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  1. Ed Morrissey takes “A peek under the hood of a NYT/CBS poll” about support for public sector bargaining rights. He notes that there were ten percent more Democrats than Republicans among the respondents, even though self-professed Republicans actually outnumber Democrats. And “20% of the poll’s respondents claim to come from union households. However, only 11.9% of American workers belong to a union…”
    “Finally, 25% of respondents (were) either public employees or share a household with a public employee. Overall, the US has 22.22 million government employees out of an employed workforce of 130.27 million, according to the Current Employment Statistics survey at the BLS. Government employment accounts for 17% of all workers, so a sample consisting of 25% public-sector households for a survey of adults (not registered voters) seems a little off.”

  2. Ya reap what you sow..
    Call me crazy,(and they do) but perhaps the “public institutions of supposed learning’s” strict policy of ZERO tolerance for fighting, bullying, any conduct that could be perceived as the least bit threatening has bred the perfect response…zero tolerance to teachers who behave in a perceived threatening manner…..
    ATHERTON, Calif. — A California school teacher was placed on paid administrative leave after he rattled a table to get the attention of his math students, startling an eighth-grade girl who used her cell phone to call police.
    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/02/student-calls-11-teacher-rattles-table-class-attention/

  6. omerta trumps the truth every time:
    harpers dot org/archive/2011/02/hbc-90008003
    REGARDLESS which party sets up temporary residence in the white house.
    (let me guess, now that the B.O. is doing it, the right wing comes out armed to the teeth. ignoring the fact it happened during dubya’s term. and was set in motion by slick willy. see? ‘they ALL do it).
    you may proceed to hero worship.

  7. Canadian MSM does not have a monopoly today.
    …-
    “Why we’re not hearing ‘train wreck’”
    “We’re in a different political environment now in two important respects. The first is the media. There was no Internet or blogosphere in 1995; Fox News Channel didn’t start until October 1996; talk radio was in its infancy, with Rush Limbaugh already an important national voice but with few other conservative hosts on the air.
    In that environment, liberal-inclined media were able to tell the story and frame the issue the way they liked without much dissent. ABC’s Peter Jennings could compare voters who supported Gingrich Republicans to infants having a tantrum. Such voices don’t have a monopoly today.
    The second significant difference: In the mid ’90s the economy was growing; it wasn’t clear why we needed to limit government spending. We could afford more for this, that and the other thing.
    Now we’re in straitened circumstances, just out of a severe recession (though many voters don’t think it’s over just yet) and in a very restrained and anemic recovery. We’ve seen that a substantial increase in government spending — from 21 percent to 25 percent of gross domestic product — hasn’t done much to stimulate economic growth. And we’ve seen that government kept growing even as the private sector suffered.
    In that setting, pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that 58 percent of likely voters would rather have a government shutdown until both parties can agree on spending cuts, while only 33 percent would prefer spending at the same levels as last year.
    Liberal poll critics may say, correctly, that the question frames the issue the way Republican politicians would like. But that’s the point. Republican politicians today have a much better chance to persuade voters to view issues the way they do than they did in the Clinton-Gingrich days.
    All of which explains why Obama and congressional Democrats seem more willing to make concessions than Clinton was. And why we’re not hearing the phrase “train wreck” much anymore.”
    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/why_we_re_not_hearing_train_wreck_haKqJJE0rZXSAyaVVGtvoL
    http://www.bluelikeyou.com/2011/03/02/on-the-relevancy-of-canadian-media/#comment-62900

  9. “But Glenn Beck is the crazy one!”
    Did you know that in ’08 our man of the hour, Muammar Gaddafi said in a speech that Obama was a “Muslim brother from Kenya”…”He probably got ‘probably legal’ campaign funds from the ME”…”We wish him great success”…Here’s the video link:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CreWa15WeRM

  10. Forgot to mention that Gaddafi was probably the first to call Barry a liar…Watch the video.

  11. Impeach Obama?
    From WND via Drudge:
    “A Republican congressman has told a left-leaning blog that if there is collective support, he would favor the impeachment of Barack Obama over his decision to stop defending the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
    Scott Keyes of ThinkProgress.org asked U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz.: “I know Newt Gingrich has came out (sic) and said if they don’t reverse course here, we ought to be talking about possibly impeaching either Attorney General [Eric] Holder or even President Obama to try to get them to reverse course. Do you think that is something you would support?” Keyes asked.”
    youtube video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yCN93ZNJEM&feature=player_embedded

  12. The funniest quote by Jennings is that Cash “sold out to religion”, referencing his drug rehab. Priorities man!

  13. Kate! Your readers are way too serious! Forget the troubles of the world for a moment. This is Waylon Jennings…so many memories of Calgary Stampede weeks past there. My YouTube tour ended with Smoke On The Water and Venus by Shocking Blue. Thanks for the memories!

  15. “Wisconsin Is About Breaking Up the Union Racket
    The Democrats are protecting their own campaign coffers. Not workers’ rights.
    When the Wisconsin General Assembly voted to pass Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill, the Democratic legislators made themselves indistinguishable from the protestors surrounding the assembly floor.
    They wore the same pro-union orange T-shirts. They behaved in the same sophomoric way, breaking out in a noisy, finger-pointing demonstration. They chanted the same ubiquitous word: “Shame!” They might as well have brought guitars onto the floor for a Woody Guthrie sing-along and touted “Walker = Hitler” signs.
    In Wisconsin, it’s less that Democrats act to protect a special interest than that they belong to a special interest. A complete identification has long existed among state government, the public-sector unions, and the Democratic party. By seeking to break up this powerful, self-dealing nexus, Walker is “assaulting,” in President Barack Obama’s formulation, a partisan political machine dependent on the state for its functioning.
    The fight in Wisconsin has focused on collective-bargaining rights, but that is not the main event. As Daniel DiSalvo of the City College of New York-CUNY notes in a Weekly Standard article, 24 states either don’t allow collective bargaining for public workers, or permit it for only a segment of workers. Even if Walker prevails, Wisconsin will allow more wide-ranging collective bargaining than these states.
    Not to mention the federal government. Obama may lecture Walker about union rights, but he can go straight to Congress with a highly political proposal to freeze the pay of federal workers because they can’t collectively bargain for wages or benefits.
    No, the most important measure at stake in Wisconsin is the governor’s proposal for the state to stop deducting union dues from the paychecks of state workers. This practice essentially wields the taxing power of the government on behalf of the institutional interests of the unions. It makes the government an arm of the public-sector unions. It is a priceless favor.
    Wisconsin doesn’t collect dues for Elks lodges or the NRA.”
    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/260951/wisconsin-about-breaking-union-racket-rich-lowry

  20. uh, Rockyt…Don’t want to rain on your parade but that NASA post has in it:
    “Our conclusions are based on a new computer model of the sun’s interior.”
    Although, I have been a firm believer in the sunspot theory affecting the majority of the Earth’s climate/weather patterns for years now too.
    A 1700’s star gazer with his faithful telescope which studied sun spot activity was able to develop charts that could foretell the price of wheat…Slumber sunspot activity = colder, more cloudy seasons = Higher wheat price.
    The farmers Almanac has been using sunspot activity to issue their year ahead weather predictions and they have always come the closest to fact. Always.
    If an idiot like myself can study something and come to conclusions that seem to fit the serious scientists and experts latest discoveries/theories about Global warming/Climate change then anyone willing can do it: Including the medias and politicians.
    All this to say that Al gore and David Suzuki story is a politicized invention to steal from the gullible and to enrich corporations towards new ventures payed in large part by tax dollars: Windmills, Solar panels.
    OPEC has a big stake in it too…Big bad C02 keeps people from saying “Drill baby drill” which means 3$/Gallon gas and up in perpetuity.
    Big oil and Washington are the one who have invested to most in global warming research…Ummm!

  23. Neo-AGW Progress Report.
    Gaia agrees: “Falsities will always hurt”.
    …-
    “Australian politics churning”
    “Things are hotting up in politics downunder. The immovable force meets the polls. Twenty years of PR catches up on the PM who didn’t do her homework. As Tim Blair says: It’s a meltdown, Labor is seething. Bring Your PopCorn.”
    ““There is evidence the public’s general confidence is being shaken by sudden policy shifts and uncertainty about a minority government; there is growing disquiet, even dismay, among business leaders that dealing with the government on the basis of compromise with a commercially viable outcome is being overtaken by ideological demands.” The Australian”
    “Everything had the semblance of order until Julia Gillard announced the Carbon Tax. Sure the order was only superficial, and we knew dark forces of chaos ran underneath. The policies were based on corrupted science, self-interest ran amok, and the hung coalition was cobbled together with seats that would never have voted green. The government was running the knife edge.
    It took 17 days deliberation to arrange the “deal” to form government, and it was said at the time that a hung parliament might be a poisoned chalice. If Julia Gillard promised the independents or greens that she would break her promise to the voters of “No Carbon Tax” then she reaps right now, what she sowed with deceit.
    The blogs are alive downunder as the political landscape shifts. I’m not sure there is any coming back from a mistake as big as this. Not only did Julia Gillard break her word, it was on major legislation, a change that affects every transaction, every industry, and every citizen. There’s no pretending this was just another piece of spin. Worse, it was done clumsily, without party room approval. And it was on legislation almost the same as the tabled plans she apparently told Kevin Rudd to avoid, which, after he had played the “Greatest Moral Threat” trump-card, left him no where to go, and exposed him as the weak bluff, and the insincere hypocrite.
    Falsities will always hurt
    The toll is substantial: the big carbon scam scuppered the opposition leader in Nov 2009, the Prime Minister in mid 2010, came within a whisker of bringing down the Labor government in August, and now may bring down the fledgling PM. Independent, Rob Oakshotts career is shot too, dropping from 63% popular to -12% in recent polls.”
    http://joannenova.com.au/2011/03/australian-politics-churning/

  25. ‘progress’ in afghanistan.
    3w dot nytimes dot com/2011/03/03/world/asia/03afghan.html?_r=2&partner=rss&emc=rss

  26. From the O’whine List.
    O’menu:
    “get healthy and eat “roots, berries and tree bark.”
    Q: Have you ever known a thin Aunt Jemima?
    …-
    “Stop politicizing first lady’s messages on health”
    The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | March 3, 2011 | Kimberly Garrison
    I WAS BLOWN AWAY last week when I heard that conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh had not only accused first lady Michelle Obama of hypocrisy for not living up to her “Let’s Move” health initiative, he also fell just short of calling her a fat Aunt Jemima. “The problem is, and dare I say this, it doesn’t look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary, dietary advice. . . . I’m trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman [New York Yankee] Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you,” said Limbaugh.
    The hullabaloo started when the paparazzi shot a picture of Obama eating some short ribs while vacationing. According to Limbaugh, this was proof that she failed to follow her own dietary advice.
    Correct me if I’m wrong, Rush, but I’ve only heard the first lady express the “politically correct” eat-all-things-in-moderation mantra.
    Talk about being ethnocentric and sexist, too.
    Really, who gives a rat’s behind about Sports Illustrated models or A-Rod’s dates? I don’t recall this being a requirement of former first ladies Reagan, Clinton or Bush.
    Though he did so mockingly, Limbaugh did credit Obama with encouraging children to get healthy and eat “roots, berries and tree bark.”
    http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2683171/posts

  27. re. maz2 @4:56 – isn’t that typical? This woman writes of Limbaugh “he also fell just short of calling her (Michele Obama) a fat Aunt Jemima”.
    No, ms. Garrison, you just said “Aunt Jemima”. You injected race into this while trying to imply that that’s what Rush Limbaugh did.
    It’s called projection.

  28. I did not know that, Lev @10:59.
    But just so we’re clear here, just how wide is beagle’s rear end anyway?

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