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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 “Island Church”) 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 Alito’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s 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 ‘meaning 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 “viability”) was never raised by any party and has never been plausibly explained.
Overuling precedent
Some of our most important constitutional decisions have overruled prior precedents. … In Brown. v. Board of Education, the Court repudiated the “separate but equal” 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
[Roe’s] elaborate [trimester] scheme was the Court’s own brainchild. Neither party advocated the trimester framework; nor did either party or any amicus argue that “viability” should ‘mark 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. …
Roe certainly did not succeed in ending division on the issue of abortion. On the contrary, Roe “inflamed” 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 
Got up a couple hours after I retired, and read a bunch of commentary about The Game. My takeaway? We’ve had enough “kicks at the can” with with Rodgers. He’s a legendary quarterback with flaws, and I’m grateful for the thirty year Favre/Rodgers run despite the lack of success when it really counted.
Given the failure last night when everything was in place, and after all the off-season drama; it’s time to rebuild. We fans need a reason to root hard for our Packers next year.
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Newsflash: nobody cares about overpaid, overrated “athletes” playing in woke sports.
In recent years if you take a little time to observe, in much of Wisconsin more than a few of us have just stopped caring about the Packers, which is remarkable.
Once the NFL went Full Woke that started the decline.
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Yep.
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I had strong suspicions all year that they were not as good as their record. Lot’s of close games and last second wins.
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Defense played great.
Silver lining: if Rams beat Bucs, NFC championship will be at SoFi stadium. We SoFi stockholders like the additional exposure. Always think “What’s in it for me?”.
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can you still get the Rodgers Rate?
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Ha! Been with State Farm for over 30 years.
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Devastating, low-energy loss. Sure, a bit of a bad break w/ the unearned TD on a muffed kick, but talk about a DOA playoff team —The Green & Gold was fuzzy with mold.
Only ONE thing was worse: The Pack unwittingly created the perfect opportunity for Jimmy G. to mouth off like the teenage girl he is…
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You can’t hold him accountable for what he says! He’s just a youngster…
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The nod to the Favre/Rodgers era is worth noting. How fortunate for so long to have been fans of a team so blessed. What if we’d had to root for da Bears?
Given that, time to turn. I’m not especially confident of where the Packers are headed from here, nor do I particularly care, but I’ve finally seen enough of Rodgers as the focal point. Thanks for the memories. Let him pass.
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It was just a sad game to watch. End of an era.
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Da Woke NFL. Commercials about getting paid less because of color, not ability. Their ship has sailed. We do need bread and circuses though for the peons to be distracted once the trap door opens. Wondering when we\ll be seeing commercials of 2 Mommies on the way to the spunk bank in their dependable Subaru.
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And, stop home field advantage crap just so they can get shit faced wearing dumb cheese wiz hats, playing when 10 degrees instead of a covered venue would have made big difference, but then again, I knew Rodgers would choke again, but still get MVP for mo money for 2nd place again this yr.
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To David: text in comment line doesn’t show., email line and name does though, crazy.
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