It turns out that Wisconsin’s “budget shortfall” it the direct result of Governor Walker and his allies pushing through tax cuts that CREATED the problem he’s supposedly trying to “fix”. Some more detail here.

As for taking rights away from public workers, there is no explanation how that saves money in the immediate future. With no rights, teachers and sanitation workers won’t be able to bargain for a fair wage and benefits in the future, but that’s not what the Governor purports to be doing.

No, Scott Walker is beholden to the evil bastiches who paid for his campaign, among them the Koch Brothers from Texas, who are working hard to destroy unions in our nation.

Jimmy Hoffa aside, unions have done a lot in this nation. You have weekends, usually 8 hour shifts, no kids in coal mines, and so on because of unions. Carnegie might have build a lot of libraries but he didn’t give a rat’s ass about the common man. And it wasn’t his job to. No company is paid to worry about what workers need. That’s kind of the point of capitalism and to believe otherwise is to be an idiot.

And so while carpet-bagging Tea Baggers are going to Wisconsin to “support Walker” even though THEIR jobs aren’t on the line, it’s mostly a sham to screw Americans out of even more rights.

And this isn’t just a Wisconsin or tea bagger thing. It is part of a national plan of attack on working men and women. And that’s as simple as it gets to explaining the situation there and across this land.

Perspective and values.

The United States gives billions to oil companies in tax abatements and just reaffirmed our selling out status to billionaires by giving them more tax breaks.

Brazil just gave it’s citizens free diabetes and blood pressure meds, hoping to reduce the 34% of deaths in their nation from these illnesses.

“Land of the free”, huh?

The more I hear about the Koch Brothers, the more they come off like evil, dirty pricks. I hate that one of them is funding so much on PBS. Read more about these jerks here.

Some food for thought on violent incidents not labelled terrorist incidents in this nation. The primary link? The color of the shooter’s skin.

Well, the nitwit finally said something about the Tucson shootings.

Honestly, she shouldn’t have bothered.

Six people are dead. Another fourteen wounded.

But she’s the victim.

Read/watch it here if you feel you must.

No apology. No hint of even remotely tangential responsibility for throwing targets on people’s backs. No sign she’ll stop using threats of violence as a political tactic.

No class.

And in a nice bit of anti-Semitism, she used the term “blood libel” to describe how she thinks liberals are blaming her words and images for creating this culture of hate, fear, and death that, well, she has added to.

A quick search shows that:

Blood libel (also blood accusation) refers to a false accusation or claim that religious minorities, almost always Jews, murder children to use their blood in certain aspects of their religious rituals and holidays. Historically, these claims have-alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration-been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is, of course, Jewish.

Nice touch there Palin!

Instead of ratcheting down hate speech and calls for violent overthrow, FAUXNews is too busy shirking any responsibility for creating a culture of hatred, anger, and fear.

They are not the victims here. Free speech comes with responsibility to speak carefully and cautiously, something they wholeheartedly disagree with.

A case in point to my last post. Here is a roundup of violence speech on FAUXNews, current to last November.

Sarah Palin and her gang of lackeys have been busy this weekend deleting anything she’s ever said that might be construed to aiding and abetting someone in the commission of a violent gun terror incident.

They have also been adamant in deleting anything negative someone says on their Facebook page and so on. Which, you know, is their right. I unfriend nitwits myself so no one is above this kind of thing on a personal site.

This has been tracked – somewhat – here. Read it, it’s good stuff.

In the article the author also points out what is NOT being deleted by Palin and her goons.

This isn’t Palin’s words, but she allows it to remain on her page.

Is *she* palling around with terrorists now? Or at least scum who approve the killing of 9 year old kids whose politics they don’t agree with?

In a word, YES.

Once more, conservatives are screeching that everyone does what they do.

No, it really isn’t like that.

Olbermann can be a blow hard, but he’s no O’Reilly. And there is no radio or TV alternative to Beckkk or Lush Rimjob. There just isn’t.

Pointing out Palin’s hitlist is like something posted on Daily Kos is also a distraction. And a lie.

I’ll let Kos himself explain.

If you are going to stack a bunch of logs, pour gas on them, and set matches next to the pyre, don’t be surprised when someone lights it. And don’t be surprised when someone says you set the conditions for the blaze.