MOpod: February 2011

Monday, February 28, 2011

Wouldn't It Be Great if We had THIS guy for President?

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Linky Dinks

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

-Thomas Jefferson

Tattooed idiot.

John Kerry asks Obama to reconsider cutting heating assistance.

Blue Brothers given (tacit) approval to demolish beautiful buildings in downtown Louisville.

...and it gets worse.

Kentucky author Wendell Berry and others camp out at Kentucky State House over mountain top removal mining and strip mining in the state.

As long as we're re-writing literary classics to remove offensive words, why not change the word to robot?

Once again the GOP are trying to kill NPR and PBS. Petitions here and here.

The Tennessee legislature considered a bill (SB 3229/HB 2972) that would have provided for the suspension or dismissal of any teacher or administrator who taught evolution as a fact rather than a theory.

Joe Republican

I've said it before: Where there's a Republican screaming voter fraud there's a Republican committing voter intimidation.

The Minutemen... true patriots keeping us safe... right?

Fox News insider: Stuff is just made up.

Veteran turns back on Clinton during speech, is forcibly removed and beaten.

Awe, Mr. "I hat fags" Santorum is upset his name is associated with a by-product of messy anal sex. Boo f@#$ing hoo.

Whatever happened to "the appearance" of conflict of interest? This, plain and simply, IS a conflict of interest.

The union flap in Wisconsin has nothing to do with budgets and everything to do with the Koch brothers.

Defend Planned Parenthood.

Are you sick of highly paid teachers?
     Teachers' hefty salaries are driving up taxes, and they only work 9 or10 months a year! It's time we put things in perspective and pay them for what they do - babysit!
We can get that for less than minimum wage.

     That's right. Let's give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and plan-- that equals 6 1/2 hours).

     Each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day...maybe 30? So that's $19.50 x 30 = $585.00 a day. However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
LET'S SEE....
That's $585 X 180= $105,300 per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).

     What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master's degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6 1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.
Wait a minute -- there's something wrong here! There sure is!
The average teacher's salary (nation wide) is $50,000.
$50,000/180 days = $277.77/per day/30 students=$9.25/6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student--a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!) WHAT A DEAL!!!!

Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.

Thank Wisconsin's courageous state senators who have joined with protesters to block the Republican attack on public employees.

"The U.S. relies on a whopping chasm between soaring rhetoric (freedom, democracy, individual rights) and brutish reality (preemptive war, supporting dictators, torture, spying on citizens)--a gap that is so wide and so glaring that it is amazing anyone ever takes the propaganda seriously."

It's the Inequality, Stupid : Eight charts that explain everything that's wrong with America.

‎"Governor Walker, this tape would make Richard Nixon blush. If the
recording and the items discussed by you are indeed your plans, you have
no business being in public office in our State, and should resign."

Furlough

Episode 51 is "in the can" but still "on the shelf." Your courageous and handsome editor and producer is attempting to meet the RPM Challenge for the fifth year running and my back is up against the wall, time-wise. Dave and I may get together for a quick update after episode 51 is uploaded Monday or Tuesday but episode 52 will not be recorded until the end of the coming week. Maybe in the meantime Libya will have sorted itself out so we're not just floundering around in confusion on at least one topic. -Alan

Friday, February 18, 2011

Modus Operandi Podcast episode 50

episode 50 2/11/2011

episode in six parts: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6

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This week Alan & Dave count down the ogreness of all 50 states in alphabetical order and come to the realization they are responsible for democracy in Egypt. Ah...

As soon as Dave types up the notes on the 50 states we will post them.