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American Way: Barack Obama, cult figure of 2008, left behind by new anti-spending zeitgeist
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/new…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 voted on. Obama branded Walker’s actions as an “assault on unions”.
It was Obama who crowed just after he entered the White House that “elections have consequences”. In Wisconsin last November, the consequences included the governorship, a Senate seat and the state senate and assembly all being lost by the Democrats.
- hahahhahahha fucking ROFL!********
- You don't know anything about the underlying issues in Madison, half-wit.DrBombay
- hahahhahahha fucking ROFL!
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No invite for the Obamas as the Queen personally asks 40 other heads of state to attend Prince William's wedding to Kate
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/…DENIIIIIIIIIIED or is it DISSED!?
- fooler0
Hey Chilamont,
David Wu represents my district. I have met him numerous times and have voted for him every election. He's a nice guy and I'm proud of the work he's done. Last October he said he was having a stressful time.. re election campaign and family issues are undoubtedly stressful situations and he still won the election and sought counseling.
The most embarrassing thing he did was send staffers a picture of him in a Halloween costume. It was pretty tame for a person that represents a city with the motto "Keep Portland Weird"
"I think a take-home lesson from this is while they were very, very unprofessional, you shouldn't ever send photographs of yourself in a Halloween costume, something you intend to wear to a private party a couple of nights later," Wu said Tuesday. "It's just not professional, even when you're joshing around with your kids a couple of nights before Halloween. I did send those photographs. It was unprofessional; inappropriate."
It's not like he took a picture of his half naked body and sent it to some stranger looking for sex on the internet.
- and why are you always the first and only person to respond to your dumb post?fooler
- Ramanisky20
hey chilamont,
go outside already and make some friends it must be tough to be a loner.- Chilamont is your typical Hate Mongering Troll, and Inbred Republican Retard!utopian
- nope, not at all, not whatsoever actually********
- youre a giant cuntRamanisky2
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Vermont Governor proposes single payer health care
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/13…
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, who was elected last November after promising to reform health care in the state, unveiled a bill Tuesday that would abolish most forms of private health insurance and move state residents into a publicly funded insurance pool.
Under Shumlin's "single-payer" system, Vermont residents would receive health benefits paid for by the state, regardless of their employment status or income. The plan is designed to help stem rising health costs, which state officials say have become unsustainable.
- This may be the future if Obamacare fails********
- the hc system is just trying to self correct. See what happens when biz stop offering insurance********
- just like Canada... Where Healthcare Works(tm) (and my taxes are lower than yours!)zarkonite
- canada where having kids can be a paying career********
- This may be the future if Obamacare fails
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http://www.politico.com/news/sto…
John Thune becomes the second major Republican candidate to rule out a run against Obama in 2012
- BusterBoy0
Nice to see Palin ask for people to pray for her dopey husband in some moronic snow mobile race...but no mention asking her followers to pray for the people of New Zealand. What a cock she is...
- as if Obama has? LOL, now if it were Haiti blackland, everyone would be crying********
- as if Obama has? LOL, now if it were Haiti blackland, everyone would be crying
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Ex-aide's book paints harsh portrait of Sarah Palin
http://www.politico.com/news/sto…
The still-unpublished manuscript, obtained by POLITICO, reveals Palin, as a candidate for governor, penning letters-to-the-editor in praise of herself, to be sent under other names. It blames the candidate for inflaming, rather than ignoring, scurrilous rumors. And it quotes her pledging to avoid appearing on any network other than Fox News, referring to the rest as “the bad guys.”
...The best line of the whole thing:
In the months before she resigned the governorship, when her poll numbers began to slip, Palin’s advisers sought to bolster her spirits by making the unsubstantiated case that she was being targeted by the Obama White House and Democratic National Committee.
Palin seemed to believe the same thing, but conceded there was no evidence.
“We have no smoking gun that proves we’re being targeted by the bad guys, so it probably sounds to many like I’m a whining b#*(h who stubbornly refuses to govern in the public’s best interest,” she wrote in an email to some of her closest advisers, according to Bailey.
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douchebag reid blames prostitution for hindering job growth. Wants to outlaw it even though it helped support his mother. I see it as cutting jobs for selfish gain to get more support/votes from bible thumping repubs. lame.
- So you're anti-democracy and pro-hookers. Great. You're a fucking gem.TheBlueOne
- just anti-nonsense, and more laissez-faire. might as well have the regulated industry instead of making even more shady by outlawing it.********
- shady by outlawing it. and it causes job loss is nonsense. only thing it hurts is peoples religious beliefs********
- So you're Silvio Berlusconi?TheBlueOne
- just reid fucking a minority for personal gain.********
- btw humans in general are pro-nonsense in groups. trying to get rid of the nonsense is utopianTheBlueOne
- Nope think Silvio Berlusconi is Silvio Berlusconi.********
- because its utopian doesn't mean its right to just not try. We're all gonna die why try to live you.********
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douchebag reid blames prostitution for hindering job growth. Wants to outlaw it even though it helped support his mother. I see it as cutting jobs for selfish gain to get more support/votes from bible thumping repubs. lame.
- fuck...
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- meh...I don't agree with him but this sounds like political posturing********
- for sure its posturing. i fucking hate how childish middle school politics are. terrible grown ups jsut accept it as it is********
- fuck...
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American Muslim runs down daughter, kills her because she was 'Westernized'
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/0…- stupid people are stupid. You prove that every daylocustsloth
- LOL, nice retort... fact based right? dipshit********
- How many fathers of westernized daughters DIDN'T kill their kids today? i'm guessing a much bigger number, dickwadlocustsloth
- just reporting the fact lad********
- the facts from FOX News? hahaha fucking amateur.Ramanisky2
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Allen West Confronted by Koran-Wielding CAIR Executive
http://shark-tank.net/2011/02/21…At a townhall meeting hosted by Congressman Allen West on Monday evening in Pompano Beach, the Q&A segment of the meeting featured a Koran wielding Nezar Hamze, Executive Director of the Council for American Islamic Relations (CAIR). Hamze confronted Congressman West and asked him to point out where in the Koran does it give marching orders to Muslims “to carry out attacks against Americans and innocent people”. West quickly pointed out that the Koran was written long before America even existed and that it does indeed tell believers to kill infidels, and then proceeded to chronicle a lengthy list of historical Muslim acts of aggression. Congressman West closed his retort by referencing the Fort Hood shootings and 9-11 attacks, saying that his first hand experiences on the battlefield has given him insight into the tactics that Islamists use before telling Hamze not to “try to blow sunshine up my butt” with his criticism of him. West took offense to Hamze’s amateurish criticism of his stance on radical Islam and concluded by telling Mr. Hamze to “put the microphone down and go home.”
- CAIR, you just got served!! More of this please!!********
- that guy is so out of touch and is that a KidnPlay cut he is sportin
Allen West is fucking Token and you know itRamanisky2
- CAIR, you just got served!! More of this please!!
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Two-Thirds of Wisconsin Public-School 8th Graders Can’t Read Proficiently—Despite Highest Per Pupil Spending in Midwest
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/…Two-thirds of the eighth graders in Wisconsin public schools cannot read proficiently according to the U.S. Department of Education, despite the fact that Wisconsin spends more per pupil in its public schools than any other state in the Midwest.
Great work ASSHOLES! Way to protest, when kids cannot even fucking read! Oink, oink, something stinks!
- yes, so making it less beneficial to be a teacher is JUST what they needlocustsloth
- Oh, and the "stink" you smell is the shit smeared on your chin from spewing this crap all daylocustsloth
- Loc you're an idiot.********
- 67% though, I would fucking shoot these people!********
- Gullible, un-educated idiot.********
- The union and govts are stealing everything for their own personal gain and you have some idiot like LOC who does********
- no doubt, Unions are fucking a disgracefully organized group of ingrates********
- someone like me who does what, Viking? i'm interested to see how much you "know" about melocustsloth
- Fucking idiots, the Unions built America and the middle class you inbred Foxtards!utopian
- look at their faces, children of the underearth
100 years ago they died normally in infancydrgs - not no more, retard, that's the point********
- tell em utopian
Ramanisky2
- locustsloth0
So, dirtbags, your conservative news site is (SHOCKINGLY) cherry-picking information to back up the positions of it's favorite party.
Fact is that the highest percentage of "proficient" 8th grade readers in the nation is in Connecticut which boasts a 38% procifiency rate (only 6% points away from bad ol' WI). This does not count the 5% advanced readers in that state, much like the Wisconsin statistic neglects the 2% of advanced readers. Also left out of your little dog & pony show is the 44% of WI 8th graders who are at a basic reading level.
Now, what is a basic reading level? It means that they "should demonstrate an understanding of the overall meaning of what they read". Which is funny, because from the way you assholes and your "news" sources frame it, it sounds like only 32% of WI 8th graders are literate. "Proficient", according to the NAEP, means that the students understand and can communicate inferential as well as literal information from the texts that they read. Gleaning the inferred information is the ONLY difference in the two categories.
Which means that only 22% of WI students are below the basic reading level, which, granted, isn't great. But 23 other states have higher percentages of non-basic level readers, including conservative haven, Texas, which has a 27% non-basic reader percentage.Now, i will absolutely concede that unions have moved away from the intent of their original inception and have been corrupted by the power that they wield, like any other person or group that has power. But regardless of the intentions of the unions, to take away the ability to effectively negotiate reasonable salaries and benefits for teachers will not improve these assessment scores. By your own damn capitalist philosophies, taking away the carrot will take away the motivation. Most of these teachers teach because they want to. It's often a thankless job. Giving the good ones less reasons to be a teacher is not what you want to do if you want academic improvement.
- NAEP 2009 Reading report (PDF)
http://nces.ed.gov/n…locustsloth - achievement level definitions
http://www.centerfor…locustsloth
- NAEP 2009 Reading report (PDF)
- PonyBoy0
In listening to all the righty talk shows this and last week I've heard the statistic that about '1/3 of all Wisconsin public school teachers send their children to PRIVATE schools'... ... I have yet to read it in one news story or find it anywhere in an article / story even closely related to a reputable News / Media outlet...
... where the hell do some of these righty twits get their info? I admit I was a little fired up when I first heard the statistic... ... but l wanted to read it... verify it... so I can jam in your faces here (kidding!!) :)...
... but nope... the statistic doesn't exist... check the google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=1…
I see private forums and religious forums spewing that nonsense... but nothing siting any real sources...
I heard Limbaugh say it more than once and I heard it on a local show this morning...
... if it's true - then the teachers who do it can goto hell. If they think they're worth all this much more money but won't send their own kids to be educated in the system that they're a part of... well... fuck them.... ... of course that's IF... IF this statistic is true.
- umm.. they make shit up like chilamont does every single day
copy and paste its pretty easyRamanisky2
- umm.. they make shit up like chilamont does every single day
- PonyBoy0
well... there is this: http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…
but... that's a lil righty news outlet if I recall correctly... ?
- and you could easily round that statistic the other way and call it a 1/4 vs. 1/3...PonyBoy
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Dems AWOL in Indiana
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/…With Democrats fleeing Indiana to avoid voting on an anti-union bill in the latest fight over union rights in a Midwest state, Republican leaders were divided on whether to keep the so-called right-to-work legislation alive.
The bill, which would prohibit union representation fees from being a condition of employment, is under a Tuesday procedural deadline for consideration.
Only three of the 40 House Democrats were in the chamber when Republican Speaker Brian Bosma tried to begin Tuesday's session, leaving it with too few members for a quorum. At the same time, hundreds of union members crowded the adjourning hallways in protest of the contentious labor bill.
- fox News ... what a cuntRamanisky2
- HA HA, hey the truth hurts********
- you're made up truth is destroying this country... fucking inbred retard!!!Ramanisky2
- it's already on its way with that liberal BS speak you guys create********
- ...And they win. The bill got pulled********
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Dominican Republic deports illegal Haitian migrants
http://www.washingtontimes.com/n…DR has got the right idea!
