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Medicaid, Wisconsin & the Ryan Plan: "Scared Spitless"
The candidates are making their closing argument as Election Day comes upon us. My own closing argument starts with Paul Krugman, and culminates in a video.In his Oct. 28 NY Times column, Medicaid on...
View ArticleStop Special Needs Vouchers in Wisconsin!
If there's one thing we've learned in Wisconsin since February 2011, and in Michigan just this month, it's that what gets passed in the statehouse after the election can be devastatingly different than...
View ArticleAutism & Empathy: I Hope Folks Didn't Think It Was Snark
In his rec-listed diary Callous and Despicable on Monday, Horace Boothroyd III made us aware of the appalling "Second Amendment!" heckling when Neil Heslin, father of one of the Sandy Hook murder...
View ArticleWPRI Surveys Private Schools, Concludes "Wisconsin is Failing to Help...
The conservative think-tank Wisconsin Public Research Institute (WPRI) has issued a report on the failings of education in Wisconsin, just days before Governor Walker is slated to release his 2013/2015...
View ArticleFlagrant Hypocrisy: Down the Memory Hole with Scott Walker
Why, oh why, can Wisconsin not hold Scott Walker to account for flagrant, outrageous hypocrisy between his pre-governor press statements and his actions as governor?I'm going to source these three...
View ArticleWI Ultrasound Bill "Author": Abortions Were THE Thing to Do in the '60s (VIDEO)
By now you've probably seen Wisconsin state senator Mike Ellis totally lose it and break the gavel-stand while bellowing from behind his sungalsses at Democratic senators to sit down -- so the Senate...
View ArticleScott Walker Loves Recalls! (2010 Video Evidence)
This isn't new. But it still makes my blood boil and I figured I'd share it once more, apropos of nothing but flagrant Republican hypocrisy (that the Democrats utterly FAILED to use in the 2012...
View ArticleMilwaukee "New Hustler Academy" Voucher School Closes in the Dead of Night...
On Jan. 9, Gail Hicks testified before the Urban Education Committee of the Wisconsin Assembly and called out Milwaukee's "New Hustler Academies" -- the nickname she and her colleagues have bestowed...
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George Carlin Quote Bastardized on Facebook by Heartland Institute (Updated)
April 28 update: Heartland Institute APOLOGIZED, and took down the offending meme! Details here: Heartland Institute Backpedals on George Carlin Bastardized Quote-Meme!= = = = = = = = = = = =George...
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Follow-Up: Heartland Institute Backpedals on George Carlin Bastardized...
Daily Kos is a powerful forum. Through the magic of this site, even an occasional diarist can initiate something that leads to an actual change: in this example, the Heartland Institute, a...
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Wisconsin "Militia" Promises Armed Intimidation of Recall Signers at the...
THIS is how things are in Wisconsin. A Facebook group calling themselves the "Wisconsin Poll Watcher Militia" (update: page has since disappeared and now it's back!) is threatening armed intimidation...
View ArticleWisconsin: They Don't Want Us to Know What They Stand For
I saw it again today in a front page article in the Wisconsin State Journal:State paid $139 million to schools terminated from voucher program since 2004The galloping privatization of K-12 education in...
View ArticleEbola screening, at a podiatry clinic near you?
Yesterday I discovered first-hand that all of the clinics in our local Midwestern university-based clinic system are having their receptionists ask everybody at check-in:-- Have you traveled overseas...
View ArticleVIDEO: Profitship Charters and God's Li'l Voucher School
Little Timmy, a kindergartener in the animated video below, is a lot like most of us here in America: we LIKE our public schools!But the profitmakers look at our children, and what they see are dollar...
View ArticleThe Fierce, Selective Urgency of Wisconsin Budget Repair, 2011 vs. 2015
Flashback to February 2011 when Governor Walker "dropped the bomb" of his so-called "budget repair bill."It was absolutely essential, Wisconsin was told, to kneecap the public employee unions (and many...
View Article"Regular and adequate income"? Repeal it, says Wisconsin GOP
The ALEC-sourced "Wage Theft" bill (aka "right to work") that's being rammed through in Wisconsin is worse than you think it is... and only the wonkiest of policy wonks know it.The Center for Media and...
View ArticleGOP Congresswoman, Deluged in ACA Success Stories, Responds: Repeal Obamacare...
A most excellent front-page diary is viral-crawling its way across social media today:GOP congresswoman gets surprise on Facebook after asking constituents for Obamacare horror storiesRep. Cathy...
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Autistic Child Wanders Off, Mom Calls 911, Is Accused of Neglect (A Tale of...
One week into Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month, this story hit my news feed yesterday:Autistic Child Wanders Off, Mom Calls 911, Is Accused of NeglectHere's the selection from the news report:911...
View ArticleRumsfeld: Looting Is Transition To Freedom
Story by Pamela Hess, UPI Pentagon Correspondent [not The Onion]Rumsfeld: Looting is transition to freedom[F]reedom's untidy. And free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad...
View ArticleDear Anonymous Benefactor... Thank You!
I have been cheerful all day in the wake of receiving the following e-mail message this morning:Dear AnnieJo, Congratulations! An anonymous benefactor has purchased you a one year gift subscription to...
View Article"Governor Walker, he's a giant welder!" What the WI press refuses to say...
I wonder if it's the most taboo word in journalism.The L-word. Nope, not Love. Not even Liberal.LIAR.Take a look at the tap-dancing that happened at a panel of Wisconsin journalists the other night,...
View Article"Knucklehead" privatizer legislators just got SCHOOLED -- by Wisconsin parents!
What is happening to public education in the Wisconsin state budget is nothing short of appalling.In a sneak-attack motion inserted in the middle of the night on May 19/20, without public input or...
View ArticleWisconsin: They're Eviscerating Our Right to Know Who's Writing Our Laws
It seems that they've been embarrassed too many times.Like, for example, when Scott Walker's budget came out and the time-honored mission of the University of Wisconsin, known as the Wisconsin Idea,...
View ArticleDid the conservative Lakeland Times just demand "Recall Walker"?
Oneida County, WI is a deep red part of the state. In the 2014 gubernatorial election, the vote went 57% for Gov. Scott Walker.So, as Giles Goat Boy pointed out with a Whoah! yesterday, it was...
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Graft on the Capitol Square in Madison, WI
If you happen to be a politician or an elected judge in Madison, Wisconsin, the recent WI Supreme Court ruling is bound to open new opportunities for you.PRWatch:"The Wisconsin Supreme Court has...
View ArticleSen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) on "those idiot inner city kids"
Yes, Sen. Johnson really said it. On the radio, on Vicki McKenna's WIBA Milwaukee right-wing talk radio show, calibrated for the "ring-of-fire" bright red suburban counties that encircle the big...
View ArticleBernie Outpolls Hillary at Talking Points Memo
Josh Marshall, over at Talking Points Memo, reports on a TPM poll that surveyed Bernie v. Hillary last week.How TPM Readers View the Sanders PhenomenonHere's what he says about the respondent pool (TPM...
View ArticleThe Crime of Disturbing the Classroom (Yes, in S.C., it's a CRIME)
Talk about your "school to prison pipeline"!In South Carolina, the line between discipline and criminal penalty has become so blurred as to be rendered close to meaningless.One of the many appalling...
View ArticleWisconsin Lawmaker Calls for Citizen Executioners
In a press release Monday, Wisconsin State Representative Bob Gannon (R-Slinger) called upon Wisconsin citizens to execute one another via firearm.Not a joke, not an off-the-cuff remark, but a formal...
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Trump Has Voted, Knows You Can't Vote 10x, Lies Anyway
Within the maelstrom of meltdown that has been Donald Trump in the past 24 hours has come an intentional pre-delegitimizing of November’s election results, should they turn against him:As quoted on the...
View ArticleMr. AnnieJo has his very own TRUMP CARD. Sad!
It came in the mail today.We’ve never gotten a piece of campaign mail quite like it.Dear Fellow Republican,I don’t know the last time Mr. AnnieJo voted for a Republican.The liberal media doesn’t like...
View ArticleLeaked WI GOP Documents: "Do we need to start messaging ‘widespread reports...
The slime runs deep in Wisconsin, and the documents leaked to The Guardian yesterday (“Because Scott Walker Asked”) provide mind-boggling evidence of the pay-to-play — which we used to call “bribery,”...
View ArticleWhite House emails biting satire on Trump's budget to entire "1600 Daily" list
I wouldn’t have believed it if I didn’t see it.I’m on the White House’s “1600 Daily” email list, a masochistic maneuver on my part which I undertook after sending the Current Resident a message on the...
View ArticleTrump Voters Think Obama Played More Golf in his First Three Months
As reported by the New York Times, Donald Trump has played golf at least 13 times during his presidency so far, in the process of spending 19 days at a golf-course location. At this point in his...
View ArticleMy daughter stopped breathing again last night.
“Hey kiddo. I’m here with you. Take that breath when you can.”She may or may not be hearing me. I’m in my “calm mama” mode, the one that I engage when the seizure gets underway.First comes the noisy,...
View Article"Alt-Right" Mirror, On the Wall, Who's the Least Human of Them All?
A fascinating report showed up on Vox last week:Psychologists surveyed hundreds of alt-right supporters. The results are unsettling.“Unsettling” is a tame word.Researchers Patrick Forscher of the...
View ArticleThe Trumpification of Nikki Haley: 2 Charleston-Massacre Headlines, 2 Years...
Here is Nikki Haley on The Hill, 10/30/2018:Nikki Haley compares Pittsburgh response to Charleston: 'We didn’t once blame Pres. Obama'Here was Nikki Haley on The Hill, 6/03/2016:Nikki Haley links...
View ArticleTony Evers for WI-GOV: "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your...
For your Friday delight — a brief campaign commercial homage to The Big Lebowski, from State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers, running to oust Scott Walker from the Wisconsin governor’s...
View ArticleWhen a young woman's future hangs in the balance, five minutes is an eternity
“It’s very brave to express an opinion,” her film teacher said this past Friday as he introduced the film to a packed high school auditorium. xxYouTube VideoDarby Wilson is eighteen years old, a...
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"ReOpen Wisconsin" Protest: No Permit, No Porta-Potties
Pity the dilemma of the organizers who are planning to bring thousands of freedom-loving COVID-skeptics to congregate and swap droplets at the Wisconsin Capitol this Friday. Governor Evers won’t...
View Article"And that's how you know they're Caucasian!"
I found the limerick text on Facebook and memed it up a bit for additional impact. If anyone knows who the original author is, let me know, and I’ll be glad to convey their fame! Updated — thank you...
View ArticleTrump Cough Edited Out of Twitter Video
It wasn’t as if we needed any more evidence that the “information” coming out about Trump’s health condition was both duplicitous and shoddy. Take, for example, Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows,...
View ArticleGovernment by Assassination Threat
Did you catch the moment during the impeachment-managers’ testimony today, in which Sen. Ted Cruz almost went from “hero” to “assassination target” in the middle of the Capitol insurrection?It was...
View ArticleDeadly Vaccine-Hesitancy: A Facility Outbreak in Kentucky
The CDC released the study yesterday: COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with a SARS-CoV-2 R.1 Lineage Variant in a Skilled Nursing Facility After Vaccination Program — Kentucky, March 2021Then one of my...
View ArticleWisconsin Redistricting Debacle
Somehow I still get my hopes up, y’know? But it just feels like it happens every single time.Here’s the state-legislature redistricting news for Wisconsin, in a decision that dropped just last...
View ArticleNope, No Wisconsin Impeach-a-thon is Pending
Much digital ink has been spilled, and many hands have been wrung, about the State Senate fly in yesterday’s Wisconsin rejuvenating election ointment. The massive news, and balm for progressive...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 19.33: Gardening Heritage and the...
Good morning Saturday Morning Garden Blog-Friends! This cheerful tradition appears every Saturday morning at 9am Eastern, and lasts well into the week as conversations percolate. I’m a relative...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 19.46 - When the Frost is On the Pumpkin
Good morning Saturday Morning Garden Blog-Friends! This cheerful tradition appears every Saturday morning at 9am Eastern, and lasts into the week as conversations percolate. Pull up a chair, snag a...
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SCOWI Festivus: Redistricting decision, and the airing of the right-wing...
It’s Festivus in Wisconsin, my friends! The Festivus Pole (Wisconsin-made, with a very high strength-to-weight ratio) sits in display on the first-floor balcony level of the Capitol rotunda, offering...
View ArticleSaturday Morning Garden Blogging Vol. 20.08: New Wisconsin (Garden) Maps!
Good morning Saturday Morning Garden Blog-Friends! This cheerful tradition appears every Saturday morning at 9am Eastern, and lasts well into the week as conversations percolate. Anyone who likes to...
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