You Hate “Right To Work” Laws More Than You Know. Here’s Why.

My dislike for Sepp was based on a visceral feeling that he was full of it.  But I found an article I want to share about the Right to Work Movement.  Here’s a wonderful quote

“The transition to our time has been seamless. Charles Koch’s father, Fred Koch, made his name in right-wing politics as one of the leaders of the Kansas Right-to-Work movement. The fight in Kansas was more bitter and protracted than in Texas — Kansas had a strong tradition of populism and farmer socialism — but in 1958, they succeeded and the law passed. That same year, Fred Koch co-founded the crypto-fascist John Birch Society with eleven other industrialists, the most powerful grassroots libertarian outfit of the postwar era until his son Charles raised libertarianism to an entirely new level.”

Libertarianism–Fascism wearing a smiley face.

Anyway, this is an interesting read:
www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/right-to-work

I strongly hope this is passed around the internet and read far more widely than it already has been.

Look away! Look away! Look away! Dixie Land.

“Dixie.”  Whistled by Sen. Jesse Helms while standing next to the first [and only] African-American woman elected to the Senate, Carol Moseley-Braun.

O, I wish I was in the land of cotton
Old times there are not forgotten
Look away! Look away!
Look away! Dixie Land.

Look away!  Really?  Should we ‘look away?’Apparently the Republican governor of Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy, wants us to look away. Look away from SLAVERY.  He forgot to mention the word.  Well, he said that he forgot.  Lots of politicians these days find themselves apologizing and ‘forgetting.’

Slavery- as if it never happened.

Gov. Bob McDonnell declared April ‘confederate awareness month’ in a proclamation urging citizens to spend the month recalling Virginia’s days as a member of the Confederate States of America.

But not those slave days.

USA Today writes,

Virginians must surely be embarrassed by Gov. Bob McDonnell. The man who now presides in the erstwhile capital of the Confederacy might not grasp that slavery was the central cause of the Civil War.

Reviving a noxious tradition that his recent predecessors had dropped, McDonnell on Tuesday declared April to be Confederate History Month, and nowhere in his proclamation’s 353 words was slavery even mentioned. That takes quite an effort. Asked why he had omitted the word, McDonnell said he wasn’t “focused” on that aspect.

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Wasn’t focused on slavery.  It was, rather, freedom. The Sons of Confederate Veterans, the group that sought the proclamation from the governor,  declares, “The preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South’s decision to fight the Second American Revolution.”

The Second American Revolution.  Fought for FREEDOM!  The freedom to own slaves.

Got it.

“Old times there are not forgotten.”

The Answer? Oh, Racism, of Course

The answer: racism.  But most of you already know that.  Odd though that the mainstream media pussyfoots around the topic but won’t say it. Those in the Tea Party know it as well as all of the others on the right-side of the political spectrum.  They know it too.  So does Beck and Limbaugh and Palin and Bachmann. And Steele.

Racism.

My wife had a conversation with a black woman this evening over dinner; she said, ‘definitely racism!’  Last week my wife met three other black ladies at the mall and had coffee with them.  All three said, ‘racism!’  Chris Matthews of MSNBC says it too. As do I.

If you need to know the question, then you really haven’t been paying attention this past year.  Take it from me- the answer is ‘racism.’