saTHERSday nite live!

What, they can’t take their Country Back?

Oh yeah, Walker is caucasian.

Thersaturday Night Fever!

SaTHERSday Night Fever!

Interesting that it has been the Teabaggers whose protests have been notably trashy. Also that their heroes in Congress just re-introduced stryofoam cups and carryout boxes instead of the eco-friendly varieties Pelosi had introduced. Something tells me they really are not all that concerned about making a mess of things. No I think the “trash” they want to take out is the people whose views they oppose.

7.5 mil to pick up trash? (waves hand frantically in air)”I’ll do it, pick me, pick me!”

Maybe they can find all those palm trees that Fox was showing people.

I’ll give the teabaggers this much credit: what they’re doing would be praiseworthy if it wasn’t an unnecessary stunt to score cheap political points.

They are hiring KBR to do the job.

More likely they are looking to force a confrontation with the pro-labor protesters.

and plan on outsourcing the contract to blackwater or whatever the hell it is called now

This is dogwhistle talk for brownshirt activity. These jackoffs think they can provoke violence or intimidate us.

Yeah. But also there’s of course also a long history of entitled white conservatives justifying their paranoia by classifying all perceived threats as emanating from the “unclean.”

Their organizers are, no doubt. I don’t really think the four guys who show up have thought it out that much.

My point exactly.

Depends on how much beer they have had. Most likely the only thing rattling around in their empty skulls is, “Let’s go kick some hippy asses!”

“Them dang hippies want to take my Medicare!”

So odd. The hippies want TheMedicare. For All.

Yeah. Coherence and logic are not their strong suits and reality is a completely foreign country to them.

NO. NO. NO! Those damned hippies want to take away my Medicare and give it to those people!

those dammed liberal hippie commies want to take away my medicare and give it to those people

So what are the Teabaggers going to do? Tip their lawnchairs and scream, “Help, help, I’m being oppressed!” for Faux footage pimps?

If there was any real trash to be dealt with they wouldn’t have come up with this brilliance.

They’d better reserve parking spaces for the caravan of Koch Bro buses they’ll be riding in on…

Heh, pretty much…

NO. NO. NO! Those damned hippies want to take away my Medicare and give it to those (brown) people!

Fixed it for ya.

OK I want pictures of how many Tea Baggers show up and how long they stay. I think it would be funny if some protesters get cameras pretend to be reporters and keep filming the Tea Baggers all day.
Either they get bored and leave, they have to leave because Koch won’t pay for their bus drivers to wait for them I assume many are from out of state or they end up staying in the cold for hours as long as there are cameras there.
We should make a big point regardless on how long they stay. Although its the day after St Patrick’s Day just how many Tea Baggers really are going to get up for the protest Sunday even at 1 pm?

And then they will make their getaway in their Medicare-provided scooters!

I hope this doesn’t get violent. That said, I don;t see how it can end otherwise. There is no “mess” for them to clean up and I think they are using that word as a euphemism for the protesters.

When they’re done cleaning the capitol…..
On second thought, I’ll do it myself.

They only had about 100 signups at Facebook, and most of those hardly looked, er, especially, uh, mobile.

That is a concern; as I said in the post, the only “mess” would be the protesters’ signs.

At least made it explicit. That is for the most part what all of their whining and whingeing is about. Every program they oppose, from taxes to single payer health care, is based on the assumption that the money is being taken from them, who are all hardworking and industrious, and given to a bunch of lazy, shiftless, drug addled, promiscuous brown people.

I wonder if the Baggers will have agents out in the morning dumping trash so the reporters can film it? We can counter by asking CNN, NBC etc how come you never filmed any trash before they got there?
Unsanitary conditions might give Walker a chance to shut down the protests as a health hazard thats the only card I see that Walker can even try and play assuming he finds a mess for the tv cameras to film.

Special Bus with a wheel chair ramp types?

…the money is being taken from them, who are all hardworking and industrious…

…and yet morbidly obese and fanatically into NASCAR and clothing without sleeves.

lazy, shiftless, drug addled, promiscuous brown people.

All of which have been prominently featured in the footage./s

HAH!

If Thers is right about the mobility of the Tea Baggers I think we might have to worry about them faking confrontations with the protesters and giving Walker a reason to break up the protests.
I expect the Sunday news shows to telegraph what the Tea Baggers expect to find garbage, a fight they expect to win and or worries about us abusing them.

Fox news wants a confrontation so much. It would make for great tv and their loyal followers would love it. I think the protestors are way too smart to allow anything to happen and I’ll bet there won’t be a scrap of paper anywhere.

As I said, reality is a foreign country and logic is not their strong suit.

is based on the assumption that the money is being taken from them, who are all hardworking and industrious, and given to a bunch of lazy, shiftless, drug addled, promiscuous brown people.

The GOP code word for sound bites will be Morals you are more informative but too wordy for a sound bite.:) Still Wisconsin doesn’t have to many brown people the GOP must be regretting trying to start this in Wisconsin they wanted brown people protesting for the cameras I’m sure.

I won’t be surprised if the protestors become even tidier than they have been so far, just to spite the idiots.

See Mr. Taibbi….

Watertiger posted some pretty radical-looking trashpiles after Glenn Beck’s ‘rally for disaffected white people’ on the National Mall, back in the day.

It really doesn’t matter what we say.

If anything happens it will be that an intrepid band of say 100-200 Tbaggers will promptly RUN AWAY once in the throngs of THOUSANDS. Yet it will be portrayed on FOX, if any footage available, that they were brave and valiant.

Meh. The usual pap.

You could do a section on the teabag type and further corrupt your students. I think that mentioning that kind of tribalism would be very important.

Look for palm trees, pink granite and/or short sleeves in any video showing their “bravery” and “Steadfastness”.

Agreed but they want a confrontation that shows them outnumbering our side. Or us getting violent again Walker might do this by sending in ringers to provoke the police on Camera and then have heroic Tea Baggers help the Police.
Walker seems to have the Nazi playbook memorized. Too bad he is not as effective as the Nazi’s were at planning and spinning events.

Glenn Beck is a radical-looking trashpile.

It is about 11% minority, with significant numbers of Indians in the northern part of the state and blacks and Hispanics concentrated in the SE part of the state (mostly Milwaukee and Madison). Of course the Teabaggers and Faux do not want too many brown folks or they might actually constitute a threat.

Oh, they’ve been trying to provoke these for weeks. Even the Sacramento thing had some pretty obvious baiting going on. And that was the “worst” they got. The Madison protesters are too savvy for these sorts of shenanigans.

Seemingly every third person in the place is sucking oxygen from a tank or propping their giant atrophied glutes on motorized wheelchair-scooters. As Palin launches into her Ronald Reagan impression

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/matt-taibbi-on-the-tea-party-20100928

We need pictures. Then we need a bio of that wingnut Walker brought in to run/cut healthcare and some of his choice ideas on how to cut healthcare. Any bets cash for nurses assistants who make assisted living possible for many of these people will be cut?

I do talk about it in my class, though I have to be somewhat delicate or diplomatic about it so as not to sound too political and offend the state Republicans. I call out Tancredo and the Minute Men by name and talk about nativism in general at length in the class (also the links to religious fundamentalism).

Whatever happened to those long-form hollowpoints the police were ‘notified’ about all over the Capitol grounds in Madison, anyway? Has that story slipped down the memory hole completely now that the agents provocateurs realized fingerprints are possible?

Remember also that Beck begged his fans not to bring signs to his rally… a rare instance of sanity on his part. What would those signs have said.

I know I’d love to take your class. :)

Yeah, that was so damned transparent. You’d think that were it a legitimate story, we still would not have heard the end of it.

it would be hard to tell what they would have said due to all the misspellings

Probably pretty much what you would see at any other Klan or neo-Nazi rally.

I thought I’d be the only one still up.

Are the Koch Bros or Fox news going to purchase the extended grabbers for trash pick up?

Seriously, are they doing film clips of a dump site on Fox to find some trash on the ground?

Oh, I got it. Michael Moore showed up today and they gotta show their arses now.

I got a call today for a job!!! Temp, but I got one. Woo-Hoo!

That sounds like the subject of a great post and after sunday you are likely to get some fresh material to use. Either they try and fight, they claim they were victimized or they claim a health emergency of garbage and shut the protests down.
But thats trying to think somewhat logical Gov Walker just might be slamming down whatever cards he has left to play and hoping to stay in the game somehow despite having no cards.
” You have to Know When to fold them, Know when to walk away and Know when to run ” Kenny Rogers
I don’t think the GOP has any real card players planning things. I think they are used to spending money and staying in the game until they get lucky.
Politics is not cards staying in forever won’t give you random luck when things are bad the enemy is strong retreat.
Don’t attack a well dug in enemy without forces numerous enough to remove them. Nobody in the GOP reads Sun Tzu.

Dammit, I knew we’d played this game before!

(Scroll down for the joke.)

Awesome!

That is wonderful! Go, go!

WooHoo! Good for you!

Madison is now full of palm trees … on facebook people were complaining that every novelty store in the county, if not the state, was sold out of inflatable palms. Suddenly, there are inflatable palms all over Madison. Midwest “nice” at work, just trying to help Fox stay fair ‘n balanced and truthy. *g*

and saturday march 12, the farmers are coming, bringing their tractors, for a Farmer Labor Tractorcade. W00t! the farmgrrrlll approves.

I actually think this latest thing will fizzle. The Madison protests have been disciplined, nonviolent, and sustainable over a long period. They’ll handle this.

Well done.

We are watching the “Paper Chase.” 1973
Freaks me out.

I have seen inflatable palm trees in a couple of pictures. Apparently it has caught on as a poke at Faux News. I chuckle every time I see them.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Farmers! OH, MAN! That is AWESOME. TOTALLY AWESOME!

*snoopy happy dance*

Just one thing; I want to make sure all teh old ones aren’t painted with the same brush.

While a lot of the TBaggers are recipients of Medicare/Medicaid, there is a decent chunk, 15% – 30% that are liberal. Not gonna argue the %, but there’s a fair chunk.

But bottom line not every LittleScooter or mobility aided person you see is a TBagger.

My 80 yr old mother-in-law is in the ICU tonight and she was a Nebraska Dem precinct captain for 25 years in her prime. So let’s not be broad with the brush.

Woo hoo! Applause!! Temp is better than NADA.

Thers,

I know you know that I have been out of work twice in the last eight years. I just have never been without this long. This job is only 3 days a week, but I am so excited I could scream loud enough for you to hear me up there!

Good!

All right, need to retire, I’m Child Activity Director tomorrow. Lurves yas.

g’nite thers

I’ll bet! After two years of being out of work, I’d just about do anything and be excited about it..

Amen, Kelly. I saw a couple of comments upthread about the “scooter” people. I am far, far from a “scooter” person, but at 68 I am a Medicare/SS recipient. So let’s go easy on that broad brush, because we don’t all fit the color of paint it spreads.

Whoa! Hold on partner.

Have you talked Duncan into a different comment system yet?

Sincerely, be proud, take your chance and keep fighting. I wish I had more than moral support to offer you — and I wish that we had a sensible healthcare system in this country. Fight on.

G’nite pups. Just poked my head in for a few, now off to nighty-night land.

Thanks, your moral support as well as everyone here is what has kept me going!

g’nite ms molly

Yay. Good on you. Could it morph into fulltime?

Been there. Hero Dad.

Yes Great question and where are the protesters with the guns for that ammo? Any Double Agent caught once we get their name we can do background checks on. Bullets without shooters smells very funny. A real Press would be asking Walker if he had Koch Brothers Agent Provocateurs plant them.
After all Wisconsin has lots of hunters but

The bullets are 22-caliber long rifle hollow points, according to the Wisconsin State Journal.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/briefs/articles/90038367?Live%20ammunition%20found%20at%20Wisconsin%20Capitol%20building

Well I don’t know much about hunting but in Wisconsin they hunt deer mostly I think 22′s might be a bit small?
These might be target practice rounds?

The manufacturing process of hollow-point bullets also produces a flat, uniformly-shaped base on the bullet which increases accuracy by providing a more consistent piston surface for the expanding gases of the cartridge.
Match or target hollow-point bullets are designed for precision target use, and no consideration is given to their expansion or other terminal ballistic performance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-point_bullet

My bold My dad had a few 22′s for target practice I doubt Wisconsin people who hunt would spend extra for hollow points for guns they probably don’t use hunting.

Night Thers!

Here’s a little something to carry you into the night.

*grin*

Hi, Suze! I’m not often on your threads…

Night, msmolly.

tis always a pleasure to see your fonts msmolly :)

It might. It depends. I will doing the legal updates and recordings for real estate transactions again. It is a group of Lawyers that I trust and they trust me. Several of their off branched paralegals have gotten HUD contracts and that will be awesome too.

I hate to sell on the courthouse steps, but at this point in time I may just have to be a proxy rep and do that.

Gonna go to bed and dream that I get a job. Oya. :)

Remember also that Beck begged his fans not to bring signs to his rally… a rare instance of sanity on his part. What would those signs have said.

Cover story for why there are no Tea Bagger signs and why the Tea Baggers can’t get a crowd. I am starting to wonder if the election in Wisconsin was a diebold election I mean its been fracking weeks and the Tea Baggers can’t even for one day for the TV cameras match our crowd in size?
Just who really did vote for Walker where are they?

I’m sure the teachers and nurses didn’t drop live ammo.

You will! Nite, Friend.

Sweet dreams, Margaret!

i agree … my 82-yr old mom, and 80-yr old aunt didn’t go to the demonstrations today in Hudson, wisconsin because age and cold weather were an overpowering combo, but they are busy helping pass around the recall petition sheets for State Senator Sheila Harsdorf, one of walker-the-wanker’s Kochroaches. Yay mom! Yay auntie!

In fact they are so enthused and fired up by the protests that today my aunt signed up for facebook so she can see all the piccies in the Ian’s Pizza facebook photo album.

g’nite margaret

It’s a problem with reading, writing, and rithmatic. ;-)

Well, it is 12:15 ayem here, so I’d best be tuckin’ in. Choir concert tomorrow. It is snowing again.

March seems to have one foot in winter and the other in spring. SIGH.

Nighters, all! Zzzzzzz….

Nite. Sleep well, All!

Hope not too late, but check this out!!! This is amazing! Historic even!

NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life

That astonishingly awesome claim comes from Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, who says he has found conclusive evidence of alien life — fossils of bacteria found in an extremely rare class of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites

http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/nasascientistfindsevidenceofalienlife

The GOP pro gun nuts however are very likely to be armed and have some spare ammo. but just what kind of shooter drops ammo right outside the door of the capital building when the crowd and the building are fool of witnesses and police?
Why did the imaginary shooter drop bullets right outside the capital building then I presume walk into the Capital building but never fired a shot?

The bullets were found by University of Wisconsin-Madison Police at three of the building’s entrances.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/briefs/articles/90038367?Live%20ammunition%20found%20at%20Wisconsin%20Capitol%20building

I wonder how the Creationalists will handle the idea that we are not God’ only creation?

I should toddle off as well. Take care all.

g’nite dr (pause) dick

g’nite pparty

They will ignore it, or as usual, bring up dirt on the guy that discovered it and a speeding ticket he didn’t pay from 1987, or (insert bullsh*t here excuse number 3408 why he isn’t a good enough source).

Jury still out on that, but yet intriguing.

The big question is how will humans react once unimpeachable verifiable proof is offered that we are not the only planet with life?

i would be vastly relieved to find a planet with intelligent life … there doesn’t seem to be a sign of it here.

People here are smart; they’re just a bit oppressed.

The evidence is pretty unconvincing if you ask me. So he’s found some filaments that in his opinion, resemble filaments found in some cyanobacteria. It’s going to take a lot more than that to convince me that it’s biological in nature.

I just hope the protesters document everything – like some others here, I suspect some Koch supporters wouldn’t be above providing some of what they’d like to see. Those folks in Wisconsin do seem to be a pretty responsible crowd, so it may not work. No fear. FOX and their other friends in the Corporate Media will provide footage of the point they want to make. Perhaps it will be from Beck’s … thing.

I’m still waiting for someone to find intelligent life on this planet. Present company excluded.

And I would like to add that these “conservatives” behave in nasty, petty, spiteful ways that would have gotten me called out in grade school. If I hadn’t already been predisgusted with Reagan, his solar panel stunt would probably have done it. As it was, it was just more confirmation of what a small creature he was.

The “conservatives” are doing their best to eradicate it

Love hearing the farmers with their tractors will be going to Madison.

There needs to be a mass of reporters, think paparazzi, that follows elected officials around like they do movie stars and singers. We would know every one they meet and everything they did. Wouldn’t our world be different then? I really don’t understand why there isn’t news paparazzi following pols. There’s enough people not working they could earn some money reporting.

And one more thing, lets get a serious investigation of the lottery money. How many decades has it supposed to be going to schools? Is it?

And when the GOP says cut, cut, cut spending to BO, he should reply,
we’ll tax the rich. Does he NOT know how to bargain?

Organize a crew of protesters to go around with wet mops and clean up the stench of the morons after they are done.

Fucking teabaggers aren’t going to show up to clean shit. They’re going to snarf up the free pizza from Ian’s.

I live in Seattle. Know how I can spot a tourist from Wisconsin? They’re busy cleaning gum from our sidewalks.

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