RexRed
 
  2  
Sun 22 Feb, 2015 09:05 am
AFL-CIO plans rallies against right-to-work at Wisconsin Capitol this week
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/city-life/afl-cio-plans-rallies-against-right-to-work-at-wisconsin/article_c24b6a90-b9de-11e4-b9b2-dff1684c2504.html

http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/host.madison.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/e/5c/e5c2c62e-b9e5-11e4-9c73-a72c11ae51c5/5482074d7475a.preview-620.jpg
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bobsal u1553115
 
  3  
Sun 22 Feb, 2015 09:15 am
The GOP’s Giuliani disaster: Why Rudy’s vile nonsense is a big problem for Republicans

The ex-mayor has long been a demagogue. But for Republicans, his nasty comments may hint at a new political threat

ELIAS ISQUITH

For millions of American workers, the “pedal to the metal” growth of the labor market means life is about to get better. But for those conservatives and Republican partisans who are looking to 2016 already, a healthier economy means life is about to get worse. Why? Because on the national level, electoral politics tends to operate on one of two channels — one cultural, the other economic. And in a country that’s more ethnically diverse and socially liberal than ever, it’s harder for the right to win if it’s attacking President Obama over issues of identity and culture than if it’s hammering him about dollars and cents.

I’m hardly the first person to recognize the political calculus here. (The GOP establishment wing, in fact, seems convinced that focusing on economics is the only way they can win.) But while this dynamic has been present throughout the Obama years, it’s become more pronounced lately, as criticism of the president has begun to shift away from the unemployment rate, GDP growth and “job-killing regulations” and toward assertions that he isn’t really one of “us.” Or, as ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani put it this week before an audience of Manhattan conservatives, that Obama “wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country.”

The thoroughly odious Giuliani’s whole political career has been built on an edifice of thinly-veiled racism and ferocious demagoguery, so it wasn’t a surprise to see him channel such toxic undercurrents. (And it is similarly unsurprising to see him defend himself by cribbing the “Obama is anti-colonial” argument from Dinesh D’Souza, a far-right provocateur and convicted felon who recently called the president a “boy” from the “ghetto.”) But Giuliani’s incendiary drivel was firmly in step with much of the conservative movement right now, which has begun to nurture a Captain Ahab-like obsession with what it sees as a telltale sign of Obama’s foreign nature — namely, his refusal to describe ISIS as Islamic, and his insistence that extremism, rather than Islamic extremism, is a danger to the globe.

more
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/21/the_tea_partys_mayor_why_giulianis_rabid_nonsense_is_a_big_problem_for_the_gop/
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giujohn
 
  -1  
Sun 22 Feb, 2015 04:49 pm
@bobsal u1553115,
Quote:
Though you did come from a monkey's asshole.


CJ did NOT come from your asshole.
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coldjoint
 
  -1  
Sun 22 Feb, 2015 09:38 pm
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coldjoint
 
  -3  
Sun 22 Feb, 2015 09:40 pm
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coldjoint
 
  -4  
Sun 22 Feb, 2015 09:41 pm
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coldjoint
 
  -4  
Sun 22 Feb, 2015 09:46 pm
Quote:
Washington Post: The progressive ideas behind the lack of free speech on campus (More “Left-fascism”)


If you wondered where those memes came from. Read this.


http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2015/02/washington-post-the-progressive-ideas-behind-the-lack-of-free-speech-on-campus-more-left-fascism/
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Nark Mobble
 
  3  
Mon 23 Feb, 2015 08:19 pm
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B-da9s2IUAAVw-B.jpg
RexRed
 
  2  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 07:42 am
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10425442_879080645447352_2888597678918772066_n.jpg?oh=7182ab1b40a298b8e98adebb8016e06c&oe=5553D577&__gda__=1435896093_cda534fd3edefc173c89a94b8b20bc42

Thanks to Mitch there is a dirty, oozing toxins, pipeline headed straight for a river or lake near you!

But that is okay, you will not know about it until you are surrounded in a spill of the most noxious kind. (cynical but true)
Nark Mobble
 
  4  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 08:46 am
http://www.creators.com/editorial_cartoons/18/31462_thumb.jpg
revelette2
 
  2  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 09:08 am
@Nark Mobble,
She really needs a new hair style.
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revelette2
 
  2  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 09:11 am
@RexRed,
I guess we in KY will have to wait until he keels over before we get rid of him. We just keep voting for him, depressing.

Obama most likely will veto the pipeline. I doubt there will be enough votes to override the veto. I forget, how many do they need?
revelette2
 
  3  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 09:30 am
Quote:
The Keystone showdown comes as the pipeline has lost some traction among the public. In January, support dropped to 41 percent, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll.

Still, Republicans are ready for the veto and assessing their options.

“First thing we will do is talk to our colleagues on the other side of the aisle,” Hoeven said. “We may bring it back and try to override it. We will do work there and assess where we are at on votes.”

For opponents of the pipeline, the expected veto marks the beginning of the next phase of the fight.

Melinda Pierce, legislative director for the Sierra Club, told The Hill earlier this month that after the veto, opponents will “need to make sure votes are there to sustain that veto.”

Right now, 63 senators back the pipeline, but 67 would be needed to override Obama. In the House the path to a veto-proof majority — or two-thirds — is harder.

When the House approved the bill two weeks ago, it passed 270-152.

If Republicans fail to override a veto, however, it won’t mean the end of the line for Keystone.

Next up, the GOP will try to attach approval for the project to a broader energy package or an appropriations bill that is harder for the president to veto.

--This report was originally published on Feb. 23 at 9:02 p.m. and last updated on Feb. 24 at 7:56 a.m.


source
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RexRed
 
  1  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 09:59 am
@revelette2,
revelette2 wrote:

I guess we in KY will have to wait until he keels over before we get rid of him. We just keep voting for him, depressing.

Obama most likely will veto the pipeline. I doubt there will be enough votes to override the veto. I forget, how many do they need?


The problem is not the XL pipeline. The problem is republican governors are building pipelines all over the fricking place! And, people are not being informed!

Ere "infrastructure" to aid the "roads" for toxic fuels.

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/embed?mid=z6lw5nfcLOh4.kolf7LKp8CX4

New pipeline in Wisconsin ever heard of it? NO!

It traverses all of its major waterways!

XXL
Wisconsin pipeline dwarfs Keystone and affects every waterway in the state
http://www.wisconsingazette.com/wisconsin/xxlbreakwisconsin-pipeline-dwarfs-keystone-and-affects-every-waterway-in-the-state.html

Canadian company wants to expand pipeline through Wisconsin
http://www.wisn.com/news/canadian-company-wants-to-expand-pipeline-through-wisconsin/30893678

Coming to a water faucet near you....

We need to give Canada a very firm thank you for their sensitivity to clean energy sources! (not)

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coldjoint
 
  -3  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 01:52 pm
@Nark Mobble,
Obama doesn't know what Islamic terror is, maybe Joe can help.
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coldjoint
 
  -3  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 02:42 pm
Hold on here. Why would we import Somalis? If we take refugees they should be Christian. Or is that to much? We wouldn't want to make Muslims mad.

Why isn't common sense ever used?


Quote:
Somali Islamic terrorists threaten attack on Mall of America; we are bringing in over 800 Somali refugees a month right now!


Quote:
Look at the numbers! Here is our post which chronicles the over 100,000 Somalis we have admitted as refugees to your towns and cities. Then be sure to see that in 2008, the State Department uncovered widespread fraud in Somali family reunification (P-3 program)—thousands, possibly 20,000 Somalis, got into the US by lying on refugee applications.

See, ‘Why so many Somalis in Minneapolis‘, here.

And, then see that in FY2014 we admitted 9,000 additional Somalis to the US. This is huge pool of potential jihadists!
In the first 4 months of FY2015 we admitted 3,536 new Somali refugees to America! That is 884 a month! If that large stream continues it will put us at over 10,000 Somalis in FY2015!

Al-Shabaab must feel confident that they have operatives in the US Somali community.
An after thought! Don’t you think the timing of this video release is interesting—right after the Obama/Biden ‘hug a Muslim’ conference. It is almost as if the terrorists are making fun of the O-man!


https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/somali-islamic-terrorists-threaten-attack-on-mall-of-america-we-are-bringing-in-over-800-somali-refugees-a-month-right-now/

Maybe the Shill would like to check those numbers?
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coldjoint
 
  -3  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 07:21 pm


Quote:
Obama regime tells Jew remove yarmulke at US consulate in Ramallah


You think a Muslim would have been asked to remove his silly hat? More proof hating Jews is the progressive thing to do, which goes to social acceptability by many.

http://www.fireandreamitchell.com/2015/02/24/obama-regime-tells-jew-remove-yarmulke-at-us-consulate-in-ramallah/
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Nark Mobble
 
  2  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 10:48 pm
Axelrod: Rudy Giuliani Is A 'Fading Politician Lighting Himself On Fire'

"There's one thing Rudy said, when he said that 'he doesn't love me,' meaning Obama doesn't love Rudy Giuliani. I suspect it's true that the president doesn't love Rudy. But the rest of it was, you know -- my reaction to it was very, very angry," Axelrod told HuffPost Live.

Giuliani has since published a Wall Street Journal op-ed in which he wrote that he "didn’t intend to question President Obama’s motives or the content of his heart."

Axelrod said Monday he thinks the entire conversation had more to do with Giuliani's public profile than Obama's history of patriotism.

"This was more about Rudy Giuliani, a fading politician, kind of lighting himself on fire and trying to get some attention, and he was successful in doing that," Axelrod said.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/23/david-axelrod-rudy-giuliani_n_6739758.html
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Nark Mobble
 
  2  
Tue 24 Feb, 2015 11:01 pm
Scott Walker’s economic mess: How worker wages were gutted in Wisconsin

A depressed workforce. Median household income down. Empty union halls. Here's Scott Walker's real 2016 problem

DAVID DAYEN

I was in Wisconsin for the labor uprising of 2011. Faced with the threat from newly elected Gov. Scott Walker of eviscerated collective bargaining protections, unions and their allies brought hundreds of thousands of workers into the streets in protest. They fought like their lives depended on it. Four years later, we now know that they did.

The Washington Post returned to Wisconsin this past weekend to empty union halls and a depressed workforce. The public employee union law – which barred contract negotiations on everything but base wages and limited annual salary increases to the rate of inflation, forced most unions to collect their own dues rather than having them deducted automatically by the state and mandated annual recertification of affiliates – has been more successful than even its supporters hoped.

In the state where public employee unions got their start, public workers see no need to stay enrolled, since unions cannot by law effectively advocate on their behalf. Membership in the Wisconsin affiliate of the National Education Association is down one-third; the American Federation of Teachers dropped by one-half; the state employees union fell 70 percent.

There are fewer public employees working, too, even though Gov. Walker claimed that the passage of the anti-union law would save jobs. The Wisconsin Budget Project finds that the ratio of public employees to total population is at its lowest level in at least two decades.

more
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/24/scott_walkers_economic_mess_how_worker_wages_were_gutted_in_wisconsin/
Nark Mobble
 
  3  
Wed 25 Feb, 2015 08:06 am
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