it was about jumpstarting Obama's campaign? hmmmm, guess that explains why he was directing the thuggery from the WH.
Here we go. <div style="background-color:#000000;width:520px;"><div style="padding:4px;"><embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:cms:video:thedailyshow.com:376266" width="512" height="288" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" base="." flashVars=""></embed><p style="text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><b><a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-3-2011/crisis-in-the-dairyland---for-richer-and-poorer---teachers-and-wall-street">The Daily Show - Crisis in Dairyland - For Richer and Poorer - Teachers and Wall Street</a></b><br/>Tags: <a href='http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/'>Daily Show Full Episodes</a>,<a href='http://www.indecisionforever.com/'>Political Humor & Satire Blog</a>,<a href='http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow'>The Daily Show on Facebook</a></p></div></div> This hits the nail on the head.
you post a video from a known camel abuser, expecting vindication? <iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5HBXAUHxsmI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Wow somebody there must be reading Clutchfans. http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showpost.php?p=5958886&postcount=86
It's OK everybody! The Wisconsin legislators actually saved 1,500 jobs......that they themselves were going to cut. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...NIONS?SITE=WDUN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
Government teacher unions are the scum of the Earth. GOODBYE! The Extreme Bill in Wisconsin That Would Put the State’s Public Sector Collective Bargaining Rules Roughly In Line With Half the Other States Peter Suderman | March 10, 2011 Last night, Republican senators in Wisconsin broke a weeks-long impasse with Democrats and passed a bill limiting the collective bargaining privileges of public-sector employees. The bill is expected to be signed into law by the state’s Republican governor, Scott Walker. In response, pro-union demonstrators flooded the Capitol and staged what the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel described as a “wild scene,” with large groups attempting to force their way past police officers guarding the area. Some protesters reportedly ended up entering the Capitol through the windows. Labor groups and their Democratic allies are painting the bill in nearly apocalyptic terms, arguing that it is an extreme and uniquely restrictive piece of legislation. Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt released a statement saying that “tonight’s events have demonstrated they will do or say anything to pass their extreme agenda that attacks Wisconsin’s working families." SEIU International President Mary Kay Henry said the passage of the bill proves that governor Walker's agenda was “never about balancing the budget—it was always about stripping workers of a voice.” Writing at The Huffington Post, former White House labor secretary Robert Reich called the bill’s passage a “coup d’etat,” and declared that “Walker and his cohorts are extremists willing to go to any lengths for their big-business patrons.” So how extreme is the bill passed last night? Not very, at least in comparison to other states. Here’s Josh Barro of the Manhattan Institute: Wisconsin’s new policies on public-employee relations will not be especially unusual. Only 26 states have laws that grant collective-bargaining privileges to substantially all public employees. Twelve have laws that give collective bargaining to some workers, and twelve have no statewide collective-bargaining law at all, though some municipalities may grant bargaining rights in those states. What about federal workers? They have comparatively strict limits on collective bargaining privileges too. Here’s Barro again: Federal workers have very limited collective bargaining rights—and Obama has not been shy about exploiting that weakness. He's using the budget process to push a two-year freeze on federal workers' pay, without any buy-in from the unions. If he were governor of Wisconsin, he'd have to get union heads in a room and plead with them to allow the freeze. So is President Obama also some sort of anti-union extremist, committed to exploiting workers’ weaknesses and attacking families and generally being the sort of anti-union thug that so many labor supporters seem intent on portraying Walker as? Somehow I’m guessing the answer is no.
It has begun -- Wisconsin Firefighters Shut Down Bank That Funded Walker http://www.alternet.org/newsandview...shut_down_bank_that_funded_walker/#paragraph3 Everybody knows the GOP's biggest weakness is money, so why not hit 'em in the sweet spot? That's what many amazing Wisconsin firefighters did yesterday when they collectively began withdrawing their funds from Madison's M&I Bank -- whose executives and board members were among the highest donors to Governor Scott Walker's campaign. Heeding a call by Firefighters Local 311 President Joe Conway to 'Move your money,' union members withdrew over $100,000 from the bank, with some reports stating that number is as high as $192,000. Either way, it was a hefty enough chunk of change that M&I shut its doors and closed for the day at 3PM.
from the same link UPDATE: Stranded Wind over at DailyKos has photos of the protest outside M&I, and says the ante has been upped to $600,000! 'What these pictures show are six hundred ordinary citizens descending on the M&I branch near the Wisconsin Capitol after learning of their purchase of the gubernatorial election last November. Two firefighters with old school ideas about saving had over $600,000 between the two of them and they demanded cashier's checks on the spot.'
Will these become new Political Tactics. . . well . . not new but more prevalent Running out of the State to block something Making laws that don't require the Quorum etc Rocket River
Now we are talking some serious dollars. $600K from just 2 guys. Cashier's check, though? Real men demand straight cash, homey!
That's up to the greedy school teacher. Once people who teach in public school stop being so greedy, and are willing to give up their opulent life of luxury, fine dining, non-stop vacations in their luxury vacation homes, then and only then will there be no need for any of the slick moves we saw in Wisconsin.
For those of you always demanding political contributions be made public, here's why you are wrong: http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/03/wisconsin-unions-now-threatening.html What a bunch of pricks.
Good ole police, firefighter, teacher thugs intimidating helpless bank executives by threatening to take illegal actions such as withdrawing funds their organization and members deposited at such bank. The horror. It's just like bank robbery. They keep this **** up and all of our bank executives will shrug and move to Galt's Gulch and leave the ****ing police, firefigter and teachers to fend for themselves and we'll see how the thugs like it!
