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Yeah, we just gotta go out there and make plays for him. Get him comfortable in the trowing game and in the running game. He's just another guy slinging the ball. We have full confidence in him and we think he's going to get the job done.
On whether the start at QB this week is more important:
That's every game. You always want to start out with a little bit of fire and you want to start out on top. Like ya know, score on the first drive. Definitely they are going to give him a lot of blitzes. That is what Maryland does anyways. All they do is blitz, they might play a little Cover 2 here and there. But that is what the defense does, so we just have to be ready for it.
On whether they can hurt Maryland because of the way that they attack:
Well, we gotta do what we gotta do. We leave it in the coaches hands, whatever Coach Whipple has planned. For Stephen to run this offense, is what we gotta do. We gotta rally around him.
On what Stephen was like in the huddle:
He was very calm, very calm. It was kinda shocking to see. When he came in there he was very calm. I guess, Coach Shannon always says, you never know when injuries are going to happen, and you never know when it's going to be your time and your time to play. Football is only a one snap game, anything can happen. Unfortunately Jacory went down and I think he did and great job coming in and stepping up.
On what he said to the guys in the huddle:
Basically, first thing he said was I got you boys. And everybody was like that's whats up. Orlando, is a senior on the offensive line, he was like ok i'm gonna make sure you dont get sacked. He was like I got you boys just give me a little bit of time. He was very confident and I think it showed.
On success in the second half with him at QB and whether it makes them more comfortable:
It just makes you realize that he is ready. I think he knows that his mind is right, his mind frame is right and he's not scared. He's not scared and is very confident. That definitely gives you, as a team, a big overview like whoa our quarterback is going to be ready going into the game.
On the team's mood:
After every loss, it hurts. No matter if its a big game, a small game, no matter what it is, a loss hurts. But you gotta keep moving forward. You can't keep looking back. Things happen, it's the game of football. It's a 50/50 chance everytime you strap the pads on.
On whether it hurts more than a couple of weeks ago:
A loss is a loss, it never feels good.
On why they play their best football when the chips are at their worst:
I don't know. I guess that's the way the balls have been swinging lately. We know it's all on us, it's all on the players. Definitely. Definitely on the players. I know a lot of media say the coaches have nothing to do with it. It's us players. We gotta step up, we gotta make the plays when we need it, we gotta make the stops when we need it. We just got execute. It comes down to no excuses, none of that. We just have to play football the way we know how.
On whether there is leadership amongst the players:
I feel the leadership is there, but like I said, when you aren't executing, of course a lot of questions are going to come. Why aren't these guys not coming out hot, just all of it is execution. If you aren't executing, you are going to make it look like that.
On why this late in the season execution is still an issue:
Like I said, it's the game of football. It happens, it happens. No matter what team you are playing, you can never take a game off, you are never going to over look an opponent, like I said it's a 50/50 chance every time you strap on those pads.
On what he has saw from Jacory the last couple of days:
Oh he's been good. He's been really good. Only thing that is different, was his injury status. Besides that, he's great. He's the same guy, walking around, talking fine. Everything is good with him.
On whether he seems to be bothered by his injury:
Na, he's good.
On whether there is now no margin for error:
That's what it was from day one. You never want to lose a game. I don't know not one person in this world who goes to the game and is like we could lose this one. You never want to lose, but at the same time, we definitely know now, one more slip what are you playing for.
On whether he felt energy was lacking before Jacory got hurt:
Not so much. I just think that we kinda started off slow. I think we under estimated them. I think we under estimated them by them losing two conference games. I think we kinda went in thinking we were going to blow them out. Those guys came to play, not taking anything from them, those guys came to play and we didn't.
On how much the receivers have worked with Morris:
We've worked with him a lot. He gets first team reps. Before practice, pre-practice, we have hook drills with the quarterbacks. So he gets a lot of reps with us. He get a lot of reps after practice, a lot of guys stay around and run extra routes for him. I think he has been getting a good amount of reps, in the summer time too. I feel comfortable with the amount of reps he's gotten.
On how the balls comes off different from his passes:
Probably throw the ball a little harder. That's about it. I feel like they are the same. Same placement, same ball placement. He's got a little more zip on it.
On whether more zip is a good thing:
It's whatever. As long as the ball is there, you gotta make the play. So it don't matter if it's coming slow, fast, it don't matter how it's coming, you got to make the play. So as long as he is getting it out there that's all that matters.
On deep ball at Virginia and if him catching it would have change the complexion of the game:
I think it would have. I take full responsibility for that. If you wanna make big plays, you got to step on plays like that and score. So I definitely take that one. But, we just got to from the start of the game, start off with a little fire under us and keep it going through and I think we lacked off after that first drive.
On how frustrating it is shooting yourself in the foot the last couple of weeks:
That's the main thing. If you set back and look at all of these games that we lost, if you really analyze the games, Miami beat Miami. You look at the Ohio State game, we didn't execute how we were supposed to. We had penalties, we had mental errors. We had the kinda things in that game, we lost. Also the Florida State game, and in this game, also the same thing in this game. I don't really see that a team just came in there and beat us. We killed ourselves.


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I too am tired... Maybe having an 18 month old helps with that. With DD, I felt the best I had in years - 1 migraine in 9 months, can't beat that.
I still don't have the migraines, but I have so many other aches and pains that keep me from sleeping, walking, hot flashes etc... that I didn't have before until after DD waas born
I figure if I can hold out for at least 6 more weeks, DS will be done and just putting on weight. I want him to be healthy more than I want to be out of pain
Btw - anyone else miserable in this heat? I used to love the warm weather, now I can't stand to be outside for more than 10 minutes!
Forget about going outside. I'm inside with the A/C at 78, ceiling fan going and a fan blowing directly on me and I'm still dying of heat...
I am so over being pregnant! I am trying to enjoy the kicks & the bonding, but I WANT MY BODY BACK! I have no control over my emotions, bodily fluids and the size of my ankles! My husband & I are definitely nervous about having a 2 yr old and an infant, but I just need to be back to myself! My boobs are gigantic, which didn't happen with my son, and I feel like this time the baby is so into my ribs and so high up that I could burp her out! C'MON AUGUST!!!!!! =)
I dont even wanna talk about the heat. we went to a local city festival and I had to buy two bottles of water just to be able to walk around. I want to go outside but I only do if I go to the store. i cant take this heat. Id rather be pregnant in the cold months. The sweating in ever spot is just wierd.
Lisaaa9281. I agree with you on every level. I just want ot be able to sleep on my stomach again. That was the comfortable way to sleep. I also hate the fact that I grunt at every move I make. i.e walking upstairs, rolling over, moving from one side to another, getting up. all of it is overrated. I would like to have a glass of wine too, but 7 more weeks and I can have one.
Sleeping has hit the point of being rather uncomfortable, but other than that, I think I am more sad that this might be my last. All of a sudden 8 more weeks doesn't seem that long and, as I always like to tell people, it's easier to keep them safe and secure when they're in your belly! The heat hasn't been bothering me too much, even a week in Florida didn't beat me up too bad. I try to walk everyday and I guess I'm weird, I like to sweat in the summer months. Someone up there said they'd rather be preggo in the cold - no way! I HATE maternity clothing in the winter, pants don't stay up, and I just hate being covered up. I seem to have an aversion to clothing lately, which my hubby doesn't seem to mind.
Don't get me wrong, I do have my moments where I just wish I could shake the feeling of always feeling like I ate too much, or when I'm bumping into people or cabinets and such, or when I just wish I could sleep on my stomach again. But they're small and don't last very long - I love being pregnant!
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Oh yeah! And if I dare mention it to DH, he goes on about "well, YOU wanted this baby, deal with it". Urgh! Duh! I did want her. I DO want her! I just want her here and in my arms. Silly man!
Wishing patience, peace, love and joy to each and every parent!
I'm going to whine for a minute. My first was born August 25, 2011 and I am due with the second August 28, 2012. The mini pill failed me. That means that I have been pregnant for nearly two years (minus the two and a half right after DD was born but suffered from such bad postpardom that it doesn't count in my mind.) When you talk about being prenant I concure. It isn't that we don't love the little people inside of us it just means that we would like to be truly alone once in a while. Our bodies ache, we have no energy, our other kids need us, we don't get to go play during the summer, our bodies are "misshapen" and move weirdly and DH doesn't know what it is like to grow a baby. Its hard. But we can do this. I don't know that our bodies are quite built for rapid succession pregnancy but we were built with a uterus and we can do this because we are awesome! Good luck!

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Handsome studio with Wi-Fi, Iwo Jima park view. Ultra-convenient, lies opposite DC's trendy Georgetown cafe and shopping area, minutes from Rosslyn metro station. Huge in-house gym, resort-style pool, sauna, onsite grocery! Bamboo floors, 4 closets.
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Handsome studio with Wi-Fi, Iwo Jima park view. Ultra-convenient, lies opposite DC's trendy Georgetown cafe and shopping area, minutes from Rosslyn metro station. Huge in-house gym, resort-style pool, sauna, onsite grocery! Bamboo floors, 4 closets.
High-end studio in leafy, resort-style complex, one-and-a-half blocks from Rosslyn metro. The ulta-convenient, resort-style complex is called River Place. It's just across the Potomac River from D.C.'s trendy Georgetown area, a hub of cafes, restaurants and upscale shopping.
The apartment features gleaming bamboo hardwood floor, tiled kitchen, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances (including a dishwasher), 32-inch wall-mounted flat panel TV, large L-shaped desk and Cararra marble bathroom vanity among other fine features.
It also includes its own, dedicated, high-speed Wi-Fi network -- separate from the slower, building-wide network.
The popular River Place South building provides an in-house fitness center with late-model cardio and strength equipment, large stretching area, sauna and steam room. The fitness center also offers free classes in such things as Piyo, which merges pilates and yoga, and Tai Chi, the Chinese martial art practiced for whole body fitness.
The apartment itself is sunny with a new double-paned wall-to-wall picture window; four closets, including a walk-in closet; and built-in oak-clad bookcases. It's fully furnished in contemporary style and fully equipped with all kitchenware and linens. This 6th-floor unit is 406 square feet and features a view of the Iwo Jima Memorial National Park.
From the apartment, you may walk across the picturesque Key Bridge in 15 minutes or so to D.C.'s trendy Georgetown neighborhood of ethnic restaurants, lively bars and busy nightlife. Everything is at your fingertips here -- it's ultra convenient for touring Washington D.C. and surrounding areas. Also in easy walking distance is Theodore Roosevelt Island, an 88.5-acre nature preserve in the Potomac crisscrossed by nature trails and boardwalk that transports you from the urban environment.
The building, known as River Place South, is part of a gated community. A concierge is on duty in an upscale lobby. Community amenities include a resort-style outdoor pool with lap lanes and Jacuzzi-like hot whirlpool. Also featured: an in-house health club with late-model cardio and strength equipment; an on-site grocery store open until at least 11 pm seven days a week; a hair salon/spa and dry cleaner/tailor shop.
On-site parking may be available by special arrangement. Garage spots typically rent for $125 per month.
Early check-in also may be available. If so, we're happy to accommodate.
The monthly rate is steeply discounted from the basic rate, after you plug in your dates.
Washer/dryers are on the building's first floor, operated with a credit or debit card (or quarters). The machines are new enough to be capable of sending a text message when a load is finished.
This apartment overlooks the Iwo Jima Monument National Park -- home to the iconic Raising the Flag sculpture, from a picture snapped during the Battle of Iwo Jima by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal. The property also lies close to jogging and biking trails along the Potomac, trendy shopping in nearby Clarendon and acclaimed restaurants. You may want to try the successor to Ray's Hell Burger, where President Obama treated then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to a fat, juicy sampling of what many still deem the area's best hamburgers.
For touring, the apartment's location is unsurpassed: 5 minutes' walk to the Rosslyn Metro station, an intersection of three metro lines -- Orange, Blue and the (new) Silver line to Tyson's Corner. Only one stop away on the Orange line is DC's Foggy Bottom Metro stop, which serves George Washington University, the World Bank and the State Department. Separately, a $1 shuttle bus whisks you over the Key Bridge to Georgetown and then to Dupont Circle, the heart of DC's intellectual life (home to some of the nation's most prestigious think tanks and research institutions, including the Brookings Institution, the Center for Strategic & International Studies, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the German Marshall Fund, The Eurasia Center, the Peterson Institute and the School of Advanced International Studies of The Johns Hopkins University).
Restaurants, shops, post office, bank, Target and CVS drug store are all just around the corner from River Place, either on or next to Wilson Boulevard, Arlington's main road.
Notes: The Iwo Jima Marine Corps War Memorial adjacent to River Place is a major D.C. landmark, visited by more than 1 million annually. It's home to the Sunset Parade, a rivetting, free performance Tuesday evenings during the summer months by the United States Marine Drum and Bugle Corps with the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon. You can hear the rehearsals and the show from the apartment, an extra bonus. Crowds also gather at the Memorial on the 4th of July to watch the national fireworks display.
The D.C. Circulator bus runs between Dupont Circle, Georgetown and Rosslyn. For just $1, you can hop on the Circulator at the corner of 19th St. N. and N. Moore St. -- about five minutes' from River Place -- and zip across the Key Bridge into D.C. For the return trip, pick up the bus in Dupont or Georgetown. Buses run every 10 minutes from 7:00 a.m. - midnight Sunday through Thursday and 7:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. on weekends. Those over age 62 ride at half price.
There are two private bus companies that run between Rosslyn and New York City. Vamoose Bus provides service several times daily from 1801 N Lynn Street in Rosslyn -- about five minutes' walk from River Place -- to Penn Station/Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan. The cost ranges from $20.00 to $30.00, depending on the time of day. Tripper Bus provides daily service from nearby 1901 N. Moore Street to the Macy's flagship store on 34th Street in Manhattan, for a similar charge (as of April 2016).
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The studio is all yours! Access is free to the community's many amenities, including superb in-house gym, sauna, steam room. Also on offer: free fitness classes several times per week. Outdoor resort-style pool. Jacuzzi-like whirlpool bath in a rock garden-like setting. Tree-shaded grounds with barbecue grills.
Quick communication when you need it, but full privacy for you to enjoy your stay. Happy to help with recommendations for getting the most from your DC-area stay.
The neighborhood is bustling and features superb metro and bus links to the DC area. Housing is more spacious than in DC proper, yet cheaper. And it's just across the river, affording spectacular views!
The connections are easy here. It's one-and-a-half blocks from Rosslyn Metro station to the River Place gatehouse. A straight shot to DCA Reagan National Airport via metro and to Dulles International Airport via the new Silver Line metro and shuttle bus. One stop by metro from D.C.'s Foggy Bottom metro stop. Short walk to DC's trendy Georgetown area across the Potomac River. Smashing bike and jogging trails, including easy access to Roosevelt Island, a nature preserve in the Potomac.
The building's management office requires that you register as a resident, entailing a $25 charge per person that must be paid by check, not cash, when checking in. This clears you to use the in-house fitness center, outdoor pool and other community amenities, including free fitness classes. It also gets you a personalized electronic key "fob" to streamline access to the building. A separate lease-like document is required to register as a resident.
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mmm yes, notepad...first game I touched today was Luigi's Mansion. you thought I was kidding when I said "GameCubies", didn't you? well you were right and I'm an asshole. So far I have beat the first boss, the adorable Chauncey, and have proceeded with blinding the shit out of more ghosts.
you know, as it was loading I happened to notice the copyright out of the corner of my eye, dated at 2001. 2001 man, that's ten long years ago. a decade! and I find myself actually having more fun than I would've with some of the newer games. the graphics and animation are as welcoming as a Nintendo-rendered hug, even if it has been so long. btw I have never seen a game break the fourth wall as awesome as Luigi's Mansion does, by having Luigi whistling his own theme. brilliant! I wish people took more time to notice the details, which is what I think is diminishing in games as you and I take time off our precious lives to read/write this. it's all about the greater experience, rather than filling up the current point in time that you're playing. make me feel the love! don't just dazzle me with shiny things to make me feel good about dropping 60 jokes.
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Holy Moses, Courthouse Flooding Gives Inmate a Shot at Freedom. For Now.
The Sheriff's Department sent over a boatload (heh) of photos from this morning's flooding at the Frank Crowley Courthouse, plus a mugshot of Juan Ramires, a jail trusty called in to join the mop-and-bucket brigade when a busted water main filled the courthouse's first floor with 1 to 3 inches of water. (The courthouse was evacuated and is closed to the public Friday.)
Ramires, who was being held on a misdemeanor charge of failure to ID, booked it out a side door in the confusion caused by the flooding, which makes him either very lucky or very dumb. (He faced a misdemeanor. Now he's an escapee. Unless he can run really fast, we're thinking dumb.)
Sheriff's PIO Raul Reyna sent more deets in a press release below. The upshot is that the any of you who faced jury duty in criminal court tomorrow is, indeed, a lucky bastard, especially if your boss doesn't know the difference between civil and criminal court.
The Frank Crowley Criminal Courts Building will be closed to the public on Friday, March 9,2 012. This closure does NOT affect the George Allen Civil Courts Building and Lew Sterrett Complex. Anyone with Jury Duty at those locations is still to report at those facilities for jury duty. These facilities will remain open. Public access to the Frank Crowley Criminal Courts Building is expected to return on Monday, March 12, 2012.
The Sheriff's Department Essential Personnel will still report to their stations.
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During the clean -up of the flooding that occurred at the Frank Crowley Court Building - Inmate Juan Ramires escaped/walked away from the crew of trustees assigned to help clean up the water. Ramirez was arrested by DPD on 3/7/2012 for Failure to ID Intent to Give False Information - a misdemeanor charge. Sheriff's Warrant Officers are currently attempting to track him down and take him back into to custody. Picture is attached. Anyone with information is urged to call the Sheriff's Department Warrant Execution Section at 214-653-2703 or Radio Communications at 214-749-8641
· Water main break in one of the electrical rooms on the first floor at the Frank Crowley Court Building broke this morning and flooded the first floor knocking out all elevators and escalators.
· The Frank Crowley Court Building is closed for the time being and we have evacuated all citizens and employees
· Only emergency personnel being allowed onsite
· The building's first floor incurred heavy damage and elevators will not be usuable until they dry out - could take a few days
· Damage/Cost assessments will not be available for at least a few hours
· DO NOT know if employees will return to work tomorrow.
· Sheriff 's Department will keep you updated with regards to Jury Duty and business protocol for tomorrow and the rest of the week.
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How to win office without actually winning
One of the most depressing things about Trent England's essay in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal is he points out that Minnesota's everlasting recount of the U.S. Senate race is utterly unnecessary.
England recounts how in similar circumstances – really close election result, really messy aftermath – Democrat Christine Gregoire's political allies cheated her into the governor's mansion. The process involved three counts (until it came out in the preferred way) and the revelation that Washington state's procedures were sloppy at best. He writes:
"Something is wrong when a victorious candidate owes more thanks to vote counters than to voters. Such was the case in Washington in 2004, and Minnesota is poised to follow in its footsteps in 2008.
"It need not be this way. After 2004, the Evergreen Freedom Foundation produced a 42-page report offering a dozen solutions. While a few were implemented, most were simply ignored by officials content to cross their fingers and hope the next close election is in someone else's jurisdiction." (2)
Things white people aren't supposed to say
The guy who wanted a Republican leadership job and so sent out a Paul Shanklin CD and promptly got into racial-sensitivity trouble should have realized something: You're not permitted notice Obama's race if you're Republican.
Seriously: Whether this is right or not is, for the purposes of the job he wants, immaterial. Cluelessness should disqualify him.
The problem, as you may have heard, is that the disc of 41 song parodies from the guy who does all those parodies you hear on Rush Limbaugh included one called "Barack the Magic Negro." See the lyrics here. It hasn't a trace of racism in it, of course, and it's not even mocking Obama but, rather, Al Sharpton and other old-line race hustlers and the way they reacted in that whole is-Obama-black-enough episode early in the campaign. »Read Full Blog Post(13)
Fat. So?
Look, it's not enough that my scale scolds me. The signs are plain that we're all – I refer to that portion of America that's overweight -- about to be frowned at as only Big Mama Government can frown.
Take, for instance, this fairly typical essay on the matter from a Wisconsin pediatrician on Thursday morning's Perspectives page. "Overweight causes are complicated," writes the no doubt well meaning doctor, "but portion sizes, lower activity levels, longer hours in front of the television and computer and fast food are certainly part of the problem. Do we need to look deeper for causes of this health concern?"
You can bet "we" will. "There are real changes that we can make in our daily lives to add balance and meaning," she threatens. "On an individual and family basis, we can change routines and schedules to take control of our health and include as many active, sweat-inducing and muscle-contracting activities as possible." »Read Full Blog Post(3)
Another failing car company
They made the sleek, exciting cars that everyone must have – only, well, everyone didn't have to have them, so Colorado Railcar has gone belly-up, reports the Antiplanner.
Yes, you've heard of the products of this firm – self-propelled diesel rail cars for commuter service. Dane County was thinking of buying some a while back (nearby is a Journal Sentinel photo of one visiting Madison in 2002), and one was displayed in Milwaukee a few years back to gin up interest in rail transit. But, hey, they're the wave of the future, you know.
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Look, just say you want to peel more money out of us and be done with it
What's fascinating is how many people miss $4 gas. They miss it so much they propose all kinds of taxes to make certain that the one break you've caught in this downturn, the sudden relief of gasoline going from $4.25 a gallon to $1.59, evaporates post-haste.
The ideas range from the nearly plausible – see Charles Krauthammer's notion, for instance, of a gasoline tax that would make everyone economize on fuel but would at least be a dollar-for-dollar swap for payroll taxes – to the naked money grab. For the latter, see the essay by a couple of UW-Madison professors of politics in Sunday's Journal Sentinel.
Gregory Nemet and David Weimer say that now's the chance for policy-makers to hit us up for more gasoline taxes, since the price is down and so no one will notice it. Their specific idea is an "oil import fee," levied on each barrel of crude, the excuse for which is that costs money to keep the Navy patrolling around the Middle East. »Read Full Blog Post
Get your dam story straight
Also in Sunday's paper, environmental lobbyist Dan Kohler and Democratic state Rep. Andy Jorgensen (D-Fort Atkinson) encourage the state to make people buy more energy from renewable sources. Why, they say, there's lots of it to be tapped.
They proceed to mention – well, wind, and manure. Which are nice. Windmills are pretty. Wisconsin's an all right place for them, as long as you can convince people living in the countryside that flickering sunlight and dodgy TV reception are acceptable.
And windmills do generate lots of power for Wisconsin. Well, OK, they don't. They generate, according to the federal figures put out in May, about 0.2% of the state's electricity. But it's a virtuous one-five-hundredth of our power! »Read Full Blog Post(9)
More corporate greed spoils the environ. . . Never mind.
How awful, the way some power company in Tennessee, piling up the ash that was left over after it burned coal raped out of the Earth, ended up ruining the environment. Full details here, but for decades, the utility in question knew its fly ash retention pond was trouble waiting to happen. Now there's genuinely one devil of a mess in Tennessee. It's as pure an example of corporate misbehavior, greed triumphing over good sense at the expense . . .
Only, of course, the corporation in question isn't a corporation. It's a federal agency, the Tennessee Valley Authority, which holds a monopoly on power production in a big swath of the middle south. It's a remnant of the New Deal that has lingered on, running power plants and not tending to their ash piles. As it is non-profit, it presumably is incapable of greed. As it is a human organization, it is perfectly capable of neglectful, slovenly behavior and, as, again, it is non-profit, it has no incentive to do otherwise, really.
Whereas if it were out for profit, it might spill its ash (one Pennsylvania utility did so three years ago, though at only one-sixth the scale of TVA disaster) or it might think of something else to do with the fly ash, like make concrete of it. (5)
Good intentions are nice but not sufficient
Sometimes, in fact, meaning well is not enough. You really need a professional carpenter or two.
Especially when the volunteer help you have is celebrities. Or ex-presidents. And the land you've got is an old landfill. In Florida.
Climate change continues apace
I mention this only because not a crocus emerges so much as an hour earlier than in years past but that we're told it's ominous climate change upon us. So it's worth noting the news from Holland:
"For the first time in 13 years, a Dutch championship ice-skating marathon is to be held on natural ice," reports Dutch radio. The ice is nearly 12 centimeter thick, the minimum necessary, and it's been cold in Europe lately. As it has been in quite a few places, come to think of it.
It's only a scandal if it ruins someone's belief
A question, amid the sudden eruption of the . . . well, no, it's not a scandal or even the hint of one in the case of Bill Richardson.
It's only a, well, whatever you call the slight infelicity that makes him now unsuitable to be nominated for President-elect Obama's cabinet.
But this question arises as the not-even-the-seed-of-a-scandal unfolds: »Read Full Blog Post(5)
Even Toyota has a bad year
Toyota's had a bad year. It's had to recall a lot of cars. It expanded too aggressively, writes Paul Ingrassia. It's going to suffer an operating loss for the first time in 70 years, which shows you how severe the present downturn is.
Most of all, writes Ingrassia, the company's got way too much manufacturing capacity around the world.
What's it's not doing, however, is getting a bailout from you. Ingrassia writes: »Read Full Blog Post(11)
UAW contracts, then and now
It's not just that labor costs at the Detroit Three are so high. It's that the Detroit Three's relationship with the United Auto Workers is so antithetical to innovation, flexibility or even common sense, say economists I talked to for my Sunday Journal Sentinel column.
One of them, Mark Perry, who teaches in Flint, had mentioned the remarkable example of the current UAW-Ford contract. It's more than 2,200 pages long. It's 12 inches tall.
And thanks to it, it's nearly impossible for Ford to do here what it is doing so profitably in Brazil, which is innovate.
But another (http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/01/uaw-ford-master-contracts-2007-vs-1941.html) fascinating comparison from Perry: The current contract vs. the 1941 contract. This would be the pact that, as the unions like to say, gave you the weekend and the glory that was the 1950s. It managed to do so in 24 pages.
Foster care success
If you haven't yet, make sure to see Art Kabelowsky's profile of Howard Nolan, a senior at Dominican High School who is, as Kabelowsky writes, "a popular athlete, a friendly classmate, a beloved family member, a dedicated volunteer. A happy kid."
Nolan is the adopted son of his parents, who before that were the foster parents caring for him after his 11 months in the hospital, where he was treated for burns over 86% of his body. He'd been abused so badly by his birth mother that doctors thought he'd never walk. When his parents took him in, he was 8, could not read, and could barely speak.
The story of his transformation is amazing and well worth a read in its own right. But it also does this: Amid the terrible news emerging lately about children dead or injured because of failures in the foster care system, it is a reminder that the system can serve children well. The story is medicine against despair that the system could ever be made to function. It can. »Read Full Blog Post
Happy cool year
Tom Nelson and Watts Up notice something about the new U.S. temperature figures out for 2008 from the National Climatic Data Center: They make for an interesting decade.
Short story: It's been getting cooler. Nelson writes:
"Because some infrequent readers may have problems to interpret these words, let me emphasize that this cooling means that there has been no warming in the U.S. for 10 years. In fact, there has been a cooling, and a rather fast one that would subtract 2.7 °C per century if it continued by the same rate (and it surely won't)."
Phoenix gets the modern feeling that only being $1.4 billion lighter can confer
Phoenix no longer is the largest U.S. city (about 4 million, metrowide) without rail transit. It now has itself a 20-mile "starter" system, as it's called.
The system carried "thousands" on Monday, as the local paper put it, the first workday on which the train charged a fare. Which will be going up, as the newborn system is already starved for cash and expansion plans are on the books.
$1.4 billion was just the beginning. »Read Full Blog Post(15)
No, you just stay writing, please
Don't miss community columnist Heather Johnstone's debut column in the Journal Sentinel. She's got 20 new year resolutions, all as snappy as the chili she plans to make in a spirit of defiance (you've got to read it to find out why).
For instance:
"5) I will get a job in Milwaukee just so I can have nine paid sick days. Vacation!"
Milwaukee gets sick leave, Heinemann's dies of the grippe
Actually, the venerable restaurant chain dies, say owners, of the recession. Tough times all around. And competition: "Increasing competition in an overbuilt restaurant industry and the economic recession adversely affected our business," said co-owner Peggy Burns.
It's been doing so for a while. It closed its Greendale location last summer, and other spots it had opened earlier this decade didn't work out. So this isn't terribly surprising, unfortunately.
What is surprising, however, is the third reason Burns gave. The Journal Sentinel reports: "Burns also blamed the new Milwaukee ordinance that requires employers in the city to provide sick days to their workers." »Read Full Blog Post(25)
Recycling vs. the meadow
So Cardinal Stritch University is going to be left hanging a while longer on whether it can turn the Cousins Center into an undergraduate campus. It's going to be at least a month before St. Francis can try again on a hearing that was canceled this week when too many people showed up for them all to fit in the city's wee little City Hall.
The city's planning commission in November favored Stritch's plan, which relieves crowding at its north shore campus as students flock to the school. The Common Council was going to vote Tuesday, but now that, which has to wait until after a public hearing, is off, too.
This isn't good. It gives opponents time to gin up more opposition to what amounts to the best plan yet for buildings the Milwaukee Catholic archdiocese has to unload. »Read Full Blog Post(4)
TV news reporter promoted to irrelevance
It's all very nice, writes Steven Milloy, that CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta is nominated to be surgeon general. Quite an honor.
And not much else. It turns out the surgeon general used to do a lot, such as oversee anti-leprosy efforts. Nowadays? Well, there's a healthy advocacy youth golf, and banging on about Disney characters on product packaging . . .
So, why exactly do we have a surgeon general?
Inattention to detail will get you every time
Details like not showing up at a conference that taxpayers sent you to. Or getting enough valid signatures on your petition to run for school board.
And so the Milwaukee School Board's Charlene Hardin problem is tidily solved.
But, hey, Grand Theft Auto's OK only a few years later
A poll of British parents finds that a lot of them don't think their kids can handle Snow White.
The Telegraph reports that such customary tales "are being dropped by some families who fear children are being emotionally damaged." Rapunzel? Too dark. Cinderella? Hey, that's slavery. And the gingerbread man? Well, see, he gets eaten, so a fifth of the 3,000 parents polled said they wouldn't touch the book.
Not that everything is lost. "Winnie the Pooh" is big, presumably because they haven't yet realized that Christopher Robin shooting down the very silly bear when his balloon venture goes awry is, geez, violent. »Read Full Blog Post(6)
Men with shovels. That's change we can believe in.
Lee Holloway, miffed that Scott Walker is abstaining from the mass gluttony of the federal stimulus grab, is going to send Gov. Doyle his own wish list of Milwaukee County projects that federal taxpayers should pay for.
I'm sure it'll be only the most vital things, of course. Such as building a new mental hospital on the county grounds instead of, sensibly, reusing the empty St. Michael Hospital, a more economical deal. But, hey, there's an economy to stimulate. Who cares about economizing?
The most illuminating bit of Holloway's letter is where he alludes to "hundreds of Civilian Conservation Corps workers" back in the 1930s building county parks. Presumably, he feels a pile of someone else's money sent here from D.C. can do much the same. Another board member, Elizabeth M. Coggs, glowingly mentioned such New Deal pick-axe projects as a way of cutting down how many African-American men are imprisoned and of eliminating Milwaukee poverty. »Read Full Blog Post(23)
Just like Hoover. Except for taxes and infrastructure.
Did you see that letter in the Journal Sentinel from the guy ripping on Scott Walker for not demanding some borrowed federal handouts? The fellow threw out the new liberal curse, calling Walker another Herbert Hoover. Oooh.
By this, the man apparently meant that Walker's preference for tax cuts and suspicion of big, splashy government make-work mirror the disastrous policies that another Republican, Hoover, pursued as the country descended into depression.
Only those weren't the policies that Hoover pursued. The letter writer got his facts exactly wrong. »Read Full Blog Post(53)
Walker, Heinemann's, Hardin and smart people
Well, and me, too: I'll be on "Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes," along with the wise folk. Pundit Ken Lamke, editor Mikel Holt and county board member Lynn DeBruin and I will be on the panel, discussing Scott Walker's refusal to be stimulated, Heinemann's closing, digital TV's possible delay and Charlene Hardin's blunder.
See it at 10 a.m. Sunday on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) or anytime on computer here.
Tell us what to do
No, I mean that. The Journal Sentinel editorial board is looking for some people to tell us what to do. Go on, beat us, hurt us, wound us with your well-thought criticism or spur us to action with ideas that you've had but we haven't. Eat our cookies (that's literal, too).
The paper is looking for people to serve on the editorial board's Reader Advisory Panel. It meets once a month – the cookies and soda are the pay – and mainly is there to give us some perspective from non-journalists who read news, think about things and have opinions.
You, in short. »Read Full Blog Post
John Galt, call your office
Stephen Moore the other day in the Wall Street Journal on how, lately, you get the feeling that we're all characters in some Ayn Rand nightmare:
"The current economic strategy is right out of 'Atlas Shrugged': The more incompetent you are in business, the more handouts the politicians will bestow on you. That's the justification for the $2 trillion of subsidies doled out already to keep afloat distressed insurance companies, banks, Wall Street investment houses, and auto companies -- while standing next in line for their share of the booty are real-estate developers, the steel industry, chemical companies, airlines, ethanol producers, construction firms and even catfish farmers. With each successive bailout to 'calm the markets,' another trillion of national wealth is subsequently lost. Yet, as 'Atlas' grimly foretold, we now treat the incompetent who wreck their companies as victims, while those resourceful business owners who manage to make a profit are portrayed as recipients of illegitimate 'windfalls.'"
Wigderson, however, brings up how Rand's doorstop of a book isn't an unmitigated good. There's the dictatorial tone, there's the 60-page-long quotes . . . (1)
It would be nice if the village weren't morally neutral
Make sure not to miss Willie Hines' essay in Sunday's Journal Sentinel on something the schools in Milwaukee should be teaching children – behavior.
"Some might say that ethical instruction is the job of the family, the church or some other institution. I can appreciate that sentiment," writes Hines, the Common Council president.
"However, there is a place for moral and ethical training in our schools. And there is a simple answer for parents who contend that MPS has no business pushing its own brand of morality. Simply put, MPS already is pushing its own brand of morality. »Read Full Blog Post(19)
Spiraling? Who said Gaza is spiraling?
Maureen Dowd, wistful she's about to lose a president she can kick at by reflex should cognition fail her, takes one more whack at George W. Bush.
Interesting, though, the lineup of things she says the soon-to-be-ex-president is letting go to hell. She writes, "From Gaza to the unemployment figures to the $10.6 trillion debt, things keep spiraling while W. keeps fiddling."
Leave aside unemployment and debt for this post. Bush says he's chucked aside free-market ideas – he's on his own there. But Gaza? Gaza keeps spiraling while W. keeps fiddling? »Read Full Blog Post(3)
Winter proves Milwaukee is unsustainable
When I wrote the other day about Waukesha and its request to use and recycle Lake Michigan water instead of pumping groundwater and flushing it down the Fox, I pointed out that there are critics saying the Great Lakes compact doesn't allow suburban growth.
Rather, a city like Waukesha might get water if it's really desperate, but only enough to stay alive, say these critics, and certainly not water to help it grow, or "sprawl," more.
Bad policy, I opined – if the compact really does stop the growth of metro Milwaukee, the compact is unsustainable. But, as an alert reader points out to me, the compact doesn't even do that. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Not every promise can be kept
I get the reason so many commentators fault the move to 401(k)s and say that pensions were the thing. Having your own retirement account gives you power, but that comes with risk. With pensions, the risk is on someone else. Some people find a lot of comfort in that.
Still, this news shows why this isn't worry-free. U.S. companies could have to contribute almost $109 billion to corporate pension plans this year, Reuters reports, to make up for what those funds have lost investing. "Companies will still struggle to meet the large and unexpected contributions," a consultant reported to the Senate.
"Employers may be forced to make tough choices to cut costs."
Which is merely to say that putting the risk onto employers doesn't eliminate the risk, not even to employees. If you've lost big in your 401(k), it's a paper loss unless you are the unlucky sap who must cash out and were still, strangely, all in stocks. But if your employer lost big and, to make the legally required payment, lays you off, it most certainly isn't a loss only on paper. The beauty of traditional pensions is that they tend to insulate employees from risk, but they can't hermetically seal us off from it.
Someone will come out ahead. It won't be you.
Gov. Doyle is trying again on his hospital tax. It is, as last time, a dodge to milk more money out of Medicaid. You'll be told this is a net plus for the state, a costless tax. Believe that and I've got a Bernie Madoff to sell to you.
To review, here's how the tax works.
The state charges hospitals a tax on treating people. Hospitals will inevitably pass it along in their rates, so you'll pay it, or your insurer will, but they're not in it for charity, so you'll pay at some point. »Read Full Blog Post
The revolution, apparently, starts with drinking
Bruce at Badger Blogger is sick and tired of conservatives being punching bags. Two and a half months is about as much as he can take.
His advice? Fight back, since we have facts and reality on our side:
"Go to their blogs, take them on, challenge their hypocrisy, exploit their weaknesses, expose the angles behind their agendas. Beneath their name-calling and end-justifies-the-means mentality, they don't have much to work with. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Why does the city code hate people?
So let me get this straight: If you go outside when it's 25 below, start your car, then go back in to bundle up the kids so that they have to freeze for a little less time waiting for the car's engine to warm up enough to shift into drive – it's worth a $20 ticket in Milwaukee (with one specific exception)?
Why, exactly? Why does the city code hate humans? (16)
Another local official who's shunning the trough
As mayors send wish lists Washingtonward, Appleton's Tim Hanna is abstaining, reports Jo Egelhoff at FoxPolitics:
"For one thing, he says he doesn't have extra projects sitting on the shelf for someone else to pay for – any projects designed and ready to go are in the $30 million worth of projects included in Appleton's 2009 budget. 'If cities have projects they've spent money (designing), but haven't funded, why have they wasted the design dollars?'"
Look, if the work wasn't worthwhile enough to make the cut when communities were allocating their own money, why should they be more careless when throwing around taxpayer money from somewhere else? Then there's the fairness issue: »Read Full Blog Post(2)
All depends on where you position the baby stroller
R.G. Thayer at Commentary does a little useful compare-and-contrast, with documenting links, between the utterly non-equivalent sides fighting in Gaza.
Or, for "baby stroller," substitute "school," which happens to be where the Hamas rocket-men are happily employed, the United Nations admits. Your tax dollars, converted into U.N. dues, at work.
Some forward looking hindsight
Historian Andrew Roberts tells in the Telegraph how he ruined his chances to be on a radio debate about President Bush:
He said he thought he's a good president.
You can get the opposite view anywhere. Just put a cliche antenna and you'll catch mindless tripe like this from Leonard Pitts: "Credit where it's due: you were the best U.S. president Africa ever had. Your work to reduce AIDS rates on the mother continent never got as much attention -- and praise -- as it deserved. But there the list ends: I find it impossible to think of another praiseworthy achievement." »Read Full Blog Post(3)
All right, Mr. Smarty-Exec, what about buses?
In Friday's Journal Sentinel, I rage about the idea of buying things local officials didn't quite see as a top priority when they had to justify them to taxpayers – and doing it now that the federal stimulus fountain is a-pumping.
This is, I point out, money that the feds don't have. They're going to borrow it, huge sums of it, piling a trillion bucks of debt onto your kids so canopies over the gathering area at the zoo don't have to wait a year until there's money in the budget:
"There's a reason these projects Holloway is passing along didn't get money. It's because the county had bigger priorities. The sheriff, for instance, would like to replace some squad cars. Until Holloway wanted to compile an envelope full of dreams, they'd have waited. Economically reuse St. Michael as a new mental hospital? Nah: For $92 mil, we can build a new one! The parks, widely said to be 'falling apart,' because the bathrooms need some paint, are hoping for $1.9 million in playground equipment now rather than later. »Read Full Blog Post(5)
The president-elect visits key supporters
That would be the Washington Post newsroom. Politico's Calderone reports there was much excitement. He quotes the Post's Howard Kurtz who, while noting there wasn't at least a standing ovation, "There hasn't been this much excitement in The Washington Post newsroom since Brad Pitt dropped by." (8)
Hey, you voted for him
President-elect Barack Obama tells the Washington Post "he will consider it a failure if he has not closed the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the end of his first term in office."
Reminder: That's four years from now.
Seems a reasonable timetable to me. It may be a little long, however, for all those supporters of his who regard Guantanamo as the American gulag.
Oh, well: Obama won. Get over it.
Who is Attorney General-designate Eric Holder?
Joseph F. Connor tells us who Obama's attorney general is, in a remarkable essay in the Los Angeles Times.
Eric Holder also served President Clinton. He was instrumental in getting Clinton to pardon imprisoned members of the home-grown terrorist group FALN, which violently sought independence for Puerto Rico.
They did this, according to the group's own claim of responsibility, by blowing up people, including Connor's father. "One of my father's colleagues was decapitated, and silverware from the table was lodged in the torsos of the other victims," writes Connor. »Read Full Blog Post(10)
Commuter rail runs into reality
Transit accountant Tom Rubin, who used to keep the books for a transit agency in L.A. and who now consults, was in Milwaukee Friday to talk about the proposed commuter train to Kenosha and whether some smarter alternatives might exist.
Rubin outlined again what he's outlined before: That the KRM proposal makes sense if your question is, what kind of transit option provides the fastest ride for the money between downtown Milwaukee, downtown Racine and downtown Kenosha. But why would you limit yourself to those criteria when there are other routes worth exploring?
You can see this in detail in the report he did on KRM and other options here (pdf). Or if you want the shorter FAQ, you can get that here (also pdf). »Read Full Blog Post(2)
The debt that now must not be mentioned
I've been getting lots of email from people miffed about my column in the Journal Sentinel the other day in which I complain that this vast river of "stimulus" is really all borrowed money, piling up debt on the kids who will someday also have to pay up when Social Security collapses.
"Sure, now you mention debt," say the emailers (I'm summarizing). "What about all the spending that Bush . . ."
Or, as one anonymous emailer who sent a message from this Madison tech college department's public email box put it: »Read Full Blog Post(11)
Goes better if you don't have to work tomorrow afternoon
Tom McMahon has all you need – beer excepted – to take part in the big speech tomorrow.
'If President Obama succeeds, the United States succeeds'
One of the chief new-idea guys among conservative politicians finds the way to be kindly disposed toward the next administration: "Regardless of political party, all Americans have a stake in a successful Obama administration."
Still, as Freedom Eden points out, one can be a little over-the-top. To wit, the Catholic church bulletin with the "thank you for your support" photo of Obama inside and the pastor's message declaring the new president's win a "miracle." Which, as Dad29 points out, isn't quite on a par with feeding 5,000 via a few loaves and fish.
What would require a miracle, Freedom Eden points out, is for the guy to start seeing the unborn as humans worthy of protection. (3)
This is the president I voted for
You know, I'm going to have to start keeping a list on all the good news coming out of the Obama administration.
First, there was news that maybe having all our troops out of Iraq by mid-2010, which is what Obama had promised his fans, won't work after all. He's been hedging for months, but last week, his veep went to Iraq to assure the government there that "the new administration will stick to the timetable in the agreement" – that's the Bush-signed deal that our forces would be gone by the dawn of 2012.
So now, the Obama admin, as Abe Greenwald pointed out, "is officially on-board with the Bush Iraq plan. That means American troops in Iraq for at least three more years. This comes as no surprise to anyone who's been watching the progress in Iraq closely. But the unqualified reversal from anti-war ticket to pro-war administration is still something to marvel at." »Read Full Blog Post(21)
How Wisconsin gave mess halls a bad name
Wisconsin, it turns out, managed to give Army mess halls a bad name, the Associated Press reports.
The Army had hired a branch of our state government to run the food service at Fort McCoy, through which something like 100,000 soldiers pass annually. The state botched it, with insects in the dining hall, a metal bolt in the beans and worrisomely unsafe conditions spooking the Army so badly, it threatened to drop the contract – and finally did.
This all emerges, apparently, because the state's in a legal fight not with the Army but with the manager it hired to run this operation. We would have heard about it earlier, but it was the state screwing up, not some company that used to be owned by a company that once was headed by a vice president that lefties hate. No Halliburton, no foul, in other words. (3)
You mean we can say Hus. . .
Nope. Obama can say his middle name. You can if you hold the correct thoughts about him. Conservatives? Bah.
As James Taranto (second item) notes, the news that the president even has a middle name is a little surprising, given how ineffable it had been declared by the prim press.
Well, whatever his middle-name status, he is now Mr. President. Congratulations to him.
Just what he meant by 'watchful eye'
So Obama says, in his speech, that he likes markets. They make us rich, you know. But, geez, it needs a "watchful eye," he says, or it might "spin out of control."
Which means, presumably, make the wrong people too much richer than other people. Surely, he's not referring to the mortgage crisis. He wouldn't be so cynical as to say that a housing market that went bad in large measure because of the Fed's over-easy money and the enormous interventions of the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie and Freddie, is a matter of markets being unwatched. Heck, insofar as Sen. Obama became in his short tenure one of the chief patrons of Fannie and Freddie, he certainly wouldn't be trying to draw attention to their failures, would he?
So, he must mean something else. Not that he told you in his speech. But Michael Lind does in Salon, and he doesn't mess around with any placating stuff about how nice markets are. Nah, that's over. Now comes the "next American system" in which government is the coach and the rest of us get told what plays to run. Read up if you want to know VAT's going to hit you.
One more whack
I went to the big public viewing of the inauguration at Uihlein Hall – something I'll write about for Wednesday's Journal Sentinel.
One bit that surprised me – and shouldn't have – was the reaction of the full house as the big screen at the front showed dignitaries walking Capitol hall toward the stand. The elder President Bush, now using a cane – no reaction. The Clintons? Some applause, but much more of it for Jimmy Carter. And for the outgoing President Bush, there was a wave of booing, fairly lusty booing. You could hear a few people clapping, and one gutsy woman stood to applaud the man who President Obama later thanked. But by and large, the crowd paused in its chatter to expend breath booing a man 800 miles away.
Then the screen showed departing Vice President Dick Cheney, in a wheelchair because he hurt his back lifting boxes into a moving van. The boos crescendoed – more, even, than for Bush. »Read Full Blog Post(38)
Except for this childish thing . . .
(Dean Mundy on who else can't keep from taking digs at the outgoing president.
Because he said so
David Frum notes that while the new president is obviously bright, "it becomes clear that his intelligence is more that of a poet than an intellectual. He recoils from the rigors of logical reasoning. Rather than choose between alternatives, he invents beautiful verbal formulas to obviate the need for choice."
So if you're doubtful about his plans, you're not someone who needs to be convinced but a cynic who hasn't yet understood the ground has shifted. This may, in fact, be a widespread blind spot among his supporters – I got a call today from a woman reacting to my Wednesday column by saying Obama's real distinction is that he, alone among presidents since Johnson, offers real vision.
Typical, sadly, in that she didn't quite get that while Reagan, for instance, might not have had a vision that appealed to her, it was nonetheless a vision appealing to the ideals held by many. To disagree with your view is not proof of the disagreer's cynicism, and while those on the right cannot help but know this (since their opponents visions are constantly held up for admiration by the press) the left seems to have had little need to learn it. »Read Full Blog Post(11)
Unspeakable speech
Just to note where outlawing "hate speech" can get a free country, note the news out of the Netherlands – a court overrules prosecutors and says the leader of a party in that country's parliament, Geert Wilders, must be prosecuted for saying insulting things about Islam and the Koran.
Wilders' prosecutable offense was to compare the Koran to "Mein Kampf," a book that's outlawed in the Netherlands, and to help make a movie in which a voice read particularly inflammatory verses from the Koran over scenes of violence perpetrated by Muslims. If you'd like, you can see the movie here.
Which is rude to the extent it suggests that Islam itself calls Muslims to do violence to others, particularly Jews. Then again, the book does seem rather explicitly to do this, as Andrew Bostom, among others, has made a career of pointing out. And unlike Christian anti-semitism, which was typically non-scriptural (the faith was founded, after all, by Jews) and has been roundly condemned by modern Christianity, Islam is still trying to make up its mind on whether Jews should be tolerated or simply exterminated. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Some early work for those better angels
Thousands of people gathered in Washington today to mourn the Supreme Court decision in 1973 that said no state could make a law barring the killing of unborn children. Thousands rallied, including Wisconsin high schoolers and about 16,000 other youth, but all they got from the White House was a snub.
Still, make sure you don't miss Journal Sentinel community columnist Kathy Banaszak on just why the fight is critical. It's because the new president has said he's a big fan of the obscenely named "Freedom of Choice Act." Banaszak writes:
"FOCA would abolish the ban on partial-birth abortions, a grisly procedure that Nancy Romer, former American Medical Association Executive Committee member, once described as barbaric and 'bad medicine.' (No euphemisms there.) FOCA would clear the way for all post-viability abortions under the guise of 'health' -- another euphemism that turns the notion on its head. When it comes to mental health, the treatment of choice for a clinically depressed pregnant woman is supportive therapy and anti-depressant medication, not partial-birth abortion.
"FOCA would strip away everything standing in the way of abortion on demand: fully-informed consent, 24-hour waiting periods, parental notification, parental consent and clinic health and safety regulations, to name a few. All limits on public funding for elective abortions would be out the window, forcing taxpayers with moral objections to fund abortions. Worse, it would discard once-sacred conscience protections for health care providers who opt out of abortion procedures. Bottom line: States would have no further say. Debate over. So much for choice." (14)
I'll give you a free trip to the moon, if you find someone to give you the money
Gov. Jim Doyle's "Wisconsin Covenent" never was quite what he made it out to be.
The gov promised that any Wisconsin kid he'd have a place in a Wisconsin college (though not necessarily his first choice) if he maintained a B average (which, before Doyle, would have done the trick anyhow) and that there would be financial aid available to the needy (which there was already).
Now, some group exposes the emperor's exposure, noting that Doyle's promise is meaningless if the state doesn't put up any money, which it hasn't. All it's been so far is a reassurance from our grandfatherly governor that every good boy does fine. »Read Full Blog Post
The stylebook says R stands for 'rotten'
Byron York notes two attorney general candidates, separated by eight years and party affiliation, in identical straits: Their glide path into office hits a one-week delay when the opposition party in Congress wants to ask more questions.
Here were the headlines, both from the same newspaper:
Vote On (Candidate) Is Delayed A Week; (Opponents) Cite Need for More Review »Read Full Blog Post(1)
He's the president. No questions, please
(Mr. Transparency blows it, and on a stupid little ceremonial redo of the oath. Oh, and on giving an exclusive interview to the network that donated money. Isn't that pay-to-play . . .
But my favorite bit from the moment the press catches onto Obama at last was when, to make up for telling photographers to get lost, Obama tours the press quarters. Reports AP:
"When a reporter tried to quiz him about a lobbyist chosen for a top Defense Department job, Obama begged off. 'I came down here to visit. I didn't come down here — this is what happens. I can't end up visiting you guys and shaking hands if I am going to get grilled every time I come down here.'"
Yeah, grilled. The press is so mean. (45)
Presidents, Harleys and baby mamas
Those are all on the agenda for the pundit panel on "Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes." I'll be a guest, joining political operator Jeff Fleming, editor Mikel Holt and think-tank wise man Christian Schneider.
See it at 10 a.m. Sunday on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).
Father, son and his son – and Obama
If you missed James T. Harris' piece on visiting his father on inauguration day, you should read it. Harris tells of sitting beside his father, whose memory has largely been destroyed by Alzheimer's disease, and having to watch an inaugural parade by a president he didn't want.
"Marching across the bandstand on Pennsylvania Avenue was a regiment of Americans of African descent dressed in the uniforms of the Fighting 54th. My heart stopped as their heads snapped left and they caught the gaze of President Barack Obama. »Read Full Blog Post(21)
The storyteller you elected
David Maraniss writes a long biography of Barack Obama in the Journal Sentinel's Crossroads section. It's a good read, even if you're not under the spell. But there's a particular howler, not far in: Obama, Maraniss writes, is "The first president to enter the White House with a literate and introspective memoir behind him." »Read Full Blog Post(13)
David Maraniss writes a long biography of Barack Obama in the Journal Sentinel's Crossroads section. It's a good read, even if you're not under the spell.
But there's a particular howler, not far in: Obama, Maraniss writes, is "The first president to enter the White House with a literate and introspective memoir behind him." »Read Full Blog Post(13)
God in schools
A couple weeks ago, Willie Hines wrote that it would be good if Milwaukee schools could step it up on teaching right and wrong. I later commended blog readers to the piece, adding that even if public schools can't specifically reference religion as a basis for moral conduct, they might nonetheless convey some principles of moral conduct derived from religious beliefs, even if they don't teach the religion itself.
Which apparently freaked some readers. Check the comments, and I even prompted one blogger to call me a "tinpot philosopher." Local schoolteacher Jay Bullock says in Sunday's Journal Sentinel that I want "to put God back in MPS."
Hmm. No, I wouldn't want to put God back in MPS. It would be just the publicity Milwaukee doesn't need when the deity turns the other cheek and gets beat up in a stairwell after lunch. »Read Full Blog Post(9)
A day late and a whole lot of lives short
Can anyone really believe what pro-Obama commentators are saying, asks Peter Wehner, when they praise the president for putting off his order that taxpayers will again fund groups committing abortions overseas.
Seriously: The president put off signing the order for one day, so that he wouldn't do it on the day 250,000 pro-life protesters showed up in Washington. Jim Wallis of Sojourners praised it as a stab at "new common ground," while E.J. Dionne called it a "consensual tone."
Writes Wehner: »Read Full Blog Post(1)
People: Such a burden
James T. Harris on the take-away message from Nancy Pelosi insisting that taxpayer-funded contraception really is "stimulus" – no, the economic kind, really:
"So the economy will be stimulated if there are less people?
"Liberals!" »Read Full Blog Post(4)
Tax collectors for the welfare state
Bruce Bartlett writes at Politico that the battle to free America from the state of dependency is over and we've lost. Americans are too much in love with welfare to ever give it up, so conservatives ought to pick a different battle:
"I think conservatives would better spend their diminished political capital figuring out how to finance the welfare state at the least cost to the economy and individual liberty. . . . But this will require them to accept the necessity of higher revenues."
In other words, become, as Newt Gingrich once said, the tax collectors for the welfare state.
Uh, ugh.
Messing with the science (of accounting)
The Wall Street Journal notes the chicanery taking place at the Congressional Budget Office, accountants hired to analyze Congress' plans.
The CBO put out a report last week on the House Democrats' "stimulus" plans, so urgent they must be passed immediately so as to inject life back into the economy. Only they wouldn't: Just $26 billion of about $355 billion in spending would take place this year and only $110 billion by the end of 2010. So much for shovel-ready (and Coyote Blog explained why a week ago).
The report now has vanished, suppressed by the committee headed by Wisconsin's own money-shoveler, David Obey of Wausau (though the left now claims the report never really existed, news stories at the time notwithstanding). A new report, in which, no doubt, the science of accounting will give way to Democrat expediency, is due out this week. Opines the Journal: »Read Full Blog Post(11)
What Our Leader said to the Arabs
President Obama gives an interview on a pan-Arab satellite TV channel, and he says . . . he says . . . well, weird things.
Eric Trager at Commentary, after Obama said, "My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives," writes:
"Excuse me for asking, but has Obama just established himself as an intermediary between the Muslim world and the American people? Moreover, is he suggesting that Americans doubt Muslims' humanity? Is he suggesting that Americans have sought to prevent Muslims from just 'living their lives'? Again, this whole interview is supposed to be an exercise in public diplomacy - and you don't sell your foreign policy by saying that your people need to adjust their racist views of others." »Read Full Blog Post(11)
Parking matters
Tom Daykin has it straight from an east side business that lives on customers coming from other neighborhoods, the Downer Theater: Parking matters.
Which you'd think goes without saying, only so many people professing to love urban spaces seem to presume that parking is an only semi-necessary evil that we'd best be rid of sooner or later. The shops along a reviving Downer Ave., the customers of whom park in a new municipal ramp, say otherwise.
World's third oldest profession
Don Boudreaux writes in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review that P.J. O'Rourke was hilarious when he wrote his classic look at Congress, "Parliament of Whores." But he got the profession wrong:
"Real whores, after all, personally supply the services their customers seek. Prostitutes do not steal; their customers pay them voluntarily. And their customers pay only with money belonging to these customers."
No, passing out the trillions, Congress has a different job description.
Money can, in fact, buy them love
Lance Burri at FoxPolitics on why the political establishment gets so angry when anyone, such as Scott Walker, refuses to take part in the pork-fest: It's because pork, and the voter-love it buys, was for many politicians the exact point:
"Are you angry that the neighbor down the block didn't bring you a birthday present last year? Of course not. Why should he have?
"But if he had, you'd be more inclined to think well of him. Wouldn't you? You'd be more inclined to do him a favor. To pick up the piece of trash in his yard while you're walking by. You wouldn't have thought any less of him for not bringing you a present, but giving you stuff makes you like him more.
"That's how it works. We like it when people give us stuff. We like it so much, we pretend not to notice how somebody, somewhere, has to pay for it."
Sick? Leave. Alas.
A Milwaukee businessman you've probably never heard of – which means a guy who went about his affairs without a lot of fuss, sort of the way most people do – writes on the Biz Times blog that he's about had it.
Actually, he wrote to his alderman, Robert Puente, after his commercial property tax bill shot up 38.9%. His assessment, Wayne Staats points out, had fallen.
And he pays this . . . why? "The services I have received from the city have done nothing but decline over the past years," he writes. N. 107th St, a truck-jammed stretch that his customers must traverse, is "a pothole-laden, patchwork quilt that shakes the inside of your car as if you were driving down an unpaved rural road," while "ditch in front of my building NEVER empties and has become a cesspool of garbage which can never be cleaned up because there is always standing water in it and it is deep and treacherous. I've been told that it is a 'downstream' problem and that some other 'authority' is responsible." »Read Full Blog Post(4)
Did Obey finagle a family earmark?
The federal stimulus, a knackwurst full of more and more varied pork than you could ever imagine, among other things doubles the money sent to the National Parks.
Which may or may not be good, but either way, the bill the House passed would send the National Parks $2.25 billion more over two years, three times what the Senate proposes showering on the agency. The House bill was written under the guidance of Wisconsin's own Rep. David Obey (D-Wausau).
Whose son, Craig Obey, as it turns out, is the chief lobbyist for the National Parks Conservation Association, a special-interest group that lobbies for more national parks spending. »Read Full Blog Post(11)
Your call is important to us. But not as important as ideology.
If you're on some kind of public assistance and need something straightened out, you'd have a hard time getting through to the Milwaukee County help line: the staff was managing to answer maybe one call in 10.
Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker comes up with an idea: Since public employees are so expensive (the costs of their benefits and, especially, post-retirement benefits are the root of the county's fiscal trouble), why not contract it out to an existing social-services outfit.
What would that do? Says the head of the county's health and human services department, it would increase the number of calls the center can handle from 13,000 a month to 25,000 a month. And the new staff would start right away, instead of the two to three months it takes to hire new county employees. »Read Full Blog Post(4)
Reaching an American hand of peace out to Muslim . . . well, autocrats
Fouad Ajami in the Wall Street Journal muses on the irony of it all: President Barack Obama goes on al-Arabiya (a network to which President George W. Bush also gave interviews, and so much for any of this stuff being new). And Obama goes on this network to talk about making peace with, well, autocrats.
"Say what you will about the style -- and practice -- of the Bush years, the autocracies were on notice for the first five or six years of George. W. Bush's presidency. America had toppled Taliban rule and the tyranny of Saddam Hussein; it had frightened the Libyan ruler that a similar fate lay in store for him. It was not sweet persuasion that drove Syria out of Lebanon in 2005. That dominion of plunder and terror was given up under duress." »Read Full Blog Post(10)
More on hijacking health care
I also mentioned in that column that U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan brought up the way the stimulus includes a really big back-door agenda: getting more people onto government-paid health care.
The Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel has more details on this, including the juicy bits about how taxpayers will subsidize care even for high-income people. She concludes:
"Add it up, and Democrats may move 10 million more Americans under the federal health umbrella -- in just four weeks! Good luck ever cutting off that money. Meanwhile, the Democratic majority is gearing up for a Medicare fight, where it may broach plans to lower the eligibility age to 55. Whatever costs accrue, they'll pay for by slashing the private Medicare Advantage option. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Oh, bipartisanship was quite alive
Annoying, to hear on NPR this morning yet again the promise of some story on what ever happened to bipartisanship. This is prompted, of course, by the failure of the president and congressional Democrats to persuade any Republicans in the House to vote for their planned stimulus-n-so-much-more. Geez, we're told, what can be done to restore bipartisanship (since, unstated premise follows, bipartisanship would mean Republicans caving).
Well, as I point out in my Journal Sentinel column today, the vote on the stimulus package was bipartisan. Members of both parties – all the Republicans and 11 Democrats – voted similarly. They voted no.
Which means, as James T. Harris points out, that Obama has united Republicans as Bush never managed to do.
What's still more interesting is that, while the House Republicans are being painted by their political opponents as outliers, stubborn and isolated freaks for opposing the $900 billion porkfest, this isn't true if you ask where voters are. Dad29 points out the polls are dropping, especially among voters not hooked to either party since "the average citizen is capable of separating the buckwheat from the BS."
Voter ID is a just a ruse to depress Democr. . . What? Never mind.
Too right, we'll never mind that rant about voter ID being a scheme to disenfranchise anyone. The numbers are in, reports Hans von Spakovsky.
It was a great year, 2008, for voter turnout. It was particularly good for black voter turnout, which surpassed white turnout for the first time. Lots more Democrats, too, than Republicans.
Funny thing: Black and Democratic turnout increased more in Georgia, which has what's commonly slandered as the "harshest" voter ID rules in the country, than in a demographically and Democratically comparable state, Mississippi. »Read Full Blog Post(5)
St. Anthony gets the green light for a new Milwaukee Catholic high school
Already one of the largest parochial schools in the country, Milwaukee's St. Anthony School just got permission from the Milwaukee Catholic Archdiocese to start a high school program.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan gave his approval on Friday, according to the school's president, Terry Brown. The decision was announced to families of the more than 1,000 students at the kindergarten- through 8th-grade school on Friday, Brown wrote in reply to an emailed question. "Our families are rejoicing at the news for which they have so long asked.
"God bless the archbishop." »Read Full Blog Post(17)


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