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May 3, 2018
If Obama and "funnel" were in the same sentence, Rs would have lost their minds...
even if it were a funnel CAKE.....
May 3, 2018
Step outside the box..Speaker does not have to be a member of Congress...
this is true, but has never been done. HRC for Speaker 2018??
May 3, 2018
Today is World Press Freedom Day
Every year, 3 May is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom, to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profession. World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993 following a Recommendation adopted at the twenty-sixth session of UNESCO's General Conference in 1991. This in turn was a response to a call by African journalists who in 1991 produced the landmark Windhoek Declaration on media pluralism and independence.
It serves as an occasion to inform citizens of violations of press freedom - a reminder that in dozens of countries around the world, publications are censored, fined, suspended and closed down, while journalists, editors and publishers are harassed, attacked, detained and even murdered.
It is a date to encourage and develop initiatives in favour of press freedom, and to assess the state of press freedom worldwide.
3 May acts as a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom and is also a day of reflection among media professionals about issues of press freedom and professional ethics. Just as importantly, World Press Freedom Day is a day of support for media which are targets for the restraint, or abolition, of press freedom. It is also a day of remembrance for those journalists who lost their lives in the pursuit of a story.
May 2, 2018
Republicans get to cheat on elections for another year in Wisconsin
I don't know WHY I didn't know this...our gerrymandering case is still on hold in Supreme Court. We have already begun nomination papers for August primary....November general election...in other words, the process has begun with the rotten districts...so they remain.
Damn them to hell.
May 2, 2018
America, what have we come to?
Ari just announced his next segment after commercial...Tony Schwartz, Trump's famous and brilliant biographer....WHAT DOES DONALD TRUMP DO WHEN HE IS CORNERED? And I am breathlessly waiting for his words of wisdom.
What have we come to? The leader of the free world is a vile cunning animal we are trying to 2nd guess...OH dear Obama, we miss you so...and the media has normalized this crap.
May 2, 2018
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Paul Ryan - Head of the Morlino Sect
“Padre, you just got to stay out of politics.” Paul Ryan to Father Patrick Conroy.
Capper told us about Paul Ryan recently firing a priest, the House Chaplain - Father Patrick Conroy. However, his extremist views, while pretending to be mainstream Catholic has been a problem of Paul Ryan's for as long as he has been in the public spotlight.
The local Catholic Bishop that covers Janesville, WI area is Bishop Morlino. Bishop Morlino extreme right wing views, has not been very popular with the public. As a matter of fact, Bishop Morlino is a big reason that I personally left the Catholic Church.
With leadership like Morlino, it is no surprise that a follower like Paul Ryan would act the way that he does. Let's take a little deeper dive into the Sedevacantism, of Paul Ryan.
In March of 2013, the current Pope, Francis was named Pope and shook up the Catholic Church. Pope Francis has spoke up about the danger of Global Climate Change and how it is our responsibility to take care of the poor and address poverty. Pope Francis has spoken out about treating our LGBTQ friends with respect, allowing divorced Catholics back into the church and even has started the discussion of allowing women a larger role in the Church(gasp).
Then came this gem:
In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting.
When anyone talks of the ridiculousness of trickle-down economics, Paul Ryan takes it personally. Personally enough to let the Pope know that he is a fool. It takes a lot of guts to tell someone they do not know economics after you just oversaw raising our deficit to over 20 trillion dollars that you are the expert on the economy. However Mr. Ryan has a cause and he believes deeply in it. Cutting the social safety net.
The signs have always been there, but for some reason the media has always treated Paul Ryan as if he is a serious Congressman and even pretend he is a policy wonk.
Paul Ryan, who used his social security survivor benefits to pay for college, now wants to cut those very benefits for everyone else. No need for anyone else to use the ladder to climb up after him. Yet that is never a question he has to answer.
Another huge clue, is Ryan's love for Ayn Rand. While they both have in common, that they had no problem collecting social security benefits while trying to make sure no one else gets the same. The reality is anyone watching could see that the hardcore Catholic act that Ryan likes to play, is in direct opposite philosophy as the objectivism and individualism of the Randian cult.
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Ok so his whole career has been a scam, and every reporter in Wisconsin has swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
As we say, there is more, there is always more, so let us keep digging.
In 2012, a bus full of Nuns, decided they had enough of no one speaking up or helping the poor, so they jumped on a bus and went to lobby Mr. Ryan.
For Instance just a few months ago, long after same sex marriage was settled law, Bishop Morlino issued guidance to Priests in his Diocese to think long and hard before performing the funeral rights of a gay human being.
Paul Ryan, while voting for any Anti Gay legislation he possibly could, has made it clear that, like the poor, our LGBTQ's friends rights are of no interest to him. It is just an annoyance by the Evangelicals that keep getting in the way of his tax cuts.
This is also in direct conflict with Pope Francis:
The Catholic church and other Christian communities must apologize to gay people and to many groups they have let down or offended throughout history, Pope Francis has said.
In a press conference Sunday on the flight back to Rome after his weekend trip to Armenia, the pontiff said bluntly: "The church must say it's sorry for not having comported itself well many times, many times."
"I believe that the church not only must say it's sorry ... to this person that is gay that it has offended," said the pope. "But it must say it's sorry to the poor, also, to mistreated women, to children forced to work."
"When I say the church: Christians," Francis clarified. "The church is holy. We are the sinners."
Being the GOP wonderboy, means never having to say you're sorry:
“I suppose that there are some Catholics who for a long time thought they had a monopoly of sorts ... on the social teaching of our church,” Ryan said during a speech that attracted a full audience and a number of of protesters. “Of course there can be differences among faithful Catholics on this. The work I do as a Catholic holding office conforms to the social doctrine as best I can make of it.”
While many in the Catholic church had major problems with Paul Ryans career, and his former Priest in Janesville(He left that church because the Father was talking too much about helping the poor) has been worried about him. 7,000 Catholic Sisters even got together to condemn him.
Paul Ryan will now be free to do what he does best, fundraise. While he said he would be home every weekend as speaker to be a dad, the reality is he spent most weekends fundraising.
As Jesus taught us about the pursuit of money:
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." Matthew 6:24
That is a lesson that Mr. Ryan must have missed, but when you are part of the Bishop Morlino Sect, you do not get most of the teachings of Jesus.
Yet like most Religious Radical Zealots, not understanding and misinterpreting the Bible does not deter you from forcing your extremist views on everyone around you.
Good bye Paul Ryan..... You will not be missed!
"Padre, you just got to stay out of politics." Paul Ryan to Father Patrick Conroy
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Paul Ryan - Head of the Morlino Sect
“Padre, you just got to stay out of politics.” Paul Ryan to Father Patrick Conroy.
Capper told us about Paul Ryan recently firing a priest, the House Chaplain - Father Patrick Conroy. However, his extremist views, while pretending to be mainstream Catholic has been a problem of Paul Ryan's for as long as he has been in the public spotlight.
The local Catholic Bishop that covers Janesville, WI area is Bishop Morlino. Bishop Morlino extreme right wing views, has not been very popular with the public. As a matter of fact, Bishop Morlino is a big reason that I personally left the Catholic Church.
With leadership like Morlino, it is no surprise that a follower like Paul Ryan would act the way that he does. Let's take a little deeper dive into the Sedevacantism, of Paul Ryan.
In March of 2013, the current Pope, Francis was named Pope and shook up the Catholic Church. Pope Francis has spoke up about the danger of Global Climate Change and how it is our responsibility to take care of the poor and address poverty. Pope Francis has spoken out about treating our LGBTQ friends with respect, allowing divorced Catholics back into the church and even has started the discussion of allowing women a larger role in the Church(gasp).
Then came this gem:
In this context, some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naïve trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system. Meanwhile, the excluded are still waiting.
When anyone talks of the ridiculousness of trickle-down economics, Paul Ryan takes it personally. Personally enough to let the Pope know that he is a fool. It takes a lot of guts to tell someone they do not know economics after you just oversaw raising our deficit to over 20 trillion dollars that you are the expert on the economy. However Mr. Ryan has a cause and he believes deeply in it. Cutting the social safety net.
The signs have always been there, but for some reason the media has always treated Paul Ryan as if he is a serious Congressman and even pretend he is a policy wonk.
Paul Ryan, who used his social security survivor benefits to pay for college, now wants to cut those very benefits for everyone else. No need for anyone else to use the ladder to climb up after him. Yet that is never a question he has to answer.
Another huge clue, is Ryan's love for Ayn Rand. While they both have in common, that they had no problem collecting social security benefits while trying to make sure no one else gets the same. The reality is anyone watching could see that the hardcore Catholic act that Ryan likes to play, is in direct opposite philosophy as the objectivism and individualism of the Randian cult.
Galatians 6:2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Ok so his whole career has been a scam, and every reporter in Wisconsin has swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
As we say, there is more, there is always more, so let us keep digging.
In 2012, a bus full of Nuns, decided they had enough of no one speaking up or helping the poor, so they jumped on a bus and went to lobby Mr. Ryan.
For Instance just a few months ago, long after same sex marriage was settled law, Bishop Morlino issued guidance to Priests in his Diocese to think long and hard before performing the funeral rights of a gay human being.
Paul Ryan, while voting for any Anti Gay legislation he possibly could, has made it clear that, like the poor, our LGBTQ's friends rights are of no interest to him. It is just an annoyance by the Evangelicals that keep getting in the way of his tax cuts.
This is also in direct conflict with Pope Francis:
The Catholic church and other Christian communities must apologize to gay people and to many groups they have let down or offended throughout history, Pope Francis has said.
In a press conference Sunday on the flight back to Rome after his weekend trip to Armenia, the pontiff said bluntly: "The church must say it's sorry for not having comported itself well many times, many times."
"I believe that the church not only must say it's sorry ... to this person that is gay that it has offended," said the pope. "But it must say it's sorry to the poor, also, to mistreated women, to children forced to work."
"When I say the church: Christians," Francis clarified. "The church is holy. We are the sinners."
Being the GOP wonderboy, means never having to say you're sorry:
“I suppose that there are some Catholics who for a long time thought they had a monopoly of sorts ... on the social teaching of our church,” Ryan said during a speech that attracted a full audience and a number of of protesters. “Of course there can be differences among faithful Catholics on this. The work I do as a Catholic holding office conforms to the social doctrine as best I can make of it.”
While many in the Catholic church had major problems with Paul Ryans career, and his former Priest in Janesville(He left that church because the Father was talking too much about helping the poor) has been worried about him. 7,000 Catholic Sisters even got together to condemn him.
Paul Ryan will now be free to do what he does best, fundraise. While he said he would be home every weekend as speaker to be a dad, the reality is he spent most weekends fundraising.
As Jesus taught us about the pursuit of money:
"No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money." Matthew 6:24
That is a lesson that Mr. Ryan must have missed, but when you are part of the Bishop Morlino Sect, you do not get most of the teachings of Jesus.
Yet like most Religious Radical Zealots, not understanding and misinterpreting the Bible does not deter you from forcing your extremist views on everyone around you.
Good bye Paul Ryan..... You will not be missed!
May 2, 2018
Gov. Scott Walker’s feelings are hurt, here’s why that doesn’t matter
Responding to party criticism by tearing apart entire party only fosters environment where anger is invalid form of expression
by Lucas Johnson · May 1, 2018 fShare tTweet
Joey Reuteman/The Badger Herald
Anger is a funny thing. It consistently toes the line between fueling passionate movements and inciting unproductive and obnoxious debate. Anger was the fuel behind the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Marches and the March for Our Lives, fuel motivated by an intense desire for equality and fair treatment. Anger is also unfortunately behind the oppositions to all such movements.
Anger has the power to build an influential socio-political movement from scratch and fuel an intense and equally vigorous opposition to that movement’s messages simultaneously. Anger is what attracted more than one million demonstrators into the streets to shed light on the mistreatment of women spurred on by our current administration. Anger is also what fuels television anchors on Fox News to ignorantly condemn the movement entirely and question its validity in the first place.
For all its faults, however, anger is an unparalleled source of action. Feeling that burning sensation inside rarely manifests in a passive attitude. It’s nearly impossible to completely ignore a feeling of unbridled anger. Even in commonplace interactions, if those closest to you feel angry, they’re going to let you know in some capacity. As such, anger is a perfectly valid form of expression and one that, at a base level, fosters action — something intrinsic to political activism.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, however, has not addressed anger from his opponents as input into how his administration can improve. Instead, Walker labels angry individuals as harmful to our democracy, thinking for some reason this is a productive use of his voice as state leader. In a recent segment of “Fox and Friends,” Walker had this to say about Democratic anger: “Their rhetoric is increasingly not just liberal, but filled with hatred and anger towards me, towards the president, towards Republicans in general.”
Walker shockingly wasn’t finished there, citing cases in which his integrity as governor was called to question. In a January issue of the Hudson-Star Observer, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Evers referred to Walker as an “idiot” after Walker rejected federal Medicaid matching funds.
To top it all off, Walker mentioned a radio interview in which fellow gubernatorial candidate Matt Flynn had a scathing review of Walker’s fitness for the governorship, saying he’s “too stupid to be governor.”
Walker’s outright criticism of Democratic anger is effectively framed as a defense of conservatism. I’m sure he’s not a fan of being called an “idiot,” but if his immediate strategy in addressing this criticism is to publicly tear apart an entire party, he’s doing himself and the public no favors.
In any political role, criticism is inherent to the job — and Walker should know this. Sitting in front of a camera on a heavily-followed conservative news program to essentially say “my feelings are hurt” is not the role of a political leader. I’d go so far as to say this hyper-defensive response is Trumpian. While the words used by Democratic criticizers aren’t particularly productive, Walker’s response is less so.
Here’s why.
Walker’s comment on “Fox and Friends” criticizes not just an angry Democratic response, but decries anger as a form of expression at all. Walker has every right to disagree with liberal perspectives, that’s a primary role of conservative politicians — it’s why we have parties in the first place. But Walker has no right to delegitimize the expression of anger in any capacity.
By publicly fostering a political environment where anger is not to be tolerated is to encourage an environment where stagnation and submissiveness reign high. A silencing of the loud, the proud and the passionate does nothing but reinforce a system where criticism is met with rampant defense rather than concerted administrative improvement.
Defense is as natural to humans as anger. But like anger, both can be controlled. Should Evers and Flynn have insulted Walker so childishly? Most likely not. But should Walker have abused his platform to deepen divides between parties? Absolutely not.
Perhaps if Walker took such criticism as fuel for improvement, he wouldn’t feel the need to call to question an entire party’s voice in the first place.
Lucas Johnson (lucasjohnson@badgerherald.com) is a sophomore majoring in journalism and strategic communications.
Gov. Scott Walker's feelings are hurt, here's why that doesn't matter
Gov. Scott Walker’s feelings are hurt, here’s why that doesn’t matter
Responding to party criticism by tearing apart entire party only fosters environment where anger is invalid form of expression
by Lucas Johnson · May 1, 2018 fShare tTweet
Joey Reuteman/The Badger Herald
Anger is a funny thing. It consistently toes the line between fueling passionate movements and inciting unproductive and obnoxious debate. Anger was the fuel behind the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Marches and the March for Our Lives, fuel motivated by an intense desire for equality and fair treatment. Anger is also unfortunately behind the oppositions to all such movements.
Anger has the power to build an influential socio-political movement from scratch and fuel an intense and equally vigorous opposition to that movement’s messages simultaneously. Anger is what attracted more than one million demonstrators into the streets to shed light on the mistreatment of women spurred on by our current administration. Anger is also what fuels television anchors on Fox News to ignorantly condemn the movement entirely and question its validity in the first place.
For all its faults, however, anger is an unparalleled source of action. Feeling that burning sensation inside rarely manifests in a passive attitude. It’s nearly impossible to completely ignore a feeling of unbridled anger. Even in commonplace interactions, if those closest to you feel angry, they’re going to let you know in some capacity. As such, anger is a perfectly valid form of expression and one that, at a base level, fosters action — something intrinsic to political activism.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, however, has not addressed anger from his opponents as input into how his administration can improve. Instead, Walker labels angry individuals as harmful to our democracy, thinking for some reason this is a productive use of his voice as state leader. In a recent segment of “Fox and Friends,” Walker had this to say about Democratic anger: “Their rhetoric is increasingly not just liberal, but filled with hatred and anger towards me, towards the president, towards Republicans in general.”
Walker shockingly wasn’t finished there, citing cases in which his integrity as governor was called to question. In a January issue of the Hudson-Star Observer, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tony Evers referred to Walker as an “idiot” after Walker rejected federal Medicaid matching funds.
To top it all off, Walker mentioned a radio interview in which fellow gubernatorial candidate Matt Flynn had a scathing review of Walker’s fitness for the governorship, saying he’s “too stupid to be governor.”
Walker’s outright criticism of Democratic anger is effectively framed as a defense of conservatism. I’m sure he’s not a fan of being called an “idiot,” but if his immediate strategy in addressing this criticism is to publicly tear apart an entire party, he’s doing himself and the public no favors.
In any political role, criticism is inherent to the job — and Walker should know this. Sitting in front of a camera on a heavily-followed conservative news program to essentially say “my feelings are hurt” is not the role of a political leader. I’d go so far as to say this hyper-defensive response is Trumpian. While the words used by Democratic criticizers aren’t particularly productive, Walker’s response is less so.
Here’s why.
Walker’s comment on “Fox and Friends” criticizes not just an angry Democratic response, but decries anger as a form of expression at all. Walker has every right to disagree with liberal perspectives, that’s a primary role of conservative politicians — it’s why we have parties in the first place. But Walker has no right to delegitimize the expression of anger in any capacity.
By publicly fostering a political environment where anger is not to be tolerated is to encourage an environment where stagnation and submissiveness reign high. A silencing of the loud, the proud and the passionate does nothing but reinforce a system where criticism is met with rampant defense rather than concerted administrative improvement.
Defense is as natural to humans as anger. But like anger, both can be controlled. Should Evers and Flynn have insulted Walker so childishly? Most likely not. But should Walker have abused his platform to deepen divides between parties? Absolutely not.
Perhaps if Walker took such criticism as fuel for improvement, he wouldn’t feel the need to call to question an entire party’s voice in the first place.
Lucas Johnson (lucasjohnson@badgerherald.com) is a sophomore majoring in journalism and strategic communications.
May 2, 2018
"Mueller is not doing a book report"
Mark Thompson on Stephanie Ruhle just now. Good one.
May 1, 2018
Sarah 3 Names just hit Adam Schiff hard !!
She is so nice and smart, too....a real polished lying gem for Trump.
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