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WTF, who elects these people
House Speaker John Boehner does something so strange in response to serious question from reporter
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/26/1367145/-House-Speaker-John-Boehner-does-something-so-strange-in-response-to-serious-question-from-reporter?detail=facebook
Scott Walker: 'If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world'
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/jason-joyce/scott-walker-if-i-can-take-on-protesters-i-can/article_8729cd88-be09-11e4-8496-0772ef692596.html#ixzz3SuIrQ8tc
Fowler plz & thx
lovin it old skool
How friken cool is that. I use to throw a bunch of Alicia on the board, or maybe it was just Fallin' multiple times. Just added, watch old VHS with murrayhill, to the bucket list.
Diana King ft Bounty Killer - Summer Breezin'
trying think warm thoughts
great song Tree......part II
Love the story and Alicia ......Fallin'
But in case anyone is wondering what it was about.........
http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/17/entertainment/feat-stevie-wonder-tribute/
Hell no! we crashed the Hub last time.
Brendon Todd pls & thx
Songs in the Key of Life.....great tribute!
now there's a find....hop aboard the way back machine......thx
Patrick Reed for me....thx
"Since I Fell for You" Lenny Welch
Luther Ingram - If lovin you is wrong i don't wanna be right
Angela Strehli, Marcia Ball, Sarah Brown - I'm Ready
Don Covay & Angela Strehli - Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um
great song, RIP Mr. Covay
my guy goes 5 under on the last 5 get get to -1, LOL I had given up and stopped watching....after I stopped watching he goes eagle, birdie, birdie, par, birdie to make it to the weekend.
I wish he would have withdrawn after the birdie and not the dblbgy, from the looks of it he probably should not have teed it up.....I agree with you, take some time off!
on the 1st, good drive 1st cut, short sided himself on his approach but only about a 13ft chip and he chipped it about 30ft
wow, anybody see Tigers chip on the 1st hole, I think I only need 5 a side.
Come Together - Upright Bass Cover - Adam Ben Ezra
Scott Walker backtracks from striking 'truth,' 'human condition' from Wisconsin Idea
Not hard to win 3 elections when you have all the selfish rich old white dudes and a slew of clueless mouth breathers supporting you. Hope the asshats are happy now.
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-backtracks-from-striking-truth-human-condition-from-wisconsin/article_a4ca4220-7211-5fc8-b2b9-0ab5313c6937.html#ixzz3QpED9POV
Facing a massive backlash, Gov. Scott Walker retreated Wednesday from a proposal to wipe out the language at the foundation of the Wisconsin Idea.
"The Wisconsin Idea will continue to thrive. This was a drafting error. The final version of the budget will include the Wisconsin Idea," Walker's spokeswoman, Laurel Patrick, said in an email.
Walker had made the proposal in his 2015-17 budget plan introduced Tuesday.
University of Wisconsin System President Ray Cross issued a statement: “Thanks to the Governor for his commitment to the Wisconsin Idea.”
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It's survived more than a century. It's just one paragraph deep in state law but has proudly defined Wisconsin universities as anchored to the communities they serve statewide and has distinguished the University of Wisconsin System from competitors nationally.
It's called the Wisconsin Idea, and it may be no more as Gov. Scott Walker quietly proposed altering the cherished policy in his budget, striking key parts about outreach to the state, the pursuit of truth and the improvement of the human condition in favor of language that defines the campuses more narrowly as agents of workforce development.
Gone: "Inherent in this broad mission are methods of instruction, research, extended training and public service designed to educate people and improve the human condition."
Gone: "Basic to every purpose of the system is the search for truth."
Gone: "...to extend knowledge and its application beyond the boundaries of its campuses."
Walker would add language to the opening sentence specifying the universities' responsibility as economic engines, adding the line, "to meet the state's workforce needs" to a sentence about developing human resources.
He has also proposed a controversial $300 million cut to the System coupled with more autonomy for the universities. The change in wording to the Wisconsin Idea has no funding implications and does not suggest specific changes to programs or people at the 26 campuses of the UW System.
Walker's office didn't respond to requests for comment about proposed change. But reaction was swift and widespread.
UW-Madison chancellor Rebecca Blank, who as a candidate for the job spoke of her admiration for the Wisconsin Idea, said on Twitter: "The Wisconsin Idea is -- and always will be -- central to the mission of this university," she wrote.
"Wisconsin must not abandon this core principle and value," said Ray Cross, president of the University of Wisconsin System, in a statement. "We will work to preserve the Wisconsin Idea in every form."
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, said he doesn't support the change.
“If there’s going to be a rewrite of the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin, there must be a robust public discussion before any changes are made," he said in a statement.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said he was still evaluating the proposed changes and didn't offer a comment Wednesday.
111 years old
The Wisconsin Idea was developed by UW-Madison president Charles Van Hise in 1904 and is oft-cited by higher education leaders nationally as a model.
"The Wisconsin Idea was very much a part of every conversation we had with candidates," said David McDonald, a longtime history professor who led the chancellor search that resulted in Blank's hiring. "It's absolutely fundamental to our identity."
It involves the concept that university resources, teaching programs and discoveries should be relevant and beneficial to every resident of the state. It's been the intended model for university activities for more than 100 years but its manner of expression has changed with the times.
Since 1985, UW-Madison has sponsored an annual Wisconsin Idea seminar, a weeklong bus tour of the state for new employees, recently tenured faculty and other staffers. The university arranges stops at farms, factories, prisons and other institutions to meet state residents and be reminded of the university's outreach mission.
McDonald said he learned of the change on Wednesday morning with no prior knowledge it was coming.
"You’d think that changing a cornerstone document about our mission would merit a bit of debate before a unilateral amendment," he said.
Walker, a likely presidential candidate, has angered university officials and teachers of late not just with proposed budget cuts, the largest two-year hit in the statewide System's history, but also with comments suggesting professors don't work hard enough. The criticism of universities could help him in Iowa, a key early state in the 2016 presidential contest, according to a Wednesday story in the Wall Street Journal.
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-backtracks-from-striking-truth-human-condition-from-wisconsin/article_a4ca4220-7211-5fc8-b2b9-0ab5313c6937.html#ixzz3QpDPBlpn
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-strikes-truth-human-condition-from-wisconsin-idea/article_a4ca4220-7211-5fc8-b2b9-0ab5313c6937.html
Bingo Peg. How many more people can he piss off and does it even matter if he has the Koch brothers money backing him?
UW-Madison will tap alumni, parents to lobby against Scott Walker budget cuts
UW-Madison will tap influential alumni and the parents of students in a campaign to convince state legislators that Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed $300 million budget cut to the University of Wisconsin System is too much to bear.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank outlined a strategy Monday at a meeting of the university's Faculty Senate, where members unanimously adopted a resolution opposing the proposed cut to the UW System in the state biennial budget.
Faculty Senate leaders said they were not yet certain what would be done with the resolution stating faculty’s strong opposition to Walker’s proposed cut.
Walker has called his plan to pair steep budget cuts with a reorganization that would give the UW System more autonomy “like an Act 10 for the UW.”
The proposed cuts to UW have drawn concern from UW administrators and opposition from faculty and students, but there are no signs yet that it will unleash opposition on the level Walker’s signature Act 10 “Budget Repair Bill” did in 2011. Opposition to that law, which removed most collective bargaining rights for public employees, brought tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol for demonstrations that lasted weeks.
UW-Madison’s likely share in the first year of cuts in state funding that Walker will unveil Tuesday is $60 million. But that must be added to $23 million in previous state funding cuts that have been temporarily covered by drawing from UW-Madison’s reserves, Blank says.
That means the campus would need to cut spending by $83 million for the year starting July 1, she said.
“We cannot do that in one year,” Blank told members of the Faculty Senate.
She reiterated to faculty her caution that if the ultimate budget cut is as deep as Walker is proposing, layoffs across campus are likely. Blank said she is working to ensure that operational and research functions absorb some cuts, and not only educational activities that receive state funding are affected.
Blank said she is already talking with key legislators and is slated to meet next week with dozens of people at the Capitol over two days.
“Our argument is that these cuts are too large – to the state, given the role the university plays – and too large for this university and system to absorb,” she said.
“We will be working to involve our alumni across the state in this conversation and – we’ve never done this before – we’re going to be sending letters to try to involve parents,” Blank said.
“We’ll also be looking for people who have good connections to various legislators, who may have been donors involved in their campaigns and who are alumni from us,” she added.
Blank said she also would like to get management experts from the private sector to explain how difficult the proposed organizational restructuring would be to accomplish while responding to a budget cut of the magnitude proposed.
Blank said that although it cannot be accomplished in time to render savings to ease the anticipated budget cuts, she does think there are advantages to reorganizing the university system as a public authority.
“We’ll have to see what the details are in the state budget on what it means on ongoing budget commitments from the state to the university," she said. "There’s a lot we don’t know and the details will matters.”
Blank was careful to clarify one aspect of the proposed changes.
“I know that the governor has discussed this as a deal between flexibility and budget cuts. Let me be very clear about what I think the choice was,” she said. “The choice was, do you want $300 million in budget cuts and think about a public authority and some flexibility? Or do you want $300 million in budget cuts? There was not an option on the table that I ever heard discussed."
The jokes and ripples of derisive laughter when the subject came up suggested faculty members were insulted by Walker’s remarks that loosening shared governance – which would be removed from state statute and placed under the control of the Board of Regents – would allow university officials to require them to each teach an additional class each semester to make up for the budget cut.
Jim Doing, a professor in the School of Music, pointed out he doesn't hate Walker.
“But before they vote on this huge cut, legislators should provide the public with their own workload hours – announce where their hours are going, especially Walker now that he’s running for president," he said.
Chemistry professor Judith Burstyn quipped: “I was thinking I should run for president while collecting my professor’s salary.”
Food science professor Mark Etzel said Walker’s remarks show a lack of understanding about how the university functions.
“It’s like saying that if a doctor sees ten more patients a day, health care costs will do down,” Etzel said.
Blank says she’s not going to suggest faculty work harder.
“Our faculty are working more than full time, their responsibilities outside the classroom are substantial, the research work they do is vitally important to this state and brings in huge amounts of money," she said.
Faculty Senate members voted unanimously without discussion to adopt the resolution stating their opposition to Walker’s proposed cuts.
The resolution — the wording of which Faculty Senate members tweaked for clarity, emphasis, and to express solidarity with other UW System campuses — concludes with an expression of: “our strong opposition to the proposed $300 million cut to the UW System budget and our deep concern that such a cut will unnecessarily impair our university and our state.”
The leadership of the Faculty Senate has not yet decided whether to send the resolution to legislators or the governor, said Jo Ellen Fair, chair of the University Committee.
“We discussed that today but didn’t come to any decisions, in part because we are working with other shared governance groups and want to wait for them to decide what they want to do,” Fair said after the Faculty Senate meeting.
Fair said the executive committee would not be involved in organizing protests or other actions against the proposed budget cuts.
“It’s not something we would endorse or condone. Individual faculty members can decide how they want to let legislators or the governor know what they think about the budget,” Fair said.
Political demonstrations would not be part of the University Committee’s mission, she said.
“The University Committee’s purpose is to make sure the educational mandate of the university is carried out – that’s not the same purpose,” Fair said.
University Committee member Grant Petty said that faculty “are extremely worried” about the budget.
“It’s clear that if it goes through as proposed, it’s going to have an enormous impact on this campus and on the UW System," he said.
“We will get through this,” Blank assured faculty members Monday. The debate may prove distressing as details of Walker’s plan unfold, she said. But the issue won’t be settled until the Legislature adopts a budget in May or June. ”We are in months of conversation; don’t get too upset by any one statement. We’re in this for the long-run.”
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/pat_schneider/uw-madison-will-tap-alumni-parents-to-lobby-against-scott/article_99c38df2-01d9-5951-aca1-1dda1da9ab74.html#ixzz3Qiey7Mc0
hoping you are right, I am seeing signs coming from friends that I thought were beyond hope. Saw this from a conservative friend the other day. Mr Idiot! Let's promote his run for president so we can get him the hell out of Wisconsin!
I agree with him except heaven forbid he should win, then we would all be doomed.
PS...If you want a preview of the Walker campaign for prez, watch The Dead Zone with Christopher Walkin...good Steven King story..his campaign starts about mid movie. j/k but can't help but think of Walker when I think about this movie.
Jamie Donaldson....thx
I admire you hookrider, you have kept your sanity even when surrounded by all the crazies. I have lost good friends to the south, friends that have moved to Fla. Az. Tx., left Wi progressives and got sucked up by the whackjobs......Those that stayed here got blindsided. we didn't even see it coming it happened so fast. doomed I say, we are all doomed.
Scott Walker, the Sarah Palin of 2016
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/02/1361779/-Scott-Walker-the-Sarah-Palin-of-2016
Now that Republican Gov. Scott Walker has appropriately cratered the Wisconsin budget for no good reason other than having some rich fellows tell him he should do that, he's got his sights set on doing the same for the rest of our glorious nation. This means he has suddenly realized he has to give a damn about foreign policy. Let's see how that's working out, and by "let's see" I mean prepare yourself for a chain of meaningless cliches so vapid the network had to duct-tape Walker to the chair to keep him from floating away.
[Scott Walker]: “Aggressively, we need to take the fight to ISIS and any other radical Islamic terrorists around the world… I think we need to have an aggressive strategy anywhere around the world.”
[ABC News host Martha Raddatz]: “But what does that mean? I don’t know what ‘aggressive strategy’ means.”
Walker: “Ultimately, we have to be prepared to put boots on the ground, if that’s what it takes.”
Raddatz: “U.S. boots on the ground in Syria?”
Walker: “Well, I don’t think that’s an immediate plan.”
Take the fight to ISIS! Be aggressive! Boots on the ground! But not if you ask me what that means! Yeah, that's positively Palinesque. And Scott Walker can see Minnesota from his house.
Walker is in a bit of a tight spot here, because he has exactly zero foreign policy expertise or experience or even past professed interest; his most striking military victories have titles like the Battle of Singing Protesters vs. The Statehouse Lawn. There is little indication he could find Syria on a map, and his proposal of "boots on the ground" seems suspiciously like a phrase he read off a placemat.
Again, I know a great many people consider Walker a formidable force in the primaries—"I wouldn’t bet against me," he says—but I have serious doubts that the man's glaring vapidity will wear well on a national stage. If this is all an elaborate Republican plot to make Rick Perry look like an intellectual, however, it's proceeding nicely.
not true, I'm a sports fan, I never root against a team and if I don't have a fave team I root for OT
too late for us, save yourselves!
I'm sure that the AGONY was similar to what I felt when the Packers imploded.
Watching Scotty Blow, Cont'd
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Scott_Walker_And_The_Wisconsin_Idea?src=soc_fcbks
This is getting to be a regular feature, it seems, but every day brings a new gem from Scott Walker, the winner of the Wingnuttomania in Iowa last weekend, and the goggle-eyed homunculus hired by Koch Industries to manage their midwest subsidiary formerly known as the state of Wisconsin. Recently, we mentioned Walker's new plan to "reorganize" the University of Wisconsin. In exchange for $300 million in cuts, the system will have "greater autonomy" since it will be run by Walker's pet Board of Regents rather than the state itself. There was some quite understandable backlash from people whose definition of "autonomy" differs from Walker's. So, naturally, Walker took to his favorite talk-show, the one hosted by Charlie Sykes in Milwaukee, to retort:
"Maybe it's time for faculty and staff to start thinking about teaching more classes and doing more work and this authority frees up the [University of Wisconsin] administration to make those sorts of requests," Walker told Right Wisconsin editor-in-chief Charlie Sykes. Later that day, he told reporters in Madison that "in the future, by not having the limitation of things like shared governance, they might be able to make savings just by asking faculty and staff to consider teaching one more class a semester."
Or they could go to work for Walker and end up in jail, I suppose.
The lip-curling contempt for academia from a guy who's still pursuing a degree I got with relative ease -- and, it must be said, extensive research at places like the dearly departed Avalanche Bar -- is bad enough. But it's worse when you consider that, by attempting to separate the University of Wisconsin from the state government, and by attempting to treat it like another regulatory body he can stuff full of pliable gunsels, Walker is destroying one of the greatest experiments of the 20th century -- the Wisconsin Idea. It was the philosophy that John Bascom brought to the university in 1874, when he famously observed that "the boundaries of the university are the boundaries of the state." To make this work, Bascom proposed two basic requirements: 1) that the work of the university should benefit all the citizens of the state through their government, and 2) that, to that end, the people through the government would finance the university adequately to carry out its mission. In 1902, a subsequent president of UW, Charles Van Hise, working with then-governor Robert LaFollette, formalized the arrangement. This is what Scott Walker is seeking to starve and then to destroy -- the last vestige of the old Wisconsin that gave the nation so much. But he knows how to give a speech now, so none of that matters.
It'll be fun watching him implode!!!
why would they scout it out. nobody would ever call that play....lol
Plain Talk: Scott Walker, master of 'truthiness'
Back in 2005, television satirist Stephen Colbert, longtime host of the "The Colbert Report" who this year will replace David Letterman on NBC, created the quirky word "truthiness."
Truthiness, according to Wikipedia, characterizes a "truth" that a person making an argument or assertion claims to know intuitively "from the gut" or simply because it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination or facts. It especially applies to politicians running for office, of course.
Truthiness was one of the first words that popped into my head while watching clips of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's performance at the so-called Iowa Freedom Summit, hosted last weekend by the Hawkeye State's tea party favorite, Rep. Steve King. (King's the guy who famously said of student immigrants that "for every one who is a valedictorian, there's another hundred out there, they weigh 130 pounds and with calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.")
Walker dazzled King and the Iowa Republicans in the audience with tales of how protesters threatened his and his family's lives during the uprising over the union-crushing Act 10 in 2011. He told of how his wife chided him for paying too much for a sweater at Kohl's department store when he should have waited for a sale and money-saving coupons.
While ignoring the $2.2 billion deficit in the next state budget, he told how he has single-handedly turned Wisconsin's economy around, created jobs and cut taxes through good old-fashioned sound management and going "big and bold."
The highly partisan audience, of course, soaked it up, believing every word. Judging from some of the gushy stories I read, so did a lot of the national reporters on hand for the Iowa show, which featured a flock of potential candidates for the Republican presidential nomination.
But they don't know, as we do here in Wisconsin, just how loose our governor is with the facts. He gained a reputation during his first term in the governor's chair for consistently flunking Politifact tests when his stories and claims were checked for accuracy. One group offered a $500 reward to find the people who allegedly made death threats, but no one has ever come forth. The CEO of the train manufacturer Talgo said the governor does not keep his word, essentially calling him a liar, while former Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold was more diplomatic, saying, "He has a very bad relationship with the truth."
Walker's a student, though, of that long-held axiom that if you tell a big lie and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
That's exemplified by his constant repetition that he inherited a broken budget, balanced it and put the state on sound footing. He, of course, did nothing of the sort. Under his leadership over the last four years, Wisconsin's recovery lags the nation's, and the state now faces about as big a budget deficit as it did when he took office.
Now that's truthiness.
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/opinion/column/dave_zweifel/plain-talk-scott-walker-master-of-truthiness/article_61dd09d3-5177-5245-ba3e-8e522ed70e41.html#ixzz3QVaPki8Q
two perfect examples of how horrible it can get with these bought and paid for POS puppets.
wish I could afford to buy some politicians, not cheap but one of the better investments out there.
great vid!
SP good to see you, nice of you to drop by my friend . For those of you that don't know spcalk, this is OD's brother, and I can assure you, the great guy gene is plentiful in the family