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| Notes from Madison WI rallies |
| 2011-02-20 |
| Two of our adult kids went to the rally. Their signs asked for discussion of the various medical cuts, as they have both been without medical insurance at times. Our family stands to lose a lot in this budget cutting process. We recognize the need for the cuts and are willing to deal with them, provided the cuts are thought through. We do feel that this bill is being rammed through in the same manner that the Pelosi-care bill was rammed through: a lot of activists and legislators don't seem to know what's in it. Nobody in this family holds much respect for the unions. And I sent a love letter to my state senator telling him that holing up in Illinois is disgraceful. There were flakes from both ends of the political spectrum, but the flakes found themselves shouted down by their own allies. While assorted pro-union types were chanting, somebody hollered, "Walker is a Nazi!" The union members stopped chanting, said "He's not a Nazi; shut up!" and went back to chanting. Various security staff (including sheriff's deputies from other counties) politely but firmly told people who were making pests of themselves to leave--and they did, with some grumbling. No arrests were made. People had mixed reactions to our daughters' signs reading "Think it through" and "Hyperbole doesn't help." A set of imported Tea Partiers from Minnesota didn't seem to understand the word "hyperbole". Neither did a few of the flakier liberal specimens. The link connects you to a variety of items from the Wisconsin State Journal's coverage of the rallies |
| Posted by:mom |
| #6 GUAM PDN FORUMS > [Michael C. Ruppert]WISCONSIN: THE BIGGEST WAKE-UP CALL [US Collapse] SINCE THE ASTEROID. ARTIC > RUPPERT > POTUS BAMMER + ADMIN in Anti-Debt-induced? nationwide war to[finally?] "BREAK THE UNIONS" IN THE USA, Massive US Debt means NO $$$ ANYWHERE IN THE US TO SUPPORT UNIONS + PRO-UNION COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, + THE US GOVT = FEDERAL RESERVE SIMPLY PRINTING OUT MORE, INCREASINGLY WORTHLESS = LOW-N-GETTING-LOWER VALUE US DOLLARS ISN'T GOING TO REMEDY ANYTHING??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-02-20 21:17 |
| #5 Wasn't Conan the Barbarian a Hyperbolean? He was a big barbarian, so he spelt it hyperboolian. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-20 21:17 |
| #4 Hypervole - an extremely anxious rodent |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-02-20 19:10 |
| #3 That's a South American critter similar to the endangered Giant Hamster of the Alsace, right? ;-) Wasn't Conan the Barbarian a Hyperbolean? |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2011-02-20 18:58 |
| #2 "Walker is a Nazi!" Brought to you by a unionized teachers establishment that somehow fails to understand itself or educates the public that Nazi is short for the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party. Unlike their redder brethren the [International] Communist Socialists who by pattern looted their own countries first, the National Socialist took a different approach of looting their neighbors to 'spread the wealth' along with specific ethnic communities. They're credentialed, not educated. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-02-20 16:58 |
| #1 "hyperbole" That's a South American critter similar to the endangered Giant Hamster of the Alsace, right? ;-) Thank you for the report and the link, mom. Interesting stuff. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-02-20 15:50 |