For Carl

Just click here for a truly hilarious picture. Do it, damn you.

"kumbaya....' "

Facts Are Always Embarassing

Pay your workers a living wage SueHank & the economy will boom. Hat Tip to da Mayor & his Wonder Dog Hugo Chavez & the lovely & talented wife, who fully supports her husband's explorations.

"Unfortunately, for the American worker, this jobless recovery has also been “wageless” -- characterized by an extraordinary stagnation in real wages. This also shows up loud and clear in the just-released December employment report -- a 3.1% increase in average hourly earnings, which falls short of the 3.4% CPI-based reading of inflation over the 12 months ending in November."

Scalito Hearings

Where was Sen. Feingold? I hope he's keeping his powder dry for a filibuster.

Oh, Oh Global Warming

Carolyn Swartz won't be happy about this. Watch out greenhouse gases.

"Scientists studying a fast-dwindling genus of colorful frogs in Central and South America say that recent global warming has combined with a spreading fungus to create a killing zone, driving many species restricted to misty mountainsides to extinction.

The researchers said they had implicated widespread warming, as opposed to local variations in temperature or other conditions affecting the frogs, by finding that patterns of fungus outbreaks and species loss in widely dispersed patches of habitat were synchronized in a way that was statistically impossible to explain by chance."

"New" Wave

Oh yeah, this ought to work. Bring in the dead & non-cooperating. Just the support the morons deserve. Jeez.

"In their suit, the parents said the syllabus originally listed 24 videos to be shown to students, with 23 'produced or distributed by religious organizations and assume a pro-creationist, anti-evolution stance.' They said the syllabus listed two evolution experts who would speak to the class. One was a local parent and scientist who said he had already refused the speaking invitation and was now suing the district; the other was Francis H. C. Crick, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, who died in 2004."

Rule Of Law

Breaking the law - it's OK if you're a ReThug.

"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was riding his motorcycle illegally over the weekend when he collided with a car in his Los Angeles neighborhood, police said Tuesday."

Puke

The bastard won't provide enough armor to the troops, yet he threatens patriotic Americans who are calling him on his lies. Beneath comtempt.

"'There is a difference between responsible and irresponsible debate, and it's even more important to conduct this debate responsibly when American troops are risking their lives overseas,' he said. But he never singled out his critics by name."

& this from someone so irresponsible he drives drunk, gets bailed out of every financial failure, trades Sammy Sosa, & shows hatred towards the Constitution. Up is down, truth is falsehood.

Jeez, The Poor Are At Fault, Again

How low can the ReThug Party go? Read this article from today's NY Times. Bu$hCo is such a bastard. Even a non-math person like me understands the difference between 9 & 100 billion. Those damn poor people are dragging the country down. I say we bring back poor houses, that'll fix those vermin. Thanks to J. for the reference.

"Most of the poor people whose returns the computer flagged as fraudulent were seeking the earned income tax credit, a benefit for the working poor. The credit can return all of the income taxes and Social Security taxes withheld from the paychecks of poor people. Without the credit, many poor people coming off welfare and going to work would receive less money because of taxes taken out of their paychecks and the loss of health benefits, I.R.S. data and other government documents show.

The average refund sought was $3,500, which under the rules for obtaining the credit means that the vast majority of those suspected of fraud were single parents or married couples with children. The maximum benefit for singles is less than $400.

Ms. Olson said the I.R.S. devoted vastly more resources to pursing questionable refunds by the poor, which she said cannot involve more than $9 billion, than to a $100 billion problem with unreported incomes from small businesses that deal only in cash, many of which do not even file tax returns."

What Shake's Sis Says

Shakespeare's Sister

"Thirdly—no seriously, shove it."

There You Go Again

The A.C.(anonymous commenter) is at it again. Actually, he's my second troll. The first one apparently raptured up to the awaiting spaceships hiding in the Pleides. Anyway, A.C has this annoying habit, except for one time, of waiting until the posts that respond to him/her are off the front page of the blog. It's annoying because others can't get involved. A.C. suggests that he may be the black son-in-law of or the other daughter of SueHank Martinsen. Misdirection nevers works. S/He also suggest that I read a book by Tony Brown, it's this one:

This is from Tony Brown's webpage & while I understand we live in the age of non-irony, I couldn't have said it any better myself. The Tony Brown that A.C. so wants me to read also took a job at Hampton University. This portrays the type of institution Tony Brown apparently supports.

As discontent among the parents continued to mount, more and more students stood in front of the door wearing paraphernalia that blatantly revealed that they were in support of the student activists, and more people grabbed pickets and duck tape and joined the free speech demonstration. The administrators seemed flustered and nervous as they had to continually defend the legitimacy of their Kangaroo Court. It was so obvious that Hampton was a lot more accustomed to handling things in ways that were unapologetically authoritarian and not subject to many of the rules we take for granted.

Students, who only days ago wouldn't sign apetition because they feared harsh repercussion, now boldly stood in the defense of the activists against campus police. Teachers who were previously silenced by the privacy obligations of the school now spoke to their students in class and urged them to become involved. Black students from other schools became more involved in the antiwar struggle at their own schools. The students at Hampton for the first time saw someone stand up against the university and they saw the university do all it could to back down. At the end of the hearing, the Dean of Men could not restrain himself from questioning me about the article Corporate Plantation. Before I had a chance to answer the Dean of Students interjected that it was not appropriate.

I know that A.C. & his/her ilk enjoy the notion of plantation. Just check out, as I've noted before, SueHank Martinsen telling Ashland, WI's, Daily Press how happy his workers are. [UPDATE: Except for the one that just gave him hell, quit, & apparently spit on SueHank.] A.C. might also want to go here for more information on Tony Brown's bosses/friends. Again, the ReThug party is a racist party. & it doesn't matter what skin color you have. It's intersting that the extremely small group of black ReThugs has absolutely no impact in the black population in this country. That's why bringing Tony Brown up is such a laugher.

The Hampton Model as Apparatus of Exploitation

Some of the Hampton police who harassed us said that they just “had to do their job.” Just for clarification, their bosses are the University President Dr. William R. Harvey, who is a Bush appointee to the Federal National Mortgage Association, and a Board of Trustees bounteous with Bush-Cheney campaign beneficiaries. A close friend of President Harvey especially relevant to this discussion is the commencement speaker he selected this past spring, Alphonso Jackson, Bush’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Jackson has made a priority of cutting back access by poor black people to subsidized Section 8 housing. Shortly after hurricane Katrina, Jackson told the Houston Chronicle that most of the black population of New Orleans should not be allowed to return, and that New Orleans in the future will be a predominantly white city. The University president has often shown this same contempt for the Black community. A recent example is when he was asked by a few members of our group at a Town Hall Meeting, the reason why the school did not have an AIDS awareness group. President Harvey responded that we probably did not need one because everyone knows about AIDS. The girls did not accept that answer because they knew that AIDS disproportionately affected Blacks, and the Hampton Roads area was in the Top ten AIDS infected areas…therefore they started a campus AIDS group the next week.

Emphasis added.

More on Tony Brown's version of freedom:

News & Notes with Ed Gordon, December 7, 2005 · Seven Hampton University students have been punished for participating in a nationwide protest calling for President Bush to be removed from office. Commentator Lester Spence says Hampton's campus speech rules are out of step with the University's mission. Spence is an assistant professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.

So, A.C., why don't you engage the origninal four readers when they don't have to search the archives for your sorry ass. It would be the honorable thing, oh, I forgot....

Overheard

At a local diner, the following (remembering with the help of a friend) was said:

Army person: They're offering an $8,000.00 bonus if you re-enlist.

Table mate: Not bad.

Army person: Anyone who takes that money will earn a quick trip to Iraq.

Table mate: Well, you could sign up & then break an ankle.

Army person: Stranger things have happened.

So much for the Army supporting Bu$hCo His lies are understood by more & more people every day.

UPDATE: Click on the comments & then click on the link providedby commenter Scott. Here's a sample:

General Sir Michael Rose, commander of UN forces in Bosnia in 1994, writes in today's Guardian: "The impeachment of Mr Blair is now something I believe must happen if we are to rekindle interest in the democratic process in this country once again". Britain was led into war on false pretences, he says. "It was a war that was to unleash untold suffering on the Iraqi people and cause grave damage to the west's prospects in the wider war against global terror."

Vision Of The Future

This is probably what's going to happen to the whole country after Bu$hCo leaves. He has given to the rich elites & stolen from the poor & the middle class. & he's so proud of it.

"That’s right. The governor who supported and signed Montana’s infamous 1997 utility deregulation bill and resisted attempts to undo the damage says if he had the chance to do it all over again, he would."

Via SirotaBlog.

Bashing Bu$hCo

More reasons why. Lying, little weasel.

"I can't help but chuckle mordantly at these chickenshit congressional Republicans who have laid down their integrity and their duty to the constitution for this spoiled little Dauphin and his evil grey eminence, Dick Cheney. But then, they've been paid handsomely in mountainous piles of pork, so I suppose they've been amply rewarded for their pusillanimous gluttony.

Barring a filibuster, it looks as if Alito will be confirmed on a party line vote (or close to it.) There is little doubt in my mind that he believes in this doctrine. However, after Bush vs Gore, I also no longer have any illusions that the Supreme Court is above partisan politics. I suspect that Alito and others will have qualms about codifying the Unitary Executive Theory because someday a Democratic president could face a Republican congress. "

Emphasis added.

When Democracy Is Stolen

It's hard to just move on.

"It’s an embarrassing outcome for George Bush because it showed that Gore had gotten more votes. "

Diamond Pet Foods

Diamond Pet Foods

Here's an update on the dog poisoning from Diamond Dog foods. It looks like those of us in WI are still OK. & those of us feeding Diamond Lamb & Rice are still OK. It appears the companay is doing the right thing paying the vet bills & for the pet if the pet dies. Heartbreaking for the affected pets & their owners.