Is it in carrying a 3D representation of the governor's bare ass while being followed by a blanketed-up old woman in a wheelchair against whom is propped a gigantic "SHAME" sign?
Is it in wheeling around an old woman against whom is propped a gigantic "SHAME" sign and sticking mylar pinwheels into her blankets?
Is it in marching — while holding, instead of sign, a take-out coffee — while a woman holds up a "SHAME!" sign and you (apparently) supervise a child who is bearing a handmade "InaPPropriate Boob" sign which depicts (presumably) Scott Walker being directed toward a blazing fire.
Where is the shame? Is it in my photography and my questions? Should I be ashamed to see alternate meanings in the "SHAME" signs the Wisconsin protesters display proudly?
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Speaking of shame, don't forget the shame of the ETS, which is now requiring students who sit for the SAT to produce a photo ID. I had to produce my DL today when I got my car inspected and I felt so very, very disenfranchised. Speaking of, did you know you can't adopt a pet w/o producing a photo ID? For shame, for shame.
The post seems to imply that the old lady was an unwilling (possibly not even self-aware i.e. the pinwheel remark) stooge who was manipulated into doing this.
In fact, given how much effort it would take to physically move someone in a wheelchair to a protest site and include them by the efforts of others that seems unlikely.
People who are mobility impared (elderly or otherwise) are NOT STUPID or unaware of what is going on with them! Very likely she VOLUNTEERED to do this, and if the pinwheels weren't her idea (which I'm guessing they were) then she certainly approved of them.
As always, when the Lefties yell, "Shame" (Teddy Kennedy loved to), it usually applies more to them.
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I was going to raise the lefty projection specter yet again but I see you are on top of it.
Or, perhaps its more about wanting what you don't have.
Eli Blake ...said: she certainly approved of them.
How on earth can you possibly know that or the other things you assert?
Do you believe that the young child walking with a sign between two adults in the 4th photo is fully aware, and "approves", of what is his/her sign is about some one going to hell fires is appropriate?
There just are people who cannot resit cameras and attention who also drag their dependents with them.
Nothing says SHAME as much as mylar pinwheels.
A year later and Althouse still has had only one post about how shameful some of the AntiUnion crowd has behaved. (I say "some", because unlike our hostess I don't beleive in judging an entire group based on the actions of a few individuals.)
Nothing was reported by MeadeMedia about recall volunteers getting spit on; nothing at all has been said about the death threats the teachers and other workers have received; no posts about the rocks being thrown store windows that have ProUnion signs displayed....not even the violent threats in this very forum against union members are worthy of an actual post.
The real "shame" is that many people... including herself...beleives that Althouse is "neutral" in her coverage of these events.
28 years ago today, the Maryland legislature passed legislation to steal the Baltimore Colts from Robert Irsay. The Colts were gone to Indiana before midnight. No lessons were learned by the government class.
leslyn said...
"For what, in this forum, that's worth."
So why do you even bother to come here, leslyn? Serious question.
Bottom line: Unions and unionists have no shame.
Did anyone ever think they did?
It's all about, "Gimme mine." By any means necessary. How could it be otherwise?
"So, thanks for asking, Meade. Serious answer."
Meade must be speechless.
Althouse is 100% anti-Obama and 100% smitten w/mittens so I come here for conservative consistency albeit redundant.
Having begun my political posting career, back in the day, in a heavily dominated liberal blog, it's interesting watching the pack mentality of a heavily conservative blog.
As always, it's much more fun/interesting being a liberal.
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