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Liberals lack substance, even in their protesting

By Mike Thayer

Here's yet another example of how shallow liberals are....

This comes from Blog For Iowa, a progressive blog that's short on facts and big on feigned outrage.

It's a garbage piece titled, Koch Brothers Cronies To Spit On Eastern Iowa Corridor Monday - Join The Protest

Note the use of inflammatory language that's not based in the truth.  The Koch Brothers are inherently eeeeeevvvvilllll according to progressives, even though there's no evidence of evil behavior.  And the progressives use the word Cronies because it's ugly sounding even though we're talking about supporters believing in a cause, like limited government and reduced spending.  But Noooooo, such beliefs make you a crony!  And then there's To Spit....   That gives you the emotionally charged visual.....  Hey, when you lack a good product, you have to rely on marketing, which is all this is, progressive marketing, you're fed hype instead of substance.

Blog For Iowa called for a protest of the Americans For Prosperity presentation Monday at the Coralville Holiday Inn.  They complained about the organization, writing:  AFP just spent $6 million in different states, including Iowa, to run false and negative ads against the President’s clean energy policies.

Here's the link:  http://www.blogforiowa.com/2012/05/06/koch-brothers-cronies-to-spit-on-eastern-iowa-corridor-monday-join-the-protest/

Note what's missing, Blog For Iowa fails to outline what is false about the ad AFP is running.   Not a word, not a mention, no example given.  They issued a claim and completely failed to back it up with some substance.   Gee, why do you think that is? 

Here's the deal.  Blog For Iowa is afraid of the truth.   AFP running an ad about Obama's wasteful spending on failed green energy projects is necessary.  AFP  is simply getting the word out on reality.  

The truth has no agenda, but Blog For Iowa certainly does.  They love to use inflammatory language, they love to be loose with the facts, they use emotional tug words and issue false claims.  Why?  Because they lack substance.   

They don't like Americans For Prosperity because the AFP message is resonating with voters.   That scares the heck out of progressives.

And as for the three progressive protesters that did show up, kudos to them for exercising their free speech rights, but like liberal/progressive policy, their action was wasteful and rife with hypocrisy.  They complained about corporations being involved in politics, but they don't say boo about unions doing the very same thing.  They complained that the Koch brothers are billionaires funding a political outfit, but they don't say boo about George Soros doing the very same thing.   They complain about AFP spending about $6 million on an ad buy covering eight states and imply such big spending is somehow unfair, yet look the other way when their side spends that kind of money on big ad buys and do so more frequently.   They claim AFP ads are false, but don't provide any example let alone a refutation.

Liberals are shallow thinkers.  

Soldier and dog’s reunion video a Web hit

How do you say "welcome home" in dog? We're pretty sure this Great Dane Emmitt, nicknamed "Thunderpaws," got his super-excited message across.

The overgrown pooch was reuniting with his dad, Trevor Chowder, who was returning from deployment in Afghanistan after spending nine months apart.

Read on....  http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/upshot/soldier-dog-reunion-video-hit-210952704.html

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George Soros and the U.S. Constitution hate machine

By Mike Thayer

There's another totally absurd post on Blog For Iowa, perhaps the state's most ludricrous blog.  The post is titled, The Koch Brothers and the Obama Hate Machine.  I always leave a comment on such posts pointing out their misinformation, but the authors of Blog For Iowa never have the courage to display the truth.  They won't post my comments.  They operate without honor, dealing in omissiveness, not the reality, the end justify the means.  Blog For Iowa authors are cowards, they don't care about the truth.

Never mind the Koch Brothers are exercising their Constitutional right of free speech.  Never mind that their free speech and choices when it comes to spending their hard earned money are all about the American way. Koch Brothers are about duty, honor, country.  Never mind the chart posted on Blog For Iowa should be challenged.  Nothing posted on Blog For Iowa should EVER be taken at face value.  Nothing.    

So with that in mind, I've done a similar post on George Soros, a truly evil, anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-honor man.  The guy is working very hard to bring America down.

Glenn Beck has a breakdown on George Soros on GlennBeck TV.

How far do Soros ties extend?  Here’s a list of Soros-funded organizations. 

The Constitution Hate Machine

• Open Society
• Media Matters
• Center For American Progress
• Tides Foundation
• Campaign for America's Future
• National Council of La Raza
• ACORN
• Ap0llo Alliance
• Center for Community Change
• Free Press
• MoveOn.org
• Occupy Wall Street

And here are some examples of how Soros has chosen to spend his money....  You can't argue that he can spend his money as he pleases, that part is no different than the Koch brothers making a choice to spend their money and exercising free speech.  But note the HUGE difference on how George Soros CHOSE to spend his money....  which by the way, came in large part on breaking banks in a number of counties, you know he broke the bank in England right?  Soros expenditures are all about progressive, anti-Constitution outfits.  George Soros money, under the umbrella of his Open Society.  Contrast this anti-Constitution money, to the Koch Brothers pro-Constitution money: 

• International Crisis Group - $5,000,000
• Ministry of Education Republic of Liberia - $4,250,000
• Drug Policy Alliance - $4,000,000 
• Media Development Loan Fund - $3,900,000 
• Bard College - $3,094,539 
• Proteus Fund Inc - $3,000,000 
• The Revenue Watch Institute - $3,000,000 
• The Tides Foundation - $2,875,000 
• The Mayors Fund to Advance New York City - $2,512,415 
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities - $2,107,000 
• Public Interest Projects - $1,700,000 
• The Tides Center - $1,396,681 
• Center for Community Change - $1,362,500 
• Leadership Conference on Civil Rights education - $1,320,000 
• Fund for the European University - $1,100,000 
• Center for New York City Neighborhoods - $1,050,000 
• American Civil Liberties Union Foundation - $1,000,000 
• Center for American Progress - $1,000,000 
• Foundation to Promote Open Society - $1,000,000
• Link Media, Inc. - $1,000,000 

(Source: Open Society Institute, IRS Form 990-PF, 2008)

Look at all that money Soros is spending on progressive/socialist/marxist ideals.....  And never mind that as George Soros income has gone up, U.S. Unemployment has also gone up......

Think about that........

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Paul Deaton compounds his misinformation, by posting more misleading *information*

By Mike Thayer

If you're a regular reader, then you know that I recently took Paul Deaton, an author over at Blog For Iowa, to task for posting a bunch of misinformation in his most recent article.

His article was an attempt to promote the value of unions, but his attempt failed because he wasn't honest with his prose.  I challenged him on bogus claims, such as blaming a plane crash on non-union air traffic controllers; such as claiming airlines lost $1 billion a month in revenues in the time after President Ronald Reagan fired the PATCO union air traffic controllers in 1981; such as claiming more than $1 billion was spent to retrain those workers.  

You can read my article here:  http://coralvillecourier.typepad.com/community/2012/01/paul-deaton-blog-for-iowa-misinform-the-public-again.html

Deaton read my post and responded as follows: 

Mike:

Thanks for reading Blog for Iowa.

I double checked my sources and stand behind everything I wrote in my post. I added a note to the original source to explain my information about the crash of Flight 90.

Regards, Paul Deaton

Never mind that Deaton failed to directly refute anything I challenged him on.  All he had the courage to write in response to my challenges was that he added a note to his original post. 

Note 1: For a detailed explanation of the investigation of the contributing factors to the crash of Air Florida Flight 90, See McCartin, Collision Course, page 326. McCartin explains that the air traffic controller level of experience was a contributing cause of the accident.

Joseph McCartin is an Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University.  He teaches courses in 20th Century Labor History.  He is a pro-union history and social issues teacher!  Gee, no bias there huh Deaton?  McCartin is not in any way, an expert in determining the cause of airplane crashes.

 

Paul Deaton's words,  are still without a basis in fact.  Deaton's words, remain dishonorable.

Paul Deaton, Blog For Iowa, misinform the public - Again

By Mike Thayer

These guys just don't know how to be honest with the public.

Blog For Iowa, a progressive blog, goes beyond expressing an irresponsible, unfounded, ignorant opinion.

They misinform, it's either because they're just that inept or they simply don't care if they issue outright lies.  They have an agenda, doing things as a means to an end is more important than the truth. 

Below is the latest, it's an article complaining about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker doing the fiscally responsible thing with his battle with state unions in cutting back on unsustainable benefits.  I've printed this article for future reference.  In the piece, author Paul Deaton misinforms readers (blatantly?) with a reference to PATCO, the labor union of air traffic controllers that President Ronald Reagan fired in 1981 for getting greedy and walking off the job in violation of federal law.

Check out the following written by Paul Deaton, a regular contributing author to Blog For Iowa, his garbage in orange (kind of like a prison jump suit) :

When Reagan fired the striking PATCO members, he did so at great cost. Attorney fees for the government were more than a third of a million dollars, but the real cost was more than a billion dollars to retrain workers, a billion dollars per month in lost revenues for the airlines in the aftermath of the firing and the untold cost of compromising public safety, in the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 on Jan. 13, 1982, killing 78 people.

A BUNCH of red flags went up when reading that.  Note that Deaton didn't mention that PATCO strikers broke the law.  Note that Deaton didn't qualify any of the numbers he threw out there, we're supposed to just take them at face value, but here's the part that's the most disturbing.....  He blames the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 on Ronald Reagan and the replacement non-PATCO non-union air traffic controllers!  It's unbelievable, scratch that, yes it is, it's VERY believable what progressives like Paul Deaton and Blog For Iowa will resort to, to further their twisted agenda.  The truth?  The crash of Air Florida Flight 90 was due to pilot error and the failure to properly deice the plane, not some non-union air traffic controller screwup. 

Background:  On January 13, 1982, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 struck a span of the 14th Street Bridge and plunged into the icy Potomac River just after taking off from the Washington National Airport. Seventy of the 74 passengers, 4 of the 5 crewmembers, and 4 persons in vehicles on the bridge were fatally injured.

The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of this accident was the flightcrew's failure to use engine anti-ice during ground operation and takeoff, their decision to takeoff with snow/ice on the airfoil surfaces of the aircraft, and the captain's failure to reject the takeoff during the early stage when his attention was called to anomalous engine instrument readings. 

That's from the National Transportation Safety Board report on the crash.

Reference:  http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/recletters/1982/a82_79_89.pdf

It took me about five minutes to research, another five to verify.  Deaton could have done that, no, SHOULD HAVE done that before issuing a false claim and leading you on.  Wait, perhaps he did research, and wrote what he wrote anyway? 

Let me repost what Deaton wrote:  ..the untold cost of compromising public safety, in the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 on Jan. 13, 1982, killing 78 people.

Readers are going to walk away from Blog For Iowa after reading Deaton's post, and unwittingly repeat that misinformation.

That's a problem. 

What kind of a person uses a tragic incident like a plane crash killing 78 people to push a union agenda?  Paul Deaton.   What kind of a person wrongfully blames a crash on non-union air traffic controllers?  Paul Deaton.  What kind of a person fails to responsibly check/convey facts related to the crash trying to make a point?  Paul Deaton.  What kind of a person even conceives the use of such misinformation in trying to make a point against Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker?  Paul Deaton.  That's twisted. 

Omission (especially when intentional), is misinformation folks. As to the other things Deaton wrote? 

Attorney fees for the government were more than a third of a million dollars, but the real cost was more than a billion dollars to retrain workers, a billion dollars per month in lost revenues for the airlines in the aftermath of the firing

Based on Deaton's misuse of a tragic plane crash, why should we believe anything he writes about costs?  The attorney fees for the government sounds plausible, but that would logically be attributed to the strike itself, not fees incurred after the firing.  Blame goes to the PATCO labor union, not Reagan.  More than a BILLION dollars to retrain workers?  No.  In fact, the FAA had a contingency plan already in place, they were prepared for the worst if the PATCO union carried out its strike threat.  A BILLION dollars per month in lost revenues for the airlines?  There's a reason Deaton didn't qualify that claim, the airlines kept flying.   

The FAA implemented a contingency plan that successfully restored air traffic standards to normal operating levels.  Sure, airlines flew at a reduced rate at the onset of the walkoff/firing, but after the firing of approximately 11,000 greedy union air controllers took place, approximately 3,000 supervisors joined 2,000 non-striking controllers and 900 military controllers to man airport towers.  Before long, about 80 percent of passenger airline flights were operating as scheduled, while air freight remained virtually unaffected.  It took about two weeks to get back to normal operating levels, not months as Deaton falsely implies.

Hmmmm, about 6,000 non-union people doing the job of 11,000 union workers and doing it just as well.  Imagine that!

Why does Paul Deaton not know this history?  Oh, he probably does, but then again, the reality of this history doesn't fit his agenda and false claim that non-union air traffic controllers were to blame for the crash of Florida Flight 90....  The reality of history doesn't support Deaton's false claim that more than $1 Billion was spent to retrain workers......  The reality of history doesn't support Deaton's false claim that airlines lost $1 Billion a month in revenues in the aftermath of the firings.  

When Walker claims his action was to balance the budget, he is repeating a Republican talking point that rose from Reagan’s action and not dealing with the reality of the value of public sector employees, and the true cost of replacing them.

 

Walker is trying to balance the budget, excessive spending is a problem and fat public sector union pay/benefits are partially to blame.  Ever-increasing public sector union demands are unsustainable.  It's that simple.  And it's not about a talking point being used by Walker, it's about the truth.  Reagan exposed unions for what they've become, demanding, overpaid, over-benefitted, over-valued.  Replacing unions with non-union workers is cost effective!  It's a SMART thing to do for employees, employers, and taxpayers!  That's big picture thinking!  Today's union has become counter-productive to a healthy profit line, counter-productive to a healthy state budget, counter-productive to a healthy economy.  General Motors anyone?  State of California or New York anyone?

 

That Deaton had to resort to omission, misinformation and misleading rhetoric is quite telling and that's why I bring attention to it here on the Coralville Courier.  What Deaton and Blog For Iowa are guilty of doing is what progressives and liberal-minded people always do, say or do anything as a means to an end, the agenda is more important than the truth.  In fact, to a progressive, the truth and doing what's right gets in the way.

 

There's no honor in what Deaton wrote, what Blog For Iowa allows to be posted for public view.  

 

Ladies and gentlemen, it's important to know what kind of games these people play.   It's the Deaton and Blog For Iowa rhetoric, their progressive/liberal-minded approach to politics that has gotten this country in the trouble it's in.

 

Ignoring it won't make it go away.