Posted on Thursday, 26th February 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
Woah, on the way home from work today, I stopped for a few groceries at this store, I checked out at 1:15… Grocery store evacuated for bomb threat A Pick ‘n Save grocery store was evacuated Thursday afternoon after a bomb threat, but nothing suspicious was found inside the store. Police report that the bomb [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 19th February 2009 by Roland_Melnick
As is typical with coverage of the new President, the author has to drone on about how people are so wildly enthusiastic for this guy. The meat and potatoes of this story take a back seat to the pop-star gushing. Buried in the last couple paragraphs of this AP story (Short trip, long agenda: Obama [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 5th February 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
It has been expected by many that Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy Dolan would not be in Milwaukee for the rest of his career. When Dolan came to Milwaukee, it was to clean up the mess left by Archbishop Rembert Weakland, but it was expected that he would be on to bigger and better things, and now [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 28th January 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
Fox 6 has a new website. I like the new look, there is a lot more information available and their video is also available for embedding on a blog post, like YouTube.
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Posted on Wednesday, 28th January 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
YOU’LL HAVE CHARLIE SYKES TO KICK AROUND A LOT LONGER
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Posted on Wednesday, 28th January 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
Due to budget shortfalls, the US Post Office is considering dropping a day of delivery, probably Saturday.
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Posted on Tuesday, 27th January 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
How do you figure? Senator Jim DeMint’s blog: Obama Nominee: Constitution Protects Taxpayer Funding of Abortion James B. Steinberg, President Obama’s nominee to be the next Deputy Secretary of State, claimed in written testimony to the Foreign Relations Committee that Congress cannot constitutionally restrict taxpayer funding to perform or promote abortions. Mr. Steinberg stated that [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 27th January 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
They are all slowly “offing” themselves anyway. Another day… Another Democratic mayor is caught in a major scandal… 4 Democrat mayors, although you wouldn’t know they were Dems from many of the news accounts, add Blago, Charlie Rangel, William Jefferson, heck, our own little County Board members… The list could go on and on. h/t: [...]
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Posted on Monday, 26th January 2009 by Patrick Dorwin
Man who fell on ice shoots at laughers As someone that recently slipped on the ice, I can almost identify with this guy… (For the inevitable person that can’t see humor, I’m just joking, geeze!) h/t: kayleeking
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Posted on Friday, 23rd January 2009 by Roland_Melnick
Another little ditty from The Week magazine: The U.S. spends twice the percentage of its gross domestic product on health care — 16 percent — as virtually every other developed country. Our spending on higher education is also double other modern nations’, as measured by percentage of GDP. (The Baltimore Sun)
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