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The time has finally come. As of today, the petition to oust Governor Scott Walker from office has begun. We’ve got 60 days to do it, so please make sure to find someone who has a petition and sign it.
Want to help out or not sure where to go to sign a petition? Here’s a great map of all the recall offices:
View Recall Offices in a larger map
For more information on the recall effort, visit the Democratic Party of Wisconsin’s Recall Headquarters.
I have a loving wife, an awesome son, and in a few days we’ll have a daughter. We own a small “starter” home, we pay our bills on time, we’ve never missed a mortgage payment, and we donate what we can to charity. For these reasons, among others, I consider myself lucky. I’ve always tried to be a glass-half-full kind of a guy, but lately I have trouble seeing past the dark clouds on the horizon. My wife’s noble profession as an educator has been inconceivably demonized. Our children deserve the best education, yet public school funding is circling the drain. Refinancing at today’s rates would save us hundreds of dollars a month, yet no bank wants anything to do with our barely-underwater home.
The politicians are beholden to the corporations.
The corporations don’t care about me.I am the 99%.
The current state of education in the US is, to put it mildly, broken. This political cartoonist (who I would love to give credit to if I knew who it was) sums it up nicely within a single frame.
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Michele Bachmann’s choice of outfit in last night’s debate reminded me of something, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it until now. If you don’t get it, you haven’t seen Return of the Jedi enough times.
In the past few weeks, the tea party faction that has taken over the Republican party has booed an American soldier serving in Iraq simply because he was openly gay, cheered Rick Perry’s execution record, and shouted “let him die” about a hypothetical man who got sick without insurance. Similar hate-filled incidents go further back and are more than plentiful. Frankly, as a fellow human, I find this type of behavior repulsive and I am ashamed to share my planet with people who have such hate and disregard for others.
I know it's a joke, but lately it seems all too relevant.
It is time for reasonable Americans on both sides of the aisle to stand up to this small yet offensively loud minority of extreme right-wing nut-jobs and call them what they are: A 21st century hate group, akin to the early and mid 20th century’s KKK. So far they’ve preferred to use speech over violence to spread their message, but let’s face it, it’s just a matter of time before one of them snaps or a group of crazies split off to form a tea party militia.
Here’s the text for anyone who want to copy/paste this across the social networks, because, frankly, this needs to be spread around:
There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you.
But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that maurauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory…
Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea – God Bless! Keep a Big Hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
-Elizabeth Warren
In an un-surprisingly sleazy twist, a political advocacy group called Americans for Prosperity has been caught red-handed by Politico mailing absentee ballots to Democrats with instructions to return the ballot after the election. For those unclear on this concept, this tactic is what’s known as electoral fraud.
Americans for Prosperity is a well-known tool that David Koch uses as a form of legal political money-laundering to funnel unlimited funds in to whatever cause he thinks will best benefit his financial interests. If the name sounds familiar, it’s because AFP was just in the news a week or so ago for buying $150,000 worth of ad-time to trash-talk the Democratic recall challengers in Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay.
If you, like myself, are disgusted with these tactics you can contact the Wisconsin Department of Justice to demand they investigate this election fraud.
I’m not proposing that the richest 400 Americans should do any of these things (although at least one billionaire does think that way), but this is still a very interesting way of visualizing how much wealth the top truly has.
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