The Badgers and Blaska are upset!
As we noted a few thrilling episodes ago, before today’s tragic outcome in Portland OR, former Ohio State star Clark Kellogg on CBS picked High Point U, seeded #12, to upset our beloved Wisconsin Badger basketball team, the 5 seed in the NCAA tournament. And so they did this afternoon, 83 to 82. The fake news New York Times correctly predicted that “Wisconsin popped up as the most vulnerable potential top-five seed.”
Wisconsin had won nine games against the toughest teams, the so-called Quad One teams (out of four Quads). High Point hadn’t so much as played a Quad One team and lost both their games against Quad Two teams. All season, the Badgers played up to higher-ranked opponents and down to everyone else. Still say Chase Johnston traveled on his winning lay-up.
Publisher Paul Fanlund can whine about the UniParty all he wants, but The Capital Times keeps feeding the monster by urging votes for “a progressive, experienced Dane County Board.” In other words, the same old same old. Nary a mention of holding the line on taxes!
Did they have to build new? No blighted warehouse available? The men’s homeless palace being built on Madison’s East Side for $27 million won’t open next month as planned. Nor will it operate 24/7, as also once planned. It’s a Madison/Dane County gummint project.
Ripping a page out of the Zohran Mamdani playbook, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes promises to appoint only Public Service Commission members who pledge never to increase utility rates. It’s also a promise to plunge Wisconsin into Havana darkness at noon. We’ll vote the candidate who approves those new modular nuclear power reactors. Barnes, in the meantime, could pledge to reduce taxes, but he’s a Democrat.
Influential Republicans in Wisconsin’s 7th congressional district being vacated by Tom Tiffany are bucking MAGA pressure to support former congressman Sean Duffy’s son-in-law, Michael Alfonso, who is all of 26 years old, was registered to vote in Florida, and may or may not have a job. Kevin Hermening is running for the GOP nod (one of five) but isn’t he always? This time, the Iranian hostage thing may work for him.
Mothers, raise your kids to be sign printers, they’ll get rich off the Madison school district. Having already renamed five schools, the district now has its sights on Lindberg, Elvehjem, and Cesar Chavez schools. Once heroes, their background checks have failed the Woke test. At this rate the Madison Metro School District will rename Madison East high school because somewhere a Mr. East, though long dead, will have been found to have tipped a black waiter less than a white waiter.
The U.K. is scraping Winston Churchill and Alan Turing off their currency in favor of furry animals. We say, name an elementary school after the macaque monkey, Punch.
Thugs on motorcycles armed with guns are cowing civilians in Tehran to toe the line, lest they join the 20,000 or so protestors in the graveyard. Occurs to us that, were the citizenry armed with the freedom guaranteed by our Second Amendment, Iran would be a much happier place today.
Blaska’s Bottom Line: Fanlund’s newspaper endorses three-term incumbent Michele Doolan in rural and small town NW Dane County; she’s a state government administrator, which is no crime. (Cough cough.) But she voted to defund the sheriff’s department! How about electing her challenger, Nathan McGree. Why? Because he’s “a small business owner, farmer, and diesel mechanic.” (He’s a fighter, for sure.)
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