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A deer czar, that's the ticket

September 2, 2010 by Uppity Wisconsin

Scott Walker's spent way too much time sitting in a tree stand with nothing to think about:

Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker on Thursday called for an independent auditor to monitor the health population of Wisconsin deer, saying a third party is needed because many hunters had lost faith in how the Department of Natural Resources manages the herd.

That's the ticket. Privatize the DNR.

While we're pondering independent audits, how about adding the O'Donnell Park disaster and the county's mental health center to the list?

 

Ron Johnson, Red Republican

September 2, 2010 by Uppity Wisconsin

Go, Big Red takes on a whole new meaning in the US Senate race.

David Sirota post on Open Left blog:

I never thought we'd see a Republican Communist - and certainly not one who is the nominee for U.S. Senate in a major swing-state...

We can thank Wisconsin Republican Senate nominee Ron Johnson for at least being honest about his party's extremist vision. While most Americans probably don't see Chinese communism as the way forward, Republicans clearly do - and we can thank them, at minimum, for letting us know how they see the world.

He's not actually the nominee yet, but that little technicality will be taken care of on Sept. 14, when those socialist-hating Republicans give him their seal of approval.

A use for the brown bag

September 2, 2010 by Uppity Wisconsin

The LaCrosse Tribune:

 

 

We have a suggestion for how Scott Walker can best use his ubiquitous brown bag.

 

Whenever the Milwaukee County executive is ready to unveil yet another insensitive campaign message, he should follow these simple steps:

 1) Open bag.

2) Place around mouth.

 3) Blow vigorously.

4) Take a deep breath.

5) Repeat, if necessary.

 6) If all else fails, inflate the bag once more and pop it.

Maybe then, Mr. Walker will wake up and smell the baloney.

Read the whole thing.

Johnson Job Plan: Pay Workers Under a Dollar a Day Like They Do in China

September 2, 2010 by Uppity Wisconsin

There are two approaches that politicians usually take in dealing with foreign trade. 

The first is Feingold's fair trade approach:  trading freely with only countries that have the same worker and other protections as we do in our country.  The second is the free trade approach where you trade with foreign companies and hope that through the forces of the free market that foreign countries will somehow be lifted to the high standards of the United States.

Ron Johnson, following the lead of Newt Gingrich, is proposing a third approach:  Instead of pushing morally bankrupt countries like China toward emulating the high standards of the U.S., we should emulate them.

When Ron Johnson says he wants to turn Wisconsin into a red state, he wasn't kidding!

Recently he told the Wisconsin Radio Network that we need to me more like China and that businesses were locating there because there was less regulation and less "uncertainty" than in the U.S.  Specifically, when asked, how do we bring jobs back to Wisconsin, Johnson responded:

Community and Organizations Join to Stop Deportation of Maine Student

September 2, 2010 by Vivirlatino

Earlier this month, as part of the DREAM Now Letters to Barack Obama series, we introduced you to Selvin Ovidio Arevalo, a Guatemalan student living in Maine who is facing immediate deportation. There has been much talk by the right wing and some Republicans about returning to the “good ole American values rooted in Christianity”. [...]