Posted on Friday, 17th April 2009 by Bruce
Another week has drawn to a close. Is the last of the snow behind us? Only time will tell.
Here’s your chance to talk up a story we’ve missed, further discuss your first foray into the world of political activism; heck, talk up a new band or plug your favorite restaurant. We’ll let you post it all, as long as it isn’t vile, and doesn’t offend anyone.
One quick plea, from a guy who knows the topic well. Firefighters around the state, including many DNR officials, have been plagued by grass and prairie fires in recent days. Things are dry out there folks, and you don’t know how fast things can get out of hand until you’ve witnessed it personally. If you live in an area where burning is permitted, or just have to build that “early season campfire,” why not wait until things green-up a bit?
The land, or home you save… could be your own.
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April 17th, 2009 at 10:27 am
On the Gorebal Warming front, Colorado is expecting up to 3 feet of snow this weekend.
My snow shovel is still handy, how ’bout yours?
April 17th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Just looking to kick back and relax and enjoy the sunshine (hopefully)
April 17th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Breaking News - Cnn I think: Immigrant workers stealing engine repair jobs and getting work VISA’s to do it.
So it seems that immigrant workers, who we are supposedly dependent on for crop harvesting and other odd jobs are now targeting engine repair/ Ford-GM dealership repair services?
Whats next - banking, administration, engineering, …
Your jobless and would work for less, but not for slave wage they pay immigrants. How can enslaving immigrants help anyone. This is your government at work, you are paying them to figure out how to get someone else to do your job for less?
April 17th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
The LEFT wants a bigger voting base. Everything Obama and his dishonest administration has thus far done is designed to consolidate liberal Democrat power and voter base. It’s sickening.
April 18th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
I have all the wood, bolts & screws for my new picnic table, but now the weather is going to suck so I can’t even put it together
But it makes a nice pile in the garage 
April 18th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
I didn’t get as much yard work done as I wanted to, and it looks like rain is moving in, so that’s that.
I did get some of the bird feeders moved from in front of the Infamous Blogging Window into the back yard. I will still have feeders in the front, but last summer i started really enjoying my back yard more, do I have decided that I would attract some of the flock back there too. I have plenty of room, and there is a lot of cover in that big fenced in back yard with a thick row of hedges.
April 19th, 2009 at 1:07 am
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/43234312.html
What a bunch of crap! Destroy a neighborhood, get a pat on the back? Oh well, plenty of lefties around there that deserve to live amongst these empowered useless punks.
April 19th, 2009 at 6:57 am
Yes Ron, and this may be the most disappointing part of it personally for me: “Many police officers appreciate the new alternatives to jail because the old way is not working, said Smith, who is Police Chief Edward Flynn’s new vice control leader, heading the organized crime division. He formerly ran District 5, including the east side.
“The war on drugs is not winnable,” Smith said of traditional methods. Those have alienated police officers from the communities they serve, especially the predominantly African-American north side, where drug investigations often focus, he said.”
So the war on drugs is “not winnable”. Maybe not, but does that mean we’re supposed to concede? The war on ebonics does not seem to be winnable either, so should we all just start talking ebonics? How about the border? We have so many illegals in this country now, so why even try to control the border?
I understand “alternatives”. This is nothing new. Hell, that craze began back in the late 60s and early 70s when the rave was for “suspended” sentencing” and “hold opens” just as is being talked about by the D.A. in this article. When I read this, the first thing that comes to my mind is that they must be using the same books I read in my UWM Criminal Justice classes back in the early 70s. Liberalism really seems to have a death grip on some people, and it also appears that advancement by any means necessary is still alive and well on MPD too.
When I was a Captain on the Milwaukee Police Department and met regularly with the various Neighborhood Groups (predominantly blacks), they were very appreciative of our hard nosed law enforcement efforts to rid their neighborhoods of drug dealers and other thugs. One only has to go back to 2001 when the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel seemed to run daily front page articles on the “drug infested killing fields” of Metcalfe Park and showed very angry residents “demanding” that the Police Department do something to rid their neighborhoods of these thugs. So I don’t know who Captain Smith is talking about when he says police alienated the communities they served with the “old way of doing things” unless maybe he’s worried about “alienating” the media darlings like Gina Barton who seem to always rise to the defense of the drug dealers and thugs. Maybe this is just a carryover of the Hegerty philosophy of appeasement. Whatever the case, it’s sickening to read such quotes coming from a guy who once impressed me as a no-nonsense hard-line police supervisor who I had recommended for promotion to Captain on his performance evaluation. I’m more glad than ever now that I didn’t stay to watch this transformation.
April 19th, 2009 at 9:28 am
The people have not been alienated, they are just different. They hold vigils for criminals and vote for their quick release. They lobby and advocate extensive entitlement for the criminals, where they get better healthcare than the prison guards watching them. Extensive foster care programs are started to take care of the kids that are victims of the drug huggers. When they get the thugs back, they demand more police protection for a safer community.
When their children commit crimes, they stand up and exclaim/complain that they were good kids and didn’t deserve to get shot, even after their kid tried to kill the police they demand for protection. They vote to tax their neighbors and not themselves. They don’t bother to make sure their kids attend school with lunch in hand and blame the system when their kids fail as a result of not attending. They don’t care…
The drug infested killing fields are a product of the community. Doyle is helping with his drug/thug hugger mentality.
April 19th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Talk about sending the wrong message. If you’re a white punk from Neenah, you’re free to go…even continue at UWM. (Let’s dispense with the myth that these are “rich” kids.)
So, here comes the justification and marches to go soft on gang dealers because we wouldn’t want to be “unfair”.
Great plan the lefties have hatched.
If you want to live up to the term ‘War On Drugs’ then start drug testing at Sandburg Halls.
April 19th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
thank god they were not white.. otherwise they would have been crucified.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/43234312.html
April 19th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
John McCain’s daughter, Meghan McCain, is trying to make herself into a radical centrist. This weekend, Ms. McCain was pandering to the Log Cain Republicans—a group of gay RINOs.
Unfortunately, her mommy and daddy didn’t send a bar a soap to wash her mouth out with. Here’s what the silver spoon in her mouth wannabe pol had to say:
“Most of the old school Republicans are scared s***less of that future,” she told a gathering of the Log Cabin Republicans. “I feel too many Republicans want to cling to past successes…I think we’re seeing a war brewing in the Republican Party.â€
An old school conservative myself, Meghan, I am not “scared s***less of the future.†I am concerned about myopic, spoiled brats like yourself defactoly assaulting Judeo-Christian values. I do worry, Meghan, about the ‘if it feels good, do it’ mentality of some young Americans, many of whom have never paid a dime’s worth of property taxes or have the slightest notion of what it’s like to operate a business. I am dismayed that my children’s public high school brainwashes its students to wear all black in support gays and lesbians, while handlers of the President of the United States travel to Georgetown Univeristy—a Jesuit institution—and purposely conceal Christian religious symbols. Tongue-in-cheek, I lose sleep at night frieghtened about the prospect of armed revolution should our nation’s young people loose their ability to afford a 20 gig i-Pod to listen to the trash dissemtated by Britney Spears, 50 Cent, or the white trash with money gal (Madonna).
If it’s a battle of ideas that Meghan ‘The Mouth’ McCain is looking for, I say bring it on. Ms. McCain, I, for one, stand ready to squish your morally bankrupt green, hypie ideology.
April 19th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Capt. G.F.
Isn’t Smith a leader and a graduate from your tenure of the 3 train? I couldn’t believe the quotes either especially in his new command @ VCD.
Just sippin the kool-aid at the Flynn table I guess. I’m still grinding; big pinches and seizures this weekend. Spoon!
April 19th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
The term “War on drugs” is passe.
It’s Domestic contigencies”.
April 20th, 2009 at 6:12 am
Weather report… Snow showers expected Tuesday night… ~sigh
April 20th, 2009 at 7:39 am
Patrick: You’re a smart man for keeping that shovel handy.
April 20th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Glenn, since when do you take what the Journal sentinal says at face value? You never had quotes taken out and spliced and diced to their liking. Say what you want, but the coppers at District 5 worked very hard for Captain Smith because they respected him, and he trusted them to be adults and do their jobs. Most were sad to see him go. Your comments are disappointing. And Spoon, you should know better.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:30 am
Spoon, some are leaders and some are managers. In his book LEADERS, Warren Bennis says, “Leaders do the right thing; managers do things right”. Only a real warrior has the capacity to understand what that means, and only a real leader can follow that principle. Leaders set goals; identify those who can work as a team to accomplish the goal; maintain focus on what is necessary to accomplish the goal; avoid groupthink by demanding input (to include constructive criticism when practicable of any plans) from his subordinates; and then supports his people when they do their jobs even in the face of outside criticism. When he worked for me at #3, Tony was excellent. That view was shared by all the ASP guys too. I cannot account for what has happened since. This, and a statement he made several years ago at Marquette about locking them up not working, is not indicative of his attitude when he worked with us at #3.
April 20th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Glenn, how do you know that’s not how things are now. How do you account for the high percentage in drop in crime? Have you talked to the officers that work for him? Those officers work hard, as evidenced by all of the arrests at UWM. The guys on his agu unit are some of the best in the city, and were proud to work for Capt. Smith. He does work for Chief Flynn now. Aman you seem to have great respect for. Do you think Flynn would allow Capt. Smith to do things that were not working? Obviously his tenure in District 5 was successful. A huge drop in crime. Have you talked to the community groups, both on the east side and the inner city to see if they were unhappy with the work he did? Lots of questions Glenn. Do you have the answers?
April 20th, 2009 at 9:54 am
Sole, whenever I was interviewed/quoted, my policing philosophy was never in doubt even on those occasions when some of what I said was misquoted. As I wrote in my previous comment, this is the second time Tony has been quoted in this context. If he was misquoted here, then you should be hearing it internally from him or someone close to him that you trust. There is nothing more that I would like than to have someone I trust tell me that I’m wrong; that he was misquoted both times; and that he is still the Tony I remember from #3.
April 20th, 2009 at 10:28 am
Sole this isn’t about whether the neighborhood groups were happy or unhappy with the work Tony did. I’m sure they were since there have been no reports of people jumping up and down with pitchforks and torches. What this is about is what a man does and what he says. People should not be led to believe one thing while another thing is being done (and I do not doubt you at all when you say the #5 coppers have been doing great work under his Command). A Police Command Officer should NEVER be afraid to tell people what his philosophy and policing strategies are nor should he be concerned with what the media thinks of his philosophy of crime fighting. If we are going to a “kinder, gentler” way of policing where drug dealers get “slapped on the hand” and have citizens go “shame, shame on you” at some meeting, then if you are any kind of cop you don’t need me to tell you what the result will be.
By the way, if I was a copper at #5 I wouldn’t be happy to see Tony go either considering who you got to replace him.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Glenn, it is not his fault if the paper decides to pick and chose what they write in the paper. How does 1 1/2 hours talking, turn in to a few lines put together in the paper. The people in the community knew what his policing strategy was, he talked to them all of the time, and respected him for it. Since when did you start trusting the newspapers word on things. I remember some nasty things they did when you were in charge of District 3, yet now they are the know all when it comes to this issue. You should be berating them, not a Captain that had a 20% decrease in crime in his district. Sounds pretty effective to me.
April 20th, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Captain, shortly after you left #3, Smith assumed the acting Captains position. His tough talk and fabricated police stories became evident as he now happily walked the company line. It was a night and day difference, and many who had put trust and faith in him no longer felt the same. He was rewarded by the tribadist regime for conforming to “their” way of policing.
Basicly Smith told us about a string of robberies, a bunch of suburbanites who werent good drug dealers, and the hard work done to arrest them, with no real criminal charges behind any of them. What a waste of time and resources. And an example of selective prosecuting.
The war on drugs in not unwinnable, a true warrior would never lay down in defeat.
April 20th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
What is this business of School administrators performing strip searches due to false accusations of other students?
What would you do if your principal had your son or daughter strip searched?
Apparently in AZ its ok, but I think there would be a different ending in WI.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Amen Chip Douglas!
When a man dies all that remains is his work for others to examine and remember him.
spoon
April 22nd, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Argh, started putting my picnic table together and discovered that they gave me the wrong freaking bolts! Then it started to rain!
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
I have a funny feeling that Sole is not actually a copper, but rather a yes man or woman for Captain Smith. The good work at district five occurred despite Captain Smith, not because of him. While he did allow us to do our job, we all knew that if push came to shove he would not back us. This became evident when one of his officers became involved in an incident that was observed by a drunken public official. The drunken public official made false statements about what he observed during the arrest of a violent drug dealer. Initially Smith was ready to hang and suspend the copper, that is until Chief Flynn stood up for the Coppers involved and stated that drug dealers shouldn’t fight with the police. Then Smith was fully willing to back the coppers involved. At that point it was too late he lost our respect. He blows like a fart in the wind and goes any direction it tells him to. He can’t make a decision until he knows for sure what his boss would do. Under Captain FRANKOVIS it seems he was tough on crime and didn’t put up with any b.s. Now he thinks scolding armed drug dealers who brought crime and violence into the UWM area is enough. I’m sure he will be promoted soon to D.I. or Assistant Chief. The problem is who is the real Captain Smith? We will never know because it changes daily based on whom he is trying to impress or who he is working for. Good thing he is now in charge of the drug unit, maybe they can hand out more baseball cards and hugs, that should help.
April 22nd, 2009 at 5:45 pm
The message sent to prospective UWM drug dealers is loud and clear. You can deal drugs with immunity and make thousands of dollars. If you get caught say you are sorry and walk away with money in the bank. Nice message to send. Everybody gets one free shot. I’m sure all of the cops that put all of the work and effort into these cases really appreciated the slap on the wrist these drug dealers received. Cops always like seeing criminals walk off unpunished. That kool-aid must be great. The problem is I don’t think any of Smith’s officers drank any.
April 23rd, 2009 at 1:09 am
Yeah, Smith is a bloated windbag. He is a wind sock that blows which ever way. I think the best feature is his purple mustcahe he has from drinking the koolaid. It is suspicious that he was drinking the alternative lifestyle gruel 1 year ago, and now he drinks this purple sludge. WHen Flynn flies out of town next year, we will be left with this imposter. Thanks for tellin it like it is brother Kovac. No one wants to work for a coward!
April 23rd, 2009 at 11:04 am
Great posts Ragoo, Chip, Spoon and Kovac!