On Court: Calif. gay marriage ban is unconstitutional

Posted on February 7 at 9:33 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Hammerornail, The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights. The amendment prohibits the making of any law respecting an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.

So if marriage is a religious event, then you just invalidated your law.

Besides, I'd rather two loving people raise a child, live a long life, and die together without the persecution of the government or some religious sect that doesn't agree. Land of the free, home of the brave.

You can leave if you don't agree.

On SHINE TIF expansion, annexation proposal gets commission OK

Posted on February 7 at 9:25 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Who would oppose adding 150-250 decent paying jobs to Janesville supplying a product available (using these safer manufacturing processes) nowhere else in the world?

Break ground, pass the laws, expand the tif, and let's get this company hiring!

On Obama’s assault on the poor

Posted on February 7 at 9:21 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

"and then lack the distinctive human touch provided by religious groups."

ಠ_ಠ

On School board hires chief information officer

Posted on February 4 at 1:34 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

That's not hard to do, Oreally. You just have to be sure that you have qualified staff with the proper financial support to make it happen. Content filtering is easily done at the firewall, distribution network, and desktop. There will always be those kids who are willing to work hard to get around it - so you have to have policies in place to provide teachers and administrators tools to reinforce the rules for infractions such as these. A good CIO lays down the plans for these types of multi-faceted projects and brings in the people (not only his staff, but administration and board members) to make sure the project is successful and meets everyone's expectations.

What I've learned is that you can't expect technology to do it all for you, 100% of the time. Blocking facebook is easy - blocking proxy sites that anyone can setup on their home PC to get to facebook is hard.

On No one injured in Friday propane explosion

Posted on February 4 at 1:22 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

I got the alert on my phone 45 minutes after it all went down - the first thing I could think of was how many were killed. I was so relieved when I heard everyone was ok.

I would have to say it was smart to keep the building with the propane transfer equipment far away from the rest of the compound.

On It's a long trip to Brazil for giant generators built in Darien

Posted on February 4 at 1:15 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Midwest still builds good stuff! Way to go Cat and Precision Power!

On School board hires chief information officer

Posted on February 4 at 9:38 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

You don't get quality applicants for a job by low balling their salary. It's finally starting to show that the Janesville school district takes technology seriously. The last decade has been a joke of failed policies, public system meltdowns, and poor leadership. Congratulations to the IT department for getting, what appears, to be, a good captain to steer your ship.

On Three seats could be open on BTC board

Posted on February 3 at 9:58 a.m. ( Suggest removal )

Educate yourself, OfficerFriendly:

http://www.blackhawk.edu/CollegeGovernan...

On Telemarketing top consumer complaint in Wisconsin

Posted on February 1 at 10:16 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

phone calls are a lot like email now that most of it is routed through the same network - the calls can originate from anywhere and hit the local phone system for that "last mile" analog call that makes your phone ring. Just like email spam, you shut one down - ten more pop up. It only takes 0.0001% of the calls to produce enough money to make a profit.

On Cullen won't run for governor

Posted on February 1 at 3:41 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Fedup, et al; Feingold is hardly retired. He's dedicated his time now to the force that actually means anything in politics now - money. The Progressives United PAC is the answer to many of the conservative PACs out there... and sadly is the only way to maintain balance in politics - generate more money.

Such a sad way of governance we have now.