Tell me that I’m having a bad dream or something. Do the Democrats really think they are going to win with a teacher union thug like Shelly Moore? OMG, have you seen her videos from Madison and Eau Claire? The ones where she is shouting and ranting about the union thuggery? How can Ms. Moore be a serious candidate when she has such close ties to perhaps the worst union in the country?
Shelly Moore is a joke, plain and simple. She needs to be defeated by Sheila Harsdorf so that we can maintain the proper changes brought about by Governor Scott Walker and the legislature. I know that there are some people at the Rivertowns Newspaper group that will disagree with this opinion, but that’s just too bad.
12:40am on Wednesday, June 8, 2011
no that was Happy. It is kind of amusing to see these people unknowingly brainwashed into promoting the so called “Right” agenda of turn them against each other to divert attention away from our actions until it is too late and we come for them as well. In every Hellspawn like movie the demon that they raise always eats the ones who congered them up first…
What do i know, I’m one of the most hated: an ex-State worker who now is going to school at the over paid teacher union hall, UWRF at the expense of the Veteran’s Admin Vocational Rehab program for disabled Vets. am I Biased? probably but I didn’t need to go to college to recognize stupidity. I was in the Army…
I guess that’s enough said. Could there be a bigger leech?
For a number of years I have wondered how HSO assistant editor Randy Hanson could have such a liberal slant to his opinion. It is just difficult for me to imagine how someone working in the private sector could harbor such a skewed opinion on basic economics. Randy’s last opinion piece about collective bargaining was the ultimate in leftist reasoning, if you can call it reasoning at all.
In addition to his highly slanted opinion pieces, Randy has been giving significant front page press to teacher union leader Shelly Moore. It is amazing how much press Ms. Moore has received and how little she has actually said. Surely Mr. Hanson could ask a few hard questions of the challenger in this recall election. Her connection with the government union is quite obvious and she would certainly be serving a very narrow constituency if elected.
Then recently I learned that prior to joining the staff at the HSO, Randy Hanson was a Wisconsin government school teacher. Randy retired as a teacher and currently draws a public pension that he made no contributions to. The taxpayers paid for his retirement and now he spends his time rambling on about how we should spend even more money on big government. Randy tries to belittle anyone who feels that the current spending by our government at all levels is unsustainable.
Doesn’t Mr. Hanson or editor Doug Stohlberg feel the need to inform the readers that Mr. Hanson is a retired teacher? Isn’t Mr. Hanson proud of his teaching past? Obviously he feels to the need to criticize anyone who dares to challenge the status quo in government education, so why hasn’t he told us about his previous employment?
Perhaps Randy wants us to believe he is just this kind hearted individual who sees the good in such a system and that anyone who challenges the wages, pensions or healthcare that state employees receive must have an evil streak in them. Or a more likely scenario is that he doesn’t want his readers to know that he is one of those privileged individuals with the guaranteed pension for life.
Nice try Randy, but let’s be honest from here on out shall we?
After reading Randy Hanson’s bumbling opinion in the Hudson Star-Observer this week, I have to wonder whether teacher union thugs and State Senate candidate Shelly Moore ghost wrote the piece or his brain is incapable of anything other than controlling bowel movements. No proper functioning brain could produce such illogical crap.
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? Read More→
THIS is the best the Dims could do? A teacher union thug for state senator? It’s not hard to figure out who this union thug will be representing in Madison. And what’s with the hairdo? Were poodle cuts on special or what?
Yesterday, the doorbell rang awakening me out of an afternoon slumber. It was a damn good thing I wasn’t sitting on the pot. A rather straggling looking man and woman stood at the door. In his hand he held a petition to recall State Senator Shelia Harsdorf. Playing along for a moment, I asked to see their driver’s licenses. After refusing to show me any identification, I told them they had to the count of five to get off my property or my anti-socialist dog would be released from his cage.
By the time I got to three they were running like two bums after a beer truck. I decided for good measure to give them the what for as they walked around the block. From what I could tell, the two bums representing union thugs did not get one signature but a whole lot of grief. As many of us have seen over the last few weeks, the thugs have hired others to walk the streets of downtown Hudson to gather signatures.
I started to wonder where all the brave teacher union thugs had gone. Why didn’t Michael Yell or John Dornfeld come knocking at my door asking for a signature. Why don’t you see Roy Sjoberg or Scott Ellingson walking the streets of Hudson for their noble cause? These people are real brave when they are in a crowd of 300 other thugs. Michael Yell showed real bravery when he and few hundred of his goon friends charged over a snow bank on to private property to surround and bang on a car. Hey Michael, why didn’t you show up at my door?!
You know why, because like other bullies you are chicken-shits to face a person one on one that may swing back. You are afraid to hear what people really think of you. If your wish was to pick a fight, then let’s rumble.
You can’t hide behind Dan Tjornehoj’s skirt forever.
Hey Roy, what is with the red flags lining your front yard? You don’t need to advertise that your a socialist, we knew that a long time ago.
Scott Ellingson, leader of the local teacher union thugs, rationalized pay raises for his troops as good for the economy since he would have more money to spend. Of course his increase in wages comes from taking money out of my pocket and others by force in the form of taxes. If his logic is economically sound, then robbery should be legal.
It only took a matter of hours after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan for some buffoon to conclude that the disaster has an economic silver-lining. Larry Summers, former Harvard President and a member of Obama’s economic advisors, stated that the years of rebuilding in Japan will help spur a stagnant economy. One would expect such dribble from the likes of Scott Ellingson, but not a person holding a PH.D in economics. French philosopher Frederick Bastiat dispelled such nonsense in his “Fallacy of the Broken Window”; a must read for any class in economics.
The purpose of production and exchange is to make one better off by satisfying an infinite numbers of wants. Using scarce (limited) resources to replace broken items makes one no better off than before the item was destroyed. In ways the person is worse off since resources that could be used for the satisfaction of other wants now has to be used for an item already attained. If destruction truly spurs economic growth, the ability to satisfy an increasing number of wants, then why wait for a disaster to take place. To ensure economic activity, we should make vandalism legal. If we want to stimulate the economy then why not take a sledge hammer to cars in a parking lot (cash for clunkers) or bulldoze houses (some economist actually suggested this as a cure for slumping housing prices).
The “broken window” buffoon logic permeates the thinking found in our universities and economic central planners. No wonder the country and the world finds itself in a state of turmoil.
Every once in a while a squirrel will find a nut! That’s what happened when Margaret Ontl penned her recent editorial about teacher union thugs. She said that out of six interviews with area merchants, that none of the 6 would go on record supporting Walker’s plan out of fear of retaliation.
Well, either the intimidation factor was too much for Ellies, or they just don’t give a damn about regualr patrons who are non-union thugs.
Not too many years ago citizens of New Richmond elected school board members interested in protecting taxpayer’s interest. They took positions at odds with the teachers and administration. They also brought transparency to the process that used to be discussed behind closed doors.
The reaction of the union thugs then is much like the attempted bullying we witness today. Back at the time in New Richmond, teachers and supporters disrupted board meetings. School Board members were also targets of attacks against their private property that included slashed tires and malicious damage to homes.
All the while, the local newspaper kept silent about the thuggish behavior. The paper even put out a bounty against one of the Ontheborderline writers who shed light on the situation within the school district. It was all out war against those who dared to stand up to the teachers union. Read More→
The Hudson School Board had a listening session tonight to get public feedback on what to do about the teachers that illegally walked off the job last week. I am not sure what we had to listen to, but it turned out to be a teacher union weeping pukefest. Funny how you can’t get a teacher to stay after school for playground duty, but when it comes time in the middle of the night for them to express their inner self you get more attending than the ones who actually show up for work on a normal day.
Speaking of showing up, Second-Choice Two Names started the festival off with an interesting statistic. The average number of teachers who call in sick is over 50 a day. Unlike the School Board President who can’t hazard a guess at the number of teachers in the district, I figure the 50 teachers is about 15%. That is not including some like a certain Spanish teacher that show up but aren’t there. So they cancelled classes because twice the normal number of teachers were calling in sick. This is important because it is part of the TC solution.
They had a lawyer referee the listening session. His ground rules were longer than the ones the NFL plays by. My gosh, I thought he was going to say you couldn’t talk but had to use sign language. If that was the case I would have gone to the mike and spouted off with a finger on each hand. You were only allowed 3 minutes to talk and you had to stay on topic, which was what to do with the illegal teachers. Still don’t seem hard to me what you do. Of course the chances of someone like Dan “I have nothing better to do but sit on the school board for my entire life” Tjornehoj doing something right is less than rolling a one with a pair of dice. I think I know what his problem is.
Scott Ellingson spoke first with an apology. He said his wife was really mad at him for calling an illegal strike. I found it funny that while his mental midget legions were illegally skipping school and protesting in Madison, Scott was home wiping runny noses and butts. We did learn that not only can Scott not teach Spanish (hard to do when you’re not there) but he can’t tell time either. He spoke for almost 5 minutes until a citizen called time on him.
Playboy Roy Sjoberg all slicked up for the evening, started his speech with a Bible verse. How come people who do illegal things or their defenders always revert to the Bible when trying to rationalize why the victim should not beat the hell out of them. Ellingson broke the time limit rule and Roy broke the rule about staying on topic. Socialists always break the law. Read More→
With local teacher union President and Spanish teacher Scott Ellingson in Madison to protest a bill that would require him to actually pay for something like part of his pension and health insurance, students in Spanish actually learned more than si, grande, and nacho grande. My ciphering calculates that to be 3/5 of word per month. One student’s Spanish improved so much that Taco John hired him to manage the potato oles’. At least now when I pull up to the drive-in window and order a numero dos the kid doesn’t try to take a dump on my car.
The kiddies across the state also learned that it is not about them as in it is about the kids. No it is about their pensions and healthcare and the kids are just shield to hide the thuggery of the teachers unions. The desperate cowards even used the kiddies as protestors. The good thing is that the kids finally got more of an education then they had for the last twelve years listening to some dimwitted, dickless (that goes for the male teachers too) government union teacher.
Listening to these kids out on the street shows what twelve years of government learning can do to a perfectly good brain. You have to love the one kid in this clip” we trying to stop some dude from doing something”. I bet he is on the honor roll!
If you see a teacher, tell them thanks for showing everyone who they really are.
