November 2011

The extreme right’s battle against organized labor is taking another turn in Ohio:

Just two days after voters overwhelmingly killed legislation restricting collective bargaining for public employees, Tea Party activists and a nonunion trade group Thursday launched a campaign to put a broader crackdown on union rights on the statewide ballot in 2012 or 2013.

The proposed right-to-work constitutional amendment would prohibit making union membership a condition of employment.

Chris Littleton of West Chester Twp. in Butler County, a Tea Party leader and co-founder of the Ohio Liberty Council, said at a Statehouse press conference that the amendment would provide “work place freedom for every single Ohioan.”

It takes signatures from 385,253 registered voters to put an amendment on the ballot and Littleton said that it might take until the November 2013 election to meet that requirement.

This appears might be going to far even for a lot of Republicans:

However, Republican leaders distanced themselves from the amendment. “Job creation” is the top priority, Rob Nichols, spokesman for GOP Gov. John Kasich, a key backer of Senate Bill 5, said in an email.

Actually this is nothing more than a continued assault on workers right by the extremists that have taken over America’s right. The people spoke in Ohio on Tuesday and told the state to stop limiting bargaining rights of Ohio’s public workers. The Tea Party, in their closed, cult like mindset, can’t acknowledge that so now they are going to try to make it even a broader assault. It’s no wonder that the Tea Party’s popularity is going down in flames. Thankfully more Americans have awoken to the bullshit these people push and are turning them away.

We are now in serious federal charges territory:

In April, Pittsburgh radio host Mark Madden wrote a story revealing Penn State for much of the cover-up ofJerry Sandusky's alleged child rape that has been exposed in the past week. While it didn't raise many eyebrows back then, six months later it looks to be incredibly accurate.

On Thursday morning, just hours after legendary head coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier were fired by the school's board of trustees, Madden was asked on The Dennis and Callahan Show what he believes the next piece of news will be.

What he said was twice as shocking as anything that's been released thus far.

"I can give you a rumor and I can give you something I think might happen," Madden told John Dennis andGerry Callahan. "I hear there's a rumor that there will be a more shocking development from the Second Mile Foundation -- and hold on to your stomachs, boys, this is gross, I will use the only language I can -- that Jerry Sandusky and Second Mile were pimping out young boys to rich donors. That was being investigated by two prominent columnists even as I speak."

After the news spread, Madden later explained via Twitter why he went public with the rumors.

While there is a lot of focus on the school itself, someone else needs to be question about the handling of the sex abuse at Penn State. That person is the now governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett. Corbett served as the attorney general of Pennsylvania from 2004 until this year, when he was elected governor. The sex abuse case was in the hands of the attorney general for three years and the grand jury didn't release the report until after Paterno got his record 409th win. Something smells really fishy there and this statement by Corbett really adds to it:

The Penn State trustees had already said they would appoint a committee to investigate the "circumstances" that resulted in the indictment of Sandusky, and of Curley and Schultz. The committee will be appointed Friday at the board's regular meeting, which Gov. Tom Corbett said he plans to attend, and will examine "what failures occurred and who is responsible and what measures are necessary to ensure" similar mistakes aren't made in the future.

One of those failures obviously happened at the hand of Corbett. Perhaps the U.S. Justice Department should investigate him and his failure to properly handle this case. Of course if that happens we can expect the standard response from many in the media that this is "the Obama administration going after a Republican governor", but politics has nothing to do with this. We are talking about the sexual abuse of children by a known serial predator and the failure of a state school and top law man of a state failing to act properly. If this was a Democratic governor and George Bush were President, I would demand the exact same thing!

A man fighting sexual harassment allegations decides to call the former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, "Princess Nancy" during tonight's debate.

Even Dana Perino, former Bush spokeswoman, tweeted this following it:

Ay yi yi, former Speaker Pelosi called a princess in the debate? Not fair. We may disagree on policy, but she earned the Speaker title.

But Cain's campaign is so proud of the comment that they even tweeted it:

The answer to Health Care: HR3000, the bill killed by "Princess Nancy" in committee #tcot #cnbcdebate

But now that the debate is over, Cain is trying to back away from it:

“Well, that was a statement that I probably should not have made, but I was trying to make a point” he said

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Again - this guy is a total disaster and the most unfit person I to be President that I can remember ever running. It almost makes you feel sorry for the GOP to have to put up with him....almost.