Category: Progressives
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The mob derails democracy with chaos at the County Board
UPDATE: County Board to meet tonight (11-21-17) to reconsider fees, including the $28 wheel tax, and the tax levy but NOT the county jail. More here. Monday’s regularly scheduled meeting was continually disrupted by the 75 to 80 people in attendance by shouting, chanting, clapping, standing in the gallery, and reading prepared statements and then…
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Madison’s $400,000 police study proposes violating state law
Augmented Reality for the Progressively afflicted Shouldn’t there, at least, be a tee shirt? I paid $400,000 for a study of the Madison Police Department and all I got was this lousy tee shirt and a paperweight of a report. (Dust, do your thing!) The Berkeley California boutique hired by the City of Madison to…
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Nazis in the quad. Can we have a little muscle at UW-Stevens Point?
Stately Blaska Manor is a mobile free speech zone The difference between a democracy and a republic has been explained thusly: A democracy is when two wolves and a lamb vote on what to eat for dinner. A republic, by contrast, protects the rights of the minority. If our Founders, particularly the authors of the…
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Has Madison stopped the cop bashing?
Did the worm just turn? Is November 14, 2017 the watershed? After 2½ years, is this the day Madison city government switched from race-baiting and cop-bashing to judging the person by his actions rather than by the color of their skin? Yes it is. The Madison Common Council voted 14-6 very early this morning in…
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Lipstick on a pig or putting a hard hat on a socialist
Blaska is in Beast Mode With all the attention given apostate Senators Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, Republican dissension is more about Trump’s style (count me in) than substance. If Trump could just stop the schoolyard name calling, his presidency would be much more successful. Our Democrat(ic) acquaintances, on the other hand, face an existential…
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‘You can’t ask … decent citizens who want to maintain the safety and dignity of their neighborhood to carry the load’
But first: Random thoughts on a No Packers Sunday, the first day of frost, Fall 2017. Not sure I’d watch if there was a game. Not because of kneeling but because of no Aaron Rodgers. Quotes of the Week “All I had to do was catch it and run forward.” — 300-pound Badger offensive left…