You’re Paying Either Way

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

NOLA Notes: In the bubble

It’s that time of the year again: Carnival. Many of us crawl into the bubble and stay there until we’re ashen on Ash Wednesday or some such shit. In short, light blogging from me this week. Of course, every time I say that I post more than expected. Life is mysterious that way. I have few more Krewe of Spank items to share with you. First, the float. A picture I swiped from our FB page: Here are *all* of our buttons including Jude’s favorite: Finally, the Spanktuary archway, which was, uh, erected on the neutral ground where we had … Continue reading NOLA Notes: In the bubble

Digital-First Is Meaningless

GOD, this gets so tiresome: “For six consecutive years, The Plain Dealer had double-digit losses in advertising revenue; that’s compounding on one another,” Fladung said at a gathering sponsored by the Cleveland chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. “Whether you are a business reporter or not, it’s not hard to see that that’s a jetliner nose down. The business model was broken.” Fladung said the decision to cut back home delivery from seven days a week to four was precipitated by the revenue dive. The strategy, Fladung said, “is … Continue reading Digital-First Is Meaningless

Digital-First Is Meaningless

GOD, this gets so tiresome: “For six consecutive years, The Plain Dealer had double-digit losses in advertising revenue; that’s compounding on one another,” Fladung said at a gathering sponsored by the Cleveland chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. “Whether you are a business reporter or not, it’s not hard to see that that’s a jetliner nose down. The business model was broken.” Fladung said the decision to cut back home delivery from seven days a week to four was precipitated by the revenue dive. The strategy, Fladung said, “is … Continue reading Digital-First Is Meaningless

Digital-First Is Meaningless

GOD, this gets so tiresome: “For six consecutive years, The Plain Dealer had double-digit losses in advertising revenue; that’s compounding on one another,” Fladung said at a gathering sponsored by the Cleveland chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. “Whether you are a business reporter or not, it’s not hard to see that that’s a jetliner nose down. The business model was broken.” Fladung said the decision to cut back home delivery from seven days a week to four was precipitated by the revenue dive. The strategy, Fladung said, “is … Continue reading Digital-First Is Meaningless

Digital-First Is Meaningless

GOD, this gets so tiresome: “For six consecutive years, The Plain Dealer had double-digit losses in advertising revenue; that’s compounding on one another,” Fladung said at a gathering sponsored by the Cleveland chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. “Whether you are a business reporter or not, it’s not hard to see that that’s a jetliner nose down. The business model was broken.” Fladung said the decision to cut back home delivery from seven days a week to four was precipitated by the revenue dive. The strategy, Fladung said, “is … Continue reading Digital-First Is Meaningless

Digital-First Is Meaningless

GOD, this gets so tiresome: “For six consecutive years, The Plain Dealer had double-digit losses in advertising revenue; that’s compounding on one another,” Fladung said at a gathering sponsored by the Cleveland chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. “Whether you are a business reporter or not, it’s not hard to see that that’s a jetliner nose down. The business model was broken.” Fladung said the decision to cut back home delivery from seven days a week to four was precipitated by the revenue dive. The strategy, Fladung said, “is … Continue reading Digital-First Is Meaningless

You’re Paying Either Way

The anti-tax small-goverment teawads never do get this through their thick skulls: This is the most telling part of the article and helps show the damage really done by Act 10: Leah Lipska, the president of Local 1, scoffs at Mr. Walker’s famous suggestion that public employees are the “haves” in society, noting that many earn less than $35,000 a year. And the law, says Ms. Lipska, an information systems technician with the state corrections system, has made things much worse. “My family is now on food stamps,” said Ms. Lipska, a mother of three who earns $18.62 an hour. … Continue reading You’re Paying Either Way

People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition

Aaagh – Monday already? OK – we’ll start with a new thread, then go back for some well-aged nuggets of prime stupid.

Starting off – Too Shyster, Shyster! (composite thread)

Anne Coulter: ‘Shysters’ who attack ‘establishment’ GOP risk control of Senate
Examiner.com ^ | February 20, 2014 | David W. Thornton

Posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie

On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on February 19, guest Anne Coulter and Hannity got into a heated discussion about the nature of the Tea Party on its fifth anniversary. While both are Tea Party supporters, Coulter differentiated between “people in America who call themselves Tea Partiers [who] are fantastic” and the “con men and scamsters” who “trick good Americans into sending them money, claiming we are fighting for you and they aren’t fighting for you.”

“Basically anyone who claims to be going after establishment Republicans, the key word there is ‘Republican,'” Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.” She continued, “The only way to repeal Obamacare is to elect Republicans. It is not to be fighting against Republicans.”

Coulter said that everyone has “got to read” Thomas Sowell’s column, ” Cruz Control,” published on Feb. 18, in which the prominent conservative economist and author criticizes Ted Cruz for weakening the Republican Party in order to remake it as a more pure conservative party in the long term. Sowell argues that such a strategy may bring America past the point of no return with respect to both Obamacare and the larger erosion of personal freedoms. She also pointed out that groups that attack Republicans would face less media scrutiny than groups that attack Democrats.

. . . .

When Hannity asked why the Republicans could not force the issue on the Keystone pipeline, the debt ceiling, and a host of other issues, and implied that the GOP had given up the fight, Coulter replied, “Fight to give them a majority then we will repeal Obamacare and have the keys to the pipeline.”

1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie
(just so everyone will remember) :
JimRobCoulter
Well there you have it…Coulter turned RINO.
1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎01‎:‎13‎ ‎PM by mandaladon
To: SoConPubbie

Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.”

DOES ANN FORGET THAT WHEN WE HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE THE REPUBLICANS WANTED TO PASS AMNESTY? AND IT TOOK GRASSROOTS SCREAMING CONSTANTLY TO KILL THE DAMN THING?

3 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎56‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by GraceG
Do you forget that your caps lock is on?
To: mandaladon

I used to think she was a real conservative.

4 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎03‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
NoTrueScotsmanDuck
To: mandaladon

Skinny bitch can kiss my ass

8 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎04‎:‎50‎ ‎PM by Sybeck1
To: mandaladon

Anne likes the money. Becoming a RINO prostitute? She has done it before.

16 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎07‎:‎49‎ ‎PM by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
Come on now, boys – you turds used to drool over her ass like it was going out of style. Where’s the love?
To: mandaladon
Coulter is a RINO whore. I will never forgive her for supporting the budget 2011/debt ceiling negotiations. She’s a money grabbing bull shyster with a RINO “R” behind her name.
40 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎36‎ ‎PM by Chgogal (Obama “hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls…” CMH)
Sorry I asked.
To: Aurorales

Both her and Limbaugh like to live amongst liberals and live the liberal lifestyle, but they play conservatives on the radio and TV.

39 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎23‎ ‎PM by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
Ouchie.
To: xzins

The war is on. We need a coordinated counter offensive. This means that we must all rally around Ted Cruz. He is being viciously attacked by the left and the squishy middle. He’s obviously our point man in the war to restore the Republic.

Free Republic is Cruz Country.

Cruz/Palin 2016

Lets start printing the bumper stickers and t-shirts.

In the interim we need to change some dirty diapers in the GOP leadership.

78 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎9‎:‎57‎:‎26‎ ‎PM by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
OhPleasePleasePlease
To: Boogieman

Just a reply to everyone in general.

Coulter’s point is that the country is in immediate danger of being steamrolled by something much worse than liberal republicans. While we are busy trying to change the “status quo”, we may lose the country in a way that is much, much worse than Rinos in D.C. Thomas Sowell related this to the Nazis in Germany. The majority was split, allowing the Nazis to take power and do their worst. The change in status quo may have to wait in order to put the brakes on the Dems, or we may reach a point of no return. And at that point, there won’t be any Republican party or Tea Party.

One thing Democrats have always been good at is biding their time. Coulter and Sowell are just saying that we need to be practical and get our priorities straight.

60 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎3‎:‎59‎:‎00‎ ‎PM by Bladerunner
BanHimCannon
Older stuff after the jump.

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition”

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition

Aaagh – Monday already? OK – we’ll start with a new thread, then go back for some well-aged nuggets of prime stupid.

Starting off – Too Shyster, Shyster! (composite thread)

Anne Coulter: ‘Shysters’ who attack ‘establishment’ GOP risk control of Senate
Examiner.com ^ | February 20, 2014 | David W. Thornton

Posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie

On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on February 19, guest Anne Coulter and Hannity got into a heated discussion about the nature of the Tea Party on its fifth anniversary. While both are Tea Party supporters, Coulter differentiated between “people in America who call themselves Tea Partiers [who] are fantastic” and the “con men and scamsters” who “trick good Americans into sending them money, claiming we are fighting for you and they aren’t fighting for you.”

“Basically anyone who claims to be going after establishment Republicans, the key word there is ‘Republican,'” Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.” She continued, “The only way to repeal Obamacare is to elect Republicans. It is not to be fighting against Republicans.”

Coulter said that everyone has “got to read” Thomas Sowell’s column, ” Cruz Control,” published on Feb. 18, in which the prominent conservative economist and author criticizes Ted Cruz for weakening the Republican Party in order to remake it as a more pure conservative party in the long term. Sowell argues that such a strategy may bring America past the point of no return with respect to both Obamacare and the larger erosion of personal freedoms. She also pointed out that groups that attack Republicans would face less media scrutiny than groups that attack Democrats.

. . . .

When Hannity asked why the Republicans could not force the issue on the Keystone pipeline, the debt ceiling, and a host of other issues, and implied that the GOP had given up the fight, Coulter replied, “Fight to give them a majority then we will repeal Obamacare and have the keys to the pipeline.”

1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie
(just so everyone will remember) :
JimRobCoulter
Well there you have it…Coulter turned RINO.
1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎01‎:‎13‎ ‎PM by mandaladon
To: SoConPubbie

Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.”

DOES ANN FORGET THAT WHEN WE HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE THE REPUBLICANS WANTED TO PASS AMNESTY? AND IT TOOK GRASSROOTS SCREAMING CONSTANTLY TO KILL THE DAMN THING?

3 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎56‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by GraceG
Do you forget that your caps lock is on?
To: mandaladon

I used to think she was a real conservative.

4 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎03‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
NoTrueScotsmanDuck
To: mandaladon

Skinny bitch can kiss my ass

8 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎04‎:‎50‎ ‎PM by Sybeck1
To: mandaladon

Anne likes the money. Becoming a RINO prostitute? She has done it before.

16 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎07‎:‎49‎ ‎PM by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
Come on now, boys – you turds used to drool over her ass like it was going out of style. Where’s the love?
To: mandaladon
Coulter is a RINO whore. I will never forgive her for supporting the budget 2011/debt ceiling negotiations. She’s a money grabbing bull shyster with a RINO “R” behind her name.
40 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎36‎ ‎PM by Chgogal (Obama “hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls…” CMH)
Sorry I asked.
To: Aurorales

Both her and Limbaugh like to live amongst liberals and live the liberal lifestyle, but they play conservatives on the radio and TV.

39 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎23‎ ‎PM by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
Ouchie.
To: xzins

The war is on. We need a coordinated counter offensive. This means that we must all rally around Ted Cruz. He is being viciously attacked by the left and the squishy middle. He’s obviously our point man in the war to restore the Republic.

Free Republic is Cruz Country.

Cruz/Palin 2016

Lets start printing the bumper stickers and t-shirts.

In the interim we need to change some dirty diapers in the GOP leadership.

78 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎9‎:‎57‎:‎26‎ ‎PM by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
OhPleasePleasePlease
To: Boogieman

Just a reply to everyone in general.

Coulter’s point is that the country is in immediate danger of being steamrolled by something much worse than liberal republicans. While we are busy trying to change the “status quo”, we may lose the country in a way that is much, much worse than Rinos in D.C. Thomas Sowell related this to the Nazis in Germany. The majority was split, allowing the Nazis to take power and do their worst. The change in status quo may have to wait in order to put the brakes on the Dems, or we may reach a point of no return. And at that point, there won’t be any Republican party or Tea Party.

One thing Democrats have always been good at is biding their time. Coulter and Sowell are just saying that we need to be practical and get our priorities straight.

60 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎3‎:‎59‎:‎00‎ ‎PM by Bladerunner
BanHimCannon
Older stuff after the jump.

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition”

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition

Aaagh – Monday already? OK – we’ll start with a new thread, then go back for some well-aged nuggets of prime stupid.

Starting off – Too Shyster, Shyster! (composite thread)

Anne Coulter: ‘Shysters’ who attack ‘establishment’ GOP risk control of Senate
Examiner.com ^ | February 20, 2014 | David W. Thornton

Posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie

On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on February 19, guest Anne Coulter and Hannity got into a heated discussion about the nature of the Tea Party on its fifth anniversary. While both are Tea Party supporters, Coulter differentiated between “people in America who call themselves Tea Partiers [who] are fantastic” and the “con men and scamsters” who “trick good Americans into sending them money, claiming we are fighting for you and they aren’t fighting for you.”

“Basically anyone who claims to be going after establishment Republicans, the key word there is ‘Republican,'” Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.” She continued, “The only way to repeal Obamacare is to elect Republicans. It is not to be fighting against Republicans.”

Coulter said that everyone has “got to read” Thomas Sowell’s column, ” Cruz Control,” published on Feb. 18, in which the prominent conservative economist and author criticizes Ted Cruz for weakening the Republican Party in order to remake it as a more pure conservative party in the long term. Sowell argues that such a strategy may bring America past the point of no return with respect to both Obamacare and the larger erosion of personal freedoms. She also pointed out that groups that attack Republicans would face less media scrutiny than groups that attack Democrats.

. . . .

When Hannity asked why the Republicans could not force the issue on the Keystone pipeline, the debt ceiling, and a host of other issues, and implied that the GOP had given up the fight, Coulter replied, “Fight to give them a majority then we will repeal Obamacare and have the keys to the pipeline.”

1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie
(just so everyone will remember) :
JimRobCoulter
Well there you have it…Coulter turned RINO.
1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎01‎:‎13‎ ‎PM by mandaladon
To: SoConPubbie

Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.”

DOES ANN FORGET THAT WHEN WE HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE THE REPUBLICANS WANTED TO PASS AMNESTY? AND IT TOOK GRASSROOTS SCREAMING CONSTANTLY TO KILL THE DAMN THING?

3 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎56‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by GraceG
Do you forget that your caps lock is on?
To: mandaladon

I used to think she was a real conservative.

4 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎03‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
NoTrueScotsmanDuck
To: mandaladon

Skinny bitch can kiss my ass

8 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎04‎:‎50‎ ‎PM by Sybeck1
To: mandaladon

Anne likes the money. Becoming a RINO prostitute? She has done it before.

16 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎07‎:‎49‎ ‎PM by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
Come on now, boys – you turds used to drool over her ass like it was going out of style. Where’s the love?
To: mandaladon
Coulter is a RINO whore. I will never forgive her for supporting the budget 2011/debt ceiling negotiations. She’s a money grabbing bull shyster with a RINO “R” behind her name.
40 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎36‎ ‎PM by Chgogal (Obama “hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls…” CMH)
Sorry I asked.
To: Aurorales

Both her and Limbaugh like to live amongst liberals and live the liberal lifestyle, but they play conservatives on the radio and TV.

39 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎23‎ ‎PM by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
Ouchie.
To: xzins

The war is on. We need a coordinated counter offensive. This means that we must all rally around Ted Cruz. He is being viciously attacked by the left and the squishy middle. He’s obviously our point man in the war to restore the Republic.

Free Republic is Cruz Country.

Cruz/Palin 2016

Lets start printing the bumper stickers and t-shirts.

In the interim we need to change some dirty diapers in the GOP leadership.

78 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎9‎:‎57‎:‎26‎ ‎PM by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
OhPleasePleasePlease
To: Boogieman

Just a reply to everyone in general.

Coulter’s point is that the country is in immediate danger of being steamrolled by something much worse than liberal republicans. While we are busy trying to change the “status quo”, we may lose the country in a way that is much, much worse than Rinos in D.C. Thomas Sowell related this to the Nazis in Germany. The majority was split, allowing the Nazis to take power and do their worst. The change in status quo may have to wait in order to put the brakes on the Dems, or we may reach a point of no return. And at that point, there won’t be any Republican party or Tea Party.

One thing Democrats have always been good at is biding their time. Coulter and Sowell are just saying that we need to be practical and get our priorities straight.

60 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎3‎:‎59‎:‎00‎ ‎PM by Bladerunner
BanHimCannon
Older stuff after the jump.

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition”

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition

Aaagh – Monday already? OK – we’ll start with a new thread, then go back for some well-aged nuggets of prime stupid.

Starting off – Too Shyster, Shyster! (composite thread)

Anne Coulter: ‘Shysters’ who attack ‘establishment’ GOP risk control of Senate
Examiner.com ^ | February 20, 2014 | David W. Thornton

Posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie

On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on February 19, guest Anne Coulter and Hannity got into a heated discussion about the nature of the Tea Party on its fifth anniversary. While both are Tea Party supporters, Coulter differentiated between “people in America who call themselves Tea Partiers [who] are fantastic” and the “con men and scamsters” who “trick good Americans into sending them money, claiming we are fighting for you and they aren’t fighting for you.”

“Basically anyone who claims to be going after establishment Republicans, the key word there is ‘Republican,'” Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.” She continued, “The only way to repeal Obamacare is to elect Republicans. It is not to be fighting against Republicans.”

Coulter said that everyone has “got to read” Thomas Sowell’s column, ” Cruz Control,” published on Feb. 18, in which the prominent conservative economist and author criticizes Ted Cruz for weakening the Republican Party in order to remake it as a more pure conservative party in the long term. Sowell argues that such a strategy may bring America past the point of no return with respect to both Obamacare and the larger erosion of personal freedoms. She also pointed out that groups that attack Republicans would face less media scrutiny than groups that attack Democrats.

. . . .

When Hannity asked why the Republicans could not force the issue on the Keystone pipeline, the debt ceiling, and a host of other issues, and implied that the GOP had given up the fight, Coulter replied, “Fight to give them a majority then we will repeal Obamacare and have the keys to the pipeline.”

1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie
(just so everyone will remember) :
JimRobCoulter
Well there you have it…Coulter turned RINO.
1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎01‎:‎13‎ ‎PM by mandaladon
To: SoConPubbie

Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.”

DOES ANN FORGET THAT WHEN WE HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE THE REPUBLICANS WANTED TO PASS AMNESTY? AND IT TOOK GRASSROOTS SCREAMING CONSTANTLY TO KILL THE DAMN THING?

3 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎56‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by GraceG
Do you forget that your caps lock is on?
To: mandaladon

I used to think she was a real conservative.

4 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎03‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
NoTrueScotsmanDuck
To: mandaladon

Skinny bitch can kiss my ass

8 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎04‎:‎50‎ ‎PM by Sybeck1
To: mandaladon

Anne likes the money. Becoming a RINO prostitute? She has done it before.

16 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎07‎:‎49‎ ‎PM by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
Come on now, boys – you turds used to drool over her ass like it was going out of style. Where’s the love?
To: mandaladon
Coulter is a RINO whore. I will never forgive her for supporting the budget 2011/debt ceiling negotiations. She’s a money grabbing bull shyster with a RINO “R” behind her name.
40 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎36‎ ‎PM by Chgogal (Obama “hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls…” CMH)
Sorry I asked.
To: Aurorales

Both her and Limbaugh like to live amongst liberals and live the liberal lifestyle, but they play conservatives on the radio and TV.

39 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎23‎ ‎PM by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
Ouchie.
To: xzins

The war is on. We need a coordinated counter offensive. This means that we must all rally around Ted Cruz. He is being viciously attacked by the left and the squishy middle. He’s obviously our point man in the war to restore the Republic.

Free Republic is Cruz Country.

Cruz/Palin 2016

Lets start printing the bumper stickers and t-shirts.

In the interim we need to change some dirty diapers in the GOP leadership.

78 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎9‎:‎57‎:‎26‎ ‎PM by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
OhPleasePleasePlease
To: Boogieman

Just a reply to everyone in general.

Coulter’s point is that the country is in immediate danger of being steamrolled by something much worse than liberal republicans. While we are busy trying to change the “status quo”, we may lose the country in a way that is much, much worse than Rinos in D.C. Thomas Sowell related this to the Nazis in Germany. The majority was split, allowing the Nazis to take power and do their worst. The change in status quo may have to wait in order to put the brakes on the Dems, or we may reach a point of no return. And at that point, there won’t be any Republican party or Tea Party.

One thing Democrats have always been good at is biding their time. Coulter and Sowell are just saying that we need to be practical and get our priorities straight.

60 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎3‎:‎59‎:‎00‎ ‎PM by Bladerunner
BanHimCannon
Older stuff after the jump.

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition”

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition

Aaagh – Monday already? OK – we’ll start with a new thread, then go back for some well-aged nuggets of prime stupid.

Starting off – Too Shyster, Shyster! (composite thread)

Anne Coulter: ‘Shysters’ who attack ‘establishment’ GOP risk control of Senate
Examiner.com ^ | February 20, 2014 | David W. Thornton

Posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie

On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on February 19, guest Anne Coulter and Hannity got into a heated discussion about the nature of the Tea Party on its fifth anniversary. While both are Tea Party supporters, Coulter differentiated between “people in America who call themselves Tea Partiers [who] are fantastic” and the “con men and scamsters” who “trick good Americans into sending them money, claiming we are fighting for you and they aren’t fighting for you.”

“Basically anyone who claims to be going after establishment Republicans, the key word there is ‘Republican,'” Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.” She continued, “The only way to repeal Obamacare is to elect Republicans. It is not to be fighting against Republicans.”

Coulter said that everyone has “got to read” Thomas Sowell’s column, ” Cruz Control,” published on Feb. 18, in which the prominent conservative economist and author criticizes Ted Cruz for weakening the Republican Party in order to remake it as a more pure conservative party in the long term. Sowell argues that such a strategy may bring America past the point of no return with respect to both Obamacare and the larger erosion of personal freedoms. She also pointed out that groups that attack Republicans would face less media scrutiny than groups that attack Democrats.

. . . .

When Hannity asked why the Republicans could not force the issue on the Keystone pipeline, the debt ceiling, and a host of other issues, and implied that the GOP had given up the fight, Coulter replied, “Fight to give them a majority then we will repeal Obamacare and have the keys to the pipeline.”

1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie
(just so everyone will remember) :
JimRobCoulter
Well there you have it…Coulter turned RINO.
1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎01‎:‎13‎ ‎PM by mandaladon
To: SoConPubbie

Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.”

DOES ANN FORGET THAT WHEN WE HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE THE REPUBLICANS WANTED TO PASS AMNESTY? AND IT TOOK GRASSROOTS SCREAMING CONSTANTLY TO KILL THE DAMN THING?

3 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎56‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by GraceG
Do you forget that your caps lock is on?
To: mandaladon

I used to think she was a real conservative.

4 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎03‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
NoTrueScotsmanDuck
To: mandaladon

Skinny bitch can kiss my ass

8 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎04‎:‎50‎ ‎PM by Sybeck1
To: mandaladon

Anne likes the money. Becoming a RINO prostitute? She has done it before.

16 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎07‎:‎49‎ ‎PM by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
Come on now, boys – you turds used to drool over her ass like it was going out of style. Where’s the love?
To: mandaladon
Coulter is a RINO whore. I will never forgive her for supporting the budget 2011/debt ceiling negotiations. She’s a money grabbing bull shyster with a RINO “R” behind her name.
40 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎36‎ ‎PM by Chgogal (Obama “hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls…” CMH)
Sorry I asked.
To: Aurorales

Both her and Limbaugh like to live amongst liberals and live the liberal lifestyle, but they play conservatives on the radio and TV.

39 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎23‎ ‎PM by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
Ouchie.
To: xzins

The war is on. We need a coordinated counter offensive. This means that we must all rally around Ted Cruz. He is being viciously attacked by the left and the squishy middle. He’s obviously our point man in the war to restore the Republic.

Free Republic is Cruz Country.

Cruz/Palin 2016

Lets start printing the bumper stickers and t-shirts.

In the interim we need to change some dirty diapers in the GOP leadership.

78 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎9‎:‎57‎:‎26‎ ‎PM by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
OhPleasePleasePlease
To: Boogieman

Just a reply to everyone in general.

Coulter’s point is that the country is in immediate danger of being steamrolled by something much worse than liberal republicans. While we are busy trying to change the “status quo”, we may lose the country in a way that is much, much worse than Rinos in D.C. Thomas Sowell related this to the Nazis in Germany. The majority was split, allowing the Nazis to take power and do their worst. The change in status quo may have to wait in order to put the brakes on the Dems, or we may reach a point of no return. And at that point, there won’t be any Republican party or Tea Party.

One thing Democrats have always been good at is biding their time. Coulter and Sowell are just saying that we need to be practical and get our priorities straight.

60 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎3‎:‎59‎:‎00‎ ‎PM by Bladerunner
BanHimCannon
Older stuff after the jump.

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition”

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition

Aaagh – Monday already? OK – we’ll start with a new thread, then go back for some well-aged nuggets of prime stupid.

Starting off – Too Shyster, Shyster! (composite thread)

Anne Coulter: ‘Shysters’ who attack ‘establishment’ GOP risk control of Senate
Examiner.com ^ | February 20, 2014 | David W. Thornton

Posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie

On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on February 19, guest Anne Coulter and Hannity got into a heated discussion about the nature of the Tea Party on its fifth anniversary. While both are Tea Party supporters, Coulter differentiated between “people in America who call themselves Tea Partiers [who] are fantastic” and the “con men and scamsters” who “trick good Americans into sending them money, claiming we are fighting for you and they aren’t fighting for you.”

“Basically anyone who claims to be going after establishment Republicans, the key word there is ‘Republican,'” Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.” She continued, “The only way to repeal Obamacare is to elect Republicans. It is not to be fighting against Republicans.”

Coulter said that everyone has “got to read” Thomas Sowell’s column, “Cruz Control,” published on Feb. 18, in which the prominent conservative economist and author criticizes Ted Cruz for weakening the Republican Party in order to remake it as a more pure conservative party in the long term. Sowell argues that such a strategy may bring America past the point of no return with respect to both Obamacare and the larger erosion of personal freedoms. She also pointed out that groups that attack Republicans would face less media scrutiny than groups that attack Democrats.

. . . .

When Hannity asked why the Republicans could not force the issue on the Keystone pipeline, the debt ceiling, and a host of other issues, and implied that the GOP had given up the fight, Coulter replied, “Fight to give them a majority then we will repeal Obamacare and have the keys to the pipeline.”

1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie
(just so everyone will remember) :
JimRobCoulter

Well there you have it…Coulter turned RINO.
1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎01‎:‎13‎ ‎PM by mandaladon

To: SoConPubbie

Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.”

DOES ANN FORGET THAT WHEN WE HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE THE REPUBLICANS WANTED TO PASS AMNESTY? AND IT TOOK GRASSROOTS SCREAMING CONSTANTLY TO KILL THE DAMN THING?

3 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎56‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by GraceG

Do you forget that your caps lock is on?

To: mandaladon

I used to think she was a real conservative.

4 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎03‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)

NoTrueScotsmanDuck

To: mandaladon

Skinny bitch can kiss my ass

8 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎04‎:‎50‎ ‎PM by Sybeck1

To: mandaladon

Anne likes the money. Becoming a RINO prostitute? She has done it before.

16 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎07‎:‎49‎ ‎PM by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))

Come on now, boys – you turds used to drool over her ass like it was going out of style. Where’s the love?

To: mandaladon
Coulter is a RINO whore. I will never forgive her for supporting the budget 2011/debt ceiling negotiations. She’s a money grabbing bull shyster with a RINO “R” behind her name.
40 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎36‎ ‎PM by Chgogal (Obama “hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls…” CMH)

Sorry I asked.

To: Aurorales

Both her and Limbaugh like to live amongst liberals and live the liberal lifestyle, but they play conservatives on the radio and TV.

39 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎23‎ ‎PM by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)

Ouchie.

To: xzins

The war is on. We need a coordinated counter offensive. This means that we must all rally around Ted Cruz. He is being viciously attacked by the left and the squishy middle. He’s obviously our point man in the war to restore the Republic.

Free Republic is Cruz Country.

Cruz/Palin 2016

Lets start printing the bumper stickers and t-shirts.

In the interim we need to change some dirty diapers in the GOP leadership.

78 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎9‎:‎57‎:‎26‎ ‎PM by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)

OhPleasePleasePlease

To: Boogieman

Just a reply to everyone in general.

Coulter’s point is that the country is in immediate danger of being steamrolled by something much worse than liberal republicans. While we are busy trying to change the “status quo”, we may lose the country in a way that is much, much worse than Rinos in D.C. Thomas Sowell related this to the Nazis in Germany. The majority was split, allowing the Nazis to take power and do their worst. The change in status quo may have to wait in order to put the brakes on the Dems, or we may reach a point of no return. And at that point, there won’t be any Republican party or Tea Party.

One thing Democrats have always been good at is biding their time.Coulter and Sowell are just saying that we need to be practical and get our priorities straight.

60 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎3‎:‎59‎:‎00‎ ‎PM by Bladerunner

BanHimCannon
Older stuff after the jump.

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition”

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition

Aaagh – Monday already? OK – we’ll start with a new thread, then go back for some well-aged nuggets of prime stupid.

Starting off – Too Shyster, Shyster! (composite thread)

Anne Coulter: ‘Shysters’ who attack ‘establishment’ GOP risk control of Senate
Examiner.com ^ | February 20, 2014 | David W. Thornton

Posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie

On Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on February 19, guest Anne Coulter and Hannity got into a heated discussion about the nature of the Tea Party on its fifth anniversary. While both are Tea Party supporters, Coulter differentiated between “people in America who call themselves Tea Partiers [who] are fantastic” and the “con men and scamsters” who “trick good Americans into sending them money, claiming we are fighting for you and they aren’t fighting for you.”

“Basically anyone who claims to be going after establishment Republicans, the key word there is ‘Republican,'” Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.” She continued, “The only way to repeal Obamacare is to elect Republicans. It is not to be fighting against Republicans.”

Coulter said that everyone has “got to read” Thomas Sowell’s column, ” Cruz Control,” published on Feb. 18, in which the prominent conservative economist and author criticizes Ted Cruz for weakening the Republican Party in order to remake it as a more pure conservative party in the long term. Sowell argues that such a strategy may bring America past the point of no return with respect to both Obamacare and the larger erosion of personal freedoms. She also pointed out that groups that attack Republicans would face less media scrutiny than groups that attack Democrats.

. . . .

When Hannity asked why the Republicans could not force the issue on the Keystone pipeline, the debt ceiling, and a host of other issues, and implied that the GOP had given up the fight, Coulter replied, “Fight to give them a majority then we will repeal Obamacare and have the keys to the pipeline.”

1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎54‎:‎30‎ ‎PM by SoConPubbie
(just so everyone will remember) :
JimRobCoulter
Well there you have it…Coulter turned RINO.
1 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎01‎:‎13‎ ‎PM by mandaladon
To: SoConPubbie

Coulter said. “If we don’t elect Republicans, I don’t care which Republican, we will not repeal Obamacare.”

DOES ANN FORGET THAT WHEN WE HAD CONTROL OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE THE REPUBLICANS WANTED TO PASS AMNESTY? AND IT TOOK GRASSROOTS SCREAMING CONSTANTLY TO KILL THE DAMN THING?

3 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎1‎:‎56‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by GraceG
Do you forget that your caps lock is on?
To: mandaladon

I used to think she was a real conservative.

4 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎03‎:‎57‎ ‎PM by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
NoTrueScotsmanDuck
To: mandaladon

Skinny bitch can kiss my ass

8 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎04‎:‎50‎ ‎PM by Sybeck1
To: mandaladon

Anne likes the money. Becoming a RINO prostitute? She has done it before.

16 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎07‎:‎49‎ ‎PM by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
Come on now, boys – you turds used to drool over her ass like it was going out of style. Where’s the love?
To: mandaladon
Coulter is a RINO whore. I will never forgive her for supporting the budget 2011/debt ceiling negotiations. She’s a money grabbing bull shyster with a RINO “R” behind her name.
40 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎36‎ ‎PM by Chgogal (Obama “hung the SEALs out to dry, basically exposed them like a set of dog balls…” CMH)
Sorry I asked.
To: Aurorales

Both her and Limbaugh like to live amongst liberals and live the liberal lifestyle, but they play conservatives on the radio and TV.

39 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎12‎:‎26‎:‎23‎ ‎PM by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
Ouchie.
To: xzins

The war is on. We need a coordinated counter offensive. This means that we must all rally around Ted Cruz. He is being viciously attacked by the left and the squishy middle. He’s obviously our point man in the war to restore the Republic.

Free Republic is Cruz Country.

Cruz/Palin 2016

Lets start printing the bumper stickers and t-shirts.

In the interim we need to change some dirty diapers in the GOP leadership.

78 posted on ‎2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎9‎:‎57‎:‎26‎ ‎PM by P-Marlowe (There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
OhPleasePleasePlease
To: Boogieman

Just a reply to everyone in general.

Coulter’s point is that the country is in immediate danger of being steamrolled by something much worse than liberal republicans. While we are busy trying to change the “status quo”, we may lose the country in a way that is much, much worse than Rinos in D.C. Thomas Sowell related this to the Nazis in Germany. The majority was split, allowing the Nazis to take power and do their worst. The change in status quo may have to wait in order to put the brakes on the Dems, or we may reach a point of no return. And at that point, there won’t be any Republican party or Tea Party.

One thing Democrats have always been good at is biding their time. Coulter and Sowell are just saying that we need to be practical and get our priorities straight.

60 posted on 2‎/‎20‎/‎2014‎ ‎3‎:‎59‎:‎00‎ ‎PM by Bladerunner
BanHimCannon
Older stuff after the jump.

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Something Old, Something New edition”

People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

On Wisconsin: All over the state, public executives are exercising new authority. Instead of raising teachers’ salaries, the Mequon-Thiensville School District, near Milwaukee, froze them for two years, saving $560,000. It saved an additional $400,000 a year by increasing employee contributions for health care, said its superintendent, Demond Means. And it is starting a merit pay system for teachers, a move that has been opposed by some teachers and embraced by others. Ted Neitzke, school superintendent in West Bend, a city of 31,000 people north of Milwaukee, said that before Act 10 his budget-squeezed district had to cut course offerings … Continue reading People Who Want to Punish Teachers are Happy They Can Do That Now

Digital-First Is Meaningless

GOD, this gets so tiresome: “For six consecutive years, The Plain Dealer had double-digit losses in advertising revenue; that’s compounding on one another,” Fladung said at a gathering sponsored by the Cleveland chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the Market Garden Brewery in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood. “Whether you are a business reporter or not, it’s not hard to see that that’s a jetliner nose down. The business model was broken.” Fladung said the decision to cut back home delivery from seven days a week to four was precipitated by the revenue dive. The strategy, Fladung said, “is … Continue reading Digital-First Is Meaningless

Sunday Morning Video: The Grateful Dead Live in 1990

I am a happy musical camper. There’s a YouTuber called Voodoonola who has posted some astonishing Grateful Dead concert videos. They obviously come from the Jumbotron feed at various Dead shows. Fine sound and picture quality = Happy Adrastos. This 1990 show is a keeper. The first set combination of Truckin’ and Touch of Grey is an unusual one and it really lifts the show into the stratosphere. If you want to see the set list or track hop, watch it on YouTube. That is all. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Grateful Dead Live in 1990