Monthly Archives: February 2011
The trouble in WI reminds me of an episode of the Simpsons. Springfield is a dry town again. Homer has gotten into the moonshine business and become the number one distiller. All the while an ace police chief is doggedly trying to catch him in the act. At one point the lawman stands on a hill overlooking Springfield and vows out loud that he will catch Homer. Up from the distant town below floats a faint retort from Homer, “No you won’t.” His determination clearly showing, the lawman replies that he will…only to again be met by the same response. Continue reading
Sometimes there is a complete lack of balance in the world.
An 11 year old Arvada Colorado boy who was being treated for Attention Deficit Disorder was told by a teacher to draw pictures when he was upset instead of disrupting the class, so the boy did just that. Continue reading
Gov. Scott Walker called for civility on Tuesday night, declined to back down from tough stance with public employee unions and raised the possibility of thousands of layoffs in state and local government.
In a televised speech from the Governor’s Conference Room, Walker calmly laid out his position for state employees to pay a higher share of their fringe benefits, and his more controversial proposal to eliminate most of their bargaining rights.
“The process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service…I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place [in the public sector]…A strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government.”
Who said it?




