[Plantagenet]

The evil Republicans are threatening to pass a budget extension with a 2% cut in it.

The good and noble democrats are saying that they will never ever accept such a budget, and Obama will never sign it because it will plunge the country into chaos.

The only budget the democrats will accept is one which spends every single penny of the 1.6 TRILLION dollar deficit Obama put in his budget.

[Cog]

Now that the teachers in Wisconsin have decided not to work anymore but instead engage in an illegal strike(Sick-out), its time to bring out the big guns and simply fire them. There are plenty of retired and unemployed certified teachers that would be happy to fill in.

The governor should wait the teachers out. The longer they engage in closing the schools, the more resentment will grow from the parents who have to deal with little Johnny and Susie being out of school. Its all good from the Repubs point of view as the unions show how much they truly care about the kids.

[Timo]

Cog, that jusy shows how much you really care about the kids by having unqualified people instructing their classes about anything they want. That's called indoctrination. Furthermore, when we do away with unions, we're really, really close to a new world order where the people don't really matter at all. Money, money, money. Sure, it's part of what union workers want, THE SAME AS EVERYBODY ELSE IN THIS SH*T PIE WE CALL A PLANET. The only consequence of the death of unions is that very, very few people will have any money, and even fewer people will have the power or authority to do anything about it. If that's the free market you choose to live in, go find another planet and see how that works out for you.

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Timo', '.')..having unqualified people instructing their classes ...

[PrestonSturges]

I'm sure the GOPers have lots of child molestors and crack heads ready to fill all those union jobs. You deserve to have your trash picked up by a fresh crew of meth heads every two weeks, peeking into your garage and going through your trash.

[dolanbaker]

http://publicintelligence.net/us-army-wants-machine-gun-rubber-bullets-for-crowd-control/

or

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927995.600-army-wants-rapidfire-rubber-bullets-for-crowd-control.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')[INDENT]The US Army is planning to field “rubber bullets” for machine guns. Military officials claim the ammunition will allow them to more effectively quell violent protests without loss of life, but human rights campaigners are alarmed by the new weapon.
The final design for the XM1044 round has not been selected, according to an order placed on the Federal Business Opportunities website last month, but the army’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate has been working on a ring aerofoil projectile for some years. The round is a hollow plastic cylinder 40 millimetres across, looking something like a short toilet-paper roll. In flight its shape generates lift, giving it a longer range.
The army’s existing crowd-control rounds are single shots fired from handheld grenade launchers with a range of about 50 metres – the XM1044 would double this range. It would be supplied in belts for the Mk19 grenade launcher, a truck-mounted weapon that can fire almost six rounds per second. The Mk19 has been exported to some 30 countries, including Egypt.
“The US army has a requirement for a rapid-fire non-lethal capability,” says Ken Schulters, project manager for close combat systems at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. “All currently fielded non-lethal ammunition is single shot.”
[/INDENT]

[PrestonSturges]

I hear that the Koch brothers are busing in Tea Party members from out of state.

Will these be the real Tea Party of elderly and disabled folks or will we see the rollout of some real corporate sponsored brownshirt shock troops, possibly even some Blackwater types?

I don't think that's what we'll see in Wisconsin, but I think we'll see it somewhere and soon.

[gollum]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dolanbaker', '[')url]http://publicintelligence.net/us-army-wants-machine-gun-rubber-bullets-for-crowd-control/[/url]

or

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20927995.600-army-wants-rapidfire-rubber-bullets-for-crowd-control.html

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')[INDENT]The US Army is planning to field “rubber bullets” for machine guns. Military officials claim the ammunition will allow them to more effectively quell violent protests without loss of life, but human rights campaigners are alarmed by the new weapon.
The final design for the XM1044 round has not been selected, according to an order placed on the Federal Business Opportunities website last month, but the army’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate has been working on a ring aerofoil projectile for some years. The round is a hollow plastic cylinder 40 millimetres across, looking something like a short toilet-paper roll. In flight its shape generates lift, giving it a longer range.
The army’s existing crowd-control rounds are single shots fired from handheld grenade launchers with a range of about 50 metres – the XM1044 would double this range. It would be supplied in belts for the Mk19 grenade launcher, a truck-mounted weapon that can fire almost six rounds per second. The Mk19 has been exported to some 30 countries, including Egypt.
“The US army has a requirement for a rapid-fire non-lethal capability,” says Ken Schulters, project manager for close combat systems at Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey. “All currently fielded non-lethal ammunition is single shot.”
[/INDENT]