Shakedown the Taxpayers

Public Service Unions - A Massive Conspiracy to Steal Taxpayers' Money

There is a big difference between private and public-sector workers. A private-sector labor dispute is a clash between management (shareholders) and unions (workers). In the public sector, the taxpayers (shareholders) are usually denied a seat at the table. Hence, collective bargaining in the public sector is less of a negotiation than a conspiracy to steal money from taxpayers.

Besides, those who work in the public-sector are performing jobs that are essential to the well-being of society at large and the threat of their stopping work can be dangerous to society. No police today, as there is a strike. No school this week, as teachers are picketing. Unions may be necessary to protect private-sector workers from profit-centered management. Public-sector workers do not need protection from taxpayers and government. In fact, we the taxpayers need protection from public-sector unions and their followers.

Unions, most of whose members are public employees, gave Democrats some $400 million in the 2008 election cycle. $400 MILLION!!! Where does the money come from? The money comes from taxpayers. Taxpayers provide every penny of dues paid to public employee unions. You cannot expect public-sector union members to pay their own dues, can you? They won't even pay their own health care or fund their own retirement plans.

We the taxpayers need to elect more leaders that will protect us from assault by Public-Service Unions; leaders like Ronald Reagan and Governor Scott Walker.

Chris Matthews & MSNBC Misogyny

Is Chris Matthews a Misogynist and is MSNBC his enabler? The man cannot be on air for more than sixty seconds without mentioning the name Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman in one slur or another. Misogyny is a mental disorder that requires therapy. If someone you know has some or all of the following symptoms, humbly request that person to find qualified treatment for his condition.

Characteristics Of A Misogynist

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BY MAHANIDHI DASA 

EDITORIAL, Dec 4 (VNN) — The Twenty-six Characteristics of a Misogynist (one who hates women) presented by Mahanidhi Dasa

1. He thinks that his masculinity depends on dominating women.
2. He feels powerful by subjugating women.
3. His emotional security depends on women being controlled.
4. He wants to insure that women are less powerful than he.
5. He controls women by destroying their self-confidence.
6. He is unnecessarily critical of women.
7. He intimidates women by finding faults with them.
8. He humiliates women in public and devalues their opinions.
9. He sees encounters with or about women as a battle to be won.
10. He must always win in a discussion with or about women.
11. He blames women for failings that are not related to them.
12. He blames women for his own failings and shortcomings.
13. He accuses women of being too sensitive if they get upset with him.
14. He will confuse issues by changing the subject.
15. He will confuse issues by denial or word jugglery.
16. He will confuse issues by acting as if nothing happened after it did.
17. He belittles or ignores women s accomplishments.
18. He denies her feelings and makes her wrong for feeling them.
19. He is condescending, taunting, jeering, or angry toward her.
20. He is hostile, aggressive, contemptuous, or cruel to her.
21. He makes derogatory comments about women in general.
22. He wants to punish women when they displease him.
23. He has no remorse or guilt for the pain he causes women.
24. He is in anxiety about women and meditates on them.
25. He forces women not to do things that they re qualified to do.
26. He selectively quotes authorities to substantiate his position.

Misogyny is a mental disorder that requires therapy. If someone you know has some or all of the above symptoms, humbly request that person to find qualified treatment for their condition.

This story URL: http://vnn.org/editorials/ET9812/ET04-2616.html

Obama Confuses Iraq War with Afghanistan

Which of these statements by Barack Obama is true? ANSWER: Neither! "We will be out of Afghanistan by the end of this year. Combat operations in Afghanistan have ended." --Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama

At about 21:39 in this YouTube video interview of 28 January 2011, President Obama declares, "As I said, we will be out of Afghanistan by the end of this year." Then he declares, "Combat operations in Afghanistan have ended." Neither of these statements is accurate. The Commander-in-Chief of American Forces confused Afghanistan with Iraq. Just imagine if President George W. Bush had made such a mistake. The American media would have beat him over the head as a stupid pawn of Dick Cheney, or worse. Instead, the press has almost entirely ignored Obama's ignorance.

IMAGINE Media Reaction -- If Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachman had said such a thing, even though neither one of them is the leader of the Free World, as is Barack Obama.

Americans Rewrite Their Own History

President Andrew Jackson, seventh president of the United States, was NOT impeached. It was seventeenth President Andrew JOHNSON, who was impeached. Only two US Presidents have ever been impeached: Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, and both were acquitted in the Senate. However, it is Revolutionary War soldier and War of 1812 hero, Andrew Jackson, who is now castigated as "impeached" and it cannot be corrected, as modern-day Americans have concluded that if President "Old Hickory" Jackson was not impeached, he should have been.

Andrew Jackson overcame an early life of adversity to triumph, becoming an American legend as both a warrior and a president. Although President Andrew Jackson was NEVER impeached, he was historically known for being:

• The first president born in a log cabin.
• The first president nominated by a political party.
• The first president to ride on a railroad train.
• The first president victimized by an assassination attempt.
• The only president to have been a prisoner of war.
• The last president who was a veteran of the Revolutonary War.

More on President Andrew Jackson

The image, Andrew Jackson, is subject to copyright by Edna Barney. It is posted here with permission via the Flickr API by Edna Barney, an administrator of "The Revolution ed" pool.

Sheriff Clarence Dupnik in CYA Mode

Duck, Cover, then Blame Sarah Palin -- Tucson Law Enforcement.

Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is in full CYA mode as he shifts blame for his own malfeasance to Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party and any Conservative, Republican, Right-winger he can think of. If only the 75-year-old sheriff had stationed even one police officer at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' Saturday open-air event in a public parking lot, if only there had been a a parked patrol car near the federal officeholder, perhaps a troublemaker like Jared Loughner would have been discouraged from proceeding.

"Indeed, Dupnik's deputies didn't arrive at the carnage scene until summoned by frantic 911 callers. By then, Pima County officers didn't even have to capture the suspected .... shooter, Jared Loughner. Several brave, unarmed crowd members had already subdued the man; good thing they did because the kid still had ammo for his 9-millimeter Glock semiautomatic." Heckuvajob Sheriff Dupnik!

Roger Ailes of Fox News said this of Jared Lee Loughner: "They knew about this guy. The education system knew about this guy...they kicked him out of school and told him until he gets a letter saying he’s not going to kill anybody, he can’t come back to school. The police department picked him up five times and let him go and nobody screened him for getting a weapon..."

Place Blame Where it Belongs - On CYA Sheriff Clarence Dupnik

Sheriff Clarence Dupnik Deserves Blame

"This isn't an unusual individual. There are hundreds just like him in our community." -- Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik speaking of 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner.

What about an Arizona Sheriff who knows there is a lunatic pothead in his jurisdiction and he does zilch to prevent said demented wacko from purchasing a firearm? Then when the wacko buys a gun and massacres other citizens of said Sheriff's community, the Sheriff immediately places the blame on Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Republicans, Sarah Palin, all Conservatives and anyone else in opposition to the progressives' agenda.

They knew about this guy (Jared Lee Loughner). The education system knew about this guy...they kicked him out of school and told him until he gets a letter saying he’s not going to kill anybody, he can’t come back to school. The police department picked him up five times and let him go and nobody screened him for getting a weapon... -- Roger Ailes of Fox News.

Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is far more guilty of contributing to the bloodshed, death and mayhem that occured on his watch, than anyone else in this country. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik deserves a nation's scorn for he was aware that 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner was mentally unstable, and feared by fellow Arizonans who had come in contact with him, yet Sheriff Dupnik did nothing to keep him from obtaining the firearm and ammunition necessary to assassinate political leaders and kill and maim innocent Arizonans including a nine-year-old child.

This is what Sheriff Clarence Dupnip himself told Diane Sawyer of ABC News:

"I can tell you this is a somewhat dysfunctional family."

Many have reported that Loughner behaved bizarrely in his community college classes, some even going to school officials in fear of their safety.

"All I can tell you is that teachers and fellow students were concerned about his bizarre behavior in class to the point where some of him were physically afraid of him," Dupnik said. "He was acting in very weird fashion to the point where they had several incidents with him to the point where law enforcement at Pima College got involved and they decided to expel him. And they did."

Dupnik maintains that it was Loughner's own demons, not his state's relatively lenient gun control laws, that caused the tragedy on Saturday. "He could have purchased this gun in any state. It's not just Arizona," said Dupnik, who owns a gun. "There are too many people who have temper problems who have troubled personalities. This isn't an unusual individual. There are hundreds just like him in our community."
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik Blasts Rush Limbaugh.

Dems Targeting Republicans with Gun Sights

Once upon a time there was a man from Chicago running for President who explained to a Philadephia audience how he planned to vanquish his Republican opponents: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” Remember? That was in June 2008. Now, just two and one half years later, this same man has the AUDACITY to blame others for using inflammatory speech and his lemming-like minions are right now blaming yesterday's assassinations in Tucson on Talk Radio, the Tea Party and Sarah Palin. Hypocrisy?
Obama Threatens Republican Opponents With a Gun.

DEMOCRAT NATIONAL TARGETING STRATEGY AGAINST THE ENEMY (REPUBLICANS)

Why are Liberals and the Media accusing Sarah Palin of being responsible for the assassinations yesterday because she used gun sights in political ads? Long before Sarah Palin came on the national scene, Democrats, including the Democrat Leadership Council, were using ads with gun sights to target Republicans. The Media never said one word against them. DLC Gun Sights Ads Against Republican Candidates

I know it is hard to believe after all the outrage at big game hunter Sarah Palin's use of gun sights, but the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) website also used gun bullseyes to target Republicans they were planning to defeat. Afterwards, the leader of that same DCCC rushed on MSNBC to denounce Sarah Palin for doing what he had already done. It is too precious. DCCC Bullseye Map

Here is another example of Democrats using Gun Sights targeting their Republican opponents, this time J. D. Hayworth of Arizona:
Gun Sight Ad against Republicans (Facebook Link). Here is the YouTube version: AZ Republic Endorses Harry Mitchell.

And Democrats have even targeted Democrats with Gun Sights for not being Liberal enough. In fact, in June 2008, the Liberal blog Daily KOS put a bullseye on Representative Giffords herself, because she was a Blue Dog Democrat (Conservative). DAILY KOS Bullseye on Gabrielle Giffords Two days before the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords the "lovely" Daily KOS made a post about her entitled DAILY KOS - "My CongressWOMAN voted against Nancy Pelosi! And is now DEAD to me!". Immediately after the assassination attempt on Giffords' life, Daily KOS removed those posts from its site and began blaming Sarah Palin for the carnage in Arizona which was actually committed by a Leftist, anti-God pothead.

One veteran Democratic operative, who blames overheated rhetoric for the shooting, said President Barack Obama should carefully but forcefully do what his predecessor did. “They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.” Another Democratic strategist said the similarity is that Tucson and Oklahoma City both “take place in a climate of bitter and virulent rhetoric against the government and Democrats.” Politico

If history is prologue, expect a big speech from Obama (State of the Union?). Five days after the April 1995 Oklahoma City bombings, Bill Clinton delivered a speech in Minneapolis blaming conservative commentators with “loud and angry voices” who he said “spread hate” and “leave the impression ... by their very words, that violence is acceptable.”

At the same time, Clinton political advisers privately embraced a ghoulish reality: The tragedy had been good for the president’s standing. Dick Morris, then Clinton’s top consultant, wrote the president a memo shortly after the bombing about how to maximize the advantage: “A. Temporary gain: boost in ratings. B. More permanent gain: Improvements in character/personality attributes—remedies weakness, incompetence, ineffectiveness found in recent poll. C. Permanent possible gain: sets up Extremist Issue vs. Republicans.” Politico

Happy Parent One Day?

Democrat President Woodrow Wilson made Mother's Day an official holiday in the U.S. That name will now be changed to either "Parent One Day" or "Parent Two Day." Which one, I am not sure. Or will the Libs combine Father's Day and Mother's Day into a Genderless Day so we can all be Happy Libs and not offend any genderless Moms and Dads anywhere. HAPPY PARENT ONE & PARENT TWO DAY! Or will America regain it's sanity?

The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says. "The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father,’” said Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services. "They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’" A statement on the State Department website noted: “These improvements are being made to provide a gender neutral description of a child’s parents and in recognition of different types of families.”

'Mother,' 'Father' Changing to 'Parent One,' 'Parent Two' on Passport Applications