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Delve into our
Wisconsin pioneer history!
Sudeten German Weekend
Saturday-Sunday, September 24 & 25, 2022
the Island Church Foundation, Inc. will hold a Sudeten German Weekend which will provide an in-depth look at the history of a people that migrated twice, first from Germany to Bohemia, and then to Wisconsin. Key settlement areas of these Sudeten German were Jefferson, Dodge and Dane counties, Wisconsin.
The Sudeten German Weekend will focus on the earliest settlement area, which is in the Town of Waterloo, Jefferson County, Wisconsin. You will learn how poor Germans from Northeast Bohemia in the modern-day Czech Republic traveled thousands of miles from their long-time homes to the New World and settled on marginal farmland. You will tour two original pioneer structures, St. Wenceslaus Church (the so-called âIsland Churchâ) and the log home of Vincent Faultersack.
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Help Max Blaska and Karla S. Bryant adapt Stephen King’s “Last Rung On the Ladder” into a video feature. Crowd fund it here and pick the perk and the amount you wish to donate from the column on the right.
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‘Roe v. Wade was on a collision course with the Constitution from the day it was decided.’
Excerpts from Justice Alitoâs draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Womenâs Health Organization.
Roe found that the Constitution implicitly conferred a right to obtain an abortion, but it failed to ground its decision in text, history, or precedent.
It relied on an erroneous historical narrative; it devoted great attention to and presumably relied on matters that have no bearing on the âmeaning of the Constitution; it disregarded the fundamental difference between the precedents on which it relied and the question before the Court; it concocted an elaborate set of rules, with different restrictions for each trimester of pregnancy, but it did not explain how this veritable code could be teased out of anything in the Constitution, the history of abortion laws, prior precedent, or any other cited source; and its most important rule (that States cannot protect fetal life prior to âviabilityâ) was never raised by any party and has never been plausibly explained.
Overuling precedentÂ
Some of our most important constitutional decisions have overruled prior precedents. ⌠In Brown. v. Board of Education, the Court repudiated the âseparate but equalâ doctrine, which had allowed States to maintain racially segregated schools and other facilities. In so doing, the Court overruled the infamous decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U. S. 537 (1896), along with six other Supreme Court precedents that had applied the separate-but-equal rule.
Roe legislated from the bench
[Roeâs] elaborate [trimester] scheme was the Court’s own brainchild. Neither party advocated the trimester framework; nor did either party or any amicus argue that âviabilityâ should âmark the point at which the scope of the abortion right and a State’s regulatory authority should be substantially transformed. ⌠This scheme resemble[d] the work of a legislature. âŚ
Roe certainly did not succeed in ending division on the issue of abortion. On the contrary, Roe âinflamedâ a national issue that has remained bitterly divisive for the past half-century. ⌠Indeed, in this case, 26 states expressly ask us to overrule Roe and Casey and return the issue of abortion to the people and their elected representatives.
Blaska Policy Werkes 
Mother Nature is trying to murder me in my own home!!! Waaaaaah!! All the meteorologists need to be arrested and put on trial! Waaaah!
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LOL!!!!!
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If it’s good enough for Madison Teachers Inc., It’s good enough for Blaska!
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LOL , you beat me to it !! đ
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Ha
On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 1:44 PM Blaska Policy Werkes wrote:
> David Blaska posted: “” >
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Unfortunately, AKA “Dick” will likely be posting mucho relevant content to Dave’s blog entry here, deep thinker that he is… đ
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Good one. You followed your unionâs direction very well.
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