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Even they who haven't bedded her become transfixed by her ululating, undulating, gyrating gesticulating.

That skin, those moves, her tongue, the lips, that face.

For weeks now, the righteous of right have been frozen in place by her heat.

Possessed, inert, catatonic, unable to break her spell, indifferent to their obligations to provide for their families.

Rosy has always been such a horrific homewrecker.

I've watched them follow her as she descended on the pole, slithered down to the floor, snaked her way out the door, leaving them lusting for more.

Miss Rosy Scenario has always had that effect on the wishful.

Since the Nevada Legislature adjourned earlier this month, I've witnessed non-stop homáge to raunchy Rosy.

She is the principal reason that the teachers' education tax petition will fail next year at that other kind of pole.

The 2013 session was called "collegial," a term more suitable for a wax museum or the Sistine Chapel.

The sausage-making was dubbed harmonious and respectful.

Leaders of both parties reached across the aisle so often that they risked dislocating their collective shoulders.

To hear them and Gov. Veto El Obtúse tell it, untold millions were shunted toward schools.

The economy is getting better.

Nevada is on the way back.

The education establishment couldn't wait to jump aboard.

Haven't you heard?

Student achievement has been rising despite the slumping and slicing of the stingiest school spending in the nation.

Nevada is close to conservative Nirvana, taxophobic Valhalla.

Let's all go down to Topless Rosy's and celebrate!

Don't even hint that all that taxpayer money, staff time and lawmaker effort produced zilch in a zootsuit.

Don't whisper that all they did was grunt thru the easier stuff while ignoring the 800-pound gorilla sitting on the coffee table.

Sure, this or that secondary piece of legislation passed.

Lawmakers as always were allowed to parcel out crumbs that fell on the carpets of the upper crust.

We remain the High Desert Plantation.

Fewer than one in five of our high school graduates who take military entrance exams can pass.

Not qualified to get shot.

At a time when the warrior class is even accepting convicts, that's pretty embarrassing.

But Nevada stopped blushing decades ago.

At the polls next year, people will favor the words of all those public officials, bureaucrats and hangers-on who insist that all is well and thus no need to add serious money to education and other questionable public services.

Most houses never catch fire.

Rosy rules.

WHAT'S NEXT. The education initiative will crash either at the polls or in court.

The only remaining option will be major litigation against the state for failing in its Constitutional duty to provide for a system of education.

See the Barbwire of 21 Feb. 2010 entitled Suing for Schools.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno.

WEB EXTRAS...

HONOR YOUR DON. Keep sending comments supporting legendary Nevada photographer Don Dondero (1920-2003) for the Nevada Press Association Hall of Fame.

His life's work appeared worldwide, including this newspaper.

Enlist in the campaign to install Big Don.

Please send me your memories and endorsements via e-mail or to P.O. Box 10034, Reno NV 89510.

The Barbwire got the late Reno Gazette-Journal columnist Guy Richardson elected last year.

Let's go for a repeat.

BARBWIRE.TV. Support the return of community TV to these parts.

If last year's elections didn't convince you of the need, the 2013 legislature certainly will.

Join up. You may donate at ReSurge.TV or contact me.

This is important.

Thank you.

VOTE FOR THE LUCKY 13, the most powerful Nevadans of 2013. Send nominations to <barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us>

Last year's rogues gallery will be linked to the expanded web edition of this column at NevadaLabor.com/

LET'S GET IT ON. E-me to get on the Barbwire News bulletin list for information not filtered through corporate lenses.

I broke a bushel of major stories last year which the above lead item will very probably top.

Turn on, tune in and tell a friend.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)

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Andrew Barbano is a 44-year Nevadan, chair of the Nevada César Chávez Committee, producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration, first vice-president and political action chair of the Reno-Sparks NAACP, labor/consumer/civil rights advocate, member of Communications Workers of America Local 9413/AFL-CIO and editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. Check local listings for other Nevada cable systems. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us. Barbwire by Barbano has originated in the Daily Sparks Tribune since 1988.

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Andrew Barbano is a 44-year Nevadan, editor of NevadaLabor.com and JoeNeal.org; and former chair of the City of Reno's Citizens Cable Compliance Committee, He is producer of Nevada's annual César Chávez Day celebration and serves as first vice-president, political action chair and webmaster of the Reno-Sparks NAACP. As always, his opinions are strictly his own. E-mail barbano@frontpage.reno.nv.us.

Barbwire by Barbano moved to Nevada's Daily Sparks Tribune on Aug. 12, 1988, and has originated in them parts ever since.
Whom to blame: How a hall-of-famer's hunch birthed the Barbwire in August of 1987
Tempus fugit.

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