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Saturday June 02, 2012 · 2:30 PM PDT

2012/06/02 · 14:30

Puddytat
Giles Goat Boy
noise of rain
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AnnieJo
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Quicklund
Mark E Anderson
Jud Lounsbury
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and others I have surely missed...

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Thursday May 10, 2012 · 9:01 PM PDT

2012/05/10 · 21:01

Tonight a video was released that was made Jan 18th, 2011, in which Scott Walker, speaking to Beloit billionaire Diane Hendricks, who has since given $510,000 to the governor's campaign, explains that on his way to making Wisconsin a "red" state, he will use "divide and conquer" tactics, by first breaking up the public unions:

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Sunday July 03, 2011 · 9:51 PM PDT

2011/07/03 · 21:51

Plenty of people have called Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin a tool. A tool of the elite, a tool of the Koch brothers, or just a plain tool. Google it and you'll get thousands of hits.

Maybe that's what gave him the idea - hearing that word so often - he decided to make it the centerpiece of his efforts to recuperate the dreadful shame that is his budget. Around March of this year, in speech after speech, and continuing to this day, he refers the "tools" he has given schools to ensure that, despite operating with $900 million less in state aid over the next two years, there will be no change to the quality of education. (See DPI Summary (pdf) and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Article)

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Wednesday June 15, 2011 · 2:12 PM PDT

2011/06/15 · 14:12

One day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ordered the reinstatement of collective-bargaining legislation that potentially affects thousands of public-sector employees, a coalition of unions filed suit in federal court seeking to block it.
... SNIP ....

The suit, filed in the Western District of Wisconsin, says the legislation violates the 1st and 14th amendments "by stripping away basic rights to bargain, organize and associate for the purpose of engaging in union activity, which have been in place for the last half century."

The case was assigned to Federal Judge William M. Conley. Conley is an appointee of President Barack Obama.

The unions are asking the federal court to prevent the Walker administration from implementing the legislaton, either on a temporary or permanent basis. And they are asking the court to find the legislation unconstitutional.

Journal Sentinel article: http://www.jsonline.com/...

Text of the suit: http://www.thewheelerreport.com/...

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Monday March 28, 2011 · 1:20 PM PDT

2011/03/28 · 13:20

One way to get around those pesky lawsuits is to pretend they don't exist.

The question all weekend was whether or not publication of Wisconsin's Budget Repair Bill by Legislative Research Bureau instead of the Secretary of State counted as making it law. The consensus was generally no.

Except for Walker and his gang. They are now implementing the law - taking union dues out of payroll collection and charging more for healthcare and retirement.

State stops collecting union dues, starts charging more for health care

Gov. Scott Walker's administration is no longer collecting dues on behalf of state unions and as of Sunday began charging employees more for health care and their pensions, even though nonpartisan legislative attorneys say the changes are not yet law.
Administration Secretary Mike Huebsch said Monday administration attorneys have determined the law is now in effect. State workers will receive paychecks April 21 that reflect the changes, he said in a conference call with reporters.

What do they say about doing things now, asking permission later?

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Saturday February 26, 2011 · 8:30 AM PST

2011/02/26 · 08:30

It's really hard for me to concentrate on anything besides Wisconsin right now. I wish those pesky issues like what's happening with the National Budget could just be put on hold. But reality intrudes.

This morning the NYT ran a good editorial summarizing some of the effects of the budget bill on women.

It's opening paragraph:

Republicans in the House of Representatives are mounting an assault on women’s health and freedom that would deny millions of women access to affordable contraception and life-saving cancer screenings and cut nutritional support for millions of newborn babies in struggling families. And this is just the beginning.

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WI-Sen: Stem Cell Research? Really, Ron?

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Thursday October 21, 2010 · 8:57 AM PDT

2010/10/21 · 08:57

Note: the diary has been edited to reflect that this exchange occurred not at a debate, but at asynchronous camaign appearances at UW-Milwaukee. My bad!

Senator Russ Feingold went on the attack yesterday at an appearance at UW-Milwaukee, pointing out that Ron Johnson has been skirting giving any details to the voters this entire campaign:

"This guy's going to try to become your senator in 12 days without ever telling you where he'd cut spending," Feingold said.

Feingold was referring to comments Johnson made last month to reporters at the Milwaukee Press Club. Johnson had said he didn't plan to identify federal programs he would cut because doing so would expose him to attacks.

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Tuesday July 01, 2008 · 7:53 AM PDT

2008/07/01 · 07:53

Last summer, the American Cancer Society ran an ad that many dermatologists found unnecessarily inflammatory and misleading. It's gist: skin cancer kills, wear sunscreen. The ad raised eyebrows for overstating the mortality risk of skin cancer, but it also received criticism for exaggerating the protective powers of sunscreen:

“It’s just not that simple,” said Dr. Barry Kramer, associate director for disease prevention at the National Institutes of Health.

“We do have some pretty good evidence that sunscreen will reduce your risk of the less lethal forms of skin cancer,” Dr. Kramer added. “There’s very little evidence that sunscreens protect you against melanoma, yet you often hear that as the dominant message.”

The chief financier of the ad: Neutrogena

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Yes

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2 votes

Sort of, maybe

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I don't need no stinkin' sunscreen

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Surrogacy: It Gave Me Mother's Day

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Saturday May 10, 2008 · 6:48 PM PDT

2008/05/10 · 18:48

With the new movie Baby Mama out and Newsweek's recent article "The Curious Lives of Surrogates", the cultural gaze is on surrogacy in a semi-positive or at least ambivalent way. In my experience, most people who know anything about surrogacy have read news stories about custody disputes, usually in poorly thought out situations where haste was the operating principle. So it's kind of strange to see surrogacy pulled out of Geraldo world and plastered respectably on the cover of Newsweek.

When my husband and I made the decision to pursue surrogacy three years ago, neither of us knew anyone, in real life, who had had children via surrogacy, or had been born that way. There are several wonderful online communities where we got most of our information.

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Thursday February 28, 2008 · 6:56 PM PST

2008/02/28 · 18:56

My husband and I have been debating the significance of Barack Obama's million donor success. I am really hoping to convince him to vote for Obama in the fall, as he did for our primary. But he is suspicious of the significance of the "individual donor" aspect of this feat. His argument is that, like any campaign in our present system, Obama likely has lots of corporate support via collections of individual donors. So I went to Wikipedia to read up on campaign finance in the United States.

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Saturday February 16, 2008 · 1:25 PM PST

2008/02/16 · 13:25

I wish this were a report from the field, but as the morning turned out, it is merely a report from the neighborhood... The neighborhood in Eau Claire, WI where Senator Obama appeared this afternoon at 1 p.m. to speak to an enthusiastic crowd of 3,500. Sounds like a small number? Well, it's not. Follow me over the fold...

(Thank you accupajo for the link to the speech: WQOW-TV **Click on the red projector above Obama's head to watch**)

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Wednesday September 19, 2007 · 9:26 PM PDT

2007/09/19 · 21:26

You know that virtual fence that they are beginning to build on the borders of the U.S? I'd almost forgot about it as if it were a bad dream, but it turns out the first segment of it was scheduled to be operable three months ago and -- guess what? -- it doesn't work. A glitch, they report.

Sure, being new technology one might expect delays in the start up portion of the project, but a few things have me puzzled:

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