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Hanson writes about the Budget Repair Bill:

The so-called budget repair bill currently being held up in a state court because it was rammed through the Legislature under dubious circumstances would only allow teachers to negotiate their salaries. And any raises would be limited to the rate of inflation, unless voters approved a bigger increase in a referendum.

The same rules would apply to municipal, county and state employees — except for police officers and firefighters.
That isn’t how a modern free-market economy is supposed to work. It isn’t enlightened capitalism.
You are right Shelly (Randy), it does not look like the free market or enlightened capitalism (sounds like educrap speak) because it is about government. A person employed in the free market cannot force a customer to pay. As far as passing the legislation under dubious circumstances, what did the duly elected legislature run across the border to shack up with a 37 year-old divorced union thug in a skirt?

She, I mean he, also makes an assumption that teachers could make plenty more in the private sector. Right, as my old high school math teacher use to say, those that can’t…teach; and those that can’t teach…teach gym. According to Shelly (Randy), a new teacher in Hudson starts at a salary just over $35,000. Not bad pay for a “C” student that has no experience or proven abilities. How many jobs in the private sector start at that wage with almost their entire benefit package paid by the employer, if employment can be found at all?

Moore, I mean Hanson, asks how we are going to attract teachers to fill any vacancies? The fact is the school district receives hundreds of applications when a teaching slot opens up. In fact there were several hundred applying to fill the Principal position when Ed Lucas retired on a fully funded taxpayer pension. Furthermore, those holding teaching certificates outnumber the positions available nationwide. Teachers may go to another state where they can stand in the unemployment line. It looks like we have too many teachers that need to do something productive. Of course only in the mind of a teacher union thug running for elected office or a brain dead writer for the HSO would you give raises in such a case. I wonder how private schools seem to attract non-union teaching talent with lower pay and benefits than their counterparts in government run education.

The only stupid thing Moore and Hanson left out of their dumbass opinion piece was any mention about the Koch Brothers.

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Now I’m sure we all have had our moments and got caught in the wrong light at times. I know I have.

Now imagine. You belong to a government entity and are in the public eye for hours at a time. You would want to make sure you are at your best, right. Now image that is your wife. Image you work on a government payroll as well. Image you work for the Hudson School District as a liaison officer, someone who hasn’t enough credentials to get a real police job. Imagine your name is Mark Crimmins.

Now image having to wake up next to Cindy every morning. Yes officer Mark Crimmins, how does it feel to wake up next to that?

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SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) – Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is raising more speculation about a possible presidential bid with a stop in Iowa during her national book-signing tour.

The Iowa caucuses have traditionally tried to launch the presidential nominating political; season .

Palin’s book – signing tour has been carefully controlled, and she has not spoken to reporters at most events .

Still, her appearance in Iowa is seen as significant.

Veteran Republican activist Tim Albrechtt says politicians don’t just happen to stop in Iowa and Palin must know that her visit is probably seen as a signal she is more than likely considering a run.

Another possible RINO Republican contender, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, also has visited the state recently.

Copyright 2009 The Associated [De]Press[ed]. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

So the AP media can copyright the previous and obvious 6 sentences?

They are also delusional.

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1. Why he signed a brief denying that individuals have the right to own guns?
2. Why he recommended that fugitive financier Mark Rich be pardoned?
3. Why he didn’t think that the Justice Department needed a court order before storming the home of Elian Gonzalez?

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The extreme differences in the nations temperatures mainly due to huge influxes of Canadian air into the reaches of the southern United States has been causing a large number of low pressure systems that have been replacing it with hot and humid air in the east.

This was confirmed in a June 14th Ice Cap article Environmentalists Try to Take Advantage of Natural Disaster – Blame Midwest Floods on Global Warming..

The severe weather and heavy rainfall has been the result of rapid COOLING in the northern tier of the United States and Canada not global warming. The flooding exceeded the floods of 1993 when rapid cooling following the eruption of Pinatubo produced a similar kind of cooling with a strong suppressed jet stream that brought a steady stream of storms and flooding.

It references a Cap Times article saying the flooding is because of global warming which is contrary to all evidence. But what would you expect from the Cap Times.

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The New York Times led the way in making homicides committed by returning military veterans a front page story, blaming this on “combat trauma and the stress of deployment.” Yet the New York Post showed that the homicide rate among returning veterans is a fraction of the homicide rate among demographically comparable civilians.

Obama is one slick dude whose minions are easily exploiting the ignorant with the help of the media. Don’t be fooled.

Read Cocky Ignorance From The Freshman Senator

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The New Richmond Municipal Water Utility has filed for a rate increase with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.

If approved, the rate adjustment calls for a two-stage bump upward.

The first step would be a 23 percent increase. The second bump would result in a 41 percent hike in the current rate.

Jeff Holmquist doesn’t have to worry. Not only does he not live in New Richmond he doesn’t have to pay their water bills either, kind of like the $93,000,000 Million dollar boondoggle him and his paper pushed.

It was reported that the increases are due to increased operational and maintenance expenses. You would think Jeff Holmquist could have done some journalism and found out whether this is due to increased salaries and benefits to government workers. But you always come to expect the same old reporting, I mean lack thereof.

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Jeff Holmquist’s latest contemplation in The New Richmond Newspaper [Holmquist is editor of the paper] illustrates the confliction and ignorance that decays an otherwise normal brain at birth. Holmquist ponders whether the New Richmond City Council’s move to lower certain fees for construction is good or bad. see opinion

In his opinion piece Jeff admits that growth in residential and commercial construction has slowed precipitously. Huh? Almost two months ago, this same person was beating the drum for the passage of the biggest referendum in Wisconsin state history. Why? Because of the exploding growth that New Richmond was experiencing. So which is it; dramatic slowing of growth [no growth would be more accurate] or exploding growth? It seems the City Council, members who also supported the big referendum, confirmed what the socialists were denying; growth in this little part of the world has come to a standstill. Of course anyone with eyesight and the penchant for truthful observation was well aware of the reality of the situation. The question that should be put forward is not whether the City should lower construction fees, but why did members of the Council, the school board and administrators, prominent citizens in the community, and Jeff Holmquist fabricate the growth scenario?

Concerning directly the matter of lowering fees and taxes and how such actions might impact future growth, the City Council overlooked several important steps. First, even though fees may have some effect on the decision to build in one area over another, the reason for building is to meet the demands of individuals. A house built when there are no buyers is an empty house and wasted capital; a business built without profit is a business headed for bankruptcy. The lowering of certain construction fees does not alter one bit certain overriding facts; first, the state of Wisconsin is the seventh highest ranked state in overall tax burden with more increases on the horizon. Secondly, New Richmond just passed the largest school referendum in the state, which is the seventh highest ranked state in overall tax burden, with more increases on the horizon. Added together, New Richmond now has the distinction of being one of the most heavily tax-burdened communities anywhere.

The convoluted logic [if that term is even applicable here] of the City Council, Jeff Holmquist, and et al is bewildering. They pressed for the passage of a huge tax increase to meet the demands of exploding area growth, so they said. Part of their argument concerning the referendum was that the tax increases would not affect the growth. However they now see fit to cut certain fees as a way to spur the growth, which is presently non-existent that would not be impacted by an increase in taxes. Therefore, raising taxes has no impact on growth, but cutting taxes do. Meanwhile, living in the seventh highest tax-burdened state is not even considered a factor since taxes have no bearing on where people live, unless you cut taxes to make your area more attractive for people to live.

The only thing left to say is, “will the last one out turn the lights off!”

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I am not sure what the curriculum for journalism students is, but I feel certain that the course load does not include subjects that require the ability to reason or acquire some knowledge of scientific law.

The moronic reporting by our local keyboard idiots has been well documented. We have the example of the New Richmond editor who couldn’t figure out that he was being duped when he reported the findings of the school superintendent and bond salesman during a campaign for a 90 million dollar referendum. He actually believed the two con artists when they stated that you could double the size of a previous referendum and have no increase in taxes.

In Hudson the superintendent convinced the dunce for the Hudson Star Observer that you could operate a new elementary school for about 20% of the budget that current elementary schools in the district operate for.

A simple math analysis would have brought either of these claims into doubt along with the character of the individuals promoting such ideas.

The inability to reason is not limited to small town journalists. The national press corps plays the bigger fool everyday in stories about economics and science. No issue has illustrated the ignorance of the press more than global warming. Reporters continually echo the claims of the alarmists without ever giving one thought to scientific fact or law.

An example of this mindless reporting appeared last week in a story about the Olympic Flame and the amount of carbon produced jetting it around the world. In the article, global warming hysterics claimed that each gallon of jet fuel burned produces 23.88 pounds of carbon dioxide. What the reporter did not write, either out of ignorance or malice, is that a gallon of jet fuel weighs approximately 6.7 pounds.

I know another Doctor is working out the chemistry of this claim, but the basis of a scientific law does come into play in this story; the law of conservation of mass. Basic translation is that by products of a reaction can weigh no greater than the original mass. In other words 6.7 pounds cannot produce waste three times the original weight.

With a little scientific knowledge, the reporter on this story could have closed their notebook and killed the article. It also should have planted a seed that perhaps the whole global warming agenda is a scam.

Torching Reason

On a related front, the news this week contains stories about bans on food exports and inadequate food supplies being experienced by the citizens of some countries. The press is apparently coming to the conclusion that the cause of all this is ethanol. A little understanding of the most basic economic tenet, the scarcity of resources, should have made this obvious years ago when the foolishness of burning our food supplies first gained traction.

Starving

The biggest threat to our liberty is a press that can no longer reason.

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