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1. #1
   On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:45 am, JamieD said:

   help locals prepare for the possibility of right-to-work legislation being passed.

   In other words, train a chosen few from each local in ‘Alinsky style’ tactics on how to fight the possibility of loosing their ‘extortion’ privileges. Those, in turn, can train the rest.

   Boy, would I love to be a fly on the wall during this training session!

2. #2
   On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:46 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

   Bryan Kennedy, Ph.D.

   The Ph.D. must stand for People Hating Democracy.

3. #3
   On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:48 am, JPinSB said:

   “…our extremist Governor.” Criminy.

4. #4
   On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:49 am, JamieD said:

   Shouldn’t the parents be privy to the kind of indoctrination teachers are receiving? After all, these same educators are molding the minds of our children.

5. #5
   On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:53 am, conservative hispanic said:

   Forget math, science, history, geography, et al. WE NEED TO AGITATE!!

   I tremble for the country’s children. I’m going to send links to all my relatives with small children so they can see that it’s better that they homeschool, or if they can’t, put them in private school.

   This a$$holes are just interested in continuing to ride the govmint’s gravy train.

6. #6
   On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:57 am, PApatriot said:

   If we are going to continue to do the important work of the (Soviet) union, and defend our rights entitlements against attacks by our extremist governor, we need to have members lemmings who have the information propaganda to help coordinate our response to the anti-unionCommunist initiatives being proposed in Madison.

   Fixed it…

7. #7
   On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:58 am, stillontheroad said:

   “help locals prepare for the possibility of right-to-work legislation being passed.”
   I keep repeating that line in my headand the more I do the more astounded I am. Only Union slags are considered worthy to work??

8. #8
   On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:59 am, rightofctr said:

   If my kids were still in school, they would be going private by now!

9. #9
   On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:00 am, mondamay said:

   On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:49 am, JamieD said:
   Shouldn’t the parents be privy to the kind of indoctrination teachers are receiving? After all, these same educators are molding the minds of our children.

   I’d say anyone still unaware at this point must be willfully ignorant.

   Public schools are one of those areas in which the attractiveness of the “free” solution offered by the Government has replaced the idea in most citizens that they can and should provide for themselves (in this case for the education of the children they produced).

   We hear a lot about things like “the cycle of poverty”. Isn’t that cycle the very thing these schools were supposed to eliminate, or at least improve?

10. #10
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:04 am, JamieD said:

    I’d say anyone still unaware at this point must be willfully ignorant.

    Unfortunately, many do not receive the information that we do, since their view is composed of CNN, NBC, etc. Until the last couple of years, even I was unaware of the degree of garbage being fed to our children.

11. #11
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:06 am, WarEagle82 said:

    Hey, the union will decide who has the right to work. And them Michael Moore will decide who gets paid…

12. #12
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:07 am, mondamay said:

    Unfortunately, many do not receive the information that we do, since their view is composed of CNN, NBC, etc.

    I don’t expect the news outlets or the blogs to make people speak with their children about the things they have learned in school.

    There are too many parents who just don’t care, or are too afraid or whatever to talk to their kids.

    Then they would know, at least to some extent, whether it was on TV or not.

13. #13
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:09 am, RedDog said:

    “Wear red to Support Public Ed”

    Finally, the appropriate use of RED. Communists are coming out of the closet. Loud and proud. The lines of demarcation are finally being drawn.

    I’m glad their priorities are in order: pilfering the public treasury, building Union dominance in the economy, expanding Statist control of the People, restricting personal liberty.

    This is what real Americans are concerned with:
    *** Texas Farmers Under Siege
    *** Illinois Attack on Gun Owners
    *** POTUS Malfeasance

14. #14
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:10 am, Ron said:

    The radical socialist unions are trying to overturn constitutional government and our republican form of government. That’s with a small “r” to emphasize that this country is not a democracy, it’s a republic. It’s a democratic republic because legally qualified voters can choose their state and federal representatives. Wisconsin voters, in November 2010, duly elected Scott Walker governor and Republican majorities in both houses of the legislature based on their stated platform of reigning in public sector unions which have gained for themselves massive entitlements that are way over the top, compared to the voters in Wisconsin, private sector workers and even workers in the federal government. The unions and Democrats lost the election. As Barack Hussein Obama loves to say, “Elections have consequences,” and “We won.” Now get the hell out of the capitol, demonstrators, and bring those 14 senators back to cast their losing votes.

15. #15
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:14 am, John Deaux said:

    Curriculum includes:
    * The proper way to extend your middle finger.
    * Instructions for striking cameras and/or cameramen without causing injury to yourself.
    * Basic anatomy education for poster drawing of elected officials as intimate body parts.

    Note – Actual talking points regarding purpose of protest will not be covered at this time.

16. #16
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:14 am, LanMandragoran said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 8:46 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Bryan Kennedy, Ph.D.

    The Ph.D. must stand for People Hating Democracy.

    From my time working for a private college as both a staffer and adjunct faculty, I can assure you that Ph.D. stands for “Piled high and Deep”

17. #17
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:15 am, Buy Danish said:

    Rates
    The cost of your event at the Conference Centers will depend on the services and technologies you wish to use. Some rates are itemized, such as food and beverages; others may be customized, such as conference planning services. There is no charge to schedule a meeting room.

    It’s freeeee! Taxpayer-funded “free” that is.

18. #18
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:19 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    The leftists only agree with democratic processes that benefit them. When they lose, it’s always someone else’s fault. They cannot comprehend that people do not want the socialist utopia they have planned for us, so our objections are illegitimate.

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

19. #19
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:19 am, Iowa Guy said:

    We need the locals to send members to get this critical information. Get two members to Madison on Friday afternoon. Thanks.

    Torches and pitchforks will be distributed after the training.

20. #20
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:23 am, RedDog said:

    From WND:

    Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich described it as an attempt by Obama to dictate his perspective to America .

    “The president is replacing the rule of law with the rule of Obama,” he said. “The president swore an oath on the Bible to ensure that the laws be faithfully executed, not to decide which laws are and which are not constitutional.”

    Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, said actions by government officials who were sworn faithfully to uphold the laws of the United States are “outrageous.”

    Further, retired U.S. Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely, a noted military leader who now is a presence on the Internet with his Stand Up For America and Veterans Defenders websites, earlier told WND he believes Obama should resign.

    Vallely, who served in Vietnam and retired in 1991 from the U.S. Army as deputy commanding general for the Pacific, said, “We now must call for the immediate resignation of Barry Soetoro (aka President Barack Hussein Obama) … based on incompetence, deceit, fraud, corruption, dishonesty and violation of the U.S. oath of office and the Constitution.”

    “We can wait no longer for a traditional change of power and new government,” he has warned.

    “‘We the People’ have had enough. Enough is enough. The Obama White House and identifiable members of Congress are now on a progressive-socialist, treasonous death march and are bankrupting and weakening the country. We have watched them violate their sacred oath of office. ‘We the People’ cannot wait for and solely rely on the next round of elections in November of this year. It is now and each day that these public servants must put the citizen’s interests above self-interest by resigning immediately,” he said.

    WND also reported that former congressman and GOP presidential candidate Tom Tancredo said for current members of the House and Senate to uphold their oath to defend the United States against enemies “foreign and domestic,” they need to file impeachment charges against Obama.

21. #21
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:26 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    “Wear red to Support Public Ed”

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:09 am, RedDog said:

    Communists are coming out of the closet. Loud and proud.

    Flashback:
    Bertha Lewis (who lied about what happened when James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles visited ACORN’s Philadelphia office) was both CEO of ACORN and a founding Co-Chair of the Working Families Party.

    And there is a direct connection between Bertha Lewis and the Communist Party USA’s efforts to influence elections:

    Remember the president of NY NOW telling us she wanted to see lots of red flags at the March for Women’s Lives. And the chair of ACORN and Working Families Party [Bertha Lewis] who called upon us [the Communist Party USA] as family to make our contribution known. Did we respond? YES, we responded!

    The Communist Party USA and the 2004 Elections:
    Build the Party, Build the Coalitions

    “Build the Coalitions” = the vast left-wing conspiracy.

22. #22
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:31 am, Buy Danish said:

    Heh. Speaking of the American Federation of Teachers, check out Hartford, CT’s mayoral candidate, Edwin Vargas:

    In the early 1980s, Vargas and LaLuz were both also affiliated to the Communist Party USA front U.S. Peace Council, an affiliate of the Soviet front World Peace Council.

    Most of Vargas’ career has been spent in teaching. He has been active within the American Federation of Teachers, including as a member of the union’s K through 12 Program and Policy Committee.

23. #23
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:32 am, stillontheroad said:

    “Wear read to support Public Ed” should read ” Hold a Turd while shooing America the Bird”

24. #24
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:36 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    That AFT letter should be enough to convince honest people to pull the plug on public sector unions and especially “Binding Arbitration”. We can’t afford it and it is turning out our own destruction.

25. #25
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:37 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:19 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

    A Family Friend of fellow Alinsky radical Bill Ayers…

    Ayers: Oh, by the way, Obama and I actually are “family friends”
    posted at 9:05 pm on November 13, 2008 by Allahpundit

26. #26
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:45 am, OK_Loyalist said:

    I thought of something last night. “Who is Barry Soetoro?” signs outside the showing of Atlas Shrugged Part 1.

27. #27
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:51 am, Flyoverman said:

    Do something positive. Agitate on your own. Find like minded people in your community, descend on your district school board and demand that the union be tossed out of your district.

    Go to the city council and ask that all the unions be tossed out there as well. Tell them if they don’t then you will work to elect people who will.

    They cannot run off to your state capitol or someone elses capitol, when they are threatened at home.

    Do not confront them. Flank them.

28. #28
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:53 am, peteee said:

    it is so nice to see the union going around searching for the very best teachers they can find, makes me think the children will be excited at the level of professionalism. oh wait did i say teachers, i meant agitators, those kids will just have to hope the obama stash doesn’t run out, otherwise it is a large refridgerator box on lower wacker drive.

29. #29
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:55 am, TigerLady said:

    Curriculum includes:

    And don’t forget the art of language. I’m sure there are many, many more vulgar expressions that can be filtered into our daily language. The F bomb is getting tiresome. Even the C word has become trite.

30. #30
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:56 am, granite said:

    It may finally be time to “fight fire with fire”.

    Perhaps Bryan Kennedy’s address should be publicized?

31. #31
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:09 am, passingruffian said:

    This agitation thing seems to be working. I’m getting more agitated by the day.

32. #32
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:14 am, Reg.conservative said:

    I found this http://wisconsinwave.org/ Check out the INITIAL SIGNATORS all the hadcore are in it .

33. #33
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:14 am, rocketman said:

    ***
    This old guy’s teachers were a lot more conservative and Patriotic than many of the current crop of teachers are.
    ***
    Possibly it was due to their service in the Military in WW2 and the Korean War for the men. And also serving in the Military for some of the women–and for the many women teachers who waited years for their husbands and family members to return to normal lives when the fighting was over. If they made it back.
    ***
    They saw our country’s enemies up close and personal. Now we see them in our schools and government.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

34. #34
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:18 am, sidewinder said:

    “Wear red to Support Public Ed”

    Just looked up Red Shirts on Wikipedia. “Such groups acted as “the military arm of the Democratic Party.”[1] While engaging in terrorism, in contrast to secret vigilante groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Red Shirts and other paramilitary groups worked openly, were more organized and directed their efforts at political goals: to restore the Democrats to power by turning out Republicans, and repressing civil rights and voting by blacks.” Kinda sorta deja vu.

35. #35
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:28 am, stillontheroad said:

    sidewinder said:
    History — you got to love it. But are they doomed to repeat it or just pulling this out of the closet for new use?? You have to wonder if their own knowledge of History was derived from the original Red Doper Diaper Babies.

36. #36
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:34 am, John Deaux said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:18 am, sidewinder said:
    “Wear red to Support Public Ed”

    Just looked up Red Shirts on Wikipedia.

    The were also the first ones on the away team to die.

37. #37
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:35 am, gringolite said:

    I am a confirmed,dyed in the wool “BIRTHER”.
    I am also a “newbie poster”,therefore I reserve my comments to those topics which are posted before us each day.
    However, I am appalled at the blatant inappropriate “threadjacking” that goes on here lately.
    Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to leave the registration open to those of us who can’t get past our own personal demons.

38. #38
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:35 am, ThackerAgency said:

    This nation will default . . . and it will be a direct result of “democracy”.

    No elected official wants to stop spending other peoples’ money because then they would have to stop taking credit for giving away money.

    As soon as people realize they can vote themselves more money, the nation will go bankrupt. . . this is exactly what is happening today. While the Titanic sinks, Congress is admiring the chandeliers in the ballroom.

    They won’t cut money because they want people to vote for them. That’s the flaw in leadership in a “democracy”.

39. #39
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:41 am, Darthnoob said:

    our extremist governor

    Well I gues that makes me an extremist too !

    Who is Barry Soetero?

40. #40
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:41 am, iamsaved said:

    When Democrats cut and run across the state border to avoid voting on a bill they don’t agree with; when you have a populace that votes for people like Barack Obama and his ideology; you have a populace who wants cuts in spending as long as they don’t touch entitlements; – all make for a sad commentary on the way this country is moving. If the above trend isn’t changed soon, this country is doomed. Frankly, I don’t see it changing.

    It’s ironic liberal supporters shout meaningless words like “shame” and don’t even have one iota as to what shame really is. Their behavior these past few weeks are the epitome of what shame actually looks like.

41. #41
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:42 am, Buy Danish said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:45 am, OK_Loyalist said:

    I thought of something last night. “Who is Barry Soetoro?” signs outside the showing of Atlas Shrugged Part 1.

    Well-done!

42. #42
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:50 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Drop post-it notes everywhere:

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

43. #43
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:52 am, illegalsworstnightmare said:

    Working with the national AFT, we are conducting a very important activist training next weekend and we need your help to recruit participants.

    Activist training as used above is not singular. Therefore, using the “a” as a preposition is incorrect grammar. No wonder the school system is screwed up – they can’t even pass their own grammar tests!

44. #44
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:59 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    Working with the national AFT, we are conducting a very important activist training next weekend and we need your help to recruit participants.

    “Next week, we will host a session on self-aggrandizement, followed by sessions covering the incitement of violence in crowds.“

45. #45
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:03 am, JPinSB said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:35 am, gringolite said:

    I am a confirmed,dyed in the wool “BIRTHER”.
    I am also a “newbie poster”,therefore I reserve my comments to those topics which are posted before us each day.
    However, I am appalled at the blatant inappropriate “threadjacking” that goes on here lately.
    Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to leave the registration open to those of us who can’t get past our own personal demons.

    (a) you are off topic
    (b) leave my demons out of this

46. #46
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:05 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    demons.

    That’s no way to refer to the _resident and his minions….

47. #47
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:07 am, SignPainterGuy said:

    illegalsworstnightmare – #43

    Preach it, oh ye of like-minded non-gender-specific interwebs code name !!
    I caught that, too ! It drives me nuts (short trip) !

    As does seeing the goons of the unions (goonions) opposing “Right to Work” legislation…..something about that just doesn`t compute !

48. #48
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:13 am, CO2 Producer said:

    This is yet another component of the state teachers’ intended Liberal Indoctrination 101 program.

49. #49
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:13 am, Ota Benga said:

    A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, ‘Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.’

50. #50
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:14 am, John Deaux said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:35 am, gringolite said:
    I am appalled at the blatant inappropriate “threadjacking” that goes on here lately.

    Do you mean real threadjacking or when the same one or two people post almost the same thing about a single issue on every thread?

51. #51
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:14 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    #21
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:26 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

    ITTRedPill. People like Bertha Lewis and the higher ups in the communist/marxist parties know that the general public recoils at the utterance of the labels “communists” and “marxist”. That’s why, as I’m sure know, these communists and marxists dance around questions asking if they are either of the above. It’s lao why they come up with name like “Working Familiy Party” and….”Organizing For America”.

    These are communist/marxist organizations, renamed for PR purposes, but with the same purpose as they have always had. An incremental takeover of the United States of America.

    It’s why it infuriates me that people like O’Reilly and Huckabee give Obama and other marxists quarter when none should be given.

    Last night Huckabee said “I don’t think Obama hates America…”

    What? Is he kidding? Oh he doesn’t hate the land that we know as America. He hates what it has represented and is hell bent on changing it. Recall his wife’s statement that “this was the first time in my adult life…..”

    That’s their position. They can lie about it all they want. It changes nothing.

    And it also changes nothing about what these groups, like the AFT are, and what they plan to do to America.

    And how to we stop them? We take action. The left knows that so they pre-label ANY action we take or anything we say as hostile, intolerant, racist…. and so on.

    It comes straight from Obama himself. “Republicans in Wisconsin are attacking union members and trying to take away their rights.”

    The pieces are all in view. Put it together.

    “Americans” need to recognize these insurgents tactics. Especially Americans who hold public office.

52. #52
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:23 am, CO2 Producer said:

    …the state teachers’ intended…

    Correction: the state teachers’ unions’ intended

    Or is it “the state’s teachers’ unions’ intended”? I don’t know. They were the ones who were supposed to lern me how to rite.

    The heck with it. “Wisconsin’s intended.”

53. #53
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:33 am, Buy Danish said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:50 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Drop post-it notes everywhere:

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

    I’d love to see that stenciled into sidewalks of NYC, S.F., L.A. and Madison (in bio-degradable chalk of course). Followed up by random street interviews, asking the same question. It would be very funny. CC: Y.A.F.?

54. #54
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:50 am, Darthnoob said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:50 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Drop post-it notes everywhere:

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

    I’ve started using it when I make posts in other places. We all should until it becomes viral, and we’ll be the only ones who know who started it.

55. #55
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:10 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:50 am, Virginia Patriot said:
    Drop post-it notes everywhere:

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

    It’s time to get this going…far and wide. Many people probably don’t even know the answer!! Are there bumper stickers yet? There needs to be.

56. #56
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:13 pm, dan708 said:

    I wonder if the rest of us should wear black, as in “black ink”? How appropriate that the union thugs chose red…

57. #57
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:16 pm, happyscrapper said:

    I’ve started using it when I make posts in other places. We all should until it becomes viral, and we’ll be the only ones who know who started it.

    I am still convinced that some of us on MM’s blog were the very beginning of the Tea Party idea. We talked about sending tea bags to DC in protest LONG before the Tea Party got off the ground. I believe we actually had the basic nucleus of the idea first. Perhaps others did also, but it was way before anyone ever heard of the Tea Party. I am very proud to have been at the beginning of this amazing Conservative revolution.

58. #58
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:40 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:14 am, Reg.conservative said:

    I found this http://wisconsinwave.org/ Check out the INITIAL SIGNATORS all the hadcore are in it .

    INITIAL SIGNATORS * organizations listed for ID purposes only

    Juan F. Jimenez, Associate Executive Director, Racine Education UniServ Council
    Alexander Hanna, Co-President of the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA)
    Kevin Gibbons, Co-President of the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA)
    Mary Bottari, Director of the Real Economy Project
    Matthew Rothschild, Editor, The Progressive
    Lisa Graves, Executive Director, Center for Media and Democracy
    John E. Peck, Executive Director, Family Farm Defenders
    Kabzuag Vaj, Executive Director, Freedom Inc.
    Ben Manski, Executive Director, Liberty Tree Foundation
    John Matthews, Executive Director, Madison Teachers, Inc. (MTI)
    Peggy A. Lautenschlager, Attorney, Bauer & Bach, L.L.C.
    Diane Farsetta, Executive Director, WI Network for Peace and Justice
    Joe Conway, President, Firefighters Local 311
    Bryan Kennedy, President of AFT-Wisconsin
    Andy Heidt, President AFSCME Professionals 1871
    John Nichols, author, The “S” Word: A Short History of an American Tradition…Socialism
    Beth Ludeman, UniServ Director, Cedar Lake United Educators
    Peter Rickman, Vice President, AFT-Wisconsin
    Chad Alan Goldberg, Vice President, United Faculty and Academic Staff (UFAS), AFT 223
    Margot Kennard, Academic Advisor
    Sheila Lederer, Admin Assistant, Sauk Trail Elementary School
    Dace A. Zeps, Administrator, Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Eric Robson, AFSCME 171 steward
    Nicolas Lampert, artist, Justseeds.org
    Todd Price, Associate Professor of Education, National Louis University
    Dennis Boyer, Attorney
    Fred Wade, Attorney
    Jim Lyne, Attorney
    Sally A. Stix, Attorney
    Victor Forberger, Attorney
    Bruce M. Green, Attorney
    Steve Herrick, Business owner
    Sarah Manski, CEO, PosiPair.com; AFT 6100
    Nelson Zane Eisman, Chief Steward, Local 4646, Ret.
    Marsha Rummel, City of Madison Common Council
    Jim Draeger, Co-Chair Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
    Mike Moon, Co-operator, Just Coffee Cooperative
    Lee M. Abbott, Co-president, Milwaukee Graduate Assistants Association, AFT 2169
    Barbara Vedder, Dane County Board of Supervisors
    Maureen Plunkett, Dane County Corporation Counsel, Child Support Office
    Gerald Emery, Delivery Driver
    Brian Pruka, Ecologist
    Joan Betz, Engineering Specialist, Wisconsin Department of Transportation
    Virginia Bormann, Financial Specialist
    Cynthia Lin, Freedom Inc., Board of Directors
    Monica Adams, Freedom, Inc.
    Sangita Nayak, Freedom, Inc.
    Maureen (Molly) Plunkett, Government attorney
    Amy S. Mondloch, Grassroots Leadership College, director
    Larry Dooley, Green activist
    Lukas Z! Haukeness, Groundwork and Operation Welcome Home
    Patrick Barrett, Havens Center Executive Director
    Colin T. Higgins, High School Student
    Marc Becker, Historian
    Mike Konopacki, Labor Cartoonist
    Ron Hardy, Librarian
    Rick Tvedt, MAMA, Inc.
    Jeff Ryan, Marquette County – Alive and Well
    Melissa Mulliken, Melissa Mulliken Consulting
    Ed Sadlowski, Wisconsin Council 40, AFSCME, AFL-CIO
    Bert G. Zipperer, Middle School Counselor
    Sunshine Jones, MS MFT, (Family Therapist)
    Eve Degen, MTI Executive Assistant for Labor Relations
    Ellen Lindgren, President, MCPASD School Board
    Donna Vukelich-Selva, Professor
    Joel Rogers, Professor
    Leon Lindberg, Professor Emeritus UW-Madison
    Beatrice Lindberg, Professor Emeritus UW-Madison
    Al Gedicks, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
    Lane Hall, Professor, English, UW Milwaukee
    Paul Krc, Professor, UW Mathematics
    Steve Burns, Program Director, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice
    Nate Ela, Project Assistant, Center on Wisconsin Strategy
    James Ploeser, Public Citizen
    Andrea Lindberg, public school teacher
    Jeff Peterson, public school teacher
    Jonathan Gramling, Publisher & Editor, The Capital City Hues
    Trish O’Neil, Registered Nurse
    Linda Konopacki, Retired UW Health Services Nurse
    Patty Allen Fritter, Retiree, UFCW Local 538, AFSCME Retiree
    Kaja Rebane, SCWMTA Co-Chair
    Carol Carlin, Senior Citizen
    Esty Dinur, State Employee
    Maria Cavicchio, Teacher
    Kaia Lindberg, Teacher and Artist
    Brenda K. Konkel, Tenant Resource Center, Executive Director
    Marilyn Townsend, Trustee, Village of Shorewood-Hills
    Mary Thompson-Shriver, Undergraduate Academic Adviser, UW-Madison
    Gerald Gunderson, United Steelworkers, IWW
    George Martin, US Social Forum-National Planning Council
    Krista M. Ralston, UW Clinical Professor of Law Emerita
    Rachel Krueger, UW Law School J.D. Candidate
    Omar Poler, UW Madison Graduate Student
    Joanne Huston, WEAC Attorney/IPD Consultant
    Joy First, Pledge of Resistance
    Doug Zwank, former mayor, City of Middleton
    Andy Gussert, fair trade activist
    Sandi & Tom Vandervest, Middleton Action Team
    Adam Porton, Progressive Dane
    Alex Gillis, Immigrant Workers Union (UTI)
    Barbara Olson
    Ellen La Luzerne
    Susan Ickstadt
    Jan & David Conley
    Laurie Frank Twyla
    Clark Brian Rothgery
    Shahla M. Werner, PhD
    Susan K. Pastor

59. #59
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:43 pm, ShoreDor said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:09 pm, ShoreDor said:
    I received three emails this morning linking to michellemalkin.com. The TRUTH is spreading like wildfire and it cannot be denied. We have proof, and we’re not afraid to use it!

    I, for one, no longer hesitate in the slightest to bring up and talk about what’s happening in our country when I’m out in public. It’s amazing how many people agree with you, even here in NJ. I’ve been known to whip out my iphone and help them educate themselves on the spot.

    We CAN and MUST keep beating these commies at their own game! We have them surrounded, and they are foolishly exposing themselves. All we have to do is pass it on.

    Oh, and to paraphrase General George S. Patton,

    “Alinski, you commie bastard –We’ve read your book!

60. #60
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:49 pm, CO2 Producer said:

    We do not want people who are already giving time to the union, but instead people who have shown an interest in increasing their level of activism. This training is designed to accompany our ongoing internal organizing program, and to help locals prepare for the possibility of right-to-work legislation being passed.

    Just curious—have these developments been enabled in part by the taxpayer-funded Serve America Act? The Act supposedly prohibits the use of funds for union or political purposes, but at the very least, is it possible that the Act complements the training in some way? This inquiring mind would like to know.

    From the text of the law:

    ‘SEC. 112. ASSISTANCE TO STATES, TERRITORIES, AND INDIAN TRIBES.

    ‘(a) Allotments to States, Territories, and Indian Tribes- The Corporation, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, may make allotments to State educational agencies, territories, and Indian tribes to pay for the Federal share of–
    ‘(1) planning and building the capacity within the State, territory, or Indian tribe involved to implement service-learning programs that are based principally in elementary schools and secondary schools, including–
    ‘(A) providing training and professional development for teachers, supervisors, personnel from community-based entities (particularly with regard to the recruitment, utilization, and management of participants), and trainers, to be conducted by qualified individuals or organizations that have experience with service-learning…
    (2) implementing, operating, or expanding school-based service-learning programs, which may include paying for the cost of the recruitment, training, supervision, placement, salaries, and benefits of service-learning coordinators, through distribution by State educational agencies, territories, and Indian tribes of Federal funds made available under this part to projects operated by local partnerships among–
    ‘(A) local educational agencies; and
    ‘(B) 1 or more community partners that–
    ‘(i) shall include a public or private nonprofit organization that–
    ‘(I) has a demonstrated expertise in the provision of services to meet unmet human, education, environmental, or public safety needs;
    ‘(II) will make projects available for participants, who shall be students; and
    ‘(III) was in existence at least 1 year before the date on which the organization submitted an application under section 113

    SEC. 1202. HIGHER EDUCATION PROVISIONS.

    (f) Considerations- In making grants and entering into contracts under subsection (b), the Corporation shall take into consideration whether the applicants submit applications containing proposals that…

    (4) describe any partnership that will participate in the community service projects, such as a partnership comprised of–
    ‘(A) the institution;
    ‘(B)(i) a community-based agency;
    ‘(ii) a local government agency; or
    ‘(iii) a nonprofit entity that serves or involves school-age youth, older adults, or low-income communities; and
    ‘(C)(i) a student organization;
    ‘(ii) a department of the institution; or
    ‘(iii) a group of faculty comprised of different departments, schools, or colleges at the institution

61. #61
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:49 pm, mondamay said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:13 am, Ota Benga said:

    A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, ‘Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.’

    Lets see here… 11 out of 12 cookies for CEOs, that would indicate, what, 91 or 92 percent of the wealth (or cookies) is held by CEOs? Riiiight…

    Replace the CEO with a politician and the TEA partier with a union boss, and there might be enough truth in that for it to be funny.

62. #62
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:50 pm, ShoreDor said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:16 pm, happyscrapper said:
    I am very proud to have been at the beginning of this amazing Conservative revolution.

    So am I, Happy! I couldn’t post at MM then, but I went to the first Tea Party in New Jersey, Tax Day 2009 on the boardwalk in Belmar. It was absolutely freezing, with sleety rain whipping off the Ocean, but it was one of the best days of my life! There were about 1200 of us there. No leader, no speeches, just patriots standing up for the country we love.

63. #63
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:52 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:18 am, sidewinder said:

    Just looked up Red Shirts

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:28 am, stillontheroad said:

    You have to wonder if their own knowledge of History was derived from the original Red Doper Diaper Babies.

    To which I add:

    Barack Obama: Red Diaper Baby
    American Thinker
    October 30, 2008

64. #64
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 1:20 pm, ShoreDor said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 9:45 am, OK_Loyalist said:
    I thought of something last night. “Who is Barry Soetoro?” signs outside the showing of Atlas Shrugged Part 1

    Might I suggest:

    We Are John Galt

    Who Is Barry Soetero?

65. #65
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 1:24 pm, Ota Benga said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:49 pm, mondamay said:

    Rent Inside Job.

    On topic, it’s pretty old fashioned to accuse people of being communists just for supporting the rights of unions.

    Can unions be bullying and greedy? Sure, any organization can. Have unions been indespensible in protecting American workers from being exploited? Absolutely.

66. #66
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 1:31 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:16 pm, happyscrapper said:

    I am still convinced that some of us on MM’s blog were the very beginning of the Tea Party idea. We talked about sending tea bags to DC in protest LONG before the Tea Party got off the ground. I believe we actually had the basic nucleus of the idea first. Perhaps others did also, but it was way before anyone ever heard of the Tea Party. I am very proud to have been at the beginning of this amazing Conservative revolution.

    I did a little searching and came up with some Tea Party references from 2008…

    On February 15th, 2008 at 11:57 am, uhangtight said:

    … we are in a war for the very core principles that makes this country and its people envied througout the world. taxation clearly without any real representation. this generation needs its own boston tea party.

    On September 25th, 2008 at 12:19 am, Send_Me said:

    Congress would consider it if we mailed enough used tea bags to their offices with a little note saying, “You vote for this, you’re gone.”

    On September 25th, 2008 at 1:33 pm, Send_Me said:

    Start mailing in your used tea bags to your Congressmen.

    Those quotes predate the 2008 election.

    I’d like to see Obama explain how the roots of the Tea Party are “racist”, when they began during the Bush Presidency…

    The fact is that the driving force behind the Tea Party movement is FISCAL CONSERVATISM.

    And yes, many Tea Party Patriots are also Social Conservatives. But the Libertarians aren’t social conservatives. The common ground is Fiscal Conservatism.

    And I still say that the common factor in the 2006, 2008, and 2010 elections is that they were all won by the party that was viewed at the time as the more FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE party.

    In 2006, a majority of voters were angry at the Republican Congress earmarks and spending.

    In 2008, Republicans were blamed for the financial crises and TARP.

    By 2010, voters had seen what two years of complete Democratic control really looks like… record deficits, nationalization of entire industries, and sustained high unemployment.

    The 2006, 2008, and 2010 elections were all a search for FISCAL SANITY. The Democrats marketed themselves as fiscal conservatives in 2006, but now the curtain has been pulled back and I don’t think voters will ever see Democrats as fiscally conservative ever again. (or at least for two decades)

67. #67
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 1:36 pm, ShoreDor said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 1:24 pm, Ota Benga said:
    On topic, it’s pretty old fashioned to accuse people of being communists just for supporting the rights of unions.

    Really? Did you read MM’s post, or her many other posts offering links to substantiate every word she writes? We have proof and we’re not afraid to use it.

68. #68
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 1:36 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    As does seeing the goons of the unions (goonions) opposing “Right to Work” legislation…..something about that just doesn`t compute !

    They don’t want the work or the right to work, they just wants the moneys!

69. #69
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 1:41 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:49 pm, mondamay said:
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 11:13 am, Ota Benga said:

    A public union employee, a tea party activist, and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, ‘Watch out for that union guy. He wants a piece of your cookie.’
    Lets see here… 11 out of 12 cookies for CEOs, that would indicate, what, 91 or 92 percent of the wealth (or cookies) is held by CEOs? Riiiight…

    Replace the CEO with a politician and the TEA partier with a union boss, and there might be enough truth in that for it to be funny.

    I look at it this way, the CEO runs the company that makes the cookies and he needs more to reinvest back into the company. If you replace him with a politician and a union boss, there will be no more cookies after they run out, unless they come from China.

70. #70
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 1:42 pm, Common Sense said:

    continue to do the important work of the union

    Then what are we paying them to be teachers for?

71. #71
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:16 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:43 pm, ShoreDor said:

    Oh, and to paraphrase General George S. Patton,

    “Alinski, you commie bastard –We’ve read your book!”

    That’s awesome!

72. #72
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:24 pm, ShoreDor said:

    

73. #73
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:24 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 12:50 pm, ShoreDor said:

    I went to the first Tea Party in New Jersey, Tax Day 2009 on the boardwalk in Belmar. It was absolutely freezing, with sleety rain whipping off the Ocean, but it was one of the best days of my life! There were about 1200 of us there. No leader, no speeches, just patriots standing up for the country we love.

    **== (Waving flag emoticon)

74. #74
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:33 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    ShoreDor,
    My first Tea Party was on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in August 2008. I considered it a “Texas Tea” Party, as we were protesting Nancy Pelosi’s actions and calling for our government to allow U.S. companies to “Drill Here, Drill Now!”

    Floor revolt: No vacation for House Republicans;
    GOP calls for special session on gas prices;
    Pence: “Prepared to stay here as long as we can;”
    Update: Pelosi crackdown?!;
    “God Bless America”
    By Michelle Malkin • August 1, 2008 12:37 PM

    The following week, I drove to the capitol building and participated in the protest on the House floor.

    My first local Tea Party was, like yours, on April 15, 2009.

75. #75
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:35 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Again, I’d like to see Obama explain how the roots of the Tea Party are supposedly “racist”, when they began during the Bush Presidency…

76. #76
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:41 pm, happyscrapper said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:35 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
    Again, I’d like to see Obama explain how the roots of the Tea Party are supposedly “racist”, when they began during the Bush Presidency…

    Well…that doesn’t fit their agenda or their spin, so they won’t acknowledge it and the MSM won’t say anything, so once again, we are preaching to the choir. They want the Tea Party to be racist, so the Tea Party is racist. Proof? They don’t need no stinkin’ proof.

77. #77
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:51 pm, ShoreDor said:

    The jug eared jesus really needs to get some new material.

    His color has nothing to do with this.

    Who is Barry Soetero?

78. #78
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:56 pm, ShoreDor said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:33 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:
    ShoreDor,
    My first Tea Party was on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in August 2008.

    Great story, Red Pill! I was on the front lawn of the Capitol on 9/12/09. The crowd stretched as far as the eye could see in every direction. We were all yelling “We own this House!”

    Also last Tax Day and again on 8/28/10. Plan to go back this April 15th.

    We surround them.

79. #79
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:57 pm, happyscrapper said:

    The Tea Party basically started during the Bush administration, not because of Bush, but because of the democrat majority during Bush’s last two years. People seem to forget that Pelosi had her claws sunk in deeply during that time and spent a LOT of money. Bush had to approve the spending, but the dems got the ball rolling. Progressives, busy bankrupting our country since 2006.

80. #80
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 2:59 pm, LanMandragoran said:

    All I have to say is …

    YES!!!

    I hope to see some pretty mug shots soon. They would serve well on campaign posters during the recall elections.

81. #81
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 3:13 pm, right_on said:

    If we are going to continue to do the important work of the union, and defend our rights against attacks by our extremist governor..

    Does anything else need be said about teachers unions? It is clear their priorities are not with education, but with pay and politics.

    THEY MUST BE DESTROYED!! Or, they will destroy us.

82. #82
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 3:24 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 3:13 pm, right_on said:

    THEY MUST BE DESTROYED!! Or, they will destroy us.

    We must defeat them before they defeat us.

    One of their stated goals is
    

    Defeating the Ultra-Right

83. #83
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 3:29 pm, Khyris said:

    Am I the only one to think of this?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_dead_than_red

    I wonder how many vintage pins are still in circulation…

84. #84
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 3:32 pm, BOB said:

    The Socialist/Maxist will continue to use Alinsky as long as it works. Over two years have passed since Barry usurped the presidency, and many, “conservative”, taking heads have been so, ‘Alinskied”, they are afraid to touch Barry’s obvious ineligibility with a ten-foot pole.

    That they continue to use and teach the, “Rules for Radicals”, whenever they have a chance is no surprise.

85. #85
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 3:41 pm, bodfish said:

    Re: the late Alinsky’s current ilk — they had the last election covered coming and going for the Dem Primary. Obama an avowed “student” of his Community Activism; Hilary a student since her days at Wellesley. Her senior thesis, 1969, was a puff piece on Alinsky. Assuming McCain’s loss, one of “them” would be President. Hilary’s writing has finally come to light on the Internet, but no writings, courses, or grades have popped up from The One’s 2 colleges and law school. If he did write, I wonder what.

86. #86
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 3:45 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

    The U.S. Supreme Court has an opportunity to grant certiorari on THAT QUESTION tomorrow, March 4, 2011.

    Will they?

    I don’t know. But I think it is worth following the example of our Founders of fasting and praying for the next 24 hours.

    In CONGRESS,
    SATURDAY, March 16, 1776.

    IN times of impending calamity and distress; when the Liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret machinations and open assaults of an insidious and vindictive Administration, it becomes the indispensible duty of these hitherto free and happy Colonies, with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publickly to acknowledge the over ruling providence of God; to confess and deplore our offences against him; and to supplicate his interposition for averting the threatened danger, and prospering our strenuous efforts in the cause of Freedom, Virtue and Posterity.

    The Congress therefore…

87. #87
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 4:52 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:50 am, Virginia Patriot said:

    Drop post-it notes everywhere:

    Who is Barry Soetoro?

    What follows is the story of a most amazing revelation. THE revelation.
    Let’s Recount What We Know

    http://obamasgarden.wordpress.com/

88. #88
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 5:47 pm, Virginia Patriot said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 4:52 pm, Green eyed Lady said:

    Thanks

89. #89
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 6:02 pm, BOB said:

    On March 3rd, 2011 at 10:35 am, gringolite said:
    I am a confirmed,dyed in the wool “BIRTHER”.
    I am also a “newbie poster”,therefore I reserve my comments to those topics which are posted before us each day.
    However, I am appalled at the blatant inappropriate “threadjacking” that goes on here lately.
    Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to leave the registration open to those of us who can’t get past our own personal demons.

    Thanks, I am a birther also. If you came here to discuss Obama’s eligibility you will have to do some “threadjacking” to do it. The owner of this blog will never discuss Obama’s eligibility or lack thereof in a thread of it’s own.

    Sometimes it inadvertently comes close to being discussed, and you can jump in without too blatant of a “threadjacking”.

    Oh, and welcome!!

90. #90
    On March 3rd, 2011 at 6:50 pm, Khyris said:

    I’ve seen this link circulated in a few places now

    http://obamasgarden.wordpress.com/

    Unfortunately, if you read the details his entire theory hinges upon one tenuous assumption.
    Dr. Fukino’s statement is she and the registrar, who oversees such documents, had seen the original certificate.

    The author makes the assumption that this implies the registrar HAS CUSTODY of the certificate.
    Really, it merely says the registrar has SEEN it, and that the REASON the registrar was ALLOWED to see it when is is not released to the public without a compelling interest is that the registrar usually handles such documents AT SOME POINT DURING THE PROCESS anyway. NOT that the reason is because they currently had custody of it.

    This is NOT the smoking gun you think it is.

91. #91
    On March 4th, 2011 at 3:35 am, jhn1 said:

    back to thread related stuff.
    Before Reagan, the media alternated red/blue between presidential elections.
    I suspect Red hit too close to home for Democrat supporting producers and editors at that point, so they locked Republicans with Red to disassociate Democrats from Red.
    That would be my claim as to when the media started to actively, deliberately manipulate elections with how they covered (or ignored) stuff.