October 14, 2017

JOY has Roberta Kaplan on, Edie Windsor's attny who is suing Charlottsville racists

with her is the girlfriend of the black guy(in the photo) who was thrown in the air by the killer automobile. He is still in the hospital. Kaplan is suing the bad guys and trying to prevent future Racist Rallies throughout the country. Great segment.

October 14, 2017

"It will hurt his voters"...not if they are filthy rich..that is WHO voted Trump in.

It always bothers me when someone posts how Trump's policies will hurt his poor dumb voters....this is not the entire picture...he got voted in by the rich Republicans......Of the one in three Americans who earn less than $50,000 a year, a majority voted for Clinton. A majority of those who earn more backed Trump ..It's time to bust the myth: Most Trump voters were not working class ...https://www.washingtonpost.com/

I see it locally here in Stevens Point WI...Trump voters are the rich ones where I live...especially the old rich folks who would never ever vote DEM.

October 13, 2017

Here's what they're giving guests in a swag bag: "The Hazards of Homosexuality"

David Mack
The president is addressing the Values Voter Summit today. Here's what they're giving guests in a swag bag: "The Hazards of Homosexuality"

lizzwinstead · 2h2 hours ago

wtf man. Shit is just fucking redic.

October 13, 2017

Anyone claiming to be in 'God's Army' is actually just in one of His unauthorized fan clubs.

Anyone claiming to be in 'God's Army' is actually just in one of His unauthorized fan clubs.
FUGELSANG.

October 13, 2017

Just for a second can you imagine how Barrack Obama feels watching TV in 2017?

Every time someone says Trump is erasing every accomplishment of his.....it incenses us...but HE worked so very hard FOR US in a country where they paraded rodeo clowns with brooms up the butt, saying "Get that N our of the White House".

And this President Pig treated Barrack like some Planet of the Apes guy with no birth record....

I could cry.....and I pray for the magnificent Obamas every day. I write LTEs and I began one with "Did you see Michelle's face on Inauguration Day?"

October 12, 2017

Charlie Pierce takes on Sheriff Clarke RE: Hillary

David A. Clarke, Jr.Verified account @SheriffClarke
No other LOSER of a Presidential race has gotten more post election media coverage that this CRY BABY.


Charles P. Pierce Retweeted David A. Clarke, Jr.
Let the tears flow like water in a Milwaukee jail.

Those of us in Wisconsin salute you, dear Charlie.

October 12, 2017

"Peace begins with me."

Repeat as many times during the day as necessary:

"Peace begins with me."

Spread this to all of your friends.

It's really so simple, and it has been spoken by many sages for many thousands of years. I can't even begin to quote them all -- Jesus, Gandhi, Yogananda, Muhammad, and more, and many who aren't generally known -- but they all have said the same freakin' thing.

We are all so tired, aren't we? Let peace begin with you. Please share.

October 12, 2017

"I pray to God the nite of the election and say Are You Kidding Me? All the great people in this

Basilisa Hernandez testifying as undocumented in WI Assembly right now. "I pray to God the nite of the election and say Are You Kidding Me? All the great people in this county and this guy is the President?"

I want you to remind tonite when you go to bed You are attacking my kids, yes, I go over border I am a bad girl. You are able to choose to do bad things or good things. And you must choose today.

The president in WH called us bad names ...didn't even know Puerto Rico was American. America is great, not because of you or because of me. Because we have choice, in my country we have no choice.

Heartbreaking stories from all of them...but she is testifying in front of the most evil and cruel Rs in the country, my Wisconsin. She still has no choice.

October 11, 2017

Wisconsin to soon be the dumbest state in the country..freedom..

Proposal to De-license Occupations Gains Steam in Senate
Imagine you are with your loved one who is in the hospital. Night comes. You prepare to leave, gently kissing your loved one “good night”.

As you walk down the corridor and into the hospital parking lot, you might wonder how your loved one will feel in the morning. Will things be better, worse or stay the same?

One thing you don’t worry about is the quality of care provided to your loved one because the nurses working the night shift are licensed by the state.

Nurses and other professionals follow “standards of care” that are spelled out in their education and clinical training. They follow licensing and board requirements set in state law. Patients are protected from incompetent nurses by a board that oversees the practice of nursing. This is true for dozens of other professionals in Wisconsin.

Recently, a Senate committee on which I serve passed two bills that set up a process to potentially de-license professionals. Senate Bill 288 establishes a partisan appointed council that reviews licensing, registration or other state approval for ALL occupation and professional licensing in Wisconsin. Senate Bill 296 creates a process for self-certification that allows a person to claim “state certification” even though they may have no training or experience in their chosen occupation.

Electricians, nurses, certified public accountants, plumbers, physical therapists, doctors, and other professionals will have their licensing and continuing education requirements reviewed by a non-elected, partisan council. The Council would have the power to write and introduce a bill making changes to the laws governing occupational licensing. These powers are generally reserved for lawmakers.

The process set up by these bills is eerily similar to a process laid out in an August 2017 publication of the ideologically conservative Mercatus Center:

Policymakers…would be wise to follow these steps:
1) Pass legislation that sets an ambitious goal for the elimination of licenses and the reduction of licensing burdens.
2) Establish an independent commission charged with examining the state’s licensing laws. …the commission should be charged with evaluating all licenses.
3) The commission should be charged with setting a comprehensive path for licensure elimination and reform. The authorizing legislation should commit elected officials to accepting the commission’s recommendations in their entirety or not at all.
…the institutional structure that we recommend borrows elements from other reforms that have succeeded in eliminating favoritism. In particular, it allows elected officials to cast conspicuous votes in the public interest while giving them some degree of “cover” from the special interests that will inevitably be harmed by the elimination of their regulatory privilege.

Let’s break down that last sentence.

The elected officials cast “votes in the public interest” – your elected representative is voting to de-license your plumber. “Giving them some degree of ‘cover’” – your elected official is now able to say, “I didn’t really want to de-license your plumber, but it was part of a larger bill and I couldn’t change the bill.”

“Special interests that will inevitably be harmed”—those “special interests” would be the plumbers’ union or the nurses’ association.

The public likely did not hear about the de-licensure plan because the daylong hearing by both the Senate and Assembly committees happened at exactly the same time as the public hearing on Foxconn. The Foxconn hearing dominated headlines, not the concerns of over 100 Wisconsinites who traveled to Madison to testify or register against the de-licensure bills. Those speaking in favor of the bills were, almost exclusively, conservative ideological groups.

When I asked what problem the bills were trying to solve, proponents said they wanted to eliminate “fence me out” legislation that left people unable to get into a desired profession. When I asked them to provide me a list of professions with licenses that create a “fence me out” problem, they did not give me a single example.

Over the years, the Legislature created licensure requirements in conjunction with professionals. If we have unnecessary licensing, committees of the Legislature should review details of a professional license and determine if change is necessary.

Setting up a process to de-license professionals by unelected appointees is an attempt by conservative ideological groups to remake Wisconsin in their own image. In fact, a republican colleague commented that these ideological groups have become a shadow legislature.

These bills need to be stopped.

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Sen.Vinehout@legis.wisconsin.gov State Capitol Room 108 South - P.O. Box 7882, Madison, WI 53707-7882 Toll Free: (877) 763-6636 or
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