QE2 is ending! Hide your money!

You know it's not even worth talking about Walker and his cronies in charge of DOA and what they are doing - the shock value is gone.I talked to my brother who lives in Springfield Illinois and for a while I thought he had gone to the dark side.  He is a business owner ( MMLP Architectural Services - " MMLP Exists To Improve The Built Environment ") and when I told him all that was going on in Wisconsin he seemed unfazed.  But then I realized...

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A company is actually NOT a human.

I downloaded Firefox 4 and am very impressed - there is a definite increase in speed on the internet and while the look is a little different it's easy to get used too. Much cleaner and you have more screen to work with. THUMBS UP. IE9 ( or before "9")is still the very worst and slowest browser you can have - I can not understand how people can use it.------------------------------------ What do you guys think about auto-speeding tickets! There is a place on I-95 where they set up a camera and on all vehicles that are going 10 mph over the...

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The war on the impoverished

Government - an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.   14th century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun---------------------------------------------------------------Remind me not to go to anymore Art Fairs at the Alliant Center. A very good  photographer/Art Fair friend, Cassius Callender (his work is on the 7th and 2B floors at 1 W Wilson), was driving by the Coliseum/Energy Center and was amazed at all the cars. So he decided to he should stop in to see the throngs as he had skipped the show. What...

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The Ninth Gate

I believe the Badgers went through The Ninth Gate last night! But actually I'm talking about the Johnny Depp movie The Ninth Gate. What a tremendously horrible movie. Not the plot (which was 100% predicable) but the production! It was directed by Roman Polanski and I swear he was in a "that's good enough" mode. One take, good enough, next scene! The worst choreographed fake fight scenes you have ever seen, the kind where it just turns you off...

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We won Mega Millions . . or al least a part!

1.21 inches of rain on Tuesday and the storm total ended at 1.41 inches!   ------------------------------------One thing I have noticed since I ended my "sitting on my butt all day" job came to an end.  I'm much more active during the day.  I had read that one thing that happens when a person "retires" is he becomes more active and eats less.  I have the think they are right!Yesterday I had to drive into Madison to pick up...

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the (lesser) signs of the apocalypse

1.35 inches of rain yesterday!   ---------------An interesting research on Walker is near the bottom of this blog (in case you get bored halfway through). ------------Meeting Places - in case of disaster, after much discussion and having the family shoot down meeting at the closest brewery (which seemed totally logical to me) we decided that fire stations were the place to go. I think Jenny wanted to meet at Taco Bell but if I could not...

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Find a meeting place.

Luckily I never pulled the stock market trigger - once I saw stocks were zooming on GOOD economic news I felt that there was no panic and investors were acting rationally.---------------------------Then there are the Badgers - I can't remember WHO we played last year in the "first" round but it always seems the Badgers play some abnormal team. Some team that won a lot of games because they play a totally different style then the Badgers are used to. I mean - come on, Belmont took all 5 guys out at once and replaced them with 5 different guys? ...

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Reacting to Japan - Brewers

Never take financial advice from some dude on the Internet.One thing I'm going to be watching very close today are the reactors in Japan.  I feel that it is inevitable that we will have three meltdowns and one explosion on those nukes and this will end up being WORSE then Chernobyl!   Have you heard ANY good nuclear news yet this week?  This is like a cancer where you are always one step behind nature! The stock market is reacting...

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The Pledge of Allegiance

First of all - I am not anti Pledge of Allegiance. I'm anti making a law that says you MUST say it. Charlotte, in 2006 in Florida a small student was ridiculed and called "unpatriotic" by a teacher for refusing to say the Pledge. The federal district court in Florida ruled that the 1942 state law requiring students to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution and the school district had to pay the parents $32,000. In 2009, a Montgomery County, Maryland, teacher berated and had...

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gerrymandering

WOW - who knew I would be so busy on my 1st day off.  I got so many little things done yesterday it was crazy. The most important was getting a new license plate sticker. I was so excited when I got my "12" in the mail that I ran outside and slapped it on the license plate. However - the plate was so dirty the sticker didn't stick and I was left holding a non-sticky sticker. So after about 3 weeks of avoiding the cops I finally got to the...

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Welcome to Fitzwalkerstan

Well - winter is slowly giving ground to spring and we here in Wisconsin are really happy. It's been a long winter! Except for November the four winter months have been below (temp) and above (snow) average every month. What has been odd is that this spring we have not had those AMAZING beautiful days - just a small daily climb with a storm every 3 or 4 days! Very very subtle temp climb to summer. This is actually a good thing I feel and is setting up for a good summer, not like last year but a NORMAL summer. Avg High TempsNov 48.5 Avg 43.8Dec...

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Retiring is suppose to be a happy time not a sad time!

WHOA - Pulled that Rabbet out of their ass. Minutemen were members of teams of select men from the American colonial partisan militia during the American Revolutionary War. They provided a highly mobile, rapidly deployed force that allowed the colonies to respond immediately to war threats, hence the name.It was like the Minutemen were called to arms.  As the illegal voting of the NOW - non-fiscal part of the Bill was being rammed through the Senate people were literally RUNNING to the Capitol trying to save democracy!  People without...

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Winning Battles!

WOW - what a LONG drive to work - there were 7 cars off the road between Columbus and Sun Prairie! As I was driving I was thinking this is the worst I have ever seen 151 but U did not want to say that out loud! Then DJ says "This is the worst I have ever seen 151". The other lane seemed better but in order to get there I had to get out of my tracks and jump over the . . I don't know what you all the 6 inches of snow that line the lanes. I was cruising at 40mph catch up to cars and by the time I was in the left hand lane I was going 30 and...

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The truth is out!

I get to work and have a number of emails informing me that people I work with are all retiring . . .   FRIDAY!  geez- "I'll" be the guy shutting off the lights for Health Services! And I was trying to get out BEFORE everybody else! But then - I get an email from a Minnesota friend Graham Man and it's all very clear now on Walkers intentions. In a strange turn of events during a routine investigation of political contributions several large...

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No real ranting today!

NOT a ranting political blog (like you have been getting used to) - well - maybe a TINY bit on top!Got an email yesterday from the head suits in the building - With the overwhelming amount of people retiring by the end of next week we are finding that large conference rooms are very hard to come by for parties.   ------------------------------------- One of the reason the WIS 14 are in Illinois is so people get a chance to really see...

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Madison Metro unveils new streamline bus system

ALERT - EMAIL KESTREL RIDGE - tell them NO WALKER ON MY GOLF COURSE Walker is having a private dinner and is closed to Civilians (and Union people )Lori Marcks - General Manager/Events Director  lmarcks@kestrelridgegolf.com-------------------------------------------------------------Madison Metro shows off new ride plan!    With the recent cuts in the budget Madison Metro has had to switch some of the bus routes and cancel 50%...

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It's a Girl

Well - we new it was going to be a girl for months so the BIG surprise was if it was NOT a girl! Not much time to "talk" (or as some say whine) this morning as we off to the hospital (baby was at 4:15). -------------------------------------First off - FOX News - it's been proven MANY times that they not only slant the news but just make it up. Check this out from last night - they are showing the violent protested in Madison - odd - I had never seen the palm trees on the square.It's ALMOST like they are trying to make us believe something that...

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Lead burns red and makes you dead

That's the phrase of the day! "Lead burns red and makes you dead". I think I'm going to try to put this into common every day lingo - could be a catch phrase that sweeps the country! Sort of like "The Whiter the Bread the Sooner You're dead" hmmmm both end with dead! Anyway - there will be no labor strike for Jenny as Doctors are inducing labor tonight with Sydney (sp?) is due tomorrow. So tomorrow I MIGHT not have a blog - but of course the...

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