Displaying 151 To 180 Of 222 Comments Trojana Huffington: Queen of Progressives? Arianna Huffington has ALWAYS been nothing more than a WHORE (the best paid one in the world right now)… a CONSERVATIVE GOLD-DIGGER who married a GAY REPUBLICAN ZILLIONAIRE for his money & tried to BUY a Senate seat in California with him. When he LOST, she dropped him like a hot potato and, when she saw a PROFIT in becoming a “liberal”, she “embraced” it until there was more MONEY to be made becoming a vapid shill for the right again. Her site is the most CONSTIPATED one on the web… with language restrictions exceeding anything Orwell might have ever imagined. A site which had devolved into some sort of infantile entity that seemingly has no problem treating their subscribers with utter contempt. Liberal, conservative, Democrat, republican… whatever the political or ideological slant. we are all “equal” in the eyes of a small cadre of petulant, delusionally self-important apparatchiks, dilettantes and sycophants.. ALL of whom whose delusional, misguided feelings of “superiority” can be so patronizing as to think that they actually have the wherewithal to judge how much value the words of the rest of us might have. They punish posters for breaking “rules” when the rules aren’t even published.. of using “words” where there is no list of those that might ‘offend’ whoever is making these infantile choices. When people have the arbitrary authority to eliminate the thoughts of others, it is not ‘moderation’ (what they like to describe themselves as) in any way, shape, or form… it is CENSORSHIP, plain & simple. All too willing to BAN those who DARE to use the LANGUAGE and DARE to confront the RACISTS & BIGOTS with words that might actually RESONATE.. and then allow the RACISTS & BIGOTS to remain so long as their POISON is “civil”. The scrubbing of THOUGHTS…. Arbitrary, capricious, personal. The “wordfilter”, tripping the “PC meter”, flagging words that are used verbatim in the very articles that they publish. Commenters unable to even spell the names of the candidates during the primaries ferchrissakes, unable to spell “Tãliban” on a thread about Afghanistan, unable to even use words that can be heard on every elementary school playground in America every day. Clarence Darrow once said, “Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is, we ought to use all the words we’ve got. Christ, there are damned few words that everybody understands.” Huffington Post used to champion a “free-flow” of ideas.. they still do (at least on paper).. but in reality.. now, it is restricted to language that a prude would barely consider acceptable to an eight-year-old. The current system of moderation now tries to actually “direct” the threads.. to sculpt them to represent something other than what they truly are, rather than letting them be what they are meant to be… unfettered, unvarnished and without apology. Even Rachel Maddow is castigating what it has become… and it is the deathkknell of what it could have been. GOOD. This is not what HP started out as… .. and it’s a shame. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 29, 2011 @ 9:29 pm Is Donald Trump a Stalking Horse? Trump is a CHARLATAN, plain and simple. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-filed-bankruptcy-times/story?id=13419250 . » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 27, 2011 @ 7:37 pm The “charges” put forth by the “birthers” have been categorically answered ad nauseam to the satisfaction of all reasonable people… and however many times that the unreasonable try to deny it, the prime motivations behind this concocted “controversy”, is this; If President Obama was exactly the same man… If President Obama had exactly the same credentials… If President Obama had exactly the same documentation.. … but was WHITE instead of BLACK… There would never have been a “birther” movement to begin with. There are many genuine problems facing the United States that need serious attention, and to spend even a nanosecond acquiescing to the vapid demands put forth by a cadre of crackpots is giving them credence that they don’t deserve. A simple rule of thumb in this instance is to “ignore the ignorant”… they might not go away, but they should never be allowed to control the agenda. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 27, 2011 @ 7:15 pm Fun piece in “The Smoking Gun”… “This morning’s White House release of President Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate will, of course, do little to derail the “birther” movement, which will now analyze the document with the kind of verve previously directed toward those Texas Air National Guard memos faxed to CBS from that Kinko’s in Abilene. So here’s a few nutty points about the birth certificate sure to be seized upon by the nonbelievers: • If the original document was in a bound volume (as reflected by the curvature of the left hand side of the certificate), how can the green patterned background of the document’s safety paper be so seamless? • Why, if Obama was born on August 4, 1961, was the “Date Accepted by Local Reg.” four days later on August 8, 1961? • What is the significance of the smudges in the box containing the name of the reported attendant? • David A. Sinclair, the M.D. who purportedly signed the document, died nearly eight years ago at age 81. So he is conveniently unavailable to answer questions about Obama’s reported birth. • In the “This Birth” box there are two mysterious Xs above “Twin” and “Triplet.” Is there a sibling or two unaccounted for? • What is the significance of the mysterious numbers, seen vertically, on the document’s right side? • Finally, the “Signature of Local Registrar” in box 21 may be a desperate attempt at establishing the document’s Hawaiian authenticity. Note to forgers: It is spelled “Ukulele.” http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/barack-obama/birth-obama-certer-movement-098513 » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 27, 2011 @ 7:04 pm A reality check on the TRUTH about SOCIAL SECURITY….
Myth #1: “Social Security is going broke”.
Reality:
There is NO Social Security crisis.
By 2023, Social Security will have a $4.6 trillion surplus (yes, trillion with a ‘T’). It can pay out all scheduled benefits for the next quarter-century with no changes whatsoever.
After 2037, it’ll still be able to pay out 75% of scheduled benefits—and again, that’s without any changes. The program started preparing for the Baby Boomers’ retirement decades ago.
Anyone who insists Social Security is broke probably wants to break it themselves.
Myth #2: “We have to raise the retirement age because people are living longer”.
Reality:
This is a red-herring to trick you into agreeing to benefit cuts.
Retirees are living about the same amount of time as they were in the 1930s. The reason average life expectancy is higher is mostly because many fewer people dìe as children than they did 70 years ago.
What’s more, what gains there have been are distributed very unevenly—since 1972, life expectancy increased by 6.5 years for workers in the top half of the income brackets, but by less than 2 years for those in the bottom half.
But those intent on cutting Social Security love this argument because raising the retirement age is the same as an across-the-board benefit cut.
Myth #3: “Benefit cuts are the only way to fix Social Security”.
Reality:
Social Security doesn’t need to be fixed, if we want to strengthen it, here’s a better way: Make the rich pay their fair share. If the very rich paid taxes on all of their income, Social Security would be sustainable for decades to come.
Right now, high earners only pay Social Security taxes on the first $106,000 of their income, but conservatives insist benefit cuts are the only way because they want to protect the super-rich from paying their fair share..
Myth #4: “The Social Security Trust Fund has been raided and is full of IOUs”.
Reality:
Not even close to true.
The Social Security Trust Fund isn’t full of IOUs, it’s full of U.S. TREASURY BONDS AVAILABLE ONLY to the Social Security TRUST to purchase. .. (and no matter HOW many times the LIARS on the right insist that they are the “same thing”.. they’re NOT). And those bonds are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.
The reason Social Security holds only treasury bonds is the same reason many Americans do: The federal government has never missed a single interest payment on its debts.
President Bush wanted to put Social Security funds in the stock market—which would have been disastrous—but luckily, he failed. So the trillions of dollars in the Social Security Trust Fund, which are separate from the regular budget, are as safe as can be.
Myth #5: “Social Security adds to the deficit”.
Reality:
It’s not just wrong—it’s impossible!
By law, Social Security’s funds are separate from the budget, and it must pay its own way. That means that Social Security can’t add one penny to the deficit. So there. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 27, 2011 @ 7:44 pm Giving Corporations the Death Penalty Let’s take it a step further… the REAL deaths of REAL people due to corporate nonfeasance. MASSEY and the MINERS. They all can go to prison for bribing these judges & inspectors.. filing false safety reports & committing fraud.. but, as we now know.. those should be the least of their problems… They, and the rest of the Board of Directors.. & ALL of their stockholder / investors are criminally culpable for the deaths of 29 miners… human beings that perished due to Masseys reckless disregard for their safety, their depraved indifference in factoring in the “cost” of adhering to the law & the safety regulations against the lives of these people.. Third Degree Murder… plain & simple… & now… that their “corporation” is deemed a “person”… then the “corporation”.. INCLUDING all of it’s investors and stockholders can take personal responsibility for the results of their actions… a little stint behind bars as well. They can’t have it both ways. At the congressional hearing in February, Rep. George Miller (D) angrily declared that “delays from growing appeals are undermining MSHA’s ability to impose tougher sanctions on the repeat violators. If cases are stuck for months or years in the review commission, MSHA cannot impose stronger penalties on the worst mine operators. As a result, miners’ lives are in the cross hairs.” But the committee’s ranking Republican, Rep. Glenn Thompson of Pennsylvania, defended the companies, arguing that “it appears mine operators are simply adapting to a punitive new regulatory environment that favors litigation & conflict over collaboration.” “Collaboration”?? While trying to bust the Unions???? He expressed his view that “Legislation & regulation may actually be the cause rather than the solution to the problem.” Let’s talk BP while we’re at it… Their “man on the scene” directly, their Executives & their Boardroom & their stockholders should be held equally responsible as accessories. Also Halliburton, who used substandard materials. The people who perished on that platform were murdered, plain & simple. Eleven Human Beings sacrificed. Men whose trust was betrayed by an aloof, avaricious, cynical company & by a depraved sociopathic “supervisor”. The BP representative on the platform was specifically warned that if he went ahead with his insistence to speed up the drilling that it would fracture the geological subsurface. He was warned that he would be endangering the lives of the crew, & he deliberately chose to ignore the experts who were the most knowledgeable, those charged with the responsibility of seeing to all of their safety, & this steaming pile of shit went ahead anyway, solely in the pursuit of the bottom line. 3rd degree murder can be described as.. “Any person who even unintentionally causes the death of another person can be charged with murder under the “depraved-heart” theory, which refers to a killing that results from gross negligence.” http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com There it is in a nutshell, folks, the GOP mindset in all of it’s putrescence. The cronies in the Bush Administration like Gail Norton (his “Secretary of Interior” who worked for BIG OIL) or Elaine Chao (his “Secretary of ‘Labor'” who was rabidly anti-union & even campaigned against stricter regulations for workplace safety). These tragedies are a direct result of the malicious malfeasance of that Administration, deliberately refusing to enforce the law & not only should those running Massey, BP & Halliburton as well as their subsidiaries be indicted, but their enablers in government as well. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 28, 2011 @ 9:45 am James Cotton. “ROCKET 88”
Enjoy! » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 30, 2011 @ 10:01 am A Letter to the Arizona Legislature Let’s face it, folks… The “charges” put forth by the “birthers” have been categorically answered ad nauseam to the satisfaction of all reasonable people… and however many times that the UNREASONABLE try to deny it, the prime motivation behind this concocted “controversy” is this….. If President Obama was EXACTLY THE SAME MAN… If President Obama had EXACTLY THE SAME CREDENTIALS… If President Obama had EXACTLY THE SAME DOCUMENTATION.. BUT.. If President Obama was WHITE instead of black.. There would NEVER HAVE BEEN A “BIRTHER” MOVEMENT TO BEGIN WITH. There are many GENUINE PROBLEMS facing the United States that need SERIOUS ATTENTION, and to spend even a NANOSECOND acquiescing to the vapid demands put forth by a CADRE of CRACKPOTS is affording them CREDENCE THAT THEY DON’T DESERVE. A simple rule of thumb in this instance is to “IGNORE THE IGNORANT”. .. they might not go away, but they should NEVER BE ALLOWED TO CONTROL THE AGENDA. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 18, 2011 @ 7:53 pm Obviously my “point” flew so far over your head that you got a whiplash trying to follow it… and I use CAPS for EMPHASIS. Sorry if that intimidates you. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 18, 2011 @ 7:40 pm Krugman is right… it is time to take the gloves off. ONCE & FOR ALL. Now is NOT the time for “diplomacy”… Now is NOT the time for BREATHTAKINGLY PHONY calls for “civility”… Quite the CONTRARY. We MUST shine a bright light directly into the eyes of those cynics who spend all of their days DELIBERATELY SPREADING THEIR POISON; the “PRETEND-POPULISTS”, the COUNTERFEIT “NEWS NETWORKS” and the PUTRESCENT POLITICIANS who CONTEMPTUOUSLY and WILLFULLY hoist the resultant standards of this SICKNESS. It is time to CALL THESE MISCREANTS out onto the carpet of public scrutiny.. LOUDLY, UNAPOLOGETIC, and UNFETTERED by the OBSEQUIOUS COWARDICE that mitigates the true nature of the CANCER that we are confronting. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 18, 2011 @ 7:26 am Weekend Music Thread – The Poetry of Music The Leader of the Band ~ Dan Fogelberg An only child alone and wild A quiet man of music The leader of the band is tired I thank you for the music The leader of the band is tired
» Posted By BlueStateMan On April 16, 2011 @ 3:27 pm FORTRESS AROUND YOUR HEART Sting Under the ruins of a walled city And if I built this fortress around your heart Then I went off to fight some battle And if I built this fortress around your heart This prison has now become your home And if I built this fortress around your heart
» Posted By BlueStateMan On April 16, 2011 @ 3:00 pm Bruce Springsteen – Darkness On The Edge Of Town They’re still racing out at the Trestles, Everybody’s got a secret, Sonny, Some folks are born into a good life,
» Posted By BlueStateMan On April 16, 2011 @ 2:51 pm 😉 » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 15, 2011 @ 9:36 pm Yet ANOTHER wonderful submission, Cher… you do this site proud! So far as Wisconsin is concerned… It’s uncanny. With every new assault on the rule of law.. With every new action… With every new mugging of the people.. With every new attempt to take their elected office and create a personal fiefdom so as to lie, cheat, con and use the citizens as chattel to manipulate, negate, expropriate and preempt as they wish.. With every utterance emanating from their mouths like a putrescent, green fog they only amplify their breathtaking contempt for the electorate and their willful ignorance… … and it only serves to illuminate their ingrained sociopathy… With every, single step that they take, they are driving yet another nail into their own caskets… pounding them in harder with each blow… Ready and eager to bury themselves and the entire, degenerate bagger agenda with them once and for all. They’re almost finished. Thank god. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 15, 2011 @ 6:27 am Not yet. As soon as Peter lets us know, we’ll pass it on! » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 11:11 pm Hey, Chernynkaya, Peter (who posts as “dutchman” on Huffy) has been out to visit peacekitten & I in the past and he expects to be out here in Los Angeles near the end of the summer. What say we all get together with our other LA Huffy’s (past & present) and have a bash? » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 1:05 pm Sorry…. I cut off the attribution. Take the few minutes required to finish the entire piece as it is the best information on the subject to date. http://www.thenation.com/article/155848/end-free-trade-globalization?page=full » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 10:24 am For Americans the most ominous development is that trade deficits, after shrinking during the recession, are expanding rapidly again. That stands in the way of recovery and helps explain why the federal stimulus of 2009 had less punch than expected. The trap is illustrated by a few recent statistics: the US economy expanded in the second quarter of 2010 by an anemic annualized rate of 1.7 percent. During those same months, however, the nation’s trade deficit expanded by 3.5 percent. Do the arithmetic: the US economy would have grown at a much healthier rate if it weren’t for its dependence on products made elsewhere. Yet getting different results will take much more than currency adjustments. It means reforming the dynamics of global trade and the US industrial structure, not just the bad habits of American consumers. President Obama, unlike his predecessors, understands the problem. He has been trying for the past year to persuade foreign governments to cooperate. Obama told G-20 leaders in April 2009, “The world has become accustomed to the United States being a voracious consumer market and the engine that drives a lot of economic growth worldwide, but if there’s going to be renewed growth, it can’t just be the United States as the engine. Everybody is going to have to pick up the pace.” At the G-20 meeting this past June, the president was more explicit. “No nation should assume its path to prosperity is simply paved with exports to the United States.” » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 10:14 am Simon & Garfunkel
“Old Friends” » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 12:57 pm As a student of history, the apparent worldview of those on the right reminds me of the rationale used by the “physicians” loyal to the 3rd RËICH.. those who would decide upon which children to “euthanise” in order to “purify” the “Volk”.. only NOW it is focused upon the SANCTIFICATION of the WEALTHY. The RESULTS end up being the same.. Those without ECONOMIC VIABILITY or PURPOSE are EXPENDABLE Those WITHOUT WEALTH are EXPENDABLE… Those who RISK LIFE AND LIMB are EXPENDABLE as well.. just look to their stance on the 911 heroes and their PUTRID EXPECTATIONS that police officers, firefighters and emergency responders.. not to mention HUMAN BEINGS that have spent a LIFETIME contributing to society… working, raising families, PAYING TAXES… ALL of them expected to remain “on their own”. A perverted worldview that translates “E Pluribus Unum” as “Every Man for HIMSELF”. They all can be SACRIFICED AT THE ALTER OF UNFETTERED “CAPITALISM” simply because their survival (or well being) is considered “inconvenient”.. and, more horrific, it seems to escape the conscience (or the consciousness) of those who populate the republican party… to a PERSON. Forgive me for saying so, but these degenerate sociopaths (as well there enablers in the media) should never be allowed to have any part in the governance of our nation whatsoever. In fact, they should be ostracized from every facet of civil society and relegated to the SEWER from which they emerged. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 11:01 am The Democratic Scorpions: Always the Sting in Our Own Collective Ass There are many things that I am at odds with regarding President Obamas policies.. especially his stances on energy. But those who feel that thirty years of lousy monetary policy can be turned around in the blink of an eye need to take a second look. Reagan started this betrayal of the middle class with his dogmatic adherence to Neoconservative ideology, the Federal Reserve governors tipping the normal balance in favor of “capital” over “labor”, the “financial sector’ over the ”productive economy”. Jobs were sent overseas as the use of slave labor would forever render the concept of a “living wage” moot, & with that, our middle class was decimated. Clinton blew it as well when he endorsed NAFTA & his staggering cowardice in not vetoing the abolition of “Glass – Steagall”. “W” pounded the last nail in the coffin, not creating a single net job in his entire putrid tenure as President.. It took FDR nearly eight years to mitigate what was ostensibly the same inherited mess, & he didn’t have the most intractable opposition in history that President Obama must deal with. Nor did he inherit two ill conceived & illegal wars. Things are turning around, albeit not as fast as anyone would like it to, but the damage is at least slowing. We can’t move forward until we stop moving backward, which takes TIME. Anyone who thinks that the same GOP that created this breathtaking clusterfuck gives a goodgodamn about the working stiff, they’re delusional, and if they think that they will create a single US job, I’ll be looking for them the next time I volunteer at the soup-kitchen. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 6:37 am For me, the difference between the two is this… “Liberalism” is a philosophy of life.. the way we look at ourselves, each other and our place in the world. “Progressivism” is a POLITICAL movement that takes Liberal values (not to mention some GENUINE Conservative ones… individual civil liberties, etc) and directs them through a means in which we can produce societal change. A “MECHANISM” (as opposed to a “machine”) in which our voices can be palpably focused towards governance. It is possible to be a Progressive without considering yourself a Liberal (Teddy Roosevelt’s domestic policies and Eisenhower both come to mind).. but it is highly unlikely that you can call yourself Liberal without being a Progressive as well. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 6:09 am 😉 » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 9:28 am “THE PUPPET” ~~ A farewell to Life from Gabriel Garcia Marquez (This poem was sent to all of his friends in the last days of his life, when he knew he would not ever see many of them again. It shows the thoughts of a person who knows what is truly important in life, it is his secret to life.. ) ——– If for a moment God would forget that I am a rag doll and give me a scrap of life, possibly I would not say everything that I think, but I would definitely think everything that I say. I would value things not for how much they are worth but rather for what they mean. I would sleep little, dream more. I know that for each minute that we close our eyes we lose sixty seconds of light. I would walk when the others loiter; I would awaken when the others sleep. I would listen when the others speak, and how I would enjoy a good chocolate ice cream. If God would bestow on me a scrap of life, I would dress simply, I would throw myself flat under the sun, exposing not only my body but also my soul. My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hatred on ice and wait for the sun to come out. With a dream of Van Gogh I would paint on the stars a poem by Benedetti, and a song by Serrat would be my serenade to the moon. With my tears I would water the roses, to feel the pain of their thorns and the incarnated kiss of their petals…My God, if I only had a scrap of life… I wouldn’t let a single day go by without saying to people I love, that I love them. I would convince each woman or man that they are my favourites and I would live in love with love. I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer fall in love when they grow old–not knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love. To a child I would give wings, but I would let him learn how to fly by himself. To the old I would teach that death comes not with old age but with forgetting. I have learned so much from you men…. I have learned that everybody wants to live at the top of the mountain without realizing that true happiness lies in the way we climb the slope. I have learned that when a newborn first squeezes his father’s finger in his tiny fist, he has caught him forever. I have learned that a man only has the right to look down on another man when it is to help him to stand up. I have learned so many things from you, but in the end most of it will be no use because when they put me inside that suitcase, unfortunately I will be dying. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 9:11 am Free Speech and Commenters’ Experiences at The Huffington Post She’s doing great and I will pass your greetings along. We would both love to host an occasion where POVers and ex Huffers can get together on the west coast. “dutchman” will be here later in the year… we have had small dinners in the past and I’m sure he’d love to meet like-minded THINKERS when he visits the US again. How about it? » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 5:07 am I was indeed… My only problem anywhere else is a dearth of opposing opinions… I like to debate conservatives and occasionally nailing trolls. But here I will be… and here I will stay! » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 11, 2011 @ 5:04 am The Huffington Post has devolved into some sort of infantile entity that seemingly has no problem treating their contributors with utter contempt. Liberal, conservative, Democrat, republican… whatever the political or ideological slant. we are all “equal” in the eyes of a small cadre of delusionally self-important apparatchiks and sycophants.. those who feel so “superior”.. so patronizing as to think that they actually have the wherewithal to judge how much value the words of the rest of us might have. When people have the arbitrary authority to eliminate the thoughts of others, it is not ‘moderation’, it is censorship. Now, in their “infinite wisdom”, this site feels it appropriate to award a bunch of vindictive trolls these powers as well.. Banning for “caustic language” and calling those out who are nothing more than stalkers, parasites, degenerates who infest the threads just to express their bigotry & racism… and they are left to belch their poison day in and day out….just as long as they remain “civil”. Scrubbing… arbitrary, capricious, personal. And then there is this Orwellian “word filter”.. tripping the “PC meter”, flagging words that are used verbatim in the very articles that are published… we couldn’t even spell the names of the candidates during the Presidential primaries ferchrissakes… we can’t spell the word “Taliban” on a thread about Afghanistan,… We can’t spell the word “PALIN” (who the hell are they worried about insulting??) Hell, we can’t even use words that can be heard on every elementary school playground in America every day. Clarence Darrow once said, “Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is, we ought to use all the words we’ve got.. Christ, there are damned few words that everybody understands.” Huffington used to champion a “free-flow” of ideas…. but now, it is restricted to language that a prude would barely consider acceptable to an eight-year-old. The current system of moderation actually “directing” the threads there.. sculpting them to represent something other than what they truly are, rather than letting them be what they are meant to be… unfettered, unvarnished and without apology. This is not what HP started out as… .. and it’s a goddamned shame. » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 9, 2011 @ 9:17 pm BANNED again…. this time as “DocStrangelove” and “GullyJimson”. Good riddance » Posted By BlueStateMan On April 9, 2011 @ 9:07 pm Yes Virginia, There is Class Warfare The “Walker Bill” is also an attempt to PRIVATIZE ALL PUBLIC UTILITIES so as the Koch’s can BUY them. HEALTH CARE is ALSO ATTACKED in this bill, as it eliminates the VERY RIGHT TO FORM A UNION for workers at the University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics (UWHC) as well as for the recently unionized HOME CARE WORKERS. Evidently, that $9-per-hour minimum wage that home care workers negotiated (though the state failed to pass the contract) is apparently TOO MUCH MONEY for the State to pay to ensure that individuals are able to live with dignity in their own homes. Walker ELIMINATES the PUBLIC AUTHORITY (the Quality Home Care Authority) that Wisconsin created in 2009 that allowed for the unionization of home care workers.” Face it. Walker exposed himself as the LYING CHARLATAN that he really is when he was STUNG by a reporter on the phone last week… in front of the ENTIRE COUNTRY, & he is now being investigated by the NON-PARTISAN, INDEPENDENT Wisconsin Ethics Board. Blagȏ was ejected for MUCH less. There will be no need to wait to recall this corrupt miscreant, as his pending IMPEACHMENT will likely be sufficient impetus for him to QUIT (just as his Alaskan doppelganger did). He’ll be vacating the Governor’s Mansion by LABOR DAY (an apt deadline) at the LATEST. He’s FINISHED. Hoisted by his own, ignorant petard. That said, I must give him props for one thing; He is the MOST EFFECTIVE union recruiter & organizer of the 21st century. » Posted By BlueStateMan On March 8, 2011 @ 1:31 amComments Posted By BlueStateMan
A cabinet maker’s son
His hands were meant for different work
And his heart was known to none
He left his home and went his lone
And solitary way
And he gave to me
A gift I know I never can repay
Denied a simpler fate
He tried to be a soldier once
But his music wouldn’t wait
He earned his love through discipline
A thundering, velvet hand
His gentle means of sculpting souls
Took me years to understand
And his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through my instrument
And his song is in my soul
My life has been a poor attempt
To imitate the man
I’m just a living legacy
To the leader of the band
My brothers’ lives were different
For they heard another call
One went to Chicago
And the other to St. Paul
And I’m in Colorado
When I’m not in some hotel
Living out this life I’ve chose
And come to know so well
And your stories of the road
I thank you for the freedom
When it came my time to go
I thank you for the kindness
And the times when you got tough
And, papa, I don’t think
I said, “I love you” near enough
And his eyes are growing old
But his blood runs through my instrument
And his song is in my soul
My life has been a poor attempt
To imitate the man
I’m just a living legacy
To the leader of the band
I am the living legacy
To the leader of the band
Crumbling towers and beams of yellow light
No flags of truce, no cries of pity
The siege guns had been pounding all through the night
It took a day to build the city
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the field’s I’d known
I recognized the walls that I once made
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I’d laid
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire
That I’d invented inside my head
Away so long for years and years
You probably thought or even wished that I was dead
While the armies are all sleeping
Beneath the tattered flag we’d made
I had to stop in my track for fear
Of walking on the mines I’d laid
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire
A sentence you seem prepared to pay
It took a day to build the city
We walked through its streets in the afternoon
As I returned across the fields where I’d once played
I had to stop in my tracks for fear
Of walking on the mines I’d laid
Encircled you in trenches and barbed wire
Then let me build a bridge
For I cannot fill the chasm
And let me set the battlements on fire
But that blood it never burned in her veins,
Now I hear she’s got a house up in Fairview,
And a style she’s trying to maintain.
Well, if she wants to see me,
You can tell her that I’m easily found,
Tell her there’s a spot out ‘neath Abram’s Bridge,
And tell her, there’s a darkness on the edge of town.
Something that they just can’t face,
Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it,
They carry it with them every step that they take.
Till some day they just cut it loose
Cut it loose or let it drag ’em down,
Where no one asks any questions,
or looks too long in your face,
In the darkness on the edge of town.
Other folks get it anyway, anyhow,
I lost my money and I lost my wife,
Them things don’t seem to matter much to me now.
Tonight I’ll be on that hill ’cause I can’t stop,
I’ll be on that hill with everything I got,
Lives on the line where dreams are found and lost,
I’ll be there on time and I’ll pay the cost,
For wanting things that can only be found
In the darkness on the edge of town.
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