English Breakfast

I heard a story on Morning Edition this morning on NPR about the federal budget and female host nearly said “tea baggers” when referring to tea party house Representatives. Hee hee. I was looking for clip but I can't find it yet.

The real people from the Wisconsin rallies

Now that the noise at the Capitol has died down people are starting to deconstruct what happened, who, how, why, etc. What makes our country a wonderful place is that we are free to speak our minds. We can stand up and speak truth to power. That is what went on here in Wisconsin. I was there, but not nearly as much as many. Part of what bothers me however about this post rally analysis is that the right seems to want to paint a inaccurate picture of what these rallies were really about. Some including Ann Althouse, are trying to paint this whole thing as people who were the following, which is 99% not true. The people in the rally were not:

violent
hippies
from out of state
stupid
elitist
spoiled

This slideshow does a great job of showing the true faces of the free real people out there fighting for social justice and working families. Watch it.

Come Slide on My Slide, I am Lonely

So my local school park told me today to come over to play because it is such a nice day. It is a nice day but social media can be funny sometimes. Specifically she said "Hey, come visit. It is a beautiful day for the park!" I am "friends" with the park because neighbors are trying to raise money to improve it but do I need a park to tell me when to come visit?

I also read today on Facebook that it plans to use our photos in ads to friends unless we tell it not to. Weird world we live in. I am going to take a walk and visit another park. So there.

that is how I feel today

This adorable little potty mouth is not my kid but I wish she was.

:)

Thank you to my friend Beth who put this on Facebook, most funny thing I have seen in a while.

No Thanks....We Can Get Fired Up Without You

Don't get me wrong, I love Michael Moore. He is smart, funny, I agree with all his politics, he tells the stories no one has the balls to tell but I am not happy he came to Madison today to fire up the protesters fighting the unjust plan by our Governor, Scott Walker to make major cuts to all public workers benefits and to seriously weaken or possibly eliminate public unions.

The only way that we will win this fight is if many real WI voters, independents and Republicans stand up and say they do not approve this plan. Even if a million democrats show up at the capitol every day Walker or the GOP legislature will budget. It is sort of like Vietnam. Despite all the protesting, the adminstration still felt they had large numbers of people on their side.

The Isthmus account of Moore's visit makes it clear he fired up the crowd with some great lines but the problem is that many in America HATE Moore, not only the right but some moderate people have been very turned off by him. It is in large part due to the Right wing media folks like O'Reily and Rush but the fact is that if this is seen as a Blue Red issue, Walker will get what he wants. I would rather hear the Christian Walker voting teacher from Sheyboygan get up and talk about how this will hurt WI schools than Moore.