February 2012
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Wisconsin GOP lawmakers signed a pledge to secrecy...
“This is one more example of a disturbing pattern of conspiratorial actions on the part of the Walker administration.” Peter Earle, Voces de la Frontera’s lead attorney stated, “It’s now clear why Scott and Jeff Fitzgerald tried so hard to keep these documents hidden under their bogus claim of ‘attorney-client privilege.’ We now have documents that prove that the Republican leadership of the...
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Susan G. Komen Foundation Adopts New Cancer...
“By eliminating further treatment for those individuals whose survival importance we deem ‘stage 0,’ our overall survival percentage rates are going to be WAY better,” Gladson concluded.
The new screening methods allow care providers to determine which individuals seeking care are deserving of actual treatment based on a series of simple preliminary questions about the patient. Some...
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A techie question on #Walkergate
If Scott Walker’s former aide* Tim Russell created a private network using a 3G wireless router to hide communications within Walker’s County Executive office, as was recently alleged, did he compromise the security of all data in the office?
The criminal complaint against former Walker aide Kelly Rindfleisch** says the secret e-mail system was used for both “official and...
January 2012
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“The thoughtless mechanical employment of...
- Judge Diane Weiss Sigmund
“Raging against the foreclosure machine ‘Kafkaesque’ nightmares plague homeowners facing foreclosure”
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#WIrecall BIGGEST RECALL IN AMERICAN HISTORY Over...
A United Wisconsin to recall Scott Walker
United Wisconsin is confirming that over one million signatures have been submitted to recall Scott Walker. Details will be posted on this historic achievement soon. CONGRATULATIONS!!!
December 2011
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This is the House’s pathetically laughable idea of...
While the Tea Partiers kowtow to their corporate backers and cozy up to ideological lunacy, the economy continues to teeter on a precipice. It’s immoral and unconscionable for these jackals to play politics and unrelentingly adhere to their crackpot ideology while unemployment levels are so high….
More at the blue cheddar blog
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Want to see footage on new pay-to-protest and...
Madison’s WKOW TV channel 27 - an ABC affiliate - will have footage for your local affiliate of the Madison ‘information session’ on a new pay-to-protest and a-rally=4 people policy for Wisconsin’s Capitol building. You can ask your local ABC affiliate to broadcast and they will get it for free from WKOW - this is per conversation with a reporter.
Actual 22 page policy +...
November 2011
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#Madison Volunteers Needed for Black Friday...
Shared from a facebook friend: Signature Collecting every day at the Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park St. in Madison. Desperate help needed especially on Black Friday. Many cars lining up but some leave because of wait. Dedicated volunteers working 9am-6pm without breaks! If you can work all day, 1 hour or even stop by to give volunteers a lunch break that would be great. If you can’t help...
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Those who can make you believe absurdities, can...
- a condensed translation of Voltaire’s: “Formerly there were those who said: You believe things that are incomprehensible, inconsistent, impossible because we have commanded you to believe them; go then and do what is unjust because we command it. Such people show admirable reasoning. Truly, whoever is able to make you absurd is able to make you unjust. If the God-given understanding...
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mal·fea·sance [mal-fee-zuhns]
noun Law . the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance ( def. 2 ) , nonfeasance.
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Occupy Spans America: Milwaukee Protesters Closed...
…in Milwaukee, several hundred protesters shook off the cold at Carver Park and then marched to the North Avenue span over I-43 (one of the few bridges being targeted where city workers had been engaged all day in doing repairs). As these protesters chanted and even sat down in the street, dozens of police squads and even Chief Flynn watched without interfering for 90 minutes, a demonstration of...
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Scott Walker: The complex changes his...
More at Commentary: Slashing program is a step backward
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Oh. THAT's why Sheboygan's mayor is under recall:
“Bartenders at The Brown Bear Bar says Ryan was passed out for two hours before getting punched in the face and getting thrown out of the establishment. All of this came after Ryan spent multiple days of binge drinking in Elkhart Lake.”
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Scott Walker to be in Sturtevant, WI 9:30AM Tues...
from Community for Change in Racine:
“Governor Walker WILL be in Sturtevant to participate in a groundbreaking ceremony at Ruud Lighting, 9201 Washington Avenue, at 9:30 a.m on Tuesday, November 15th. To *warmly* greet him, we are planning a rally on the front lawn area of the Community Corrections facility (a state-owned facility, therefore public property), 9531 Rayne Road (corner of 96th...
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Scott Walker’s own Wauwatosa Neighbors Welcome a...
This gets more beautiful the more I learn about it.
Not only is there a march to sign Walker’s recall papers on Tuesday in Wauwatosa near Walker’s home, Walker’s own neighbors are volunteering their yards for the purpose. Enough people are coming that buses will be running for about 4 hours! Copied directly from the facebook event: “We Are Milwaukee, an alliance of community-based organizations,...
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Pencil it in Northern Wisconsin: Scott Walker to...
Walker schedules northern Wisconsin economic summit By The Associated Press Nov. 10, 2011 | (69) Comments Madison - Gov. Scott Walker is holding a northern Wisconsin economic development summit in December. Walker will be joined by members of his cabinet at the meeting with business and community leaders in Minocqua scheduled for Dec. 13 and 14. Walker said northern Wisconsin has its own unique...
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Whitewater - #RECALLWALKER – OCCUPY WALL STREET...
Join progressives from Whitewater and surrounding communities area, as well as Jon Erpenbach, as we “occupy” Whitewater and plan for Walker’s recall. The event starts at 4 pm at 402 W. Main Street, and Senator Erpenbach will address the crowd at 6 pm. Then we’ll march to the university, where Senator Erpenbach will give a more formal speech at 7 p.m. at Hyland Hall in the...
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#oo Two Occupy Oakland protestors are expected to...
automobile driven by an as-yet unnamed driver. Witnesses reported that the car was attempting to get through the crowd of protestors when it first hit a young man, also as yet unnamed, and then, backing up, a young woman. Witnesses also report the driver of the Mercedes appeared to have lost patience and, as one said, “got frustrated and hit the gas.” from thenewcivilrightsmovement
from SFGate...
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October 2011
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"The part that just about made my head explode was...
whose numbers have never added up, accused President Obama of “intellectually lazy arguments.” After picking my jaw up off the floor, I learned that an example of an “intellectually lazy argument” is recommending popular tax increases on the wealthy to help reduce the Republican-created deficit and create jobs.”
More epic and supremely satisfying shredding of Paul Ryan at:
What is wrong...
It's been confirmed that Scott Olsen (Iraq War vet...
boehnertroll:
Fuck. Everything.
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Nicholas Kristof has 3 suggestions for...
from an article “The Bankers and the Revolutionaries”
¶Impose a financial transactions tax. This would be a modest tax on financial trades, modeled on the suggestions of James Tobin, an American economist who won a Nobel Prize. The aim is in part to dampen speculative trading that creates dangerous volatility.Europe is moving toward a financial transactions tax, but the Obama...
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Champagne Candy: the class implications of "know... →
from champagnecandy:
It’s been bothering me lately, in regards to Occupy Wall Street. The critiques—so many of them are well-meaning, and so many of them are calling for the protesters to have read this or that pet theorist, to have studied the history of protest movements, to have been connected to organizers on the…
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A Bloomberg Markets investigation has found that...
— in addition to being involved in improper payments to win business in Africa, India and the Middle East — has sold millions of dollars of petrochemical equipment to Iran, a country the U.S. identifies as a sponsor of global terrorism.
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