Uppity Wisconsin

Update: After I had posted this article, I inadvertantly stumbled across this organization.   They are called "LEAP" or Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.   It's definitely worth a look see.  These are the folks who have dealt with the "War on Drugs" and its many guises such as "zero tolerence" policies.  The LEAP link.

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Noticeably,  there is a new study out claiming older people are in more denial of their abilities while drinking than "young people".  This study, although I am having some difficulty finding the actuals regarding it was plastered all over the news a few days ago.  I found it odd that the MSM was all over this thing. (Where are they regarding the single-payer health care proposition?)  Tsk. Tsk.

Time had this to say:

"Researchers deliberately chose "young" adults around 30 to make sure they were at least several years removed from the undergraduate binge-drinking culture."  Is it me.... or does "around 30" sound awfully high to be in the young adult category?  But it gets better, they also said:

What was that....... "a firestorm bordering on Armageddon"..???!!   LOL!!! 

For some time now we have had the fictitious "suicide by cop" qualification for the misdeeds of the those in positions of authority who act without regard for life.  The word on the street is that the Green Bay Police Dept. has a policy of "One shoot... all shoot."

Who does this protect?  Is it LEGAL?  It certainly doesn't protect the citizens of Green Bay, nor does it protect the right and judgement of SANE police officers.  This policy protects the illegal actions of a cabal in the Green Bay Police Department at the expense of law abiding officers.  These are now required to cover the actions of a cabal of miscreants put in place by Police Chief Jim Arts, D.A. John Zawkowski, Mayor Jim Schmitts ... and others.

The Green Bay Press Gazette:

"Four Green Bay police officers have been cleared of wrongdoing in an April 21 shooting that killed a 25-year-old Green Bay man and wounded a 31-year-old man working in a nearby nightclub.

Noticeably, profiteers always choose their victims.  They seek out and target the elderly, the disabled, children, the economically disenfranchised, the politically unwary, and in a physical fight, women and most of the above.

Their debasement is without equal.  The tremors of their actions reverberate again and again throughout history.  But these sorts do not now and did not then act alone.  So the question is, are we them?

Are we being required to lay aside that which we know and make "minor" concessions because these "concessions" don't affect us..... at least not directly.  I'm confused, are we all "good" then?  Is it plausible that we have endorsed aggrandized chick flick "enlightenment" interpersed with the harbingers of necessary evil or perceived perfected righteousness?

We have taxpayer paid judges sentencing children for those things which are indicative of children, for the mere profit of it.  (Link)

"I felt like I had been thrown into some surreal sort of nightmare," said Hillary, 17, who was sentenced in 2007. "All I wanted to know was how this could be fair and why the judge would do such a thing."

William Greiter of The Nation has exposed yet another scam, an alarming one regarding Social Security.  Some highlights:

"Governing elites in Washington and Wall Street have devised a fiendishly clever "grand bargain" they want President Obama to embrace in the name of "fiscal responsibility." The government, they argue, having spent billions on bailing out the banks, can recover its costs by looting the Social Security system. They are also targeting Medicare and Medicaid."

".....These players are promoting a tricky way to whack Social Security benefits, but to do it behind closed doors so the public cannot see what's happening or figure out which politicians to blame. The essential transaction would amount to misappropriating the trillions in Social Security taxes that workers have paid to finance their retirement benefits. This swindle is portrayed as "fiscal reform." In fact, it's the political equivalent of bait-and-switch fraud."

"I felt like I had been thrown into some surreal sort of nightmare," said Hillary, 17, who was sentenced in 2007. "All I wanted to know was how this could be fair and why the judge would do such a thing."

Hillary Transue was sentenced to three months in a privately run juvenile detention center "for building a spoof MySpace page mocking the assistant principal at her high school in Wilkes-Barre, Pa." even though "the page stated clearly at the bottom that it was just a joke."  Common Dreams.org

According to the AP, "Two lawsuits have been filed against two Pennsylvania judges accused of taking more than $2 million in kickbacks to send youth offenders to privately run detention centers.

The suits name Luzerne County Judges Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan as well as the individuals who allegedly paid the kickbacks and other defendants. They were filed in federal court late Thursday and Friday on behalf of hundreds of children and their families who were alleged victims of the corruption.

We all know who Robert Rubin is..... but who is Jamie Rubin?  This is not merely a protege, wherein possibly it could at LEAST somewhat plausibly (although admittedly, unlikely)  be argued could have been "raised right" outside of the known bad influences of one of the most hated people on the planet......no.....this is the living breathing spawn of the crook of crooks himself.  Check this out:

Kuttner:  "One of the key people on his transition team, who picked... not picked personally, cause Obama appointed them...., but teed up the appointments of the top regulatory and economic officials was Jamie Rubin, Bob's son."

There is much rhetoric flying around concerning "drunk driving".  It must be remembered that many laws instituted for the purpose of one alleged problem become subverted and henceforth used to endorse a set agenda or ulterior motive.  Sometimes this is simply to make money.

It seems questionable that Wisconsin, nor any state could remotely be qualified as a "drinking culture".  This is rhetoric at its finest and does nothing except inflame the ideological.

I agree with Mal Contends assertion: 

"It's about time someone spoke up against Kathleen Falk's bone-headed approach to addressing the issue of operating a vehicle while intoxicated (OWI) and the non-issue of Wisconsin's alleged drinking "culture" problem."

How's this for an "eye opener"? 

This arrest is extremely suspicious.  Of course Police Chief Arts is satisfied with this explanation.  What about the citizens of Green Bay?  The department says, "For unknown reasons those details had not been tranferred to the proper report." according to the Fox News story.  Officer Steffens receives a phone call from a "former police officer" at 2:20am according to police documents but the call does not show up on the cell phone records for Steffen's squad car.  What's going on here?  And who is Officer Steffen's taking his instructions from?  I call foul.  Something smells and this time it isn't the soap company.

Some are calling it Toilet to Tap and that's not much of an exaggeration.  Past practice has been that when water is diverted from one place to another a discharge permit was required.  However, according to a new rule issued by the EPA water can now be diverted from one area to another without a permit.

A permit is still required if one diverts water, uses it and a contaminate is entered into the flow.  But according to the new EPA rules one can divert "water", even contaminated water as long as no additional contaminates are added without a discharge permit.  The AP reports: 

"Clean water permits should focus on water pollution, not water movement," Benjamin H. Grumbles, the EPA's assistant administrator for water, said in a statement. He later noted that the decision reaffirmed the agency's 30-year view of the Clean Water Act.......

"You could take a really scuzzy canal system ... and pump it into a drinking water supply," said David Guest, managing director of the Florida office for Earthjustice...."

More and more evidence of the abuse of detainees continues to filter out. The human rights organization Physicians For Human Rights released a report yesterday after conducting medical evaluations of the detainees from Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo.  The 130 page report entitled Broken Laws, Broken Lives can be downloaded here.

The Boston Globe relates portions of the report.

"A subject named "Amir," an Iraqi in his late 20s held in Abu Ghraib prison from August 2003 to January 2005, "showed signs of rectal tearing that are highly consistent with his report of having been sodomized with a broomstick," the report found.

"Yasser," another Abu Ghraib detainee in his mid-40s, had scars on his thumbs and irregularities in the contours of his tongue, according to the report. The medical team concluded that the damage supports his contention that his American captors subjected him to electric shocks.

The first thing that jumps out at you is Mr. Sherk's name.  Is that "Sherk" as in "shirk responsibility"?  Gee.. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly.  James Sherk in an article at the Heritage Foundation wants to give employees "free choice in the workplace".  Mr Sherk must be a really nice guy.  According to Mr. Sherk:

"Private-sector union membership has fallen over the past generation as many workers have concluded that traditional unions do not meet their needs."

It must have been that revelation that employees had realizing that livable wages, good benefits and safe working conditions just weren't all they were cracked up to be.  So apparently "employees" decided to just scrap the superfulous "add ons".  And here I thought Reagan broke the unions during the air traffic controllers strike.  He then claims that:

"In response, the labor movement is pushing the Employee Free Choice Act. Instead of taking away workers' right to vote on joining a union by secret ballot, Congress should restore employers' and employees' right to explore innovative labor–management relations."

I wish I actually could find words to describe this.  Do they exist?  Never should we "forget" and never should we ignore or turn away from war's reality.  If we do, then this is all we will see and there won't be any "turning away".  An older video but also a current video. (The site doesn't allow me to embed, but please check out the "current video" approximately 3min)

A report at Global Research by Ali al-Fadhily and Dahr Jamail offers this wake up call:

"In addition, depleted uranium (DU) munitions, which contain low-level radioactive waste, were used heavily in Fallujah. The Pentagon admits to having used 1,200 tonnes of DU in Iraq thus far.

Many doctors believe DU to be the cause of a severe increase in the incidence of cancer in Iraq, as well as among U.S. veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War and through the current occupation....

I ran into this clip at "The Largest Minority" website.  Wow, time and again... that Manila Ryce is good.  There's always something intuitive or stark from him.  He thinks..., wow... what a concept!  Anyway this one's entertaining.  Kucinich dwarfs O'Really.  Kucinich is a man of the people, a true public servant. 

According to an article at Dissident Voice digital TV won't give America a voice on their own airwaves.  In an article entitled "Grand Theft Digital: How Corporate Broadcasters Will Hijack Digital TV ", Bruce Dixon has this to say:

Although the airwaves are the property of the public under US law, and broadcasters receive their licenses from the FCC only on the condition that they serve the public interest, neither Congress nor the FCC, have attached any public service or public interest requirement to the thousands of new DTV channels that current broadcasters will receive. And current broadcasters, according to the deal worked out by Congress and the FCC back in the 1990s, are the only ones upon whom the new stations made possible by DTV will be bestowed. They’re in. Congress and the FCC, in their wisdom didn’t think local governments, schools, colleges, libraries, unions, community organizations, local churches, blacks, Latinos or females deserved a shot at any of the thousands of new DTV channels. They’re out. That’s it and that’s all."

 He continues: