So it seems that Franks either (a) ran out of intellectual fortitude required to formulate original posts, or (b) really thinks that resorting to out-of-context quotations is an effective way to legislate. Whatever the cause, he's provided us with this gem:
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson
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This quote, by way of Lasee, is interesting for a number of reasons. Here's the game - I'll rattle off intriguing aspects of what's going on here, and y'all can help supplement my list.
1. Frank's part of the damn government. When a government official tells us that a government has the ability to do bad things - he should probably spend more time fixing the government, and less time quoting dead people.
2. Frank's confused about the difference between correlation and causation, again. Something that's big isn't necessarily strong. Is Frank really trying to tell us that these people are stronger than this one? Come on Frankie - take a second and think about this.
3. Frank seems to think that every facet of potential an organization has will manifest itself. Just because a government may be strong enough to take something away doesn't mean it will happen. Dr. Nugz has the capacity to steal your lunch money, seduce your mother and become your step-father. Chances are, that wont happen, and you don't have to worry too much.
Notice how point 3 ties into point 1 - get off your ass, Frank, and do something about it.
4. Frank has, once again, defenestrated basic norms of time and space and thinks that we're living in a fantasy world. For this quote to be grounded anywhere near reality, we would have to live under a regime that gave us everything we wanted. As of this post, the state of Wisconsin has not provided me with a gold-plated Hummer, a diamond-encrusted goblet, or various women of different ages, sizes and ethnicities. This government hasn't given me anywhere near everything I want. Does that mean Frank's trying to tell us that the government he is part of is too weak to take anything away from us?
Now that Frank's gone and confused the daylights out of me, I'm going to see what the Sherman Act is up to. It's certainly less amusing than Lasee, but its also exponentially less retarded.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
Franky Panky
Daniel Bice, a journalist for the Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, is trying to steal Dr. Nugz' and my jobs. He pointed out the hypocrisy in Frank's "family values" platform and, well, his divorce, child-out-of-wedlock, and subsequent custody battle.
Of course, this is all old hat to all you Lasee followers, but Bice did get a quote that I felt should be pointed out: "Reached by cell phone, [Lasee] was curt. Just before hanging up, Lasee said, 'I understand the type of journalism you do, so you can do it without my help.' Not true, not true at all. There'd be nothing to write about here without all the material being supplied by this veteran lawmaker."
No Frank, we really can't do it without your help.
Of course, this is all old hat to all you Lasee followers, but Bice did get a quote that I felt should be pointed out: "Reached by cell phone, [Lasee] was curt. Just before hanging up, Lasee said, 'I understand the type of journalism you do, so you can do it without my help.' Not true, not true at all. There'd be nothing to write about here without all the material being supplied by this veteran lawmaker."
No Frank, we really can't do it without your help.
Franky Friday Monday
Frank posted here on Friday about the property tax cap veto.
"Property tax relief in sight for 2009. Local governments will be limited to 2% or new growth for their property tax levy."
Holy shit Frank, that sounds a bit like a compromise! Forgive my befuddlement at the prospect that you could hold two thoughts in your head simultaneously, much less two thoughts that aren't both knee-jerk representations of your silly point of view, but isn't this the sort of thing you've been bitching about for the last three months on your blog (when you should've been working on the budget)? I know, if you had your way, we'd just disband the whole government, return to a feudal system and make random nonsensical exhortations at members of the judicial branch, but it sounds like, instead, Wisconsin may have gotten its way! That's a cause for celebration, right? When's the Frank Party? I'll attend, in the spirit of Halloween, as an armed schoolteacher!
"Property tax relief in sight for 2009. Local governments will be limited to 2% or new growth for their property tax levy."
Holy shit Frank, that sounds a bit like a compromise! Forgive my befuddlement at the prospect that you could hold two thoughts in your head simultaneously, much less two thoughts that aren't both knee-jerk representations of your silly point of view, but isn't this the sort of thing you've been bitching about for the last three months on your blog (when you should've been working on the budget)? I know, if you had your way, we'd just disband the whole government, return to a feudal system and make random nonsensical exhortations at members of the judicial branch, but it sounds like, instead, Wisconsin may have gotten its way! That's a cause for celebration, right? When's the Frank Party? I'll attend, in the spirit of Halloween, as an armed schoolteacher!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Little Frankie edits his own Wikipedia entry
Seriously, check it out.
Up until October 16, 2007, folk interested in reading up on their favorite dipshit legislator on Wikipedia were made aware of his 'more guns in schools' policy, his illigitimate child, his alternative strategy in budget procedures, his attempt at holding a judge in contempt, and his inability to graduate high school.
Enter Frank. Dude deleted all the above-referenced information, replacing it with such nonsense as his fathering of the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" - which is not really a bill, doesn't define or declare any legitimate rights, and does nothing for the taxpayer but force him/her to realize that Frankie is making this bullshit up at the expense of the public coffer.
Just how do we know that Frank edited his own Wikipedia entry, and not some other interested party? First - nobody else in their right mind would replace perfectly good information about illegitimate children and arming school-teachers. Second - the bit about Frank not graduating high school was replaced with a line about Lasee's degree from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. Only somebody as retarded as Frank would think that's an improvement. Lastly - the introduction of an entirely incomplete sentence. If you can make any sense of the line 'A gailed attempt to require referendums to raise taxes or greatly increase govenment spending' - YLFB would love to hear it.
Way to go, Frank. Surfing the internets for information about yourself. It's not quite up there with punching your attorney in the shoulder while in court, trying to buy thumbprint-reading gun safes for schools, or designing pretty dresses, but its still fairly impressive.
Up until October 16, 2007, folk interested in reading up on their favorite dipshit legislator on Wikipedia were made aware of his 'more guns in schools' policy, his illigitimate child, his alternative strategy in budget procedures, his attempt at holding a judge in contempt, and his inability to graduate high school.
Enter Frank. Dude deleted all the above-referenced information, replacing it with such nonsense as his fathering of the "Taxpayer Bill of Rights" - which is not really a bill, doesn't define or declare any legitimate rights, and does nothing for the taxpayer but force him/her to realize that Frankie is making this bullshit up at the expense of the public coffer.
Just how do we know that Frank edited his own Wikipedia entry, and not some other interested party? First - nobody else in their right mind would replace perfectly good information about illegitimate children and arming school-teachers. Second - the bit about Frank not graduating high school was replaced with a line about Lasee's degree from the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. Only somebody as retarded as Frank would think that's an improvement. Lastly - the introduction of an entirely incomplete sentence. If you can make any sense of the line 'A gailed attempt to require referendums to raise taxes or greatly increase govenment spending' - YLFB would love to hear it.
Way to go, Frank. Surfing the internets for information about yourself. It's not quite up there with punching your attorney in the shoulder while in court, trying to buy thumbprint-reading gun safes for schools, or designing pretty dresses, but its still fairly impressive.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Frankie L designs skirts
The Wisconsin legislature has finally reached a budget deal, and Frank's ass is officially chapped.
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"There is a budget deal. The major points have been agreed on, and the minor points will be ironed out today.
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"There is a budget deal. The major points have been agreed on, and the minor points will be ironed out today.
I will be voting “No” on this budget tomorrow.
This budget is flawed because taxes will be increased by a half billion dollars and because there is a $200 million raid of the Injured Patients and Families Compensation Fund—a fund designed to protect doctors from large malpractice claims.
The raid on the Compensation fund is likely to end up in court; we could end up repaying it along with interest, court costs and fees.
I predict that the raid on this fund will drive medical prices up. We will pay more for our medical care.
This budget is a raw deal for us, the taxpayers."
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Frank, this is getting too easy. I can only hope and pray that the new budget calls for the elimination of your compensation. Only if the desire to put more guns in our schools, import a plethora of Illinois lawyers and butcher the mandates of logical argumentation and advocacy are considered desirable traits up in Lambeau Country can I understand a scenario where you are paid.
Last Monday, your blog admonished Democrats for refusing to compromise. You pointed out various aspects of their budget proposal that you hoped Democrats would make concessions on. The same day, you bitched about the Governor being a hypocrite. Now we've got a situation where you're not entirely happy, and you're post indicates that you're absolutely unwilling to compromise. Pot, kettle, black.
Last Friday, you mentioned that creating a state budget is a difficult endeavor because unemployment in Wisconsin has increased. Ignoring the obvious fact that you never mentioned why that's a concern in the budgeting procedure, you've managed to place yourself in an argumentative predicament. You recognize that more people are without jobs, and are pissed that taxes are increasing? Seriously? Even you've got to realize that when people are unemployed, it becomes more difficult for them to finance their basic needs. Come on Frank, pull your head out of your ass and recognize that public assistance programs don't fund themselves.
I'm not even going to talk about medical malpractice issues with you - you're beyond a lost cause at this point. If you're willing to protect surgeons that commit serious errors and honestly think that the management of medical policy is best left in the hands of various insurance companies, as opposed to the citizens, I should probably save this conversation for someone with an intellectual capacity that allows for a more profound thought than "daaarrrrhhhhh" provides.
Maybe your constituents would be willing to replace you with someone a bit more qualified (not retarded) if they were aware of your degree in fashion design?
Franky responded to YLfB!
By posting a new little disclaimer on the sidebar of his blog!
"It's hard to find someone who's neutral about state Rep. Frank Lasee, whose stands on the issues delight his polical friends and infuriate his politial adversaries." Green Bay Press Gazette
Frank doesn't provide a link so that we can confirm either his or the Green Bay Gazette's inability to spell the word 'political', although, in a rare moment of comity, YLfB presumptively attributes this mistake to the Green Bay Gazette, since Franky's recent spat of posting other people's ideas have us skeptical that he's not really capable of any expression beyond cntl-c, cntl-p.
In any case, Frank did manage to find a quote that portrays him as cavalier and controversial instead of stupid and, well, stupid. Not that the quote's that brilliant too: In response, YLfB has come up with a list of people, throughout history, who have delighted their political friends and infuriated their enemies, prefaced by the kernel IM:
JP: so i'm going to come up with a list of people throughout history to whom this applies similarly to
JP: hitler's #1
JP: attila the hun?
Dr. Nugz: Anybody from George W. to Abraham Lincoln.
JP: yeah, i'm looking for obviously bad figures, don't want to spend time debunking the lincoln crush we have
Dr. Nugz: That's the problem with his quote - everybody fits it.
JP: i know
JP: that's why i'm going to blatently cherrypick
Dr. Nugz: All it says is - Frank has friends and enemies.
JP: precisely
Dr. Nugz: Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, Pinochet, Batista, Castro, Hernando Cortes...
JP: this IM is in the post
JP: just in case someone really doesn't get it
(1) Adolf Hitler. Galvanized post-WWI Germany into a frenzy while sending his enemies to concentration camps.
(2) Attila the Hun. I'd rather have been on the side of the ravaging hordes.
(3) Hmm, ok, this can be a YLfB contest: Take one of Dr. Nugz' suggestions and think about how they had friends, and enemies, and then think about Frank, simmer, and let us know. I think Chairman Mao is a particularly good selection.
"It's hard to find someone who's neutral about state Rep. Frank Lasee, whose stands on the issues delight his polical friends and infuriate his politial adversaries." Green Bay Press Gazette
Frank doesn't provide a link so that we can confirm either his or the Green Bay Gazette's inability to spell the word 'political', although, in a rare moment of comity, YLfB presumptively attributes this mistake to the Green Bay Gazette, since Franky's recent spat of posting other people's ideas have us skeptical that he's not really capable of any expression beyond cntl-c, cntl-p.
In any case, Frank did manage to find a quote that portrays him as cavalier and controversial instead of stupid and, well, stupid. Not that the quote's that brilliant too: In response, YLfB has come up with a list of people, throughout history, who have delighted their political friends and infuriated their enemies, prefaced by the kernel IM:
JP: so i'm going to come up with a list of people throughout history to whom this applies similarly to
JP: hitler's #1
JP: attila the hun?
Dr. Nugz: Anybody from George W. to Abraham Lincoln.
JP: yeah, i'm looking for obviously bad figures, don't want to spend time debunking the lincoln crush we have
Dr. Nugz: That's the problem with his quote - everybody fits it.
JP: i know
JP: that's why i'm going to blatently cherrypick
Dr. Nugz: All it says is - Frank has friends and enemies.
JP: precisely
Dr. Nugz: Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Pol Pot, Chairman Mao, Pinochet, Batista, Castro, Hernando Cortes...
JP: this IM is in the post
JP: just in case someone really doesn't get it
(1) Adolf Hitler. Galvanized post-WWI Germany into a frenzy while sending his enemies to concentration camps.
(2) Attila the Hun. I'd rather have been on the side of the ravaging hordes.
(3) Hmm, ok, this can be a YLfB contest: Take one of Dr. Nugz' suggestions and think about how they had friends, and enemies, and then think about Frank, simmer, and let us know. I think Chairman Mao is a particularly good selection.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Power dynamics, meet Dr. Lasee
In Franky's oft-invoked style of posting things other people write to put one more barrier between what he says and what he says, he this time has turned to a letter from a Senator to Governor Jim Doyle about the problems in our state government. For some reason he didn't mention Lasee, but he did hate a bit on Doyle for this whole budget garbage. Apparently, according to our author whose credibility is severely in question after having been agreed with by Franky, the Governor is threatening a government shutdown if the legislature doesn't pass a budg some time soon.
Perhaps its an excerpt problem, but our protagonist's second point is kind of a doozy: "Governor, you know full well the state of Wisconsin does have a budget...." No, in fact we don't, but what I think you're trying to imply is that the republican Assembly has a budget that it wants to pass, but the dems don't want it.
Well state legislators, let me be, somehow, the first to welcome you to bipartisan politics. I'd say the analogue of the Golden Rule as applied to your new legislative dynamic is "If you don't have political capital, you can't get anything done." Things that increase political capital are, for example, passing bills the people want, making intelligent commentary on the state of Wisconsin politics, and not being a total crackpot.
So, Lasee et al., if you guys really expect to waltz into meetings with the democratic Senate and the democratic governor and tell them 'hey, we've got this sweet budget you don't like, and you should just accept it verbatim because we don't have one yet,' it'll just demonstrate to the world that you don't understand how bicameral politics work. When you have less political capital, you don't get what you want. Sorry!
Perhaps its an excerpt problem, but our protagonist's second point is kind of a doozy: "Governor, you know full well the state of Wisconsin does have a budget...." No, in fact we don't, but what I think you're trying to imply is that the republican Assembly has a budget that it wants to pass, but the dems don't want it.
Well state legislators, let me be, somehow, the first to welcome you to bipartisan politics. I'd say the analogue of the Golden Rule as applied to your new legislative dynamic is "If you don't have political capital, you can't get anything done." Things that increase political capital are, for example, passing bills the people want, making intelligent commentary on the state of Wisconsin politics, and not being a total crackpot.
So, Lasee et al., if you guys really expect to waltz into meetings with the democratic Senate and the democratic governor and tell them 'hey, we've got this sweet budget you don't like, and you should just accept it verbatim because we don't have one yet,' it'll just demonstrate to the world that you don't understand how bicameral politics work. When you have less political capital, you don't get what you want. Sorry!
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