
The penny is in lieu of actual fuses. I don't think their plans are UL approved.
For Forty Days And Forty NightsPatrick at Badger Blogger is all over this story, but Mary at Freedom Eden has some real questions about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's domestic spying program that looks at Social Security numbers.
The Law Was On Her Side
But Who Can Stand When She's In Demand
Her Schemes And Plans
'Cause We Danced On The Floor In The Round
So Take My Strong Advice, Just Remember To Always Think Twice
(Do Think Twice)
Pity the pop star that ages unwell. What must she do to get noticed? For the 47-year-old Madonna Ciccone, known to her fans simply as Madonna, the bag of circus sideshow geek tricks looks emptier all the time.
On Monday night, fans in Los Angeles got to watch her latest attempt at outrageousness. She decided to hang from a mirrored crucifix while singing one of her oldies, "Live to Tell."
Supervisors Herro, Jeskewitz, Haukohl, Harenda, Mitchell, Tortomasi, Cummings, Stroud, Thelen, Hutton, Broesch, Wolff, Kallin, Kramer, Jaske, Nilson and Singert.
{Former supervisors Kipp & Roncke were defeated last election, former Supervisor Klein is now mayor of Pewaukee, former Supervisor Manke retired.}All of these Waukesha County Supervisors voted against the Aurora proposal to build a new hospital in Summit. Do they feel stupid now? Used? Abused? What about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel editorial board? Anyone else that I forgot?
Q: ProHealth’s new ad campaign for Oconomowoc Memorial has the theme, “It’s already here.” If it’s already here, why undertake more than $80 million in fix-up work?
A: Obviously, it’s not already here.
Q: Why should ProHealth be allowed to build when Aurora has been blocked from doing so?And one question Walker did have in her column:
A: That’s a good question – one that should be asked of your local elected officials.
Q: Will Aurora oppose the renovation and expansion of Oconomowoc Memorial?Here's some questions from a Q&A on the proposed LifeCare Hospital:
A: We think ProHealth Care should be free to invest in ways that enhance care for its patients. We believe that Aurora should be allowed to do the same.
Q: What is the approval process for the LifeCare hospital?
A: The project requires only City of Waukesha approval. The LifeCare site required a zoning change, which has been approved by the Waukesha Common Council. The vote in favor was unanimous and came after very little discussion. Among those voting was Ald. Kathleen Cummings, who also sits on the Waukesha County Board. Cummings was opposed to the Aurora project and voted against it when the matter came before the County Board on April 26, 2005. Also voting in favor of the LifeCare project was Ald. Rick Tortomasi, who spoke against the Aurora project at a public hearing on Feb. 15, 2005.
Q: What has ProHealth Care said about this proposed new hospital?
A: Very little. For years now, ProHealth has vigorously opposed any effort by Aurora Health Care to build a hospital in western Waukesha County. Within hours of Aurora’s announcement of plans for a hospital in the Town of Summit, ProHealth’s senior leaders condemned the project in the strongest terms. But on the LifeCare project, they seem to have nothing to say.
Q: So how do we interpret ProHealth’s silence? Why isn’t ProHealth raising concerns about rising health care costs, duplication of services and excess hospital capacity?
A: This much seems clear: The objections ProHealth has raised about the Aurora project are not genuine. It is concerned chiefly with preserving the hospital monopoly it now enjoys in the western half of the county.
"Doctor": So how's your high blood pressure?
Me: I never had high blood pressure.
"Doctor": Oh, yeah. (Pretends to write something on my chart.) So what's the trouble?
Me: I've had a cold for over a week, and it's getting worse.
"Doctor": Sinus infection. And you have an ear infection. Take this, this and this. And I'm glad to see you're keeping your blood pressure under control.
Me: Hey Doc, you ever read my column in the Waukesha Freeman?
"Doctor": No, I'm sorry, I usually skip the advice columns.
What do you mean you're staying home sick today? I've got a lot to do. If you think I'm taking care of you AND the kids AND running my business today, YOU'RE CRAZY. And the kids better not get sick, too. Do you think I get to lay in bed all day when I'm sick? Who do you think watches the kids while you're at work?Then there's the wonderful tasting orange medicine. I think I would prefer what Socrates drank for the last time.
"Yes, dear."
But what can we expect from a concert tour that promises the following (from her Web site): “A politicized video montage starring Adolf Hitler, Dick Cheney, Tony Blair, Osama bin Laden, Richard Nixon, George Bush and starving African children”?
Yippee, we’re going for the whole cliché at $350 per ticket. Can I save myself the money and read a column by Maureen Dowd instead?
Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20, were charged with misdemeanor trespassing and were jailed after a judge said Saturday she wanted more background information on them. A hearing was scheduled Tuesday.
The two men arrived in the country six months ago on student visas and are enrolled at the English Language Institute at the University of South Florida.
Investigators said they boarded the school bus Friday, sat down and began speaking in Arabic. Their behavior concerned the driver, a substitute, who alerted the school district.
The men were asked why they boarded the bus, and sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway said they gave different answers: They wanted to enroll in an easier English language program than the one at USF; they wanted to see a high school; and they thought it would be fun.
After the Q & A, Jamie and Adam {of Mythbusters} did what they do best. They experimented.
This being Milwaukee, they had four volunteers come up on stage and gave each a cooler and a can of beer. They made one a control, gave one a cooler of ice, the second a cooler of ice and water, and the third a cooler of ice, water and salt. After five minutes, the beer was tested and - just like the show - the cooler with the ice/salt/water mix had the coldest beer.
But Jamie and Adam never stop there. A myth - or a demonstration - isn't complete until it's over-the-top. So they took the last can of beer, stuck it in a 5-gallon bucket, and blasted it with the contents of five fire extinguishers. Naturally, this can of beer was the coldest.
New York Times: "I certainly can't support any calls for boycotting or protesting this busy, trivial, inoffensive film. Which is not to say I'm recommending you go see it."As long as Ron Howard is taking best-sellers and making movies out of them overly-crammed with dialogue, any chance he could direct Atlas Shrugged? Talk about a movie with dialogue! And that author hated religion, too!
Variety: "An oppressively talky film that isn't exactly dull, but comes as close to it as one could imagine with such provocative material; result is perhaps the best thing the project's critics could have hoped for."
In Wisconsin, Democrats have a three-way primary on Sept. 12, but they already know who their GOP opponent will be: state Rep. John Gard, the Speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly.Will State Rep. Terri McCormick's supporters recognize it's over?
James Wigderson started his blog in June 2004 and now finds himself one of the big guns of the conservative-minded corner of the Cheddarsphere. Averaging nearly 300 hits per day, Wigderson Library & Pub is frequently updated and opines a great deal about the politics of Milwaukee and surrounding area, but also maintains and interest (and opinion) in state politics.And I didn't even have to stuff the ballot box.
It also found that a large number of welfare applicants, particularly in Milwaukee, ended up being investigated for abusing or neglecting their children.You would think with two people reading the newspaper, one of them would have bothered to read the last paragraph,
The New York Times reports today:
Experts said they were startled by the high proportion of welfare applicants in Milwaukee who had come to the attention of child welfare officials: in a five-year period, 40 percent of the parents were investigated for the possibility of abuse or neglect, and a child had been removed from the homes of 16 percent.
Maybe it's a good thing for Thompson that he didn't run for governor this time.
Since most of these parents had already been investigated, the study did not indicate that the welfare program itself, with its required work or training efforts, was causing child abuse. But at the least, Dr. Courtney said, the findings show that many parents seeking welfare are having "a profound difficulty balancing the demands of work and parenting." (emphasis added by me)Of course, the last paragraph doesn't exactly fit with bashing former Governor Thompson for encouraging child neglect, does it?
When Ebert said he has never taken pleasure in sentencing anyone to prison, he sounded like my mom predicting a spanking would hurt her more than me.
Then he administered a verbal blistering worthy of Mom, who splintered more than one wooden spoon in her heyday.
...Wack, wack, wack went the judge's wooden spoon.
...But like my mom's spankings, it was more fun to watch than to receive.I'm always amazed at what they print in a "family newspaper" but I guess that's Madison for you. I think I'm too young and innocent to read Wisconsin Family Weekends.
But I'm interested in this dispute between Byrd and Polipundit and the problem of group blogs. Group blogs, like marriages, can break down, and when they do, they can dissolve quietly and present an unreadable face to the world, or they can let the ugliness show.I wonder how can a group blog have a breakdown like Polipundit's? After all, isn't the purpose of a group blog to have different viewpoints aired and hashed out publicly? So wouldn't you know ahead of time which viewpoints you would like to be part of the blog, and which ones you couldn't put up with?
Cummings said Savoie, 38, asked for advice about whether his past convictions would bar him from running for the District 6 seat formerly held by Mayor Larry Nelson. She did not recall specifically when he told her, she said, and that “it’s kind of blurring together.”Things tend to get blurry in fuzzy land. When last we checked in on Cummings, she was telling a meeting of the County Board of a conspiracy theory to merge Milwaukee County with Waukesha County. Mike at Spring City supports recalling her. I'm trusting the voters to remove her from her offices the next chance they get.
Attorney General Candidate Paul Bucher called for the resignation of Wisconsin Parole Commission Chairman Lenard Wells due to his outrageous release of two cop killers, saying the decision is “an insult to every law enforcement officer who puts his or her life on the line every single day.” He called on Governor Doyle to demand Wells resignation before more damage can be done.It's a question all of us should be asking Governor Doyle.
In the recent cases, Wells ordered the discretionary release of two men who killed Milwaukee police officer Dennis Obradovich during a cocktail lounge robbery in 1975. Obradovich was shot at least 9 times. “It’s outrageous,” Bucher said. “Officer Obradovich only got to live to age 30. Why should his killers now be free?”
Citizens in District 6 deserve a better representative than someone who solicited prostitutes and then didn't reveal it when he was seeking office. Savoie should do the honorable thing and resign immediately. If he doesn't resign, he should be removed from office as soon as possible, with whather means it takes.Talk radio is weighing in as well. Jeff Wagner of WTMJ-AM 620 discussed the matter on Friday. If I were Savoie, I would switch my clock-radio to buzzer to wake me Monday morning, as WISN-AM 1130's Dan Deibert has promised to make the Savoie issue his pet cause. I suspect Charlie Sykes, Jay Weber, Jeff Wagner, Mark Belling and Jessica McBride will be in full attack mode Monday as well. Heck, even the talkers at WMCS might take the opportunity to poke fun of the suburbs.
Word of Savoie's past spread around Waukesha City Hall on Thursday after a local blogger publishing the Spring City Chronicle (springcitychronicle.wordpress.com/) online noted that a man by the same name as the new alderman had once been charged with soliciting a child for prostitution. The blogger, identifying himself only as "Mike," wrote: "I do not know for certain whether this person is the same person selected as alderman, nor do I know whether this person was actually convicted of the crime with which he was charged."Jeff Wagner of WTMJ-AM 620 is talking about the issue right now.