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Saddam’s trial should be starting in about two month. Get it done and hang ‘em.

A group of conservative female bloggers have formed a Coalition. Best of luck to them!

Check My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy for the details, she has several posts on it so I am not giving a specific post link.

I found these at RightVoices.com and is gives you a look at how patriotic (or unpatriotic) the two American political parties are…It looks like the DNC forgot that this was Memorial Day weekend, a day set aside to remember our fallen troops.

Democratic Party

Republican Party

Scott Walker has posted on his Blog, a response to the JS Editorial by Michael D’Amato

Taking Heat for Tax Freeze
It is amazing to read just how far liberals will go to try and discount the public revolt against high property taxes. Milwaukee Alderman Michael D’Amato wrote a column in the Crossroads section of my local daily paper that attacks a property tax freeze and makes some very misleading arguments. Some of these are similar to comments posted elsewhere on the blog, so I see fit to respond here.

Go read the whole thing…Go get’em Scott.

Breaking News

Ted Oswald has been sentenced (again) to two life terms plus a couple hundred years, so he will die in prison …Good!

U.W. Stout has reversed its decision to keep the ROTC off campus. (Details can be found in Topic 3)

It seems that they found out that their federal dollars may have been at risk… Never get between an Educrat and his tax dollars

This seems to be the very first words that the Milwaukee paper has ever written on this topic. Until now, this has been a non-story to them.

JSOnline: Day Watch
The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Stout has reversed his earlier decision to prevent an Army ROTC program from being established on the campus, citing earlier UW System regent policies and federal law.

Chancellor Charles Sorensen, who announced the reversal today after two weeks of criticism from Republican legislators and others, said he remains concerned about the ROTC programs position on “banning people because of their stated sexual orientation.”

Nonetheless, he insisted the change was not a result of “external political pressure,” but rather that the school could not violate regent policies or federal laws. UW-Stout could have lost significant federal funding if it barred the program.

The case against the accounting firm Arthur Andersen (shredding Enron records) has been unanimously rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court. The jury instructions were so bad that a rare 9-0 decision came down very fast.

Unanimous Supreme Court overturns Andersen conviction - May. 31, 2005
The Supreme Court unanimously threw out the conviction Tuesday of fallen accounting firm Arthur Andersen, a symbolic victory for a nearly defunct company torn apart in a document-shredding case involving onetime energy giant Enron.

But the ruling represents a major defeat for the federal government’s aggressive efforts to fight corporate wrongdoing.

In a 9-0 opinion, the justices concluded “jury instructions at issue simply failed to convey the requisite consciousness of wrongdoing.” Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote the opinion, saying, “Indeed, it is striking how little culpability the instructions required.”

The opinion came unusually quickly after oral arguments in the case were held April 27, a clear sign the justices found the government’s arguments quite unpersuasive. Lawyers for the Justice Department faced tough questioning from the bench during the arguments.

The ball is back in the local court’s hands, no word yet on whether or not there will be a retrial.

Vanity Fair has reported that W. Mark Felt, the #2 guy at the FBI, was Deep Throat, and Felt has confirmed that this is true.

Ex-FBI official says he’s ‘Deep Throat’
W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the “Deep Throat” source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday.

“I’m the guy they used to call Deep Throat,” he told John D. O’Connor, the author of Vanity Fair’s exclusive that appears in its July issue.

Felt, now 91 and living in Santa Rosa, Calif. reportedly gave O’Connor permission to disclose his identity.

Sorry about the light posting the past few days, it seems that the entire internet was slow…A nice three day spring weekend, I wonder why

Actually I hardly left the house this weekend…I know, I really do need a life but I did get some thing accomplished, a full reinstall of Windows and resetting my PC with all the goodies I wanted was something that REALLY needed to be done. This kept me busy enough that I didn’t have a lot of time to blog, but now I feel that need…So I’ll be back

I’ll be getting back into the swing of things later today, just wanted to drop this quick note before heading back to work.

Oh, and don’t forget to swing over to MKE Online and vote for your favorite Blogger.

I would like to propose a toast

Please join me in raising my glass in honor of the outstanding work done by Milwaukee’s weather forecasters. Here’s to you Mark Baden, John Malon, Sally Severson, Vince Condella, Brian Bledsoe and all the rest!

As late as Friday afternoon, we heard that the holiday weekend would be cloudy, cool and rain & mid 60’s every day, in a word, it was going to be a rotten holiday weekend. In reality, it has been a beautiful, sunny, warm three days without so much as a cloud in the sky…So much for the rain, huh?

So join me in raising my glass high in honor of our local meteorologists (meteoroliegists?)…before dumping our drinks over their heads!

UPDATE: They have flown the coup
The first clutch have gone off on their own now and this morning I noticed two shiny white eggs in their place.

My feeders are still very active too.

Original post, May 22, 2005

It looks like my back yard morning doves are coming along nicely

Click an image to see a larger picture.

For more about my wild bird flock, check My Blogging Window.

Appleton Wisconsin is feeling the pinch of the smoking ban, so far two conventions have already pulled out of the city, expect more. This is what you get when local governments take away the property rights of business owners.

Wow, congratulations Danica Patrick! She came in 4th in the Indianapolis 500!

Dan Weldon won the race and had to be pushed back to the victory circle because he ran out of gas. He is the first Englishman to win the 500 since the 60’s.

Milwaukee county residents and others in South Eastern Wisconsin really need to check Franklin Alderman Steve Olson’s page dealing with predator placement. It sounds like Stojkovic doesn’t want us to find out what he is up to. We can not allow these people exempt themselves from open records & meeting laws that were put in place so the voters can see what out government is doing! This can not be allowed to stand.

Sexual Predator Placement
Through comments made at the last committee meeting, there will be an effort to keep the public in the dark about the contents and slant of the report.

Committee members have asked for a closed session to discuss the report.

Committee members have requested that the draft NOT be subject to the open records (and meetings) laws that have been put in place to guarantee that the public knows what their government is doing.

Citizens for a Safe Franklin is investigating their legal rights to assure that the document be open to public scrutiny. I’ll be working with the Franklin City Attorney and our Special Counsel on the same issue.

Check his site for full details and keep informed so they can’t ram this down out throats. Steve and Citizens for a Safe Franklin have been working hard on this issue from the beginning. we can’t let this board slam the door in their faces and work in secret.

For those, like me, interested in the ongoing museum fiasco in Milwaukee, Bruce Murphy has a piece on it at Milwaukee Magazine.com PUBLIC MUSEUM DISASTER: HOW DID IT HAPPEN?
And: How This Will Hurt Milwaukee