The first yeti should be more concerned with her widening backside. What I eat is my own biz-ness!
Posted on 02/21/2011 8:05:05 AM PST by IMissPresidentReagan
AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name (that’s Rush, for those in Rio Linda),the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha-Rushie! America’s anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. Leader of the Conservative Movement. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do—that’s host. Get ready to what you were born to do—that’s listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).
You SJL,
If you are OK with fining people for not purchasing a product, then you must be OK with issuing a warrant for their arrest when they fail to pay the fine. Then if they do not turn themselves in, you must be fine with sending the police to their house to execute that warrant. Then if they do not answer their door to the police, you must be OK with the police kicking the door in. Then if the person fights back against the police, then you must be OK with the police taking lethal action to protect themselves.
So SJL, are you OK with shooting me for not purchasing health insurance? The only power you have is the power of government guns.
This is some of what I sent out to my email lists this morning:
Why didn’t you see these sorts of Obama’s Minions signs on your evening “news”?
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/wisc-protestor-sign-if-teabaggers-are-as-hot-as-their-fox-news-anchors/
I’ll tell you. It doesn’t fit the “TEA party members are Natzis” narrative the left-wing state-run media promotes as it daily carries the water for the lawless Obama Administration.
If you actually think you’re getting anything more than left-wing propaganda spoon-fed to you by media elites who decide FOR you what you ought to know about, go ahead and stay lazy, dumbed-down, mis-informed, and IGNORANT.
But DON’T vote.
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. And a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with power, which knowledge gives.” ~ James Madison - “The Father of the Constitution”.
Teachers’ Union Exposed:
http://www.unionfacts.com/
~ [Matchett-PI]
February 20, 2011 11:00 P.M.
Walker Holds His Ground
Despite protests, the Wisconsin governor vows to keep pushing for reform.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/260222/walker-holds-his-ground-robert-costa
Madison, Wis. – Hundreds of protesters continue to occupy the capitol, and 14 Democratic state senators remain roosted in Illinois, stalling consideration of his budget-repair bill. But Gov. Scott Walker, a first-term Republican, tells National Review Online that he will not blink. “By the end of this week, we will have a bill passed,” he pledges.
Walker is confident that he can pressure the on-the-run politicians to return and secure passage of his plan, which would drastically reduce the collective-bargaining power of public-sector unions and force state employees to put 5.8 percent of their salaries toward their pensions and pay 12.6 percent of their health-care premiums.
“We are looking at legal options to compel the senators to come back,” Walker says. “They have no endgame. They don’t know what they are doing. They got caught up in the hysteria and decided to run, but that’s not how this works. You have got to be in the arena.”
Bringing up hot-button legislation while the Democrats are gone is another arrow in Walker’s quiver. Though the Wisconsin constitution requires three-fifths of the senate to be present to pass fiscal legislation, a simple majority of 17 members constitutes a quorum for other bills in the 33-seat state senate. So the 19 GOP senators who remain in Madison can pass any number of bills while their Democratic colleagues are on the lam, and Republicans are a majority in the assembly, too. “They can hold off, but there is a whole legislative agenda that Republicans in the senate and assembly can start acting on that only requires simple majorities,” Walker warns.“If they want to do their jobs, and have a say, they better show up.”
Non-spending bills and government appointments could see action early Tuesday. Walker says he will not yield as the standoff unfolds, especially since Wisconsin is facing a projected $3.6 billion budget shortfall over the next two years.
Noisy crowds of union sympathizers won’t dissuade Walker from using his bully pulpit if Democrats continue to avoid a vote. “Constituents should contact these senators,” he says. “Beyond the people who support my position, there are plenty of people in this state who may be up in the air about this bill, but firmly believe that their senators’ not showing up for work does not cut it.”
Over the past week, Walker’s crusade has stirred intense national interest. Activists of all political stripes have flocked to Madison. Washington politicos are abuzz, comparing Walker’s blunt budget fight to that of New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who became a hero to conservatives last year after he tangled with state Democrats over spending. Others have compared his showdown to Ronald Reagan’s tangle with federal air-traffic controllers. Walker does not talk up the comparisons, but he acknowledges the overlaps.
The national spotlight has not fazed him. In an interview Sunday, Walker, the 43-year-old son of a Baptist preacher, was calm and easygoing, brushing off the heated, often personal, comments from protesters as political theater. A handful of protesters have likened Walker to Adolf Hitler and Darth Vader, among other villains. “Any time you challenge the status quo, any time you are bold, you are going to get a big reaction,” he chuckles.
But Walker is dead serious about his bill. He argues that the recession has hit every nook of the state, from Kenosha to Superior, so citizens are aware of the stakes. While the state’s unemployment rate is lower than the national average, Wisconsin is not in a position to avoid hard choices, he says. With the state “broke,” he sees his budget fix as the best way to balance the books, even if it makes the unions scream.
Republicans are confident that they have the votes to pass the plan. At a Saturday press conference, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald told reporters that GOP state senators continue to back the proposed reforms, in spite of the masses surrounding the capitol. “We are rock solid,” he said.
Saturday saw nearly 70,000 demonstrators thronging downtown Madison. Thousands of red-faced union supporters vocal University of Wisconsin undergraduates, gray-haired activists, teachers, and hordes of state employees crowded inside the capitol, draping homemade banners and multicolored posters under the rotunda.
The capitol’s marble halls, where legislators usually roam, were chock-a-block with protesters in sleeping bags and progressives chomping down donated slices from a local shop. Some beat on makeshift drums, others simply sprawled out, using their winter coats as blankets, rooting and chanting as the afternoon drifted into the evening.
Street confrontations between the pro-Walker and anti-Walker forces were numerous, but it was a war of words: Madison police did not make a single arrest.
Saturday also saw members of the Tea Party come out in strong numbers. Tea Party Patriots and Americans for Prosperity helped organize a robust rally beneath the capitol columns, where prominent conservatives such as publisher Andrew Breitbart, author Brad Thor, and presidential candidate Herman Cain spoke. So did “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher, the man who gained fame in 2008 for questioning then-candidate Obama about his economic policies.
“This is the battle of our times,” Breitbart said to cheers. “This is history. We are going to let the American people know, in every single state, that we have every governor and every legislator’s back.” America, he exhorted, would be “community-organized no more.”
At the rally, Gadsden flags and Old Glory clashed with union banners under a clear blue sky. Vicki McKenna, a Madison-area talk-show host, led the assembled in a rousing rendition of the Pledge of Allegiance before the speakers began. Signs cheered on Walker: “Stop leeching, start teaching!” read one; “Walker 2012” read another. The most popular were variations on this theme: “I went to work yesterday.” The two biggest chants were “pass the bill!” and “enough is enough!”
Walker appreciates the Tea Party showing, but is even more invigorated by the thumbs-up he is getting from Wisconsinites. “We are hearing from the vast majority who supports this bill,” he says. “I received 19,000 e-mails on Friday alone from people who could not afford to skip out of work but wanted us to know that they’re behind this. The calls, the e-mails, the texts the message from them is that they want leadership.”
Saturday’s showdown was preceded by a busy Friday in Capitol Square. Rev. Jesse Jackson appeared, rocking and swaying with demonstrators, who sang “We Shall Overcome” and a medley of labor-friendly tunes in unison. Richard Trumka, the president of the national AFL-CIO, also took a bullhorn into the belly of the capitol.
Even President Obama waded into the unfolding drama late last week when he called Walker’s efforts an “assault on unions.” Over the weekend, Madison saw scores of Obama supporters join the sign-toting parades. Some were associated with Organizing for America, an outfit that comprises former Obama campaign workers.
Walker tells NRO that Obama should butt out. “The president of the United States should worry more about balancing the federal budget, which he certainly isn’t doing right now,” he says. “Whether it’s him, or these national political leaders busing people in, we are not going to be intimidated by people from outside the state of Wisconsin.”
“The other day the president rattled off a number of people not even included in the bill. He doesn’t have the facts right,” Walker scolds. “The president is wrong: Workers will be protected and this is the right thing to do.” House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, for one, agrees. He issued a statement last week chiding the president for being associated with “Greece-like protests.”
By late Sunday, as snow dusted the capitol dome, the protests quieted down, if but for a moment. Ice and slush glazed Madison roads. Lingering protesters huddled inside the capitol. The grand square, once packed, was barren. Cardboard signs soaked up water in street-side trash cans. Most college students returned to campus; others powered up laptops at Steep & Brew Coffee on State Street, racing to finish papers.
More protests are expected Monday, regardless of the frigid weather. Rallies are planned for midday and the late afternoon, with high-profile music personalities slated to attend. Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, an alternative-rock band, will perform, among others.
The real drama this week, however, could occur miles from Madison. Thousands of teachers plan to call in sick on Tuesday, when classrooms reopen after the long holiday weekend. This will likely force numerous school closures across Wisconsin’s 424 districts.
For parents and students, such inconveniences are quickly becoming the norm: School shutdowns hit the state hard late last week, when countless teachers joined the Madison protests. Wisconsin state law prevents teachers from striking, but many relied on phony diagnoses of illness from union-friendly physicians. Doctors in white coats dotted Saturday’s festivities, and many openly offered to jot down their signature on “sick notes” for educators.
Still, Mary Bell, the president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council (the state affiliate of the National Education Association), told reporters Sunday that she hopes teachers will show up to work Monday if their school is not off for Presidents’ Day. “It is time for educators to be back in the classroom with the students,” she said, while simultaneously urging teachers to show up in Madison if their school is closed.
“[Teachers] will see incredible backlash,” Walker predicts. “They have gotten a lot of parents upset. Parents who may have been open to their argument realize that it’s not about the children [for the teachers’ union].”
Meanwhile, on the political front, things continue to boil as Walker stands his ground. State senator Jon Erpenbach, a leading lefty spokesman for the escaped legislators, told the Wisconsin State Journal that his merry band will not return unless Walker blinks. He urged the governor to accept the offer from the unions, which would see public employees contribute more to their benefits but retain their collective-bargaining rights.
“How long we stay out is totally up to the governor,” Erpenbach says from his Chicago hotel room. “There is a very serious offer on the table. If he says no to that, then that means his intent from the very beginning was to bust the public unions in Wisconsin.”
Walker, of course, will not budge. He calls the union’s so-called compromise a “red herring” and will not be influenced by activists on the capitol lawn.
“These tens of thousands of protesters have every right to be heard,” he tells us. “But there are 5.5 million people in this state, and those taxpayers also have a right to be heard. I, for one, am not going to let the protesters overshadow, or shout out, the interest of the state’s taxpayers. And I believe that they are with us in trying to balance this budget.”
Indeed, Walker sees his brawl with union bosses as an important testing ground for other governors grappling with in-the-red budgets. “I was talking to former governor Tommy Thompson about this the other day,” he says. “Wisconsin set the table back in the Nineties on welfare reform. We were a leader there and we were a leader on education reform. Now we are talking about budgetary and fiscal reform. Wisconsin, in many cases, sets the pace.”
So does Scott Walker.
Robert Costa is a political reporter for National Review.
The first yeti should be more concerned with her widening backside. What I eat is my own biz-ness!
I hope there were some FReepers taking tons of photos of the teachers playing hookey. Send the photos to Madison’s School Superintendent and out all those protestors suffering from the “Irish Flu” and fire them on the spot.
Send that photo to the Madison Dept. of Education and demand that the teacher be sent to remedial English classes!
This is what Rush just talked about:
National Institute For Civil Discourse To Open At University of Arizona
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/national-institute-for-civil-discourse_n_825825.html?ir=College
Washington Post:
Former presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush will serve as honorary chairmen of a new center at the University of Arizona that will focus on civility in political debate, university officials will announce Monday.
The National Institute for Civil Discourse - a nonpartisan center for debate, research, education and policy about civility in public discourse - will open Monday in Tucson. It was created in the aftermath of the Jan. 8 shootings in the city where six people were killed and 13 injured, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.).
semi present.
Rush: “Lewinskis worse than tobacco”
Revealed: Oral sex is ‘bigger cause of throat cancer than tobacco’
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:03 AM on 21st February 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1358845/Oral-sex-bigger-cause-throat-cancer-tobacco.html
ok.......I’ve deleted 9 witty comebacks
"Depends on the meaning of ________"????
I’m not sure I believe that news article. I think it is a conspiracy!
C’mon Rush, knock off the crap talk and get with the important stuff like what is going on in Libya. Warships from Iran going through the Suez Canal. People being bombed in Libya and on and on and you find a BJ as a topic. Guess that does show what interests you. (open line Friday)
Rush will probably talk about this:
Angry Violent Mob Attacks FOX Reporters in People’s Republic of… California (Video)
RightNetwork -Gateway ^ | 2/21/11 | Jim Hoft
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2677344/posts
Another day… Another violent attack by unhinged leftists… This time FOX News reporters were the target. Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, February 21, 2011, 6:58 AM
Another day… Another violent attack by unhinged leftists… This time FOX News reporters were the target.
FOX News reporters were assaulted by a violent mob in California while they were reporting on a shooting. The NY Daily News reported:
An angry mob attacked a reporter and a photojournalist Sunday, but it wasn’t in the Middle East, it was in California.
The journalists were hit and pushed by family and friends of a young man who had been gunned down the night before outside an International House of Pancakes restaurant in Sacramento.
FOX 40 News reporter John Lobertini and his cameraperson, Rebecca Little, were assaulted after approaching a group of people standing near a memorial for 27-year-old Chester Jackson set up on the sidewalk outside the restaurant.
“This is one of the hazards of the business, but I’ve gotta tell you we didn’t expect what we encountered here,” Lobertini said during his broadcast after the attack.
Several local news outlets were present at the time and captured the incident on video from different points of view.
(Excerpt) Read more at gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com ...
you again...whinnin like a bitch
This is what Rush is talking about now:
US Gov. Software Creates ‘Fake People’ on Social Networks to Promote Propaganda
The Examiner ^ | February 18, 2011 | Sean Kerrigan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2676641/posts
The US government [read OBAMA] is offering private intelligence companies contracts to create software to manage “fake people” on social media sites and create the illusion of consensus on controversial issues.
The contract calls for the development of “Persona Management Software” which would help the user create and manage a variety of distinct fake profiles online. The job listing was discussed in recently leaked emails from the private security firm HBGary after an attack by internet activist last week.
Click here to view the government contract (PDF)
According to the contract, the software would “protect the identity of government agencies” by employing a number of false signals to convince users that the poster is in fact a real person. A single user could manage unique background information and status updates for up to 10 fake people from a single computer.
The software enables the government to shield its identity through a number of different methods including the ability to assign unique IP addresses to each persona and the ability to make it appear as though the user is posting from other locations around the world.
Included in HBGary’s leaked emails was a government proposal for the government contract. The document describes how they would ‘friend’ real people on Facebook as a way to convey government messages. The document reads:
“Those names can be cross-referenced across Facebook, twitter, MySpace, and other social media services to collect information on each individual. Once enough information is collected this information can be used to gain access to these individuals social circles.
Even the most restrictive and security conscious of persons can be exploited. Through the targeting and information reconnaissance phase, a person’s hometown and high school will be revealed...
(Excerpt)
Clinton: Ha, ha, ha. Real funny Limbaugh. Jeez, don't you people ever forget?
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LOL! Love it! bttt
Hey all! Drive by posting today.
Rush should suggest that the picketing “teachers” in Wisconsin should give and get Lewinskies so that they can catch the flu and then the doctors can write legit doctor’s excuses.
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