Get Buying: Februari 2011

Well, this weekend in Wisconsin went pretty much as we figured it would. The progressives attempted a gigantic nationwide rally, which fizzled (via memeorandum), the protesters who did show up let fly with the vitriol, racism, and physical violence of which the right has been accused since at least the very first Tea Party rally, police officers pledged to commit insurrection, and the MSM managed not to report any of the bad stuff at all.

I know I’ve written quite a bit about the teachers’ union protests over the past two weeks, but there’s a reason. Our states are choking on the promises made by politicians who knew full well they would not be around when the bills came due. Nevertheless, the public sector unions insist that we taxpayers honor those bad-faith pledges that grant them benefits far far more lucrative than what most of us could ever get, and they’re perfectly willing to use threats, intimidation, and violence to make sure we do. In the past, their strategy would have worked.

But that, as they say, was then and this is now. We have found both our voice and our power. The public sector unions and the Democratic politicians who rely on them for big campaign donations have miscalculated. Glenn Reynolds puts his finger squarely on their mistake in this introduction to this must-read Michael Barone piece.

And now (a few more), links!

According the the head of the AFL-CIO, the very thing to create tons of awesome new jobs is a big gasoline tax increase. Because, you know, that stimulus did such a bang-up job.
The NEA has a fever, and the only cure is more members’ dues for lobbying!
Victor Davis Hanson compared the job of teaching to several other jobs, such as farmer and truck driver, and finds, well, read it for yourself.
R.I.P. Duke Snider, baseball legend and resident in the heart of any faithful Dodgers fan.
Were I a book publisher, this article about how independent authors are making bank by self-publishing their books in electronic form, would scare the bejeezus out of me (via mediagazer).
If you’re interested in catching a glimpse of the solar sail satellite NanoSail-D, here’s how you can do it.

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Clearing the Browser Tabs – Hashtag Game Sunday Edition

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 03:10 AM PST

If you use Twitter, even a little bit, you’ll have seen a hashtag game. What happens is that someone puts out a tweet, hopefully funny, based on a theme that’s made plain by a hashtag (#FirstDraftMovieTitles, #NorrisFacts, #BadSequels, etc.). If the hashtag and the joke are good, and sometimes if they’re not, a few other people will pick up the theme, and some of their followers will do the same. Pretty soon, Twitter is afire with dozens, if not hundreds of tweets all working on the same joke. Most times, if you catch one early, you can find a lot of funny on your timeline. Eventually, the game peters out as folks run out of funny ideas and start to repeat each other. But while it lasts, a hashtag game is one of the best things that can happen on Twitter, at least to my reckoning.

I tell you this because last night, the #LiberalMovies hashtag (thanks to my buddy Andrew Lawton) took off. You can see how the jokes progressed here and, if you scroll down far enough, you’ll see a few of mine. I caught it late int he game, so the quality wasn’t all that high and there was a lot of noise to signal, but there are some gems in there.

And now, links!

According to most GOP “insiders” on Thursday, there was no way at all conservatives could win the government shutdown fight. On Friday, John Boehner won the government shutdown fight. Good thing he didn’t listen to those loser “insiders” eh?
Everywhere Herman Cain speaks, he fires up the crowd. But surely there’s no way a business-savvy, crazy-popular with the grassroots, Tea Party-loving charismatic cancer-survivor who gives his speeches without notes or a teleprompter can possibly be a serious Presidential candidate, right? Right.
As much caterwauling as the Democrats did about violent rhetoric, you’d think one or two of them would have spoken up about the National Hate-O-Rama their party has been backing all week long.
Gun down your people in cold blood and bomb them from the air and what will President Barack Obama do to you? Why, he’ll closet himself in the White House for a few days until he can cook up some really wicked tough sanctions on you! So let that be a lesson, despots!
I admit I’m on the fence about the coming ThunderCats anime series. However, now that I’ve seen the first trailer from Cartoon Network, I think it could be really, really good. I do need to see some more Mumm-Ra, Slythe, and Ro-Bear Berbils (via io9)

You Can’t Teach Them If They Won’t Learn

Posted: 26 Feb 2011 12:33 PM PST

Everything I dislike about left-wing protesters can be found in this video by Ann Althouse and her husband.

Here’s the set-up. Ann and Meade, who have been covering the teachers’ union protests in Madison, WI this week, found that one group had stuck a bunch of their posters and signs on the back of a war memorial in the Capitol Rotunda. They had also stacked several piles of leaflets and handouts against the memorial, which honors Wisconsinites who died in World War II (I believe). They confronted the protesters, pretty mildly in my opinion, and asked them to move their display because it was disrespectful. What they got was a bucket full of confusion, rationalizations, and plain old ignorance.

Eventually, they found someone who, after some explanation, understood what they had done and more or less agreed to move the display. I’m skeptical that they moved anything since no one with the group even knew what the memorial was until it was explained to them and felt any shame about what they had done once they learned.

Much of what I felt when I watched the video was summed up nicely by Dave in Texas at Ace’s place.

Additional thoughts, about how the left fails to get the point. Every one of us who is like minded, even with our finer point squabbles, each and every one of us.. when we see a name on a wall.. we get it. We think about a missing father, brother, some mother’s son.. someone’s brother or sister lost..someone who gave their last… and the suffering of the ones who loved them, who had to take that blow.
That’s what a memorial is for. And to see idiots who have no comprehension for that, it doesn’t just disappoint, it inflames.
That’s what they don’t understand.

I’m struck by the irony that, as a protest for teachers, these young skulls full of progressive propaganda, who have spent their whole lives being “educated” seem impermeable to actual instruction about history and etiquette. Then again, when the fundamental foundation of the ideology they’ve been taught is “the ends justify the means”, why should they listen?

(via Michelle Malkin’s Twitter feed)

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