Reason’s Radley Balko finds Jonathan Chait’s sin of omission and bitch slaps him with it.
Liberty. So very shadowy and right wing.
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update: So long as we’re talking about the Kochs, liberty, and individualism, see also here.
Reason’s Radley Balko finds Jonathan Chait’s sin of omission and bitch slaps him with it.
Liberty. So very shadowy and right wing.
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update: So long as we’re talking about the Kochs, liberty, and individualism, see also here.
Sometimes I have trouble differentiating between the people who manufacture narratives because they’re lying scumbags and the people who advance them because they’re fucking lazy and stupid. I find it easier to just hate them all.
i don’t look too closely to the cabal of commies to your left
-i above
Liberals are liars. Quelle surprise!
And liars are liberals. Hey, Orwell was right! This language stuff is reflexive!
Steyn is on the case:
They might have passed Rush and Fox as the most evil people in the world.
they’ll always have satan
link
I calculate Ian will get Koch slapped before this is over with.
Soemthing tells me David Koch will be happy to make an example of the young “F the troops” fellow with the efforts of his lawyer(s).
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/02/phony-david-koch-call-wasnt-just-prank.html
See also there.
Had Mister Cohan been a Chicagoan, he would’ve titled it Over By There.
OT for bh,
Do you know anything about the pending layoffs in WI schools; if the bill does not pass here shortly? I posted this over at one of the Big’s when the idea popped into my head a bit ago.
“As we march forward with education reform, I am curious. What if these layoffs are part of that plan? What are the terms of these layoffs? Are they permanent? Or do the teachers end up in a limbo, still collecting some kind of benefit?
Because this could a great way to end the “dance of the lemons” with one fell swoop. Never let a crisis go to waste.
* Dance of the lemons refers to bad teachers being shuffled around the district by each Principal. Each hopes the new lemon is better than the last.”
Crazy conspiracy theory? Wishful thinking?
Someone told me that my Senator is a “good guy”; someone I wouldn’t expect. Yet, he is one of the runaway 14. What if they stay away just long enough to allow these layoffs and then come back and pass it? I need more particulars on the layoffs. But, the idea is just crazy cool to me. It can’t be true though.
“Because this could a great way to end the “dance of the lemons” with one fell swoop. Never let a crisis go to waste. ”
one word: seniority
What, Pawlenty’s gonna grow a face full of enigmatic whiskers next?
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Yeah, newrouter, I thought the idea too fantastical. Many of my idea balloons get popped like that. Despite my efforts to crush reason with enthusiasm.
I’m the one with the whiskers, and I know I said “Government is too damn big” before Pawlenty did.
“I thought the idea too fantastical. Many of my idea balloons get popped like that. ”
well walker’s plan would let the school boards fire these idiots ’cause collectivist bargaining would only be for wages not working conditions.(they’ll still have civil service protection) so you’re not too far off.
Still, it’s got a nice ring to it. We’re taxed enough already and the government is too damn big.
fight the power
So how many teachers showed up at the professional development conference held just blocks from the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison?
I’m somewhat surprised that there doesn’t seem to be much outrage over the fact that my Dad’s old school district has fired every last one of its teachers and they’re going to pick and choose which ones get rehired. They’re bitching about collective bargaining in WI, while 2000 teachers with a delightful union just got pink slipped.
Oh, wait. I’m not at all surprised. The Mayor is a Democrat. The last mayor, the genius that built this heap of shit, is now my Congressman. What’s interesting, though, is that this happened almost on the first anniversary of the last time an uppity little RI berg did the same thing.
Anonymous…
Shouldn’t those bastards be worried more about keeping Assange alive?
“The Mayor is a Democrat”
nixon goes to china
Hang on. I’ve got to go wipe my ass with a Koch-brand paper product.
Screw you, anonymous. May you use ‘John Wayne’ toilet paper…rough, tough, and don’t take shit off of nobody.
“and Freedom of The People, to boycott all Koch Industries’ paper products. ”
fight the power! use one sheet – sheryl crowe
Have any lefties attempted to explain – even to their own dutiful sheep – why paper product potentates would have a financial interest in bringing down public sector unions?
“why paper product potentates would have a financial interest in bringing down public sector unions?”
no fight the power NOW
hey hey ho ho koch has got to go. peace out
I think it’s kind of funny that Rick Ellensberg has put in an appearance on that Reason comments thread.
They own the Governor. You can tell by the way he said the same shit he says in public to someone pretending to be one of them on the phone. In fact, he’s probably a felon because of that. TRVTH.
“Have any lefties attempted to explain – even to their own dutiful sheep – why paper product potentates would have a financial interest in bringing down public sector unions?”
the suck koch walker is selling epa shitty power plants for cheap. ax a troll.
Huh. I checked in at Reason, because of Slart’s observation, and I noticed they’ve got the nice orangey-colored links, just like pw.
DEEP HIGH-LEVEL CONSPIRACY ALERT~!
Yep, the deal is this:
There are 32 state-owned power plants, none of them big enough to make the state’s list of power plants.
Of those 32, 15 are currently in being investigated by the EPA for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act. One was planned to be renovated, roughly doubling its power output from 9 MW to (IIRC) about 20 MW, at a cost of $250M.
I wouldn’t be much surprised if these “no-bid” contracts were, in effect, permission for the governor to swap the cost of demolition and disposal of the facilities in question for their scrap value.
Finally finished what I’ve been working on for several weeks.
Huh. First puzzle I ever worked that I fondly recall was a circular thing, with all the American Presidents around the edge, and the Great Seal (eagle side) in the middle. Through LBJ, I think.
“Of those 32, 15 are currently in being investigated by the EPA for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act”
and that’s epa’s gig not wisconsin’s? epa – env. patdown authority.
“I wouldn’t be much surprised if these “no-bid” contracts were, in effect, permission for the governor to swap the cost of demolition and disposal of the facilities in question for their scrap value.”
junk let us argue over junk. and bait fish.
modo is CONerned about the incompatibility of wind and solar and reality.
f**k proggs(no don’t pleasure them).
“and bait fish.”
Say what you want about bait fish, but the Delta Smelt has done more to combat illegal immigration than any politician in DC.
Krauthammer
Recklessly principled? Recklessly principled.
I don’t know, oxymoron?
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It’s an oxymoron in the same way that rain on your wedding day is ironic.
He didn’t! No, it can’t be!
{o_o}
BTW, I gave up trying to find it after I got distracted by the mind-numbingly stupid lefty troll comments there. Over the last few days, I’ve come to realize that as dumb as some of the trolls we’ve seen at PW were, they were intellectual giants compared to nearly all the rest I’ve seen elsewhere.
Dayum…
I left this over at Obsidian Wings, where I am mostly a janitor:
Ok, so just to wrap this up:
According to TPM:
According to the Wisconsin Department of Administration (p 58), the total cost of all energy consumed by all government facilities, whether it’s generated by a state-owned power plant or not, is something less than $200M. Assuming all of that is generated onsite, and power-generation profit margins being what they are (WEC’s is about 9%), we’re talking less than $20M/yr that the Kochs could possibly expect to see from these facilities.
Sure, they could come in, buy the plants for a song, and sell them at a tidy profit. They could possibly make a one-time profit of hundreds of millions of dollars, if Walker were stupid enough to just give them away, and assuming that laws in place really, truly do give him the power to do that.
I think David Koch probably could rustle that up by cleaning out between his couch cushions. The guy owns 42% of a company whose revenues are $100B.
I want to caveat the above by saying that not all of the information is easily accessible, so I might be missing a thing or two. But from what I can tell, this is somewhat like Ernst Stavro Blofeld hatching an insane plot, involving the usual machinations, to get a discount on his auto insurance
If anything I wish the Koch Bros. were a little more right wing. Like that $20 million to the ACLU could have funded a lot of Jeff Goldsteins on really fighting for liberty.
“the same way that rain on your wedding day is ironic.”
Geez, you don’t have to get personal!
Do I see a future GEICO commercial here?
“Like that $20 million to the ACLU could have funded a lot of Jeff Goldsteins on really fighting for liberty.”
or funny leftists. poop in madison!
Shit, meet Fan.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2011/02/wisconsin-police-union-members-threaten.html
I hope the national guard didn’t unionize…
I officated a game yesterday in which the third baseman for one of the teams looked suspisciusly like a chick. It was, she had a sacrifice fly to deep center.
Well, a butch lesbian chick, so there’s that.
Make that third base person.
We are actively seeking vulnerabilities, but in the mean time we are calling for all supporters of true Democracy, and Freedom of The People, to boycott all Koch Industries’ paper products.
Boycotting is a great idea. It separates those who can live without from those who are so weak of character that they cannot change their own behavior.
So toilet paper boycotters, take your best shot. But what if there were a boycott of all products produced by unionized companies? Starting with the NFL? Movies? Television?
Imagine people going outside on Sunday afternoons. Creating their own entertainment. Exercising their brains.
No more royalty.
Probably not possible.
By the way, I’m starting a business in Madison. It’s called Extra Cheese Pizza.
I’ve lined up a bunch of porn stars and if you call to have a pizza delivered to the statehouse for those poor hungry protesting public workers, and you say the secret code in the exact words “Put the extra cheese on it”, someone like Ron Jeremy or Peter North will spritz the pizza with his boxer sauce.
800-SPL00GE
Sorry I missed that above, Mr. B.
I tend to doubt that the layoffs are part of the plan. As alluded to by guins, there’s probably very little overlap between those who’d we’d drop (bad teachers) and those who will be dropped (last hired with the fewest useless Ed degrees).
Pablo’s link at #22 is interesting in this context, btw. Because once the reduced state aid in the new budget is rolled out, many school boards might start looking at such “unthinkable” options. When the money isn’t there, the money isn’t there.
Who, not who’d.