Posted on Friday, 15th October 2010 by Patrick Dorwin

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  1. Glenn D. Frankovis Says:
    October 15th, 2010 at 7:02 am

    Gang Summit in Milwaukee this past week:

    http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-hundreds-anti-gang-summit-101310,0,2234113.story

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm3e5aritZQ&feature=related

    It’s one thing to develop a network whereby contacts are established with members of other Departments for the purpose of sharing information such as might be the case with the Asian gang members who travel frequently between here and Minneapolis, Chicago, Wausau, Green Bay, etc and even the influx of some of the Mexican and black gangs in some of the communities of Wisconsin outside Milwaukee, but if the idea is to “sit down” with gang members and try to get them to see the error of their ways then it’s all bullshit and clearly demonstrated in that second link I added here. That movie Colors may have been as close as it gets to showing the real problem with gang members whether its on the grand scale of an L.A./New York or the punk scale (with the exception of the Mexican gangs and perhaps the Asian gangs) in Milwaukee. Dennis Hopper actually used real gang members from L.A. in that movie.



  2. MjM Says:
    October 15th, 2010 at 10:45 am

    Obie’s biggest shovel job.

    You just gotta read Goldberg’s latest:

    “In interviews, job summits, and press conferences, it was shovel-ready this, shovel-ready that. Search the White House website for the term “shovel-ready” and you’ll drown in press releases about all the shovels ready to shove shovel-ready projects into the 21st century, where no shovel is left behind.”

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/249829/tax-spend-and-shovel-jonah-goldberg



  3. mkescan Says:
    October 15th, 2010 at 9:22 pm

    Starting tuesday morning there might not be too many traffic reports warning you about crashes,and not much Milwaukee county suburban fire & police news for a day or more.
    Most of the media monitors Sheriff department on a scanner for traffic info, and of course also to monitor suburban fire & police.
    Starting monday Milwaukee county will be rebanding their radio system (changing frequencies)and a lot of older scanners won’t be able to track the system anymore. Media will freaking until they find out what the problem is, then freq even more if they have to replace all their scanners. Then try to figure out how to program these scanners.



  4. Patrick Dorwin Says:
    October 16th, 2010 at 10:11 am

    This means my scanner’s going to be junk?



  5. mkescan Says:
    October 16th, 2010 at 10:51 am

    It might be. Go here and scroll down to Which Scanners Stop Working? http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/Rebanding

    Instead of making Nextel / Sprint change their freqs, the FCC is making a lot of Public Safety change theirs. Isn’t that nice of them?
    Milwaukee County had to install 2 radios in their buses because of this. One for voice & one for Data, because they couldn’t be reprogrammed and nobody makes the type of radio they had in the new freq range that does voice & data..



  6. J. Rawson Schaller Says:
    October 16th, 2010 at 11:07 am

    Read the transcript of Jake Tapper’s recent exchange with David Axelrod. It’s a case study in hypocrisy.

    We have a president whose closest advisers are demanding that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce disclose a published list of its donors, yet he himself refuses to disclose his college records, passport history, or original birth certificate.

    This administration is shameful.



  7. Patrick Dorwin Says:
    October 16th, 2010 at 3:19 pm

    @mkescan, whew, my BCT8 should still be worth something… for a while anyway.



  8. J. Rawson Schaller Says:
    October 17th, 2010 at 8:18 am

    NPR Pollster: “Republicans have 75% chance of taking the House, Democrats have 80-85% chance of retaining control of the Senate.”



  9. Patrick Dorwin Says:
    October 17th, 2010 at 8:49 am

    Come on Scott, tell us what you really think:

    Letters: Barrett bad candidate due to city’s problems



  10. Jaeson Says:
    October 18th, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    Anyone read Jay Bullock’s review of Waiting for Superman in the Bay View Compass? It’s pretty funny stuff:

    http://bayviewcompass.com/archives/5414

    This quote from the article is the most revealing:

    “I didn’t get to see the film at its sole Milwaukee screening last month, but some colleagues did, and I’ve been reading the reviews.”

    So Folkbum didn’t feel the need to actually see the film before writing a review. Apparently, he feels content to parrot what he’s read in reviews and heard friends say about the movie, and then pretend that its his own opinion.

    I have to ask, if when Mr. Bullock assigns book reports to his class, if it is sufficient for his students to write their reports based on what their friends say about the book, and what appears in Amazon.com reviews.

    After all, by his own standards, his students shouldn’t actually have to read the material he assigns to have an understanding of that material.

    Another quote from his review:

    “Such rote learning and testing is what drives children to shut down and fail.”

    This of course explains why the education system has been steadily failing and worsening for the last 40 years, ever since the dirty hippie contingency of the American left acquired control of it.

    Another line from the review states:

    “Even if I were a bad teacher protected by an evil union, my students wouldn’t know because I’ve had so little time to actually teach.”

    No Jay, even though you are a bad teacher (who cites Wikipedia), your students are unable to detect this because they haven’t been taught the critical skills necessary to sniff out laziness and incompetence such as yours.

    Bay View, this is your English teacher.



  11. Patrick Dorwin Says:
    October 18th, 2010 at 6:19 pm

    If Jay doesn’t have enough time to teach, why is he leaching more than $100,000 a year from us?

    If I wasn’t doing my job, I know my boss wouldn’t pay me what I earn now, which is a lot less than someone that admits he doesn’t do his job…



  12. gus Says:
    October 18th, 2010 at 10:41 pm

    Hahhahahahahaha!!! Patrick? More than $100,000.00??
    WAY WAY MORE. And the LIBTARD even says that he doesn’t have enough time to teach.
    My Nuns had time to teach. I had time to learn.
    Failure was not an option. Disobedience was sanctioned harshly. I learned. I went on to High School and College. I succeeded.
    I never had a LOSER like FOLKTUNES the LIBTARD PARASITE for a teacher.
    Thank God.



  13. jodster Says:
    October 19th, 2010 at 9:18 am

    apparently, he only teaches part time?

    http://www.postcrescent.com/article/99999999/APC0110/80221166

    it’s a very useful tool to find out public teachers salaries :)



  14. Jaeson Says:
    October 19th, 2010 at 11:24 am

    STATE CAPITAL EVACUATED

    http://www.wisn.com/news/25439287/detail.html?treets=mil&tid=2654056049813&tml=mil_12pm&tmi=mil_12pm_1_11000110192010&ts=H

    http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/105260008.html

    http://www.fox6now.com/news/witi-wisconsin-capitol-madison-evacuated-101910,0,6595229.story

    http://www.cbs58.com/index.php?aid=14513

    http://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/80291067.html



  15. Jaeson Says:
    October 20th, 2010 at 11:14 am

    Folkbum’s lamenting over the provably successful methods of rote learning, had me thinking about the current state of education.

    Currently I am pursuing a second degree at one of our fine local learning institutions. As part of this pursuit, I am required to take an English class.

    Now, while this is supposedly higher education, I have to assume that high schools are probably organized in a similar manner, because the fine brain trust that leftist educators represent rarely depart from their Collective group-think.

    This is how our English class goes down. Keep in mind that this is the second English class, prior to which there was a prerequisite.

    We essentially spend the entire semester working on a single 10 page paper. That’s right. One paper. The kids in this class, don’t have the basic knowledge necessary to write a simple sentence effectively, or know correct spelling and proper grammar in many cases. So how they were able to escape high school and get to this level speaks clearly about the education system in general.

    During class, the teacher talks about “the power of the circle” and has everyone place their desks in a circle around the room. Presumably this is to facilitate discussion, but frankly the last thing that teenagers need is to have their discussions facilitated. What this method usually results in, is an unruly chattering class that pays little attention to the authority of the teacher, if at all.

    In many instances, the teacher will have the class split up in groups and pass their papers to one another to give comments on each other’s work, and how they might improve it, while the teacher sits down and reads a novel.

    In one instance I had a student tell me that I used too many big words he didn’t understand and that I should try to “dumb down” my paper so that everyone could understand it.

    Great. So I’m paying tuition to have some uneducated student tell me that I should write more dumb. Money well spent.

    Ultimately what this method of teaching boils down to, is students who have no degree, no training, and no experience, teaching one another: an exercise in the blind leading the blind.

    I’m sure this method doesn’t put off students, because especially young students will always opt to jag around over buckling down. But it’s not the teacher’s job to befriend teenagers, or to try to communicate with them down on their level.

    Teachers, and leftists in general, need to mature out of their teenager ways of thinking and become grown adults if our education system is ever to produce literate and competent graduates.

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