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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely young daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
The Barking Lot (10/01/11)
The Barking Lot is a regular weekly feature of this just in…Written by my lovely wife, Jennifer and me. It opens with the weekend dog walking forecast followed by the main blog from dog lover, Jennifer. Then it's DOGS IN THE NEWS and our close. Enjoy!
THE WEEKEND DOG-WALKING FORECAST: We grade the weather outlook for taking your pet outdoors.
TODAY: If you're reading this as it's posted, it's about 40 degrees outside. Mostly sunny and cool. High of 58. "D"
SUNDAY: Sunny.High of 63. "C"
Here's my lovely wife, Jennifer with this week's main blog:
I realize that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I wouldn't have it any other way and I am very happy to support any awareness efforts that I can. It should take front-and-center stage. However, there IS another focus of October's awareness efforts.
October is Adopt-A-Dog month, too. From a shelter. S-H-E-L-T-E-R. That means don't pay $800 + to own a four-legged friend. It means when you are driving down
All my loyal readers of The Barking Lot know that I advocate the adoption of shelter dogs over PURCHASING a dog to be a part of your family. I have said many times that there are great things about owning a pedigree dog. There are many reasons to support a pedigree of a particular breed. That is what the AKC and
If your heart is truly, 100% set on a pedigree consider this: For nearly every breed of dog there is a rescue group. Rescue groups help place pedigree dogs in homes that are looking to adopt. More information is available from the American Kennel Club here.
So, dog lovers, please remember that there are also a lot of pups out there that need your love and attention. October is a wonderful time to recognize that. Especially in our current dire economy when so many dogs are simply abandoned due to the fact that their owners can no longer care for them.
On behalf of all ready-to-be-adopted pooches, thank you for opening your heart!
---Jennifer Fischer
Thanks, Jennifer.
Time now for DOGS IN THE NEWS, canines that made headlines the past week.
Dog adoptions to resume after distemper scare.
Courtroom dog calms witness.
Dog sneaks into labor room and takes away newborn.
Vet helps dog walk...read how.
Runaway dog's traffic-stopping chase caught on tape.
Police dogs out to pasture.
Dogs eat more than homework.
Dogs donating blood.
Dogs help schools lick bullies.
Campaign to keep dog droppings out of Puget Sound.
Sleeping out with the dogs.
Bad dog no more: Black lab finds home in
Where's Fido?
Six things every dog should know.
Which canine will be the most amazing hero dog?
World dog-walking record could fall today (Saturday).
"Dog with a Blog."
Dog kennels ramping up the amenities.
The dog swallowed what?
Sit, stay, surf.
Five dogs ride on the same surfboard during the annual Surf City Surf Dog competition at
Love this one.
Photo: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
Good stuff!
Don't forget the pet blessing in Franklin Sunday.
We close with our closing video...a face transplant recipient will get a guide dog.
2011 POO Awards - Week 7
Each week during this year's high school football season, I'm giving out a weekly POO Award to the
POO stands for Piling On Offensively (Or if you prefer, Pouring it On Offensively).
Week 1
Luck 73, Birchwood 22
Week 2
Coleman 63,
Week 3
Edgar 71, Chequamegon 7
Edgar usually ends up on my list once a season. It led 59-0 at halftime of their blowout.
Week 4
Ashwaubenon 64, Green Bay West 0
The halftime score: 57-0.
Week 5
Walworth Big Foot 61, Clinton 12
Last week Big Foot scored 57. They outdid themselves this week.
UPDATE: The POO Award is posted each week on Saturday morning. However, some high school games are played on Saturday afternoon. After Saturday's action, I am adding another POO recipient:
University School 70, Hope School 16
Week 6
Leading 54-0 in the second half,
Extremely reliable sources tell me that when the score became 47-0 in the 2nd quarter, the commissioner of athletics for MPS instructed the official timer to implement the running clock, even though WIAA rules order a running clock not be used until the second half.
Assistant coaches for
Edgar 63, Phillips 0
Elkhart Lake 67, Stockbridge 0
Week 7
"We try not to run up the score on teams, but sometimes it just happens on accident," Bakari Triggs of Riverside told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
These accidents seem to happen a lot with Riverside.
UPDATE: Week-ends (09/17/11)
Previously on This Just In... Aviation Institute of Maintenance was one of my VILLAINS OF THE WEEK.
The update...
Week-ends (10/01/11)
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
Latest Carnegie Award Medal winners
Elizabeth Anne Smith
The volunteers who saved Karla Flores
Members of the WI State Patrol
State Rep. Evan Wynn
Marcia Anderson
Sal DiMiceli
Steve Gleason
Erin Bolster
Hero dogs
Steve Cuckovich
First American Funding Co.
Al Sharpton
"There's a lot of people in
VP Joe Biden in an interview with WLRN.
"I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover."
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue (D)
"The next time they tell you how stupid Sarah Palin is or Michele Bachmann, just think back to this day and North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue."
Rush Limbaugh
"Even before the financial crisis hit, one of the reasons that I ran for president was that wages, incomes, had flat-lined at the same time that costs were going up. I think people felt that opportunities were becoming more constricted for the next generation.
President Obama
"Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how
Columnist Jonah Goldberg
"If asking a billionaire to pay the same tax rate as a Jew, uh, as a janitor makes me a warrior for the working class, I wear that with a badge of honor. I have no problem with that."
President Obama committing a gaffe as he addressed the Congressional Black Caucus Awards banquet.
"I expect all of you to march with me and press on. Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We've got work to do."
President Obama in a speech to the Congressional Black Caucus.
"And he never would say that to the gay and lesbian community who really pushed him on Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Or even in a speech to AIPAC, he would never say to the Jewish community 'stop complaining' about Israel."
Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-Ca), who was upset by the President's remarks to the CBC.
"Would you please raise my taxes?"
Doug Edwards, a wealthy former Google executive, speaking to President Obama on Monday during a town-hall meeting hosted by LinkedIn; Edwards supports Obama's belief that higher taxes for the wealthy should fund the President's jobs bill.
"President Obama prepares to divide our nation to achieve reelection. This is not a leadership style, this is a re-election strategy. Telling those who are scared and struggling that the only way their lives can get better is to diminish the success of others."
NJ Governor Chris Christie
"(The Tea Party's) stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What's, what does that, what underlines that? 'Screw the country. We're going to whatever we do to get this black man, we can, we're going to do whatever we can to get this black man outta here'."
Actor Morgan Freeman
"I doubt if Morgan Freeman, with all due respect, who's a great actor, has he ever been to a Tea Party? Most of the people that are criticizing the Tea Parties, about having a racist element, they have never been to a Tea Party."
Herman Cain
(Your administration will) "precipitate a national conflict between church and state of enormous proportions" if it does not "end its campaign against DOMA, the institution of marriage it protects, and religious freedom."
Archbishop Timothy Dolan in a letter to President Obama
"Be prepared for something different. It may take a few seconds longer, so if (fans) arrive a little earlier at the gates that would be helpful. I don't anticipate there being any lines that are so long that people miss the game or anything like that. … But every officer in every line will have those wands."
Green Bay Packer director of security Doug Collins. The team is implementing heightened security measures for the games at Lambeau Field this season. Starting with Sunday's game at Lambeau, all fans will be subject to a hand-held, metal-detecting wand test before being admitted. The procedure will be similar to wand inspections at the airport.
"I keep telling my friends and supporters and family and others in Wisconsin, this is the new normal. We're going to have this stuff (political strife) for the next 14 months. The reason you see so much of Wisconsin and Ohio on your TV is that our electoral votes are up for grabs. Wisconsin is the most closely divided state in the country … a Democrat has not won the presidency in the United States of America without winning Wisconsin since 1960. So this is more, I think, about the presidential election … in these sort of bellwether swing states like Ohio and Wisconsin than it is about anything else."
Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan (R) during an appearance at the conservative Hoover Institution, based at Stanford University.
"Wisconsin has outperformed the nation this year in job creation, but we aren't immune to what is happening nationally. That's why it's important we do even more to help get Wisconsinites back to work. In traveling the state, I've listened to the concerns of job creators and those still looking for work. The one thing that I hear more than anything else is that employers and workers want a sense of certainty. That is the main goal of this special session – to create as much certainty as we can for employers and workers at the state level so that they can create jobs."
WI Governor Walker calling for a special legislative session on jobs.
"I am not surprised at all by County Executive Abele's low priority for public safety. He demonstrated his disdain for law and order even before he became county executive. He does not run the office of the sheriff, and I do not take orders or directives from a county executive. Case law is very clear that the sheriff alone decides how to carry out his duty and responsibility. His budget is an obvious attempt to micromanage my office. I am independently elected by the voters of Milwaukee County. He may think that he can eliminate the Discipline Order Training and Structure (DOTS) program, but let me be very clear on this – the DOTS program is staying."
Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke reacting to proposed cuts in his department by County Executive Chris Abele.
"Would I support going after Lucifer? Let me think about that. That's a tough one. Of course we're gonna' be there."
AFL-CIO Presdient Richard Trumka when asked if he would support a recall of Governor Scott Walker.
"I want him in front of me so he can look into my eyes and say to my face that I imagined it."
Tristane Banon, the French writer who accused Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape. She's scheduled to confront Strauss-Kahn as part of a police inquiry before prosecutors decide whether to press charges.
"I think that when I did that backwards thing, there was a seismic shift, but I do not think there was a wardrobe malfunction."
Nancy Grace, Headline News host, on her recent unintentional chest exposure while competing on "Dancing with the Stars."
The media's absurd obsession with NJ Governor Chris Christie's weight.
The unfulfilled promises of ObamaCare.
The Michael Jackson trial and...
Nancy Grace's wardrobe malfunction on DWTS.
Hey, didja hear the one about the topless singer and the Irish farmer?
Couldn't she just eat some pizza or Chicken McNuggets?
The cat's name is Frank. It's also named Louie. Why?
That's it for this week. We close with the latest from NewsBusted:
Recommended Reading (10/02/11)
Here are, in my view, interesting, noteworthy columns and articles from the past week that I highly recommend (You will note that on occasion, I do not endorse the opinions of the author and may point that out. Despite my disagreements, I still feel the piece is worth a read).
Is Obama finished?
A perspective from
"As the economy sinks and hope turns into despair, the president's odds of re-election are fading fast."
Have Wisconsin protests gone too far?
"I guess political protesting has now deteriorated to the level of a middle school gym locker room.
My Most Popular Blogs (10/02/11)
As I post every Sunday, here are the ten most read blog entries of mine from the previous week. NOTE: some entries may have been posted prior to the past week.
1) Does the Franklin Public School Administration really want a referendum?
2) The latest from Franklin alderman Kristen Wilhelm
3) Photos of the Week (09/25/11)
4) Is a -0.4%
5) Franklin city budget good but could be better
6) Culinary no-no #246
7) Goodnight everyone, and have a weekend that sizzles!
8) The Barking
Photos of the Week (10/02/11)
his jacket
signs autographs
6) Wisconsin running back Montee Ball
7) Racine County Sheriff's Investigator Shawn Barker hooks a tow chain to Jack Leroy Furrer's car. Furrer, 76, of
8) Traders react as they work on the floor of the London Metal Exchange in London, U.K., on Monday, Sept. 26, 2011. The London Metal Exchange, founded 134 years ago above a hat shop in the financial district, may be the latest major mutual exchange to be bought after record trading volumes attracted the interest of multiple bidders. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
9) Iraq War veteran Brad Hammond struggles with a memory quiz during a private session with "brain trainer" David Whatley on September 26 in
10) A survey inspector secures safety lines onto the Washington Monument on Tuesday, Sept. 27. Several inspectors will repell down the 555 ft. monument to inspect each stone, looking for damage caused by a Aug. 23, 5.8-magnitude earthquake which caused several stones to crack. Photo: Saul Loeb / AFP - Getty Images. U.S. Park rangers walk on the National Mall near the
11) Postal workers participate in a Save America's Postal Service rally September 27, 2011 in
12) On Wednesday, crowds gathered at the corner of Calhoun and Coralie streets in New Orleans, looking at several signs depicting President Barack Obama as either a dunce, a puppet or a crying baby in a diaper. "It disrespects the nation -- and President Barack Obama represents our nation," said Skip Alexander, as he looked at one of the signs. "He represents everybody, not some people." Dozens of protesters came by the house in the 1500 block of Calhoun throughout the day, demanding the sign come down. Photos: wwltv.com.
13) Sailboats and a floating dock lie on the dry, cracked dirt in a harbor at
14) A tactical satellite lifts off from the Alaskan Aerospace Corporation's Kodiak Launch Complex in Kodiak, Alaska on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The rocket is carrying an experimental Navy communications satellite designed for safer combat communications. Photo: Pam Foreman / AP
15) People look at an ultra-light Cheetah S200 airplane stuck in a Ferris wheel after it crashed into the fairground attraction following takeoff from a nearby airstrip in Taree, New South Wales, on October 1, 2011. The plane left dangling from the structure trapped its pilot and passenger inside. Two children, a boy and a girl, who were on the ride at the time of the accident were rescued unharmed, police said. Photos: Rimian Perkins / AFP - Getty Images and Carl Muxlow / AP
16) Medical Center paramedic Don Brod, left, gives oxygen to a cat, Charlie, belonging to Jack VanSlooten, right, at an apartment complex fire Friday, Sept. 30, 20011, in Bowling Green, Ky. Photo: Joe Imel/Daily News via AP
17) Phill Randall of Custer, South Dakota, carries the American Flag during the Custer State Park Buffalo Roundup on Monday, Sept. 26, near Custer, South Dakota that corralled about 1,200 animals. Photo: Ryan Soderlin / AP
18) An aquarium employee swims with a whale shark in an aquarium tank in the city of
19) In this undated handout picture released by Indonesia's Centre for Orangutan Protection on September 17, 2011 Tori, a five-year-old orangutan, smokes a cigarette he got from visitors at Taru Jurug animal park in Solo, Central Java. Tori's not very shy. Photos: AFP - Getty Images and Anwar Mustafa / AFP - Getty Images
20) A group of giant panda cubs nap at a nursery in the research base of the Giant Panda Breeding Centre in Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province on Sept. 26.
21) A cat with two faces, named Frank and Louie, sits on a mat in his home in
22) A baby is baptized during a mass baptism ceremony in Tbilisi, Sept. 29, 2011. About 450 children were baptized by the Georgian Orthodox church during a mass baptism ceremony at the country's main cathedral Holy Trinity. Photos: David Mdzinarishvili / Reuters
23) lined up
Birds entered for the 86th Budgerigar World Championship Event are displayed in cages at the Dome in Doncaster, northern
25) grabs a touchdown pass
Boston Red Sox third baseman Mike Aviles sits in the dugout after Boston's 4-3 loss to the Baltimore Orioles in a baseball game Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, in Baltimore.
28) Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton #14 is sacked for a loss by Ahmad Brooks #55 of the San Francisco 49ers at Paul Brown Stadium on September 25, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Photo:Jamie Sabau/Getty Images
29) Normally, the
30) Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad shows one of the welts on her arm to reporters during a news conference in
31) U.S. Ryder Cup captain Davis Love III strikes a ball from the 16th floor terrace of Trump Tower, 220 yards to a green built on a barge on the Chicago River just past
32) Competitors race in the 12 hour Lawn Mower Endurance Race on September 24 in Billingshurst, England. Photo: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images
33) Kariana Snoddy checks out The LEGOLANDAE Florida "edition" Ford Explorer, after it was rolled off the assembly line at the Chicago Assembly Plant, Monday, Sept. 26, 2011, in Chicago. The car made an appearance at the plant before makeing its way to the soon-to-open LEGOLAND Florida theme park just outside
34) Visitors walk between the U.S. Capitol, left, and the Cheops pyramid of
35) UC Irvine students throw balls across the field at the blue team during the school's efforts to break the Guinness world record for the largest dodgeball game at the Bren Center on the University of Irvine campus, in California, September 21, 2011. (Leonard Ortiz/Orange County Register/MCT)
36) Candidates taking part in a World Record TV watching contest in the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, The Netherlands, on September 29. According to the organizers, the current record stands at 86 hours, 6 minutes and 41 seconds. The winner will get a trip to
37) A worker pulls a boom in a cranberry marsh Tuesday, Sept. 27, near Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. Wisconsin's harvest, which produces more than 50 percent of the world's supply of cranberries, is just under way. This year's
38) Co-owner Waylynn Lucas tops donuts with bacon at Fonuts bakery, which offers unfried, gluten-free and vegan doughnuts, in Los Angeles, California Sept. 19, 2011. An estimated 18 million people in the
39) Maria Pellerin
Haven't done these in awhile. A model waits backstage before the Alternative Hair Show in
Cooper Stone, 6, tosses the ceremonial first pitch to Texas Rangers left fielder Josh Hamilton before Game 1 of baseball's American League division series playoffs on Friday, Sept. 30, in
Cooper is the boy who saw his firefighter father Shannon Stone fall to his death behind an outfield wall while trying to catch a ball thrown to him by
Culinary no-no #247
Happy Birthday today to...
A very good friend and a great state Senator.
The latest pro-life news
GRETCHEN CARLSON: All right. So, I'll start with an easy question, who do you like in the GOP race? HEROES OF THE WEEK When we last checked in on Franklin's largest sandbox, the Common Council Chambers at City Hall, some aldermen were in an absolute snit because their colleague, Steve Olson forgot to get a note from home explaining why he wasn't at a meeting. [Madison, Wisc…] The president of the MacIver Institute on Wednesday petitioned the State's Public Service Commission, seeking a definitive answer regarding who will have to pay for the costs of relocating utilities to make way for the construction of a 2-mile streetcar in the City of Milwaukee.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Each week during this year's high school football season, I'm giving out a weekly POO Award to the Getting the economy up and running could take some serious smarts. 1) Photos of the Week (10/02/11) Politicians have been co-conspirators and made the situation worse by enacting social policies and safety-net entitlements that have enslaved people living in poverty through the "high" of handouts. Big government encourages reward without effort, choices without consequences, and a cradle-to-casket welfare state mentality that enables bad behavior. The message sent is, if you make bad lifestyle choices, we have a program to rescue you. Presidential candidate Herman Cain was blunt this past weekend as he spoke during the annual FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Michael Hintze; (262) 844-1683 Who said the following? Kevin Kennedy THE UPDATE: Olive Garden messes up. Previously on This Just In... Planning to do some baking? Did you know the EPA now considers that delicious aroma of fresh-baked bread to be a toxic pollutant you may have to spend millions to capture and destroy?"
Saturday night was sweet for the Fischer family. The occasion: A celebration of Sweetest Day.
Previously on This Just In… Henry Rahr of the American Association of Certified Firearms Instructors who teaches firearms classes in Wisconsin and Minnesota says there's initial worry, but it goes way.
Thursday, October 20, 2011 The latest in a long line of Three Musketeers movies opens in theaters Friday.
Week 8 A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In... Rich Wood The next playoff game for Franklin football is against Brookfield Central at Franklin this Saturday night at 7:00. And Wisconsin Right To Life: It seems a core group of beat-niks in MacIver News Service | October 25, 2011 Previously on This Just In… 2. Fiscal responsibility is to leftists what mercy was to the Aztecs. Previously, in fact, wayyyyyyy back on This Just In, we dealt with the dirty martini. BC (8-2) It was a pleasure to see so many of you at the Franklin Fire & Police spaghetti dinner! I also noticed many of you had an opportunity to take in the fall color by visiting our many parks and recreational areas. Week 8 A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In... 1) Yet another true life example why conceal carry is a good thing Previously on This Just In, I wondered, with tongue firmly planted in cheek, if
From Pro-Life Wisconsin…
And Wisconsin Right To Life.
UPDATE: Photos of the Week (10/02/11)
This photo for some reason didn't make it into Sunday's Photos of the Week:
Are you ready for some media bias?
Critics will say Hank Williams Jr is just a dumb ox hayseed, a redneck racist because of his comments on a FOX news program:Gotta love Jordy Nelson
Good speed and great hands.
Nelson does a Lambeau Leap after scoring on a 50 yard touchdown last Sunday against Denver. Journal Sentinel photo: Rick Wood
And if you missed it over the weekend, Nelson spent some time with the Journal Sentinel's Tyler Dunne in an informal Q and A:
"If you were president for one day what would you do? Lower taxes."UPDATE: Week-ends (10/01/11)
I'm always looking for great human interest stories to include in my HEROES OF THE WEEK section of Week-ends every Saturday. Assisting me is my wife who found a dandy. However, I neglected to post it this past Saturday and I regret that because it is truly amazing and inspiring. Here it is:
Sloan ChurmanA nominee for Column of the Year
"What if the NFL Played by Teachers' Rules?
Imagine a league where players who make it through three seasons could never be cut from the roster."
Great stuff.
UPDATE: We pause this meeting of the Franklin Common Council for a moment of pettiness
That was late August. Olson has introduced an ordinance to amend the city's municipal code to address attendance by aldermen at Common Council meetings that will be considered at tonight's meeting. This was brought on by aforementioned tizzy and is on the agenda because aldermen who get in these huffs have totally resolved all of our fair hamlet's most pressing dilemmas, allowing them to waste time on being nosy busy-bodies.They're called "previvors"
The following is my blog of September 16, 2007, "Previvors." I also discussed this issue while filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN.
Most people are afraid to take risks.
There is a group of incredible women, however, that bravely take what could be considered one of the biggest risks of all.
They're called, "previvors," who exhibit the utmost courage in making excruciatingly difficult decisions about how to fight and conquer breast cancer.
The New York Times just ran an informative and compelling story about one woman's hard struggle to make the right decision.
Meet Deborah Lindner and walk with her as she attempts to make the most important decision of her life.
After you read the article, watch this emotional video.PSC Petitioned for Ruling on Milwaukee Streetcar Costs
MacIver News Service | October 5, 2011$tate$ putting locals in a crunch
The following caught my eye this week on Stateline.org. It's an excerpt from a series of articles examining the challenging fiscal relationships between states and local units of government.
"(The city of Kokomo, Indiana) has shed 16 percent of its workforce through attrition, handed off its public daycare center and ambulance service to nonprofits, and explored such cost-saving innovations as having residents on one side of the street carry their trash cans to the other side so that trucks equipped with mechanical arms need only go down a street once, thus cutting their routes in half."
Stateline offers a very interesting look at how states are attempting to shrink the size and cost of local government. Why? In a nutshell, personnel and benefit costs are wreaking havoc on budgets and taxpayers. And states simply don't have the money. Municipalities must learn to live with a smaller piece of the state pie.
You can read the entire series here.John Wayne: "One of the most important Americans in the 20th Century"
John Wayne's family will auction off some of his personal memorabilia Thursday and Friday in Los Angeles. CBS's John Blackstone reports.
Jim Sensenbrenner, Paul Ryan and Tom Petri are Heroes...
Russ Feingold was Unfriendly.
Ron Kind, Steve Kagen, Herb Kohl, Gwen Moore, Tammy Baldwin, and David Obey are listed as Hostile.
I'm talking about this 2010 list:
Every member of Congress was rated according to how friendly they were to taxpayers. Because it's a 2010 list, some who are mentioned are no longer in Congress today because they lost in the November 2010 elections, in part, because they were no friends to the people who pay the bills.
The rankings are not surprising. Taxpayers, liberal Democrats are not your allies.UPDATE: Excess sex
For those of you who follow the world of entertainment and gossip, you might be interested to know that Rachel Uchitel is now happily married.
If you're wondering who Rachel Uchitel is, she's one of the, shall I say, many reasons Tiger Woods destroyed his marriage. She exchanged vows with businessman Matt Hahn this past Sunday in front of 12 friends at Little White Wedding Chapel in
Ironic, isn't it? Uchitel, now happily married.
The night club hostess/bikini model was the subject of a rather serious blog on This Just In posted April 28, 2010.
Excess sex
By the time you start reading this blog, the Tiger Woods hype will have already erupted once again as the Cheater-in-Chief is in North Carolina to partake in his next golf outing. We all are aware, of course, of Tiger's 16, or is it 17 extra-marital conquests. How he is still above ground, for more than one reason, still astounds me.
Inside the well-documented and oh-so familiar Tiger Woods Pigathon is a disturbing layer that when peeled away exposes an obscene subculture only a fraction belong to. The overwhelming majority of us can only imagine this world of extravagant lust. Dream about it? No. Even though I am not a prude, I say better to shake our heads in disgust.
Yes we know of Tiger's escapades. But there's more that reveals the depths of how far our culture has sank.
Listening to National Public Radio's Morning Edition on a long drive to
"It's a very skillful piece done by Lisa Taddeo for New York Magazine - and what's clever about it that, you know, we all read every day in the tabloids about these girls who've surrounded Tiger Woods and so on, but she really takes the lid off this kind of whole teaming club world of the, quote, 'VIP hostess.' And she calls them the halfway hookers, because these girls are not call girls, and it's very, very interesting."
Interesting, indeed given that just a few minutes before Brown's dissertation, in typical NPR fashion, I was presented a ho-hum, too long piece about the problems the Icelandic volcano ash was causing the floral industry.
The central figure in Taddeo's article in
Taddeo takes the reader directly into the sleazy atmosphere that helped spawn this coup-de-grace of tabloid accounts.
"Men like to hunt, and there is no need to hunt a prostitute. Men like to cheat without strings, and you can't stop a civilian from falling in love. But Woods found a way to enjoy the best of both worlds in one type of woman, a Venn diagram of sexual satisfaction. Most of his mistresses lived in a nebulous in-between world. Not prostitutes, no, but just about halfway there. As surely as he has changed the game of golf, so too has Woods exposed the grazing ground of the halfway-hooker, and her natural habitat, the nightclub.
He met at least nine of the fifteen women in or around nightclubs……These are not cases of eyes locking across a crowded dance floor. That's not the way someone like Tiger Woods goes out. Instead, special introductions are made. Girls are brought into his orbit by nightclub managers and directors of marketing and promoters and waitresses and owners. They are selected and then delivered."
Woods' nightclub choice in
"A host would meet him at the door and walk him to his table on the second or third floor. From his perch high above the dance floor and flanked by superstar friends like Michael Jordan, Woods could look over the balcony and say, Oh, that table of pretty girls there, bring them up. The nightclub has become a smorgasbord. All you have to do is point and ask."
Again, Rachel Uchitel, a former host was considered the best in the trade, making $500,000 a year.
"But she really hates the accusation that she set up sex for any of her clients. She is not a pimp or a madam, she says.
At the door, a host will procure a man's credit card and his I.D. and quote him what the minimum will be at a certain table. Table minimums are usually around $1,500 at clubs in
In their BlackBerrys, VIP hosts lovingly store all of their clients' birthdays, children's names, sports teams, preferred vodkas. (Some of them also note which types of girls their clients like: loose brunettes, intelligent blondes, C-cups, real, and so on.) These are the things that make a good host."
Taddeo also interviewed another former VIP Host, Lynn Freeman.
"'We're not madams,' continues Freeman, because she's sensitive about it. The scandal has changed what people think of the position. But they do introduce the men to women they can have. 'What we do is we bring a bunch of girls and guys together. If we worked at a bank and we brought a bunch of friends together for happy hour, and then two of them went home and had sex, nobody would think anything of it'."
The "girls" must have certain qualities including, are you ready for this, being trustworthy.
"The VIP hosts know which girls are loose and will place their clients with them. They know which girls will keep quiet.
To be a girl who is trusted, you need a track record of having slept with famous men and not talked about it. It's an unwritten résumé. Talking about anything that goes on at the clubs is called 'burning the athlete' or 'burning the celebrity.' Privacy is prized invaluably in an age when the National Enquirer performs police-quality stakeouts and the video capabilities of cell phones have turned every banquette kiss into a YouTube trailer. It's a wonder celebrities think they can get away with cheating, but if they do, it's because of people like Uchitel."
Yes, Uchitel is pretty important, so much so that she tells Taddeo she's "valuable."
According to a current host at a
"There is a new breed of girls coming to the clubs, he is saying, wanting to hunt the big game like Tiger. But it's harder now than ever, because the inverse is also true. Men have been warned by what happened to Woods. They are more cautious when they meet a girl. They don't give last names or occupations."
Nice, huh?
There's more, lots more including prostitution and bribery. You can read it all here, "Rachel Uchitel is Not a Madam."
And yes, Tina Brown is right. It is interesting stuff.
This week, golf fans will drop good-sized dough to see Tiger Woods play, and they will flock to him and surround him and cheer him.
That's American culture 2010.
I close with this, from Brown in her discussion on NPR. Brown accurately called what Lisa Taddeo of
Sad and true."What do you guys want?"
Pro-life Groups Hail 2010 Wisconsin Abortion Decrease
Wisconsin Right to Life Hails 2010 Abortion Decrease
717 Fewer Abortions Than 2009
Goodnight everyone, and have a Golightly weekend!
"The Romeo-and-Juliet type of film writing is not so successful in TV because it is such a small medium You might record in the best studio in the world-but it still has to come out of that little three-inch speaker."
Henry Mancini
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 smooth our way into Saturday and Sunday.
Last October right around Halloween, my family paid a visit to our favorite
Elle looks and is built like Audrey Hepburn. So it was natural that there she stood behind the welcoming station with dark hair pulled back, pearls, gloves, black dress.
She needs to pull that ensemble out again this year.
Tonight, a famous movie with a famous soundtrack turns 50.
In 1958, Truman Capote, who would later author the non-fiction masterpiece "In Cold Blood" about two mass murderers, wrote "Breakfast at Tiffany's." It was destined for the big screen and it hit movie theaters in 1961 with a plot surrounding an eccentric society girl.
Henry Mancini did the soundtrack album and wrote most of the tracks. On the others, he had help from Johnny Mercer. What a collaboration.
Tonight we salute music from that great film and begin with "The Big Blowout," played where our star, Holly Golightly throws a wild party in her small
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The Barking Lot is a regular weekly feature of this just in…Written by my lovely wife, Jennifer and me. It opens with the weekend dog walking forecast followed by the main blog from dog lover, Jennifer. Then it's DOGS IN THE NEWS and our close. Enjoy!
THE WEEKEND DOG-WALKING FORECAST: We grade the weather outlook for taking your pet outdoors.
TODAY: Partly cloudy. High of 78. Are you kidding me? Our first ever "A+"
SUNDAY: Sunny. High of 76. I repeat. Are you kidding me? One more time! "A+"
Here's my lovely wife, Jennifer with this week's main blog:
Mr. Hingson has a website and of course, 2011 POO Awards - Week 8
POO stands for Piling On Offensively (Or if you prefer, Pouring it On Offensively).
Week 1
Luck 73, Birchwood 22
Week 2
Coleman 63,
Week 3
Edgar 71, Chequamegon 7
Edgar usually ends up on my list once a season. It led 59-0 at halftime of their blowout.
Week 4
Ashwaubenon 64, Green Bay West 0
The halftime score: 57-0.
Week 5
Walworth Big Foot 61, Clinton 12
Last week Big Foot scored 57. They outdid themselves this week.
UPDATE: The POO Award is posted each week on Saturday morning. However, some high school games are played on Saturday afternoon. After Saturday's action, I am adding another POO recipient:
University School 70,
Week 6
Leading 54-0 in the second half,
Extremely reliable sources tell me that when the score became 47-0 in the 2nd quarter, the commissioner of athletics for MPS instructed the official timer to implement the running clock, even though WIAA rules order a running clock not be used until the second half.
Assistant coaches for
Edgar 63, Phillips 0
Elkhart Lake 67, Stockbridge 0
Week 7
"We try not to run up the score on teams, but sometimes it just happens on accident," Bakari Triggs of Riverside told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
These accidents seem to happen a lot with Week-ends (10/08/11)
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
Nyjer Morgan
Steve Jobs
Mycal Prince (and a rare look at a military tradition)
Brianna Amat
Cindi Harwood Rose
Jonathan Yan and Zak Kukoff
John Wayne
The TSA
Bridget Wismer and John Gavaghan
Omaima Nelson
St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Ronald Smith
Lower Township, PA
"This era has lost its
As an inventor, Steve Jobs kept coming up with Next Big Things that changed the world before rendering them obsolete by inventing their successors. He began with the personal computer and went on to churn out the iPad, iPhone, iTunes, and all the apps that changed and still change the world -- not just technologically and economically but politically and culturally -- for good, bad and in-between."
Columnist Paul Greenberg
"I'm used to being the underdog. But at the end of the day people are going to ask -- who's got a vision?"
President Obama in an interview with ABC.
"Please, will someone invite the president to sit down and watch Rudy to understand the true meaning of underdog?"
"There's so many people who simply don't think they're better off than they were four years ago. How do you convince them that they are?"
George Stephanopoulos of ABC questioning President Obama.
"Well, I don't think they're better off than they were four years ago. They're not better off than they were before Lehman's collapse, before the financial crisis-- before this extraordinary recession we're going through. I think that-- what we've seen is that we've been able to make steady progress to stabilize the economy."
President Obama's response.
"Attacking me is not going to convince me that I should take a bigger hit because I happen to be wealthy."
I've tried poor and I've tried rich and I like rich better, doesn't mean I'm a bad guy.
I didn't go into business to create a public policy success for either party, republican or democrat. I went into business to create jobs, to create opportunity, to create value for myself and my investors."
Black Entertainment Television Founder Robert Johnson speaking to President Obama's attacks on the wealthy.Recommended Reading (10/09/11)
Here are, in my view, interesting, noteworthy columns and articles from the past week that I highly recommend (You will note that on occasion, I do not endorse the opinions of the author and may point that out. Despite my disagreements, I still feel the piece is worth a read).
5 long-term trends working against the Democrat Party
The biggest change in the political landscape over the next few decades is likely to be
Ignorance a root cause of rough economy
"It's the country's financial ignorance, though, from the average consumer to the veteran senator, that significantly contributed to the Great Recession and its hangover, experts said Tuesday at an informational hearing of the Assembly Committee on Jobs, Economy and Small Business
This is what a mob looks likeMy Most Popular Blogs (10/09/11)
As I post every Sunday, here are the ten most read blog entries of mine from the previous week. NOTE: some entries may have been posted prior to the past week.
2) UPDATE: We pause this meeting of the Franklin Common Council for a moment of pettiness
3) Jim Sensenbrenner, Paul Ryan, and Tom Petri are Heroes
4) A nominee for Column of the Year
5) UPDATE: Excess sex
6) He's B-a-a-a-c-k
7) Hope & Change Liberals Protest Obama, So Why Aren't They Racists Like the Tea Party
8) Goodnight everyone, and have a Golightly weekend!Photos of the Week (10/09/11)
1) Nyjer Morgan is mobbed by his teammates after hitting a walk-off single in the 10th inning Friday to beat
2) Nyger Morgan gets a champagne shower from teammates including Prince Fielder, left, after Morgan hit a walk-off single to beat the Diamondbacks, 3-2, in the 10th inning Friday night. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel photo: Tom Lynn
3) CUPERTINO, CA: Chinese exchange students from nearby De Anza College use candles to create the Apple logo and Steve Jobs' last name in Chinese characters. The Apple founder died last week at the age of 56. Photo: Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images
4) Amanda Knox breaks down in tears as she is taken away after hearing the verdict that overturns her conviction and acquits her of murdering her British roommate Meredith Kercher, at the Perugia court, Italy, Oct. 3. A court overturned the 2009 murder conviction of
5) Supporters of Amanda Knox react as they watch a television news broadcast about her appeal verdict from a hotel suite in downtown Seattle Monday, Oct. 3, 2011. An Italian appeals court has thrown out Knox's murder conviction and ordered the young American free after nearly four years in prison for the death of her British roommate. Elaine Thompson / AP
6) A demonstrator lies on the ground at an entrance to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington after police pepper-sprayed a group of protestors trying to get into the museum on Oct. 8, as part of
7) Divers pull a woman from the water onto a dock on the East River after the helicopter she was in crashed, Tuesday, Oct. 4 in
8) In this image made available by the Ministry Of Defence in London Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, British singer Cheryl Cole takes part in a demonstration by 42 Commando Royal Marines conducting a compound clearance followed by a casualty evacuation via a Chinook helicopter in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, as she paid the British Troops a morale visit. (AP Photo/Ministry of Defence, Dave Hillhouse, HO)
9) This undated photo provided by the Vaughn family shows Aaron Vaughn, right, and his wife Kimberly of Virginia Beach, Va. Aaron Vaughn, a 30-year-old father of two, was among the Navy SEALs killed in August when a rocket-propelled grenade fired by a Taliban insurgent downed their Chinook helicopter en route to a combat mission. MSNBC.com reports, "While traveling on Oct. 1, she lost his silver ring with her name inscribed inside, while traveling from
10) Tristen Williams 2, holds two American flags as he stands next to his father, Army Sgt. Aaron Williams, during the 82nd Airborne's Combat Aviation Brigade deployment to
11) Afghan teacher Meher Afroza, right, teaches the Koran at an Islamic school in
12) A woman whips an alleged thief that is being judged in a 'popular trial' in a shantytown in
13) Former President George W. Bush hugs his wife, Laura Bush, during the George W. Bush Presidential Center Topping Out Ceremony on October 3 in
14) President Barack Obama holds up a book with a depiction of him as he speaks with 3 to 5 year old children as he tours the Children's Laboratory School at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas, October 4, 2011. (AFP PHOTO/Saul LOEB)
15) Julia Longoria rakes what is left of her yard near downtown Robert Lee,
16) One of two downed trees lies across the popular Trail of 100 Giants at Sequoia National Forest, Calif., temporarily closing the trail. The Forest Service said the downed trees were reported Friday and no one was injured. Officials are still working to determine the ages of the trees and why they fell. Some of the giant trees in that area are 245 feet tall and have diameters of 18 feet. Photo: Sequoia National Forest via AP
17) A person walks through a model of a scanning corridor at the International Air Transport Association Aviation Security (IATA AVSEC) conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. The airline industry has presented its vision for a security 'checkpoint of the future,' which would speed up safety checks by sorting passengers according to the level of risk they pose. (AP Photo/Evert Elzinga)
18) Metrolink passengers ride the new "quiet car" from
19) The White House in Washington is bathed in pink light Monday, Oct. 3, in recognition of October as Breast Cancer Awareness month. Photo: Charles Dharapak / AP
20) Two Russian spacecraft stand out against the background of the southern lights in this picture taken from the International Space Station on Sept. 17. Photo:Mike Fossum / NASA
21) A dog seen near a poster depicting a stadium with dead dogs and writing "We were killed for the Euro 2012" in the main square in the Ukrainian capital Kiev on the World Animal Day Tuesday, Oct.4, 2011. Animal welfare groups accuse Ukrainian authorities of resorting to illegal, inhumane methods of stray dog culling that cause long, agonizing deaths. The activists claim that dogs are poisoned, injected with forbidden substances and subjected to severe pain as officials rush to clean city streets of stray animals in preparation for the Euro 2012 soccer championship next summer.(AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
22) Bruce Wolf, center, and Sally Stephens, both advocates for dog owners' rights interact with dogs at Fort Funston in San Francisco, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011. There are more dogs in this City by the Bay than there are kids. So it stands to reason dog owners carry a lot of clout, so much so they think their endorsement can sway the upcoming mayoral race. They have formed a Political Action Committee to promote the interests of their four-footed friends, namely space to run free, even the country's largest urban national park. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
23) Some of the 20 million bats emerge from Bracken Cave in Bracken,
24) A picture combo made available on October 5 shows a horse-chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) in a field in Jacobsdorf, Germany pictured over the course of four seasons in 2011 - winter (top left), spring (top right), summer (lower left) and autumn (lower right). Photo: Patrick Pleul / EPA
25) Peter Nelson shovels snow from the driveway of a home he is helping remodel near Soda Springs, Calif., Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. An early October storm swept through Northern California bringing rain to the lower levels and up to six inches of snow to the
26) Leaves stick to the road on Oct. 5 in
27) A third-order and fourth-order rainbow can be seen at the center of this photograph, taken from the countryside in northern
28) A squirrel runs behind Philadelphia Phillies' third baseman Placido Polanco to cause a stop in play during Game 3 of their MLB National League Divisional Series baseball playoffs against the St. Louis Cardinals in
29) Philadelphia Phillies groundskeeper Soule Sidibe holds a squirrel he caught before baseball's Game 5 of the National League division series with the St. Louis Cardinals Friday, Oct. 7, 2011 in
30) A security guard walks by a folded up NBA basket stored in the lower level of the TD Garden in Boston, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. NBA Commissioner David Stern said he will cancel the first two weeks of the regular basketball season if there is no agreement on a new deal by Monday, Oct. 10, costing both sides money and driving away some basketball fans who might never come back. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)
31) The football bounces off the helmet of Houston Texans inside linebacker Brian Cushing (56) and eventually into the arms of Pittsburgh Steelers tight end Heath Miller (83) for a complete pass in the second quarter of an NFL football game Sunday, Oct. 2, 2011, in
32) Audrey Hepburn, as Holly Golightly, holds a cup and a paper bag while looking into one of the window displays at Tiffany's in a still from the film, 'Breakfast at Tiffany's'. She wears sunglasses, a little black dress, long gloves and a tiara in her chignon. Wednesday marked the 50th Anniversary of the classic film "Breakfast at Tiffany's" that set the standard for the "little black dress." The dress worn by Audrey Hepburn was designed by Givenchy and sold at auction for $923,187 in 2006. Paramount Pictures via Getty Images
33) A young woman drinks beer while wearing a fancy costume during the last day of Oktoberfest beer festival on October 2, 2011 in
34) A bridal couple and the witnesses to their marriage pose for a wedding picture in the park of Charlottenburg castle in Berlin, Germany, on October 1. Photo: Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
35) A promotional staff of NTT DoCoMo demonstrates a prototype of smart phone case which measures bad breath at CEATEC JAPAN 2011 electronics show in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011. Photo: Kim Kyung-Hoon / ReutersCulinary no-no #248
Take a look.
What do you see?
Online polls can be goofy
Jsonline recently issued the following poll question:
Falcons, Rams and Vikings are on tap before the Packers' bye Oct. 30. What will Green Bay's record be by then?
Over half responded the Packers would be 7-0.
One percent thought the Packers would be 4-3, that they would lose all three of their next three games. That means at least 50 people out there held that opinion.
Had to be Bear fans.The latest pro-life news
From Pro-Life
UPDATE: Culinary no-no #248
One of the bonuses in this week's Culinary no-no was a column by the great conservative writer Thomas Sowell entitled, "The Hunger Hoax." Here's an excerpt:
"Those who see social problems as requiring high-minded people like themselves to come down from their Olympian heights to impose their superior wisdom on the rest of us, down in the valley, are behind such things as the hunger hoax, which is part of the larger poverty hoax.
We have now reached the point where the great majority of the people living below the official poverty level have such things as air-conditioning, microwave ovens, either videocassette recorders or DVD players, and own either a car or a truck.
Why are such people called 'poor'? Because they meet the arbitrary criteria established by Washington bureaucrats."
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Sunday Crossraods section the past two weeks has featured the thoughts of local leaders about how to combat poverty. I found Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke's views quite compelling:
There has been a moral collapse in Milwaukee, as evidenced by flawed lifestyle choices such as failing in school, out-of-wedlock pregnancy, irresponsible behavior, drug and alcohol abuse, parental neglect and welfare dependency. These pathologies increase the likelihood of remaining in poverty.Just write it, Journal Sentinel...it's a baby!
Value Voters Summit in
In 2007, ABC's Charles Gibson used language in a story that assuredly was pleasantly surprising to many conservatives. Newsbusters reported:
"ABC's World News led Tuesday night with an unusual spin, one favorable to conservatives: the survival of a baby born in Florida last October just 21 weeks and six days after conception, the least time ever spent in the womb by an infant who has survived (AP article). Anchor Charles Gibson teased: 'A tiny miracle that raises big questions in the debate over abortion.' Setting up his top story, Gibson acknowledged the impact on the abortion debate: 'The fact that she has survived and grown to more than four pounds, and is about to go home, is a miracle, yes, but a miracle that may have an effect on the debate over abortion. And it may change what people think about life'."
Gibson led his newscast that night by using the "b" word and not once.
"Good evening. We begin tonight with the birth of a baby -- a tiny baby. Amillia Taylor was born last October after just 21 weeks and 6 days in the womb. That, we believe, is a shorter period of gestation than any other infant that has ever survived."
Not so easy for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel where it appears there was angst over how to handle an outrageous story that involved an unborn baby. Simple stuff, yet you can sense how conflicted it had folks at 4th and State. The original story this weekend had this headline:
Mother, her fetus dead in abduction
One would think that a headline writer for a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper would have no difficulty comprehending the baby involved in this brutal murder was a baby.Occupy Wall Street? They're No Tea Partiers
Wonder Woman, or crazy?
Earlier this year while filling in for Mark Belling on Newstalk 1130 WISN, I devoted a segment to Susie Weber of Menasha. After going into contractions, she rode her bicycle to the hospital. Then she wrote about her experience in Silent Sports Magazine.
Can we top that? I think so. I'm not a doctor but let me play one on my blog. I wouldn't advise the following, despite the happy ending with zero complications.
My fellow Catholics need to just chill
I have the utmost respect for the Catholic League and its president, William Donohue. Often I've blogged their views on various issues.The cost of recalling Walker
The Wisconsin Reporter examines that and other angles."Forget the recall, Wisconsin"
"Recalls make it tough for state leaders to get work done. They also worsen partisanship and usually fail… targeting a governor for recall just because you disagree with his policies is a terrible idea."
A conservative talk show host?
A conservative publication?
A Republican lawmaker?
Try the LA Times.A bit of Franklin irony
Regular readers know I wrote extensively about my opposition to
My many articles, including this one, fell on deaf ears. The tax and spend mentality that permeates
I just stumbled across this item the other day. Silly me. I thought the city of
Robin Vos wants an answer: How much would a recall cost?
State Rep. Vos (R-Burlington) is co-chair of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee. He sent the following today:
October 12, 2011
UPDATE: Culinary no-no #245
OWS: "No one really knows what's going on here"
The Occupy Wall Street protesters in New York appear unfocused and disorganized. WSJ's Hilke Schellmann looks at the inner workings of the organization and how it is trying to manage communal living in a public space.
2ND UPDATE: We pause this meeting of the Franklin Common Council for a moment of pettiness
As we reported, Franklin Alderman Steve Olson's proposed ordinance came up for discussion at the Franklin Common Council meeting on October 4. It went nowhere fast. For review, here is what Olson offered:
Attendance of any Common Council member at any City board, commission or committee meeting shall be stated and identified within the minutes of such meeting.
When a Council member is not present at a meeting, the member is "absent," and the term "excused" is only to be considered or used upon circumstances following a "call of the house" to compel attendance of members in the absence of a quorum.
Should the Council determine that it is appropriate to provide that a member may be "excused" as opposed to being stated as "absent," then the meeting minutes shall reflect the member being "absent" unless the member has requested to be "excused."
Alderman Kristen Wilhelm then immediately made a motion to have city staff report back what constitutes a member of the Council being "excused." Within seconds, a vote was called for and the common sense motion failed with only Alderman Olson supporting Wilhelm.
In subsequent discussion, Alderman Wilhelm raised an extremely valid question: What happens in the event of an emergency? She was, unceremoniously, rudely, laughed at.
Is attendance the most important item before the Franklin Common Council? Hardly. However it is important. Every political body in
What do they have against clarifying procedures so proper action can be taken? My goodness. If there was a dress code, Alderman Tim Solomon (send this kid to camp) would surely fail every meeting.
Again, this is important. These are your elected representatives who can't behave like adults in a public meeting on an innocuous matter. How can they get the big stuff done?Goodnight everyone, and have the sweetest weekend imaginable!
"The only whipped cream was on my head. The rest was shaving cream on cotton. And the shaving cream kept slipping. I called a girlfriend and took them (copies from the photo shoot) to her house. We hid them behind her refrigerator because I didn't want my husband to see them. I still have them, and now they look tame."
Dolores Erickson, the model on the album cover "Whipped Cream & Other Delights" by Herb Alpert & the
Good evening everyone.
I'm off to Hallmark.
So please enjoy a reprise of a popular Goodnight blog from October of 2009.The Barking Lot (10/15/11)
The Barking Lot is a regular weekly feature of this just in…Written by my lovely wife, Jennifer and me. It opens with the weekend dog walking forecast followed by the main blog from dog lover, Jennifer. Then it's DOGS IN THE NEWS and our close. Enjoy!
THE WEEKEND DOG-WALKING FORECAST: We grade the weather outlook for taking your pet outdoors.
TODAY: Mostly sunny and windy. High of 59. "D"
SUNDAY: Showers. High of 56. "D"
Here's my lovely wife, Jennifer with this week's main blog:
October flew in quickly this year, not unlike this classic figure: 2011 POO Awards - Week 9
Each week during this year's high school football season, I'm giving out a weekly POO Award to the
POO stands for Piling On Offensively (Or if you prefer, Pouring it On Offensively).
Week 1
Luck 73, Birchwood 22
Week 2
Coleman 63,
Week 3
Edgar 71, Chequamegon 7
Edgar usually ends up on my list once a season. It led 59-0 at halftime of their blowout.
Week 4
Ashwaubenon 64, Green Bay West 0
The halftime score: 57-0.
Week 5
Walworth Big Foot 61, Clinton 12
Last week Big Foot scored 57. They outdid themselves this week.
UPDATE: The POO Award is posted each week on Saturday morning. However, some high school games are played on Saturday afternoon. After Saturday's action, I am adding another POO recipient:
University School 70,
Week 6
Leading 54-0 in the second half,
Extremely reliable sources tell me that when the score became 47-0 in the 2nd quarter, the commissioner of athletics for MPS instructed the official timer to implement the running clock, even though WIAA rules order a running clock not be used until the second half.
Assistant coaches for
Edgar 63, Phillips 0
Elkhart Lake 67, Stockbridge 0
Week 7
"We try not to run up the score on teams, but sometimes it just happens on accident," Bakari Triggs of Riverside told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
These accidents seem to happen a lot with Week-ends (10/15/11)
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
Connor Bystrom
Kathy Rhodes
Tyler Southern
These states
Ron Paul
Annette Morales-Rodriguez
Fairfax County, VA
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Nancy Pelosi
The Casa Monica Hotel in Augustine, Florida
"I think one has to be concerned about the chilling nature of what the Iranian government attempted to do here."
Eric Holder, U.S. Attorney General, on an alleged plot to bomb the Israeli and Saudi Arabian embassies in Washington and kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S.
"So far, the only major accomplishment of the 'Occupy Wall Street' protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, 'Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.' Oddly enough for such a respectable-looking group -- a mixture of adolescents looking for a cause, public sector union members, drug dealers, criminals, teenage runaways, people who have been at every protest since the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Andrea Dworkin look-alikes, people 95 percent of whose hair is concentrated in their ponytails and other average Democrats -- they can't even explain what they're protesting… This is the flea party, not the tea party."
Anne Coulter
"…when the
Contemplate this: The
Brent Bozell
"Just half of all post-9/11 veterans say that, given the costs and benefits to the
From a
"I hope history proves them wrong. The only way for there to be peace is for free societies to emerge, and history takes awhile to unfold. I happen to think it was worth fighting. Otherwise, I wouldn't have put them into combat."
Former President George Bush in response to the Pew Research center study.
"We are an exceptional nation and I will never apologize for
Herman Cain
"It is clear that the mainstream media will work as hard to prevent an accomplished black Republican from becoming president as it did to help an inexperienced black Democrat win the White House."
Joel Pollak
"In fact, I thought it was the price of a pizza when I first heard about it."
"Will I be the flavor of the week? Well, the answer is an emphatic, 'No,' because Häagen-Dazs black walnut tastes good all the time."
"Threatening business owners with new lawsuits is not going to help create jobs and will probably have a chilling effect on hiring."
Cynthia Magnuson, spokeswoman for the National Federation of Independent Business, on a provision in President Obama's jobs bill that would ban companies with 15 or more employees from refusing to consider or offer a job to someone who is unemployed.
"If everyone knew the true dangers of tanning beds, they'd be shocked."
Ted Lieu, California state senator, after
"Collective bargaining will come back when the people of
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, reacting to legislation proposed by Pocan and Risser to repeal collective bargaining changes adopted by state Republicans.
"We just have a gulf that separates us. We are so far apart ... we can't close the gap."
David Stern, NBA commissioner, who canceled the first two weeks of the basketball season after a failed negotiation with the players' union on Monday.
Annette Morales-Rodriguez brutally murders a woman and her unborn child.
Remember when the media was all concerned about the cost of the GOP running fake Democrats in recalls? Where's the angst about a recall of Governor Walker?
Brewers-Cardinals, and that's OK.
Plus-size model wins "The Next Big Thing" contest.
Lost in Maize!
That's it for this week. We close with the latest from NewsBusted.
Recommended Reading (10/16/11)
Here are, in my view, interesting, noteworthy columns and articles from the past week that I highly recommend (You will note that on occasion, I do not endorse the opinions of the author and may point that out. Despite my disagreements, I still feel the piece is worth a read).
The world doesn't owe you a living
"The occupiers leave me with the impression that they want something for nothing. I don't doubt that some of the occupiers have accumulated a considerable debt from student loans and haven't been able to find the means to pay it off. But it's difficult to see how camping out in the city square is going to improve their long-term employment prospects. I realize that finding a job in this current economic state is far from an easy task. Yet I honestly wonder how hard these people have been actually looking for work. How many jobs have they actually applied for? How many job interviews have they received?"
Occupy Wall Street vs. The Tea Party for Idiots
"To be helpful to the people in the 'fourth estate, 'I have created sort of a difference between the Occupy Wall Street Protests, and the Tea Party Movement' for idiots and the Mainstream Media."
Having a job ain't all it's cracked up to be
"The plight of
The Scapegoat Strategy
"What do you do if you can't run on your record -- on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are asked whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago and you are compelled to answer no?
Play the outsider. Declare yourself the underdog. Denounce
But above all: Find villains."
Say it: "I will never again be an employer"
"Talk to anyone who's tried to set up a business in this town or any town this size in recent years. Tens of thousands in costs to install sprinklers to meet the new fire code, a hundred grand to bring the restrooms up to
Why Unhappy People Become Liberals
"Unhappy people become Liberals. People seek out those that are similar. Birds of a feather flock together. An unhappy person looks around and sees two groups: happy people, and unhappy people. Rather than take a page out of the former group, enter the herd and ask for (and likely receive) help and guidance on how to become happy, the person is more likely to choose the path of least resistance — of instant acceptance. 'Come to Mumsy, darling, you're one of us'."
Congress, governors nix Obama's high speed trains
"High-speed rail can compete with air travel only over limited distances, but the
In weather forecasting, expect high pressure
"This year has already seen 10 weather disasters each costing more than $1 billion in damage, making it the most costly since the government started keeping records in 1980. And it has been one of the toughest years in memory for meteorologists. The technology used for forecasting has improved, and forecasts are more accurate compared with the past. But the job of the meteorologist is still both an art and a science."
Parents Obsessed with Texting + Ignored Kids = Hell to Pay
"…watching a young mom at Starbucks ignoring her beautiful, little one-year-old girl while said moron giggled and texted for 30 plus minutes.
Yep, with her head buried in the phone, nose two inches off the cancer screen, mommy dearest didn't have a clue what her kid was doing as she crawled around on a high traffic, grime-laden cement floor between the feet of strangers who held 16- ounce cups of 180 degree liquid above the kid's tender flesh as they high stepped over her.
Hey, parents, here's a freebie from Dr. Doug: Why not put the cell phone and gadgets down for awhile when your babies are around and pay attention to them, all right, jackass?"Big abortion may be coming to your town
My Most Popular Blogs (10/16/11)
As I post every Sunday, here are the five most read blog entries of mine from the previous week. NOTE: some entries may have been posted prior to the past week.
1) Photos of the Week (10/09/11)
2) 2ND UPDATE: We pause this meeting of the Franklin Common Council for a moment of pettiness
3) Just write it, Journal Sentinel…it's a baby
4) The cost of recalling
5) Culinary no-no #248
6) A bit of
7) 2ND UPDATE: Weekends (10/01/11)
8) Sex, drugs, public defecation
9) Robin Vos wants an answer: How much would a recall cost
10) Wonder Woman, or crazy Photos of the Week (10/16/11)
1) A member of the
3) A New York City police officer shoves a demonstrator affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street protests as they march through the streets in the Wall St. area, Friday, Oct. 14, in New York. Photo: Mary Altaffer, AP
4) New York City Police Department Inspector Cardona (3-R) hits protester Felix Rivera (green shirt), as people participating in the Occupy Wall Street clash with Police in the financial district, after the city postponed the planned cleaning of the park where the protestors have set up camp in New York,on Oct. 14.The movement, which is protesting a wide variety of issues and started in September, is continuing in New York and is spreading to other cities around the country. Photo: Andrew Gombert /
5) Occupy Wall Street
6) Occupy Wall Street protesters clean Zuccotti Park near Wall Street in New York on October 13. Protesters from the movement spent the night cleaning
7) Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas (L) wipes his upper lip, as Seal Beach acting police chief Tim Olson stands with photographs of the dead, as they announce they will seek the death penalty for Scott Dekraai during a news conference at the district attorney's office in Santa Ana, California October 14. Photos: Alex Gallardo / Reuters, AP, and Jae C. Hong, AP
8) Libya's new regime forces fire their weapons at fighters loyal to fugitive strongman Moammar Gadhafi as a comrade plays a guitar during a battle in Sirte on Oct. 10, in a drive to control Gadhafi's hometown after a month-long siege. Photo: Aris Messinis / AFP - Getty Images
9) Libyan rebels rest in the bed of their country's ousted leader Moammar Gadhafi in a palace in
10) A road worker walks along destroyed state Route 14, Oct. 8, a scenic road east of
11) This Feb. 18, 2011 file photo shows Seattle superhero Phoenix Jones during a patrol of
And then...
12) Ben Fodor, a self-styled superhero who goes by the name "Phoenix Jones," talks to reporters as he stands next to one of his attorneys, Matt Hartman, right, after Fodor appeared in court, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2011, in Seattle. Prosecutors have not yet filed charges against Fodor after he was arrested Sunday after police say he pepper sprayed a group of people downtown as they left a nightclub. Photo:Ted S. Warren / AP
13) Cosmo Power Co.'s President Shoji Tanaka stands next to the company's personal flotation device, "Noah," which is designed to survive both an earthquake and the tsunami that might follow, at a port in Hiratsuka, south of Tokyo, on October 3. Photo: Oh Hyun / Reuters
14) Visitors look at the artwork "Guns", giant replicas of handguns, an installation by Czech artist David Cerny in the courtyard of the Artbanka Museum of Young Art on Oct. 8, in Prague. Photo: Joe Klamar / AFP - Getty Images
15) Wearing a chicken costume with oversize feet, Lieutenant Mike Hallinan of the Irvine Police Department watches his footing as he rappels over 100 feet down the side of the Irvine, Calif., Civic Center clock tower Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011. Hallinan did the feat twice to generate donations for his longer rappel from the Hyatt Regency Long Beach on October 29th to benefit Special Olympics. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Jebb Harris)
16) A harbor seal pup looks up from the water, after high tide finally brought him off of his rocky shore resting place, back up at a small crowd who had been watching him snooze moments earlier Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 11, 2011, in the West Seattle neighborhood of Seattle. A bumper crop of the chubby, adorable harbor seal pups have been hauling out on rocks and beaches of West Seattle in recent weeks. The Seal Sitters, a local nonprofit group of trained volunteers, has counted 37 pups in the southwest Seattle neighborhood so far this season, compared with 33 from August to December last year. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
17) A rescue worker dries a little blue penguin after it swam in a water pool to wash fuel oil from its body at the wildlife facility in Tauranga, New Zealand, on Oct. 14. The penguin was rescued from waters polluted by oil leaking from the container ship Rena, which ran aground on Oct. 5. Photo: Natacha Pisarenko / AP
18) Spix's macaws sit on a branch in their aviary at the association for the prrotection of endangered parrots in Schoeneiche, eastern Germany, on Tuesday, Oct. 11. According to the association, the Spix's macaw is the rarest parrot species in the world. The parrots vanished from the wild in 2000 and have been conserved in breeding programs. Photo: Patrick Pleul / AFP - Getty Images
19) An aerial view of a green stain on the sea's surface off the coast of the El Hierro, one of the Spanish Canary Islands, a day after two underwater volcanic eruptions were recorded. Photo: Spanish gov. via AFP – Getty
20) Two swimmers frolic in the waves in the Pacific Ocean at Venice Beach, California, October 13 as a mini-heat wave hit southern California. Photo: Mike Nelson / EPA
21) Packers receiver Greg Jennings leaps for a touchdown last Sunday night against the Atlanta Falcons in the Georgia Dome. Photo: John Klein. Here's another angle of the 29 yard TD play. Photo: Mark Hoffman. The Packers won, 25-14 to remain undefeated at 5-0.
22) Green Bay's Mason Crosby watches his 57-yard field goal last Sunday against Atlanta. Journal Sentinel photo: Mark Hoffman.
23) Milwaukee Brewers' Mark Kotsay is out at second as St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Nick Punto takes a throw on a fly out by Prince Fielder during the first inning of Game 3 of baseball's National League championship series Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011, in St. Louis. The Cardinals beat the Brewers, 4-3. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
24) A view of the Omnilife Stadium at the start of the opening ceremony of the Pan American Games in Guadalajara Oct. 14, 2011. The Games run through October 30. Photo: Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
25) Military veterans US Army Sgt. (Ret.) Dan Nevins, left, and North Carolina National Guard SSgt. (Ret.) Dale Beatty, look on as former President George W. Bush tees off during a practice round in the two-day Warrior Open tournament at Las Colinas Country Club, in Irving, Texas on Sunday, Oct. 9. Twenty wounded military members are competing in the two-day Warrior Open tournament being held in the Dallas suburb of Irving. Photo: Eric Draper / Burson-Marsteller via AP
26) Hungary's Zsuzsanna Krajnyak (L) fights with China's Wu Bai Li during the final of the Wheelchair Women's Epee category A during the 2011 World Fencing Championships in Catania on October 10, 2011. Krajnyak won 15-8 to become the new world champion. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace / AFP - Getty Images
27) A boy jumps between roof domes as he plays during the annual Tbilisoba City Day celebration in Tbilisi, Georgia, Saturday, Oct. 8, with Metekhi Church, built in 13th century, seen in the background. Photo: Shakh Aivazov/AP
28) Sir Paul McCartney and his fiancee Nancy Shevell arrive at Westminster Registry Office in Marylebone for their wedding on Oct. 9, in London, England. Photo: Facundo Arrizabalaga / AFP - Getty Images
29) Adam Lee, balloon twisting artist, stands beneath his giant balloon sculpture hanging in the Great Wolf Lodge Lobby in Grand Mound, Wash. On Oct. 13. Lee broke the Guinness World Record for "Largest Balloon Sculpture" with nearly 3,000 balloons measuring 45 feet 2 inches wide by 22 feet 2 inches long. Photo: Otto Greule Jr. / AP
30) Filopino fashion designer Herbert Chavez dresses like the "Man of Steel" as he stands among his huge collection of Superman mannequins, dolls and other paraphernalia at his home in Calamba, south of Manila, Oct. 13. The 35-year-old fan underwent extensive cosmetic surgery in an attempt to transform himself into his comic book hero. Photo: Jay Directo / AFP - Getty Images
31) A model displays a creation by Alpana and Neeraj at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week Spring Summer 2012 in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
A sign you won't see at those Occupy rallies. Photo: Michelle MalkinKevin, how could you?
How could you not include the pride of
Easy. I just goofed. So, I'll try to make up for the oversight with not one, but two photos.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Matt Kenseth (17) does a burnout across the finish line after winning the Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday, October 15, 2011. Kenseth won the race with Kyle Busch (18) finishing second and Carl Edwards (99) finishing third. Photo: Jeff Siner, The Charlotte Observer
Matt Kenseth, driver of the #17 Fluidmaster Ford, poses in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on October 15, 2011 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Jerry Markland/Getty Images for NASCAR)Culinary no-no #249
Jennifer was bedecked in a strapless sequined dress. Kyla was 30 pounds of angeliccuteness. Daddy was armed with a hefty Restaurant.com certificate. Thus, surf and turf turned out to be the entrée of choice.
Stipulated on the certificate was an automatic 18% gratuity. 18%? Fine with me, I thought. I was getting a super deal, and I normally tip 20% or more anyway.
In the past I've blogged that restaurant patrons should not disrespect their servers. They do hard work that all too often goes unappreciated by condescending diners. If they do a great job, they deserve a corresponding tip. The norm is between 15 and 20%. But they should earn it.
Reports this past week had
Here are two comments left on the local CBS affiliate website in
What was that?
Just before the Milwaukee Brewers were about to play, as the daily paper called it, another "stinker" in Game 6 of their series with the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday night, there was the customary tossing of the first ball, usually by a dignitary or someone that can stir or generate emotion.
Journal Sentinel photo: Tom Lynn
Brewers clubhouse attendant Alex Sanchez was dressed as Sully from Monsters INC. I know, I know. I get it.
Occupy Wall Street mob--the "Left's Tea Party"?
5TH UPDATE: The recall process in Wisconsin needs dramatic change
Previously on This Just In…
The update: State Representative Chad Weininger, a former city clerk, calls for reforms, saying the current recall process has been "hijacked."
UPDATE: Culinary no-no #249
So, some in San Francisco are pushing the idea. But in New York, it's already happening. Franklin aldermen poised to deny residents their Constitutional rights
After becoming the second to last state in the country to approve and sign into law conceal-carry legislation, Wisconsin sees its new law finally go into effect on November 1, 2011. Thousands of permit applications are expected. A spokeswoman for the Wisconsin Department of Justice, Dana Brueck told the Appleton Post Crescent there will be an initial influx of 100,000 to 250,000 applications to carry a concealed handgun, knife, or electronic weapon like a Taser.
"Our surveys have shown an experience of other states that range from 1.5 percent to 13 percent of the population. This would put us between the range of 50,000 to more than 700, 000," said Brueck.
"People (in Minnesota) were apprehensive, similar to Wisconsin. People have a fear of the unknown. … But the bill just went into effect, and in time, people just started thinking it wasn't a big deal."UPDATE: Franklin aldermen poised to deny residents their Constitutional rights
Previously on This Just In...
The following was sent to all city of
2ND UPDATE: Franklin aldermen poised to deny residents their Constitutional rights
Previously on This Just In...
The vote by the Franklin Common Council tonight was unanimous to refer to staff to return with an ordinance that brings Franklin ordinance into compliance with state statute relative to forfeitures but NOT include language banning conceal carry on city property.
For the moment, a victory for law-abiding citizens and the Constitution. Whatever happened between our blogs and the meeting, it worked,
The big question is: Where was Mayor Tom Taylor?
He was not at the meeting to defend his anti-Constitution proposal.
Why not?
And was he excused?
Did he tell anyone in advance?
This isn't over.E-mails, I get e-mails: Why men are never depressed
Men Are Just Happier People --
What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put.
The garage is all yours.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack.
You can be President.
You can never be pregnant.
Car mechanics tell you the truth.
The world is your urinal.
You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this
one is just too icky.
You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress $5000. Tux rental-$100.
New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood all the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
You know stuff about tanks.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough..
You almost never have strap problems in public.
You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes..
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can 'do' your nails with a pocket knife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives
On December 24 in 25 minutes.
No wonder men are happier.
Men Are Just Happier People
• If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other
Laura, Kate and Sarah.
• If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each
other as Fat Boy, Bubba and Wildman .
• When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20,
even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything
smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
• When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
• A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
• A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.
• A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste,
shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel.
• The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337.
A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
• A woman has the last word in any argument.
• Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
• A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
• A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
• A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
• A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
• A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.
• A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the
trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
• A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
• Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
• Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
• Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about
dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret
fears and hopes and dreams.
• A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people
remembering the same thing!
I'm on WISN
I fill in Friday from 8 am to 10 am on Newstalk 1130 WISN.Moammar Gadhafi's arrest seen via cellphone
An image captured off a cellular phone camera shows the arrest of WRTL Applauds Senate Action in Favor of the Obamacare Opt-Out
Wisconsin Right to Life Applauds
Senate Action in Favor of the
Obamacare Opt-Out
Taxpayers Protected from Paying for
Abortion Coverage
Obama is perfect...just ask him
"I guarantee it's going to be a close election because the economy is not where it wants to be and even though I believe all the choices we've made have been the right ones, we're still going through difficult circumstances. That means people who may be sympathetic to my point of view still kind of feel like, yeah, but it still hasn't gotten done yet."
President Obama in an interview with ABC's Jake TapperWhat's better than Three Musketeers?
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The Barking Lot (10/22/11)
The Barking Lot is a regular weekly feature of this just in…Written by my lovely wife, Jennifer and me. It opens with the weekend dog walking forecast followed by the main blog from dog lover, Jennifer. Then it's DOGS IN THE NEWS and our close. Enjoy!
THE WEEKEND DOG-WALKING FORECAST: We grade the weather outlook for taking your pet outdoors.
TODAY: You'll wake up to frost on the pumpkin. Then sunny. High of 62. "B"
SUNDAY: Sunny. High of 63. "B"
Here's my lovely wife, Jennifer with this week's main blog:
Bones, or a bowl of milk? Bark, or meow? Patch of grass/tree/fire hydrant or litter box?
So which are you…? A dog person or a cat person? Or do you consider yourself to be both? For years I considered myself to be "both" because I grew up owning and loving dogs AND cats. If it had four legs, a tail, and whiskers, I loved it; I didn't care if it barked or meowed. Now I consider myself a TOTAL dog person, no question!
Kevin does not hold in how he feels about cats: The best place for them, he says, is in the middle of
In my single days, my apartment allowed cats but not dogs. While that is common, it never made much sense to me. I always felt a cat could cause just as much damage as a dog, just in slightly different ways. Occasionally I would consider getting a cat or two but I never did. Knowing how I felt about Kevin (more serious about him than cat ownership) and knowing we would get married "some day" I couldn't imagine growing fond of my cat and then giving it up for adoption.
My best friend Michele has liked only two cats, ever: my sweet and obese Tommy from my childhood and her grandma's
A team of researchers at the
Part of the study at U of T included a questionnaire to measure personality inclinations, and matched those traits with pet preference. I think studies like this are interesting but can't help mutter "duh" at the basic generalization and conclusion that dog people are more outgoing and cat people are more neurotic.
---Jennifer Fischer
Thanks, Jennifer. Now I'll be getting hate mail from cat lovers.
Time now for DOGS IN THE NEWS, canines that made headlines the past week.
Are packs of wild dogs roaming St. Louis?
SCUM: Disabled woman's dog held for ransom.
Japanese snap up dog raincoats to protect their pooches.
Scottish dog owners blasted for making their pets obese.
Dog severely burned by heating pad during surgery.
Blue is gone, missing. There's more drama.
Just who is that dog?
Dog's stay at pet resort ends in lawsuit.
Many of the dopy ideas begin on the West Coast.
Black dog syndrome: Is it for real?
800 dogs kept off the menu in
Salmon for dogs? No.
Dog Training Therapy Act advances in Congress. MORE.
Meet Sky, a pet that's all ears.
How having a dog prepared me for my baby.
Yet ANOTHER story about how costly it is to own a pet.
Here's a story we never get tired of telling.
My dog-English dictionary.
Halloween dog safety tips...here are 10 of them. MORE.
What do you do if your dog doesn't like his/her Halloween costume?
A police dog called 'Obi' is pictured with his handler, PC Phil Wells, during a photocall in central
Thanks for checking in. Please tell a fellow dog lover about us.
We close as we always do with our closing video, and we have two this week.
Dogs take class to avoid rattlesnakes...
2011 POO Awards - Week 10
Each week during this year's high school football season, I'm giving out a weekly POO Award to the
POO stands for Piling On Offensively (Or if you prefer, Pouring it On Offensively).
Week 1
Luck 73, Birchwood 22
Week 2
Coleman 63,
Week 3
Edgar 71, Chequamegon 7
Edgar usually ends up on my list once a season. It led 59-0 at halftime of their blowout.
Week 4
Ashwaubenon 64, Green Bay West 0
The halftime score: 57-0.
Week 5
Walworth Big Foot 61, Clinton 12
Last week Big Foot scored 57. They outdid themselves this week.
UPDATE: The POO Award is posted each week on Saturday morning. However, some high school games are played on Saturday afternoon. After Saturday's action, I am adding another POO recipient:
University School 70,
Week 6
Leading 54-0 in the second half,
Extremely reliable sources tell me that when the score became 47-0 in the 2nd quarter, the commissioner of athletics for MPS instructed the official timer to implement the running clock, even though WIAA rules order a running clock not be used until the second half.
Assistant coaches for
Edgar 63, Phillips 0
Elkhart Lake 67, Stockbridge 0
Week 7
"We try not to run up the score on teams, but sometimes it just happens on accident," Bakari Triggs of Riverside told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
These accidents seem to happen a lot with
Edgar 64, Tomahawk 0
Cedar Grove-Belgium 63, Maranatha Baptist 0
Week 9Week-ends (10/22/11)
Stacie Crimm, a candidate for HERO OF THE YEAR...MORE.
Andre Bamberski
Zurana Horton
The Yeagers
Gilad Shalit
Glenn McGillivary
Ray Souchet
Matt Maciejewski
Moamer Qaddafi
Stacey Hessler
Xavier Alvarez
Graeme Zielinski
Phil Mitsch
Greater Niagara General Hospital
"It's very clear that private sector jobs have been doing fine. It's the public sector jobs where we've lost huge numbers."
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) defending President Obama's jobs plan.
"Those who are carrying out what is nothing less than urban guerrilla warfare are hurting the cause of people around the world."
Pierluigi Bersani, head of Italy's Democratic Party, on the dozens of rioters in Rome who destroyed property and injured more than 100 people after breaking free from a large group of peaceful protesters.
"I will be happy if all these prisoners are free, so that they can go back to their loved ones, their territory and their families."
Gilad Shalit, the Israeli solider who was imprisoned for five years by Hamas, in his first interview after his release in
"The worst thing about
Anne Coulter
"No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce."
Thomas Sowell
"There's not enough crime now. But it comes and goes, and there are always going to be knuckleheads stealing phones."
Robert Weston, a
"It was like a movie scene which they try to make as gnarly as possible."
Danica Patrick, racecar driver, on the 15-car pileup at a
"We started winning a little bit and literally played every game like it was the last game of our life."
Tony La Russa, manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, after his team's 12-6 victory over the
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke after the Cardinals beat
"I wanted them to win so badly."
88-year-old Brewers fan Doris White of
"The long season finally came to a close. Sure, there will be other sports to watch through the winter. The
But the Brewers were something different, provided something unexpected.
They captured a lot of hearts.
For a lot of fans, the next opening day can't come here soon enough.
April 6, 2012, Miller Park, the first pitch scheduled for 3:10 p.m.
The Cardinals will be back in town."
Bill Glauber of the
Police response time has gotten worse in
Man living as 'adult baby' cleared of Social Security fraud.
Anti-Semitism from the left.
Lindsay Lohan screws up again and wears bad makeup to court.
Bad voodoo.
That's it for this week. We close with NewsBusted.
UPDATE: Did Franklin run up the score against South Milwaukee?
Previously on This Just In…
November 8, 2010: "Did
The update. Today I received the following e-mail shortly after I posted my weekly POO Award blog:
Hello Kevin,
You may recall that last year, I commented in some depth on your blog regarding the playoff game between
While I still believe in what I saw, I wanted to offer an apology to any
Up 49 - 7 at the half against an overmatched Thomas More team, SMHS left their starting running back in to score a touchdown with the second-half running clock in full force. While I was not at the game in person, the box score made this clear as day.
To me, this is an egregious example of poor sportsmanship and I have, earlier this week, already directed a letter of complaint to the school principal. Her response was, if anything, even more saddening-- citing the need to leave the kid in so he could somehow impress recruiters and build a college resume. (My own brother recruited for D-III and FBS schools himself, and I happen to know that an extra touchdown scored against flimsy competition won't make any college coach's eyes light up.)
I'm extremely disappointed that this attitude of "winning at all costs", putting "us" first and the other guys a distant second, seems to have taken the place of good sportsmanship and building character-- helping boys turn into men of honor and discipline-- throughout high school football.
My own alma mater, where I played and coached, has proven themselves no better than anyone else in this regard. Lest I seem a hypocrite after last year, I would like you and other
Please keep doing what you do. Even in a small way, I hope that your shining a light on poor sportsmanship will help shame some of these "win-first" people into playing the game the way it was meant to be played.
South Milwaukee defeated Thomas More last weekend, 68-6.
Rich, thank you very much for your heartfelt e-mail. It's greatly appreciated.Recommended Reading (10/23/11)
Here are, in my view, interesting, noteworthy columns and articles from the past week that I highly recommend (You will note that on occasion, I do not endorse the opinions of the author and may point that out. Despite my disagreements, I still feel the piece is worth a read).
A letter to the lazy
"But the overwhelming majority of the people on Wall Street get up early, work an incredibly long, hard honest day, mostly trying to make money for your parents and grandparents and for the endowments of your universities -- and for a very few wealthy people who often leave their money to your schools."
Some belated parental advice to the protesters
"Call it an occupational hazard, but I can't look at the Occupy Wall Street protesters without thinking, 'Who parented these people?'
There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters' moms clearly have not passed along.
Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters' mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn't, so I will."
Four Habits of an Occupy Wall Street Occupuss
Brought to you by Doug Giles.
Top Ten Bad Signs for Obama
"Bad omens abound for President Obama in his quest to win reelection in 2012. The President will have an uphill battle in his bid for a second term when faced with these Top 10 Bad Signs."
Did 2008 come true?
"We are now nearing the third year of the Obama administration. Were those worries of 2008 at all justified? Let us briefly review them."
Thickheadedness gums up conceal carry
"You would think those who long opposed concealed carry would be the final hurdle for this right? Instead Wisconsin Department of Justice and the National Rifle Association are butting heads. Law-abiding people of
Sex ed: Let school districts decide for themselves
"There are misconceptions about the human growth and development legislation currently before the state Legislature. Let me be clear: Senate Bill 237 would not repeal the Healthy Youth Act or require abstinence-only education."
Kids' Stuff
"Every generation has a tendency to mock younger folks. It's in the American DNA. My father did it, my grandfather did it, and now, God help me, I'm doing it.
Recently I had occasion to travel to
The primary purpose of the trip was to get the urchins away from their electronic gadgets and show them the wonders of nature. The fall foliage in Bretton Woods was magnificent. Upon landing in the shadow of
I let my babies watch TV! And I regret nothing!
"Yes, many was the time I put on a baby video to buy that most precious parenting asset: a few minutes. Did that help my kids? I am not going to lie to myself. Did it harm them? Not in any way I can ascertain..."
From one holiday season to the next
"Halloween creep has created Halloween backlash as surely as Christmas creep has made some people wish Santa was never invented. The bigger Halloween gets, the more reasons people find to hate it."I read the news today: Are you kidding me?
On the final play of the game,
First, the photos from the Journal Sentinel's Mike De Sisti:My Most Popular Blogs (10/23/11)
As I post every Sunday, here are the five most read blog entries of mine from the previous week. NOTE: some entries may have been posted prior to the past week.
1) Franklin aldermen poised to deny residents their Constitutional rights
2) The WIAA screws
3) 2nd UPDATE: Franklin aldermen poised to deny residents their Constitutional rights
4) Ice Bowl hero: Gale Gillingham
5) Photos of the Week (10/16/11)
6) What's better than Three Musketeers?
7) Moammar Gadhafi's arrest seen via cellphone
8) UPDATE: Did Franklin run up the score against South Milwaukee?
9) Culinary no-no #249
10) The Barking Lot (10/22/11)Start making your plans, Franklin!
The latest pro-life news
From Pro-Life Wisconsin,
Nice work if you can get it
"Two lobbyists with no prior teaching experience were allowed to count their years as union employees toward a state teacher pension once they served a single day of subbing in 2007, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation has found.
Steven Preckwinkle, the political director for the Illinois Federation of Teachers, and fellow union lobbyist David Piccioli were the only people who took advantage of a small window opened by lawmakers a few months earlier."Time once again to play...FINAL JEOPARDY!
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What is fecal material?
1 out of 6 in the UK...can you imagine what it's like in the United States?
A violent terrorist gets a warm, lefty welcome in Milwaukee
Donna Cole has the details.Could it happen in Franklin?
Jane Ford-Stewart reports:
Not exactly the greatest movement in political history. Especially when it could be underminded by drum noise. From The Slate:
"Someday the Occupy Wall Street protests will end, and the only question is whether they will go out with a bang or a whimper—or a lot of loud banging followed by whimpers.Post-Reform Compensation Plan Ushers in New Era, New Savings
It's the sign of the times.
Franklin, you're getting it right for a change...don't blow it
The update:
The NOW's Rick Romano, who by the way will write anything you tell him and not challenge it, weighs in very late (as usual for the crack NOW reporters) on the conceal carry item.
The tone in Romano's latest effort sounds as though
"With the Nov. 1 start of a new era allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons,
By contrast, Greendale, Hales Corners and
As if to suggest all the other municipalities must be right and Franklin must be off its rocker.
Get used to it,
Random Observations - Part One
By guest blogger Thomas Reeves
1. To pay more respect to politicians than to used car salesmen is merely to honor superior artifice.A school tax levy sampler
The Franklin School Board meets tonight to approve the final school property tax levy having tentatively approved a -0.4% levy back in August. Here's a sampling of the status of other school district levies as of today that I found from our area and other parts of the state:Gee, Kev, you haven't called Franklin a Tax Hell in awhile
No I haven't. That's too much like a "dog bites man" story. But I consistently come across data that solidifies that designation for Franklin.
Here's the latest, from the non-partisan Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance. The WTA has listed the 2010-11 Municipal and Net Levies by Cities and Villages. Those would be the current levies. Municipalities are working on the 2011-12 levies as I write.
There are 594 cities and villages in
The city of
OK. The above is what
Now, the per capita based on the Net Levy is $2,571. That, to me, is a laugher. I'd give an appendage for an annual tax like that. That ranks us at #46, or in the top 8% statewide.
This year we get a huge break because Scott Walker's budget, approved by legislative republicans, basically mandates real honest to goodness property tax relief. Your locals had nothing to do with it. If they dare to grab credit, shame on them. Without the state budget,
Keep tapping your feet together, OK, here's another list...did Franklin make this one?
No way.
No how.
How do they shorten it in cyberspace?
Are you kidding me?
But then again, neither did Oak Creek, Greendale, Greenfield, Muskego, Bay View, Elm Grove, Delafield, Hales Corners, Racine, Kenosha, Lake Geneva, and many, many others.
What List?
This list.Hey, let's play FINAL JEOPARDY!
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Right here.UNCOVERED: Three Out-of-State SEIU Activists Registered To Vote From Hotel
From Media Trackers:
"After discovering that Occupy Milwaukee protester and left-wing activist Austin Lee Thompson used a Glendale hotel to register and vote. Media Trackers has discovered that at least two more out-of-state activists employed by the SEIU registered to vote from the Glendale Residence Inn hotel for the April 5, 2011 spring election.
SEIU organizer Todd E. Stoner from Freehold,
Read the entire report.
Just remember, there is no voter fraud.
Pro-Life WI video: After botched abortion, staffers laugh, dance as woman is taken in ambulance
Hot Air has the details.Abele correctly vetoes Franklin referendum
Earlier this week, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele vetoed a Milwaukee County Board-approved referendum on the Ryan Creek Interceptor project, an effort, by the way, that has the potential for explosive economic development in our city.
Abele used his pen appropriately, rejecting a proposal that has so many flaws it isn't funny.
A referendum on a
The timing alone warranted a veto. Voters would have voted yes or no next spring. Construction on the project begins this fall. Duh!
Here's another item that screamed, "VETO!" The referendum would have been advisory in nature. It carried zero weight, meaningless, not worth the paper it would have been printed on, not to mention the waste of taxpayer dollars.
Pushing this worthless idea was one of the worst members of the Milwaukee County Board, John Weishan. His motivation had absolutely nothing to do with appropriate public and fiscal policy. Hell no. Weishan wanted to stick it to
I didn't vote for Abele. I won't vote for him when he runs again. He got this one right.
It started out as a simple inquiry about the statewide smoking ban
Here's a very interesting story that has evaded the attention of the statewide mainstream media, and that's not surprising.
Mike Hanke of
HUH, you say? Hanke's reasoning is thus. If the smoking ban is a city ordinance, then the city could issue tickets to violators rather than having the county district attorney's office prosecute them.
There's a question as to whether
Meanwhile the law is being violated in Chippewa falls, but the violator doesn't get it under the law, the site where the violation takes place does.
Hanke wants the city to have power to go after violators because it's his claim the county is ignoring violators.
You mean to tell me the smoking ban has problems? Hmmmm…
Here's where it get really interesting. The state Department of Justice responded to Hanke's inquiry about the effect of a city ordinance that mirrored the statewide ban. It informed Hanke that if
Did you follow? If the city put the ordinance into law, the city could only regulate smoking on city-owned and regulated buildings. The city would not be able to go after smoking inside privately-owned bars.
Here's more from the Chippewa Herald and kudos for committing a flagrant act of journalism thus far ignored by everyone else in the state.UPDATE: Culinary no-no #3
More than 4 years later, here's the update.
Pictures you won't see this Sunday in Photos of the Week
But they are good!Texas is poised to defeat St. Louis tonight in Game 6 of the World Series
It's called justice.
The Cardinals beat Franklin vs. Brookfield Central: By the Numbers
* UPDATE below
BC defeated Goodnight everyone, and have a weekend that's just scary enough!
"Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween everyday. "
Gwen Stefani
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, beware.Careful. What was that?
It's Halloween weekend.
We've been doing this the past couple of years and stay true to our theme. You have no idea how badly I want to post the unique cover of the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" by Blood Sweat and Tears.
Get a grip, Kevin, Soft. Smooth. Mellow.
Got it.
We begin when I was just a boy. I begged to stay up to watch an ABC comedy that in its early days was broadcast quite late. Dad didn't care if I watched or not as long as it was in another room. Mom did care, but because she was so cool, she worried only about the late broadcast on a school night as opposed to the content.
An Earthling married to a witch?
In this case, the witch did not look like this...
She looked like this...The latest newsletter from Franklin alderman Kristen Wilhelm
Dear Residents,
The Barking Lot (10/29/11)
The Barking Lot is a regular weekly feature of this just in…Written by my lovely wife, Jennifer and me. It opens with the weekend dog walking forecast followed by the main blog from dog lover, Jennifer. Then it's DOGS IN THE NEWS and our close. Enjoy!
THE WEEKEND DOG-WALKING FORECAST: We grade the weather outlook for taking your pet outdoors.
TODAY: A chilly morning gives way to a sunny day. High of 52. "C"
SUNDAY: Showers. High of 51. "D"
Here's my lovely wife, Jennifer with this week's main blog:
Last week on The Barking Lot, Kevin featured two heart-warming videos about Coda and the brave men (Jared Thompson and Jamie Giese) who helped rescue him.
The firefighter who performed mouth-to-muzzle resuscitation said he had never done that before, and was not specifically trained in animal resuscitation. But his training and instincts took over and he did what he felt was necessary to save a beloved family pet.
Would you perform mouth-to-muzzle resuscitation to save your pet's life? An Associated Press poll found that Fifty-eight percent of pet owners - 63 percent of dog owners and 53 percent of cat owners – would likely perform this task.
Again, that poll cites PET OWNERS. The firefighter who saved Coda clearly did not know the animal before that critical moment. To me that makes his actions even more commendable.
I know people have different levels of tolerance for doggie kisses. One end of the spectrum is for people like me, who don't mind going through the "dog wash" from pets they own (or know well) and love. Others handle the occasional slurp much like Lucy van Pelt:
We're not talking pooches' smooches here, folks. We're talking about a life-or-death situation for your pet. Granted there may be the same fear that people have for administering CPR to another human being… What if I don't do it right? What if I break their ribs? What if I catch a disease from them? What if they want to sue me...? What's that Good Samaritan law again?
I have been trained in basic CPR more than once. Would I actually feel competent if I had to perform it right now? Absolutely not. I think that even if I received annual training I would still worry about doing it correctly, especially if the person was someone I care about. That wouldn't stop me from performing it, though. The last thing on my mind would be potential litigation.
I think that even if I never receive human-to-animal CPR training I would still give it a try if I thought it would help an injured animal. My feeling at that point would be, "It certainly can't hurt." (Not to mention the fact I don't know one single dog that has a lawyer!)
If you are that afraid of your dog's mouth and germs, why are you a pet parent in the first place? I'm willing to bet if the roles were reversed your dog would be MORE than willing to help you in a similar situation.
---Jennifer Fischer Just imagine, if there were no New York Yankees...
Fans would hate the St. Louis Cardinals.2011 POO Awards - Week 11
Each week during this year's high school football season, I'm giving out a weekly POO Award to the
POO stands for Piling On Offensively (Or if you prefer, Pouring it On Offensively).
Week 1
Luck 73, Birchwood 22
Week 2
Coleman 63,
Week 3
Edgar 71, Chequamegon 7
Edgar usually ends up on my list once a season. It led 59-0 at halftime of their blowout.
Week 4
Ashwaubenon 64, Green Bay West 0
The halftime score: 57-0.
Week 5
Walworth Big Foot 61, Clinton 12
Last week Big Foot scored 57. They outdid themselves this week.
UPDATE: The POO Award is posted each week on Saturday morning. However, some high school games are played on Saturday afternoon. After Saturday's action, I am adding another POO recipient:
University School 70,
Week 6
Leading 54-0 in the second half,
Extremely reliable sources tell me that when the score became 47-0 in the 2nd quarter, the commissioner of athletics for MPS instructed the official timer to implement the running clock, even though WIAA rules order a running clock not be used until the second half.
Assistant coaches for
Edgar 63, Phillips 0
Elkhart Lake 67, Stockbridge 0
Week 7
"We try not to run up the score on teams, but sometimes it just happens on accident," Bakari Triggs of Riverside told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
These accidents seem to happen a lot with
Edgar 64, Tomahawk 0
Cedar Grove-Belgium 63, Maranatha Baptist 0
Week 9Coming up on This Just In...
A This Just In tradition.
Watch for LIVE Trick or Treat blogging Sunday from 4-7 pm.
You just never know who will be wearing what.
Week-ends (10/29/11)
Wisconsin budget reform
Semiha Karaduman
Steven McDonald
Mark Lindquist
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
Face it, Brewer fans...David Freese
The US Justice Department
Leftist teachers
Hateful leftist bloggers
Hill Democrats
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro
Ian Murphy
Houston HOA
"People are in agony. We can hear their screams for help. We need urgent help."
Veysel Keser, mayor of Celebibag, a district in Turkey, after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake rocked the eastern part of the country, leaving villages in rubble and killing hundreds of people.
"This is the worst thing — knowing that there might be a crocodile or snake there waiting for you when you go back to check your home."
Patchara Promkaew, Thai woman, on the worries over escaped crocodiles from crocodile farms amid
"We had Katrina and we survived it. If the one coming here is a category 1 or 2, we could have a beach party."
Wendy Powers, Louisiana resident currently on vacation in Mexico, on Hurricane Rina approaching the
"I'm hoping our city government comes to their senses and stops dealing with us like a fascist state."
Samsarah Morgan, protestor in Oakland, Calif., on the police's use of tear gas and baton rounds during a protestors' march to city hall on Tuesday.
"We took pills and woke up the next day ... It was very impulsive and I am glad we woke up."
Ruth Madoff, wife of Bernie Madoff, speaking on 60 Minutes about the couple's suicide attempt.
"I'm going to wait until everybody's voted off the island."
Barack Obama, appearing as a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, joking that he won't pay attention to the Republican Presidential debates until the candidates are narrowed down to one or two
"These debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates."
Rick Perry, Republican presidential candidate, saying in an interview that it was a mistake for him to participate in the Republican presidential debates because they distract from policy discussions.
"The whole political class is just getting the memo that Ozzie and Harriet don't live here anymore."
Edward Hill, dean of the Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University, on U.S. Census data that reveals the growth of the poor population in the nation's suburbs.
"Gaddafi will be buried in a secret location that no one can find. Maybe that's where he should have hidden."
Stephen Colbert joking about the announcement by the National Transition Council in Libya that the former dictator, who was captured and killed Oct. 20, was buried in a secret location.
The "dumbest thing I ever heard."
TSA agent jokes about finding sex toy during luggage inspection.
Occupy Phoenix asks: When should you shoot a cop.
Walker recall losing steam.
Oh, no! Is Kim Kardashian's marriage on the rocks already?
Little Adolf, your parents are not guilty.
Child may have been saved by diaper.
Bobby wants to be a Girl scout.
That's not my date. It's a burglar.
Live birth performance artist gives birth.
That's it for this week. We close with the latest from NewsBusted.
Recommended Reading (10/30/11)
Here are, in my view, interesting, noteworthy columns and articles from the past week that I highly recommend (You will note that on occasion, I do not endorse the opinions of the author and may point that out. Despite my disagreements, I still feel the piece is worth a read).My Most Popular Blogs (10/30/11)
As I post every Sunday, here are the ten most read blog entries of mine from the previous week. NOTE: some entries may have been posted prior to the past week.
2) Photos of the Week (10/23/11)
3) Franklin vs Brookfield Central: By the Numbers
4) A violent terrorist gets a warm, lefty welcome in
5) Franklin you're getting it right for a change...don't blow it
6) UNCOVERED: Three Out-of-State SEIU Activists Registered To Vote From Hotel
7) Random Observations- Part One
8) Culinary no-no #250 Culinary no-no #251
Take a look at this photo:
You see children, in Halloween costumes, each with a bucket or bag to deposit trick or treat candy.
The kids await…
Trick or Treat: LIVE FRANKLIN TRICK OR TREAT BLOGGING BEGINS
For the record, it took our magnanimous Franklin Common Council not one, but two meetings to figure out what our hours would be before settling on 4-7 pm. the same schedule as in many previous years. They're slow. On rare occasion, they're actually worth waiting for.
It should be light outside until 5:48, sunset.
For you first-timers, this annual feature is incredibly popular.
You just never know what will happen or be seen in the next three hours.
Trick or Treat: WX
Mother Nature is dressed like a witch.
Like many a football game, the weather will be a factor today. The light showers from earlier have taken a break in
Still, we in the Midwest are very lucky.
Trick or Treat: THE MOST POPULAR
Here's what they're wearing this Halloween, though that may not necessarily apply to
Trick or Treat: FRANKLIN MAYOR TOM TAYLOR
No surprise. Hizzoner is usually one of the first at my door.
He was dressed as Milwaukee County Supervisor...
Trick or Treat: OUR EARLY VISITORS
Among them: Minnie Mouse, Sponge Bob, Buzz Lightyear, Woody, a hippie, and one brave young girl in shorts.
Trick or Treat: FRANKLIN ALDERMAN KEN SKOWRONSKI
The good alderman was not in costume, but he had something on his mind:
"Is Alderman Olson here?"
"Why not?"
"I don't know."
"Has he been here?"
"Why not?"
"Alderman, I really don't know."
Now I'm curious. We'll keep a close watch out for Alderman Steve Olson between now and 7:00.Trick or Treat: IF YOU'RE JUST JOINING US...
It's our annual live blogging of Trick or Treat: IF YOU'RE JUST JOINING US...
It's our annual live blogging of Trick or Treat: MILWAUKEE COUNTY SHERIFF DAVID CLARKE
Dressed as Milwaukee Co. Exec. Chris AbeleTrick or Treat: HALFWAY DONE AND...
Still no sign of Trick or Treat: THE NUN
Every Halloween, there has to be at least one.
This year...
He got nothing from me.Trick or Treat: THE WRONG TREAT
The Fischers gave out popular candy.
Should have handed the kids hot cocoa mix.Trick or Treat: LINDSAY LOHAN
Another celebrity at the door, but what a disappointment.
Instead of costume, she had an ensemble she wore at a recent court appearance.
What's with that make-up?Trick or Treat: POTUS
I meant no disrespect but I had to send him off empty-handed.
He said Michelle would never allow him to eat what we were dishing out.Trick or Treat: PAULA DEAN
Costume: Dietician
Trick or Treat: SEEN THE MOST AT OUR DOOR TODAY
1) Umbrellas
2) GlovesTrick or Treat: I'M SURPRISED
Decent turnout despite the rotten conditions.
Even so, LEFTOVERS!Trick or Treat: FRANKLIN ALDERMAN STEVE OLSON
He was a no-show this year.
First time.
In fact, reliable sources say he wasn't seen at any
At the next meeting of the Franklin Common Council, some aldermen plan to ask the City Attorney to launch a special investigation.Trick or Treat: LIVE FRANKLIN TRICK OR TREAT BLOGGING ENDS
I hope you've enjoyed.
For the record, Jennifer and Kyla were Tootsie Rolls.A word to all you pets about Halloween
From Conor Knighton at CBS:
Regular Sunday blog features
Photos of the Week (10/30/11)
Culinary no-no #251
Recommended Getting a photo ID to vote is such a hardship
Tell that to these folks.
UPDATE: Could it happen in Franklin?
I think I'm still laughing at myself.
Before we get to the answer, some background provided by a very revealing e-mail exchange I had with Franklin School Board President Debbie Larson. As a prelude to what's to come, I want to report Larson was kind, courteous, and responsive to my inquiries.
It all started last week. When I, with some disappointment, failed to read anything on school board member Janet Evans' blog about the school board meeting that dealt with the budget (pretty important stuff), I contacted Larson. My e-mail was short, sweet, to the point: