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Fwd: Democracy Versus Liberty in Wisconsin


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TIA DailyApril 4, 2011

COMMENTARY

Democracy Versus Liberty in Wisconsin

After a few weeks spent mostly transfixed on events in the North Africa and the Middle East, it's time to catch up on domestic news. I'll start with the most urgent story below, then catch up on more news in the next edition.

It turns out that the vote by Republicans in the Wisconsin state legislature to break the political power of the public employees' unions was not final. The vote was blocked on a technicality by a leftist judge, and the case is going to the state's supreme court—and the balance of power in that court will be determined by a judicial election to be held on Tuesday.

TIA Daily reader and Green Bay area resident Steve Hathway reports:

"Wisconsin is still in turmoil over the new collective bargaining legislation. You have mentioned the efforts on both sides to recall state senators. But there will be a political calibration even before recall petitions are turned in.

"This Tuesday, April 5, Wisconsin is holding elections for one Supreme Court Justice seat. It is currently held by Judge David Prosser. JoAnne Kloppenburg (I'm not making this name up) is running to unseat him. Her campaign (or supporting groups) has been running TV ads that cast the election in the same terms we heard during the Siege of Madison. She attempts to link Prosser to Walker. The ads talk about how Walker is destroying the middle class, etc. The outcome of this election should be an earlier indication of how successful union and leftists efforts have been.

"If Kloppenburg wins, the Court will be left-leaning and likely uphold the ruling blocking publication and implementation of the law."

Some of the ads have gotten a bit uglier than Steve mentions, including one ad accusing Prosser of being soft on child molesters—which is refuted here in a response ad that ought to help produce some backlash against the union campaign.

The Wall Street Journal's John Fund has a good article providing background on the Wisconsin vote, including the blatant non-objectivity of the initial ruling attempting to block the union legislation.

Legal analysts say it's preposterous for a judge to enjoin publication of a law before it has even taken effect, as citizens don't have standing to challenge a law until they are subject to it. In a similar case in 1943, the state's Supreme Court ruled that a judge had no such authority. In 1977, another state Supreme Court opinion reiterated that under separation of powers "no court has jurisdiction to enjoin the legislative process at any point." Rick Esenberg, an assistant professor of law at Marquette University, says he is "speechless" over the fact that Judge Sumi "has failed to articulate why she has the authority" to issue her ruling....

Victory [for the unions] would mean a seat on the court for JoAnne Kloppenburg, an assistant state attorney general—and a court with a liberal majority that may well uphold Judge Sumi's decision....

Ms. Kloppenburg certainly isn't discouraging such thinking. She told the Madison Capital Times that "the events of the last few weeks have put into sharp relief how important the Supreme Court is as a check on overreach in the other branches of government."

Fund points out that this is a matter of life and death for the unions.

Unions can't abide the loss of political clout that will result from ending the state's practice of automatically deducting union dues from employee paychecks. For most Wisconsin public employees, union dues total between $700 and $1,000 a year, much of which is funneled into political spending to elect the officials who negotiate their contracts.... In 2001, Utah made the collection of payments to union political funds optional, and nearly 95% of public school teachers opted not to pay.

In other words, the unions depend on the state acting as their tax collector, seizing union dues from workers' paychecks

This election should also be viewed as a case study in the folly of judicial elections and the superiority of the federal system of appointment to lifetime terms. Debates over federal judicial appointments are based on judicial philosophy and temperament, and rather than hint at where they stand on specific cases, nominees usually go too far in the other direction, refusing to take any public stand on controversial cases. In Wisconsin, by contrast, a judicial election has been turned away from basic principles and transformed into a partisan political power struggle.

These two issues are connected. Wisconsin is the birthplace of the Progressive movement, and in addition to promoting the power of unions, the Progressives also tried to break down the constitutional structure of government, including the separation of powers and indirect representation, and replace them with "direct democracy," in which every issue is put to an immediate vote by the people. This election is their ideal at work, and we see what it means in practice: giving outsized political power to any faction that is good at mobilizing a mob in defense of its special interests—which in this case is the unions.

All of this is to say that if you live in Wisconsin, it is vitally important that you drop everything to go cast your vote in this election and break the power of this particular faction to loot its membership and the public treasury.—RWT



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Fwd: Public photos show Obama's Brain Surgery Scars




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From: Peter J Fescue <peterjfescue@gmail.com>

 

Do These Pics Show Obama's Had Brain Surgery?

There are the birthers who question Obama's nationality. And now there are…the brainers?

It seems the latest theory surrounding Barack Obama is the presence of what appears to be scars on his head. Scars that, if true, haven't been explained and some say show he's had brain surgery.

London's Daily Mail has the pictures:

The website Escapetyranny.com is asking the question, "What's that huge long scar on Obama's head? And is that why we can't see his birth certificate?" Author Ben Hart writes:

Barack Obama has very long scar that goes up the side of his head and over his crown. What is that? What happened?

No one in the media asks.

We can't see his medical records, his school records, his college records, or his birth certificate. He's almost done with his first term, and we still know almost nothing about the background of the President of the United States. Very strange.

Whatever happened to create that scar, it was clearly something serious.

Was it a brain operation? Has it affected his thinking? Is he really an alien from another planet, which would explain no birth certificate? We have no proof as to where he was born, to whom, where he came from, or what is national origin is. Maybe he's one of the androids (a replicant), like in Bladerunner, not really human at all.

Anything's possible.

Hart calls for answers to put the controversy to rest. According to the Mail, the White House has offered an answer of sorts, dismissing the suggestion as "ridiculous:"

A spokeswoman from the White House said they were not willing to comment on such claims, saying they were 'ridiculous'.

Countless neurosurgeons said it is 'not their place' to comment on whether or not distinctive scars on the President's head are as a result of brain surgery.

Others offered explanations such as a bad haircut or even a birthmark though many did agree that the scars are similar to those a produced after major brain surgery.




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Julia Sweeney: Sex Ed



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From: K
I did find this totally funny.  :)  But I also found it sad, and I wanted to ask if other people on the list felt the same thing.
 
The funnyness lies, I think, in how we all identify with her being so nerve-wracked about talking about sex, so embarrassed about things like anal sex or pornography.  A lot of the questions to which she provided a lie or a half-truth were simple, honest questions that ought to have received a simple, honest answer.  (How do gay men have sex? Where do we keep our eggs? How do they get fertilized? Are there movies of humans mating on the internet?).
 
I know she was only joking, and it's not like comedians have to tell the truth, so I'm not blaming her.  I guess I am blaming parents in general who are too embarassed to say to direct questions, "Gay men have anal sex and oral sex, and so do lots of straight people.  Eggs are stored in our ovaries until they travel to the uterus to be fertilized. They get fertilized when a man uses his penis to put sperm into the woman's vagina.  That's called sex.  And yes, it is on the internet. It's called internet pornography."  How hard is that really?
 
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On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 12:20 AM, D\:
I found this video via Trey Givens on Julia Sweeney's first discussion of sex with her daughter.  It's completely hysterical.

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Two Obama Officials Implicated In Seditious Plot

Two Obama Officials Implicated In Seditious Plot
By Alan Keyes

"New evidence comes out of Obama administration officials' involvement in plan to effectually rewrite the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. Soros-funded effort to force America into accepting a Marxist manifesto by 2012 underway in Obama faction, led by key executive branch appointees."

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Freedom Is Always Illegal.

Next Phase Of FBI Technology: Iris Scans, Gait And Scent Detection

Next Phase Of FBI Technology: Iris Scans, Gait And Scent Detection
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11100/1138293-455.stm

"Instead of booking someone and then waiting hours for a fingerprint match, the Houston cops can do it at the scene in about 31/2 minutes using a handheld (sic) scanner called Blue Check. They could do it even faster -- as quickly as 16 seconds, according to the FBI -- if the wireless Internet service in the bustling Houston area was less busy."




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Homosexuals burned alive in Iraq (video)




Homosexuals burned alive in Iraq (video)

Like much of Islam, this is not suitable for children. ROP via Islam Watch Homosexuals burned alive in Iraq, Sharia punishment for sodomy

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Obama and His Fellow Commie Party Holding Our Military Hostage So They Can Murer Babies An Force YOU To Pay The Assassins.




Obama and His Fellow Commie Party Holding Our Military Hostage So They Can Murer Babies An Force YOU To Pay The Assassins.

Obama and his fellow Commie's behaviour is absolutely DISGRACEFUL AND APPALLING.  They would rather be able to murder children and force the American taxpayers and Christians foot the bill for the murders, over paying our  Military Members.  I used to believe I could not detest anyone other than rapists, racists and pedophiles.  That's not the case [...]

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EXPOSING THE MUSLIM WALL OF LIES




EXPOSING THE MUSLIM WALL OF LIES

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Most BNI readers already know what's in these films. But many college students do not.  If you know any students involved in Israeli Aparthied protests, please ask them to look at these videos. Israel's Security Border. Arab Brotherly Love. The dirty history Muslims don't want you to know.

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FACEBOOK INTIFADA: The ragheads are coming! The ragheads are coming!




FACEBOOK INTIFADA: The ragheads are coming! The ragheads are coming!

barenakedislam | April 9, 2011 at 6:50 PM | Categories: Islam and the Jews | URL: http://wp.me/peHnV-si5

Social-networking sites, specifically Facebook, are being used to promote a campaign for 'The Third Intifada' that appears to target the very existence of Israel, with hundreds of thousands worldwide seeking to join in a plan to return to and take over the original homes of their families in 'Palestine' on May 15. WND - (H/T [...]

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