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Posts for April, 2009
Losing his Catholic vote
The president is in office in part because quite a few Catholic voters switched sides in November. Now, writes the Washington Post's Michael Gerson, Barack Obama is losing them:
"His initial actions on life issues -- funding overseas abortion providers, removing restrictions from federally funded medical experimentation on human embryos, revisiting conscience protections for pro-life health-care professionals -- have ranged from conventional to radical. And this may be one reason Obama's support among Catholics has eroded. According to the Pew Research Center, the percentage of Americans who disapprove of Obama's job performance increased by nine points from February to March. Among Catholics as a whole, his disapproval rating jumped 14 points. And among white, non-Hispanic Catholics, the figure doubled -- from 20 percent to 41 percent."
And he's fixing to lose more, says Gerson. The president wants to overturn the conscience clause, protecting health care workers from discrimination if they refuse to do unconscionable procedures. It's not just about the boss, notes Gerson: "Catholic hospitals believe these protections are essential because of pressure by states and private medical associations for Catholic health-care providers to perform or refer for abortions." »Read Full Blog Post(88)
Taxes? Oops.
Another Obama administration nominee, another tax, um, mistake. Read all about Kathleen Sibelius' $7,000 in back taxes because of "unintentional errors" related to business expenses, the sale of a home and charitable contributions.
Jason Kahout at Conservative Young Professionals isn't feeling too punitive about this – Sibelius isn't in the same league as Tim "Dodger" Geithner, he contends. But there's a lesson:
"The same lesson that we are all taking from the tax system as April 15th rolls around – we need to make the system less complex. We could save a large amount of transactional costs if politicians were willing to do the hard work of simplifying the tax code."
Sure, it's manipulative, says the ex-manipulator
Interesting video at The Foundry: Heritage Foundation interviews a guy who used to run organizing for the United Food and Commercial Workers union in Indiana. Four years ago, he was quoted in the paper as saying Wal-Mart was predatory on women; now, he's telling you how unions really run card-signing campaigns.
It's an emotional, not logical, process, he says. Or a convivial one: There's always the deal where you take prospects out for beer, get them tipsy and in a signing mood. Or then, says Rian Wathen, there's the trick where you've got a pack of red union authorization cards and a set of blue ones. You tell people that if they don't want a union, they sign the red card, and if they want it, they sign the blue. Ha: Both cards have identical language and authorize the union.
See it; it's remarkable for the openness in which the man who used to be in charge of this emotional manipulation explains just how it's done.
'Accountability improvement.' Which is, end accountability.
Another hidden citron in Gov. Doyle's 1,700-page fruitcake of a budget is the repeal of the rule that, if you're on the public dole, you can't let your kids regularly skip school.
The rule has been that if a child of someone who's on W-2 skips school repeatedly, his mother's check gets docked $50 a month. The Doylies say that people aren't on W-2 long enough for this to matter any longer. "It wasn't working," claimed a spokeswoman for the Department of Children and Families. "This is an accountability improvement."
It will improve accountability . . . how? The budget simply wipes out the learnfare program, the point of which was that if we're having to support able-bodied, non-working parents, at least we can keep it from turning multi-generational. »Read Full Blog Post(5)
Go get it from donors -- after we're through with them
Marquette University went begging to the state for $10 million in stimulus money to help with the $100 million engineering building it hopes to build.
It figured that as long as federal money was going for one-time improvements in education, it could get some for a project that would be, as one lawmaker put it, a "game-changer" in trying to get more skilled engineers in the area.
Silly Marquette. The state panel dishing out federal pelf said no without the courtesy of a vote. »Read Full Blog Post(8)
Forget about the lampposts; enjoy the performance art
So Milwaukee's Common Council says no to what sounded like a fairly innocuous idea, as far as public art goes: little kiosks on lampposts near Northwestern Mutual with mechanical animation. Who knows, perhaps the animation would involve excitations in the way that Milwaukee Art Museum neon exhibit with the clown did a few years back, but it mainly sounds like council members just didn't like the art.
"I am just not feeling it," said Ald. Willie Wade. "But then I wouldn't pay 50 cents for the Mona Lisa."
Yes, well, we're all glad he's not in charge of the Louvre. One might ask why it is even asked of city councils whether they should pay 50 cents for the Mona Lisa or any sum for any other piece of art. It seems to lead exactly to politicians getting lost in questions of taste. This is what happens when you take money from everybody to buy art that, guaranteed, will not appeal to everybody. Someone feels cheated, and democracy will draw a mustache on Ms. Lisa. »Read Full Blog Post
But you know, Bush deregulated Spain. Or something.
Victor Davis Hanson on Our Leader's instinctual cringe before Europeans:
"Obama apologized for American culpability for the meltdown. But wait: Iceland melted without us. No American forced Austrian banks to lend 100% plus of their worth to eastern Europe. What did Wall Street have to do with the crazy Spanish or Aegean real estate market, or the nutty spending habits of oil-drunk Russians and Middle Easterners? If he wants to apologize (this is going to be a long Carter/Clinton 'I'm sorry' Presidency), then, for God's sake apologize for the new borrowing, and draining the world's available capital to finance our out of control budgets."
Too many choices can be wonderful
You've heard that idea that we just have too many choices these days, and it makes people freak out? It mainly gets used as an excuse when governments or nanny-state types want to close off some bit of liberty they find personally annoying.
But is it economically true? Is too much choice bad?
Well, no. As Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution points out, there's a study. "The too-much-choice effect is less robust than previously thought," write the researchers. And Cowen identifies the money quote from the whole thing: "the real-life observation that shops that offer more consumer choice tend to be more successful."
Real life has a way of showing up those hypotheses about affluenza and doom, doesn't it?
His conscience clean, his donuts undunked
News comes of a Chicago-area owner of a Dunkin Donuts franchise who's having to take down the sign and convert to some other brand.
Reason: Dunkin won't let him not sell breakfast sandwiches with pork.
Walid Elkhatib chose doughnuts when he became a restaurateur in 1979 specifically because they were religiously safe: Doughnuts don't involve violating the Muslim injunctions on eating swine. And for years after Dunkin started selling sausage and ham breakfast sandwiches in the 1980s, they let him not do so, even providing a sign letting customers know no meat was available. This wasn't so unusual: Elkhatib's lawyer found a Chicago Dunkin location that was allowed to not sell pork because its clientele was heavily Jewish. »Read Full Blog Post(29)
W-2 becomes W-Forever
You saw that Gov. Doyle wants to loosen up all those mean ol' rules on welfare about getting a job and having the clock ticking and all.
So, what I wrote the other day? True, more than ever.
From Where I Sit on the ominous precedent. (2)
How America arms Mexican drug lords (hint: we don't)
Oh, but our leaders have said that 90% of the guns used in Mexico's current drug-cartel bloodbath are from the United States. Our big-name TV media have said it. Everyone says it. Surely it's true?
Or, rather, it's true*. Here's how: The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives clarifies the figure for Fox News as "over 90 percent of the traced firearms originate from the U.S." »Read Full Blog Post(8)
If the Saudis got any worse, would he genuflect?
Ed Morrissey, with video, on how it doesn't get you much respect to be head of state of our closest ally, but it's grand to be edgy.
Minnesota: Put yer teakettles here
Guess which neighboring state is starting to notice that you can still have electricity even if you don't like coal?
Maybe revenue isn't the point at all
Too good to let pass: Arthur Laffer recounts in the Wall Street Journal just how stupid the estate tax is.
Sure, heirs of great wealth might be crumbs, but inheritance in general is a good thing, he points out: "We have all benefited greatly from a history of intergenerational American generosity. But just being an American is as much an accident of birth as being the child of wealthy parents. If you are an American, it's likely because ancestors of yours chose to become Americans and also chose to have children."
So why discourage it? The tax by which we do this raises comparatively little money, and there's solid evidence that wealthy people go to such lengths to avoid the tax, eliminating it would more than make up for any lost revenue simply in the increased take from capital gains taxes as wealth emerged from shelters and fueled new economic growth. About the only ones who benefit from the tax, writes Laffer, are those working in the tax-shelter industry: "And all the costs associated with these tax shelters and tax avoidance schemes are pure wastes for the country as a whole and exist solely to circumvent the estate tax. The estate tax in and of itself causes people to waste resources." »Read Full Blog Post(8)
Nurtured outrage
Milwaukee blogger and radio talker James T. Harris appeared on Fox News' Bill O'Reilly the other night about the protest in Oakland – in favor of the man who killed four police officers. Once, you could sensibly have spoken of police committing terrorism against Americans of African descent, Harris argues, but the charge is nonsense today – a nurtured grievance. His key phrase:
"We have generations of parents who are feeding their kids cups of sorrow."
If you could save the life of one child . . .
An appreciated reader, Terry Hansen of Franklin, takes issue in Saturday's letters to the editor with my column of the other day. I pointed out that lots of scientists have varied and differing views on the climate – on whether the Earth is warming, how much it's warming or why, or whether that will be disastrous, whether we can adapt, whether it can be stopped. Funny, though, I point out: Some, of equal or greater credential and credibility, are branded "deniers" of global warming – even if they posit that the globe is warming – if it turns out their conclusions aren't politically useful for those who want to use climate change as an excuse to make us all change something huge about the way we live.
Well, writes Hansen (fourth item), the majority of scientists – he comes up with some figure from somewhere – are all on board the Gleichschaltung. Majority wins, apparently.
About which: Yes. Copernicus was, by this measure, a denier as well. He happened to be right. »Read Full Blog Post(30)
Clean and honest? Hey, that's the Whig platform, too!
John Gurda writes about the benign nature of Socialism, Milwaukee style, in Sunday's Journal Sentinel.
Why? Well, people are fretting, what with GM takeovers and impending nationalizations of health care, that our president might have socialist tendencies. Pish, writes Gurda. Besides, what if he did? "I'm not a socialist and never have been," he writes, "but I can testify that Socialism — with a capital 'S'— was one of the best things that ever happened to this city. Without realizing it, even the most red-blooded capitalists are enjoying the fruits of their efforts, from spacious parks to clean streets and from a working infrastructure to an expectation, however frequently disappointed, of honest government."
True, of course. Then again, the spacious parks and clean streets and working infrastructure in other major American cities were the fruit of something other than Socialism, as Milwaukee was the only big U.S. town ever run by the Reds. Somehow, if you can imagine it, other cities achieved street sweeping and park-planting without electing any socialists whatsoever. »Read Full Blog Post(8)
Some of you should be staying home
It's election day tomorrow. We elect a Supreme Court justice in a contest that's a genuine choice between judicial philosophies, and we elect a state superintendent of schools in a contest between vastly different approaches to the task. See those links for details.
We're told, meanwhile, that turnout will be around 20% statewide. We'll doubtless be told this is a mournful fact, a sign of civic disengagement. Perhaps; lots of people aren't paying attention to a lot of important things. God help us, though, if tomorrow is the moment they decide to "get involved."
In fact, quite a few people probably should stay home. Kevin Fischer provides a handy guide, a few questions to ask yourself when deciding whether to vote or to see whether you can catch "Knight Rider" on MeTV. For instance: »Read Full Blog Post(30)
All they've got on their side is logic
Do read Doris Hajewski's reporting on how revamped "consumer safety" laws are threatening small Wisconsin businesses that make perfectly safe toys and clothing for children. It shows one more problem with politics rampant.
Writes Hajewski:
" 'This law was written one night in Washington when everyone was drunk,' said a frustrated Peter Reynolds of the Little3 Toy Co. in Germantown. 'It's impossible to read and impossible to enforce.'" »Read Full Blog Post(17)
And what happens to results showing school choice works?
Well, if it's in the hands of a federal government hostile to the idea, it gets covered up, suggest the editorialists at the Wall Street Journal.
Take a look at the decision of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the editorialists note, to sit on the results of a review of the school voucher program in the District of Columbia even as Congress was deciding the program's fate in March.
The Journal writes: »Read Full Blog Post(5)
No, it was imprudent borrowers after all, they say
Interesting piece in the Wall Street Journal from economists Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith, the latter a Nobel laureate, on Monday about what led to the real estate bubble behind the Panic of '08.
They argue that it was loose money that pumped up home prices that led to excessive consumer debt — especially among lower-income borrowers, able to borrow on little down. They write:
"The 2001 recession might have ended the bubble, but the Federal Reserve decided to pursue an unusually expansionary monetary policy in order to counteract the downturn. When the Fed increased liquidity, money naturally flowed to the fastest expanding sector. Both the Clinton and Bush administrations aggressively pursued the goal of expanding homeownership, so credit standards eroded. Lenders and the investment banks that securitized mortgages used rising home prices to justify loans to buyers with limited assets and income. Rating agencies accepted the hypothesis of ever rising home values, gave large portions of each security issue an investment-grade rating, and investors gobbled them up." »Read Full Blog Post(15)
Obama and the shaky middle
True enough, writes Amy Walter at the National Journal, polling shows Obama is the most polarizing president in recent history. Democrats are rabidly for him; Republicans are utterly against.
Which means, she points out, that he must depend on those not aligned with any party. That's shaky, though, especially when you look at how many independents are strongly in favor of the president. That number's dropping.
Bottom line: »Read Full Blog Post(58)
Some good comes out of election day
Sure, the union-machine candidate wins at DPI and a determined leftist icon is back on the Supreme Court – and don't even mention how west-side Milwaukeeans, in voting for the school board, yet again Blewitt – but some good came out of the elections yesterday.
A loudmouth lefty on Madison's city council lost. OK, to a candidate supported by other loudmouth liberals, such as the city's current and former mayors. Still, this would be a step forward. I'll let one particularly nice piece by the Isthmus' Dave Blaska explain why, in telling last fall about now-ex-alderwoman Brenda Konkel's view that Madison is just too hard on people who sleep in parks and urinate on the street.
OK, I'll affirm you doing something that I actually think will lead to your eternal destruction. Whatever.
John McAdams looks at the case of a woman learning to be a counselor. Nice lady, apparently. Wants to do good for people.
As it happens, she thinks engaging in homosexual thrills is destructive to individuals – that is, it is greatly immoral and, presumably, has eternal consequences. If someone came to ask for advice, it would be pretty hard for a would-be counselor, then, to counsel someone in a way that "affirms," as the word is, their behaving in a personally destructive way. Ah, but the students can't not affirm homosexual behavior in a patient, say the school rules, and so the student, Julea Ward, did what her teachers said to do and passed off the patient during a practicum.
So the school chucked her out of the program. »Read Full Blog Post(30)
Obama and corporations, sitting in a tree . . .
Steven Malanga writes at RealClearMarkets that our president isn't a socialist. He wants to save GM, after all, not eat it. This doesn't mean he's benign:
"If his agenda harks back to anything, it is to corporatism, the notion that elite groups of individuals molded together into committees or public-private boards can guide society and coordinate the economy from the top town and manage change by evolution, not revolution. It is a turn-of-the 20th century philosophy, updated for the dawn of the 21st century, which positions itself as an antidote to the kind of messy capitalism that has transformed the Fortune 500 and every corner of our economy in the last half century."
All kinds of people liked corporatist ideas, from Pope Leo XII to Franklin Roosevelt to Mussolini to the Progressive movement, "with its notion that the country could be governed by an enlightened, technocratic, nonpartisan elite." »Read Full Blog Post(10)
No, Michelle Obama hasn't changed. Circumstances have.
Columnist Leonard Pitts, never missing an opportunity to torch a straw man, wonders why no one's thinking of Michelle Obama as "A fire-snorting amalgam of Angela Davis and Sister Souljah" any longer. Actually, he's not wondering at all. He's merely maneuvering to conclude that America got over its inordinate fear of powerful black women. "I can only say this: it was not she who changed," he says.
No, alas, she probably has not. She probably really does still resonate with whatever pathologies led her to say in Milwaukee about a year ago that because of her husband's electoral wins and the revealed leftward sentiments of voters, "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country."
Yet now she's beloved, says Pitts, not seen as a "terrorist fist-bumping sister girl." »Read Full Blog Post(15)
Narrow-minded on I-94
One state lawmaker from Milwaukee, Democrat Tim Carpenter, says he'll put it into state law that I-94 to Chicago can't get wider. "Reconstruction of the freeway is needed; expansion is not," Carpenter said in a press release, apparently giving up that admirable Democrat trait of telling us all to listen to the experts, who in this case would be the state Department of Transportation traffic counters pointing out that, in fact, expansion is needed since traffic will increase by about a third.
Anyhow, Milwaukee Ald. Bob Bauman jumps aboard, saying that any money that would widen the region's one freeway link to about half the continent should instead fix up local streets. Got to stop, says Bauman, "a $200 million boondoggle that does nothing to help Milwaukee and most state residents."
What admirable thrift, though I thought the $20 extra the city now charges me as a wheel tax was going to repave my street, for all the good that will do anyone else in the state. Still, one might take issue with Bauman's big about how I-94 won't help any Milwaukeeans. »Read Full Blog Post(15)
Are the Doyle people exuding a little sweat?
The Democrats announce they're going to run an anti-Scott Walker ad this weekend. Their press release says they'll run it on Sunday morning, during "Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes" on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).
The ad seems a little weak. It's mainly a picture of Walker with quotes superimposed, things he's said about federal "stimulus." He didn't much like the stimulus to start with and said he wouldn't put together a begging list, though lately he's mentioned some projects he's OK with stimulating. His rule seems to be that he'd take federal money as long as you can say three things about it: That it doesn't require any matching money out of local taxpayers, that it doesn't start up some long-term commitment and that it doesn't put taxpayers on the hook for any new costs they'll have to cover once the one-time money is spent.
Or, as he said to WISN-TV (Channel 12), "We're going to go after stimulus money and we have been for some time but we aren't going to do it in a manner that's going to put local taxpayers at risk." »Read Full Blog Post(27)
'This crisis shows what worked'
I wrote a column the other day on how one European official was saying the worldwide Panic of '08 was because Americans were too prone to own houses. I pointed out some flaws in this reasoning.
Alan Reynolds in the New York Post takes on the larger claim that we heard as our president toured Europe – that the recession all began in America and is the fault of American and British banks, and, thus, Anglo-Saxon capitalism.
Uh, no. Reynolds, an economist at the Cato Institute, points out: »Read Full Blog Post(4)
How about we ban assault alienation?
Ann Coulter notes how in all the recent multiple shootings, guns were plainly at fault.
Because other than that, they were such a varied lot: A high school dropout and Marine expellee, an ex-crack addict who thought "America sucks," the three-time divorcee and high school dropout, the paroled felon "struggling to get his life back on track by pimping," the guy "boycotting family funerals because he hated his relatives."
"It might make more sense to outlaw men than guns," writes Coulter. "Or divorce. Or crack. Or to prohibit felons from having guns. Except we already outlaw crack and felons owning guns and yet still, somehow, (Jiverly) Wong got crack and (Lovelle) Mixon got a gun." »Read Full Blog Post(42)
Public-sector benefits: You don't know the half of it
Don't miss the USAToday piece on public-sector benefits, which continue to get nicer even as the part of the economy that actually produces wealth and pays for all that public sector takes it on the chin.
But this isn't just a matter for now. You know what's coming? Think Milwaukee County pension mess, just everywhere.
Megan McArdle at The Atlantic pointed this out the other day: Public pension funds are in wretched shape (as are most investments). And since these are generally of the defined-benefit type – that is, the worker gets what he's promised, come hell or high red ink, and making that happen is someone else's problem – then the someone elses will have very large problems. That would be, ultimately, the taxpayers.
Do not imagine, either, that the defined-benefit plan everyone is supposedly covered by – Social Security – will be around, either. As the Washington Post reported the other week, that system's bankruptcy date just moved up by about a decade. Much sooner than expected, the nation's workers will have to start subsidizing Social Security via much higher taxes. Nice.
The $100 pencil sharpeners, discussed
MPS really is wasting money, and that will be one of the topics on "Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes." I'm one of the guests, along with editor Mikel Holt, pundit Ken Lamke and columnist Mike Nichols. See it at 10 a.m. Sunday on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).
We all live amid 'upstream factors'
Eric Gass, who heads research for the Milwaukee Health Department, writes in the Journal Sentinel's Crossroads section about good things coming to the field of public health, especially with UW-Milwaukee's new public health school about to be built.
Odd how the piece leaves one with a sense of unease.
Gass makes excellent points about, first how wretched the aggregated health figures for Milwaukee are. Further, he ties it to poverty, an unexceptionable point. "25% of Milwaukee residents never earn a high school diploma or GED; 16% of Milwaukee households are run by a single parent; 33% of Milwaukee's children live in poverty," and so it's hardly a surprise that the ensuing people are more lead-poisoned, heart-diseased, diabetes-afflicted and otherwise in poor health than most. »Read Full Blog Post(16)
A village? No, but it does take adults
Caitlin Flanagan in the Wall Street Journal the other day (I'm catching up off vacation) pointed out the one bit of understanding about the two boys who shot up Columbine High School in suburban Denver 10 years ago that seemed never to translate into policy.
It was that they were evident troublemakers long before their murderous spree. They stole things, they had substance problems, they reported homicidal feelings, they beat up on younger kids -- this last because, of course, they were kept in school while being "treated," more or less.
Flanagan writes: »Read Full Blog Post(9)
President's ambitions equal those of a school district
News comes that the president is ordering his cabinet to come up with some budget cuts, since you all are complaining about how Washington is frittering away your money.
This is admirable. More power to Barack Obama for doing this, and one wishes him every success in getting the Ag Department to save money on leases and Veterans Affairs to spend less on conferences.
But, as Kevin Binversie points out, there's a word for cuts that total $100 million across the federal government. The word is "pittance." Greg Mankiw puts it in family-budget terms – think one less latte per year. »Read Full Blog Post(15)
No kid? No problem
The Washington Post looks at the family dynamics when you've got one true believer and a lot of agnostics in the Church of Green.
There are kids sneaking Spaghetti-Os into the shopping cart against the wishes of the eat-local mommy. There's a divorce or two. Then:
" 'I'm 40, so my clock is going boom! Boom! Boom! Sometimes, I just roll my eyes and go, "Come on, honey, think about who our child could be!" ' said Mimi Iklé-Khalsa. But her husband says a second child could have too high an environmental cost. 'We've had the discussion of, "If we have another biological child, it means we never fly," ' and do other things to offset the child's carbon footprint, she said."
Hey, insofar as children often pick up their politics from their parents – well, if radical greens don't want to reproduce, that's just fine with the rest of us, I'm sure.
They didn't denim. They recycled.
I liked George Will's piece last week on blue jeans – particularly his key passage:
"Denim is the clerical vestment for the priesthood of all believers in democracy's catechism of leveling -- thou shalt not dress better than society's most slovenly. To do so would be to commit the sin of lookism -- of believing that appearance matters. That heresy leads to denying the universal appropriateness of everything, and then to the elitist assertion that there is good and bad taste."
Though I will note that my next reaction was, "What in the world does Mr. Will wear when cleaning out the gutters?" He notes, correctly, that most people's most-of-the-time leisure activities don't require pants originally designed for mining gold, but I wear jeans with some regularity. At $8 the pair down at the local big-box discounter, they're just right for use while cleaning out the basement, along with cheap sneakers from the same source. »Read Full Blog Post(6)
Your windmill-brewed coffee is meaningless
Peter Huber writes for City Journal about why it's pointless for greens to talk about torpedoing all coal-fired electric power in the United States.
For one thing, coal-fired electricity – and that is where most American electricity in much of the country comes from – is more carbon-efficient than the fuels it can most readily substitute for, which would be oil.
Take cars, for instance. Huber points out, "Big power plants are so much more efficient than the gasoline engines in our cars that a plug-in hybrid car running on electricity supplied by Indiana's current grid" – Indiana, his example, gets 75% of its electricity from coal – "still ends up more carbon-frugal than comparable cars burning gasoline in a conventional engine under the hood. Old-guard energy types have been saying this for decades. In a major report released last March, the World Wildlife Fund finally concluded that they were right all along." »Read Full Blog Post(4)
No, avoiding deficits isn't usually an occasion for gloom
Milwaukee County government's going to have to throttle back its spending by 3%, says Scott Walker, because revenue's not coming in as fast as expected.
Yeah, happens in a recession, especially since the revenue included expected land sales where the Park East freeway once was. So, economize, says the boss.
Which makes sense, though listening to some County Board members, you'd think Walker was prescribing the sale of their various spare organs. "Don't keep giving us this tunnel vision of gloom and doom," said Supervisor Elizabeth M. Coggs. She, chairwoman of the finance committee, wants the exec to gin up more money instead. "It's always, 'cut, cut, cut,'" Coggs told the Journal Sentinel. »Read Full Blog Post(11)
And if you want to move there, you have to demonstrate some serious talent . . .
In Racine, henceforth, entrepreneurial spirit and adequate capital won't be enough, at least if you're going to sell Demon Rum.
The city council passes an ordinance saying that would-be liquor store owners must prove any new place "would substantially improve the city's tax base."
The ordinance, WISN-TV reports, "would require the owner to show the establishment would have a greater economic impact than simply adding another convenience store."
You mean other than the economic benefit of selling perfectly legitimate products, legally, to responsible adults?
Hey, what if you made them get permits after getting checked out by the police?
The Wisconsin attorney general takes the constitution seriously, whereupon people freak, with Gov. Doyle saying that bit about right-to-bear-arms being really best left to city councils. Why, sure. When voters amend (by a 74%-to-26% margin) the state's most basic law, it's really just sort of a guideline anyhow, yeah?
"In order to reduce crime wouldn't it be better to have more guns off the street?" asks my bloggin' colleague, James Causey. Well, depends: Sometimes, having a gun on the street leads to less crime, as when robbing pizza delivery guys suddenly becomes a much less profitable activity. Really, the number of guns on the street isn't the relevant metric – if it were, gun-banning Britain wouldn't be a violent-crime hot spot, with rates in recent years worse than those in the United States.
In order to reduce crime, it would be better to have more criminals off the street, instead. As for guns, it would be better to have more of them in the hands of – not to steal a phrase from Harold Breier or anything – the good people. That is, ones who do not intend to use them in a criminal way. »Read Full Blog Post(7)
New age of regulation? Nah.
That bit about how now the feds will start whipping the unregulated into shape, cracking down on corruptions and abuses? The time has come for some regulation?
Well, nah. At least not when it comes to finding out whether unions are embezzling members' money. The Department of Labor will rescind a new rule enacted at the end of the Bush administration, one that "would have required unions to disclose even more information about compensation to union officers and employees, details about buying or selling union assets and additional information about union receipts."
Unions said it was too much hassle, so the Obama admin's watchdogs barked, "OK," then rolled over for a tummy rub. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
More on questioning al-Qaida
Interesting, what the Obama administration didn't release when it let out those memos that detail precisely how far U.S. interrogators were willing to go in the days after 9-11 (short rations, but you won't starve; bugs in a box, but they're just caterpillars, waterboarding, but only for X seconds, really loud music but for God's sake no Fleetwood Mac).
(OK, that last one's a ringer.)
What the administration didn't release – what it edited out – was the part where Obama's own director of national intelligence said the harsh questioning worked. It's even reported in the lapdog-paper, the NY Times: "High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country," Adm. Dennis C. Blair wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday, according to the Times. »Read Full Blog Post(99)
As opposed to judgment
Via Joanne Jacobs (and ht Tom McMahon), we learn that a school district in New Hampshire is having to lay off some teachers, never a good thing, but worse is that among those to go is a classroom star who was up for a state teacher of the year award.
She had been told that merit would spare her, apparently, but it "was an oversight," said the grievance chairman of the teachers union. "Even though she is recognized as a candidate for Teacher of the Year, they have to go on seniority."
The union says it'll "fight" for the teacher – as part of trying to stop any layoffs. How about fighting for the ability of a school district to, if layoffs are needed, drop the weak performers first? Just asking.
Happy St. Adalbert's Day
And it is St. Adalbert's Day, at least if you're Catholic and are inclined to bear in mind a bishop of 1,000 years ago with a tendency to say truths that discomfitted his flock. Worth a celebration.
Oh, yeah, it's Earth Day, too. If you want a critique on the matter, I have a humble offering, and Journal Sentinel community columnists Bill Foy and Gary Nosacek have excellent ones. But the New York Times' John Tierney had a fabulous look at Kuznets Curves the other day. Don't know what they are? They are the economist's explanation of why things keep getting cleaner the richer we all get.
So anyhow, we're supposed to celebrate Earth Day, or penitentiate it, or whatever. One emailer passes along the memo that got sent out to everyone on the Wisconsin Legislature's email system: "Today is Earth Day! In honor of the founder of Earth Day, Gaylord Nelson, we should all do something positive for our Earth. Here are some simple ideas to make our offices more Earth friendly," and it then goes on about using a coffee mug instead of a disposable cup, or turning off lights when you're not in the room. »Read Full Blog Post(10)
I blame Scott Walker
Or, rather, Sykes does. The county executive has so decimated our parks that they only came in as finalists in a contest for best-run parks in the nation.
Back in the day, they surely would have been declared winner by forfeit, yes?
Thank God it's not like some powerful endocrine disrupt . . . oh, wait.
So news comes that federal regulators will let 17-year-olds buy Plan B, the after-the-fact contraceptive, without a prescription. All you'll need to do is show proof of age, pay your money and you've got the pills – no doctors and, presumably, not a word to the parents, either.
Oh, and 17-year-old boys can buy it "for a partner," too, though presumably they wouldn't dream of giving it to some 15-year-old girlfriend, honorable lads that they are.
Anyhow, it's all a great advance, say those who see teen pregnancy as a purely chemical matter. »Read Full Blog Post(31)
Yes, I think you should buckle up. But . . .
Levered into it by federal money, the Legislature is on its way to making your failure to buckle a seat belt a reason for you to be pulled over.
But never mind the money, says correct opinion: The state's present demand that you buckle up (though you can't be stopped just for failing to) should be toughened up anyhow, just because it's good for you. Of course, says the c.o., you ought to buckle up and therefore you ought to be made to buckle up.
Um, wait . . . »Read Full Blog Post(12)
Yes, I think you should buckle up. But . . . Part II
Ah, but when you hurtle through the windshield, goes the argument over mandatory seat belts, it's not just you who will pay, but all of us, especially once we're all on ObamaCare. So whether you buckle up is everyone's affair, since we're all in this together.
Hey, I've got a bright idea: Don't socialize the cost of health care.
Maybe, even, encourage a market in health care so that the cost of insurance more accurately reflected our health care risks, especially those related to lifestyle, and people could pay for their own foolish choice not to use a seatbelt – kind of the way my health insurance premiums already go up if I'm a smoker. Perhaps triple the co-pay if you weren't wearing a belt . . .
Yes, I think you should buckle up. But . . . Part III
Suppose, however, that the state really does go ahead and make police pull you over just for not wearing a seatbelt – or, more correctly, on suspicion that you weren't wearing one.
Interesting companion bit of legislation mentioned in that story. Milwaukee area lawmakers "said they will also push for a requirement that details of all traffic stops in the 11 largest counties -- including Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, Brown and Dane counties -- be compiled and made public, starting in 2011."
Police and the attorney general oppose this, but the governor and the lawmakers want it because they think police are pulling over too many black drivers and they want the figures to prove it. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Boredom? Boredom!?
Yes, they were bored, said the kids who beat up the 76-year-old guy so badly he lost an eye. So did the kids who smashed up a car dealership. We'll discuss this epidemic of boredom on "Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes," where I'll be a guest along with commentator James T. Harris, editor Mikel Holt and pundit Ken Lamke. Also on the bill: Scott Walker vs. Mark Neumann, and all about packing heat in Milwaukee.
See it at 10 a.m. Sunday on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4).
Half the team is missing
If you read anything Sunday, see a brilliant column by my colleague James Causey in the Journal Sentinel's Crossroads section. He points out how boredom worked when he was a kid: His parents made sure he was, um, entertained:
"I can still hear them: Did you clean up your room? Take the dog out! Clean up the basement! Do your homework! If you're finished with your homework, work ahead! Read a book. Take out the garbage. Wash the dishes. . . ."
Which is better than, say, beating up the 76-year-old can collector in the alley. Or smashing in car windows at a dealership to the tune of $100,000. The boys who did those things in both cases said they were bored. »Read Full Blog Post(4)
A sign of their troubles, not their cause
Also in Crossroads is a piece you have to read to believe, from the ever-incredible president of Milwaukee's School Board, Peter Blewett.
He's mainly scrambling defensively after that independent audit of MPS found the district could save as much as $100 million just in its overhead costs – not touching classroom spending.
Why, we'll be efficient, Blewett says. Count on us. Then he gets to the meat of his complaint. Which is the same meat as always. »Read Full Blog Post(10)
Does this mean the administration makes it onto Janet Napolitano's little list o' terror?
Thousands of New Yorkers, apparently, evacuate their offices when they spot a jetliner flying at ominously familiar altitude around lower Manhattan. Better: The jet was a backup to Air Force One, doing some photo-op thing with Air Force fighters in formation. No one told New York's mayor. Or much of anyone else, except some soon-to-be-ex New York police bureaucrats who didn't pass along the word.
Result? "Everybody panicked," said Daisy Cooper, a Merrill Lynch worker in Jersey City, who lost a nephew on 9/11. "Everybody was screaming and we all ran downstairs."
Best take: Wonkette's headline – "ALWAYS PLOTTING AGAINST US."
Her question: "Uhh, you guys ever hear of Photoshop?"
Just talking to himself, really
Our Leader amuses a crowd, inadvertently, by running out of words. At least until the TelePrompTer guys can comply with his request to skip ahead, since his thoughts, apparently, were running behind the pace of his speaking.
Noted scholar refuses to join the circus
From First Things via Dad29, it turns out the noted legal scholar, Mary Ann Glendon, who was going to be honored by Notre Dame is now saying no.
First, she doesn't like the way the university is honoring a president who embraces grave moral wrong.
Then: »Read Full Blog Post
Nothing is parody any longer, Part MLXVI
James T. Harris notes the latest presidential portrait and wonders why anyone ever got on his case about his nickname for Obama.
I'm sure I saw a polar bear floating on a Lake Michigan ice floe
Lake Michigan's water levels are on the rise again – up two feet after a couple cold and wet seasons, reports the Journal Sentinel.
Which is dandy, since low water makes trouble for boats. Why is it up? Why was it down? All unclear, or at least argued over, from dredging in the St. Clair River to what is now the universal explanation for all, "climate change."
To wit: "Climate is, not surprisingly, a big and increasing factor in the change in relative water levels," said John Nevin of the International Joint Commission, the U.S.-Canadian lakes regulator. »Read Full Blog Post(19)
A long-lived stupid idea – and, naturally, its Milwaukee connection
On Monday in the Times, Sol Stern dissects the enduring popularity of a book from a Brazilian Marxist about consciousness-raising among peasants. The book, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," dating from the 1970s, remains a standard, writes Stern – in American schools of education.
It is, of course, a recipe for ignorance. "One of Mr. Freire's few truly pedagogical points is his opposition to taxing students with any actual academic content, which he derides as 'official knowledge' that serves to rationalize inequality within capitalist society.
"He dismisses teacher-directed instruction as a misguided 'banking concept' in which 'the scope of action allowed to the students extends only as far as receiving, filing and storing the deposits.'" Instead, he proposes that teachers and students learn from each other in a "dialogic" and "problem-solving" process. »Read Full Blog Post(16)
Not of the machine
Owen Robinson interviews Scott Walker as the Milwaukee County executive makes official his run for governor.
Particularly interesting is his answer on the point that the rest of Wisconsin might hesitate to elect a governor from Milwaukee. Yeah, and Milwaukee might have once been hesitant about electing a Republican, Walker points out. Not the last three votes, however. Then:
"Unlike many politicians from Milwaukee in the past, I'm not of Milwaukee. I've taken on the Milwaukee machine. I'm not someone who has been a tax and spend liberal who asks for more money without accountability. . . . We won not because we asked for more but because we said that people have had it."
RINO defined
Liberal Republicans hate it when they get labeled as RINOs – that is, Republicans in name only. It's meanly exclusionary, they say.
Though Arlen Specter, the nominally Republican U.S. senator who today came out of the glass-door closet he'd been in for years, switching to the Democrat side, handily illustrates the objective way of measuring RINOtude.
Can I go home now, boss?
Mike Nichols on what world you have to work in for you to regard it as unfair you don't get a pension until you work a full three hours and 10 minutes a day.
When reality just won't do
I'd like you to note, please, the editorial cartoon running in this morning's Journal Sentinel. Since it's syndicated, if you want it online, you have to go see it at the cartoonist's home paper here.
The cartoonist is trying to say that the Bush administration tortured al-Qaida jihadists. To show this, he depicts an iron maiden, one of those spike-filled body traps. Just like the ones they used at Guantanamo . . .
Except, of course, they didn't. They didn't spike anyone. Didn't poke anyone. Didn't burn anyone, beat anyone, rack anyone, whip anyone or do much of any of what constituted unremarkable police roughing-up as of 50 years ago. The big controversy is the simulated drowning – note that nobody drowned nor was anyone ever in danger of it – that was done to exactly three al-Qaida captives. »Read Full Blog Post(110)
But if you're only making it illegal now . . .
William McGurn in the Wall Street Journal notes how strange it is that Democrats in Congress only made a fuss about banning waterboarding back when they weren't in charge of everything.
Now that they run the show utterly, they're talking about appointing some panel to do another Bush-era retrospective.
McGurn: »Read Full Blog Post(11)
You could get it on the shortwave
Odd, the fuss ensuing now that Fox, the entertainment channel, says it won't interrupt its shows tonight to cover the president's press conference.
It's not as if you won't be able to see Obama if you want: Other broadcast networks will let the president celebrate himself on his 100th day in office. Fox, which doesn't do network news on its broadcast channel, will instead cover the guy on its two all-news channels, so it isn't as if they were ignoring him – it's just trying to stay out of the red, says they're competitor, and aren't we all?
And this is moot in Milwaukee, says Tim Cuprisin, as WITI-TV, the local Fox affiliate, will cover Obama. »Read Full Blog Post(12)
The regulator-activist merger, or, maybe you should stick to root beer
Radley Balko at Reason a few days back on some news I know I missed:
The president is putting the vegan in charge of the henhouse.
Or, specifically, he's nominated Chuck Hurley to run the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Hurley, you'll recall, is the boss of MADD, which used to be about mothers being mad at drunken driving and is now about demanding ignition interlocks – maybe for everyone – and stopping motorists randomly just to see what they're up to and, occasionally, toying with an even lower threshold for "drunken" driving so that we can nail little old ladies who had a glass of zinfandel at lunch. »Read Full Blog Post(5)
Imagine your kid is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed . . .
A writer, one Patrick Ford of Milwaukee, suggests in this morning's letters to the editor (third item) that one might arouse the necessary sympathy for the three al-Qaida detainees who were waterboarded by thinking of it this way:
"Tonight, when tucking your child into bed or kissing your loved one goodnight, imagine that he or she is strapped to a board, face covered with a rag. Imagine you are assigned to pour water on his or her face and into the lungs, causing an experience like the primal terror of drowning to death. You can expect him or her to scream, or at least try to."
Hmm, well, yes. At first blush, this reminds me of the replies I get nowadays about how, if I think it's so OK for the U.S. to have been rough with al-Qaida baddies, putting them in cold rooms or threatening them with caterpillars, why is it not OK for Iran to imprison an American journalist, Roxana Saberi, on claims she was a spy? Huh? HUH?! »Read Full Blog Post(47)
More about imagining your kid as KSM
So I write this post picking apart an absurd letter to the editor – the one suggesting that we all think of how we'd feel if our kids were waterboarded for being al-Qaida masterminds – and a reader notes something else about the letter itself. He writes:
"The letter writer's invocation of the Golden Rule is truly thought-provoking, given that I doubt Jesus could have visualized a day when a man on a train would look a woman and her baby in the eyes before detonating his backpack."
Precisely. »Read Full Blog Post(41)
If you say it "soyve," the vegans will take offense
Mark Krikorian notes the troubles emerging over what to call the latest plague. You can't say "swine flu," says the CDC, because various religions that shun pork might be offended (no, really). But you daren't call it Mexican flu, either: We'd have to, suggests Mark Steyn, sensitize that to "undocumented flu."
And while at least one federal official was on NPR this morning insisting the thing be called "2009 H1N1 influenza," a license-plate name if there ever was one, the CDC nixes that, too, since it's too close to the name for this year's ordinary flu.
So epidemiologists are now tossing around "swine-origin influenza A (H1N1)" or, later, S-OIV, where the S and O stand for "swine origin."
Which, I suppose, you could pronounce "soyve," a pleasingly short and medieval word, akin to "the grippe" or "the pox," but doubtless too close to a source of vegetable protein for the vegans to be happy about.
Because a giant government is immoral, that's why
Arthur Brooks is brilliant in the Wall Street Journal this morning on how the culture wars are back – but they're about the giant issue of the past 100 years, capitalism vs. socialism.
Take those recent tea parties – people ticked off at the Obama era's incipient federal bloat, with Washington's share of the economy due to soar so we can build Frisbee golf courses in Texas. But it's not just people miffed about their taxes, he points out:
"The tea parties are not based on the cold wonkery of budget data. They are based on an 'ethical populism.' The protesters are homeowners who didn't walk away from their mortgages, small business owners who don't want corporate welfare and bankers who kept their heads during the frenzy and don't need bailouts. They were the people who were doing the important things right -- and who are now watching elected politicians reward those who did the important things wrong." »Read Full Blog Post(38)


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Sophia Kichou is now blogging for the Amy Winehouse Foundation. Here are a few words about her:
'I was once a young person living at Centrepoint, and have been a member of the Centrepoint Youth Parliament for 3 years, which has involved working with MP's and several national campaigns. I recently won Best News Coverage of the year at the Creative Diversity Network Awards for my piece raising awareness about youth homelessness. I am currently a full time student studying Journalism at City University.
'Through this blog I hope to tell the stories of those who wouldn't usually be given a voice, and to raise awareness about the plight facing vulnerable young people affected by homelessness and substance misuse. I will also tell you about all the cool things that the Amy Winehouse Foundation are doing!'
The effects alcohol abuse can have go far beyond just having a drink. It can affect the people around you including close family and friends. Most importantly it can affect children. Today in the United Kingdom it is estimated that one in five children live with an alcoholic parent (www.coaweek.org).
Having grown up with an alcoholic father for part of my life, this is an issue that is close to me, and one that I can completely understand. It's the embarrassment of friends coming over and your father shouting because he's drunk, it's the anger, resentment and confusion. Emotionally, it's the experience of having to grow up faster than you should and having to take on bigger responsibilities.
This week, 11th – 16th February, marks 'Children of Alcoholics Week', which aims to raise awareness of children affected by parental alcohol problems, while also reminding all children living with an alcoholic parent that they are not alone. Children of Alcoholics Week (COA) is held internationally every year and is led by a campaign founded by the The National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACOA).
COA Week supporter and Nacoa Patron, Elle McPherson, has said: "Without help these children become lost in the system; they grow up feeling un-noticed at best and abused at worst. Nacoa's work is all about planning for a positive future – helping them to transform their negative beliefs about themselves into an 'I can do' attitude."
NACOA run a phone and online service providing young people with information and a forum to speak to someone. They also provide one to one support, and deliver outreach programmes to schools in order to discuss this hidden issue and create more awareness for teachers and pupils.
As someone who has experienced life with an alcoholic parent, there is always the uncertainty of never knowing what you are going home to. It's the not being listening to and never being heard. The children that are being supported by organisations such as NACOA are being listened to, and it's important we don't forget them.
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For any children or young people who may be affected by this issue, please remember the Six "C"s:
I didn't cause it
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Did you sleep well last night? It was pretty bloomin' cold, windy and rainy out. I ask because last week was Homelessness and Poverty Action Week, which aims to not only change the perceptions of poverty and homelessness in the UK, but also hopes to make a real difference to homeless peoples lives.
Every night thousands of people are looking for somewhere to spend the night. A large number of them are hidden homeless. Sleeping on friends and families sofas or dossing on public transport. A growing number are aged between 16 and 25.
Often due to divorce or relationship breakdown, addiction and death, young people are made homeless way before they can marry, drink and before many of them have begun to live their lives. They're made homeless through no fault of their own and recent changes to the welfare system are already having a negative impact on young people's ability to access appropriate (if any) housing options.
One organization trying to make things easier for young homeless people is Centrepoint. This is the UK's leading charity for young homeless people. What's so special about what Centrepoint do? Not only do they give young people a home, but they nurture a young person by giving them skills, confident and support they need to go into the real world.
It costs money to provide such a level of support. As part of Centrepoint's Health and Wellbeing team, the Amy Winehouse Foundation has funded £38,000 for a one-year Dual Diagnosis Specialist Worker, to provide focused intervention for young people aged 16-25 who experience problems in this area, allowing the team to integrate its current support work around substance misuse and mental health expertise.

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Couple of musical notes this lovely p.m.: Seems yesterday, whilst touting tonight's Bill Callahan gig at the Sons of Hermann Hall, I neglected to mention the local-fave opener -- one Sarah Jaffe, whose MySpace page offers a pretty wonderful sampler of what one might expect tonight at the venerable Deep Ellum joint. In a word: lovely. In several words, here's what our own Jonanna Widner had to say about her last month: "She's awesome because whenever she plays her guitar and sings, beer bottles stop midway to mouths, chatter ceases and jaws drop." Consider her recommended. CDs will be for sale. Buy one. Here's a track from that CD:
Also, as a public service announcement, I did want to point your attention to one of my favorite MP3 blogs: Honey, Where You Been So Long?, where Peter Patnaik every so often posts some of the most astounding and obscure pre-WWII blues cuts you've never heard but need to as soon as you left click here.
And, yes, there are plenty items of local interest: Patnaik maintains a Texas Blues category, where, in recent months, he's unearthed gems by the likes of Arizona Dranes (whose history was properly written, at last, by former Dallas Observer contributor Michael Corcoran), Texas Alexander (whose "Don't You Wish Your Baby Was Built Up Like Mine?" rings a familiar bell) and Will Day, whose "Central Avenue Blues" refers to a long, long-ago Deep Ellum. And, as a bonus, once Patnaik makes the tracks available, they stay available, as most (if not all) are in the public domain, which means these folks won't be forgotten again. --Robert Wilonsky
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Uncoated iron fry pan with forged hooked handle and criss-cross imprint on the bottom of the pan. Improved frying characteristics with every use. Made in Germany. Sold exclusively through Kaufmann Mercantile in the U.S. Available in three sizes. Also available as a Double-Handle Pan and a traditional Fry Pan. (
Anyone who's ever eaten a properly cooked piece of cornbread can attest to the difference between cooking with iron and some regular old pan.
An incredible retainer of heat, iron not only gets very hot, but stays very hot, which means it cooks evenly. For a pie, it means a superbly flaky, even-colored golden crust that isn't burned. For a filet of salmon, it means a perfect crispy skin and tender meat, every time (without smoking up your kitchen). This pan is also incredibly versatile, so you can safely toss it in the oven right after taking it off the stove.
As you use iron pans, the flavors of the last meal you cooked are retained in the pan and as you cook a new dish, the fact that you're cooking it in iron adds flavor and texture to every meal. It's also much healthier to cook with than teflon or aluminum pans, which are treated with harmful chemicals. The iron that does make it into your food from the cast iron pan is natural and supplementary to your health.
Iron cookware requires little technology to produce, making it one of the most environmentally safe types of cookware available.
A brand new iron skillet requires simple "start up" care before you're ready to cook, and a few rules of maintenance in order to make the pan last forever (which it really can). Here are the things you should know:
Never put the pan in the dishwasher or run cold water on the hot pan. This can shock the pan and cause fissures or even warp the pan. After use, allow it to cool slowly before rinsing with hot water.
Iron usually takes a bit longer to heat than stainless steel, and it should be done slowly. Heat the pan slowly over heat and then adjust to your desired cooking temperature.
The handles will become very hot! Use caution and always make sure you have an oven mitt or towels to cover the handles when you're cooking.
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The iron skillet only requires soap once in its lifetime -- when it's brand new, before you season it. The seasoning process is a must. It protects the pan from rust, creates a nonstick surface, and is necessary before you start cooking.
Starting with a brand new, unseasoned skillet, wash the pan with soap. You can use Castile or simple dish soap. And then never wash with soap again.
Rinse the skillet with hot water to remove all the soap.
After cleaning, make sure the pan is completely dry and smooth. You can heat it up on the stovetop if you want to ensure all moisture has been removed.
Using cooking oil such as soybean, safflower or canola oil (don't use low-smoke oils like olive or butter), apply it over every part of the skillet.
Bake. Set the oven 350-400 F and place the cookware upside down on the top rack of the oven. Bake the cookware for at least an hour. You can place aluminum foil underneath the pan to avoid drippings getting on the heating element. Then turn off the oven and allow the cookware to cool (for several hours) to room temperature in the oven.
Store. Put in a cool, dry place. Thinly coat the cookware with cooking oil in-between uses to maintain seasoning.
If your pan comes with a coating, simply wash it with warm water and a bit of soap before first use. This is an all-natural olive oil coating, which protects your pan from rust. Please note that the olive oil coating can also cause some streaks to appear in the surface - these will not impact the pan's use in any way. Pans without a coating may have some white or silver spots present, as a result of the hot-forging process. These also have no impact on the quality of the pan, simply season it, then it will be ready for use.
Since 1857, Turk has been manufacturing "Open-die hot forged" - formerly also called "handforged" - pans out of one piece, for skilled cooks and chefs who know their excellent characteristics and do not want to do without their advantages.
The company started with Albert Karl Turk, who installed a hammer plant on the mill of his father-in-law. Shovels and pans were manufactured here using the sledgehammer and the products became well known beyond the local region where they were produced. Two world wars and a serious fire later, the business was passed down to Hans-Peter Turk, a fifth generation Turk who employs 40 craftsmen to make 1,000 items a year.
Of the 40 employees, there are just 3 blacksmiths who forge the pans. At 1000 degrees Celcius, the handle of the pan is first stretched from a block of iron, then the pan body is spread. With a heavy hammer, the pan is beaten out to meet its intended shape. To make one pan, there are ten steps involved of heating and shaping.
The whole pan is considered a piece of art by the metal craftsman who works it, and every pan comes out a unique item.
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