Marquette U students can get their fill of XXX-content live action.
The Monologues favorably describes lesbian activity, masturbation, and what CNS describes as “the reduction of sexuality to selfish pleasure.”
According to the Cardinal Newman Society, MU will be hosting a production this year.
How nice.
Friday, February 18, 2011
The ObamaThugs Move Into Wisconsin
No surprise.
According to the DNC’s activist arm OFA, “Organizing for America is mobilizing on the ground in Wisconsin…”
That’s right. The Democrat National Committee’s Organizing for America (along with their union boss buddies) are helping to orchestrate the “uprising” in Madison.
Obama's personal perma-campaign bunch.
And they, along with the AFL-CIO, have plans for other states (found at the link) including Michigan, Iowa, Tennessee, Ohio, and Nevada.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Escalating Behavior Problems in Capitol
Wendy found a source.
Right around 11 this morning, they started swamping around the stairwells. Wouldn’t let anybody through. If you were wearing a suit, they would mob you and not let you move.
More at the link.
Right around 11 this morning, they started swamping around the stairwells. Wouldn’t let anybody through. If you were wearing a suit, they would mob you and not let you move.
More at the link.
Another Fed Judge Calls Obama "Lawless"
Gee. At some point in time, people might understand that Obozo is just another crook--but with Statist tendencies and a nice office.
Today, the Obama Administration's de facto drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico was once again struck down in Federal Court. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman granted a preliminary injunction requiring that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) act within 30 days on five pending permit applications from Ensco...
Dicta:
"Perhaps it is reasonable for permit applicants to wait more than two weeks in a necessarily more closely regulated environment. Delays of four months and more in the permitting process, however, are unreasonable, unacceptable and unjustified by the evidence before the court...The plaintiff's operations in the Gulf of Mexico are threatened with endless disability. It has already sent a rig to French Guiana; its contracts and skilled labor necessarily will follow...Beginning to process permit applications will restore normalcy to the Gulf region and repair the public's faith in the administrative process."
I'll take 2012 for a $Trillion, Alex.
HT: AmSpec
Today, the Obama Administration's de facto drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico was once again struck down in Federal Court. U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman granted a preliminary injunction requiring that the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) act within 30 days on five pending permit applications from Ensco...
Dicta:
"Perhaps it is reasonable for permit applicants to wait more than two weeks in a necessarily more closely regulated environment. Delays of four months and more in the permitting process, however, are unreasonable, unacceptable and unjustified by the evidence before the court...The plaintiff's operations in the Gulf of Mexico are threatened with endless disability. It has already sent a rig to French Guiana; its contracts and skilled labor necessarily will follow...Beginning to process permit applications will restore normalcy to the Gulf region and repair the public's faith in the administrative process."
I'll take 2012 for a $Trillion, Alex.
HT: AmSpec
They Ran Away, but Didn't Hide Under the Bed
Cockroaches scatter.
Democratic State Senators who protested the budget repair bill by leaving the state have been found. The lawmakers are in the Best Western Clock Tower Resort in Rockford Illinois
..."We're not in Wisconsin right now," Erpenbach said. "The reason why we're doing this is because there are some jurisdictional issues that we'd be dealing with."
Yah. Like arrest and a frog-walk back into the Senate chamber.
This line is priceless:
"For those looking for us, we are right here, standing with the people of Wisconsin." --Chris Larson
That is to say, those people of Wisconsin who are hiding from the cops in Illinois. (IIRC, that used to be the other way around: Capone had hideouts in Brookfield and Up Nort'.)
This episode simply enhances the Kumbayah-child-syndrome mental disease which was on display in the Capitol building last night.
The adults are in charge and the chilluns don't like it.
Democratic State Senators who protested the budget repair bill by leaving the state have been found. The lawmakers are in the Best Western Clock Tower Resort in Rockford Illinois
..."We're not in Wisconsin right now," Erpenbach said. "The reason why we're doing this is because there are some jurisdictional issues that we'd be dealing with."
Yah. Like arrest and a frog-walk back into the Senate chamber.
This line is priceless:
"For those looking for us, we are right here, standing with the people of Wisconsin." --Chris Larson
That is to say, those people of Wisconsin who are hiding from the cops in Illinois. (IIRC, that used to be the other way around: Capone had hideouts in Brookfield and Up Nort'.)
This episode simply enhances the Kumbayah-child-syndrome mental disease which was on display in the Capitol building last night.
The adults are in charge and the chilluns don't like it.
Mary Bell/WEAC: "Screw YOU!!"
Even RS gets this one.
"Mary Bell pleads for Wisconsin teachers to save her six-figure job tonight on the steps of the State Capitol. She called for educators to abandon their jobs tomorrow and bring their pro-child, pro-family message to Madison, forcing single moms with kids on free/reduced lunch to give up pay and stay home with their kids."
RS has the picture, too--which captures the harridan-Bell well.
By the way, we haven't heard from Nine To Five's Ellen Bravo about those lost wages yet, have we??
"Mary Bell pleads for Wisconsin teachers to save her six-figure job tonight on the steps of the State Capitol. She called for educators to abandon their jobs tomorrow and bring their pro-child, pro-family message to Madison, forcing single moms with kids on free/reduced lunch to give up pay and stay home with their kids."
RS has the picture, too--which captures the harridan-Bell well.
By the way, we haven't heard from Nine To Five's Ellen Bravo about those lost wages yet, have we??
Other "Professional" Teachers' Union Types
Illegal strikes in Wisconsin.
Check-skippers in New York State.
Cops booted an unruly group of city teachers union officials from a posh Albany eatery after they caused a ruckus over their dinner tab, the Daily News has learned. Paul Egan, the union’s political and legislative director, set off the fracas – claiming the quail he was served, and finished, wasn’t large enough – sources said.
That's not all. After the cops persuaded this asshole to pay his bill, he then........
Read the rest here.
HT: Labor Pains
Check-skippers in New York State.
Cops booted an unruly group of city teachers union officials from a posh Albany eatery after they caused a ruckus over their dinner tab, the Daily News has learned. Paul Egan, the union’s political and legislative director, set off the fracas – claiming the quail he was served, and finished, wasn’t large enough – sources said.
That's not all. After the cops persuaded this asshole to pay his bill, he then........
Read the rest here.
HT: Labor Pains
How Good Do State Employees Have It?
The numbers here are eye-poppers if you're familiar with health-plan costs.
The proposed changes would cost the average state employee an additional $1,560 per year for family coverage, but the amount they would pay ($2,496) would still be significantly less than the $3,875 average premium contribution at large private‐sector employers in southeastern Wisconsin.
You can say that again. And again. And again.
HT: Kevin
The proposed changes would cost the average state employee an additional $1,560 per year for family coverage, but the amount they would pay ($2,496) would still be significantly less than the $3,875 average premium contribution at large private‐sector employers in southeastern Wisconsin.
“State employees will also continue to get much more for their money than their private sector counterparts,” the study reads. “The state plan offers more benefits, lower deductibles, co-pays and out of pocket maximums than the average private sector plan.”
That ~$2500/year is one-eighth of the premium, remember, meaning that the total premium is about $20K/year.
That is one HELL of a good insurance policy.
“The state plan offers more benefits, lower deductibles, co-pays and out of pocket maximums than the average private sector plan.”You can say that again. And again. And again.
HT: Kevin
Here's a Challenge for UW System's Board
Texas-sized thinking:
During his State of The State Address, Texas Governor Rick Perry advocated that Texas Universities establish a $10,000, texts included, four-year college degree program (here). Cruelly taunting educrats, Perry said “It’s time for a bold, Texas-style solution to their challenge that I’m sure the brightest minds in their universities can devise.” Perry suggested that it might be done by means of online courses and “innovative teaching techniques.”
We'd settle for a $20K package deal in Wisconsin and STILL save a boatload of money.
HT: ConYank
During his State of The State Address, Texas Governor Rick Perry advocated that Texas Universities establish a $10,000, texts included, four-year college degree program (here). Cruelly taunting educrats, Perry said “It’s time for a bold, Texas-style solution to their challenge that I’m sure the brightest minds in their universities can devise.” Perry suggested that it might be done by means of online courses and “innovative teaching techniques.”
We'd settle for a $20K package deal in Wisconsin and STILL save a boatload of money.
HT: ConYank
Chase, BofA, (et al) To Be Slammed Over Mortgages
Couldn't happen to nicer guys. /sarcasm
Late last year, the federal banking agencies began a targeted review of loan servicing practices at large financial institutions that had significant market concentrations in mortgage servicing. The preliminary results from this review indicate that widespread weaknesses exist in the servicing industry. The agencies intend to report more specific findings to the public soon, but I can tell you that these deficiencies pose significant risk to mortgage servicing and foreclosure processes, impair the functioning of mortgage markets, and diminish overall accountability to homeowners.
I'm sure this has been said, but I'll say it again because I have seen little to no evidence of improvement in the operational performance of servicers since the onset of the crisis in 2007--Fed Governor Bloom
In other news, Jamie Dimon of Chase complains that Fan/Fred are "disasters". He oughta know one when he sees one.
HT: CalcRisk, Bloomberg
Late last year, the federal banking agencies began a targeted review of loan servicing practices at large financial institutions that had significant market concentrations in mortgage servicing. The preliminary results from this review indicate that widespread weaknesses exist in the servicing industry. The agencies intend to report more specific findings to the public soon, but I can tell you that these deficiencies pose significant risk to mortgage servicing and foreclosure processes, impair the functioning of mortgage markets, and diminish overall accountability to homeowners.
I'm sure this has been said, but I'll say it again because I have seen little to no evidence of improvement in the operational performance of servicers since the onset of the crisis in 2007--Fed Governor Bloom
In other news, Jamie Dimon of Chase complains that Fan/Fred are "disasters". He oughta know one when he sees one.
HT: CalcRisk, Bloomberg
Next Up: The War on Card-Fees
The 'Financial Reform' Act has encountered a problem: the State of Michigan.
And there's more.
...As argued by a lawsuit challenging the Durbin Amendment from Minneapolis-based TCF National Bank, on which Epstein is serving as an attorney, the fee controls likely violate both the Due Process and Takings Clauses of the 5th Amendment because they deprive banks and credit unions that issue cards of their property rights to a return on capital invested. The Supreme Court in its 1989 case Duquesne Light Co v. Barasch, affirmed 8-1 that a government-set "rate is too low if it is so unjust as to destroy the value of the property for all the purposes for which it was acquired."
(The Fed's rules correspond to the Act's terms.)
The banks argue that restrictions on card-fees were inserted at the express request of WallyWorld, Home Despot, and Walgreen's. In fact, the Walgreen CEO called Dickie DuDuDurbin personally to bitch about how much Walgreen's had to pay to banks for card-fees.
So DuDuDurbin fixed that!
Along the way, he smacked the banks, but as one might expect, he smacked the small banks and credit unions even harder (volume, you know.)
HT: AmSpec
And there's more.
...As argued by a lawsuit challenging the Durbin Amendment from Minneapolis-based TCF National Bank, on which Epstein is serving as an attorney, the fee controls likely violate both the Due Process and Takings Clauses of the 5th Amendment because they deprive banks and credit unions that issue cards of their property rights to a return on capital invested. The Supreme Court in its 1989 case Duquesne Light Co v. Barasch, affirmed 8-1 that a government-set "rate is too low if it is so unjust as to destroy the value of the property for all the purposes for which it was acquired."
(The Fed's rules correspond to the Act's terms.)
The banks argue that restrictions on card-fees were inserted at the express request of WallyWorld, Home Despot, and Walgreen's. In fact, the Walgreen CEO called Dickie DuDuDurbin personally to bitch about how much Walgreen's had to pay to banks for card-fees.
So DuDuDurbin fixed that!
Along the way, he smacked the banks, but as one might expect, he smacked the small banks and credit unions even harder (volume, you know.)
HT: AmSpec
The Children's Camp--Out
Junior-high stuff, sorta like their silly chants:
...there are still hundreds of union supporters and students camped out under the marble rotunda. There are drums, guitars, sleeping bags, ...
Kumbaya.
RDW also has a pic of the piggies' leftovers. Compare to the zero-trash footprint of the TEA Party.
...there are still hundreds of union supporters and students camped out under the marble rotunda. There are drums, guitars, sleeping bags, ...
Kumbaya.
RDW also has a pic of the piggies' leftovers. Compare to the zero-trash footprint of the TEA Party.
The UW-Madison/UW System Squabble
Biddy Martin, the UW-Madison Chancellor, is not flying with the flock on this one.
...a memo obtained by the Journal Sentinel revealed quiet backing by the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to split off the flagship university from the state system - a move that would reverse the merger of the UW System schools that happened nearly 40 years ago.
Another example: Campuses want to be able to quickly start certain new programs without the bureaucracy of getting legislative approval. Some of these programs would be money makers for campuses.
I have been aware of the UW's thoughts on this matter for several weeks. The Legislature's heavy-handed regulation of UW activities has hampered a number of efforts by UW (and its subsidiaries) to increase the UW's income. Correspondingly, the UW's purchasing operations have also been tied up with UW-System (and/or Legislative) fiddle-faddle.
At the same time, I have no delusions about UW-Madison's ultra-left orientation, nor its willingness to engage in blatantly anti-life activities, including abortion and embryonic stem-cell research.
But then, the Legislature can always bar certain activities while allowing others, right?
...a memo obtained by the Journal Sentinel revealed quiet backing by the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison to split off the flagship university from the state system - a move that would reverse the merger of the UW System schools that happened nearly 40 years ago.
The memo by UW Chancellor Biddy Martin was at odds with the views of UW System leaders and her own public pronouncements calling for more freedom from state rules on purchasing, pay and other areas, but within the existing UW System.
That puts her in opposition to UW-System leadership, which wants to retain the current structure.
...Martin and leaders at all UW System campuses have been seeking more freedom from state hiring regulations and rules that apply to other state workers because they say the rules make it hard for them to compete with universities in other states.Another example: Campuses want to be able to quickly start certain new programs without the bureaucracy of getting legislative approval. Some of these programs would be money makers for campuses.
I have been aware of the UW's thoughts on this matter for several weeks. The Legislature's heavy-handed regulation of UW activities has hampered a number of efforts by UW (and its subsidiaries) to increase the UW's income. Correspondingly, the UW's purchasing operations have also been tied up with UW-System (and/or Legislative) fiddle-faddle.
At the same time, I have no delusions about UW-Madison's ultra-left orientation, nor its willingness to engage in blatantly anti-life activities, including abortion and embryonic stem-cell research.
But then, the Legislature can always bar certain activities while allowing others, right?
Civil Service Extended to All Public Employees
This is a good addition.
Voting 12-4 with all Republicans in favor of the bill and all Democrats against it, the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee added new civil-service protections for local government employees
Those local civil-service systems would have to address grievances for employee termination, employee discipline and workplace safety.
Otherwise, the Walker Plan is intact.
School, county, and municipal workers deserve civil service protections.
Voting 12-4 with all Republicans in favor of the bill and all Democrats against it, the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee added new civil-service protections for local government employees
Those local civil-service systems would have to address grievances for employee termination, employee discipline and workplace safety.
Otherwise, the Walker Plan is intact.
School, county, and municipal workers deserve civil service protections.
Let's See the Doctor's Slip, Please
Four districts canceled school for today, February 17th(!!)
Watertown
Racine Unified
Glendale/River Hills
Beaver Dam
Whining will be held in Madison instead of school classrooms.
Watertown
Racine Unified
Glendale/River Hills
Beaver Dam
Whining will be held in Madison instead of school classrooms.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
The White House of the 1980's, Again
Back in the 1980's, it was all "identity politics."
Obozo's bringing it back. The White House has released a bunch of pamphlets in which it 'splains how "WTF" (Winning the Future) will benefit.....ahhhh........people.
...apparently we are Winning the Future™ only for gays, Latinos, people living with AIDS, the poor, the middle class, females, veterans, rednecks, Native Americans, military families, seniors, small businesses, children, Blacks, Asians, and the disabled.
Not part of those?
You're losing the future.
HT: Verum
Obozo's bringing it back. The White House has released a bunch of pamphlets in which it 'splains how "WTF" (Winning the Future) will benefit.....ahhhh........people.
...apparently we are Winning the Future™ only for gays, Latinos, people living with AIDS, the poor, the middle class, females, veterans, rednecks, Native Americans, military families, seniors, small businesses, children, Blacks, Asians, and the disabled.
Not part of those?
You're losing the future.
HT: Verum
Lead, Follow, or Get the Hell Outta the Way!
Chris Christie at AEI.
Watch the 2nd video. About 1 minute in, he's talking directly to Governor Walker.
Treat 'em like adults, treat 'em all the same, and LEAD.
Watch the 2nd video. About 1 minute in, he's talking directly to Governor Walker.
Treat 'em like adults, treat 'em all the same, and LEAD.
ChooChoo Dead in Florida, Too
Common sense virus. Catch it!!
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has pulled the plug on the 84-mile Tampa to Orlando high-speed rail project, rejecting $2.4 billion in federal funding for what has been touted as a $2.7 billion project. But according to a Reason Foundation study released in January (on which Scott relied), there was a high risk that the actual cost could have been as much as twice that amount—with the difference having to come from Florida taxpayers. In addition, since the official ridership projections were straight out of fantasyland, there was a high likelihood of the state being stuck providing operating subsidies, as in most of the existing high-speed rail projects overseas.
Imagine that! Unicorns and pixie-dust "projections" and massive State-level burdens.
Where HAVE we heard this before??
HT: Hit and Run
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has pulled the plug on the 84-mile Tampa to Orlando high-speed rail project, rejecting $2.4 billion in federal funding for what has been touted as a $2.7 billion project. But according to a Reason Foundation study released in January (on which Scott relied), there was a high risk that the actual cost could have been as much as twice that amount—with the difference having to come from Florida taxpayers. In addition, since the official ridership projections were straight out of fantasyland, there was a high likelihood of the state being stuck providing operating subsidies, as in most of the existing high-speed rail projects overseas.
Imagine that! Unicorns and pixie-dust "projections" and massive State-level burdens.
Where HAVE we heard this before??
HT: Hit and Run
Amending the Walker Plan
OK, so here's an amendment to the Walker plan suggested by a couple of (R) types.
[It] would strip public employees of their ability to collectively bargain on wages, pensions and health care costs through 2013 before reinstating those rights,
[It] calls for including firefighters, police, state patrol and state inspectors in the proposed changes to wages, health care and pensions
[It] also calls for requiring employees to contribute between 7 percent and 8 percent of their salaries to their pension costs through the end of 2013, when they could begin to bargain those payments again
[It] also includes Walker’s cap on limiting public employee wage increases to the consumer price index, but would end it Dec. 31, 2013.
The amendment would also remove provisions Walker proposed to force unions to hold recertification votes each year and the provision to prohibit public employers from deducting union dues from employee paychecks
Those last two elements should not be allowed by Walker. I agree with the first, including ALL public employees; the rest are basically trade-offs--more concessions now for less restrictions later.
One wonders how Wanggard and Schultz came up with these specific proposals.
[It] would strip public employees of their ability to collectively bargain on wages, pensions and health care costs through 2013 before reinstating those rights,
[It] calls for including firefighters, police, state patrol and state inspectors in the proposed changes to wages, health care and pensions
[It] also calls for requiring employees to contribute between 7 percent and 8 percent of their salaries to their pension costs through the end of 2013, when they could begin to bargain those payments again
[It] also includes Walker’s cap on limiting public employee wage increases to the consumer price index, but would end it Dec. 31, 2013.
The amendment would also remove provisions Walker proposed to force unions to hold recertification votes each year and the provision to prohibit public employers from deducting union dues from employee paychecks
Those last two elements should not be allowed by Walker. I agree with the first, including ALL public employees; the rest are basically trade-offs--more concessions now for less restrictions later.
One wonders how Wanggard and Schultz came up with these specific proposals.
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