"OVER 1/3 OF WISCONSIN VOTERS PREFER FAKE DEMOCRATS TO REAL ONES"

Contratimes readers should read this AP dispatch regarding the Democratic primary election in Wisconsin. It is quite interesting. The primary sets the stage for the upcoming "recall" election in August. The recall is essentially a protest and reactionary vote to Gov. Scott Walker's actions to limit certain aspects of public-sector union bargaining options (one can't really call them "rights", as the unions are wont to do).

Here's my reaction to the AP report: 

So the losers -- Republicans -- received an average of 36% of the vote -- in a DEMOCRATIC primary election? Sounds like the Republicans actually WON.

Notice how the AP has spun this story. What it fails to note is that 36% of the voters in a Democratic primary election would prefer a fake Democrat to a real one.

The recall is doomed, or so it seems from here in New England. But, in the end, this New Englander only cares about the fake journalists working at the AP.

Lastly, it would seem to me that the Democrats who live in America's Dairyland would take their enthusiasm for sustainable living and farming to the next level: to sustainable governance and spending. In other words, the Democrats might want to hold a more cogent and consistent position vis-á-vis sustainability. Ah, but as one great New Englander once said: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Consistency? How annoying.

Go, Red Sox.

PS. It's easy to spin.

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Torture By Graduation

Check out this quote attributed to Richard Butler, a CBS journalist who was kidnapped in Iraq, and then rescued. From the AP story:

Butler said he felt it was better to be kidnapped in Iraq then [sic] taken into custody by Americans in Afghanistan.

"I was pleased I wasn't being mortarboarded in Guantanamo or being held for six and a half years like an Al-Jazeera cameraman, for instance," he said. [emphasis mine]

I can hear prisoners screaming even now, tortured by the receiving of diplomas, and wounded by the turning of tassels and mandatory attendance at sundry graduation parties.

Unless our Mr. Butler wasn't afraid of mortarboards, but water-boarding.

America the brutal, no doubt. How mortarfying!


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Peace and mirth.

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