because if you see it … you’ll believe it! And you’ll understand just how bad this man-made disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is.

SEE IT AND BELIEVE IT THROUGH THIS LINK!

Dana Milbank starts his piece off with “[Arizona Governor] Jan Brewer has lost her head.” (Headless bodies and other immigration tall tales in Arizona, Washington Post, 07/11/10) He then goes on to report in a very factual way on how this baseless assertion was actually looked into and found to be without any support, and the head bit is found to be only one in a list of lies told by the likes of Brewer and, yes, John McCain (he who thought Palin would make a good Vice President).

The only problem with Milbank’s story being that it was not on the front page where it belongs but placed in the opeds with the ‘he said, she said’ stuff.

Obviously the Republican lie machine needn’t worry when evidence based stories exposing their outrageous and dangerous to all of us bullshit is simple opinion while their lies are reported in the “factual” section of the papers.

It worked that way with Iraqi WMD … remember? And when the radical right wing in congress made up lies about ACORN all sorts of Democrats – especially our own weasel peter welch – jumped on the liars bandwagon.

It would certainly help if the papers would start a liars section. The claims by Brewer, McCain or weasel peter welch could go right after the opeds, and then all their crap could be relegated to a heading under which that crap belongs.

And stories like Milbank’s could be moved from the opinions section into the factual area where it belongs.

Then maybe the likes of weasel peter welch and McCain and Brewer wouldn’t be able to spread their lies so easily.

PS. Still waiting on weasel peter welch to apologize to all those hard working folks who associated themselves with ACORN. After all the weasel peter welch went out of his way to join his radical right wing buddies in congress and viciously attack ACORN based entirely on lies.

or “What is a modern day, cheap labor, borrow and spend ‘servative to do?”

The following is a recent quote from one time Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson:

In [Reagan’s] diary books, I’m proudly mentioned many times. He was a dear friend, and a total realist as to politics.

I didn’t come to this commission to raise taxes. That’s the myth. But I’ll tell ya, they’ve got to be on the table and they are on the table. So I’ll get my share of crap on that one.

But let’s just disengage ourselves from the myth that Ronald Reagan never raised taxes. He did. And here are four big ones. So I hope this will clear the air for some of the groups today.

(Reagan Raised Taxes At Least 7 Times, Including the Biggest Corporate Tax Hike Ever, Pensito Review, 07/02/10)

We really don’t need all those heads exploding in the streets this weekend … let’s keep that for fireworks. So just keep this all hush hush until Monday … ‘kay?

A little more below …

In an April 6th, 2010 post at the blog capitalgainsandgames (link from the above referenced article) one time Reagan economic aide and H.W. Bush administration treasury official puts the count at $275.3 billion in tax cuts and $132.7 billion in tax increases.

So that $142.6 billion tax cut difference compares favorably to about $2 trillion increase in national debt (source: US Treasury) in exactly what way?

Oh, that’s right … it was all part of a set of policies that make it possible for a multi-millionaire to arbitrarily destroy the take home wages of hard working Americans.

Hey, did I say thanks Ronnie?

(PS. still waiting for that floor of the House apology from weasel welch for the damage he helped his radical right wing buddies in congress do to ACORN.)

US lawmakers were poised Tuesday to scrap a 19-billion-dollar bank fee from a major Wall Street overhaul bill following Republican objections to the measure, a source familiar with legislative efforts said.

(Sen. Brown throws Wall Street reform into turmoil with bank tax opposition, Raw Story, 06/29/10)

Run away from a position of overwhelming political strength on everything … that is the DC Dem way (and yes I’m including Vermont’s own trio). That only happens if a) the DC Dems are simply content to be abject cowards, or b) the DC Dems simply don’t disagree.

Take your pick … either way they deserve absolutely no support.

Have we thanked Obama and BP and the rest of feds lately?

The video starts off depressing and gets worse as it approaches the seven minute mark.  There you can see dolphins trying to swim through the oil as well as a sperm whale breaching the surface, covered in toxic oil.  More fly-over videos of the oil leak on BP Slick

Big thanks to America Blog

Question: Which five states have the highest salary expenditures for instructional staff members in rural districts (essentially the highest average teacher salaries)?

Answer: New York has the highest average expenditures for rural instructional staff at $74,800, followed by Alaska at $74,193, Connecticut at $73,632, New Jersey at $65,674, and California at $65,120. Actual salary levels may vary widely between districts.

Source: (The Rural School and Community Trust)

Some Vermont numbers (FTE = full time equivalent):

• Mean (average) salary per FTE: $53,063.76

• Median (half above, half below) salary per FTE: $51,379.19

• Salaries range from $31,936.67 to $72,625.14.*

(source: Vermont Ed Department)

*Too high my ass!

We are a nation in denial about our food supply. As a result the UFW has initiated the “Take Our Jobs” campaign.

Farm workers are ready to welcome citizens and legal residents who wish to replace them in the field, we will use our knowledge and staff to help connect the unemployed with farm employers. Just fill out the form to the right and continue on to the request for job application.

Click here to register for YOUR farm job!

and I don’t hear a whole hell of a lot of good from any of the gubernatorial wannabes.

Here’s the story, Officials see moves toward school district mergers (Barre/Montpelier Times Argus, 06/27/10), and it’s all about centralizing command and control over our for now local schools … you know … the ones that have Vermont consistently ranked at or near the top when it comes to national standards.

A constant bitch theme seems to be the administrative overhead. Yet I hear so much adoration for a system (Act 153) that encourages MORE spending on administration to figure out how to spend less on administration.

Although Shumlin did try, I haven’t heard a single sensible answer to the question: if consolidation makes such eminent fiscal sense, why does the state have to offer financial incentives for schools to do so?

The truth is it doesn’t. School districts have looked at it over the decades and a huge majority have rejected it.

A class of 16 seventh-graders has found a mysterious cave on Mars–a kind of “Martian skylight”–during the course of their research project analyzing images snapped by NASA’s Mars orbiter.

(Mysterious Martian Cave Discovered By 7th Graders, Huffington Post, 06/22/10)