Big Brother wants to watch January 5th, 2009 What is up with state governments wanting to install GPS tracking units in vehicles so they can tax miles driven…. and also have the ability to track your every move! First there’s the left coast state of Oregon and now I see my own state of Wisconsin is proposing such an abomination to privacy and freedom. Fortunately, the Wisconsin tracking plan is just one proposal in a much larger, much more long term project planning activity. Unlike Oregon’s

View original post here:
Big Brother wants to watch

Brief Gaza Commentary January 2, 2009 One gets awfully tired of narratives.  The argument over the present conflict in Israel and Gaza is an Israeli defense against rocket attacks from Hamas.  The narrative is utterly ridiculous.  As was the case in Lebanon, Israeli’s action was premeditated.  That doesn’t make it right, wrong, or indifferent, but spontaneous defense it surely is not.  Such is not to say that spontaneity is a requirement of defense, but if we are going to be making evaluation

More here: Brief Gaza Commentary

Yesterday I introduced readers of this Weblog to Bob Peterson, a teacher from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, who organized a team of educators to develop the website: Social Studies Resources.  Bob Peterson is a veteran teacher, who with a group of Milwaukee-area teachers envisioned education in their own classroom being improved, and through their work help shape reform in the public schools of the USA.  Their group, beginning 19 years ago, started with real problems at the local level such as issues r

Continue here:
Rethinking Schools: Calling for a Paradigm Shift, Nearly 20 Years and Counting

For a while now, I have been considering dropping our cable TV service from Time Warner Cable. That possibility came a much closer this morning upon reading the AP story, “‘Colbert,’ ‘SpongeBob’ may go dark on Time Warner.” According to this report, Viacom and Time Warner Cable have not come to any agreement regarding Time Warner’s carriage of Viacom’s channels, such as MTV, VH1, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, CMT: Pure Country, Spike, TV Land, and others: The impasse would mean “SpongeBob” a

Read more:
Time Warner Cable to drop Viacom, including Comedy Central?

Waterloo, Wisconsin December 30th, 2008 Waterloo, Wisconsin Location of Waterloo, Jefferson County, Wisconsin Coordinates: 43°11?1?N 88°59?24?W? / ?43.18361, -88.99 Country United States State Wisconsin County Jefferson Area  - Total 3.9 sq mi (10.2 km2)  - Land 3.9 sq mi (10.1 km2)  - Water 0.0 sq mi (0.1 km2) Elevation 810 ft (247 m) Population (2000)  - Total 3,259  - Density 834.1/sq mi (322.0/km2) Time zone Central (CST) (UTC-6)  - Summer (DST) CDT (U

More:
Waterloo, Wisconsin

I can’t even begin to explain how much I LOVE high-speed internet!  My poor Mom lives in the country and because of a combination of the quality of the phone lines and the antiquated computer she was using, she could only get online at 26.4kbps.  For those not familiar with internet speeds, it basically means it’s faster to send a letter than to wait for your email to load. One good thing about living in the country seeing some things we don’t get to see in the city.  Like an Amish church and sc

Continue here: Holiday Recap

beastiebull: [quote author=Vega link=topic=57902.msg654505#msg654505 date=1230201205][quote author=beastiebull link=topic=57902.msg654491#msg654491 date=1230170927]You missed the point of my post by such a wide margin I won’t even bother to explain it to you. Even though it’s completely besides any point whatsoever I’ll humor you: go ahead and name me 5 basketball players from the states of Washington and Wisconsin combined and I’ll name you 5 better from Florida.Now run along and go back to bei

Continue here:
Re: Can someone explain why this is the "toughest coaching job in the country"

Right Around the Corner Fifty years ago, 12 convservatives came together in an Indianapolis living room to thwart the conspirators who sought to bring America down from within. For members of the society they formed, little has changed. By Nancy Comiskey Mary Black joined the John Birch Society in 1974. Fresh out of Marian College, she knew two things: She wanted to teach, and she wanted to protect America. The daughter of a JBS council member, Mary grew up with talk of plots to infiltr

Continue here: Right Around the Corner

Happy first day of winter…..it’s the shortest day of the year with the sun at it’s lowest angle of the year.  In northern Alaska, the sun set several weeks ago and won’t rise again for several weeks. In Seattle, several inches of snow with tons of snow in the mountains.. love the VW bus. For more on the NW storm from Seattle….click  here It is snowing in Boston this morning with 1-3″ for the city and 6-10 west and north of Boston. In football, the New England Patriots play at home this

Read the rest here:
Sunday mid-day 12/21

December 20, 2008 Dear Fellow Republican: For those of you that have not heard, it is with great sadness that I am writing to let you know that one of the founders and pillars of the conservative movement in America for over 40 years — Paul Weyrich — passed away this week. Paul has been a spectaular “doer” who has led from the front and educated so many of us along the way.  He has even gone to other countries, such as the Eastern Bloc after the fall of the Berlin wall, to introd

Read more from the original source:
Passing of a Conservative Giant