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January 2012

01/26/2012:

AN ARKANSAS WITH INFRASTRUCTURE: At first this may seem a little bit crazy... until you see how much it explains about Scott Walker's reign of terror in Wisconsin.

I believe Walker has a two-tiered plan, currently being funded by untold millions of out-of-state money:

* Break the back of unions and representative government;

* Crush the spirit and hopes of Wisconsin's people.

And here's the master plan: Scottie is creating an "unaccountability zone" here in the North, with its Germanic work ethic, educated population, and strong infrastructure... an onshore Bangladesh, if you will. The citizenry will have no say in their salaries or working conditions, and functional government will be reduced mostly to a police force loyal to the governor only (this is why Walker excluded police from his collective-bargaining blitzkrieg).

Corporations will begin to flock to Wisconsin to take advantage of the strong infrastructure already in place (although much of it lies dormant now after eight years of the Doyle regime). What's more, they can avail themselves of one of the very best workforces in the country, now thoroughly demoralized after a year of Walker's frenzied deconstruction of the middle class. The current job losses in Wisconsin are actually part of this plan, and they will continue until Walker gives the green light for out-of-state companies to move in.

And that will be the day when hundreds of thousands of desperate Wisconsinites will find themselves working in sweatshops for minimum wage, enslaved to firms that have no ties to the state and no regard for its people. And of course, that's the point when Walker will turn around, grin his vapid, sick grin, and announce:

There's your 250,000 jobs, suckers!

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01/18/2012:

HEY SCOTTIE BOY.... stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Our days of living in America's only fascist dictatorship may soon be coming to an end.

If Walker had a shred of decency and honor, he would take this opportunity to gracefully resign... I mean, one in every two registered voters in the state signed that petition.

But he won't. Because he doesn't. He enjoys nothing more than dragging Wisconsin and its people through the dirt.

Governor Scottie? Go away. Everybody thinks you're an asshole.

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01/10/2012:

HEY! IT'S TUESDAY! Back before I started driving for a living (let's see, that's been over four years now) and before my hours became so unpredictable, we always used to feature our "Tuesday Girl." Then it became the "Wednesday Girl," then the "Whenever I Get Around To It Girl."

Dredging up memories of Tuesdays past, and by popular demand, here's the ever-lovely Nicole Kidman making her first S&G appearance.

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01/04/2012:

LIVIN' THE DREAM IN WALKER'S WISCONSIN: Either this state has become a bleeding basket case, or someone is a lying sack of shit.

Or both.

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01/02/2012:

WE ARE SO TOTALLY SCREWED!!! By Lisa

I don't know, maybe I wasn't grateful enuff for the stuff we had back in the day. I don't remember feeling not grateful or anything, but it's not like I went to church one day and gave 20% of our money to the poor either. I guess I felt it was alright just to look at a homeless guy on the street and think, "Gee that sucks, hope he has a change of luck." And then forgetting all about it a minute later when you drove out of sight in your H3.

So you're thinking, "What are you getting to, Lisa, just get it off your chest!" Well hint-hint faithful readers, that boob job is gonna have to wait!!!

Cause the truth is, Bret and me aren't doing so well these days. He got laid off from the bank two years ago, just ahead of the feds and the marshals dessending (sp?) on the place and carting the big guys off the prison. I guess he looked pretty hard for a job that first year but truth be told, no one wanted a bank vice president who didn't have an MBA degree, as a matter of fact all Bret had was some teller training in junior college. The banks just laughed at him and asked how long his bosses were gonna be in the big house, being some guy named Lulu's "girlfriend." He couldn't even get a job as a swing-shift teller.

Eventually he started drinking a little too much Miller Lite and watching The Office reruns on the bigscreen TV, until we lost the Big Ass House and had to move to a duplex in Verona (but at least we're still friends with Tim and Kim, in fact Tim and Bret actually went hunting together this year, if you can imagine Bret with a gun!!! and I got to have my dog at last, an adorable little boy mutt we picked up from the county animal shelter and named Bandit cause he'll steal any food that isn't nailed down!!!).

So now I'm working at Target, the new store they opened in Fitchburg up on the big hill above the Bavaria House Sausage place, and I'm studying restaurant management three nights a week at MATC. I don't think I've ever been so busy!!! It's just kind of depressing that Bret doesn't care anymore and he sits around the duplex with Bandit in his lap watching DVDs all day and playing computer games. I guess it's hard when a man loses his job and his Navigator and has to share a crappy old 2004 Explorer (we call it the Exploder, ha!) with his wife.

The long and short of it is that I think the changes may have been good for me, but I'm kinda worried about Bret. Anyway here's our new picture, hope you'll stay tuned for our further adventures in 2012!

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December 2011

12/30/2011:

 

YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP: You'd probably figure, if you've been reading this blog at all lately, that Scott Walker would know better than to send me an entreaty of ANY kind.

You would be wrong.

Probably because I have a record of support for good Republicans (Rep. Scott Klug, Gov. Tommy Thompson, Sen. John McCain, and most particularly President George W. Bush), the Walker campaign somehow got my address.

And I was regaled with this gem. Excerpted here (misspellings left intact—remember, this is our only sitting governor who flunked out of college—and with the inevitable "fisking" the bozo in the Big House deserves). Enjoy!

Badger State voters gave me a mandate to turn our great state around [that's why you're about to be recalled—because you miraculously managed to fuck up the state even worse than it was after eight years of Jim Doyle. And if you could do basic math, you would know that being narrowly elected hardly constitutes a "mandate".]

Every day that the Senate Democrats abandoned our state and stayed in Illinois, we lost precious time to deal with our state's crisis head-on [Actually, the biggest "crisis" in our state at that time was the one you precipitated yourself (and the reason the Senate Democrats hid out in Illinois)—your failure to announce that your supporters had signed on for a full-scale dismantling of union representation for government workers, which amounted to a hostile takeover of state, county, and municipal government. The Senate Democrats did what they could to forestall this completely illegal and morally odious move, and for that they are to be highly commended. And you're talking to a Republican here!]

Still, one commodity was in short supply, both for the fourteen Democratic Senators who fled to Illinois and the screaming protestors with their RECALL WALKER and other, shall we say less polite, signs: They weren't offering any serious solutions to Wisconsin's problems. Although that is patently untrue on its face—I was one of the "screaming protestors [sic]" and I have a plan to effectively fill the budget shortfall, but neither you or your staff ever showed the slightest interest in hearing our suggestions as you cowered in your offices during the protests—ALL the "protestors" [sic] agreed that the best way to start Wisconsin on the road to recovery is by getting rid of Scott Walker. And, judging by your performance in office so far, you'd be hard-pressed to prove us wrong.

...I hope you'll back me up by making a decisive contribution to our "Friends of Walker" campaign. Your generous donation of $25, $50, $100, $250, $500, $1000 or more will propel our conservative message and bring about the bold reforms Wisconsin desperately needs. Number one, contributions aren't "decisive"—but, hey, I'm talking to a college dropout. Number two, since when did the people have to pay to keep a sitting governor in office? And number three, you're already into my family's pockets to the tune of several hundred dollars a month... and that isn't enough for you? Get bent.

And, hey, it just gets better. Scottie has let me know that he is really desperate now for me to reach into my fat-cat pockets (except that he forgot that I'm a municipal school bus driver and my wife is a civil servant and he's robbing us for all of our disposable income every month) and save his sorry ass. Some of my favorite gems from his most recent missive:

Our rivals are probably bringing in out-of-state hired guns. (Oh, and you're not, you lying sack of shit?) We don't even NEED out-of-state help to get rid of you. As the famous bumper sticker said.

Alois, our opponents will raise tens of millions from deep-pocketed Super PACs and Big Labor Bosses [capitalization in original: Scottie has a Germanic fascination with it], but we'll raise money with the grassroots contributions of strong Wisconsin supporters like you. [First, what the fuck is a "Super PAC"??? Are the drugs starting to kick in? And secondly, I don't HAVE any extra money, because you stole it all from me (a school bus driver) to give to your rich friends who promised to "grow jobs" in Wisconsin. [Heh. Heh. Here's our bank account number! ]

And boy oh boy, are we growing jobs here!

Alois, don't let the Liberals [cap in original] succeed in ousting me and returning our state to the bad old days... a state where businesses shrivel up and die [like now???], taxes will go up [I just got the biggest property tax increase I've ever had, on account of businesses fleeing the state], jobs will disappear [more jobs have disappered in Wisconsin since Walker became governor than at any other time since the first Great Depression] and all our progress will be undone. [You call that progress? You're a genius at Orwellian Newspeak. Just sign me up for the bad old days!]

If all of this isn't enough to convince you that you're looking at the most pathetic son of a bitch to ever occupy an American statehouse, I close with yet another direct quote [Scott Walker letter to supporters, November 7, 2011] that would prop up the thesis that our governor isn't only pathetic, he's paranoid:

Recalling me isn't just a goal for our liberal opponents, it's an obsession. [Emphasis in original.]

Well, Scottie, let's just say that you're right. Let's just say that that's true.

Why would anyone be obsessed with recalling a sitting governor if he was doing an even halfway decent job?

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12/20/2011:

 

 

ODD OBSERVATION: Back to back on my iPod today, John Mayall's "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" (Clapton on guitar), and the Doors' "Back Door Man."*

I don't know about anybody else out there, but to me, the Doors came a whole lot closer to the spirit of the blues with their outing, Ray Manzarek's jangly Farfisa organ and all.

Moral of the story: You can't "study" the blues and ever hope to get it right. I don't think the Doors ever "studied" anything.

*Yes, blues purists, I am fully aware that "Back Door Man" was written by Willie Dixon and "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" was written by Freddie King. You're welcome.

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HOLIDAY LIFE CONTINUES APACE in America's only fascist state.

Recall supporters have nearly succeeded in getting the 540,000 signatures needed to force a recall election for Walker;

The governor's supporters*, meanwhile, continue to dream up ways to get their Scottie Boy appointed Governor For Life;

And the long-suffering state of Wisconsin continues to hemorrhage jobs.

Merry Christmas!

*Nearly half of which are out-of-state corporations on the receiving end of the slush fund Walker stole from Wisconsin taxpayers

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12/03/2011: 

 

 

IMAGE OF THE DAY: Dieppe neighborhood, southwest Regina, Saskatchewan (click to enlarge).

 

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11/30/2011: 

 

 

SCOTT WALKER: ONCE A LYING SACK OF SHIT, ALWAYS A LYING SACK OF SHIT. What I (and many, many other Wisconsinites) have against Scott Walker is not that he robbed us and gave our money to the rich.

It's that, from the get-go, he lied about it.

We learned about THAT lie about ten minutes after Scottie assumed office and took off the gloves.

Now it develops—shocka!—that there were other lies as well.

As the mountain men used to say, "A man who'll lie about one thing will lie about other things."

America once had a President who was a compulsive liar. And we dumped him.

Does any right-thinking person seriously think that a compulsive liar is entitled to lead the state of Wisconsin?

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11/25/2011: 

 

 

THAT AIN'T NO TURKEY: Here, appearing in these pages for the third time, is French bombshell Laetitia Casta.

 

 

Hope y'all had a happy Thanksgiving.

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11/24/2011: 

 

 

A THANKSGIVING STORY (reposted, as per yearly tradition, in honor of Michael): Back when my son was seven or eight, his mom was sick with some kinda nasty virus. I was feeling a little green around the gills myself, like I was probably next in line.

It was the kind of flat gray, chilly day that is nearly ubiquitous here in Wisconsin during the month of November (I guess it's weird, but I have always loved days like that). As morning turned into afternoon I was feeling less and less of an appetite; my wife didn't want to even look at food, much less drag herself through the six hour chore of making The Traditional T-Day Dinner. But my son, as little kids are wont to do, was getting hungry.

Back in those days there was a little country store called Steckel's just down the road from us. It was dimly lit, usually empty, and sold only about three things: Beer, tobacco, and hot dogs (that wasn't enough to keep poor old Steckel in business with all the urban people moving south of Madison, but that's a story for another time). Anyway, whenever I went to Steckel's—for beer or tobacco products, typically—I'd pick up a hot dog for my son, who used to have a major jones for hot dogs.

As the day began to darken, which happens at about two in the afternoon in a Wisconsin November, I was trying to get it together in my head to at least go to the supermarket and pick up a roast chicken or something. At least pretend that we were having Thanksgiving dinner.

But then my son had a brilliant idea. "Hey Papa, just forget the Thanksgiving dinner thing. Let's go to Steckel's for some hot dogs!"

He didn't have to work very hard to convince me. Maybe I could manage to choke down a dog. I wasn't feeling very well at all.

We got to Steckel's in the somber gray dusk, bought our hot dogs (which had slightly stale buns and had been on the grill too long) and went right back home. It seemed like a singularly beautiful moment to me; the fact that my son was possessed of that kind of empathy, all the many, many things my family and I had to be grateful for, the battleship gray of the fields and the sky which foretold snow on its way. We ate our hot dogs and watched Planes, Trains and Automobiles, our perennial Thanksgiving movie.

My son has never forgotten that day. "Our best Thanksgiving ever," he says.

I would have to agree.

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11/23/2011: 

 

 

NOTE TO FINANCE-SCAMMING MOH-ROONS: Rrrrrrriiiing. "Here's an important notice about your credit-card account!"

 You know, your scam would probably be so much more successful if you used an actual live human voice, instead of the female version of HAL 9000.

Not that I, personally, would listen anyway. If my credit-card company wants to talk to me (and ESPECIALLY if they want any information whatsoever) they'd better send me a sit-down invite.

But a mechanical telephone voice? Puh-leeeeeeeze.

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DAILY GAAAAAAZ-O-LEEEEEEN! AWARD: Governor Walker is leading Wisconsin forward and the voters of this state will continue to support his responsible leadership. — Nicole Larson, professional Walker shill

Well, Ms. Larson, if'n I was you (which I thank God that I'm not), I would probably be wondering why it is that Walker's own cohort ("younger... less-educated Republicans") also want him out on his ass. Just sayin'.

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11/22/2011: 

 

 

FASCISTS IN THE WOODPILE: Walker Thugs Resorting to Threats, Lawlessness to Crush Dissent

As his recall begins to seem more and more inevitable, expect the ugliness on the part of Walker's goon squad to escalate. Walker, for his own part, apparently is already planning to invalidate any efforts to recall him (through his bizarre "redistricting" and bills insisting that all recall signatures be notarized). Don't be surprised if he soon announces himself "Governor For Life."

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11/18/2011: 

 

 

OBAMESSIAH'S WORLD: We Don't Need Jobs, We Don't Need to Quit Buying Oil from Terrorists—We Need Green Energy!

 And this, friends, may help explain why so many of the cars around here with "Obama 2008" and "Change We Can Believe In!" bumper stickers... have not chosen to "re-up" with The One's latest issue.

Meanwhile, the Bakken keeps booming (even the Obamessiah couldn't stop that, as much as he'd like to).

Too bad we're gonna wind up shipping all that oil to China. Unless, of course, we get a new President.

Does anyone want to call this an "affirmative-action Presidency" yet???

And yo, don't hate. I've been a Herman Cain man ever since he threw his hat into the ring. ("What would I give the Palestinians? NOTHIN'!")

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11/17/2011: 

 

 

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS NEXT: Shakespeare himself could not have written a sicker political comedy.

As thousands and thousands of rabid communists and smelly middle-class people rank-and-file Wisconsinites take to the streets to recall the worst governor in Wisconsin history, the news couldn't be better for our Überstaffsbahnführer:

State of Wisconsin: 9700 Jobs Lost Last Month

 

Well, Scottie, I've only got two things to say:1) The state has lost roughly 50,000 jobs since you assumed office, and you promised to bring 250,000 jobs to Wisconsin. So, assuming you're not recalled (which, admittedly, is a very long shot), you've got three years to deliver 300,000 jobs. Better get busy!

2) You should have interred those bothersome Department of Workforce Development folks (the ones who keep releasing those inconvenient reports) in that re-education camp you're building in Barron County. Oh. You thought we didn't know about that?

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11/14/2011: 

 

 

QUOTE OF THE DAY: The gap between the military and everybody else is getting worse because people don't know—and don't want to know—what you've been through. There are no bond drives. There are no tax hikes. There are no food drives or rubber drives... it's hard not to think of my war as a bizarre camping trip that no one else went on. — Marine Sgt. Alex Lemons (three combat tours), The Other 1%

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AND, WHILE I COMPLETE MY NOVEL-LENGTH POST... Here's Kylie Minogue, the girl whose tennis whites are always too short.

 

 

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11/11/2011: 

 

 

OBAMESSIAH'S YARD SALE: The country's looking pretty rough, pretty down-at-the-heels, these days.

Everywhere you go, people are trying desperately to sell off the belongings that attach to happier times: Boats, campers, ATVs and jet skis, nice cars... nice houses. Of course, no one's buying—because no one has any disposable income.

America has become the world's biggest yard sale, a gnawed-over carcass of its former self. Apparently our staunch defenders in Washington could care less.

 

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October 2011

10/19/2011: 

 

 

JUST A THOUGHT: Americans on the left like to beat their breasts and wail about the "extreme wackos" of the Tea Party movement.

Americans on the right, meanwhile, are beating their breasts and wailing about the "extreme wackos" of Occupy Wall Street.

And, to be sure, there certainly are some "extreme wackos" in both groups.

But that's hardly the point. How did we get to this sorry impasse (which now extends to American politics in general)?

Maybe, just maybe, it might have something to do with the fact that neither side will concede that the "extreme wackos" of the other side might possibly have one or two valid points. The right insists that capitalists will always do the right thing if left to their own devices (BULLSHIT). And the left pretends that the Tea Party, which is holding out for something like the constitutional government that existed before flaccid self-serving politicians and vested interests virtually destroyed the country, is mostly a collection of racist hatemongers that want to return us to the days of Jim Crow and sweatshops (BULLSHIT).

Maybe the best thing to do for someone who takes their patriotism seriously is to look long and hard at how these fiery grassroots movements got there in the first place... and ask just exactly what is the broken thing that they're trying to fix.

Then we might be able to have a dialogue, and actually accomplish something great.

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10/06/2011: 

 

 

SURRENDER, DOROTHY! Federal Inquiry Gets Closer to Walker

Well, as the Marines say... Fuck with the bull and you get the horn.

Every recent indicator says that the dictatorgovernor is toast.

Here's our recommendation, Generalissimo:

1) Resign now.

2) Cooperate with the Feds. You really, really don't want to spend time in a federal prison.

3) Investigate with that high-powered attorney of yours if there's any way for you to avoid the thousands of civil lawsuits (including mine) already waiting for you when you skulk away from the office you never should have held.

Asshole.

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September 2011

09/26/2011: 

 

 

WALKIN' IN A WALKER WONDERLAND: The chilling reality of life in Scott Walker's Wisconsin.

(Reality check: Part of the blame can be laid squarely at former Gov. Jim "Asshat" Doyle's door; even during the first six years of his reign, while the economy was still strong, he managed to have his state tagged as the "West Virginia of the North.")

And how does Scottie deal with the problem? By taking more money out of the pockets of people like me... a school bus driver.

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YOUR GOOD NEWS FOR THE WEEK: Well, it sure ain't economic.

Josie Maran models.

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09/20/2011: 

 

 

DO IT JUST GET BETTER N' BETTER? Jobs Continue to Plummet in Wisconsin

His myriad other troubles notwithstanding, our horse's ass of a governor ought to remember by now that he was elected on a promise to "create 250,000 jobs in Wisconsin" (and NOT to eliminate collective bargaining for civil servants, which he never mentioned during his campaign).

No one knows exactly how many jobs have been lost in the state since Walker's election, but most educated opinions put the number in the tens of thousands. Which sounds about right, since the state unemployment rate has been creeping up ever since election day.

Meanwhile, not a single family-supporting job has been created attributable to anything that the Walker administration has done.

Scottie? You'd better get busy. The clock is running.

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09/15/2011: 

 

 

UH OH, WALKER STEPS IN POOPIE: Looks like (as many of us have been hoping) the dumb sumbitch may get himself impeached before the recall effort can begin in January.

Did he really think the Feds were going to stand idly by and watch his hostile fascist takeover of an entire state?

Well, since this is America's Dairyland, it appears that the old boy may have bitten off more than he cud chew.

(And here's a word to the wise, dumbo: That "paid sick leave" also comes out of the taxpayers' pockets. Hear what I'm sayin'? Believe me, WE'RE WATCHING.)

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TODAY'S MUST-READ: Charles Krauthammer gets a few things off his chest in The 9/11 "Overreaction"? Nonsense.

He couldn't possibly be more on-target here.

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09/07/2011: 

 

 

MAXIMUM LEADER'S LATEST BRAINSTORM: "Hey, I've got it—no bread and no circuses!"

 What a clueless, self-important dolt. Who else could think of interrupting the kickoff of the NFL season for a country that has had little else to feel good about since He became President?

Especially since anyone with a brain knows that his "jobs speech" will feature nothing but mind-numbing boilerplate about electric cars, green energy, and "not panicking" as our four-year-old recession deepens.

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09/01/2011: 

 

 

WELCOME TO SEPTEMBER: It's a brand new month, the lights are on here at S&G again, and we're "OPEN FOR BUSINESS!"

Sorry. Couldn't resist.

 

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August 2011

08/31/2011: 

 

 

A NEW BEGINNING: Contrary to all appearances, it has never been my intention to let this blog die.

But a summer spent hustling for dollars under the leaden skies of Scott "Fuck 'Em" Walker's dictatorship of the ultra-rich has left me depressed, to say the least. Hurting badly enough after eight years of Jim "Governor Asshat" Doyle's incompetence, Wisconsin is now a Breughelian landscape of empty factories, shuttered businesses, foreclosed homes, decaying schools, and long-dead animals.

It's kind of what you might expect to see in rural Mississippi, except that we have winter—and fascism. (New signs at our border crossings read WISCONSIN: OPEN FOR BUSINESS! Obviously, any business owner in their right mind isn't going to relocate to a place that looks this bad, has a thoroughly and famously demoralized workforce, and one of the longest winters in these United States).

Of course, the fascist in our state house is too stupid to know that; remember, he flunked out of college.

Anyway.

I can't spend the rest of my blogging life on my feeble attempt at being a voice of resistance against the crushing weight of the Walker regime. There are other things going on in the country and in the world, and I can remember a time when I used to care about them (somebody trying to take your home away from you does tend to get your attention; thanks again, Gov. Fuck 'Em!). What I'm going to try to do here is concentrate on those things, and rebuild Schmaltz und Grieben into something resembling what it was back in its glory days (okay, quit snickering out there... ). But we did have a few bitchen conversations get started on this blog, we have a pretty good documentation of history going all the way back to early 2003, and auf course we have the most beautiful women on the planet. All in one place!

Thank you for bearing with me. I do have a glacially slow computer and I don't get to sit down at it as often as I used to, but I'll do my best to "get this sumbitch rollin'," as they say down in Texas.

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July 2011

07/16/2011: 

 

 

LIVIN' THE DREAM: There have been other things involved as well (such as many trips to the frozen northlands of our state delivering school buses), but I recently came across a quote that really underlines why blogging has become a disheartening process when you live in America's only fascist dictatorship.

The quote was from none other than our former President George W. Bush, and I found it in a fundraising letter he had sent me on behalf of candidate John McCain back in May 2008:

We believe in limited government. We trust the people, rather than government, to make the decisions for what's best for you and your family.

Yow.

Now I don't doubt our former President's (or Senator McCain's) sincerity for a moment. But certainly Scott Walker has stood the Republican understanding of limited government on its head, by being the only state chief executive in these United States who thinks he's better qualified to make decisions for Wisconsin families than the families themselves. Small government? Try Big Brother.

Many hardworking civil servants, municipal minions, nurses, social workers, schoolteachers, and blue collar laborers are finding out what it's like to lose their homes and their dreams because of the whim of one deranged man in the state house. Walker has claimed that he "created jobs" in Wisconsin (the platform he ran on, before he unveiled the Trojan horse of "no collective bargaining!" after he had already been in office for a month), but it turns out that he took double credit for jobs that had been brought to Wisconsin by his predecessor. The latest estimate of jobs LOST since Walker became governor is 26,000—and most of these were in the private sector. We are now living the dream of being governed by a lunatic that we cannot remove from office (according to our state constitution) for another six months, during which time he seems hell-bent on doing irreperable damage to what was once one of the best places to live in the country.

My own family will be losing three to four hundred dollars a month, which means that we MAY be able to (just barely) hang onto our house. Vacations and other earmarks of the "American dream" have already become a has-been. Send the kid to college? Yeah, right.

And all this so Scott Walker can put money in the pockets of his corporate benefactors (he doesn't even pretend that he's going to "repair the budget" anymore).

I can tell you, we in Wisconsin are just gasping in shock that, as the first infusion of funds that were once in working peoples' pockets start rolling toward our handful of corporate megaliths, no new jobs have been created. Gee, who knew!?!

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Someone who does not know the difference between good and evil is worth nothing.- Miecyslaw Kasprzyk, Polish rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, New York Times, Jan. 30, 2005

 
   
 
    

Wichtiger Wortschwall:
 
The Rant auf Klaus*, Parts I II III
 
Free Tibet
 
Why Unions Suck
 
Ménage-à-Trois
 
Mother Church
 
Shut Up and Make the#*&$ Widget
 
Perry County
 
Ahmed Shah Massoud
 
Bly, Oregon
 
The Day I Met The Man
 
Pope John Paul II, 1920-2005
 
The Suburbanites
 
Attention: This Is Not About Your Bicycle
 
A Performance of Their Own Ineptitude (Deb Joins S&G)
 
Renn-aissance
 
This Is No Viet Nam
 
Words of Mass Deception
 
Governor Asshat's Private Zoo

Al Gore Can Kiss My Frozen Ass (frequently updated)  



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