Oshkosh workers reject 5-year wage freeze — lockout looms

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Friday September 30, 2011 · 9:49 PM PDT

2011/09/30 · 21:49

The lede, from tonight's Oshkosh Northwestern:

Members of United Auto Workers Local 578 overwhelmingly rejected a contract offer that would essentially freeze take home pay for five years, with 85 percent voting no Friday afternoon.
Thousands of United Auto Workers Local 578 members packed an Experimental Aircraft Association hangar this afternoon to discuss and vote on the most recent contract offer from Oshkosh Corp.

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What does the 2008 Wisconsin 'virgin voter' think now?

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Sunday August 21, 2011 · 7:53 AM PDT

2011/08/21 · 07:53

I wish I'd written down his name, so I could call him in Wisconsin to ask him what he thinks now. I wrote the diary titled "Virgin voter at age 69" on Sept. 27, 2008. About a dozen people commented.
Somehow, I doubt that he's a happy camper.

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On Nov. 6, 2012, he will:

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On Nov. 6, 2012, he will:

Vote for Obama

14 votes

Write in Bernie Sanders

1 vote

Vote Republican

2 votes

Write in Ron Paul

3 votes

Scream "a pox on all your houses" and go fishing

29 votes

Sen. Ron Johnson, R(ich)-Wis., schedules meetings

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Saturday August 20, 2011 · 1:34 PM PDT

2011/08/20 · 13:34

His name is Ron Johnson, he comes from Wisconsin.
Rookie teaparty Sen. Ron Johnson, who took Russ Feingold's seat in 2010, has released his schedule of "mobile office hours" next week at several locations around the state (see below).
While Feingold made a point throughout his career of being personally available to constituents, Johnson has not. He's available mostly to conservative media and has only recently come out of his D.C. hidey hole.
In an Aug. 19 email, Johnson said:

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Wednesday November 03, 2010 · 9:32 AM PDT

2010/11/03 · 09:32

We call the law that put people back to work and kept others on the job the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Watchdog, calls it the "failed stimulus" and he's enlisting our help to prove it.
Because I was one of the many progressives who sent flip suggestions to the pathetic America Speaking Out site to craft the Republican ~~Pledge~~ Plague to on America, Issa sent me an e-mail this ~~morning~~ mourning.

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Wednesday October 13, 2010 · 5:08 PM PDT

2010/10/13 · 17:08

Lily-white Lake Crystal, Minn., 12 miles from Mankato, has about 2,600 people and one ignoramus who owns and edits its newspaper, the Tribune, which has no website.
It's tough sometimes to fill the space in his Just Rambling column, Don Marben explained in September after his "joke" under the heading "Golf" made the news statewide. He said he found the joke on the Internet.

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Monday August 16, 2010 · 5:27 AM PDT

2010/08/16 · 05:27

You may remember how Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Ariz., entered the national consciousness in 2009 when his "Why I hate Barack Obama" sermon surfaced.
Now, Anderson is back in the news after being acquitted last week of misdemeanor charges of obstructing a highway and failure to obey instructions of a law enforcement officer.

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Sunday April 25, 2010 · 2:09 PM PDT

2010/04/25 · 14:09

The lede, an hour or so ago, from Jane Lorber's blog Green in the New York Times:

Several thousand people gathered Sunday on the National Mall in Washington to observe the 40th anniversary of Earth Day and to urge Congress to pass climate and energy legislation.

What if they gave a climate rally and Fox didn't cover it?

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Sunday April 04, 2010 · 7:09 AM PDT

2010/04/04 · 07:09

I heard Alan Colmes interview the Florida doctor, Jack Cassell, Friday night and was struck by Cassell's cluelessness. But first, the inside urology ditty referred to in the diary headline: "There's something amiss when a man can't piss."
Now onto the subject at hand and the headline on Colmes' Liberaland recap:

Doctor Against Treating Obama Supporters Admits Not Knowing What's In Health Reform Bill

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Saturday March 20, 2010 · 12:08 PM PDT

2010/03/20 · 12:08

On the seventh anniversary of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, let's jump in our trusty little time machine and set the dial to March 3, 2004:

WASHINGTON — Fresh from a two-day weekend visit to Iraq, the Bush administration's top health care official defended the $950 million that will be spent to help Iraq establish universal health care.

That official was former Wisconsin governor Tommy G. Thompson, now considering a run against Sen. Russ Feingold, who's telling constituents it appears that lobbyist Thompson is less interested in taking on the special interests than in taking them on as clients.
But I digress. We're on the eve of a momentous vote to enact major reform of the health delivery system in the U.S., so we need to assume our positions again in the time machine.

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Places outside the U.S. which deserve universal health care

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Places outside the U.S. which deserve universal health care

Israel

3 votes

Vatican City

0 votes

Lapland

4 votes

San Francisco

10 votes

2 votes

A close shave with Dennis Miller

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Friday March 05, 2010 · 4:48 AM PST

2010/03/05 · 04:48

On my noon hour I listen to the "Ed Schultz Show" on progressive radio. During commercial breaks I switch to Ed's polar opposite Dennis Miller, who perhaps never met a right-winger he doesn't like. Miller lets Andrew Breitbart guest host when he's gone.
This week I heard an ad on Miller's show that made me switch brands. I wouldn't rather fight than switch.

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What do you shave with?

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What do you shave with?

Barbasol

28 votes

Foamy

10 votes

Edge

28 votes

I don't shave

24 votes

KKKool Whip

8 votes

Environmentally friendly product

21 votes

Electricity

24 votes

Wherein a wealthy right-wing sister rants

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Saturday December 19, 2009 · 12:26 PM PST

2009/12/19 · 12:26

I'm 60 and live in the Upper Midwest. My sister is 68 and lives in southern California. I like pie, she likes cake. I'm left of center and she's way far right. We've been worlds apart politically ever since I can remember. A year ago in March she announced they'd cancelled the L.A. Times "because of its outrageous left-wing slant in everything---from the supposed news articles, to headlines, letters to the Editor-----just impossible to read and not be totally infuriated every minute." That made me, a progressive journalist since 1980 with a modest income, grimace but I brushed it off and kept quiet because I know she's a hopeless case that way, not to mention being an arms-in-the-air evangelical. Whoops, I mentioned. And we've gone back and forth over the years to some extent, but now it seems, like so many others distraught about Obama's election, she feels her country's been taken away.

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Sick at heart

25 votes

Sick to my stomach

4 votes

Grateful I'm not living closer

165 votes

Ashamed of voting for Obama

8 votes

Like the spawn of Satan

13 votes

Schiavo's brother stumps on health care

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Monday July 20, 2009 · 4:52 AM PDT

2009/07/20 · 04:52

The Associated Press reports that Bobby Schindler, the late Terri Schiavo's brother, is on the stump today in Wisconsin:

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