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• I’m Not Talking About Seeing Jesus In A Potato Chip

  —Righty Blog

  I see faces..do you?  I know I’m not alone.  I’m not talking about seeing Jesus in a potato chip or a grilled cheese sandwich.  Not that type of face.  Just a basic, simple form or shape that pops out at you.  The latest one?  In the grain of my wood floor [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 12:44am EST
  by Righty

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• I’m Shocked, Shocked That These Are Funny

  —Big Tent Circus

  There are a few movie, television and radio gags that I giggle every time I hear them or even think of them.
  
  I have seen “Casablanca” at least 30 times. While we think of it as a drama, Claude Rains has the funniest lines. “I am shocked, shocked [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:17am EST
  

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• —This Just In...

  That’s what our local weather folks are saying. What about the Farmer’s Almanac? Here was their December through January forecast for our region: DECEMBER 2009: temperature 32° (3° above avg.); precipitation 3" (1" below avg. east, 0.5" above west); Dec 1-2: Snow, cold; Dec 3-6: Rain, mild; Dec 7-13: Lake snows, cold; Dec [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 6:45am EST
  

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• On the event of the birth of Comrade Stalin

  —Letters in Bottles

  A few shots from the Stalin "House-Museum" in Gori -- the peasant house in which he was born, and his personal train car:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  He was born December 18. [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 11:34pm EST
  

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• Muslims of America: Terror Training Video

  —FREEDOM EDEN

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  From WorldNetDaily:
  A new video released by the Christian Action Network shows Muslim women at a compound in New York state practicing throat-slitting techniques and assault weapons attacks.
  
  The video was distributed by the makers of the movie "Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.," which [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:23pm EST
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• Fresh -- and local -- produce for MPS

  —News and Opinion

  Karen Herzog wrote on the Dig In! blog about a grant announced Wednesday to help expand the "Farm Fresh to MPS" program, in which local farm Growing Power supplies fresh produce to city schools. The $150,000 grant from Chase also will be used to expand a regional urban farm training program. Growing [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:27pm EST
  

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• Questions of the Day

  —silent E speaks

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  This country has been around for over 200 years. We’ve lived with out this supposed health crap legislation, that isn’t even written and is only in the head (I didn’t say brain) of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, for the entire life of this nation thus far.

  If this bill is [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 10:19am EST
  by silent e

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• Today’s sign of the apocalypse

  —Marketplace of Ideas Blog

  This state has a large and growing list of official things — a state animal (badger), wildlife animal (white-tailed deer), domestic animal (dairy cow), bird (robin), symbol of peace (mourning dove), insect (honeybee), fish (muskellunge), dog (American Water Spaniel, first bred in New London), tree (sugar maple), grain (corn), flower [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by Steve Prestegard

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• U.S. Training of Afghanistan Air Force

  —Fairly Conservative

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  Readers, you know one of these uniformed men. (Sorry I can’t tell you which one!) It’s almost twenty minutes long, but if you want a real idea of what happens every day in Afghanistan, this video clip is worth watching. [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 4:17pm EST
  by Cindy Kilkenny

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• Registration for the Mt. Ashwabay Development Ski Team

  —Apostle Islands Navigator

  Date: December 26, 2009 http://www.mtashwabay.org/ The Ashwabay Outdoor Educational Foundation will hold registration for the Mt. Ashwabay Development Ski Team or (M.A.D. SKI)program. The program is a 10 week training program that is conducted by USSA Licensed Coaches and begins January 9th. Posted in Bayfield County Tagged: Mount Ashwabay [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:58pm EST
  by The Admiral

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• Ben Bernanke - TIME Person of the Year

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  I am amazed that TIME did not choose Obama to be its "Person of the Year."
  
  What remarkable self-restraint!
  
  It's Ben Bernanke.
  Bernanke is the 56-year-old chairman of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the U.S., the most important and least understood force shaping the American [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:53am EST
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• —This Just In...

  Who would be the ideal fact-checker for members of the Washington press corps? A retired journalist? A journalism professor? How about 19-year old George Washington University sophomore Ron Fournier…. THE KEVIN FISCHER "WHIPPERSNAPPER HALL OF FAME" 1) The Conservative Casanova 2) American Sweetheart 3) Eva Lorraine Molina 4) Matt Kallerud 5) Hannah Giles 6) Jillian Bandes 7) Jonathan McCoy 8) James O’Keefe 9) [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 4:59pm EST
  

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• The Bean and Conquest in Neon

  —Fearful Symmetries

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  Since we had a date out in Schaumburg yet to attend, we left the Christkindlmarket earlier than I had hoped. But before catching the train, we stopped out at Millennium Park. I'd walked by it before, stayed in a hotel across the street, but had never actually been there. And' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:37am EST
  by Palmer

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• Look for new directions in job hunt

  —News and Opinion

  Congress has several times extended jobless benefits for those out of work. Is this the government’s idea of a jobs program? Don’t be fooled by a false sense of security. Now is the time to look for a new direction in your job hunt. Take advantage of training offered by [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:24am EST
  

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• Look for new directions in job hunt

  —Across the Board

  Congress has several times extended jobless benefits for those out of work. Is this the government’s idea of a jobs program? Don’t be fooled by a false sense of security. Now is the time to look for a new direction in your job hunt. Take advantage of training offered by [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 10:24am EST
  

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• Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: 12-14-09

  —FREE WHITEWATER

  Good morning,

  The forecast for Whitewater is for a mixture of rain and snow, with little or no accumulation of snow, and a high of 35 degrees.

  It’s a busy day in our small town. In the City of Whitewater, there will be three public meetings involving the city or related [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 6:30am EST
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• Wampum, Dinero, Continentals

  —Letters in Bottles

  Whatever you want to call it, recession and deficit be damned, Senate Democrats are looking to spend it on federal agencies.
  
  Republicans sought (unsuccessfully) to filibuster the spending package passed today, a package that seems completely inappropriate at this time for its lack of restraint:
  
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  Posted: December 13, 2009, 3:45pm EST
  

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• Radical person of the week: Heather Booth

  —Apostle Islands Navigator

  Radical organizer/activist since the early 1960s Co-founder and President of the Midwest Academy, which teaches tactics of direct action, confrontation, and intimidation Helped develop methods adopted by AFL-CIO’s “Union Summer” Co-founder of left Democrat group Coalition for Democrat Values Was Training Director for the Democrat National Committee Executive Director of the NAACP’s National Voter Fund Board [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by The Admiral

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• O, the weather outside is frightful: photos of the flash flooding

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  New Orleans has received well over 5 inches of rain today.
  
  The National Weather Service said the monthly rainfall record for December was broken Saturday.
  
  The last [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 12:17am EST
  

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• “Queen (Elizabeth) To Hand Over Substantial Part Of Public Duties To Prince William”

  —CAFFEINATED POLITICS

  Son Charles sidelined?….always a bridesmaid…. The Queen is to hand over a substantial part of her public duties to Prince William to help him prepare for the day when he becomes King, according to a confidential document obtained by The Mail on Sunday. Secret papers reveal that plans to ease the strain [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 7:23pm EST
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• 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
  

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• Nisbet: Galileo Was "A Denier"

  —Dad29

  You may not know the name Robert Nisbet. But he's a prophet and, by the way, writes accurate history.
  

  Nisbet, a sociologist by training and historian by temperament – but no Catholic, or even much of a believer – warned of such abuses in an essay debunking the Enlightenment [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 2:55pm EST
  

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• As long as the health care plan includes an Oklahoma

  —Patrick McIlheran: Right On

  My column in Thursday's Journal Sentinel is about health care "reform." My point: "The president and his Congress have odd ideas about bending the cost curve. So far, the cost measures all aim to restrain how much all of us together spend on health care. . . . [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  

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• As long as the health care plan includes an Oklahoma

  —News and Opinion

  My column in Thursday's Journal Sentinel is about health care "reform." My point: "The president and his Congress have odd ideas about bending the cost curve. So far, the cost measures all aim to restrain how much all of us together spend on health care. . . . [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  

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• About those “fabulous” half days Elmbrook championed last year…

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  They’re gone. Actually – there’s one today, but they’re gone for next year. The board voted the calendar Tuesday night and Elmbrook is back to one-hour early release on Thursdays. Thank goodness they had the brains to undo their previous damage. [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:03pm EST
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• Gavilon dock gets funding

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  State Sen. Bob Jauch, D-Poplar, and State Rep. Nick Milroy, D-Superior, today announced $2 million in Wisconsin Harbor Assistance grant will soon be used to stimulate major harbor improvements at a Superior grain elevator. The Superior City Council considers a bid Dec. 15 to enable Gavilon Grain to make dock wall [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:00am EST
  by The Admiral

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• Blizzard Allison Speaks Out

  —Liberty's Logic

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  Blizzard Allison said in a brief interview today:
  
  Open your eyes, you proud and foolish creatures, who think you can change the entire climate in this massive, complex system. Your puny brains simply cannot wrap around the vast reality from which I come.
  
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  Posted: December 09, 2009, 12:52pm EST
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• Snow day randomness

  —Blogging Blue

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  Just a few random thoughts on this snowy/rainy/downright ugly day:

  The weather out there is nasty, so if you’re out and about, be careful. As the day gets colder, things are going to freeze up and get even nastier, so try to stay home and enjoy a good book [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 10:53am EST
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• Biz 101 Lesson

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  Mr. Bice teaches a business lesson.
  
  In June 2007, administrators at Waukesha County Technical College opened the doors of a new $4 million building to house the Institute for Graphics and Imagining, an experimental effort to provide cutting-edge training to printing firms around the world.
  
  ...On Tuesday, [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

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• Disappointing

  —folkbum's rambles and rants

  by folkbumWhere I am, at least, Stormageddon Oh-Nine failed to deliver. There's about a half inch of rained-upon snow out there on the walk. Will be a pain to clear. AND no snow day.However, good luck to those under the blizzard out west and north of here. [...]

  Posted: December 09, 2009, 4:56am EST
  

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