Obama To Nominate Clinton on Monday
He is the Messiah, he can do anything he wishes.
Mumbai Attack Was Well Organized
The latest is that the attacks were financed with cash raised in UK mosques.
Shocking.
Obama To Nominate Clinton on Monday
Technically, that’s why these people get the phrase “Designate” after the name of the office they could enter until the swearing in of Obama. Then all names will be delivered to the Senate Clerk and the proper nomination process will begin. They’re “designated” to be “nominated” at a later date.
Also, technically-speaking, Obama isn’t even “President-Elect” yet. The Electoral College hasn’t met yet. That will happen in December.
Sure The Citizens Don't Want It, But Let's Raise Taxes Anyway
Hawkman: You may recall from an earlier subject that all high tech jobs come from the UW system. At least, wally thinks so.
http://www.bootsandsabers.com/index.php/weblog/permalin k/citing_economy_uw_cuts_raises_in_half/
The continuing steaming pile that sends business elsewhere.
Sure The Citizens Don't Want It, But Let's Raise Taxes Anyway
Great idea Mike Pesko. Let’s raise the confiscation of Business income so much higher than Minn, Ill, Ind, Iowa so that the businesses will leave, jobs will leave. So then with the businesses gone and the jobs gone (that means Income, OK?) where will your beloved tax revenue come from then?
Sure The Citizens Don't Want It, But Let's Raise Taxes Anyway
In the end, no business pays taxes. It becomes part of the cost of goods and seervices, but I don’t expect capper to get that part. So, either the business raises prices (another “tax” on the consumer), eats the cost, so someone else gets less - like the employees or the corporate infrastructure - or, as at worst, the company folds its tent and leaves town or goes pout of business.
I’m pretty sure WPRI doesn’t want anyones’ taxes to go up. This state has a ridiculously bloated bureaucracy and a pension scheme at every level that is completely and totally unsustainable.
I hear the new state motto will be, Wisconsin, It’s the New Michigan. (Milwaukee will be the new Detroit)
Obama To Nominate Clinton on Monday
I’m interested to see how well they play together. Hillary was so driven toward the Presidency that I’m surprised she’ll accept anything less. I suppose she could be setting herself up to run in 2012 if Obama is a complete failure, but I’m thinking she’s too old by 2016?
Plaxico Burress Shoots Himself in the Thigh
I’m sure there’s some kind of joke in all this.....
But seriously, did the guy take any kind of gun safety training before he decided he’d pack? I’m thinking not.
Sure The Citizens Don't Want It, But Let's Raise Taxes Anyway
WPRI forgot to include that fact that the great majority of businesses already don’t pay taxes. They also forgot to mention that has business taxes have dropped over the years, their property taxes go up.
Why is WPRI in favor of raising the individual’s property tax?
Obama To Nominate Clinton on Monday
Serious answer:
Absolutely.
Technically speaking you and I can actually nominate people to fill our hypothetical cabinets right now if we wanted to—it’s only the formal confirmation process—with the hearings and the meet and greets with the Senators, etc.—that begins after one is sworn in as President.
Sure The Citizens Don't Want It, But Let's Raise Taxes Anyway
I don’t care if we have a budget deficit or not, I’m no fan of these rediculous tax exemptions for certain industries (except I can understand for food and medicine). For everything else, though, they should be taxed fair-and-square, just like every other company selling things in the state. Regardless of the deficit, the best solution would be to eliminate these special tax breaks and then comprehensively lower tax rates on all sales by the difference. But, if the budget deficit can be balanced partially by this method, it seems like a legitimate, obvious solution. Balance it half by spending cuts and half by eliminating these tax exemptions for firms that employee the best/most lobbyists.
Sure The Citizens Don't Want It, But Let's Raise Taxes Anyway
Bend over, Grab ankles.
Mumbai Attack Was Well Organized
I mentioned Iran because they might have an intense interest in India. There happen to be thousands of NATO troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan. A covert operation to instigate a war between Pakistan and India would likely cause many of those NATO countries to pull their troops, thus freeing up Iran to face West without worrying about their rear.
We don’t know if Iran was involved, but thinking in terms like “Iran doesn’t have anything against India so they wouldn’t do it” is a bit simplistic for geopolitical affairs.
Mumbai Attack Was Well Organized
John are you privy to intelligence reports that nobody else seems to be? You may very well be right ... but at the time of this writing, I have yet to read or see anywhere anyone suggest with any confidence who is or is not responsible for the attacks. Or are you simply stating your opinion and framing it as authoritative with out evidence to support your claim?
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
I didn’t say his comments were idiotic, Curt. That would’ve been Wally.
Whatever you think of teaching ability of certain high-level, tenured professors, their knowledge and knack for research is the reason those other great teachers are hanging around. Take the professors out of the equation and you can’t recruit teaching assistants. The terminal degree candidates and junior faculty that do a lot of the teaching at a major research university are there for a reason, and it’s not the face-to-face time with a room of 300 freshmen.
Cutting the UW in the name of economic stimulus is an absurd notion. Again, all for streamlining here. But pretending that the tax dollars supporting the UW are somehow killing Wisconsin’s business climate is ridiculous. If we’re talking about spending that doesn’t correlate to the economy, let’s talk about MA, an oversized corrections budget, or the K-12 school districts that spend nearly as much per student as the universities do but still can’t graduate kids that can write a decent essay. MA is a quality of life program with virtually no economic benefit to state residents.
Streamline the UW System where you can. Close a few underperforming campuses, take some of the savings, and add seats elsewhere. Sit down with business leaders in Wisconsin and figure out where it is that we can improve our technical colleges so that our vocational schools are better meeting the needs of our employers. There’s a reason all of these for-profit schools are popping up. There’s clearly a weakness in our educational system that these schools are competing to fill.
Finally, encourage more underperforming students to consider a vocational school instead of pushing them into a four-year university where the professors have to teach them the difference between there, their, and they’re - and believe me, if you have friends who teach at a university, you know there are a lot of freshmen out there who can’t do that. We waste a lot of tax dollars providing people with an education that is really a bad fit for their own talents and career goals.
Sad thing about college is that it’s the new high school. Most kids, largely because of lazy, uninvolved parenting, get shuffled off to college to learn the things they should’ve learned in high school. Maybe the UW System would be better off if we were more like European countries that provide fewer seats at public universities but provide better support to those students who are enrolled.
As to privatization, I’m not sure how exactly one privatizes a land-grant college like UW-Madison. Maybe you could do the homework there and get back to us?
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
RS, I don’t understand what is idiotic about Steve’s comments. Maybe not practical, but certainly not idiotic. I’d second the opinon that both in college and in high school that most of my best teachers, and my kids best teachers haven’t been the tenured, high paid guys. As for myself, while I am a grad of UW, I’d be all privatising the entire system. Instead of subsidising the university, you could subsidize the student, as long as they were a resident attending a school in the state. As soon as you take the taxing authority away from the school, and make them compete on merit and $$$, you’d be surprised how soon they got streamlined.
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
Maybe they would come from the companies that are being taxed out of existence.
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
Idiodtic comments, Steve. Other states would kill to have a flagship campus like UW-Madison. In fact, when Arizona State hired its new President last year, he said that he wanted to upgrade ASU to the status of the great state university.
Where do you folks think that the high-tech jobs in Wisconsin will come from if not Madison?
Federal Deficit To Soar
Among other things, Keith, i am in fact a civil engineer.
Father Impregnates Daughters 19 Times
Mike:
Have you convinced yourself that anyone on the political left is the moral equivalent of a child molester? Is that where you’d like to position the left?
Of course not. My point is the stark raving hypocrisy of the left when it comes to making moral value judgments over one’s sexual proclivities. Why is it then so easy for the left to expect this guy to abstain from acting on his sexual urges, but they cry a river when one suggests that teenagers might be better off abstaining from sex until adulthood or marriage?
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
I’m not sure I agree with the proposition that if we don’t pay these professors, many other places will. As I think back over my years of schooling, I’m not sure the best paid and most tenured teachers were the best. As a matter of fact, they were some of my worst, especially at UW-Madison.
Frankly, I’m quite certain the UW system could go on a recruiting jaunt in India and offer teaching positions in certain disciplines such as math, science and engineering and find plenty of qualified takers to move to Madison at half the price UW is currently paying their faculty.
The world is having to live with 30% less of the wealth it had a few months ago. No reason why the UW system would not be able to as well.
First Shot
Congrats on a missed shot or possible wounded deer?
This girl needs some range time before going afield again.
Father Impregnates Daughters 19 Times
*denial. Aand “high” obviously should not have been at the end…
Father Impregnates Daughters 19 Times
Last comment for me. This case is not about a change in tradtional sexual mores. This case is about a predator that needs to be put away for a very very long time. A non-partisan issue. Nobody I know on the left would support going easy on this guy, and I don’t view that stance as being at all hypocritical. If that means I am in denail, then so be it. high
7.5% of Wisconsinites Never Heard of Brett Favre?
Let me suggest another explantion.
Sometimes people lie to pollsters for their own amusement.
I know I do sometimes.
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
RS,
That last paragraph makes a lot of sense.
Along with saving money, when can we get past pension nonsense? The automakers are giving us all a good lesson in that an organization can’t go on paying people who do not go to work. It’s going to catch up to everyone. More companies, all levels of government and the University system. Why can’t they just give the money in a 401K, 403b, or 457?
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
The reason many taxpayers aren’t getting a raise this year is because there’s an oversupply of undereducated, blue-collar labor relative to demand. That, and a lot of the companies they work for are poorly managed. Hell, there’s an oversupply of entry-level, white-collar workers as well. So sure, perhaps it makes sense to freeze pay of certain agency positions as well.
There will always, however, be a demand for the most talented people in society, which is why these professors don’t have so much to worry about. If we don’t want to pay them, someone else will. You can like that or not, but it’s the reality of the situation either way. That’s also why you won’t see a lot of professional athletes worrying about a salary freeze because the economy is underperforming.
There are lots of reasons to suggest that the university should trim its budget, but one I will never agree with is so that we can hold on to jobs in dying industries for just a little bit longer. By that logic, Michigan should close its universities and give their resources to the automakers, who would then proceed to piss those resources away on bloated labor costs and products nobody wants.
I would, however, be inclined to agree with Steve in that our “massive” university system could stand to be streamlined. Educating more kids at fewer campuses provides enormous operating efficiencies. But as we all know, politicians aren’t brave enough to take any kind of bold action. They’ll just keep operating a gazillion schools so that kids with a 2.8 GPA and a 22 on the ACT can go to school at campuses that barely outperform the University of Phoenix.
Father Impregnates Daughters 19 Times
My point is that any time the issue has involved a change in traditional sexual mores, the Left has been at the forefront of promoting it. This is only an extension. Remember NAMBLA? The Left defended and promoted. Privacy and all that.
If the Left wasn’t silent on Clinton, how come he wasn’t run out on a rail by the NOW gang for using the power of his office to gain sex with a subordinate? I seem to recall incredible outrage like that with a cetain Senator from the Pacific Northwest. Feel free to be in denial about the double standard. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
Mumbai Attack Was Well Organized
This was not carried out by Pakistan nor Iran. Your mention of Iran is interesting since they have never cared nor interacted with India.
Father Impregnates Daughters 19 Times
Steve-
You still fail to connect. Accountability:Democrat members of congress: can’t think of a one who’d say (or even think in the back of their private brains) “Hey dude if you like to do it, have at it.” Gay liberation: what do equal right for those with different sexual preferences have to do with this? Oh, I see. Again you are equating those with whom you disagree and child molesters. That’s not any more logical now… The oral sex in the oval office thing, I don’t recall much silence at all during that time. The world was pretty loud then, on both sides of the political spectrum. That’s how impeachment comes about.
This just amounts to a couple of guys saying lefties are no better than a bunch of child molesters. I still see it as irresponsible public discourse. Lets change that.
Buchers Sue West Bend Hotel
I think it should come down as the Clairment having some liability but not 100%. If you’re going to allow children in your establishment you must be aware of potential dangers to them. That isn’t conservative vs. libereal, that is common sense.
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
Some of you guys should read the particulars of the auto industry bailout debate.
Essentially all the foreign car companies built their plants in sunbelt states with low taxes and no union labor. Not coincidentally, their costs are about half of what it costs for labor here in the upper midwest.
We can debate all we want about whether it is right to “exploit the worker” as they do down South, but the bottom line is those are the cards a place like Wisconsin is dealt.
Unless we figure out a way to draw business here via a major change in tax incentives, we’ll end up going the way of GM. Unfortunately our tourism industry isn’t big enough to support 5 million people nor a massive State University system.
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
At a minimum, this shows awareness by a government body that there are economic issues out there. Cutting the pay raise is a good start; I had heard that Gov. Doyle might be freezing some state salaries—that would be another good step in the right direction.
It’s better than the utility companies going to the taxpayers with rate hikes to cover their pension plan losses in the market: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-pension-ut ilities,0,505024.story
Mumbai Attack Was Well Organized
Some commentators now theorize that the attacks were led by people trained in US/Brit/Soviet military tactics.
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
I don’t know too many taxpayers who are getting raises this year. In fact, many are lucky to just have a job. Why should someone sucking off the taxpayer tit get 5.2% to begin with?
Now if MATC would demonstrate a little concern for the taxpayer.
R.C. - would you rather have more jobs leave the state? Or a few underworked-and-overpaid professors? That’s pretty much the choice here. Employers can’t afford to stay in Wisconsin. And the state and local government payroll is a big part of the problem.
Macy's Parade Rickrolled
Yeah....more like “creepy”.
Mumbai Attack Was Well Organized
<Sarcasm on>
You just don’t understand. All we need to do is talk to them. Find out what is troubling them and we can all sit around and sing Kum-by-Yah and take hits off the bong together.
<Sarcasm off>
I agree that this is a very troubling event. India has been subject to terror events for years, but never on this scale, and I don’t recall Westerners and Jews being specifically attacked.
Recent indications of a possible attack against New York also now garner more concern.
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
Why stop at a wage freeze? How about we cut their pay in half so they all leave? 
Here’s a better idea. How about we just close Stout, River Falls, and Parkside, and add seats at other campuses, including the UW Colleges, to absorb the difference?
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
And who would that be, Keith?
Searching for Jenna Jameson
Google’s been doing that. I’ve seen random links for usernames there as well. I saw Bibles as a link for an online game dealing with nation building.
Citing Economy, UW Cuts Raises In Half
What an ignorant hillbilly.
Macy's Parade Rickrolled
That was just...um....weird.
7.5% of Wisconsinites Never Heard of Brett Favre?
LOLOL, Fraley! Good chuckle on that one!
Maybe the 7.5% are illegal aliens?
Thankful?
Ditto Owen’s list...with the following modifications:
1. I get to watch the Packers win.
2. I get to watch the Packers lose, and still like them.
Thankful?
For christ sake scott… Pour yourself a god damn beer, pull the panties out of your ass and relax. Its the holidays.
Buchers Sue West Bend Hotel
Jimi, I think the law does not allow you to sue when it is a workman comp claim....... but I could be wrong.
Colorado - Nebraska
Hmm. Colorado-Nebraska. Uh...interesting choice for Big 12 coverage this week.
First Shot
well it could be
there is bow hunting, i havent done yet but i will start next year. and a muzzle load season.
Ol' Army
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