January 19, 2018

Mumford and Sons perform on tv today for Ellen Degeneres bday.

http://www.justjared.com/2018/01/19/mumford-sons-perform-i-will-wait-for-the-first-time-on-daytime-tv-as-a-birthday-gift-to-ellen-degeneres-watch/

January 19, 2018

Wisconsin Rapids woman wins Wheel of Fortune last night!!!

Congratulations Alex!

I worked with her mom at Renaissance Learning in WI Rapids. Beautiful family!

http://www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com/story/entertainment/2018/01/18/wheel-fortune-experience-magical-wisconsin-rapids-woman/1042229001/

January 18, 2018

Chris Kennedy for (sadly) the win.

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He might know a thing or two about gun crime.
Chris Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy, is running for the Democratic nomination for Illinois governor this year. Rep. Jeanne Ives is primarying current Governor Bruce Rauner from the right. And at a candidate forum Monday night, offered her prescription for the problem of guns in Illinois:

The problem is the gun violence in this city of Chicago, predominantly. And you know how you’re going to solve it? Fathers in the home.

The audience booed, and Ives repeated, confidently, “Fathers in the home.”

When it was Kennedy’s turn to speak, his reply was short and simple: “Well, I wish I could agree with you. I didn’t have a father in my life. Somebody shot him,” Kennedy said. And then he got up and left the forum, getting a standing ovation. He hadn’t yet reached the age of five when his father was assassinated the night he won the California presidential primary in 1968.

Hell of a way to mark Martin Luther King Day, Rep. Ives. If only he’d had a father to prevent gun violence, too, huh?

As he left the forum, Kennedy said,

You know, some stuff hits a raw nerve and, um, I think that should be a debate about great ideas, a clash, and not one of emotions […]

But when I hear such ignorance and stupidity aired out by someone who knows so little about so much, I don’t think there’s an appropriate place for them to be on a podium on a dais with other people who have given these issues thought and have the emotional capacity to be empathetic at the same time.

Kennedy later told the Chicago NBC affiliate,

I lost my father to someone with a gun. For someone to say simply the solution is to have a father-in-law – I don’t know. How shall I react? What should my family have done?

Clearly, his lack of a strong male role model left him unable to deal with simple facts about guns and character from an upstanding moral scold Republican lady.

Ives scored something of a threefer, since Kennedy’s running mate, Ra Joy, had a son murdered with a gun during a mugging, and one of the other Democratic candidates, J.B. Pritzker, also lost his father when he was seven years old, to a heart attack. He stayed at the debate, but told the Chicago Tribune,

I don’t know what was going through Chris’s head other than I can only imagine the grief that he feels when he thinks of his father’s death.

Ives campaign spokesperson Kathleen Murphy later told NBC Chicago that Rep. Ives hadn’t meant to offend Kennedy. Honestly, we understand: It’s the sort of little slip that’s just bound to happen when you’re around a guy whose father and uncle were both assassinated by gunmen. You might not mean to tread on sensitive territory, but before you know it you’re just inadvertently mentioning leaving through the kitchen, or chatting casually about the magic bullet theory. These things happen.

But just to live up to Kennedy’s point about Ives, Murphy couldn’t resist the urge to keep digging, and

reiterated the importance of fathers in domestic life, citing “similar statements” like President Barack Obama’s 2008 Father’s Day speech at the Apostolic Church of God on Chicago’s South Side. In his speech, the then-candidate said, “too many fathers also are missing — missing from too many lives and too many homes.”

“Those are President Obama’s words, and that was what she was echoing today,” Murphy said. “She certainly meant no offense to Mr. Kennedy.”

So shut up, you’re not going to turn on your big Democrat hero, The One, are you, huh? We suppose we could point out that while Barack Obama has in fact been roundly criticized for his Cosbyesque pull-your-pants-up-and-be-responsible rhetoric, notably by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Obama never once suggested that missing fathers caused gun violence. He seemed to think that has more to do with guns being insanely easy for people to get their hands on.

Rep. Ives also did her part to make the whole thing worse, telling the Chicago Tribune that she thinks the lack of fathers is one of the main causes of crime, and then veering straight into the personal again:

She went so far as to speculate that the son of Kennedy running mate Ra Joy, who was killed near the University of Chicago in June, was killed by someone who lacked a father’s influence.

“I’m sure Ra Joy, whoever the perpetrator was against his son, I’m imagining that person also did not have a father figure in the home,” Ives said.

She seems nice. Wait, we meant pathologically clueless. As for her little faux pas in suggesting fatherless homes resulted in criminals, Ives explained,

he’s obviously very sensitive about (his father’s death) and I can understand why. It’s horrible. I’ll be honest with you, it didn’t even, I didn’t connect the two because the two aren’t connected.

Yes, she is saying that Kennedy is white. She doesn’t have a setting for “subtle.”

Kennedy said the shitshow of the Republican 2016 primary debates had been part of what motivated him to leave the stage:

“the Republican Party allowed Donald Trump to say racist and simplistic things.” Kennedy argued that Republicans should have vacated the stage in protest like he did when he heard “simplistic solutions to tragic problems.”

Sounds good to us. Maybe this will catch on, and the next time Sarah Huckabee Sanders starts lying, the White House press room will just silently file out.

We can dream, can’t we?

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January 17, 2018

Appreciation thread: Happy Birthday, Michelle Obama!

Please post your favorite pic of her as I'm unable to.....

Happy Birthday, Michelle! Miss you so much!

January 16, 2018

Subject: Dog Bites 24 People

"YES, HE BIT 24 PEOPLE, BUT...
IN RESPONSE TO ALL THE RECENT E-MAILS ABOUT MY DOG:
I AM SICK AND TIRED OF ANSWERING QUESTIONS ABOUT HIM.
YES, HE BIT 6 PEOPLE WEARING TRUMP T-SHIRTS...
4 PEOPLE WEARING PENCE T-SHIRTS...
2 CAR DRIVERS WITH STEVE BANNON BUMPER STICKERS...
9 TEENAGERS WITH KKK TATS, AND
SO FOR THE LAST TIME...

THE DOG IS NOT FOR SALE!
AND NO, I DO NOT APPROVE OF HIS SMOKING, BUT HE SAYS IT HELPS GET THE "BAD TASTE" OUT OF HIS MOUTH."


This is from Facebook and I can't get the photo to upload. If anyone else can, please do, it's hilarious!

January 16, 2018

With the Olympics approaching

I'm wondering what types of "protests" we can expect from our athletes on the podium? Taking a knee would be fine with me.....

Thoughts?

January 15, 2018

One of the craziest things I've seen....

My area has received at least 6 inches of snow overnight, and it's still falling!

Just saw a guy walking his dog in SHORTS! And no, the dog wasn't the one in shorts!

Welcome to Wisconsin!

January 13, 2018

This sums it up...

Good People Don’t Defend A Bad Man
JANUARY 12, 2018 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ


At times in this life it can be a challenge to figure out who the bad people are, but sometimes they help you.

Sometimes they do the work for you.

Sometimes with their every vulgar, bitter word from their mouth, they testify to their personal malignancy and they make it easy to identify them.

Generally speaking, there are things that good people do and things good people don’t do.

Good people don’t refer to entire countries as “shitholes”—most notably countries that have given birth to our very humanity; ones that for hundreds of years have been colonized and poached and mined of their riches by powerful white men; countries whose people have been enslaved and sold and forced to come and build your country.

Good people by any measurement we might use—simply don’t say such things.

Of course good people also don’t say they could grab women by the genitalia, either.
They don’t defend racists and nazis and call them “fine people,” days after murdering a young girl and terrorizing an American city.
They don’t brag about their penis size during debates, or suggest protestors at campaign rallies should be roughed up, or crack jokes about captured war heroes, or make fun of the physically disabled.
They don’t.


Good people don’t tweet anti-Muslim rhetoric in the moments immediately following a bombing in order to bolster a position.
They don’t leave American territories filled with brown skinned people without power for months upon months, after publicly ridiculing their public servants and questioning their people’s resolve.
They don’t erase protections for the water and the air, for the elderly, the terminally ill, the LGBTQ.
They don’t take away healthcare from the sick and the poor without an alternative.
They don’t gouge the working poor and shelter the wealthy.
They don’t abuse their unrivaled platform to Twitter-bait world leaders and to taunt private citizens.
Good people don’t prey upon the vulnerable, they don’t leverage their power to bully dissenters, and they don’t campaign for sexual predators.

But this President is simply not a good human being, and there’s simply no way around this truth.

He is the ugliest personification of the Ugly American, which is why, as long as he is here and as long as he represents this nation, we will be a fractured mess and a global embarrassment. He will be the ever lowering bar of our legacy in the world.

And what is painfully obvious in these moments, isn’t simply that the person alleging to lead this country is a terrible human being—it is that anyone left still defending him, applauding him, justifying him, amening him, probably is too.


At this point, the only reason left to support this President, is that he reflects your hateful heart;he shares your contempt of people of color, your hostility toward outsiders, your ignorant bigotry, your feeling of supremacy.

A white President calling countries filled with people of color shitholes, is so far beyond the pale, so beneath decency, and so blatantly racist that it shouldn’t merit conversation. It should be universally condemned. Humanity should be in agreement in abhorring it.

And yet today (like so many other seemingly rock bottom days in the past twelve months) they will be out there: white people claiming to be good people and Christian people, who will make excuses for him or debate his motives or diminish the damage.

They will dig their heels in to explain away or to defend, what at the end of the day is simply a bad human being saying the things that bad human beings say because their hearts harbor very bad things.

No, good people don’t call countries filled with beautiful, creative, loving men and women shitholes.

And good people don’t defend people who do.

You’re going to have to make a choice here.



*disclaimer given: this is from Facebook*

January 5, 2018

What's the word again (warning, chuckle alert)

for someone who takes all the credit and none of the blame? It's on the tip of my trump......

December 28, 2017

NFL cancels Sunday Night Football

The orange thing will take credit for the low ratings no doubt.....



http://money.cnn.com/2017/12/26/media/nfl-sunday-night-football/index.html