Who will join me In Taberna?

Different takes on Carl Orff's Carmina Burana:

I'm guessing Dad29 and Kelin Olson will get the biggest kicks out of this.

And I thought this film adaptation of In Taberna was interesting.

Maybe they should convert the ethanol plants into distilleries

Dad29 reports on the controversial State Senator Luther Olsen and the family business. The ethanol plant and the related Olsen's Mills are in dire financial shape.

With all the government subsidy and support, ethanol is still an economic loser. We might as well just burn money for fuel.

Dad29 endorses referendum, Kilkenny says no

Conservative blogger Dad29 is endorsing the upcoming Elmbrook school referendum for $62 million. The referendum has also been endorsed by Brookfield's mayor and much of the city council.

The current question is a much different one. The Administration found a group of "no"-voters, who gave up an enormous amount of their personal and professional time to review the project from the bottom up--in essence, a "zero-based" budget review for the project.

After a lot of sensible recommendations were made and accepted, the reduced request was put on the ballot. In fact, what's proposed is necessary.

Former alderman and mayoral candidate Cindy Kilkenny* is opposed to the referendum, and is taking it personally.

I laughed out loud when I heard Belling call Brookfield a “fairly conservative” community. I also got a kick out of him asking if even one other prominent Brookfield resident opposed the referendum. Um, that would be me. You remember; the Mayor trashed me with a bunch of lies two years ago so he could be vested in the state’s pension plan. I did get 3,800 votes or so.

(*South Park Brookfield: "Oh my God, they kilkenny!" Sorry.)

More James Wigderson and his critics

In re: "I have a new rule"

This is hitting me right in the belly.

They'll take away my Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers.

Update! Tom McMahon was the author, perhaps the one time he wasn't so indispensible. :)

Pulling back the curtain

Fr. Mich of Good Shepherd Parish of Menomonee Falls pens a letter to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in support of a lawsuit to overturn the ban on gay marriage - never mind that it is contrary to what he is supposed to teach as church doctrine on any given Sunday. Fr. Mich's objection to the result of the collective wisdom of his parishioners, the Church, and the citizens of Wisconsin, is that the result had the taint of being favorable to the majority.

As a child in what was then called civics class, I was taught that our form of government is exceptional because it protects the rights of a minority against the will of the majority. It was indicative that some of the rhetoric promoting the marriage amendment in Wisconsin stated the exact opposite - let the people of Wisconsin decide - in other words, let the people of Wisconsin decide on the rights of a minority by submitting those rights to a majority vote in the amendment process.

Never mind that the supposed "right" of homosexuals (the minority in question) to marry has no precedent and, as the governor himself pointed out, had no standing under the pre-existing law. The constitutional amendment was made necessary by the threat of judicial activism, in Wisconsin or elsewhere. Ironically, it is that type of judicial activism in overturning a state constitutional amendment Fr. Mich would approve, even if such judicial activism should run counter to what he was likely taught as a child in civics class.

We might tease the good father that perhaps he should concern himself with another aspect of the law where the rights of the minority are threatened by the majority. A majority of the state legislature would trammel the conscientious objections of Catholics and others that believe in life beginning at conception, and require all hospitals and medical practitioners to provide "emergency contraception" to victims of rape, regardless of whether the required drug also acts as an abortifacient. However, we suspect the cause of life doesn't tickle Fr. Mich's conscience.

So we'll comment instead on Fr. Mich's arrogance, that he knows better than the teachings of the Pope, centuries of tradition, and the teachings of his faith (such as it is), that he willingly disobeys his ordination vows. Perhaps his time would be better spent composing his confessions rather than letters to the newspaper.

Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten.

Blog Net News came out with the list of the most influential blogs in Wisconsin. We can disagree with a ranking here or there, but it's nice to be considered near the top. By the way, I agree with their number one. Patrick at Badger Blogger has certainly built the most influential local blog in Milwaukee. (Likewise Fred Dooley with Real Debate Wisconsin in Racine, whom I am suprised wasn't ranked higher.) Congratulations also to Jessica McBride, 2nd on the list but certainly the number one target of liberal bloggers.


Rank
Blog
1
Badger Blogger
2
McBride's Media Matters
3
Texas Hold 'Em Blogger
4
No Runny Eggs
5
FREEDOM EDEN
6
An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
7
Dad29
8
Boots and Sabers
9
From Where I Sit
10
The American Mind
11
Wigderson Library & Pub
12
The World According to Nick
13
Charlie Sykes
14
The (Somewhat) Daily RAG
15
Paul Soglin: Waxing America
16
Uppity Wisconsin - Making Wisconsin Progressive Again
17
The Right Side of Wisconsin
18
Real Debate Wisconsin
19
Marquette Warrior
20
In Effect

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