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  • Hatred on Display.

    Real Debate Wisconsin

    Someone is impersonating different individuals and placing some of the most vile hatred I have ever seen.

    To those who's identities have been used I apologize. I can not imagine the depravity of this individual based on what they said.

    Watch for this on your own blogs.
    [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:46pm EST
    by Real Debate
  • Happy holidays: finale

    News and Opinion

    As I’ve been saying, it’s not as if “happy holidays” is an offensive greeting. Rather, it’s so inoffensive -- so deliberately unspecific -- as to inadvertently minimize what people actually are celebrating on their holidays. Yes, I know: It’s meant not to offend. One says happy holidays, all of them, whatever, [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 7:45pm EST
  • Happy holidays: finale

    Patrick McIlheran: Right On

    As I’ve been saying, it’s not as if “happy holidays” is an offensive greeting. Rather, it’s so inoffensive -- so deliberately unspecific -- as to inadvertently minimize what people actually are celebrating on their holidays. Yes, I know: It’s meant not to offend. One says happy holidays, all of them, whatever, [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 7:45pm EST
  • This Just In...

    It's Friday night. Time to unwind with our regular Friday night feature on This Just In. The weekend has finally arrived. The sun has set. The evening sky has erupted. Let's put controversy and provocative blogs aside for the rest of this work week and smooth our way into Saturday and Sunday. Tonight, more Sounds [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 7:00pm EST
  • This Just In...

    One of the goofier provisions (and there were plenty) in the 2009-11 state budget worked out by Jim Doyle and Democrats in some secret, dark, sinister closed meeting(s) allows University of Wisconsin System faculty and staff to unionize. The Oshkosh Northwestern quotes Bill Wacholtz, former president of UW-Oshkosh’s faculty senate: "Right now [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 6:00pm EST
  • Umm, Umm, Good

    Fairly Conservative

    I hardly ever read the news blurbs that are posted on my email home page. Tonight I read this: “Lord Stern of Brentford, former adviser to the government on the economics of climate change, said people will have to consider turning vegetarian to help reduce global carbon emissions. “Meat is a wasteful [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 5:52pm EST
    by Randy in Richmond
  • Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

    News and Opinion

    Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church at 613 S. 4th St. begins celebrations for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe tonight (Friday) at 8 p.m. Various groups will sing, pray and dance in honor of the patron saint of Mexico beginning at 8 p.m. until about 11 a.m. At midnight [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 5:44pm EST
  • This Just In...

    A slight warm-up without snow is the rather quiet, ho-hum forecast. TV weather people are bummed. We have all our regular weekend material and it starts tonight on This Just In with our regular Friday night Goodnight music post, and this week, it’s more Sounds of the Season with some obscure holiday [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  • No, it's not about you buying a Prius

    News and Opinion

    Rather, if we’re going to cut how much carbon dioxide you emit, it won’t be a matter of you signing up for windmill-generated electricity. Buying a Prius isn’t going to take us back to the per-capita emissions levels of 1860. Rather, it’s going to take a little less of that per-capita. [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 3:45pm EST
  • Pro-business vs. pro-market

    News and Opinion

    There’s a difference between being pro-business and in favor of free markets, writes Rep. Paul Ryan in Forbes. Our federal government is drifting into the former, to the detriment of any of us who aren’t attached to one of the big businesses thriving under the new crony capitalism. This, writes Ryan, [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  • Pro-business vs. pro-market

    Patrick McIlheran: Right On

    There’s a difference between being pro-business and in favor of free markets, writes Rep. Paul Ryan in Forbes. Our federal government is drifting into the former, to the detriment of any of us who aren’t attached to one of the big businesses thriving under the new crony capitalism. This, writes Ryan, [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  • Bullying is bullying. Period.

    Wisconsin Family Voice

    The State Senate passed an omnibus “school safety” bill (SB 154) in late October of this year that addressed, among other things, “school bullying.”  Right now the bill is sitting in the Assembly Education Committee, where it will remain until the legislature comes back into session early next year. “Bullying bills” [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:10pm EST
    by Amy Lewis
  • AND THE HORSE ...

    Radio Free Wisconsin

    AND THE HORSE HE RODE IN ON

    John Scocos is a puke.

    Unemployed and without any job prospects, Scocos held a thick-headed “press conference†in the Assembly parlor on Thursday.

    Let’s go to the tape and take a look at the astonishment on [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 1:45pm EST
  • Rainforest at Brookfield Central

    Dad29

    So last night, around 8:30 PM, the brand-new sprinkler system at Brookfield Central HS emitted a bunch of water into the brand-new gymnasium's entryway (the one which faces west.)

    It was rather pretty to observe from the outside: the downlights illuminated the waterfall.

    Probably not so pretty for [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 1:15pm EST
  • Zachery Cadeau sentenced

    Apostle Islands Navigator

    GOGEBIC COUNTY — Sentencing has been handed down against a former Gogebic County man convicted of selling a stolen gun. Zachery Cadeau was sentenced to a year in jail with 183 days credit for time served. Cadeau was arrested when authorities bought the gun from him through a confidential informant from Ashland, [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 1:02pm EST
    by The Admiral
  • Ask Cindy

    Fairly Conservative

    Number of comments: 4
    We really only have a few days of this left given the holidays and all. I thought I’d give you a chance to ask those final questions. If you are rude, you can expect I will take you out in my own special way, but really, there’s very little I haven’t [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:54pm EST
    by Cindy Kilkenny
  • Let Tiger Woods Fall Hard

    The World According to Nick

    Number of comments: 1

    The media is obsessed with Tiger Woods. Every day there is a new revelation regarding another affair he had, often times accompanied by the woman herself... take full advantage of her 15 minutes of fame, no matter how lurid it is.  She sits there talking about how wonderful Tiger was, and how caring he [...]

    Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:18pm EST
    by Nick
  • This Just In...

    My weekly week in review, Week-ends, seen every Saturday morning on This Just In doesn't have such a category. But if it did... Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy ' [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:09pm EST
  • Statistical Revisions

    Dad29

    Noted by ZeroHedge:

    Comparing the constituents of household net worth, yields one glaring disparity. While in Q2 Household Real Estate was valued at $18.3 trillion dollars, in today's data it was revised by a stunning $2.1 trillion lower. To put that into perspective, the entire increase in HNW [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 12:04pm EST
  • Baldwin gets the swine flu

    All Politics Watch

    Rep. Tammy Baldwin was out of pocket for a chunk of the action in the House last week after contracting what appears to be the swine flu, she said in a press statement Friday. The Madison Democrat missed votes on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, after deciding to stay in her D.C. [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:49am EST
  • In the End, it’s too Expensive

    No Runny Eggs

    Number of comments: 1

    The health care legislation making its way through Congress is a classic illustration of why “it is better that we not know how laws and sausages are made.”  After a trip through the House, the Senate, and most likely a conference committee, nobody will truly understand what is being passed. [...]

    Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:33am EST
    by Birdman
  • David Obey, LIAR

    Dad29

    Shocked? Surprised?

    David Obey, (D-LIAR) is the chairman of appropriations. And he is a Democrat.

    House Democrats pledged to reduce earmark spending to 1 percent of all discretionary appropriations (or approximately $11 billion).[11] However, the appropriations bills have already topped $11 billion in earmarks even [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:26am EST
  • Cap and Trade + Jobs = Popular

    Griper Blade

    Number of comments: 0
    Factory pollutionCap and trade is going to cost you a bazillion dollars annually -- maybe a kajillion. No one really knows. Back in April, House minority leader John Boehner took a wild stab at it and came up with a figure of $3,128 annually for the average [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:46am EST
    by Wisco
  • Obama Surprises

    Shark and Shepherd

    Because I am routinely accused of Obama Derangement Syndrome, I'll say that the President's Nobel acceptance speech was pretty good. Karl Rove is right: George W. Bush (and, I would add, virtually every American President with the possible exception of Carter)could have given the speech. But that doesn't detract from [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:20am EST
  • Talk to your kids about sex

    News and Opinion

    Talking about sex may be the most difficult task for some parents. Forty percent of adolescents said they had sex before talking to their parents about safe sex, birth control or STDs. Troubling? Yes. But if you still need a push, consider this: 70% of boys said they did not [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:12am EST
  • Talk to your kids about sex

    Across the Board

    Talking about sex may be the most difficult task for some parents. Forty percent of adolescents said they had sex before talking to their parents about safe sex, birth control or STDs. Troubling? Yes. But if you still need a push, consider this: 70% of boys said they did not [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:12am EST
  • Editor & Publisher

    FREE WHITEWATER

    I have a link – at least for a while longer – to the website of Editor & Publisher. The owners of E&P announced that they would be shutting down both print and online versions of the publication.

    I will miss Editor & Publisher, despite its occasional errors, because it reported [...]

    Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:11am EST
    by JOHN ADAMS
  • Brunch Links

    The Sconz

    In a bit of a rush again today. What happens when I’m in a rush is that I take a lot of articles from a few press sources because I don’t have time to explore more blogs etc. Don’t act like you’re not famished for a shot of wheatgrass. Go Chadbourne [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:07am EST
    by Jack
  • Those funny Facebook snafus

    News and Opinion

    Who among us hasn't posted something on Facebook that we, well, regretted saying? The Huffington Post has put together a collection of the funniest screw-ups. The assumption is that these posts really happened. But they're funny even if they aren't real.' [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 10:03am EST
  • West Bend Mayor Against "Illegal Guns"

    Dad29

    A while back, we mentioned that Jeff Speaker, Mayor of Brookfield, had joined Bloomberg's front-group "Mayors Against Illegal Guns."

    Evidently he quit.

    But on the current list, with Barrett, Cieslewicz, and Nelson (the mayoral twink-trio of Wisconsin cities) we also find Kristine Deiss, the Mayorette of West [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:40am EST
  • Blackwater Helps CIA. So What?

    Dad29

    Cramer has an observation.

    The U.S. Constitution grants Congress authority to grant letters of marque and reprisal--which is way more open-ended and Wild West than what is being alleged in this New York Times article. Please, explain to me what the problem is, besides the ever-present conspiracy theory [...]
    Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:33am EST

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