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This from Fox News Radio at 550 KFYI via Drudge Report. Consider: There are millions upon millions of postings on Facebook, every day! But only THIS posting, among the millions, gets "accidentally" deleted…aka "censored." I hate statist organizations…and Facebook appears to be one of them.
The state has no right to come between the union and its workers right? Well I think I agree, because we now know how that works out.
Wisconsin Teachers no longer have their union dues deducted from their pay checks. They have to either sign up for automatic payments through their bank or write a check to the union each month. Given how the anti-Walker protests went, or at least how they were portrayed, this should not have been a problem for the union. You know, workers unite and all that Jazz? Well reality is quite a bit different from the media adaption of the Union talking points we saw on television. The Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), the state education union, is laying off 40% of its staff in response to dwindling revenue. But why? What happened to workers unite? Where did all the union protesters go? Home to their own states is my guess.
Given the "choice" to support the Wisconsin education unions activities, many teachers have stopped paying dues and union staff have been laid off as a result. So Wisconsin’s teachers just gave 42 state union employees their walking papers because they would rather keep the money for themsleves than give it to the WEAC.
The union is blaming Governor Walker and the Republicans but for what? There’s no law against paying dues and the state is no longer coming between the union and its workers. Kyle Olson at Big Government brings home the bacon…
If the union has anyone to blame, it has to be its rank-and-file members. Teachers have apparently been slow to provide WEAC with bank account information for direct dues payments, despite the teams of “home visitors” that have been dispatched to pressure members over the summer.
That situation says more about the union than it does about Walker or state government. If teachers really supported their union, they would pay their dues. If they don’t support their union, should they be forced to be members and pay dues?
(…)The suspicion is that WEAC is really nothing more than a small group of radical leaders who have been forcing captive members to finance their agenda for years.
Big protest, and we had one similar in New Hampshire, but what were they really protesting?
Social Media is how we communicate these days and Facebook is currently the belle of the Ball. While spending 90 seconds on a web site is a good long stay, most Facebook users spend about 25 minutes wandering Zuckerberg’s conversational multi-sphere at any given time. How long that dominance lasts is anyone’s guess but for the time being, if you are networking, marketing, or just connecting with people you know (or looking for people you have not seen since Nixon–or maybe Clinton–was in the White House), odds are you have a Facebook account.
So are you connecting? The average user has a few hundred friends. Serious users peak around seven-hundred. And then there are the folks who get up past 800 and just blossom into the thousands. Whether you have thousands or hundreds, regardless of whether you are actually friends or just share an interest, odds are good you are missing or ignoring most of them, and they you. And it’s all your fault.
Obama’s economy is so bad the Mafia and government employee unions (is there a difference?) are laying off local politicians.
Thursday, August 18, 2011
I would like to respond to the editorial published in Foster’s Daily Democrat on Aug. 11, entitled "Who does the GOP represent?" The editors examined the results of recent special elections in Strafford and Hillsborough Counties in which both Republican candidates were defeated. The article quotes Democrat Party Chairman Ray Buckley’s partisan diatribe about the GOP and, in general, paints a largely critical and one-sided picture of both the GOP and it’s accomplishments in the spring session of the 2011 New Hampshire Legislature.
So who do we represent? We represent those that agree with the preamble to the Declaration of Independence: We actively support the rule of law, setting it firmly on the bedrock foundations of our state and federal constitutions, as plainly written and intended by our forebears. We believe in the inherent, sovereign right of the electorate to rule the government, not the other way around; and that the government was contracted to protect our lives, our liberties and our property, not micromanage them. We represent laissez faire capitalism and the proven axiom that liberty and reason are the necessary handmaidens of human happiness. We represent those that see America’s promise and ideals as exceptional and inspirational to the whole world. If you would breathe free, we represent you.
Ideals and party mission statements are one thing, but delivering on promises made and implied is quite another. So how did we do? On Election Day 2010, the Republican-led legislature faced a structural deficit of $895,000,000 in a sinking economy with U3 unemployment standing at 5.7%. We had promised to balance the budget with no new taxes or fees, and to do so without resorting to gimmicks or the state credit card or load-shifting to cities and towns. We had large majorities in the legislature, and all five seats in the Executive Council, but faced a popular four-term Democrat governor.
The implication that Bill O’Brien and…
(H/T: Powerline)
In what may well be the best independent video I have seen in a while, some savvy college students ask their peers (typical tax the rich types) if they would sign a petition. The plan? Redistribute GPA points from the high achievers so that other students can use them to pass classes they are doing poorly in.
If you have heard any of the remarks on Obama’s Ditch-dodging–Blame Bus-Two Minutes Hate “listening tour” then you know exactly how the soon to be former President plans to spin the present circumstances.
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(Note:This arrived in my mail box unattributed, but I have discovered that it is from The Onion. I have edited any questionable language by replacing letters with asterisks. This image is not associated with the article at The Onion.) 
The country’s automakers should ditch their focus on SUVs and trucks in favor of smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles, President Obama said Monday.
“You can’t just make money on SUVs and trucks,” Obama said during a town hall forum in Cannon Falls, Minn. “There is a place for SUVs and trucks, but as gas prices keep on going up, you have got to understand the market. People are going to try to save money.”
Like King Canute, Obama thinks he can just utter the words and the Laws of Physics and Economics will bend to his whims. Remember his words, though, before his election: "We are five days from fundamentally transforming America". With his control of the auto manufactures financially (via loans, tax treatments, and bailouts, and control given to unions) coupled with the stranglehold he is putting on the oil companies and the use of our own energy resources, he is transforming that industry. With these new mileage standards, he is:
Obama’s economy is so bad Motel Six won’t leave the light on anymore.
“My son, there is a battle between two wolves inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, inferiority, lies, & ego. The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, & truth.”
The Democrat controlled Senate had the opportunity to create jobs, generate growth, add some tax revenue, and did I say create jobs? But Harry Reid couldn’t bring himself to get the Keystone XL Pipeline project approved before the recess.
The need to stop policing the world, a desire to avoid wars like that in Iraq and Afghanistan, and a consensus similar to Rep Paul’s, that Iran is not the threat the war-mongring neo-con’s make it out to be, all rise to the surface of the debate. But while it is reasonable to argue these points, does it make sense to use them as an excuse to keep our head in the sand about Iran for another four years while the suicidal mad man build nuclear weapons?
From a couple of Facebook posts I did yesterday morning:
I DVR most of the political Sunday shows – am watching Meet The Press and I cannot believe how badly David Gregory is hectoring Michelle Bachman on her faith in God. He just can’t seem to understand that God IS important to most folks.
And taunting her with "would you appoint an atheist to your Admin"? Good grief
And it seems that the shows and liberal pundits covering for Obama have zeroed in on her stance on the Biblical relationship between husbands and wives:
Later, Gregory interrogated Bachmann about her religious views. After playing a clip of the congresswoman quoting the biblical instruction for wives to “submit” to their husbands, Gregory asked, “Is that your view of women in America?”
When Bachmann argued that “submission” meant “respect,” Gregory joked, “Congresswoman, I didn’t even have to check with my wife, and I know those two things aren’t equal.”
“Well in our house, it is,” Bachmann shot back.
(H/T: the Corner)
Now, I don’t exactly agree with her answer, but Gregory (and others) seem to be intent on bashing the religious faith of those that refuse to kowtow to liberal Political Correctness orthodoxy. Here’s the reference for the basis of the kerfuffle: Ephesians 5:22
22 For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
Certainly, much as been made of this in our "everyone HAS to be equal" society – and it drives many Liberals and feminists absolutely crazy. They see this automatically as "wife as doormat" or "back to the days of barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen". They will not accept what is…
The above quote is from The Corner for a post showing Gov. Rick Perry speaking in Iowa today. "Indignant" is a good word describing the feeling of most TEA Partiers as he tries to be the third TEA Party candidate (with Herman Cain and Michelle Bachmann easily beating him to the punch to that honorific), he certainly uses the right word with the right nuance. I do like the word.
As a matter of fact, it may be a good way, in the near future, of describing my frame of mind – I had forgotten about the Gardisal episode of his Administration until it came up in Saturday’s Q&A. Essentially, it was a forcing of the then brand new HPV vaccine on young girls – for a sexually transmitted disease. In effect, it told parents that Government didn’t trust them to protect their own children – and the implicit message to kids was "well, we know you’re gonna fool around – regardless of what your parents are teaching you". Even though he did apologize for it on Saturday, it still was an imposition of Government between parents and their children and a diminution of the parents’ liberty.
Well, from my post giving my opinion of the status of the race:
Shot at the Title (the Nomination):
- Rick Perry (until he shows that he is not)
The above doesn’t help his cause. And this won’t either: one of the things that I noticed during the Q&A was that Perry answered the illegal immigration question from the crowd the exact same way that Gov. Jon Huntsman did during the debate – strong on securing the border and then ending, full stop. I thought that rather curious and odd. I brought it up to a number of folks at the time and they thought it "different" too.
Now I know why.
Obama’s economy is so bad a truckload of Americans was caught sneaking into Mexico….
Well, I got home late last nite and stayed up to get the video of Rick Perry up before going to bed (again, apologies for "the shakes" with the FlipCam, but again, I wasn’t anticipating getting any video in the first place). Thus, I slept in late and missed the actual announcement of Gov. Tim … Read more