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Hotel Playa Mazatlan, Mazatlan
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 400 guestrooms
- On the beach
- 4 restaurants and 2 bars/lounges
- Full-service spa
- 6 outdoor pools
- Water park
- Breakfast available
- Free children's club
- Fitness center
- Beach umbrellas
- Conference center
- Terrace
For families
- Children's pool
- Playground on site
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Children's club (free)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Private bathroom
What's around
- In Zona Dorada
- Sea Shell City Museum (0.1 mi / 0.2 km)
- Punta Camaron Beach (0.3 mi / 0.5 km)
- La Gran Plaza Mall (1 mi / 1.7 km)
- Plaza de Toros (1.4 mi / 2.3 km)
- El Cid Country Club Golf Course (1.5 mi / 2.5 km)
- Mazatlan, Sinaloa (MZT-General Rafael Buelna Intl.) 31-min drive; 16 miles/25.8 km
- Free self parking
- Free valet parking
- Limited parking
Hotel Playa Mazatlan, Mazatlan
Hotel Info: 866-539-8117from $75
- Standard Room, 2 Double Beds, Pool View
- Standard Room, 2 Double Beds
- Standard Room, 2 Double Beds, Beach View
- Standard Room, Ocean View
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 400 rooms
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is noon
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
- Minimum check-in age is 18
Travelling with others
- No cribs (infant beds)
- Free children's club
- Pets not allowed
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in public areas
- Free WiFi and wired Internet access in rooms
- Free valet parking (limited)
Other information
- All-inclusive rates available
In the hotel
- Children's club (free)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Supervised childcare/activities (surcharge)
- Buffet breakfast daily (surcharge)
- 4 restaurants
- 2 bars/lounges
- Coffee shop/café
- Beach bar
- Swim-up bar
- Poolside bar
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach towels
- Water park
- Number of outdoor pools - 6
- Fitness facilities
- Full-service spa
- Sauna
- Children's pool
- Swim-up bar
- Pool sun loungers
- Pool umbrellas
- Arcade/game room
- Billiards or pool table
- Business center
- Number of meeting rooms - 7
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 8
- Conference center
- 24-hour front desk
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Hair salon
- Luggage storage
- Wedding services
- Porter/bellhop
- Year Built 1955
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
- Picnic area
- Terrace
- Television in common areas
- Accessible bathroom
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Premium bedding
- Balcony or patio
- Private bathroom
- Shower only
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- 32-inch flat-screen TV
- Premium TV channels
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
Special features
All inclusive
All-inclusive room rates at Hotel Playa Mazatlan are available. These rates are higher because they include onsite food and beverages in the room rate (some restrictions may apply).
Gratuities and taxes
Gratuities and taxes are included. Additional gratuities at guests' discretion are accepted.
Food and beverages
- All buffet and à la carte meals, snacks, and beverages included
- Dining and beverage availability limited at one or more venues
- Onsite entertainment and activities
- Onsite live performances
DiningLa Terraza - This beachfront buffet restaurant specializes in Mexican cuisine and serves breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered. Open daily.
Casa Roberto - This restaurant specializes in Mexican cuisine and serves lunch and dinner.
Georginis Restaurant - Overlooking the ocean, this restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves dinner only.
US George Sports Bar - This sports bar serves light fare only.
On Site
- Fitness facilities
- Sauna
- Fitness classes on site
- Ecotours on site
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Playground on site
- Surfing/boogie boarding on site
- Golf lessons available nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Parasailing nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Skydiving nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Water skiing nearby
Hotel Playa Mazatlan, Mazatlan's small print
Also known as
- Hotel Mazatlan
- Playa Mazatlan Hotel
- Hotel Mazatlan Mexico Playa
- Mazatlan Playa Hotel
- Hotel Mazatlan Playa
- Hotel Playa
- Hotel Playa Mazatlan
- Mazatlan Hotel
- Mazatlan Hotel Playa
- Mazatlan Playa
- Playa Hotel Mazatlan
- Playa Mazatlan
Children under 12 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision.
Children under 18 years old are not allowed in the spa without adult supervision.
Guests under 12 years old are not allowed in the spa.
Reservations are required for massage services and spa treatments and can be made by contacting the property before arrival at the number on the booking confirmation.
The name on the credit card used at check-in to pay for incidentals must be the primary name on the guestroom reservation.
Special cancellation policies or charges may apply for group reservations (more than 8 rooms for the same property / stay dates).
Optional extras
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of MXN 165 for adults and MXN 125 for children (approximately)
Dial-up Internet access is available in guestrooms for an extra charge
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
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Posts for April, 2010
The miracle of the interchange
Northbound U.S. 45 through Zoo Interchange, which a week ago the state said could be closed through Memorial Day as a dangerously decayed bridge was replaced -- gets fixed in less than a week. How triumphant.
And it is truly good news. All appropriate kudos to the contractors who made it happen.
Of course, one might be excused for wondering whether the Doyle administration decided to compress repairs to one-ninth of what was expected precisely because the affair was turning out to be such a debacle for the governor and his preferred successor. Still, if that's what it takes to make Greenfield-to-Menomonee Falls commutes tolerable, so much the better. »Read Full Blog Post(9)
Not to worry, congressman: Guam actually ran aground some years ago
Yes, reports Politico, with the video: A congressman from Georgia really did fret to the Navy that Guam could "capsize."
Someone should get him a geology lesson before he takes it into his head to have the whole thing towed to a more amenable location.
To be sure: A spokesman later told an Atlanta paper that Johnson was making some kind of metaphor about ecosystems. Or a deadpan joke. Or, as other bloggers have argued, he's ill. Ah: That's all so reassuring. Can they undo his deadpan-joke votes? (17)
Jabba the Bureaucrat becomes the issue
Michael Barone on the chief accomplishment of the political left, now that it achieved the Age of Obama and has realized its dearest dream of nationalizing health care:
"The Progressives have always assumed that people needed safety nets and would welcome dependence on government. The public's clear rejection of the Democratic health care bills has shown that this assumption was unwarranted. Americans today prefer independence to dependence on government, just as they did 200 years ago."
And, Barone writes, unlike conservative resurgences in the 1970s and 1990s that were about the level of taxation, this one is about the size and reach of government. It is an argument on the power of the state, exactly the central element of progressivism, an argument progressives have always tried to avoid. (34)
Thank you for not polluting . . . the culture
Actor Neal McDonough gets fired from a TV series, apparently because he won't do "heated love scenes," reports Deadline Hollywood. What's more:
"The reason? He's a family man and a Catholic, and he's always made it clear that he won't do sex scenes. And ABC knew that," reports Nikki Finke. McDonough said no to on-screen sex in past shows, Finke reports: "'It has cost him jobs, but the man is sticking to his principles,' a source explained to me."
Not that I can say I watch Mr. McDonough's shows, nor do my kids. But my kids will grow up and they will live amid a culture in which the boundaries will in part be set by the precedent of where they get pushed and stretched today. It will be a culture either as honorable or as zipless as the material thrown onto the entertainment market today helps make it.
So thank you, Mr. McDonough, for not polluting the culture my children will someday live in. (53)
Why you must pay for the Lola entitlement
It is simply cruel and unusual, rules federal judge Charles Clevert, for Wisconsin's taxpayers not to pony up when inmates want hormone injections to help change them from being men to women. Why, such changes are basic medicine, the judge rules.
This has been a long time coming. Inmates sued years ago, insisting the state fund their ol' switcheroo. The state doesn't (yet) pay for the actual surgery for inmates, but an inmate had sued for that, too, since the state had been paying for hormones. That lawsuit prompted lawmakers to say that no, the taxpayers would not fund the wishes of prisoners eager to live out the old Kinks' song, "Lola."
Can't do that, rules Clevert. The law, he ruled, amounts to "deliberate indifference to the plaintiffs' serious medical needs." Go on, find the flaw in that phrase. »Read Full Blog Post(24)
Now that the child scam furor has died down . . .
Since they never believed that bilking taxpayers via the child-care subsidy program was a problem to begin with, did anyone doubt that this would happen soon? (9)
Milwaukee kids going to Easter egg roll
Some children from Milwaukee got invited to the White House's Easter egg roll, an event that annually takes on ever more political baggage, alas.
One simply wishes the kids a good time on an exciting trip. They deserve as much, certainly.
Fortunately for them, they appear to be attendees, as well, at public schools. That was this year's trick out of the Obama White House: Send out 3,000 tickets to Washington-area schoolchildren -- but only to public schools. Parochial schoolchildren? That line over, except the window's already closed. They need not show up (as, one supposes, they might ask embarrassing the president questions of the president about why he's going along with Congress' plan to shut poor, inner-city children out of exactly those schools by killing Washington's school choice program). (5)
They're only virtual children, apparently
The state, it turns out, said in its grab for "Race to the Top" money from Obama's stash, that "there is no limit in State law or regulation" on the number of charter schools or in the number of children who can enroll in them.
The McIvers notice, however, that there very much is just such a limit. The state limits how many kids can enroll in virtual charters schools - the online schools run by public school districts to the great annoyance of the Doyle administration's string-pullers.
"The Doyle administration's essentially lying about this," said state Rep. Brett Davis (R-Oregon), who fought the Doylies' effort to squash such schools entirely.
Nah, they weren't lying. They just didn't regard children at those schools as being anything but virtual. (11)
It's for your own -- hold still, peasant! -- good
The Obama administration has declared that cars will get higher mileage. Further, the Obama minions declare the consequent trade-offs -- presumably, smaller cars, weaker engines and bigger price tags -- are good for you.
You'll save money on gas, see? Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, regrettably a Republican, "rejected the idea that car buyers will resist paying more for vehicles that get better gas mileage."
" 'You look at the price of a gallon of gasoline -- it's not going to go down. It's going to go up,' LaHood said. 'Will people buy these? If they're more fuel-efficient and they get better gas mileage, I think the answer is absolutely yes, based on the kinds of investments the carmakers are making and based on the cars that are being sold today.'" »Read Full Blog Post(44)
Willingness is everything
Republicans, writes Clifford Asness at Real Clear Politics, share a great deal of blame for the calamity of Obamacare that has befallen the country.
Our national finances are on the road to Greece and our social trajectory headed toward the Parisian slum level because, he writes, because we believed George Bush's bit about coming off as the generous sort:
"We let the easy pabulum of 'compassionate conservatism' blind us to the fact that even though compassion is a virtue of the first order, along with benevolence, honesty, and others, these are private not public virtues, and importantly they are not virtues, if not voluntary. When the State claims to practice any of these virtues it is always being generous with someone else's resources, and usually most so to the constituents of whoever is currently in charge, and almost always with eyes firmly on the political advantage it will bring. When one is benevolent privately, it's usually, well, just to be benevolent. The two are not equal, they aren't even both virtues." »Read Full Blog Post(15)
Ever see a fire truck that used light-rail tracks?
Roads are subsidized, notes David Riemer in the Sunday Journal Sentinel. No, subsidized! Really. Including, he writes, by "all those who don't drive at all and those who only drive a little."
Not that he wants to stop that. Rather, writes the former top policy aide to freewayphobic John Norquist, that taxpayers subsidize roads means they shouldn't object to also subsidizing passenger railroads. "There's nothing wrong with a comparable subsidy for roads made of steel rails for people who ride trains," he argues.
By all means, then, let us be comparable. Let us compare. »Read Full Blog Post(9)
How school choice made the local public schools better
Oh, yes, it did, says the economist at the University of Texas at San Antonio who did the study.
The real-world situation, writes John D. Merrifield, came when a private foundation offered vouchers to students in a low-income school district in San Antonio: Any student of any ability or income could take the money to go to a private school instead of sticking with the bad local public schools. Quite a few did.
Now, standard theory from the critics of school choice holds that this would either not improve the local public schools or would make them worse, since engaged, caring parents would pull their kids out. »Read Full Blog Post(5)
Right-wing threats without either threats or partisanship
So some group with a manifesto sends letters to lots - perhaps all - governors, telling them to leave office or they'll "be removed." The FBI, paid to stay wary, makes sounds of wariness.
So far, so normal. Including the part where my profession casually puts it in a context of -- how did the Associated Press put it? -- "heightened attention to far-right extremist groups."
See? Lunatic family in a trailer in Michigan. Letters to governors. Those right-wingers are just nuts, eh? »Read Full Blog Post(23)
The faked-up claim of Tea Party racism
Andrew Breitbart over the weekend on exactly how we know the left is faking its claim that Tea Party ralliers were racists.
This, remember, stems from Democrats' claims that they were attacked with racial slurs from protesters as they marched to the Capitol to saddle us with Obamacare. Writes Breitbart:
"Linking the health-care bill, which has nothing to do with black and white, to the divisive civil-rights period, while simultaneously accusing its opponents of being racist, is an evil strategy — literally." »Read Full Blog Post(128)
Because it's, like, so hard to register to vote now
Speaking of dubiousness and people named Kessler, the judge's husband and state lawmaker Fred Kessler writes some nonsense in this morning's Journal Sentinel about why we need an elections "reform" bill aimed at making cheating easier.
Kessler says the point of the bill is mainly to stop a plague, the intimidation of minority voters, for which there is no credible evidence. Kessler says this happens all the time, that Republicans poll watchers spook away minority voters. His proof: A case from 1986 in which he intimidated a wee little township up north into paying money to students who claimed they couldn't vote. Of course, Kessler was the hired legal help, so he's not exactly an independent, reliable source on the story. But, he says, it happens all the time. All the time. Which is why he offers one dodgy 24-year-old case as utter proof.
But Kessler's real gem is in saying why we need to automatically put on the voting rolls anyone who signs up for a driver's license and anyone who wants to do so online. Why must we do this? Because it's so hard to register to vote otherwise, as municipal clerks' offices aren't open 24/7. »Read Full Blog Post(4)
I voted anyway
It is election day, which in some places -- Waukesha County, for instance -- makes a difference.
Not so much in Milwaukee, where a series of judges are running unopposed. I showed up at the polls at 10:20 a.m. and was the fourth voter of the day in my ward. The registrars were quite excited about the relief from boredom.
Then again, why bother if there's no contest? Literally, in the case of Milwaukee: No contest. I just went so I could write in some name against the ethically challenged Joan Kessler, who appears otherwise to be skating by. (24)
The latex lobby runs up against Wisconsin law
So there's a flap now that the Juneau County DA, the admirable Scott Southworth, warns schools that what the state orders them to teach in sex education classes might well be illegal.
Specifically, the law says that if schools mention sex at all, they must teach children how to use contraceptives. The one thing they must not do is teach children how to put off adult things until they're adult, since the point of the new law was to outlaw an abstinence approach. But it's what schools must instruct in that leads to legal trouble, warns Southworth.
"The new law 'promotes the sexualization -- and sexual assault -- of our children,' Southworth wrote in a March 24 letter to officials in five school districts," the Journal Sentinel reports. »Read Full Blog Post(21)
I don't have to drink it ironically, do I?
Jim Stingl writes an interesting piece in the Journal Sentinel about the guy named Pabst -- yes, he's the descendent of the captain -- who's back in the Milwaukee beer biz. The 33-year-old Isaac Pabst just opened a bar on an impossibly fashionable corner on the east side. Naturally, he serves Pabst Blue Ribbon.
The beer, it turns out, has become the epitome of hip over the past decade. This is because, as one paper put it, PBR is an "ironic downscale chic choice for bike messengers and other younger drinkers who viewed the beer as a statement of non-mainstream taste."
Golly. I was planning to move up to PBR from Mountain Creek -- you know, what with the recession easing and all. I do so hope one can drink PBR non-ironically without disturbing anyone. Though intentionally being non-ironic is sort of self-defeating, isn't it? (66)
School choice and middling results
The third year of results from the state's study comparing choice schools to the Milwaukee Public Schools is out, as inconclusive as in previous years.
Christian Schneider contains his disappointment:
"School choice advocates (of which I consider myself one) wanted the report to be Natalie Portman. Instead, they got the girl that works at the record store with the tattoo that kind of looks like Natalie Portman, enough so that your palms kind of get sweaty when you talk to her." »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Ironic adjectives, as in "Boy George" or "Republican Dick Leinenkugel"
No, really: The man who served as commerce secretary for the business-alienating Doyle administration says he'll run for the U.S. Senate as a Republican.
Marvy. That's the one scenario wherein Russ Feingold, Obamacare supporter, can actually make an electoral issue out of smelly backroom deals.
Isn't this, asks Sykes, like "appplying for the position of surgeon general after running Phillip Morris?"
But: Steve Prestegard thinks there's something to Leinenkugel -- while hoping there could be a pro-business Democrat option for governor. (13)
How to make enemies and alienate people
Marvelous new tone, there, out of the White House, what with the Obama people doing their best to alienate the elected head of a country where our troops are.
How did the Obama administration botch Afghanistan so badly? The Philadelphia Inquirer's Trudy Rubin explains that it started with sending an abrasive envoy who publicly can't stand Karzai. It continues with a president who is incompetent at personal relationships.
Also: Power Line on just why Obama is so alienating to one of this country's best allies: »Read Full Blog Post(45)
Step 1: Remove wallet. Step 2: Invert and shake.
Here it comes: The campaign for a huge reduction of how much of your earnings you can keep.
Fed Chair Ben Bernanke says, correctly, that it may come to a choice between higher taxes or what that story calls "cherished" programs like Social Security. Whereupon Obama admin adviser Paul Volcker, who once knew something about fiscal probity, started beating the drum for higher taxes, way higher.
Volcker was pushing for something called a value-added tax, or VAT. It's the kind of fiscal crack that made Europe the mutual impoverishment society it is today, a sales tax built into every intermediate wholesale transaction that leads to everything you buy. That way, it's invisible. »Read Full Blog Post(48)
Game over for the Fighting Sioux
Better buy that souvenir UND hockey sweater quickly: the Fighting Sioux nickname is toast, rules the North Dakota Board of Higher Education.
Too bad for the eight members of the Spirit Lake Sioux who sued to keep the nickname on their state's teams. It was only a matter of time, their views being as unfashionable these days as this ex-UND goalie who talked with Katherine Kersten when the controversy boiled a few years back:
"Marc Ranfranz, a 2004 UND grad who played goalie for the hockey team and who is Sioux, says he strongly supports the team name. 'You feel so good being Sioux -- the energy that goes through your body when you walk in the rink and see the logo all over,' he recalls. 'I think of it every day, how good it was to throw on the jersey and play for the Fighting Sioux. It made you want to strive even harder to reach your goal -- to make everybody with a stake in the logo proud.'"
And to clarify: The UND for which Ranfranz, that genuine Sioux, played was the University of North Dakota. It was not the other ND, home to yet another lovably pugnacious ethnic-stereotype mascot, one about which nobody in the world is bothered. (26)
Don't give them ideas, sir
Columnist Phil Reisman of the Westchester Journal News suggests New York state's proposed soda tax is too indirect: "Tax the actual results," he writes.
"Don't play around. Force individuals to directly take responsibility for their behavior by enacting a real 'obesity tax.'"
So, your body mass index is over 30? Pay up, Donut. Of course there would be annual weigh-ins, new bureaucracies . . .
He's kidding. One wishes, however, he'd be a little more careful. There are lunatics afoot in American government these days. He shouldn't give them ideas. (12)
And the lobbyists for the bill keep glancing at your kneecaps
A Madison Democrat, Joe Parisi, says his proposed law requiring a special state license for crane operators is just about safety, reports the Daily Reporter.
Sure, OSHA just passed new federal rules, but they don't go far enough, says one bill backer, a boss with the International Union of Operating Engineers. Wisconsin needs this bill, he says.
How would crane operators get this state license? Why, one path is through the International Union of Operating Engineers. And who would tell the state what the licensing rules should be? A "a crane and heavy equipment council" that would be made up of four union appointees and one member picked by a contractors' association.
But, mind you, it's all about safety. It wouldn't at all be about setting the rules so as to keep out anyone not in the union's favor. No, no, no. Don't even hint that. You want to keep your kneecaps intact, yes? (2)
Why Fred Phelps deserves to get (legally) squashed
Ann Coulter figures a federal appeals court screwed it up when it ruled that a "Kansas-based cult, consisting mostly of members of a single family," was within its rights to parade about with vile signs outside the funeral of a Marine killed defending his country.
What the rabble led by Fred Phelps with signs reading "God Loves Dead Soldiers," "You're Going to Hell" and "God Hates Fags" are doing, writes Coulter, is a well known legal concept: the intentional infliction of emotional distress. You can sue for that. "It means what it says: speech or conduct specifically intended to inflict emotional distress. The usual description of the tort of IIED is that a reasonable man viewing the conduct would react by saying, 'That's outrageous!'"
The appeals court said no: The signs are speech, it said, and speech is protected. »Read Full Blog Post(12)
Someone's tax dollars at work, setting up the competition
Some Bay View businesses wonder just why Alterra, the coffee outfit, is in line to get government help in competing with them.
Though some then go on to say they wanted some of the pelf, too, they happen to be asking a very good question about corporate welfare. Is helping set up a business that may well lead other businesses to close a good use of public money? You'd think the answer is "no." (7)
For only a billion of your bucks, he could have spent more time and money
Owen Robinson had business in Madison. So he drove there. That's because you haven't yet built a train to convey him, and so he had time to work out the awful cost of having to drive.
Result: Thanks for saving him $17 and 2 hours, 15 minutes.
Also: Terrence Berres on how light rail is the transportation of the future -- if the future is 1949. (20)
Meat's back on the menu, boys
Grazing livestock, it turns out, isn't a greenhouse gas nightmare, new research finds. Turns out the vegan warriors weren't reckoning for nitrous oxide, the Telegraph reports.
Another day, another dent in the global-warming faith. (34)
Ought Wisconsin have a Leinie?
Jim Doyle's recent commerce secretary now hopes to put his famous name on a ballot. The pundits discuss the matter on "Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes." On the panel will be politician Lynne DeBruin, editor Mikel Holt, blogger Owen Robinson and me.
See it at 10 a.m. Sunday on WTMJ-TV (channel 4). (18)
The Journal Sentinel publishes a falsehood about Obamacare
It wasn't, mind you, the newspaper's staff that put a falsehood about Obamacare into Tuesday morning's paper. Rather, it was a letter to the editor -- the first one at that link -- that contains the fallacy.
As the writer, an Anne Hintz of Oshkosh, is using her own incorrect information to say I was negligent in print, it's one of those things that gets a columnist in off vacation to set the record straight.
Hintz was writing about a column of mine from last week, in which I noted the big companies, such as
Caterpillar, that have run into a tax landmine in Obamacare. The companies, I noted, are having to account for the repeal of a tax break subsidizing the drug benefits they pay to retirees. Obamacare repeals the subsidy, and Obamacare backers are upset that the companies are saying so -- given that, as one congressman put it, Obamacare was supposed by its writers to bring down the cost of care. »Read Full Blog Post(110)
That depends on the meaning of has-been
Bill Clinton, trying to intimate that Tea Party protesters are somehow a little McVeigh, warns that conservatives better watch what they say.
"Remember, words have consequences," said the president who quibbled over the meaning of "is" while trying to wriggle his way off the hook for perjury.
Expert opinion, in other words. (94)
They don't need your money; they want your obedience
Steve Egg enthuses, justly, over a fab essay by a Doctor Zero on the failure of those crash-the-Tea-Party types.
More properly, Doc Zero looks at why the vitriol and hate for Tea Partiers has flowed unabated. It's because they aren't obedient, and whereas the dollar once might have been almighty, it's certainly been dethroned by a new currency: obedience:
"Central planning is useless if nobody follows the central plans. Where the free market is persuasive, organizing resources by responding to demand and exploiting opportunity, central planning is coercive. It must compel obedience to its designs, and compulsion is always necessary. If people were eager to follow those designs of their own free will, there would be no need for central planning in the first place." (8)
Epidemiology? Bah. Feelings are at stake.
A Milwaukee nurse, one Sarah Frogge, wrote an essay in Sunday's Journal Sentinel saying the feds should dump rules saying that men can't donate blood if they've had sex with another man.
The reason, Frogge says, is because we need more blood donors. We certainly do. Given that, you'd figure authorities would be reluctant to rule anyone out. But they do: Questions before you donate pry out information on all kinds of behavior linked to the risk of blood-borne trouble. Spent a lot of time in England back in the mad-cow era? Lived a while in babesiosis country? Taken certain medications? Turned tricks?
The reason men who've had sex with other men can't donate is because so many hemophiliacs, who need lots of transfusions, got infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, a couple decades back before the ban. About 10,000 to 15,000 people were infected; fewer that 2,000 of them are still alive. »Read Full Blog Post(18)
I AM the guy who wants someone to order you to be my brother's keeper
Last week, I vacationed but Tea Partiers partied. The lefty fringe at One Wisconsin Now drove a billboard truck past the gathered 10,000 or so taxed-enough people, hoping to befuddle them with some clever message it selected in an online contest.
The winner? "I AM my brother's keeper," apparently.
Well, golly. Not sure those wits ever read Olasky on precisely this topic. Or realized he was conservative. »Read Full Blog Post(68)
How dare she pay money for health care?
Guess what happens to you in the paradise of universal health care that is Britain if you pay a doctor to see you sooner?
The breast cancer survivor who found out she's got a cyst growing against her sciatic nerve got told she can jolly well pay for the operation to relieve it herself.
Health officials in Britain admit, reports the Times of London, that if patients decide not to wait, oh, five months to find out whether it's recrudescent cancer causing back pain and instead see a doctor privately, they get punished by being sent to the back of the line for any subsequent treatment.
You shall not trifle with The Benevolent State, peasants. (36)
It's not just the heat; it's the cost of installing gas lines into hell
OK, talk all you want of whether taxes should be higher or harsher on the high-earning. Lance Burri at Fox Politics wonders why it has to be so costly just to pay them.
"Just complying with the tax code will cost us $338 billion this year. That's equal to 35.5% of the entire federal income tax. Over a third! It equals 15.3% of all federal taxes being paid this year, including Social Security and Medicare taxes.
"More: we'll spend 7.6 billion hours complying with the U.S. income tax code this year: that's a full workyear for 3.8 million people. Every adult in Wisconsin, plus a few hundred thousand border-jumpers. Working for a year, just to pay the taxes." »Read Full Blog Post(13)
It could be a public-private debacle, see?
Building anything like a high-speed rail system will cost ungodly sums, concedes Oliver Hauck, a man whose company, Siemens USA, stands to make a fortune off the deal. But rustling up the money won't be hard, he writes in the Journal Sentinel. We'll do it through public-private partnerships, wherein the builders assume some risk.
Do read the piece, if only to admire its opacity. Essentially, Hauck makes a good point -- that you can put up expensive public infrastructure if private industry scrapes the capital. This, for instance, is how new tollways have been built in Britain, Australia and parts of the United States.
But the missing part is the revenue. Generally, when some private company puts up a tollway, it gets its reward by collecting some of the tolls, which more than cover the cost of building and operating the road, usually with plenty left over for the public coffers. »Read Full Blog Post(13)
Pro-Life Wisconsin presses its UW case
As reported in the Journal Sentinel, a group opposed to abortion got the University of Wisconsin med school to turn over e-mails that seem to show UW money being spent to provide abortions -- what certainly looks like a violation of the law against state money being spent to provide or promote abortion.
The university says it's A-OK when medical residents learn to commit abortions at Planned Parenthood's Madison office, since they're paid through a state-created public entity -- the UW Hospital and Clinics -- and not by the university itself. Legal insiders told me that it looks like the university has the pro-lifers on that one.
Pro-Life Wisconsin is pushing the issue, reports the Badger Herald: The group, along with its outside legal help, the public-interest law firm Alliance Defense Fund, last week wrote to Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, requesting he look into the legality of UW's arrangement.
No commitment yet, however, from Van Hollen: His spokesman said that the Alliance Defense Fund "is not a statutorily enumerated requester" of a legal opinion from the AG. (57)
How to do health insurance better
Pretend all you want, as the president has, that it's Obamacare or nothing on health care reform, the fact is there are lots of good ideas and have been for years on how to see to it more people who want coverage can get it.
One more batch: Utah's reforms. The Foundry highlights a paper by a scholar at Heritage Foundation on just what that state did to improve the rate at which Utahns are covered. One key change: Allowing a defined-contribution health plan by employers, making "it easier for more firms to offer their workers quality health benefits with less risk, uncertainty, and hassle than traditional, one-size-fits-all defined benefit group coverage." And employees are more able to take their coverage with them from job to job.
"The only way to create better value in health insurance and medical care is to make individual patients and consumers the dominant decision makers in a reformed, market-based system," writes the scholar, Ed Haislmeier, and doing just that is what Utah may have achieved.
The ecology of partisanship and race
James Taranto is brilliant on just why the left needs to keep selling the idea that the Tea Party movement is racist:
"Since 1964, blacks have voted overwhelmingly Democratic. If Republicans were able to attract black votes, the result would be catastrophic for the Democratic Party. Even in 2008, the Democrats' best presidential year since '64, if the black vote had been evenly split between the parties (and holding the nonblack vote constant), Barack Obama would have gotten about 48% of the vote and John McCain would be president.
Put down the salt shaker, ma'am. We have you surrounded.
You eat too much salt, say doctors. You should eat less. Only the experts are by now sick of asking you to do so -- "efforts to educate the public about the perils of excessive dietary salt and voluntary sodium-cutting efforts by industry have failed," as one story on the matter put it.
So they're going to trick you instead. Specifically, the quasi-official Institute of Medicine urged the Food and Drug Administration to impose mandatory limits on how much salt is in foods in restaurants and grocery stores. "This needs to be a mandatory standard," said the study's boss.
But don't worry about things tasting flat, the Associated Press reports: "The FDA's plans are still being formulated, but the idea is for gradual change so consumer taste buds can adjust." »Read Full Blog Post(24)
But they're all great teachers in Milwaukee!
The intrepid Mike Nichols wanted to find something out: Whether the Milwaukee Public Schools were slighting their really good teachers.
It's a problem nationally, Nichols writes. He notes a recent study of school districts' teacher evaluation systems that found most of them simply rate teachers as satisfactory or unsatisfactory -- and that more than 99% of teachers are in the A-OK category.
As the researchers pointed out, "when all teachers are rated good or great, the truly exceptional ones are never really identified. . . . The truly exceptional are melded with the mediocre. They are demeaned by
a message that all teachers are interchangeable and exactly the same." »Read Full Blog Post(32)
Henninger: Democrats headed for a cliff
The Wall Street Journal's Daniel Henninger, on what the president has wrought:
"Barack Obama's speeches are filled with the Democrats' core claim to legitimacy: Government must and will do good. It must 'act.' But in a crucial period when voters across the political spectrum were losing faith in that core claim, the Democrats lost any self-protective sense of what they were doing with public budgets. Barack Obama took a rising reservoir of public trust for his party (62% said they liked the Democrats in January 2009), and emptied it. Since he took office, the percentage of people who want smaller government and fewer services has risen, to 50% from 42%.
"A Quinnipiac poll released yesterday has the Obama presidential approval rating down to 44%—after health care, after the arms treaty with Russia, after the 47-nation, anti-proliferation convocation in Washington.
He insists on more government. People want less, and don't trust what they've got. They want reform." (35)
An expensive pipe to Oak Creek will be so much cheaper
A group of Milwaukee aldermen send a warning shot at new Waukesha Mayor Jeff Scrima to see whether he flinches. The aldermen, including (unfortunately) the often-sensible council president Willie Hines, tell Scrima that there's no way Waukesha can buy water from Milwaukee unless it agrees to pay "economic compensation."
They're referring to the resolution they passed some while back saying, essentially, that anyone buying Milwaukee water can expect a lot of psychodrama. Specifically, a suburb or Waukesha would have to agree to public housing and public transit in amounts and types Milwaukee leadership finds pleasing. They'd also have to, as the aldermen said Wednesday, agree to that "economic compensation" and to a "non-compete" clause.
That would presumably say, according to the ordinance, that Waukesha "shall not take any action to promote, encourage, offer economic incentives to, or otherwise solicit (Milwaukee) businesses to relocate" to Waukesha. Fair enough -- it would be a better world if governments didn't use taxpayer money to bribe businesses anyhow. »Read Full Blog Post(37)
Suddenly, strangely, golf is a perfectly respectable game
Funny how presidential golf is respectable again in the press, writes Mark McKinnon in the Daily Beast.
And press conferences? Who notices now? McKinnon points out it's been nearly a year since President Obama's held a formal press conference. Compare that to the rate President George W. Bush held them -- on average, one ever two months, and he was routinely savaged for not holding them often enough.
Now, mind you, Obama answers questions -- just not from the press corps, as his party's newsletter puts it. He'll take them from friendly audiences and one-on-one with TV anchormen, the better to control what gets asked. Not that the Times is really going to complain. »Read Full Blog Post(10)
Tony Rezko: Not dead and buried. No, not at all.
Barack Obama's bag-man and real estate fixer, the convicted Tony Rezko, is back, reports WMAQ-TV (channel 5)'s Ward Room.
Disgraced ex-governor Rod Blagojevic is trying to subpoena the president in the trial over Blago's attempt to buy his way into the Senate via Obama's old seat. The subpoena had black lines obliterating things you weren't supposed to see. But a cut-and-paste of the electronic document turns out to make the invisible so utterly visible, and it reveals all kinds of Obama involvement.
Turns out Rezko is key -- a ghost of Obama's Chicago past, as it turns out. Read for details. »Read Full Blog Post(18)
Mr. Obama and the neighborhood of make-believe
The president showed up in New York at a site symbolically near Wall Street to plump for Democrats' financial "reform" bill. He's trying to make this a you're-with-us-or-you're-with-the-pirates moment, and so the president said, "A vote for reform is a vote to put a stop to taxpayer-funded bailouts."
He had to say this, of course. One reason Democrat rule is now in such public disfavor is because the Dems extended and vastly expanded the bailout routine the Bush administration began. Obama and his party now own the bailout brand. He's trying to distance himself. So he's saying that his reform bill will end bailouts.
Only it won't. Don't believe me. Believe, of all places, National Public Radio. Full audio here, but the gist is that reporter Adam Davidson queried economists about the president's claim that this puts an end to bailouts: »Read Full Blog Post(20)
The zombie statistic about how inferior our health care is
You have heard -- oh, several hundred times -- the claim that America's health care is awful. Why, the World Health Organization ranked us 37th best!
The number has been widely debunked, not least of which by Stanford University blogger Bruce Goldman, who now notices someone else saying the statistic is pure bunkum:
"In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Paul Musgrove, PhD, writes that the U.S.'s much bandied-about #37 rating among the world's health-care systems is a 'zombie number' that should be retired from public discourse. »Read Full Blog Post(22)
Dissent is redefined as hate
In this morning's Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh sets Bill Clinton aright about just who inspires violence.
Clinton had been claiming last weekend, on the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, that conservative protest leads back to McVeigh. It was a low, dishonest charge -- just as dishonest as when Clinton first blamed talk radio in 1995 for the bombing. As Limbaugh points out, insofar as McVeigh specifically said he was incensed by things the Clinton administration did, the claim that talk radio set off the bomber was always a blame-deflection.
Now, Clinton is hinting that Tea Parties and talk radio just may incite violence. Limbaugh: »Read Full Blog Post(40)
The love that dare not speak its too-square name
Then there's the Philadelphia legislative race that's turning ugly. How ugly? One candidate accuses the other of being a closeted non-gay person.
She says the guy's just pretending to be respectably gay, something that wins you votes in that particular part of Philadelphia, but that he showed up to a campaign event with a girlfriend.
My, what a depraved man. (8)
How the agenda petered out
All those big bills went to Madison and foundered. How did this happen? The panel will hash that out along with other issues on "Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes."
On the panel will be Milwaukee County politician Lynne De Bruin, commentator James T. Harris, editor Mikel Holt and me.
See it at 10 a.m. Sunday on WTMJ-TV (channel 4). (4)
Your kids already bought the tickets
Interesting tidbit in Sunday's Journal Sentinel -- a mere brief in the travel pages -- about a May Day parade in Minneapolis.
Go, should be you so inclined, and you will see two-story puppets didactifying their way down a street to a park where, amid what organizers say is an expected 50,000 people, "it culminates in the Tree of Life Ceremony: to the steady beating of drums, a resplendent red Sun Flotilla paddles the Sun from across the lake to the shore where the Tree of Life sleeps, waiting to be reawakened."
In other words, a whole day with those giant, grotesque puppets that you see at political protests -- just doing some kind of invented Minnesota pagan mythology instead. I'm sure it'll be dandy. »Read Full Blog Post(20)
The Conventional Wisdom looks with pity on Gramps Obey's plight
So much for David Obey (D-The Mesozoic Era) being a safe seat: The New York Times has noticed that the Wausau Democrat has attracted a serious challenge.
The challenger, Sean Duffy, elected four times the DA in Ashland County, gets in some telling quotes: "It's not a lifetime appointment," he tells the Times of Obey, who was first elected to Congress before Duffy was born.
"There are changes in this country going on, and people aren't happy," says Duffy on his way to becoming the left-wing newspaper's leading example of how Democrats have so badly botched their run at total control of Washington that even old lions are in trouble. (7)
The corruption that made Milwaukee infamous
Don't miss the Wall Street Journal's John Fund, writing over the weekend about the way the Wisconsin Legislature came this close to institutionalizing election fraud in our state.
And why it's not dead yet:
"It looks as if Congress could follow Wisconsin's example instead. The Milwaukee Police Department's report on the 2004 election concluded 'the one thing that could eliminate a large percentage of the fraud' would be to end same-day registration. . . . But Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold, a Democrat, has introduced federal legislation to mandate same-day registration in every state, claiming the system has worked well."
This despite the demonstrable fraud in election cycle after election cycle here. (25)
No one's river, no one's responsibility
I wrote the other day, by way of saying that I love Earth Day, that the surest way to reduce waste and pollution is to make sure that someone can make a buck off thrift and cleanliness.
Did you notice, for instance, that you don't see many aluminum cans lying around the streets? That's because aluminum is worth money, so people pick them up. And it's amazing what happened to gas-guzzling cars a few years back when the price of gas shot up (people were less wasteful with fuel).
In other words, incentives work. Who knew? »Read Full Blog Post(13)
The drunk says the problem is the bottles are too small
A value-added tax, an old European idea that lets the government skim 20% or more off every transaction, has some advantages over our insanely complex income tax system, writes Matt Welch in the New York Post:
"By penalizing consumption and not earnings, it encourages savings and resists gaming by well-connected special interests. In an ideal world, you could enact a VAT while slashing America's corporate income tax rate, which is the globe's second-highest."
But, he points out, it's not an ideal world: »Read Full Blog Post(16)
The smart guys in charge
P.J. O'Rourke in the Weekly Standard:
"America has made the mistake of letting the A student run things. It was A students who briefly took over the business world during the period of derivatives, credit swaps, and collateralized debt obligations. We're still reeling from the effects. . . .
"It was a bunch of A students at the Defense Department who planned the syllabus for the Iraq war, and to hell with what happened to the Iraqi Class of '03 after they'd graduated from Shock and Awe.
"The U.S. tax code was written by A students. Every April 15 we have to pay somebody who got an A in accounting to keep ourselves from being sent to jail." (18)
A model school flops
Education writer Joanne Jacobs dissects an educational failure in California:
"It sounded like a great idea: Stanford education professors would create a model school to show how to educate low-income Hispanic and black students.
"Or, as it's turned out, how not to." »Read Full Blog Post(13)
Your insatiable and fatal demand for . . .
. . . oil? You'll be hearing that, what with the tragic deaths of 11 men who were working on the drilling rig that blew up and sank in the Gulf of Mexico (the other 115 employees made it to safety).
You'll be hearing that oil drilling is dangerous -- in part because it really is, and in part because some people just want to make oil seem awful.
So how bad is oil drilling for those who work at it? Bad: Forbes touted a study on oil drilling being the "worst" job, in part because of danger and in part because it's hard work outdoors in the heat. »Read Full Blog Post(27)
Wait until they find out what city-funded desks are supporting
The militant anti-religion campaigner from Madison, Annie Laurie Gaylor, is now after the City of Milwaukee for giving employees off on Good Friday.
Notice, of course, that the city does not say that the day off is so that you can go to church. The city has no particular interest in what its employees do with that time off. Instead, the city includes the day that happens to be Good Friday as a holiday because its employees, collectively bargaining, asked for it.
As the city attorney, Grant Langley, put it, "Neither these labor agreement provisions nor the ordinance make any reference to religion, or contain any suggestion or inference of any religious purpose." The only inference would be that if that's what the employees, deciding such things collectively, want, the city wasn't objecting. »Read Full Blog Post(23)
The McCain-Feingold effect at work
Outgoing state Sen. Ted Kanavas says he won't run for U.S. Senate. Kanavas would have gone into the race against incumbent Russ Feingold at a troubled moment with a good conservative record and lots of name recognition in the state's Republican heartland, Waukesha County.
But, Kanavas tells Charlie Sykes, it takes $5 million to think about taking on Feingold, who's got some of the plumpest moneybags in the Senate, and that would have meant Kanavas had to start fund-raising long ago.
This is one practical upshot of the McCain-Feingold campaign law, which, together with other federal campaign laws, limits candidates' funding. It protects incumbents by making it hard for challengers who don't already have an incumbent-sized Rolodex of donors or who don't have huge personal fortunes and thus can self-fund. »Read Full Blog Post(43)
So you want to talk about voter intimidation?
Bring up the cold, established fact of vote fraud, and the left will counter by saying that voter intimidation is the real problem -- hinting, as did the absurd Fred Kessler, that wild gangs of Lake Country lunching ladies were heading for Milwaukee to scare off Democrats from the polls.
All right, you want to talk voter intimidation? Let's. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights did the other day, and Hans von Spakofsky reported on it for National Review. Especially exciting was the part where members of the New Black Panther Party marched into the room in paramilitary uniforms and started taking pictures of people testifying about how the racist thugs tried ethnically cleansing the vote in Philadelphia in 2008.
The hearing was to get the Obama Justice Department to explain why it dropped the prosecution of the documented, recorded-on-video, dead-to-rights felony voter intimidation. No adequate explanation was, in the end, offered. But interesting testimony emerged, writes von Spakofsky: »Read Full Blog Post(28)
Eventually, some day, you'll thank him, Kagen claims
Rep. Steve Kagen, the Fox Valley Democrat, has been catching flak over Obamacare from constituents who run small businesses. They're just confused, Kagen says. They just have to wait, he says. The goodies start getting passed out in 2014, he says.
Rhymes with Clown says otherwise:
"An alternative to such blatant pandering would be for the congressman to explain the law and its costs and benefits in a persuasive manner. The fact that he didn't leads me to conclude that either the law is so complex that such an explanation is impossible, there really isn't much to the law beyond handouts designed to increase reliance on the government, or that Kagen simply isn't up to the task. Note that these are not mutually exclusive and may all three be at work in this instance." (26)
And no french-fry sword fights either, kiddies!
The county that includes San Jose decides it lies within its power to ban the Happy Meal.
No, really. To be precise, fast food restaurants that lie in unincorporated parts of Santa Clara County (that's only a few dozen, actually), "would not be able to offer toys for kids' meals that exceed certain
nutritional standards - more than 485 total calories, for instance, or more than 600 milligrams of sodium. That means, at Wendy's, four chicken nuggets, mandarin oranges and low-fat milk would get a toy. But the
crispy chicken sandwich, fries and chocolate milk would not."
Because, said one lawmaker who favored this, it's unfair to parents that burger joints offer children little toys "to get them hooked on eating high-sugar, high-fat foods early in life." »Read Full Blog Post(35)
Switzerland's human-disposal issue
Scandal begins to unfurl near Switzerland's assisted suicide industry, the Daily Mail reports.
Authorities in Zurich have found at least 300 urns containing human remains piled on the bottom of Lake Zurich. The urns bear the logo of the cremation service used by Dignitas, an outfit popular with Britons who come to Zurich to take advantage of liberal laws on assisted suicide. Dignitas officials aren't talking, but a former Dignitas employee tells the British newspaper that the clinic's founder was dumping human remains into the lake regularly.
This may run afoul of Swiss law. There's prison time involved, if so.
Though another question occurs: If, indeed, it turns out that the urns full of human remains that "lay there in a big heap," as one diver put it, really were tossed in by a suicide center with a waste disposal problem, does that make the clinic's name, Dignitas, an example of commercial irony? (11)
A full frontal assault on the cartel
There's a new documentary coming out and getting some buzz. See this piece in the Boston Globe, for instance, about "The Cartel":
"I simply couldn't believe how in modern America someone would, by the age of 25, be guaranteed a job for life unless they killed someone,'' director and former TV reporter Bob Bowdon told the Boston Globe.
Bowdon is talking about public education. His film is about the system, particularly, in New Jersey, but it generalizes across country that spends more per-pupil than pretty much anywhere on Earth -- and gets
mediocre results. Why? Because, Bowdon argues, of unions and their malign effect on a good profession. »Read Full Blog Post(6)
The pitiless mathematics of wind power
It's nice to think about getting all our power, fuel-free and carbon-unconstrained, from the wind. Robert Bryce, then, isn't nice, writes Trevor Butterworth in the Wall Street Journal.
Bryce runs the math on green-power dreams. The results can be jarring:
"So you want to build a wind farm? OK, Mr. Bryce says, to start you'll need 45 times the land mass of a nuclear power station to produce a comparable amount of power; and because you are in the middle of nowhere you'll also need hundreds of miles of high-voltage lines to get the energy to your customers. This 'energy sprawl' of giant turbines and pylons will require far greater amounts of concrete and steel than conventional power plants-figure on anywhere from 870 to 956 cubic feet of concrete per megawatt of electricity and 460 tons of steel (32 times more concrete and 139 times as much steel as a gas-fired plant). »Read Full Blog Post(52)
They've got a way with names in Galesville
Galesville, a lovely town amid the coulees just north of La Crosse, is again debating whether its high school teams ought to be nicknamed the Redmen.
"Members of the Gale-Ettrick-Trempealeau School Board differed as to whether or not they should abandon their mascot, the Redmen, after Gov. Jim Doyle promised to sign a bill that could pit them against the state if they don't," reports the nearby Winona (Minn.) Daily News.
"I don't even know why you would fight this," said board president Tanya Gendreau, wanting to be pre-emptive of any state mandates on G-E-T High School, as it's commonly known. "The people in this district like their logo," board member Rick Geske said, arguing the other side. There is spirited debate and, of course, a Facebook argument on the matter.
I wouldn't dream of interfering. Rather, I'll simply note the strength of character the people of the district have already shown over the years in resisting earlier zeitgeists when it comes to nickname fashions. The G-E-T High teams, after all, were not back in the 1970s renamed the Weeds, and for that we must all be grateful. (57)
Supply, demand and the Home Depot parking lot
Anyone who looks at the matter of illegal immigration sensibly -- I thus exclude the hysterics and their organizers converging by the busload on Milwaukee and elsewhere Saturday -- will concede that Arizonans had a point.
The sweeping reform of immigration law* that Arizona just passed -- and that, by polls, Arizonans heavily support -- amounts to doing what the federal government has failed to live up to. Federal law already says legal aliens (that is, foreigners who are here lawfully and are not yet naturalized) need to carry documentation of that legality. Only the feds don't enforce it. As Rich Lowry put it the other day, "Arizona's offense is to attempt to enforce the nation's immigration laws, in the absence of any serious commitment to do so on the part of the federal government or our political class."
That said, you have to take some pause from this news: That buyers and sellers of a perfectly legitimate thing, labor, are now being broken up. That is, the hiring of day labor in the parking lots of big-box stores in Phoenix is way down: »Read Full Blog Post(27)
Hot teen pix online: Consult your local school district
OK, so one family is suing a suburban Philly school district, and one grasps why people are upset about the money at stake. Lawyers looking to impose big-bucks lessons are often trouble.
But just why would a school district think it was OK to snap pictures of sleeping teens in their homes by remote-control spyware on the laptops the school required them to have?
Reports the Philadelphia Daily News: »Read Full Blog Post(9)
Great news for land development near Delavan
If the feds really do turn 30,000 acres right between Milwaukee and Chicago into a national wildlife refuge, it would presumably be really nice for people who own houses near the refuge land.
A Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman told the Journal Sentinel that the federal government will not seize land or force owners to sell their land in the proposed stretch across western Kenosha County, southeastern Walworth County and northern Lake County, Ill. The refuge instead would contain strings of public and private land.
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It's not that Catholics are saying comparatively few priests actually molested children, writes Joseph Bottum at the Weekly Standard.
It's Newsweek citing the numbers, or, in Ireland, the skeptic Brendan O'Neill who notes that "of the hundreds of thousands of students who passed through Catholic schools in the 85 years from 1914 to 1999, (investigators) managed to gather 381 claims—with 35 percent of those charges made against lay staff and fellow pupils rather than priests."
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Main Street, Lahinch, Clare, Ireland, 1-877-214-4288
Shamrock Inn Hotel - Lahinch
Lowest price$56
Shamrock Inn Hotel in Lahinch, Ireland, is a family-operated accommodation located on the city's Main Street. The hotel is close to several prime attractions, such as the Doonbeg Golf Course, and the city's blue flag beach. The Lahinch Championship Golf Course is within walking distance. Fishing, surfing, and horseback riding are also available nearby.Guests staying at this welcoming 3 star hotel can choose from various local attractions, including a visit to The Cliffs of Moher ora trip to Aillwee Cave. Visitors of all ages will most likely enjoy the Lahinch Seaworld with its aquarium, heated swimming pool, jacuzzi, sauna, steamroom and children's pool, as well as the Burren Perfumery & Floral Centre, which is Ireland's first perfumery. After a pleasant day exploring what Lahinch has to offer, you can relax over a nice dinner and good wine at the hotel's restaurant and bar. The hotel offers complimentary wireless Internet access, and free outdoor parking is available on site.
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Shamrock Inn Hotel - Lahinch
Hotel Info: 1-877-214-4288from $56
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While this announcement should feel like Christmas morning for the masses who missed out on snagging a pair the first go-around, it looks these Yeezys are still going to be hard to come by. Despite Kanye's intentions to make the sneakers available to a wider audience, something he even brought up at last week's Season 3 fashion show, the only big box stores that will be carrying them are Finish Line, Foot Locker, and Champs. And you can only claim a pair at those stores through raffles you either already had to wait in line to get or should be currently in line to get. And, as of right now, no independent boutiques in the U.S are set to stock them.
So, here's your best bet to actually, maybe wind up the proud owner of a pair (and the bragging rights that come with it)—if you're willing to: First, enter Kicks USA's raffle here. (You don't even have to stand up or put on pants to do it!) Then, download Adidas's Confirmed app, which will open reservations for the sneakers on Thursday for customers in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Make sure push notifications are set to on, as the kicks will sell out within minutes. Additionally, check adidas.com/kanye on Friday repeatedly, as the shoes will drop at an unexpected time. (Though every preceding release seemingly has dropped between 11AM and 12PM.)
Much like The Life of Pablo rollout, the Yeezy sneaker releases have been flawed and thus, extremely frustrating. There's never going to be a sneaker release that makes everyone happy, but there has to be a more civil approach. The status quo of forcing thousands of fans to stab their touch screens in the panicked hope that they might be able to add a sneaker to their virtual cart isn't great for anyone. Adidas seems to know it with this latest streamlined style of release, so here's hoping things continue in that trajectory. That said, the task at hand is still this week's re-release, so good luck everyone, and as always, may Yeezus (er, Pablo) have mercy on your soul.
Update: Adidas surprised everyone by opening reservations on the Confirmed app today. In other words, your last chance is on adidas.com/kanye on Friday."
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