Breaking News in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election

BREAKING: PROSSER LEADS IN WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT RACE …Update: Prosser Lead Grows From 40 to 76! …Update: “We Are Looking at a SEVERAL THOUSAND VOTE SWING to Prosser”

A little hint of good news for a change!

"Wisconsin City Caught Destroying Ballots"

Color me surprised! I mean, why be content with flooding the airwaves with millions of dollars of dishonest advertising when you can put your thumb on the scale and eliminate those pesky ballots right at the source?

As if the situation in Wisconsin wasn't tense enough, it appears that one county in particular is going to a new extreme. This comes after word that there may have been voter fraud in the nonpartisan State Supreme Court election yesterday between incumbent David Prosser and JoAnne Kloppenburg.

For some reason one of the counties in the state is destroying ballots that 'were not counted' yesterday.

They may need more than a recount in Wisconsin. They may need a "do over".

H/T Memeorandum

Wisconsin Court Stacking Attempt in Play -video

In case you haven't heard, pro-union, anti-Walker forces in Wisconsin are trying to stack the court with justices who'll give them a more favorable ruling over newly enacted roll backs of their excessive benefits. (No editorializing here!)

In response to a really sleazy ad they're running, there is this:



More at Verum Serum

Our Poor Overburdened Teachers!*

Are you familiar with the old wives' tale that teachers only work nine months a year? Totally not true! At least not in Oshkosh, Wisconsin! There they have 90 days of sick leave, so they only have to work six months a year!

This is what the Walker reforms look like in practice. One dazzling detail: up until now Oshkosh teachers got 90 sick days a year.
...Teachers would no longer receive 90 sick days per year. Instead, they would receive 10 sick days per year that could accumulate up to 90 days. Unused days would not be paid back.

This is not to say that every teacher abuses the system. But the system itself is rife with opportunities for abuse! Can you imagine any profession, other than perhaps, entertainment, where people receive an annual salary for a half a year's work? And what about the expense and harm to the quality of education (stop laughing!) when substitutes have to replace those who are out "sick" for as many as three months?

Public service contracts of every stripe need to be reexamined so that the taxpayer does not end up perpetually making Cadillac payments for Yugo services.

*Yeah. Right!

H/T Gateway Pundit

A Little Sprinkling of Civility Anyone?

by guest blogger Andrew Roman

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If I’m not mistaken – and I don’t think I am – wasn’t it America’s ever-caring, people-loving leftists that rebuked conservatives for their incendiary choices in violence-provoking language not too long ago? Wasn’t there a period of time following the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords when the save-the-world-from-everything libs went moonbatty over what they deemed as frighteningly provocative fighting words by the thirsting-for-violence-at-all-costs rightists - words such as “targeting”? Didn't they bust a collective pimple and demand conservatives hold themselves to a higher standard of civility over aggression-fueling images such as crosshairs on a political map? (And wasn't the lamestream media right there to help the left carry the load?)

Remember when South Carolina Congressman James Clayburn said that the "vitriol has gotten so elevated that people feel emboldened"?

I didn't understand what he meant when he originally said it, and I still don't.

"Emboldened" to do what?

Was America "emboldened" and pushed toward violent extremes when Barack Obama himself told people to go out and get in their neighbors' faces during the '08 campaign season?

Was America pushed toward upheaval and lawlessness when Republican opposition to ObamaCare was likened to that of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels by Democrat Steve Cohen on the House Floor in January?

When Democrat Massachusetts Congressman Michael Capuano said to Wisconsin protestors that it sometimes becomes necessary to take to the streets and "get a little bloody," did anyone on the left bat a lash or denounce his incivility?

Just two nights ago, a Republican office in Washington, D.C. had its windows shot out to very little news coverage. Police are still searching for the culprits. Certainly, I am not suggesting that liberals were responsible for the act, but imagine for a moment it was a Democrat Party office, or a planned Planned Parenthood office.

By definition, conservatives want less government intrusion in American lives; yet libs love to attach the word "fascists" to us small-government/big-individual types, which is, frankly as wrong as it is dumb.

And how do lefties reconcile such inherent contradictions?

They don't.

They simply find ways of infusing an "ism" or a "phobe" into the dialogue, and the discussion ends.

After all, if they say I am a racist, or I hate gays, or I am an Islamaphobe, it must be true.

Ironically, those who have openly advocated for distributing wealth to the "underclass" (President Obama, for instance) somehow find definitional labels such as "Marxist" and "socialist" distasteful and uncivil; yet, quite literally, that is what their big-government policies are pushing toward.

Wisconsin governor Scott Walker

So where exactly is the outrage – the uproar – over Time magazine’s article this past weekend about Wisconsin’s embattled union-busting governor Scott Walker, cleverly titled: “Wisconsin's Governor Wins, but Is He Now Dead Man Walker?"

That's some title.

"Dead Man Walker"?

Not exactly a dose of fuzzy cuddles and squishy hugs, is it?

Not exactly the picture of civility and graciousness, is it?

Did the article's author forget the chords to Kumbaya?

When Giffords was shot by a scum-sucking perpetrator of evil, cries for civility rang out from America's loudest liberal mouthpieces almost instantaneously, aimed primarily at Constitution-happy, gun-loving purveyors of angry right-wing talk radio (to paraphrase the left). They want us to believe that the country is heading down a path of brutality and hostility unseen in all of human history, thanks in large part to America's class of livid white men who want their weapons left alone and the right to beat their wives preserved.

It was all to be expected.

Liberals are painfully predictable, if nothing else.

But who really are the uncivil ones?

What of the greedy, protesting Wisconsin teachers and union thugs who threatened Republicans with death for voting against the interests of the union juggernaut? Where were those headlines? And what about the self-absorbed idiots who effectively shut down state house business in Madison by setting up shop at the capital building? Is that what free speech was supposed to be about? Forcing legislators to enter the building through windows? Disrupting official state business?

Remember, because the news from Wisconsin was brought to us through the lamestream media filter, none of the actions by the spoiled-brat protesting class were ever presented as particularly provocative or controversial. None of the union-thuggery and ugliness were ever reported as being inflammatory or offensive. What happened in Wisconsin, according to the alphabets, was simply a matter of hard-working middle-class folks protecting their "rights" while exercising their constitutional freedoms.

Yet, Tea Parties rallies were almost always portrayed as hostile gatherings of angry right-wing racists and bigots, even though no evidence has ever been presented to verify these claims. Someone somewhere thought they heard a racist remark being uttered by someone at some rally somewhere .... something like that.

It's just another example of how the rules differ depending on what side of the aisle your seat is on.

For instance, when Democrats shove a massive two-thousand-plus page health-care bill through Congress on Christmas Eve that no one has been afforded the opportunity to read and scrutinize - a bill that will effectively change the nature of the greatest health care delivery system the world has ever known - it is called “doing the job they were elected to do” … but when Republicans (elected by the people) pass a budget-curtailing, state-saving bill in Wisconsin - one that doesn’t accommodate the goals of the ever-ravenous teachers unions - it all of a sudden becomes the “nuclear option.”

If Wisconsin had a dollar for every reference to Hitler, fascism and totalitarianism that had been seen at the Madison protests, the state would be so far in the black, they could actually pay the unions exactly what they are demanding and have enough left over to pay six hundred illegal aliens to cleanup the area in and around the state capital. (Liberals are extraordinarily messy when they get together to moan and groan).

(You'll recall that during the height of the Tea Party rallies, the "Obama As Hitler" signs that were showing up - reflexively blamed on bitter racist righties - were actually being supplied by lefty Lyndon LaRouche).


And why is it that the unions and teachers are not considered money-grubbing greedy bastards when they demand more of their fellow taxpayer dollars, but conservatives are labeled as greedy when they try to solicit more hard-earned dollars from citizens through competition in the marketplace?

How does that work?

In short, what the protesting teachers of Wisconsin were saying was: “To hell with my fellow citizens who pay taxes. I don’t care if the state is bankrupt, I want what I want and I’m going to make noise and disrupt things until I get it.”

How is this an inaccurate depiction?

Who exactly needs the lesson in civility?

With the abundance of hypocrisy and contradiction that underscores today's lamestream media coverage of the news, it was actually good to see that the fourth estate was all over the fact that President Bush found time to squeeze in yet another round of golf (his sixty-first golf outing since being anointed). He even worked in a few minutes to appear on ESPN for a little college basketball talk. Meanwhile, deficits continue to explode, Japan attempts to recover from a catostrophic earthquake and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi continues his brutal assault on protesters and civilians. On top of that, the country remains at war.

Surely the press has something to say about the President playing golf while Americans serve in harm's way.

Ooops... did I say Bush?

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Moore: Protesters Have 'Aroused a Sleeping Giant'

Mr. Moore: How much do you actually know about what you're talking about?

Yes, Michael Moore, that scion of dishonest editing and legendary corpulence has told a crowd of cheering Lilliputians that they have awakened a "sleeping giant".

Protesters in Madison have "aroused a sleeping giant" in the national fight for workers' rights, filmmaker Michael Moore told thousands at the Capitol Square on Saturday, as rallies opposing Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposals wrapped up their third week. "Right now the Earth is shaking and the ground is shifting under the feet of those who are in charge," said Moore, the Oscar-winning maker of "Bowling for Columbine," whose documentaries also include "Fahrenheit 911" and "Capitalism: A Love Story." "America is not broke ... Wisconsin is not broke," Moore said. "The only thing that's broke is the moral compass of the rulers."

Like nearly everything else, Moore gets this all completely backwards. The country is broke. Many of the states are broke, and the "sleeping giant" they have awakened is the American taxpayer, who is expected to pick up the tab for the large living of those in the public sector.

Mr. Moore may be shielded from the unpleasantries of unemployment and government spending run amok, thanks to the millions garnered from his fauxcumentaries, but if he would ever crack open a book or a newspaper (anything but another package of Ho-Ho's), he might learn that spending more than one takes in leads to poverty...being "broke", in the vernacular. His favorite president has spent the country to the near brink of disaster, pushed farther and faster by pandering to the "Green" Wing of the Democrat party.

Moore is clearly either delusional in his grasp of the current Obama economy and mood of the taxpaying public, or he's testing the waters to see just how brain dead his fans are, to gauge how far removed from reality his next fauxcumentary* can be and still make money.

* Fauxcumentary: Art form developed by Michael Moore, using dishonest editing to propagandize whichever cause he feels will make him the most money. Sometimes abbreviated "Faux cu".

H/T Memeorandum

Cross posted at Say Anything, LCR.

Tea Partiers to Clean up Leftist Mess at Wisconsin Capitol

by the Left Coast Rebel

This week we covered the story that the cost of damage, filth and wreckage left behind by leftists camped-out in the Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin far exceeded the seven figure range.

Good news today though, Tea Partiers are donating their time and dollars to clean up the mess:



Recommendations for Tea Party patriots embarking upon the cleanup effort:

• Please wear Hazmat suits. One can only wonder what kinds of bacteria, viruses, drug paraphernalia (needles?), and other unmentionables that may be need to be disposed of.
• Consider vaccinating yourselves before you begin the work.
  
• Log your hours. Unions would demand union-scale wage compensation for the effort. You should too. Also, brace yourselves: Wisconsin Union Sanitation Workers may claim that you took jobs and work away from them and may sue you.
  
• Consolidate the trash into one pile, preferably away from the capitol building. Is there as much (or more) trash than leftists leave behind at Earth Day 'celebrations' or Obama's 2008 inauguration (a tough act to follow, considering they left 100 + tons)?
• Film the effort. Make a documentary that highlights the filth and lack-of-respect for property.
  

Updated: Clifton at Another Black Conservative notes that the Facebook page set up by the Tea Partiers involved with the cleanup went viral and cleanup began ahead of schedule this morning! Check out Another Black Conservative for more.

Cross-posted to Right Klik and the Libertarian Patriot.

Wisconsin Capital: Leftist Protesters' 7.5 Million Dollar Carbon Footprint

Image: Trash left behind after Obama's inauguration, Washington DC

by the Left Coast Rebel

Well, it's not really a carbon footprint on display at the Wisconsin capital, rather it's a trash and lack-of-respect for property rights liberal (carbon) footprint. Let's not it forget folks: leftists, collectivists, statists, socialists, far-left union nuts are all motivated by an overarching central theme: entitlement.

There's a Worldview That Separates us

In the case of the "I am entitled to a lavish lifestyle and retirement by way of your paycheck" aka the Wisconsin union protest; the price tab to clean up their anti-social behavior is a staggering $7.5 million dollars.

I can't think of a better example of the moral difference between conservatives, libertarians, constitutionalists and tea-partiers and the miscreants on the left. When you see conservatives and libertarians converge onto an area, they typically don't leave a carbon footprint (or mountains of trash) behind. They clean up after themselves, because they -- for the most part -- respect the property rights of their fellow citizens and even the government that they loathe so much. Leftists don't.

Warning: Traffic Ahead

It reminds me of a point that my fellow San Diego blogger/liberty activist friend Shane Atwell made in the comments at LCR about bad drivers. Bad drivers (those that lack respect and common courtesy) are often liberal statists, fascists or socialists (I know, that's redundant). They own the road (in their eyes), are entitled to their lane, speed, and otherwise and have have the right to drive like a flaming jerk simply because they were born and woke up that day (albeit at 10 a.m.). A refresher course from ages ago at LCR: leftists are not open-minded, either.

How dare you get in my way!

How dare you insist that I follow the same laws that you have to! I am entitled. It's my right.

The same hideous, anti-social ethos (or anti-ethos) extends from the roadways to a 'protest' destination, trashing (literally) property and ultimately picking the meat off the bones of your paycheck and the nation's balance sheet. They are entitled to everything simply because they have a pulse and we are bankrupt both morally and financially as a result.

How do we change this dynamic? Cut 'em off the government teat. Force accountability and respect for your neighbor and your neighbor's property. An empty stomach is a great motivator, even for a silver-spoon-in-the-mouth liberal.

Update: Since the picture above shows leftist inaugural trash (from those same people who love the planet every Earth Day) here's some of the leftist teacher's union protest trash:



Related discussion: Scared Monkeys, Lonely Conservative, Another Black Conservative.

Civility, Leftist Style

Michelle Malkin had a video of this sweet fellow, seconds before he assaulted the cameraman.

"Move On" Whistles by the Graveyard - "Wow"

Some of you new to Proof Positive may not know it, by I am a member of "Move On dot Org". I know I'm a member, because they keep telling me I am! (Typically, before they ask me for more money.)From their latest email:

Dear MoveOn member,
Wow. The energy around today's Rallies to Save the American Dream has exploded in the last 36 hours.


What started as just an idea on Tuesday morning has turned into 30,000 people signed up to attend the Rallies to Save the American Dream in 66 cities—including every state capital.

It'll be an amazing show of solidarity with the people of Wisconsin. And it'll put the right-wing on notice that we're fired up and ready to take them on united, as a nationwide movement.

(emphasis mine)

See. This is why I think that Moooove On appeals more to the typically math impaired liberal (but, I repeat myself). The "explosion" you just heard was more like a Greenie Stickem cap* that was left in your jeans, after your Mom washed them.

Thirty thousand people in sixty six cities works out to about 454 people per city. Imagine four hundred and fifty of your neighbors rallying for anything in your fair city. Unless the population of your town is five thousand or less, I'm thinking that's not much of an "explosion". If all 30,000 of them were in one city, like New York or L.A., it might be newsworthy, but still not that big a deal! And that's "signed up", that's not even "shown up" yet.

To quote my estimable friends in Mooove oN (in my best Ben Stein impression): "Wow". Color me unimpressed.

Update: FYI, 30,000 people in a population of 308.7 million is .00971%
Less than one tenth of one percent. Again: Wow.


*For those of you too young to know what a Stickem cap was, we present the following educational video:



Cross posted at Say Anything
More at Legal Insurrection, Memeorandum

Obama's Magical Misdirection Tour

The big story today is about the Obama administration's turn about on defending the Defense of Marriage Act. In my opinion, this is little more than misdirection.

In a week where Obama's strongest union allies have not only been exposed as busting the budgets through outrageous salaries and benefits, but also their ugly intransigence over the prospect of having to share even the merest fraction of the suffering of the taxpayers who support them, has not put liberals in a good light. Add to this the continuing debacle of Obama's foreign policy (or lack thereof), in being AWOL on Libya, the murder of American citizens on the high seas, (two years after Obama became keenly aware of the problem), the rising cost of energy, high levels of unemployment, and what do you have from the White House to show the smallest modicum of leadership?

Ooh! Look over there! Gay marriage!

Regardless of what Obama does or does not think about the merits or Constitutionality of either gay marriage or the DOMA, with all the things on his plate, on what planet does opening up a new can of worms show leadership? I think that this is nothing more than a smoke screen to stir up the social conservatives with an issue they feel more strongly about than some of the others*.

The Supreme Court can determine the Constitutionality of DOMA. The Leader of the Free World needs to exhibit some leadership. Sooner, rather than later.

*Update: It is also a sop to certain segments of his own base, which I gather are none too pleased with the overall performance of Team Obama to date, either.

Cross posted at Say Anything, Left Coast Rebel

Free Speech for Me, But Not for Thee!

Union Protester Arrested For Trying to Sabotage Tea Party Sound System



The next time some "liberal" tells you he supports free speech, just remind him that the actions of other liberals speak louder than words.

More at The Blog Prof

Andrew Breitbart at Wisconsin Tea Party Gathering

Robert Stacy McCain has this great video interview with Andrew Breitbart:



At one point on the video, you can hear the crowd in the background saying the Pledge of Allegiance in unison. Pretty cool!

Much more at The Other McCain