Posted on December 4 at 3:36 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Perhaps the remaining GM workers should give Phil Woodman a call and ask for some help in decertifying the UAW?
On Construction begins next week on fairgrounds cell tower
Posted on December 4 at 3:30 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Sorry buddy, I'd like to call 911 about that cell phone tower you're pinned under, but I'm not getting any bars on my cell phone. I'll just shut off your chain saw to save you gas and then drive around and look for a pay phone. Hang in there.
On Survey finds high rate of sex assault in UW System
Posted on December 4 at 3:25 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Her resume might mean she is highly qualified to conduct such research and her results are valid, or it might mean she has latched on to this subject to futher her career and obtain grant monies. I would definitely like to read the questions before deciding if she uncovered a major problem or if she is grubbing for money through slanted questions.
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Some of her questions might be worded incorrectly: "Have you stopped beating your wife?" (as an extreme example - either a yes or a no are bad answers, but if the a questionaire only has Yes/No checkboxes, it skews the results) or she might be tabulating positive responses to: "Has anyone ever said 'Nice butt!' to you?" and counting those as assault incidents. While that is an inappropriate comment and would definitely be verbal harrassment (setting aside very limited circumstances where personal comments of that nature might be consensually solicited and given), it is not a sexual assault.
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It would also be nice to know the context in which the surveys were taken. Were people contacted cold by researchers, from the general population of all students and employees, or did she conduct surveys of attendees after the end of a lecture or presentation on sexual assault or abuse?
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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - attributed to Benjamin Disraeli (former PM of Great Britain).
On Officer candidates undergo intense background checks
Posted on December 1 at 4:14 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
They don't say a troubled credit history disqualifies a candidate. It is just one of several factual records of a person which can be used to evaluate recruits.
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Personally, I think the quality of the recruiting procedure has suffered since they stopped asking candidates: "Are you now, or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?"
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:)
On Snow totals range from 6 to 10 inches
Posted on December 1 at 3:46 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I went to work an hour early today. My guess is the snowplow saw my car wasn't in the driveway and figured since they couldn't plow me in, there was no point in plowing anything.
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Note to the turkey in the white pickup who turned onto Milton Avenue from Mt. Zion just before 8:00 AM. Right Turn On Red does NOT mean wait until 2 lanes of Milton Avenue traffic get the green light and are coming at you before you gun your engine and let your underperfoming tires move you out into traffic where you lost traction in the slushy snow.
On None
Posted on December 1 at 3:12 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
The government IS going to go belly up. They can only borrow so much before the most naive lender will no longer accept our empty promise to pay back the loan. Then the government will have several unpleasant choices:
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1. live within their revenue means.
2. increase taxes and fees to continue spending more.
3. exchange real things for cash - mineral rights on Federal lands, the land itself, etc.
4. print more money (1923 German marks or Confederate dollars?).
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How many think Senator Porkbarrel or Congressman Freezercash will opt for choice #1?
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I think at some point the Feds will try to borrow from China and they will be told: "We don't want any more of your promissary notes, however, if you remove all troops from Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, PLUS give us one of your nuclear aircraft carriers and 3 nuclear subs, we can come to an accomodation."
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Obama would not only have to stop all the corporate bailouts, he would need to get us out of NAFTA and pass some REAL fair trade laws or impose some outright protectionist import tariffs. Other nations would complain, but it would make it financially practical to start producing more factory goods domestically.
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If he doesn't do something drastic, in the near future America is going to be in trouble defense-wise. When WWIII starts, I don't think the Pentagon is going to be able to get bids from Asian factories for tanks and jets, much less boots and berets.
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http://www.dodig.osd.mil/Audit/reports/f...
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/l...
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With U.S. automotive plants and suppliers closing and the Air Force awarding aircraft contracts to manufacturers relying on foreign subcontractors, we are increasingly unable to make our own defense supplies.
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http://www.irconnect.com/noc/press/pages...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EADS#Recent...
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If the military should want a lot of computers, what U.S. plant could they pick them up at? None. If the military should ask the Toyota plants to stop making cars and start making HMMWV's, suppose they refuse? How long would it take to get a closed GM plant tooled up and filled with trained workers to make tanks? What U.S. company could bid on such a job and get it done in less than 2 years? None.
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The only two things that, together, will save the U.S. are:
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1. A total housecleaning of our political parties, removing all the earmarking, pork-barreling legislators and party hacks at Federal, state, and local levels. November's vote showed that isn't going to happen anytime soon.
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2. Americans realizing credit is NOT the measure of your earning ability, it is the measure of how much debt others will let you get into.
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In the meantime, you will have auto execs who made ruinous contracts with the unions begging for government assistance and union leaders who asked for those contracts, begging the government not to allow them to file for bankruptcy.
On Holidays prompt call for more blood donors
Posted on November 29 at 6:44 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I was able to donate this time because I had to take Wednesday afternoon off from work
for other reasons, but it may be the last for a while as the Red Cross stopped taking
donations until 7:00PM Tuesdays on their Janesville drives, and discontinued opening the
Beloit office for Saturday donations.
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I contacted the Red Cross and was told the Nurse's union negotiated a 6:00PM quitting
time and no weekends as part of their most recent contract and I normally work until
6:00PM weekdays.
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If anyone reading this who otherwise can't donate before 6:00pm or on Saturdays, please
contact the Red Cross and let them know about their scheduling incompatibility.
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http://southcentralwisconsin.redcross.or......
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I suppose since they have paid employees working at the blood drives, they have to be
SOMEWHERE the week of Thanksgiving, but it seems like a poor week to be trying to get
people to take time out to donate blood.
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I hope the Red Cross can work some later weeknight or weekend hours into the next
contract, even if it means paying overtime. The last few years they've had nurses who
drove over from Iowa working the blood drives. Perhaps they could hire some local nurses
who wouldn't have so far to travel to work later hours.
Posted on November 29 at 6:32 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I wonder what kind of no-strings-attached "free" Federal assistance Doyle will ask for in exchange for his totally unrelated support of Obama's changes?
On UPDATE: Armed robbery in residential Janesville neighborhood
Posted on November 28 at 11:21 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
If that loser Doyle and his legislative cronies hadn't blocked the Concealed Carry Permit law, those scumbags might have been worried enough that the victims could be armed that they would have decided breaking into a closed gas station or restaurant would be safer than holding up people.
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What if the next time just kicking their victims while they are lying on the ground isn't enough to satisfy whatever sickness is in their heads?
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On Beware holiday e-mail scams
Posted on December 5 at 12:35 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
With the economy going in the dumpster, there are going to be a lot of people looking for ways to make extra money this year. If anyone asks you about a scheme to make money using their computer and the Internet, please talk them out of it. Be forceful if you must, stealing their keyboard, or bouncing old Amway or Shaklee packages from their garage shelves off their heads, but get the point across that the only people who will make money are the con artists that cash your friend's check or process their credit card payment for the "sure-fire, absolutely guaranteed" marketing scam.
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While you are at it, you might as well do a public service and tell them that, although they have extra time on their hands, they should not spend any of it forwarding "Send dying little Joey a postcard", "Earn a Disney vacation from Bill Gates", or "IRS/USPS will tax/ban e-mails" messages to their friends or family. They will not endear themselves with the wiser folk and they could encourage the simpler ones to reply in kind.