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my thoughts exactly, and so transparent.
ROTF...you didn't really type this, please say it ain't so.....now I really am worried about you....
Even in TN where my son delivers for the Hut they pay a different wage whether they are on a delivery or doing prep & cleanup...and it changes during the shift....neither is very much
Domino's workers fired for complaining about being paid below minimum wage
Employees of a Washington Heights Domino's claim they were fired from their delivery jobs after complaining to management about unfair wages. Workers at the 181st street chain participated in last Thursday's nationwide walkout in solidarity with the country's underpaid fast food workers, which included strong numbers of workers and supporters in New York City. Following the walkout, delivery workers—who are paid under $6 an hour and rely on tips to make a living wage—were asked to work extended hours inside the restaurant but were not offered increased hourly pay for their time inside the store. After bringing the issue to management's attention, the 24 employees were fired.
How can people think this shit is OK
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/09/1261419/-Domino-s-workers-fired-for-complaining-about-being-paid-below-minimum-wage?detail=facebook#
way too fast, you just can not be in a hurry in this crap, people forget how to drive in this over the summer.
I'll take some sympathy votes for her...lol...whatever it takes, this madness has to end. I don't recognize our great state of WI anymore
raw video....pretty crappy weather here the past few days....yesterday was particularly hazardous on the interstates...Kathleen Vinehout was on the campaign trail for GOV and got involved in one of the many multi vehicle accidents and was treated and released at a local hospital for a broken leg.
check out the video here.....
http://www.wisn.com/news/south-east-wisconsin/waukesha/RAW-Video-captures-Hwy-41-45-pileup/-/10150328/23398364/-/volbqw/-/index.html
http://www.waow.com/story/24166521/2013/12/08/state-sen-kathleen-vinehout-involved-in-crash
per dbl eagl, don't feel alone, it eludes most
how they make thru the day baffles me, much it sounds like a disgruntled postal worker ready to explode.
I keep reading your stuff on here 8th and all I can say is that has to be some bad acid...really whacked man....LOL
RIP Mr. Mandela, Your Light Shines So Bright...
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Nelson Mandela
hell ya, what Marc said.
even with a healthy Rodgers they'd have a tough go of it, They can't stop anyone.
Atl. plz & thx
his stupidity is only surpassed by his ignorance.
ROTF
not a problem, just watched Rory make the putt to win it...surprise surprise....good thing I don't bet, coulda lost a lot of money bettin on Adam today
watching here as well, how about that 1st round by Scott...he was throwin darts all day
Happy Thanksgiving all....disclaimer....I stole this from Mike & Mike this morn....before I make my pineapple dressing, I have a question for everyone....If you could have any four guest over for dinner today who would they be? Mine would be, hmmmmm Bob Uecker , Billy Crystal, David Feherty, and Tina Fey....I think I would get my lifetime quota for laughs.
Minn. thx
Russian native Alex Timofeev faces deportation years after pot crimes
This is f*&ked on so many levels.
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/russian-native-alex-timofeev-faces-deportation-years-after-pot-crimes/article_ec20d9cf-a1e0-5441-8565-e0d95d3c9102.html#ixzz2lt5XQNfD
Alex Timofeev was a defiant young man. As a teenager, he dropped out of Madison East High School and ran away from home.
Timofeev migrated from Russia as a 14-year-old and, soon after arriving in Madison, began clashing with his mother and father, who brought the family to the United States to take a job at UW-Madison.
Between the ages of 17 and 19, Timofeev was arrested three times, convicted of one misdemeanor and two felony counts for possession of marijuana. The trajectory of his life changed, he said, after he spent six months in Dane County’s work-release jail.
Since then, Timofeev, 35, has married, divorced and had two daughters, both U.S. citizens, whom he has supported financially and, as fathers do, by playing games, riding bicycles and spending time with them.
Timofeev is a lanky man with a mop of blonde hair that he sometimes wears in a bun. He is a chef, having worked at several Madison restaurants including Ella’s Deli, the Nitty Gritty and, most recently, Nakoma Country Club. His English and Russian are both flawless.
But now, Timofeev is caught up in a wave of deportations of so-called criminal aliens. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service has vastly increased deportations after years of largely ignoring all but the most egregious offenders. In 2012, the agency reported removing 225,390 people convicted of crimes, most commonly for drug offenses or drunken driving.
Last fall, Timofeev and his fiancée, Elizabeth Vale-Schesch, were startled when federal immigration authorities showed up at their North Side apartment and took Timofeev into custody to face deportation for the crimes he committed 14 years earlier.
Timofeev, who had made past unsuccessful attempts to gain permanent legal residency, said he was surprised to discover that the offenses for which he had already served his punishment could come back a decade and a half later to upend his life.
Gail Montenegro, spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Chicago, would not discuss Timofeev’s case but said “ICE is focused on sensible, effective immigration enforcement that prioritizes the removal of criminal aliens and egregious immigration law violators.”
She added that of the 409,849 people removed from the country in 2012, 55 percent were convicted of felonies or misdemeanors — almost double the number from 2008.
Legal bills pile up
Since Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized his identification more than a year ago, Timofeev said he’s been unable to work legally. His parents have spent $70,000 on attorney fees, Timofeev said. He is forced to rely on odd jobs and his fiancée for living expenses.
Timofeev has fallen behind in support payments for his children, Sasha, 16, a junior at Madison Memorial High School, and Kylie, 8, who lives with her mother in Sheboygan. The mothers of his children are among the nearly two dozen supporters who wrote letters to authorities urging them to let Timofeev stay.
That decision to a large extent is in the hands of Dane County Circuit Judge Ellen Berz, who has already ruled once in Timofeev’s favor. In January, she vacated his convictions, finding that as a young man with limited English skills, Timofeev was not fully informed that his no-contest pleas would leave him vulnerable to deportation to Russia.
The Dane County District Attorney’s Office appealed the decision to the 4th District Court of Appeals. That court sent the case back to Berz, who must decide whether a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued earlier this year affects Timofeev’s ability to withdraw his no-contest pleas. Berz has asked the appeals court to give her until Jan. 15 to decide.
Assistant District Attorney Matthew Moeser, who is handling the case, referred questions to District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, who did not respond to requests for comment.
If Berz declines to let Timofeev withdraw his no-contest pleas, he would once again be subject to deportation. Timofeev, who spent four months at the federal Dodge Detention Facility in Juneau after his Sept. 27, 2012, arrest, said his goal is “not to be sent away like a dog in a cage.”
Timofeev said he no longer has ties or family in the country he left 20 years ago. His parents and one of his two brothers are U.S. citizens. His 33-year-old brother is a legal resident.
“They don’t let you say goodbye to your family,” Timofeev said. “You don’t get to hug your children. They put you on a plane and send you to another country.”
Deportation delays
are common
Timofeev’s story is an “extremely common scenario,” said Beth Werlin, spokeswoman for the pro-immigrant rights American Immigration Council in Washington, D.C.
She and Timofeev’s attorney, Davorin Odrcic of Milwaukee, said years or even decades can pass between commission of a crime and deportation.
“I’ve had clients who were actually convicted of things in the ’70s that were placed into (deportation) proceedings 40 years later,” Odrcic said.
A change in immigration law in 1996 also “drastically reduced the ability of judges to take into account specific personal circumstances,” Werlin said, including the effect of loss of a parent on children who are U.S. citizens.
“Depending on the situation, we’re talking about kids who will become more dependent on the government,” Werlin said. “What makes sense — and what we used to have built into the system — is allowing judges some discretion in making these decisions.”
Bob Dane has heard many stories like Timofeev’s — and he’s not sympathetic. Dane is spokesman for the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which backs stricter immigration laws and stronger enforcement of existing laws. FAIR opposes proposals before Congress to allow millions of people in the country illegally to stay.
When fighting deportation, Dane said, “virtually all illegal aliens plead extenuating circumstances, hardship or a loophole.”
He said the United States must enforce its immigration laws or risk weakening an already ineffective system. Unless the laws are changed, he said, authorities are obligated to enforce them evenly for all offenders.
“Each new exception makes a precedent for others to game the system,” Dane said.
In 2012, federal spending on immigration enforcement reached $18 billion.
That’s more than the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, Secret Service, U.S. Marshals Service and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives combined, according to the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute.
Last chance?
Odrcic said one of the few avenues available to people such as Timofeev convicted of a deportable crime is to withdraw guilty or no contest pleas. That’s why Timofeev’s fate largely rests on Berz and her interpretation of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling handed down in February.
That decision was an outgrowth of a 2010 high court ruling that found immigrants must be adequately warned about the dangers of deportation before pleading guilty or no contest.
Earlier this year, the court found such a requirement cannot be applied retroactively to cases decided before the court’s 2010 decision.
But Odrcic is hoping Berz adopts the reasoning of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which ruled in July that such a requirement can be applied to pleas entered on or after April 1, 1997, when a new federal law greatly expanded the number of deportable offenses while sharply curtailing judges’ discretion to make exceptions.
Odrcic also said he’s proposed a “tough, smart and fair” settlement to the case but declined to offer details. “The ball’s no longer in my court,” he said.
Kevin Johnson, writing for Bloomberg News’ authoritative SCOTUSblog, said the latest high-court decision means that “thousands, if not tens of thousands of lawful permanent residents facing removal are likely to be affected by (the decision) and likely to suffer significant hardships if removed from the United States.”
Among them could be Timofeev, who would be permanently barred from returning to the United States.
“I feel as though I paid my dues,” Timofeev said. “I don’t feel like banishment from everything I love, from my friends and family, fits the crime. It’s a pretty severe punishment.”
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/russian-native-alex-timofeev-faces-deportation-years-after-pot-crimes/article_ec20d9cf-a1e0-5441-8565-e0d95d3c9102.html#ixzz2lt5Iag25
Moms Mabley - "Abraham, Martin & John" (Merv Griffin Show 1969)
hmmmm
interesting
excellent piece from the NYTimes AZ....have shared it everywhere, hope my ill informed conservative friends give it a read. thx for sharing and have a wonderful thanksgiving.
congrats Jimmy, nice V for the Aussies...
delayed telecast here
That's enough, I'm taking 3Saints, & roosters lead and arming myself, God help us all.
Buddhist Extremist Cell Vows To Unleash Tranquility On West
WASHINGTON—In a 45-minute video posted on Tibetan websites Thursday, Tsuglag Rinpoche, leader of the Buddhist extremist group Kamma??hana, threatened to soon inflict a wave of peace and tranquility on the West.
Speaking in front of a nondescript altar surrounded by candles, burning sticks of incense, and a small golden statue of the Buddha, Rinpoche did not specify when or where an assault of profound inner stillness would occur, but stated in no uncertain terms that the fundamentalist Buddhist cell plans to target all Western suffering.
“In the name of the Great Teacher, we will stop at nothing to unleash a firestorm of empathy, compassion, and true selflessness upon the West,” said Rinpoche, adding that all enemies of a freely flowing, unfettered state of mind will be “besieged with pure, everlasting happiness.” “No city will be spared from spiritual harmony. We will bring about the end to all Western pain and anxiety, to all destructive cravings, to all greed, delusion, and misplaced desire. Indeed, we will bring the entire United States to its knees in deep meditation.”
“Wisdom and virtue to America!” continued Rinpoche. “Wisdom and virtue to all living things on earth!”
According to reports, Rinpoche stressed throughout his address that Kamma??hana soldiers would continue waging a tireless holy war on Western feelings of emptiness and negativity for as long as necessary, noting that “a jug fills drop by drop” and that “it is better to travel well than to arrive.”
The extremist leader specifically criticized the United States for its “blatant disregard of karmic balance within the universe” and ominously claimed that Americans will “one day soon” experience the highest form of metaphysical equilibrium through a union of both body and mind. Rinpoche also said all Western nations would “pay a heavy price in negative thinking and self-doubt” if they do not immediately engage in serious introspection and true spiritual liberation.
Sources confirmed the video then featured an uninterrupted 19-minute clip of water quietly flowing between rocks in a small forest creek.
ABOVE: Watch a short clip from the Kamma??hana's 45-minute video.
“From New York City to London, Madrid, and Paris, we will not cease until every major metropolis is left in a state of total nirvana,” said Rinpoche, brandishing a pink lotus flower before claiming that Kamma??hana will seize any opportunity to aggressively instill a deep-seated sense of oneness in all Westerners. “We offered the unenlightened governments of America and Europe a chance to embrace the Eightfold Path, but you have refused. Now, we have no choice but to impose a peaceful spiritual reawakening upon you.”
“And if you think even for a moment that we will ever relent, remember this: Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened,” Rinpoche added. “You have been warned.”
Kamma??hana, a radical Mahayana Buddhism movement, was founded in Nepal in the late 1970s with the explicit mission to spread a fundamentalist interpretation of the Four Noble Truths to all nonbelievers. According to experts, the multinational organization operates somewhere in a remote region of the Himalayas, though the current whereabouts of Rinpoche and Kamma??hana’s other high-ranking members are reportedly unknown.
Kamma??hana first came to international prominence in 1997, when five of its members boarded a New York City subway car and held 42 hostages in a state of transcendent serenity for seven hours while performing atonal syllabic chants. The group then claimed responsibility for a severe 2004 outbreak of interconnectedness in central London, later traced to a 23-year-old Kamma??hana sleeper cell operative who sat cross-legged in Trafalgar Square and read aloud from The Gateless Gate collection of 13th-century Zen koans.
Kamma??hana claims to gain “thousands of newly reincarnated followers each day” and is reportedly known to recruit many young Buddhists from around the world, training them in tranquil insurgency tactics at covert monasteries across Eastern Asia.
“I want to assure all Americans that we are fully aware of these threats from Kamma??hana, and they will not be taken lightly,” acting Secretary of Homeland Security Rand Beers said at a press conference shortly after Rinpoche’s video surfaced, adding that several U.S. cities have been placed on high alert and authorities are watching closely for any suspicious peaceful activity in densely populated areas. “We do believe that Kamma??hana currently possesses the means to inflict widespread balance in the collective subconscious of an American city. However, we are doing absolutely everything in our power to prevent that from happening.”
“The danger of total enlightenment is very real,” Beers added. “And we must be prepared.”
At press time, sources confirmed that President Obama has authorized a preemptive strike on Kamma??hana and deployed a fleet of predator drones to bomb Tibet.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/buddhist-extremist-cell-vows-to-unleash-tranquilit,34623/
great pics in that link, thx
Day is coming up huge for the home fans. How close are you to the tourney? You should go see it, it's very impressive to see these guys hit the ball in person.
really nice, thx
Ya, the one I had a fairly close encounter with was moving left to right luckily. Ours was huge and appeared to be a couple blocks away when in fact we discovered when we went to see if we could help it was actually about .5 miles. I think I posted the pics here back then.
Man Keeps Filming As Tornado Destroys His House
I love COSTCO......Costco has Bibles for sale under the genre of FICTION
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/11/21/costco-california-pastor-bible-fiction/3661933/
Try not to laugh: Gov Scott Walker says who would be best for a 2016 presidential run
I'm sure if he runs it'll be because god told him to run.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) , union buster and tea party derp, dismissed even a Paul Ryan run for 2016, but insisted, “I love Paul Ryan. Paul Ryan, if he had a fan club, I’d be the president of that.”
Sen. Ted Cruz, Sen. Rand Paul and Sen. Marco Rubio, are all ‘good guys’, but not for a presidential run according to Walker.
Walker offered who he thinks would be a good contender saying, “I think it’s got to be an outsider. I think both the presidential and the vice presidential nominee should either be a former or current governor, people who have done successful things in their states, who have taken on big reforms, who are ready to move America forward.”
Walker did not offer his definition of ‘forward’ however. And you can bet he just chose himself as the best candidate.
ABC reports, “In terms of his own future, Walker — who seemed to closely fit his own definition of the ideal GOP nominee — told ABC News he would not rule out a presidential run in 2016.”
Walker said, “I don’t rule anything out.”
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/post_new.aspx?board_id=1556
Watch courtesy of ABC:
week 12, Lions, thx
bad luck....very tough lie in that bunker....cruel game
thx for the heads up, got side tracked and almost missed it....hard not to be a fan of Adam's or Kuch's...should be fun
this shits been non stop since Walker was elected....sick
Report: Investigation targets Scott Walker recall campaign, political groups
2 hours ago • DEE J. HALL | Wisconsin State Journal | dhall@madison.com | 608-252-6132
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Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, visits supporters William Liebhart, left, with Walker sign, and Myron Moldenhauer, out of frame with Fitzgerald sign, as Ann Marcks, right, walks by in Watertown on April 21, 2012. Fitzgerald and Gov. Scott Walker have both declined to comment on reports that their campaigns have been targeted by a secret Milwaukee County probe focusing on the 2011 and 2012 recalls. Both won recall elections in 2012.
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The campaign of Gov. Scott Walker, the Republican Party of Wisconsin and more than two dozen conservative political groups are the targets of a secret Milwaukee County probe, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
The newspaper reported that “some 29” organizations were being targeted, and it quoted Eric O’Keefe, an official with Club for Growth Wisconsin, as saying his group was among them.
“In recent weeks,” the newspaper reported, “special prosecutor Francis Schmitz has hit dozens of conservative groups with subpoenas demanding documents related to the 2011 and 2012 campaigns to recall Governor Walker and state legislative leaders.”
The Wall Street Journal opinion piece marks the first time that a named source has identified a target of the probe, which began in February 2012 but came to light just last month. Such “John Doe” investigations often involve secrecy orders issued by a judge that bar witnesses or participants from divulging the nature or even the existence of the probe.
The report, published Friday, detailed two subpoenas.
One demanded “all memoranda, email .... correspondence, and communications” between an unnamed target and “some 29” conservative groups, including Wisconsin and national nonprofits, political vendors and party committees.
The other demanded “all records of income received, including fundraising information and the identity of persons contributing to the campaign.”
Mike McCabe, executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, told the State Journal that based on the report, the investigation appears to be zeroing in on whether so-called issue ad groups illegally coordinated with political campaigns to help boost candidates.
McCabe said issue ad groups — which operate on both the right and left — can raise and spend as much money as they want without disclosing their donors, so long as they don’t specifically advocate the election or defeat of a specific candidate.
But political campaigns are subject to certain financial limitations, and all donors must be disclosed.
Any issue ad group caught working directly with a candidate’s campaign would “run afoul of the law,” McCabe said.
‘I have nothing to say’
Email and phone messages left with O’Keefe Saturday were not returned. Messages left with Club for Growth Wisconsin’s Sun Prairie office over the past two weeks, including Saturday, also have not been returned.
R.J. Johnson, a Club for Growth official who also has been a campaign adviser to Walker, declined comment about the John Doe probe when reached by phone by the State Journal late last month.
“I have nothing to say about that. I’m going to leave it at that,” Johnson said.
Asked if he was under a secrecy order, Johnson said, “I’m ending this conversation now” and hung up.
An email left with a Walker campaign spokesman also wasn’t returned Saturday.
Walker has previously refused to discuss the investigation or whether anyone on his staff or campaign has been contacted by prosecutors, calling it a “sidebar issue.”
The newspaper also reported that the campaigns of “legislative leaders” were being targeted.
However, late last month, the State Journal quoted three of the four top leaders as saying they had no knowledge of the
probe.
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, told the State Journal last month that he had no comment “at this time.” Fitzgerald was recalled but easily won re-election in 2012.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the targeted groups include Friends of Scott Walker, the state Republican Party, Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce, Club for Growth Wisconsin, Americans for Prosperity-Wisconsin, Wisconsin Family Action, American Crossroads and the Republican Governors Association.
Attempts to reach the state Republican Party, the Republican Governors Association and Americans for Prosperity were not successful Saturday.
Campaign donors
According to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, spending in the 2011 and 2012 recall elections by groups mentioned in the article include:
• Right Direction Wisconsin PAC (Republican Governors Association): $9.4 million
• Club for Growth Wisconsin: $9.1 million
• Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce: $4.7 million
Americans for Prosperity/MacIver Institute for Public Policy: $4.5 million
The liberal Center for Media and Democracy has tracked millions of dollars that has flowed among these groups in Wisconsin.
In an interview Saturday, the group’s general counsel, Brendan Fischer, described it as a “dark money shell game” in whi?ch thousands and in some cases millions of dollars from anonymous donors are moved from one organization to another with the goal of influencing elections.
— State Journal reporter Dennis Punzel contributed to this report.
Read more: http://host.madison.com/news/local/report-investigation-targets-scott-walker-recall-campaign-political-groups/article_f3aa2080-6265-59bd-8ad6-9997da64f0f8.html#ixzz2ks3sV2rP
http://host.madison.com/news/local/article_f3aa2080-6265-59bd-8ad6-9997da64f0f8.html
I use to watch State Legislature live on local TV when in session, can't anymore, pisses me off way too much.
I believe they have a manual and that manual was written by Americans fro Prosperity and paid for by the Koch brothers
They know no bottom and know no shame.
improvement...maybe there's hope....nah
lol is code for I can't think of anything intelligent to say, so instead of sounding stupid again I'll just lol