Nobody’s Fool: David Horowitz
Whenever I hear one of my friends say they “voted” for Obama, I can’t for the life of me figure out that they didn’t see that he was….trouble. Once in power, he has revealed, from his own lips, his Marxists tendencies. He hides his ties with leftist/Marxist buddies, but he still has them all over his administration. So I realized the reason my friends voted for Obama is because they have never really learned the real difference between a democracy, a Republic, communism, socialism, Marxism or fascism.
Oh sure, they’ve heard the words…but I’m sure none of them ever believed in a million years any of that could happen in America. They believe everything they pretty much hear on TV.
That ignorance has been by design.
His parents were communists, whose self-stated goal is combating “leftist indoctrination” in academia. Phil and Blanche Horowitz were long-standing members of the American Communist Party and avid supporters of Joseph Stalin. For nearly a decade, Horowitz’s rejection of Marx remained a private matter. In the spring of 1985, however, Horowitz and longtime collaborator Peter Collier wrote an article for the Washington Post entitled, Goodbye to All That. The article explained their change of views and recent decision to vote for President Ronald Reagan (Wikipedia)
Nobody explains why ‘social justice’ is not what we want better than David:
Far from being progressive, the left’s demands for ‘social justice’, if realized, would destroy the very basis of social wealth…In the modern world, competition is not the contrary of cooperation, but the form that cooperation must take in order to coordinate the activities of millions of people unknown to each other, pursuing goals that are not common and cannot be shared. The profit margin is the engine of wealth not only for the rich but for the poor was well. In the real world, the attempt to plan economic systems produces inefficiency and waste: the attempt to redistribute wealth diminishes well being and individual liberty: the attempt to unify society crushes its freedom: the ambition to make people equal establishes new forms of tyranny and submerges human individuality in totalitarian designs.
Yes, the progressives are really Marxists in disguise. Hard to believe, I know, because Hillary Clinton says she is a proud progressive…and we also have a bucket load of them in Congress, which Allen West pointed out. 
To which Bill Clinton came out right away to nip that in the bud. How DARE he even suggest it! The last thing the progressives want the Americans to know in an election year, is that they believe in the Marxists redistribution/communist party that founded them. So..watch Bill as he protests too much…And you will realize, why many of my friends will vote for Obama…again…(sigh) Nobody Thinks, we need more Davids.
NO…these are NOT the droids you are looking for…
The Tea Party BUGS Van Jones, Let’s Keep It Up!
Nobody Reports
WHAT?
The tea party patriots are smashing down every institution that our grandfathers built? What is this man smoking?
Uh…the only people who have been dismantling the great American institutions are the liberal democrats..and their friends, the very proud avowed communists, as this man is. What’s even more amazing that the there are people out there who think our schools are great, and that the tea party wants to tear down American institutions.
The tea party want the unions to stop DESTROYING our children’s minds. To a democrat it’s okay if your kid stays dumb…as long as the teachers get their big checks and benefits. How DARE you want to destroy their livelihood.
As for unions…
Jefferson didn’t belong to no union.
Washington didn’t belong to no union.
I’m pretty sure Abraham Lincoln didn’t belong to no union.
The only thing American about unions is the teamsters, who worked hand in hand with the Mafia and the democratic party.
Van Jones is a communist. It’s time everyone start calling him what he is: delusional.
Two American Ladies: Fought the Unions
Nobody’s Opinion
Sometimes we don’t appreciate our parents when they’re alive as much as we should. Ten years after my mother had passed away, I remember reading Katherine Graham’s autobiography. Katherine was just like my mother, although on a National scale. My mother was a Republican and Katherine was a Democrat, but the one thing they had in common was they both inherited companies from their fathers. Katherine inherited The Washington Post from her father, Eugene Meyers (who was a Federal Reserve Governor) and my mother inherited her father’s printing company, Hart Printing, which was certainly no Washington Post, but it did do major advertizing for big companies like Anheuser Busch, and Brown Shoe.
I won’t go into the details of how remarkably alike they were but to say that, in one chapter in her book, Katherine talked about the most difficult time she ever had: How proud she was that she managed to keep the Post in business when the printers went on strike, in 1975. Katherine explained in great detail how the few people left in the building, herself included, and various managers and secretaries, had to try to get out the Post paper all by themselves: run the pressed, manage the paper’s delivery, etc…and how they work like dogs until the strike was over. There was a happy ending in this, because The Washington Post, is still in business, due no doubt in part, because of its political connections.
The 1975 strike did not break The Post.
My mother’s company did not fare so well when her printer union workers went on strike around the same time. My mother and father both had to work 18 hour days to keep the place running and open. The worry and heartache took a toll on her as I remember, and it was hard for a daughter to watch. The only thing my mother couldn’t do was lift the paper and feed the presses…but she did everything else. She did the estimating, accounting, receptionists, ink, layouts, all the photo department, and bindery. Like Katherine, she did it with her intellingence and will power. My father ran the presses with some help from some friends.
The whole city of St. Louis was never the same after that printer’s strike of 1975. Most of the printing business left St. Louis because of the strike, and went overseas and to other cities. The one sole Republican newspaper here in town, The Globe, folded, eventually leaving The Post Dispatch the only press standing. The Post Dispatch is very liberal and now begs for customers in grocery aisles.
My mom kept the jobs for her union employees for as long as she could, but not one of those men realized how lucky they were to even have a job to come back to. They had no idea how much money she sacrifice in her own salary…to keep the plant going. They should have thanked her…but not one of them did.
They all retired and lived great lives…and all traveled the world.
While they all had guaranteed early pensions and healthcare, my mother lived off of her SS checks and Medicare for the rest of her life. She couldn’t afford to give herself a pension because all her money went back into the company…to keep it going. After the strike getting work was a daily struggle.
I was thinking about Katherine and my mother the other day when I read these two passages in Mark’s Steyn’s new book After America:
“Obama, faced with a US automobile industry that so overcompensates it workers it can’t make a car for a price anybody’s willing to pay for it, the president handed over control to the very unions whose demands are principally responsible for that irreconcilable arithmetic. Mrs. Thatcher took on the unions and destroyed their power. In Detroit entire blocks are deserted, and the city is proposing to turn commercial land back into pasture. This is America and no bombs fell. And the physical decay is a nothing to the deterioration of human capital.. 44 percent of adults in the city have a reading comprehension below grade six level. Nearly half could not graduate from elementary school.”
“At number 27 is a lady who retired from teaching in the local school at the age of 59 and lives on an annual pension of $78,255 exempt from state and local tax with gold plated health benefits and everything inflation proofed. At number 29 is a guy exactly the same age who owns a hardware store, can’t afford to retire, has health issues and crummy provision of amelioration thereof, yet will be working till he dies, while his neighbor enjoys a lavish two decade retirement that he paid for in his taxes. This is a recipe of civil war and no gay hedonist or fire breathing mullahs need be involved.”
Unions have ruin this country….and most of Europe. All unions. Look what the teachers unions have done to our educational system. And ironically, all the major American companies because of the unions and their outlandish benefits, have taken their manufacturing to China, where there are no unions, and people work with hardly any protections. Add to that, the state pensions which are breaking the state budgets and it’s a no brainer…something has to give.
People that have never had their own business give no thought to the work and money that is involved in keeping a business going. We have become a spoiled and ingorant nation in so many ways.
Back when Henry Ford decided to pay his men a nice salary so they could afford to buy his cars…it was a great idea, and money was plenty. But then the union bosses got greedy. The hourly wage of a union man went way over market value price…and the price of everything else went up.
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If the dollar collapses (as many predict) or if Mitt Romney is elected and he somehow manages to do what he says he want to do: cut all federal pensions and pay scales down to the private sector level, there will a lot of mad people.
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If Obama gets reelected and the pay for government workers keeps going up, there will also be a breaking point among the people who just can’t afford to pay for someone’s else’s wonderful retirement anymore–and those people will start getting pretty angry. So, what side do you think will win?
Nobody Knows…but I’m sure Mark will not reprimand my saying: it’s really FUBAR. Unions: if you belong to one, you love them. If you don’t…you hate them.
Nobody Thinks they should all be busted…starting at the top. What have we got to lose?
And on another note: Both these women ran those companeis for years…they were…the top bosses, and this was way before Gloria Steinem put on her little bunny tail.
Education: There’s a Better Way….Find it.
Nobody’s Opinion
Not many candidates are talking about our very poor educational system. They all give lip service to it, but the fact is, it’s an overgrown behemoth bureaucracy of cancerous stagnation, that decade by decade, does nothing but leave too many forever in “service” jobs. 
If you watched this video you cannot but conclude that: maybe that’s the plan.
As the film suggest: the problems of our education or lack of thereof, has not been a big concern of our government. It’s NEVER been on the top of any party’s agenda: the subject is dropped once the President gets in office. The reason: unions and the money they supply.
George W. Bush’s “No Child Left Behind” was noble in thought, it’s just that the schools had already left everyone behind so badly, nobody could catch up.
Higher education may be no better off. Both the so-called best online colleges and the so-called best traditional colleges are still not serving students well. Thirty percent of college and university students drop out after their first year. Half of all students never graduate.
Still, despite the odds, there are some who do not let our poor educational system get in their way.
There was a small piece tonight on Sixty Minutes about an autistic boy savant named Jake, who was going to graduate from college at age 14. He excels in higher mathematics. He had an unbelievable memory, which helped, but it was his passion and his love of numbers that is driving him to be probably the next Einstein.
Not all of us are born with “supercharged” memories in our brains. As Thomas Edison once said, “We have to learn how to think.” 
“I am frequently asked about our system of education. I say that we have none. Our system is a relic of past ages. It consists of parrot-like repetitions. It is a dull study of twenty-six hieroglyphs.”
“Groups of hieroglyphs. That is what the young of this present day study. Here is an object. I place it in the hands of a child. I tell him to look at it. If we begin before we have hardened and dried his mind he studies the object with kindling enthusiasm. The mind of the child is naturally active. Why should we make him take his impressions of things through the ear when he may be able to see?”
(Later he claims that’s why he invented motion pictures…to teach.)
“The folds of the brain grow deeper through observation; they grow fallow from disuse. If we educate too abruptly–if we cram the mind with facts memorized for themselves alone, what comes? Pure atrophy.”
“The trouble with our educating as generally followed is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It casts the brain into a mould. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and lays more stress on memory than observation.”
He goes on to say what happens to our kids from not being challenged but rather…bored to death:
Bad teaching promotes: “A flagging interest, which leads quickly to the habit of listening without hearing, of looking without regard to the existence or non-existence of interest. At present, most young leave their schools only partially educated, and rapidly forget a large part of that which they have been taught. They fail to learn because the methods of teaching are wrong. They forget because the methods of instruction have made them actually dislike knowledge. “
Now, remember, this was back in Edison’s day.
He goes on:
“Universities fail: Careful thought convinces me that this is because the men who run them never have been out in the great world of struggle. Professors usually are men untried in any sort of competition comparable with that which their students eventually must face. Speaking generally, such men cannot impart the right ideas to the boys, for they themselves are ignorant.”
Nobody Thinks this is one of the very reason we have failed in America: Too many of our teachers know nothing about the everyday world, or even how to use the subject they are teaching in the real world.
Not many algebra teachers can tell you HOW to use algebra, or why—or even who uses it and when. I know, I’ve asked almost every algebra teacher I ever knew, and they had no clue.
Too many of our leaders come from some of these many ignorant teachers, most of them from Harvard, who Henry Adams trashed with delightful abandon in “The Education of Henry Adams.” (You can imagine how I loved that.) 
For instance: Daddy Bush, a Harvard alumni, while President, had never been in a grocery store. He was shocked, when he visited one, at the price of bread, and how the items were scanned by the cashier.
It’s hard to believe, how removed from ordinary life some of these people are.
Can you imagine what Edison would think of the schools system we have now? Where kids are not only not being taught how to think, they are being stuffed with meaningless crap like: recycling, diversity, global warming, sex, gender issues, and the trashing of our own history?
All you have to do is watch Jay Leno’s boardwalk to see all the college graduates who don’t even know how many moons the earth has.
“The main objection that I have against a college graduate is that he objects to work, especially if it is dirty. He does not want a job with much work to it, and when he does get a position, he expects to be appointed foreman at the end of the sixth week. Most of the men working for me have never gone to college. Those college graduate that I have usually show a lack of imagination. They scarcely have any suggestions to make in their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments. “
And so, we are ruled by those Harvard constitutional lawyers who “scarcely have any suggestions to make their daily routine which might lead to improvement in their various departments.”
Nobody Thinks…that’s also the point: the daily routine of our leaders can’t get much better, and that’s why “we the people” need to think: Do I leave my child’s education to the public school system?
Or is there a better way?
“There is always a way to do it better..find it.”…Tom Edison.
Hiroshima, Detroit, and Wisconsin?
Nobody Cares
After the Union vote yesterday in Wisconsin, where the people spoke and said that they wanted their union bargaining rights to stay intact, we only have to think of what the Unions did to Detroit, and why Chief Executive Alan Mulally of Ford Motor Company announced last July that he was going to go into Asia and boost worldwide sales by 50 percent by 2015. He is building Chinese factories as fast as he can.
THAT’s the America spirit!
So, why did Japan take over our auto market to become the number one in the world?
Let’s look: Here is Hiroshima, 66 years ago. (email)

What is the story here? What happened to the radiation that lasts thousands of years?
Hiroshima: 1945
We all know that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in August 1945 after the explosion of atomic bombs. However, we know little about the progress made by the people of that land during the past 65 years.
Hiroshima-65 years later–
What has caused more long term destruction-the A-Bomb, or the U.S. Government welfare programs created to buy the votes of those who want someone to take care of them?
Japan does not have a welfare system. Toyota does not need unions.
Work or do without. (Nobody would like to add, the US has paid for the defense of Japan, money they could also save and use to build themselves up.)
(Thanks to Pattie)
Email: Scott Walker, Hero of the Working Massas
Nobody Get Email
Life can be simple if you follow the signs. Today as I was minding my own business, laying around reading such nebulous facts like…In the year1996 the spokesman for the CIA was Chase Brandon, who happened to be a cousin of Tommy Lee Jones, who happened to be Al Gore’s old college roommate. Chase’s job was to give access to previously restricted areas to the media and Hollywood. And then I thought..mmmm, Ron Perry used to be Al Gore’s campaign manager, a fact we should make him talk about. It’s such a small world in the elite power structure called Washington/Hollywood, don’t you think?
Like I said, I was minding my own business when I got a call from Minnesota from a conservative black man who wanted $100 dollars to help Scott Walker. He wanted money, not for Scott Walker, but to keep the unions from starting up recall elections throughout the country.
When I didn’t give, he lowered it to $50, then $30. Well, I’m following the Steve Jobs rule of “no charity but my own” at the moment and so I come to the “follow the signs” moment of clarity.
Today, being the lazy day that I don’t write but POST emails…I knew exactly what email to post…I had gotten my sign. (Thanks to Tom Beebe)
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Why in the world is this not being reported and talked about by our politicians.
Nobody Says–(Why indeed? Why isn’t China being talked about? Why isn’t Marxism being talked about? Why isn’t Michelle trying to force us all into a rehashed version of Hitler’s state vegetarian diet being talked about?)
Governor Walker deserves many accolades for his actions and grief in dismantling the WEA. Please pass this on…..
The Democrats and the Liberals are keeping really quiet about this. Remember the violent and disgusting demonstrations over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doing away with collective bargaining for Teachers unions? The results are in. Some school districts went from a $400,000 deficit to a $1,500,000 surplus as a result. They are even hiring new teachers, not firing like the Liberals said would happen. Why?
It seems that the insurance company that provided all the “so-called” benefits to the teachers was an insurance company owned and operated by the teacher’s union. Since that outfit was guaranteed to get the insurance business from the teachers, and the state had to pay for it (not the teachers) the insurance company was increasing annual costs every single year to become the most expensive company in the state. Then the company was donating millions and millions of dollars to its favorite democrat politicians who, when they got elected, guaranteed to keep funding the union’s outrageous costs. In other words, the insurance company. It was a “pass through” for Wisconsin taxpayer money to go directly to the democrat politicians.
Nice racket, and this is the racket that is going on in every single State that allows collective bargaining. No wonder the States are taking it away.
(Nobody thinks this was what my phone call was about.)
Now the State of Wisconsin is free to put the insurance contract out for bids and, lo and behold they have saved so much money it has turned deficits into surplus amounts. As a result, none of the teachers had to be laid off, everyone got a raise, etc. etc,..and the taxpayers of Wisconsin don’t have to pay more taxes to fund the union’s political ambitions.
If you weren’t aware of the reasons Gov. Walker was fighting to take away collective bargaining, it gives you an idea of the problem the Republican Party has. Outside of one or two, none of them know how to speak up and explain properly what the problem was. We could sure use a Ronald Reagan now, someone who could explain things for people to understand, since we know that people don’t like to read anymore.
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Here’s what Tom Beebe wrote, the reader who sent me this email, back during the demonstrations:
Let us acknowledge the right for all workers to collective bargaining with the limitation that it is a right, but should not be a condition of employment. The results of collective bargaining are often to the detriment of the workers. The UAW got sweetheart deals, and the management looking the other way when workers got less and less productive. Result? Check out the nearest lot for Hondas, Nissans, and Toyotas, and check out Detroit’s dismal streets or available manufacturing space here in Fenton Missouri.
The public sector is much the same in that negotiators across the table from the unions are as corrupt from the unions are as corrupt, perhaps even more spineless than those of the Big Three who gave away the store to the UAW. So let us seek legislation that would require public sector contracts be put to the vote of the taxpayers, just as the UAW contracts and member behavior were put to the vote of the car buyer. Unions and management’s last best offers to on the ballot for a binding vote by the electorate. And should we feel the politicians charged with representing us have made too generous an offer to the unions, we need only to look down at the ballot to find the opportunity to throw them out.
Nobody’s Perfect: Hoffa VS Cockoo Man
Nobody’s Perfect
This week’s contest for less than desirable traits among the earth’s vast network of DNA mud slugs, is between Jimmy Hoffa Jr. and the “I’m Cuckoo for Coco Puffs” man.
Let’s start with Jimmy. Just as the coconut doesn’t fall very far from the coconut tree, Jimmy Hoffa Jr. is pretty much the carbon-nut copy of his prison-abiding papa. (May God not rest his soul wherever it is.)
Obama is also a close carbon f his Muslim communist father— so who is surprised that they are getting together? When helping Obama get elected on Labor Day by speaking for him in Detroit, the lovable son of the AFL-CIO, Jimmy Hoffa, Let’s beat their brains out,— said he wanted to “Take those sons of bitches out!” Jimmy Jr. has declared war, evoking images from the movie Independence Day, comparing tea party people to slimy aliens.
The “tea party ” people, according to Jimmy, are the reason BIG companies are sending jobs overseas. Right— if union members believe that it’s the tea party people that are sending their jobs overseas, then they also believe that Richard Nixon pardoned Jimmy Hoffa Senior because he thought the man was innocent.
Speaking as a warm-up for “If they bring a knife to the fight, we’ll bring a gun.” President Obama, Jimmy attacked the “tea party.” Yes, those people who elected in a landslide, more conservative representatives in sixty years, and who went to Washington, and…
Didn’t do a thing to stop Obama.
Oh…those people are dangerous. Still, they are out there like maggots just waiting to rot out Jimmy’s plan for billion-dollar union trust funds in order to put more judges and politicians in their pockets, so the stakes are high. Building a global union is going to take money.
General Jimmy is not only busy with running UPS, (Our Post Office’s main competition.) his union warriors are fighting hard for another strike.
“I don’t want to see any more concession,” said Gary Farris, a Kentucky based Ford plant employee. “I’d like to get a raise we haven’t had a raise for a long time.” (duh)
So, this strike has nothing to do with the following news, as we all know, aliens have taken over the Ford company:
US auto giant Ford has started construction on a $1 billion manufacturing and engineering complex in India as it bets on the country to help drive global growth, a company statement said on Tuesday
Now, let’s to the other warrior: Mr. Bayon Andre Wonace.
If you were on traveling Interstate 65 in Indiana on Sunday afternoon near U.S. Highway 30, you would have seen this brave warrior, marching no doubt to Detroit to join Jimmy.
I’m having trouble picking between the two, they are so much alike, its’ scary. Jimmy just has a better way with words.
Forget the tea party people: the real danger to America is having organized union thugs forever joined at the hip to Presidents. President George Bush appointed Jimmy Jr. to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations. And, despite what they tell you on the news, it’s going to get bigger and bigger with the help of our Presidents.
Frustrated with the AFL-CIO’s lack of emphasis on organizing, the Teamsters Union and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) split from teh AFL-CIO on July 25, 2005. The group of breakaway unions, which later included the Laborer’s United Farm Workers and United Food and Commercial Workers Union, formed their own group named the Change to Win Federation.
If I had to pick the lesser of the two evils, I’d pick the Cuckoo for Coco Puffs man. At least he’s aware that he’s nuts.
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Consider the Source: Stephen King
Nobody’s Perfect:
How can you not like this guy? He is an American Icon. He has lead us down the deep dark avenues of his deep well of pain, and gotten paid big bucks for it. One of my favorite movies of all time, is Stephen King’s movie, The DreamCatcher. (What’s yours?) The guy is a genius..and thank god he gets up every day and puts on his rock and roll, and writes.
But, when he comes out and attacks the tea party candidates in Maine and Florida, (see video) the ONLY candidates that do NOT belong to the millionaire Plutocracy called our Congress, you have to wonder…what drug is he on now? As my mother’s always said when someone says really off- the-wall comments: Consider the source.
So let’s consider the source of Stephen King.
Since he was so bold some time ago, to say that everybody who can’t read, joins the army…insinuating that the army is filled with ignorant people, ( he paid for that comment, and trys to make up for it here) I feel it’s time to point out some very common- sense things about Stephen King.
Consider his source.
His father deserted his mother, Stephen’ s older adopted brother, and himself, when he was two. He went out for a cigarette and never came back. Stephen found an old H.P. Lovecraft book that had belonged to his father in the attic and decided to become a writer. You don’t have to be a psychiatrist to go down that road. Being a genius, (and suffering from fatherless trauma) he got hooked on comic books, reading, and discovered he had talent for writing so he became an English teacher.
Teachers, no matter how brilliant they are: live in a dream bubble. University life is completely removed from the rest of money-making society. (Not all are like that, but here in the States…the majority are.) Add cocaine, marijuana, alcohol, heroin, LSD, opium (and that’s just a few) and mix that cocktail to the “I know everything” because I’m a university professor, and you start to see a real connection between Charlie Sheen, and Mr. King. Obviously, Stephen suffers from deep depressions and writing has been his lifeline to salvation.
In his book, “On Writing,” Stephen admits he reads mostly fiction, which explains his complete ignorance on politics. Whatever political news he reads, he probably reads what he craves: which is the liberal sites. And when it comes to politics, Stephen is about as boring as they come. Stephen King…is a member of the elite, and it’s a club he feels he deserves. (And who are we to argue?)
Besides, he is so busy writing six hours a day, (according to him) he has little time for reading, which is why he got hit by a car walking and reading at the same time.
Stephen is a democrat. These arguments he gives…supporting unions, and trashing the newly elected ‘tea party’ men, are almost funny coming from him, but in this, he is no original.
He wants to be taxed more. They only take 28%. But…if you say…Hey write a check King, whose stopping you?— He then tells the crowd that he donates money..that the government doesn’t take. Well, that a good thing isn’t it? If the government had it, his money would go to abort black babies, instead of building them libraries.
Stephen has a brain lapse somewhere between Carrie and the last valium he took.
He complains that his mother once went to a Republican government and asked for help. Instead of blaming his REAL father for his mother’s hard life, he blames the state.
As for saying that military guys are “stupid,” let’s just say, those guys have seen REAL nightmares: dead bodies, buddies blowing up, scary things that Stephen King, would run and hide from and couldn’t even handle. They live nightmares, and experience fear every day.
Stephen King only imagines it.
If you put Stephen King on the battlefield in Iraq or Afghanistan, he would be the first one off the field. And his statement was so stupid, those military men could care less. They live in the real world…Stephen, does not.
No matter how rich Stephen King becomes, he will never see the world besides the painful one that he has invented in his mind. And since he can’t seem to get over that intellectual hurdle called the ‘truth’ due to his bottomless pit of pain—
Nobody feels sorry for him. (Go ahead and take that BOTH ways!)
Next time you get that extra tax money, Stephen, I think you should donate about a million copies of your books to those poor ignorant boys in the Armed Forces, free of charge. Help them escape reality.
You want them to learn how to read…don’t you?
UPDATE: You know, I watched this video again, and maybe I was a bit too hard on the guy, he does make a few good (but lame) points.
Nah.
He would like us all to “thank a union” for the benefits of mankind, but thanks anyway Stephen— I’m going to thank a soldier. And maybe you haven’t noticed, but not everyone in the Unions can read.
I’m just saying.
Join the Union…Bring a Moose!
Nobody Flashes:
Wisconsin lawmakers sent a bill eliminating most collective=bargaining rights for the state’s public-employee unions to Gov. Scott Walker on Thurday, setting a precedent other states could follow in the broadest move in decades to curb unon rights.
This was my favorite video from the Wisconsin Union Strikers. It seems Sly and the family Stone have been revived and booked for a encore. The “cop” is a stripper (I don’t know, I kinda doubt that one) and the deer could be anyone ….but by the way he plays the horn, I’d guess he’s from the Fred Flinstone’s “Find a Mouse and Kill It.” By now, the American hero, Scott Walker, has stunned in this order: Jesse Jackosn, Jesse Jackson Jr., Joy Bearyourheart, and Michael Moore…who was so beside himself, he attacked Oprah on National TV with a pair of handcuffs, that no doubt, he got off that stripper cop.
Micheal also took it upon himself to make himself the head of the NEA and cancel all the schools all over the country for Friday, in a day of celebration.
What? You don’t think that most of the kids in America will not be celebrating becuase Micheal Moore said they could take the day off?
Jesse Jackson acts like these people are going to…float down the Mississippi and Sting like a bee…not necessarily in that order. But, before you feel sorry for them, here’s some statistics.
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For anyone who thinks teachers are underpaid this is the official excel DPI database of teachers wages by school district. Look up your own district.
The current budget repair bill would have them paying about 5.8% towards their own retirement….right now, we the taxpayer, pays 100% of their generous retirement, and most of us pay 100% of our own retirement too.
AVERAGE WAGE AND BENEFITS (remember this is for about 9 months of work)
TEACHERS:
Milwaukee $86,297
Elmbrook $91,065
Germantown $83,818
Hartland Arrwhd $90,285 (highest teacher was $122,952-lowest was $64,942)
Men Falls $81,099
West Bend $82,153
Waukesha $92,902
Sussex $82,956
Mequon $95,297
Kettle Mor $87,676
Muskego $91,341
STAFF:
Arrowhead – Bus Mng – Kopecky – $169,525
Arrowhead – Principal – Wieczorek – $152,519
Grmtwn – Asst Princ – Dave Towers – $123,222
Elmbrk – Burliegh Elemetary – Principal Zahn- $142,315 (for a primary school!!)
Madison – Asst Principal – McGrath – $127,835
UNIVERSITY of WISCONSIN STAFF (2009) (salary alone):
Michael Knetter – Prof of Bus – $327,828
Carolyn Martin -Chancellor Mad- $437,000
Hector Deluca – Prof of Nutritional Science – $254,877 (really??)
(source:Madison.com -as the UW removed salaries from being posted online in 2007- why if they are so low?)
How about some other “public servant job” ? What do they make?
Madison Garbage men (2009) (salary only):
* Garbageman, Mr. Nelson earned $159,258 in 2009, including $109,892 in overtime and other pay.
* Garbageman, Greg Tatman, who earned $125,598
* 7 Madison garbage men made over $100,000
* 30 Madison garbage men made over $70,000
MILWAUKEE CITY BUS DRIVERS (salary only):
136 Drivers made more than $70,000
54 Drivers made more than $80,000
18 Drivers made more than $90,000
8 Drivers made more than $100,000
Top Driver made $117,000 (Source WTMJ)
(The average private bus driver makes $9-13 an hour (about 20,000 yr) with no pension, or healthcare.)
AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO CONTINUE PAYING 100% OF THEIR GENEROUS RETIREMENT?
THEY HAVE SHUT DOWN SCHOOLS AS THEY DON’T WANT TO PAY 5.8% OF IT THEMSELVES

























