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A Wisconsin DustBunny Speaks

I got this message via FaceBook from from DustBunny Stacey N who lives in Wisconsin. It's a few days old (I don't check FB very often) - but her words still ring true. Here is what she wrote in its entirety (emphasis mine):

David, 

Thank you for posting on your site about the situation in WI. Sometimes, watching the national news, I get so frustrated and I don't think anyone outside the borders cares about our inept governor here and how he's flushing the state and almost 50 years of good labor relations down the toilet all so that he can get a cushy corporate executive posting after he's through. 

One favor I would like to ask of you is this: please tell your readers that of all the union workers I've talked to, we ARE willing to make concessions because of the budget. One union basically said to the Governor that they would take all the benefit cuts and increase in pension payments if he would not change bargaining rights. He has not responded. He absolutely refuses to negotiate anything. 

This is NOT about benefit cuts and contributing more to our pensions. This IS about maintaining the right of unions to come to the table with management to negotiate things like class sizes in schools, how many hours a nurse can work in one shift, and what sort of conditions steelworkers have to work in. 

I don't see any of the above in the media, and I didn't see it in the Sunday political programs. All some want to do is make this about teachers (more than teachers are at the rally protesting, that's for sure), and insinuating that we're all just lazy, greedy bastards that won't take a cut in benefits and pay more in the kitty for health care and pensions. 

Let me say this. For a governor who complains that health care costs are too damn high, he is doing NOTHING to decrease them. In fact, after his election he had WI join the group of states fighting the Health Care Reform Act in the courts. He'd rather have us at status quo ante, when you could kick people off for anything considered 'pre-existing'. 

I also have another favor to ask. Looking at your site and others, I stopped buying things at Target after what happened in Minnesota, and other places that contribute to anti-gay activists. Because it was a gubernatorial race, a lot of local businesses are on the line for being boycotted, but there are some national ones that contributed to Gov. Walker's campaign. If you could spread the word not to buy products from the following businesses because of the idiot they and their employees helped put in power in WI, I'd appreciate it. Here's the list: 

Walmart, Sargento Cheese, GE, 3M, and Kohler 

I was at the rally yesterday, and the so-called Tea Partiers just turned out to be a bunch of pissed off white people whose message was no more than 'you have to suffer like the rest of us'. Funnily enough, by the way they were dressed, it didn't look like they were suffering too badly. There were a few misspelled signs, and a few people whose only reason for being there was to pick a fight like a group of drunken frat boys on a Saturday night. It failed. There were no arrests, and everything was pretty peaceful. That's how we do it here in WI. 

Thanks for supporting us, David. We need all the help we can get. I haven't read the blog in a long time because life got really busy in the last few months, but pet Oscar and Dusty for me. 

Thanks, 

Dustbunny #1, 

Stacey

Keep fighting the good fight, Stacey!

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New DustBunny Blogger - MT

Hello BunnyNation! Please help me welcome the adorable DustBunny MT (pictured above) and his brand new blog MusiconduiT. Go give him A QUICK VISIT, and make sure you leave a comment and don't forget to hit the "Follow" button while you're there. MT is just getting started, so we should give him lots of encouragement.

And THANK YOU, dear MT, for the much-appreciated holiday donation.  XOXOXOXOXO

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Tonight's Post Brought to You by a DustBunny

Many thanks to DustBunny "O.O." who emailed me literally dozens and dozens of great pictures over the past few days. Here is just a sample of what he sent...

I told O.O. that he obviously has a wonderful eye for the hotness and should start his own blog, but in the meantime I'm totally using what he sends me.

Welcome New DustBunnies!!

I don't know WHAT is up this week, but this old blog has seen an influx of hits and visitors which is unprecedented. As you can see by the graph above, we had been hovering around 5,000 pageviews a day - and this week it went up to over 7,000. Visitor number have also increased by about 1,000 per day. That's a lot of new DustBunnies!

Again, I'm not really sure why this is - but I'm certainly not complaining. Usually when there is a spike in traffic it is easily explainable - like the time we got linked by the Huffington Post. But this new traffic isn't coming from any one place, but from all over.

Anywhore, I just like to say "Hello" to these newbies - and invite them to become members of the great BunnyNation. All you have to do is check in every once in awhile and enjoy yourself. And here's what you can expect:

• Funny, interesting and/or informative shizz posted seven days a week (usually during the day). Who knows, I might even start recapping reality shows again.
• Hot Menz - also posted seven days a week (usually in the evenings).
• A great community of straight, gay, young, not-so-young, cheerful and/or not-so cheerful people. Who knows, you may even make a friend or two. I know I certainly have.
• Hysterical, supportive and/or insightful commentary from the fabulous DustBunny community mentioned above.
• And, finally, one warning ... Every once in awhile you'll have to put up with my moans and groans about certain things: - namely, my (abundance of) weight, my (non-abundance of) money and ConservaWingNutIdioTards. Consider yourself forewarned.

So sit back, relax, and stay a while ... because that's what good DustBunnies do.

XOXOXO

David

Dutch Oven Dust Bunny

When DustBunny Froggy burnt up her Dutch Oven, she was hoping for a Jeebus visitation like yesterday's Bacon Jeebus.  After all, selling admission tickets to wide-eyed Pilgrims has the potential to bring in the BIG BUCKS.

But Froggy got something even better - the mysterious Dutch Oven Dust Bunny (above).  Although I don't know how many tickets she'll be able to sell to view it ...