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Burning down the town for peace
Madison’s police monitor promises to ‘f-ing burn this city down!’ It’s a political Rorschach test here in Madison WI. Irresponsible or understandable? Depends whether you’re an over-taxed home owner paying off a mortgage or a social justice warrior voting Francesca Hong next Tuesday. “I will f-ing burn this city down!” No denying: Aeiramique Glass, Madison’s…
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Madison progressive alder calls police monitor behavior ‘outrageous’
Alder agrees: ‘Burn this F-ing City down’ is “outrageous.” Tag Evers is no Republican. By profession he is a concert promoter. Currently in his fourth term as a City of Madison alder. Represents the affluent and very progressive Monroe/Dudgeon/Nakoma/Vilas/Regent neighborhoods on Madison’s near West side. Nice guy. Once asked me to sit down for coffee with…
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‘Things are about to get bad’
‘Burn this city down!’ — Madison’s Independent Police Monitor Great thing about electronic message boards: they can be rewritten with a few keystrokes. Driving in at 8 this morning, CSN&Y’s “Woodstock” on the tunes, two electronic signs proclaimed that Madison’s Willy Street was open for bidness. When it’s not closed. The mob had shut it…
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Thank you, Mayor Satya
Brenda Konkel says she has ‘no words.’ Blaska on the other hand, has two words: THANK YOU! Most welcome news this Tuesday morning. At daybreak this morning, the mayor of Madison WI sent in two of the surest and strongest forces of civilization — namely, police and garbage trucks — to reclaim its streets from…
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Blaska goes anonymous to the autonomous
Corey Ruiz automaton zone, that is. What kind of heartless bastid would plant a yard sign in support of Madison police at the intersection of Williamson and Jenifer Streets just seven blocks from the anti-cop Corey Ruiz Autonomous Zone? All we know is the triggering sign wasn’t there when we arrived this Sunday morning and…
Blaska Policy Werkes
NY Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch at the dedication of the 9/11 police memorial: “Preserving that history means also preserving that moral clarity that the men who attacked this city were terrorists, the men and women who ran into that towers to save lives were heroes. 25 years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.”
The 3rd Annual Mental Health Warrior Film Festival is live on Saturday, September 12 from 1 P.M. – 10 P.M. at Flix Brewhouse located at 85 E. Towne Way, Madison, WI 53704.
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After 9/11
The urge to blame America and stop it from responding began immediately.
In the years after 9/11, blaming America for the activities of Islamic terrorists became a mania among left-tilting scribblers the world over. When they couldn’t reasonably attach culpability to America—because the attack happened in France or Spain, which consistently oppose U.S. interventions—the enlightened blamed America’s stand-in, Israel. Somehow the jihadists always lacked agency. …
The war on terror launched in the days afterward involved innumerable blunders and still invites derision from the globe’s expert class. But a quarter-century later, the country hasn’t sustained another strike of similar proportions, and the terror networks that once produced fighters by the thousand have had their leaders killed, their money frozen and their recruits severely pruned.
America wouldn’t, and couldn’t, consent to live with the madmen. — Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal
Political stupidity
Another election season is upon us. … One party is hoisting monuments to a fading 80-year-old president who hasn’t done much except get America stuck in another Middle East war while attacking the nice Canadians to our north with irrational tariffs and weird hockey memes. The other is making sweeping promises to do something about the “cost-of-living crisis” through massive government spending and price caps with scant reflection on why they didn’t address the high cost of living just a few short years ago when they had control of government. — John Halpin, “The emptiness of contemporary politics”
Today’s Laff Riot!
Will Trump’s Canada geese become Donald Ducks?