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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 
BAD MEMORIES.
As a young boy I had a rabid interest in science, and I had ALL the “science kits”, (rocks, fossils, chemistry, etc.) So, it is “hypothetically possible” that one year I “might” have received the “Uncle Milton’s Ant Farm” along with the “Gilbert Atomic Energy Lab” for Christmas. (I can neither confirm, nor deny)
I can neither confirm, nor deny, that in the proper proportions, Nestle’s Quik powder and the powder from cap-gun roll caps, when mixed with the Uranium 238 (supplied) will create the much more unstable isotope Uranium 235. (radioactive)
I CAN confirm that ants LOVE Nestle’s Quik…….(and I mean really, REALLY love it)
After 4 or 5 days I may, or may not, have gone through all the Uranium, two large boxes of Quik, and all of my caps (along with some powder from old shotgun shells). It is possible, at this point, that the hypothetical ants, IF they existed, may have been “quite large”. IF this were the case, then, unable to feed or contain them, my first impulse would have been to do what ALL Americans do with animals that have grown too large and dangerous to keep (ie:Turn Them Loose In South Florida) But Florida is well over 1,000 miles away, and I could only ride my bike in a six block radius of my house, so I MIGHT have set them free in the railroad yards behind my friend Odie’s house. (Can neither confirm, nor deny)
How they got to New Mexico, and then L.A.? (if, indeed, that is what happened) — I don’t know.
How did the Federal Agents find me? — Probably Odie’s younger sister, Carla (a legendary snitch)
Hollywood made a some-what fictionalized movie, (called “THEM !!!”), that was based on the “alleged” event. The human death tolls were a bit lower in the movie, and the use of flame-throwers, rather than DDT, was over done, but it was just California, so who cares? So Hollywood makes a movie, “common ants mutate into giant man-eating monsters that threaten civilization” But I’m prohibited to talk about it?. Go figure.
All I know is, every Christmas after that, all I got was clothes. Every Christmas, … clothes.
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On advice of counsel, I now claim the post above to be Russian Dis-Information, and will have no further comment on the matter.
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