A youngest brother had an oldest brother who was harsh and brutal with him.
The youngest labored under the oldest long and hard, winning neither wealth nor compassion.
The youngest gave one hand to his labor, and the oldest returned no compassion.
Long years later the oldest died, and none grieved more than the youngest.
I can’t yet imagine the death of a brother.
I used to believe that Governor Walker just wanted to take Wisconsin back to a 1950's economy. I was way too optimistic. His current budget proposal and the initiatives of his legislative allies make it clear he wants to go back a lot farther, like pre John L. Lewis, pre Teddy Roosevelt, back to the golden age of monopoly capitalism. We're headed back to the days of coal barons, railroad barons, lumber barons and those unregulated slaughterhouses of "The Jungle".
I address myself in particular to those of you in the labor force who were perfectly OK with Act 10. After all those public employees had it too good, were too smug, etc. State employees are such a convenient whipping boy!
I bet you didn't think "divide and conquer" meant you, did you? Now there are essentially no public employee unions left to help out in the fight against right-to-work. How can you possibly be surprised?
Governor Walker told his wealthy contributors exactly what he planned to do, and now he's doing it. Of course he didn't campaign on what he actually intended to do. As his buddy Scott Fitzgerald is now saying, you don't want to give those about to be conquered any notice. They would then try to defend themselves, and we don't want that!
I could go on... About how the DNR will no longer have scientists who could disagree with those in the employ of the monopoly capitalist and delay letting him do whatever. About how it is much safer for the monopoly capitalist if we get rid of that pesky Wisconsin Idea thing. A limited amount of training is all folks need to work for the monopoly capitalist, and we sure don't want a lot of critical thinking going on.
I could write my State Senator to complain, but my State Senator is Scott Fitzgerald. So it goes.
I sure hope you non-monopoly capitalists who voted for Walker wake up soon, while we still have a right to vote, even with photo-ID.
This reminds me of the infamous Microsoft animated paperclip. It would auto-correct my lowercase to init-caps and then appear on the screen to ask, "Are you writing a letter?" when I was trying to write some SQL code in Word (not having a good programming editor handy) and absolutely did NOT want it to auto-correct anything.
Anyway, it used to be that regardless of where I was in the world, I had access to the US English web page (you know the default one that is just www.yahoo.com). Now the clever Yahoo folks have decided that if their location data tells them that I am connecting from Costa Rica (which I freely admit that I am), I could not possibly really want the US English language site, so they override my selection and give me espanol.yahoo.com . I tried both the Firefox and Chrome browsers. Yup, they've fixed it! No more browsing the US English site from Costa Rica.
And there is not even a visible manifestation that I can direct my anger toward. No animated paperclip, just invisible, anonymous yahooligans busily fixing what wasn't broken. Thanks but no thanks guys!
But ha! I can trick you back, by impersonating either a Canadian (ca.yahoo.com) or a British person (uk.yahoo.com) I can have my Yahoo in English. Though I am left wondering what subtle differences you yahooligans incorporate in the site for the benefit of a Canadian or a Britain that would be different if you were able to treat me as a plain old US English speaker, regardless of my geographic location.
