Wade Rathke's Chief Organizer Blog - Latest Comments

Re: Technology and Democracy: Wired Magazine Elitism versus Pirate Party Openness

Michael Watson — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:02:56 -0000

I agree with David. How is randomly selecting from registered voters exclude minorities, the elderly, and the poor? It cost less than a dollar to register in Texas. The cost of paper, ink, and a stamp. Do you know somewhere where they keep certain people from registering? It also seems like your complaining that the method isn't democracy? There is a reason no country in this world has adopted pure democracy, it's logistical and impractical. And are you advocating mandatory voting? Do you really think the government needs to force more rules on the people?

Re: Is Hillary Clinton Heading to Kolkata for Walmart or the USA?

DropThePress.com — Wed, 09 May 2012 20:59:20 -0000

10 bucks says bribery

Re: Technology and Democracy: Wired Magazine Elitism versus Pirate Party Openness

David Adler — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:31:05 -0000

If you are writing about the same article I just read, I suggest you re-read it. You completely missed the point. The article makes a direct and pointed attack on society's elitist power structures, e.g. Well funded lobbyists, out of touch politicians.

Re: Swamp People TV: Choot ‘em, Lit-bit!

Edwardhurrigan — Tue, 08 May 2012 08:25:19 -0000

THIS IS THE BEST REALITY SHOW EVER, THE EXCITEMENT, THE DANGER , THE LANDSCAPE OH NOT TO FORGET THE COLORFUL PEOPLE, I LOVE THIS SHOW''

Re: Is Hillary Clinton Heading to Kolkata for Walmart or the USA?

Kaushik Samlap — Sun, 06 May 2012 01:20:12 -0000

let our c.m. go away to u.s.a. with 'hilarious' baaniyaa.

Re: Is Head Start Obama’s “No Child Left Behind?”

Cj109 — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:55:34 -0000

Headstart is a babysitting service for the worthless people who then have more free time to make more babies for the government to look after. My child was enrolled in headstart for a few months, but she picked up too many bad habits from the school. She started to make a mess eating with her hands. She was always hit on by the bigger children and she become a bully. She would cry at the drop of a hat , because she saw how they hold the cry babies. She looked forward to going to school, but she woke up one morning and refused to go to school. Dont know why. It took us months to get her out of the bad habits she learned at school. I can assure you that she is more advanced that the children who continue in that school. We school her better at home, but I think she would actually learn more from the computer and Disney channel than she would learn at the school.

Re: Jane Jacobs Meeting Robert Moses in New Orleans

Sbshaiya — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:12:17 -0000

this shows the real content and goodnesss of the debate. alo compares the republican party to the democtartic

Re: Effectiveness of Non-traditional Direct Action Kony Campaign

Guthrie — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:23:22 -0000

The military advisers were sent in October 2011, way before the Kony 2012 video. Invisible Children teaches us two things: 1) how misguided religious right fanatics can create a problem and use new media (umm.. we learned that new media was powerful from Obama 08) to create an unneeded buzz and take away from real causes 2) decisions on which aid agencies to support and military intervention should not be guided by viral videos. This whole thing makes me so angry, if only half the money/'attention IC got would've gone to great organizations: The Global Fund for AIDS and malaria or PEPFAR or Nothing but Nets.

Re: Huge Obstacles to Beating Scott Walker in Wisconsin Recall

Maryellendeckard — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:41:03 -0000

@GardenGnomeLF: Yeah, because we know that all the CEOs and bosses of Greedy Corporations that suck up our money in tax breaks, then cut thousands of jobs and send them to other countries in return are all Democrats, tight? Like the Koch Brothers, those haters are funding the whole Walker Campaign...Wonder where they live, huh? Maybe in a trailer park, right? Wake up, buddy- Democrats will vote for the things you need- like Social Security...and Republicans will vote to privatize it, saying they are saving it, but really, gambling it on the stock market, just like they did our mortgage money.

Re: Huge Obstacles to Beating Scott Walker in Wisconsin Recall

GardenGnomeLF — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:06:09 -0000

Democrats desperately need your help in forcing people to hand over their money to unions to keep democrats in power. Give your lives to democrats because their mansions are not cheap and you are just too stupid to control your own lives.

Re: The Paradoxes of Certification in Fair Trade & Social Responsibility

Jackie Decarlo — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 14:30:29 -0000

Thanks for sharing your experience with CRS Fair Trade and some of its outstanding partners. I agree with you that programs such as CRS Fair Trade are not in a good position to certify. In fact, we have tried to be very clear that the CRS FT program does not certify companies or products. What we so do is endorse companies. Right now our Fair Trade standards for crafts, coffee and chocolate relate to a company being a member of the Fair Trade Federation (a membership association of fully committed fair trade businesses) and/or having 100% of its eligible produce line certified by Fair Trade USA. Given all the changes in the fair trade movement, as well as CRS's direct work with farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America, we announced in January that we were going to step back and look at our standards for partnership. You can read about our process at:
http://www.crsfairtrade.org/20...

In case you don't want to read the whole thing, the crux of the issue for us is that our current partners have proven themselves, outside of certification or association, to be reliable businesses we believe in. (And in terms of transparency, FT partners give us anywhere from 1.3% to 7.5% of purchase to the FT Fund). For us, right relationships built over time is enough of a standard. But we also recognize that "trust us" or, rather "trust our partners" does not go far enough, especially when it comes to demonstrating impacts of fair trade. We hope to use 2012 as a time to clarify and articulate our standards. We welcome ideas for making distinctions that don't fall into some of the traps you note in your post.

Thanks,
Jackie DeCarlo
Economic Justice Team Lead
www.crsfairtrade.org

Re: Can Komen for the Cure be Reformed?

Galsalartworks — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 06:44:20 -0000

i like the baseline and share the view. The abundance of run-on sentences leaves the reader going back over and over the same lines, wondering who,what,and where.

Re: Can Komen for the Cure be Reformed?

Aaaaalex — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:25:51 -0000

Good article but i differ with last paragraph. Hope for 'Cure' of most cancers is off base, as they are mutations of the body's processes and part of how we evolve. The only good answer is a good immune system, which demands personal diligence in learning & caring for it. To promise a cure is false advocacy. Trouble is, all that isn't going to warrant pink-ribbon campaigns. Further, US commercial theocracy works against health by pushing empty processed calories, estrogen mimics, and high-cost disease management industry. No wonder the average six-pack is ignorant; one must dig deep and persistently to learn proper care of their own unique organism.

Re: Adios, Andrew Breitbart

semus — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 02:48:36 -0000

This doesn't surprise me at all. The truth just doen't exist in the left.

Re: Anti-Immigrant Attacks on CASA de Maryland Way Off Mark

wrestlingterp — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 06:54:29 -0000

Bingo! Casa de Maryland is an advocacy group for illegal aliens, funded with tax dollars. Tuition at state universities in Maryland have gone up 3% per year over the past couple of years, making it difficult for those of us paying to send OUR children to college, yet Casa de Maryland wants us to underwrite the cost of ILLEGAL ALIENS to attend our state schools? We already pay for a free K-12 education for them, that is enough of a burden on us.

Re: Anti-Immigrant Attacks on CASA de Maryland Way Off Mark

BillR — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 10:52:29 -0000

Exactly what part of illegal do you not understand? You stomp all over the rights of legal citizens INCLUDING those Mexicans that filed for citizenship and got their status LEGALLY! Too many slick tongued lawyers are protecting the guilty and not the innocent. Read the reports see the stats, stuff like this is killing our economy and then the potus gives out what we put in like it's candy, illegal's getting your hard earned money and leaving none to your kids. Your kids are left with nothing but debt and looking for a job that is already occupied by illegals. Do we have a problem, yes we've sent plants down south of the border to provide jobs and skills and we're still importing more illegals and exporting more American dollars; YES the largest export is the American dollar.

Re: Adios, Andrew Breitbart

Whoyathinkurfoolin? — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:08:48 -0000

Andrew Breitbart; hero, icon.
There is nothing that the wade rat-hkes of the acorn cabal can do to change that.
Breitbart will live in history.
Rathke will live in infamy. As it should be.

Re: Anti-Immigrant Attacks on CASA de Maryland Way Off Mark

Whoyathinkurfoolin? — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:44:30 -0000

"...in Maryland and the DC area where CASA and Torres’ work is known and respected..." YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING!!!
In Maryland and the DC area CASA and Torres are NOT respected by any lawful citizens who aren't on the CASA payroll. CASA and Torres are reviled as entities should be that actively work to undermine the state and its CITIZENS. Example: Actively teaching illegals how to get drivers licenses; actively teaching them how to avoid immigration officials; actively building (at huge taxpayer expense) illegal alien day labor centers out of sight/knowledge of the citizens; purchasing and rennovating a mansion with taxpayer dollars to serve as their illegal alien support headquarters; actively pushing local government to institute hispanic-only health care centers in public schools; actively engaging with Catholic Charities multiple hispanic-only health care clinics so illegal aliens can get convenient and free health care; actively lobbying state legislators to pass in-state tuition for illegal alien offspring so they can get a good taxpayer subsidized college education so they can become illegally employed......and the list goes on and on and on and on.....

Maryland and DC CITIZENS and lawful immigrants are WELL AWARE of the PROBLEM that CASA and Torres are. There is also NO respect for the multiple legislators and county officials that CASA and Torres have in their pockets.

CASA, a non-profit, is now under investigation for more ILLEGAL activity doing political work that is forbidden under FEDERAL IRS law.

WHO do you think you are fooling????

Re: Anti-Immigrant Attacks on CASA de Maryland Way Off Mark

Annie Oakley — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:11:28 -0000

EXACACTLY. They are NOT IMMIGRANTS!! Thry are FOREIGN NATIONAL INVADERS. This has all been set up and planned for years by the RATHKE type leftist radicals! WE STILL HAVE OUR CONTITITUTION and WE THE PROPLE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR BULLYING. You will. All be EXPOSED like the COCK ROACHES that you are!

Re: Anti-Immigrant Attacks on CASA de Maryland Way Off Mark

Annie Oakley — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:31:20 -0000

Thanks for bringing Jim Simpsons brilliant piece into the forefront. The fact that you are showing your full support of a clearly Marxist unAmerican group such aCASA de MD is just the icing on the cake! You and your MAGGOTY far lefty ilk have infiltrated completely. WE THE PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO GET THE WORD OUT ON YOUR VILE SKUMSUCKING ANTI AMERICAN ACTIVITIES. People are slowly waking up. CASA de MARYLAND will be fully exposed by CITIZEN JOURNALISTS like US. Your pupet will be voted out of the WH along with the far leftist Politicians who do NOT represent hard working honest Americans but who want a mass of uneducated people like illegal aliens and career welfare recipients to be beholden to the ELITE upperclass such as you and your COMRADS LIKGustavo Torres et al. This country was founded by enlightenened and brilliant men and your dream will never come to fruition. Our Founding Fathers taught us to be ready for skum like you Acorn and CASA de Maryland WE WILL USE THE TOOLS OUR FOUNDING FATHERS BEQUETHED TO US. I suggest you hitail it to Venezueala with your BOY HUGO CHAVEZ. We arnt giving up. And we sure as HELL arnt giving in!

Re: Adios, Andrew Breitbart

TejasKat — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:58:10 -0000

Disqus is sick -- like you.

Re: Adios, Andrew Breitbart

TejasKat — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:56:06 -0000

Wade Rathke: A great Comintern dupe. Tried and failed to maintain a
corrupt organization which used intimidation, fraud, voter fraud & deceit. The
homeland snickers about your efforts.

Then, he stole the Communist, Saul Alinsky's ultimate title: Chief Organizer, and demonstrated a poor example of his hero.

Saul didn't like the 60's radicals. He didn't like YOU or your pals!

Corruption breeds corruption. That is ALL you know. You really are a reject.

#IamAndrewBreitbart

I support Sheriff Arpaio and Rush Limbaugh,

#WorkersoftheWorldDEUNIONIZE!

HEY, WADE! I found a pic of you and your FLEEBAGGER friends.

Re: Anti-Immigrant Attacks on CASA de Maryland Way Off Mark

Oneaquaboy — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:31:46 -0000

Communists! Right? That is what you and your followers are really! Right? Your mentors slaughtered roughly 100,000,000 innocent men women and children. But that doesnt bother communists (ACCORN & OTHERS) Hitler was a girl scout compared to the disgusting blood thirsty bunch you lead and follow. Your just NAZIS of another kind....And murder is your MO...

Re: Anti-Immigrant Attacks on CASA de Maryland Way Off Mark

Willing Accomplice Buster — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 17:23:19 -0000

Wade,

Admit nothing. Deny everything. Make counter-accusations.

Your strategy and tactics are in the open now.

You are a Willing Accomplice in the destruction of normal-America.

You reject Jim Simpson's analysis of your friend's anti-American front organization. Of course you do.

Just as your fellow Willing Accomplices rejected and mocked those who saw through the anti-American traitors, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, the Students for a Democratic Society, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and all the other agents and front organizations that strive for destruction of our country.

Roaches hate sunlight.

Welcome to the spotlight.

www.willingaccomplices.com

Thanks for sharing.

Re: Adios, Andrew Breitbart

Jack Reno — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:48:09 -0000

Wade, if it is not too much trouble can you please perform your patented autofellatio act in private. Nobody really wants to see you mess up your chin like that. Thanks.