republicans.
Back in Wisconsin, the state attorney general's office last week released documents and audio recordings of some 70 threats against state officials.
Among the most outrageous was an e-mail allegedly from schoolteacher Katherine Windels, which read: "Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell." She's been charged with two felony counts, including a bomb threat.
The controversial collective-bargaining law itself is in limbo, thanks to a restraining order issued in March by a judge in Dane County, where Madison is located. The ludicrous grounds: a claim that Republicans didn't give the public "proper notice" for a March 9 meeting that cleared the way for the bill's passage.
The state Supreme Court has set oral arguments on Walker's appeal of that ruling for June 6.
In a plain bid to wire that court, liberal JoAnne Kloppenburg challenged incumbent Justice David Prosser earlier this year. When she lost, she requested a recount, which thus far has cost state taxpayers nearly a quarter of a million dollars. The recount, which with all but one county reporting hasn't come close to overturning the result, is to finish May 26.
But even that won't be an end: Kloppenburg has said she'd likely to go court to challenge the election's legality.
As the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel opined: "This is no way to run an election."
Yet the Battle of Wisconsin's likely to look like a game of beanbag compared with what's coming nationally, as our nation's parlous fiscal condition forces as a desperate debate over the country's fundamental nature. Expect the Democrats to grab any tool in their kit and use it early and often against even common-sense Republican reform or pushback. And they call the Tea Party the radicals.
As Hatch noted, Democrats in Washington are already using their power ruthlessly, from last week's show-trial hearings with the oil executives to the National Labor Relations Board's diktat that Boeing can't create new jobs in Dreamliner production in right-to-work South Carolina, but only in unionized Washington state.
Hatch is right. And with the nation's future at stake, the GOP had better start acting accordingly.
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May 16, 2011 - 07:21pm PT
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Hedge -- you seem singularly focused on finding out the names of people in here.
Try this -- how about addressing the issues that are being raised.
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May 16, 2011 - 07:23pm PT
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PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME -- OBAMACARE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE SOO WONDERFUL -- YET WE HAVE OVER A THOUSAND WAIVERS TO ITS REQUIREMENTS GIVEN TO OBAMA'S CONTRIBUTORS. WHY?
200 more ObamaCare waivers granted
Share posted at 10:12 am on May 16, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
This wasn’t quite a Friday night news dump, as it doesn’t appear to have come from a late-afternoon press release, but it may have slipped by readers nonetheless. Over the past month, the Department of Health and Human Services approved another 204 waivers to insurance plans that don’t meet the federal mandates of ObamaCare. That brings the total to 1372 waivers, at least one of which applied to an entire state:
The Obama administration approved 204 new waivers to Democrats’ healthcare reform law over the past month, bringing the total to 1,372. …
Administration officials say the law allows the Health and Human Services Department to grant the waivers to avoid disrupting the insurance market before the law overhauls the insurance system in 2014. They say the waivers are granted through a transparent process.
“Transparent”? Not unless we’re defining “transparent” as “opaque,” “war” as “peace,” and insisting that Oceania has never been at war with Eastasia, Winston. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has been trying to get HHS and Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to explain how waivers are granted, and who hasn’t qualified and for what reason. HHS and the White House has been, er, slow to respond on those questions for months.
Who gets waivers? Who doesn’t? What are the prerequisites for waivers? Which conditions would require approval, and which would require rejection? No one knows, and HHS isn’t saying. And the rather strong tilt in waivers granted towards unions strongly suggests that politics and the Rule of Whim are very much part of the decision process.
That’s a lot of things, but transparent it isn’t.
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May 16, 2011 - 07:26pm PT
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WAIT -- BURNING FOSSIL FUELS CREATES CO2, WHICH RAISES THE EARTH TEMPERATURE, SO WE MUST CUT OUR BURNING OF FOSSIL FUELS AND DRIVE LITTLE ELECTRIC CARS AND HAVE UGLY-ASS WINDMILLS EVERYWHERE ...
BUT THEN OBAMA DOES THIS:
Obama Announces Steps to Speed US Oil Production
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY HE WOULD DO THIS?
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corniss chopper
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breaking the speed of gravity
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May 16, 2011 - 07:54pm PT
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Isn't it time to post photos of stalker jghedge going through his
neighbors garbage looking for identity theft booty?
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Hawkeye
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State of Mine
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May 16, 2011 - 07:54pm PT
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coot,
And you will likely live in jail. Unless I keep the rangers away from you.
Bwahahahahahahaha
The evil one
fattrad is correct.....getting banned from ST is like a gateway drug for jail. next thing you know Alice (coot) will be selling his body and go to jail for prostitution...
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corniss chopper
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breaking the speed of gravity
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May 16, 2011 - 07:57pm PT
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Obama
dis·in·gen·u·ous (d s n-j n y - s). adj. 1. Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, ...
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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May 16, 2011 - 08:32pm PT
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John McCain to Bush apologists: STOP LYING about Bin Laden and torture
By Greg Sargent
This is getting really good. As noted below, John McCain in an Op ed this morning skewered the claim that the killing of Bin Laden vindicates torture. But just now, on the Senate floor, he uncorked a new broadside that is quite remarkable, taking direct aim at Bush apologists who are reviving this debate in order to claim Bin Laden’s death as part of the Bush legacy.
McCain amplified his case, and called on former Bush attorney general Michael Mukasey — whose recent op ed claiming torture led to Bin Laden has been widely cited by the right — to retract his claims. McCain’s speech is worth quoting at length:
“With so much misinformation being fed into such an essential public debate as this one, I asked the Director of Central Intelligence, Leon Panetta, for the facts. And I received the following information:
“The trail to bin Laden did not begin with a disclosure from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times. We did not first learn from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed the real name of bin Laden’s courier, or his alias, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti — the man who ultimately enabled us to find bin Laden. The first mention of the name Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, as well as a description of him as an important member of Al-Qaeda, came from a detainee held in another country. The United States did not conduct this detainee’s interrogation, nor did we render him to that country for the purpose of interrogation. We did not learn Abu Ahmed’s real name or alias as a result of waterboarding or any ‘enhanced interrogation technique’ used on a detainee in U.S. custody. None of the three detainees who were waterboarded provided Abu Ahmed’s real name, his whereabouts, or an accurate description of his role in Al-Qaeda.
“In fact, not only did the use of ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not provide us with key leads on bin Laden’s courier, Abu Ahmed; it actually produced false and misleading information. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed specifically told his interrogators that Abu Ahmed had moved to Peshawar, got married, and ceased his role as an Al-Qaeda facilitator — which was not true, as we now know. All we learned about Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti through the use of waterboarding and other ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ against Khalid Sheik Mohammed was the confirmation of the already known fact that the courier existed and used an alias.
“I have sought further information from the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and they confirm for me that, in fact, the best intelligence gained from a CIA detainee — information describing Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti’s real role in Al-Qaeda and his true relationship to Osama bin Laden — was obtained through standard, non-coercive means, not through any ‘enhanced interrogation technique.’
“In short, it was not torture or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of detainees that got us the major leads that ultimately enabled our intelligence community to find Osama bin Laden. I hope former Attorney General Mukasey will correct his misstatement. It’s important that he do so because we are again engaged in this important debate, with much at stake for America’s security and reputation. Each side should make its own case, but do so without making up its own facts.
This is taking on the makings of an old-fashioned, barn-burning senatorial crusade, and it’s unclear if anyone of McCain’s stature is going to step up and make the pro-torture case. For all his flaws, McCain carries great authority on this issue because of his own past experiences.
STOP LYING
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Gary
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Desolation Basin, Calif.
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May 16, 2011 - 10:36pm PT
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I think CC has finally found the perfect analogy for the GOP. They are like the firefighters that go around starting fires so they can show up and pretend to be the hero.
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Jingy
climber
Somewhere out there
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May 16, 2011 - 11:35pm PT
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Anybody know how this campaign promise is going:
Scott’s Plan to to Help the People of Wisconsin Create 250,000 Jobs
http://www.scottwalker.org/issues/jobs
When I listen to This American Life
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/435/how-to-create-a-job
From the horses mouth..
He doesn't sound so positive...
I'd like to follow this, it may be interesting to hear that the republican "Let's make it easy for business to create jobs" which is for everyone.. right?
Except that the tax breaks given to the business sector means no taxes rolling in, meaning that public sector fails, infrastructure fails, schools fail.. We should be just as interested in the outlook on the schooling of everyone k-12 plus college.
It's a great business model in theory, but fact is.. Government has nothing to do with any part of business... Business has no interest in creating full employment, no interest in a better America, Business has failed America
But at least Walker is doing something about it... Getting rid of workers rights???
What a fuking joke!!
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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May 16, 2011 - 11:46pm PT
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Jingy wrote: But at least Walker is doing something about it... Getting rid of workers rights???
What a fuking joke!!
There is a close correlation with lost of wages and benefits for the average American worker and the decline in union membership.
F-ing republicans won't be happy until the rich get it all.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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May 16, 2011 - 11:56pm PT
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Gary wrote: I think CC has finally found the perfect analogy for the GOP. They are like the firefighters that go around starting fires so they can show up and pretend to be the hero.
Like catching Osama, WMD's, Saddam and so on. "Mission Accomplished".
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HighDesertDJ
Trad climber
Swimming in LEB tears.
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May 17, 2011 - 12:33am PT
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I think CC has finally found the perfect analogy for the GOP. They are like the firefighters that go around starting fires so they can show up and pretend to be the hero.
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apogee
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May 17, 2011 - 12:44am PT
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Trump is OUT
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2011-05-16-Trump-election-2012-GOP_n.htm?csp=34news
Huckabee is OUT
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/us/politics/15huckabee.html
He kept them waiting as long as possible, making the announcement at the very end of his hourlong 8 p.m. program after interviewing guests including the “Extra” host Mario Lopez and the rock musician Ted Nugent — with whom he jammed on Mr. Nugent’s old hit song “Cat Scratch Fever.” (Mr. Huckabee plays the bass guitar).
So who are the GOP frontrunners now? Let's see....
Yes, basically, it's Gingrich and Romney, both of which who are closer to Obama on the hottest button of them all- healthcare reform- than any other GOP candidate.
Oh, my, I can't wait for November 2012. The GOP is going to be gutted like a trout....this will be history in the making!
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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May 17, 2011 - 12:58am PT
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Thanks for that post Norton. Most excellent.
Any BushBots want to take up their sword for Bush on this one?
CC, you got anything to say? Fatty??
Hey Bookworm, I'm certain you have a thought, no?
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