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re: Do you feel any sympathy about this?

kathy51 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:12:06 GMT

Well, Kevin,

Just how did you know that???

re: Fire Leckrone?

dad29 — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:05:32 GMT

If I were to bet, my bet is that Leckrone is toast. Somebody, somewhere in the system has decided that Leckrone's been around too long. And they WILL get him out of there.

re: Do you feel any sympathy about this?

Kevin Fischer — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:31:11 GMT

Wasn't me.

The cooler was all white meat, no legs.

re: Do you feel any sympathy about this?

James Wigderson — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:12:31 GMT

Geez, Kevin, how hungry were you when you passed by her house?

re: A new reason for me to be thankful

Kevin Fischer — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:35:48 GMT

Thank you very much, Mark. You'll get a cigar, I promise!

re: A new reason for me to be thankful

Mark Maley — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:27:08 GMT

Kevin:

Thanks for being one of our best bloggers...and congrats on the good news for you and Jennifer!

re: I Don't Know How to "Bell"...

dad29 — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:29:01 GMT

....or filling in for Marshal Fochs...

re: Victory for sex offenders: Franklin-like law shot down

MSLGW — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 01:58:09 GMT

The Justice Policy Institute (JPI) recently announced the publication of a new report, Registering Harm: How sex offense registries fail youth and communities. The report pointed out that during the next year, "states throughout the country will determine whether to comply with the Adam Walsh Act." The Adam Walsh Act is a federal law that "requires mandatory public registration for youth over the age of fourteen who are convicted of certain sex offenses. Congress passed this law in an attempt to protect our children from sexual violence."

JPI emphasized, in the report, that "the Adam Walsh Act won't keep our children safe. Instead this law will needlessly target children and families, undermine the very purpose of the juvenile justice system, and consume law enforcement resources." It is important to note that states do have the option to opt out of the law.

You can download the psf by going to this article at:

cfcoklahoma.org/index.php

You may have to copy and paste the url.

re: A new reason for me to be thankful

Kevin Fischer — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:07:21 GMT

The same to you, my friend.

re: A new reason for me to be thankful

steveegg — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:51:31 GMT

Have a happy and overstuffed Thanksgiving, and congratulations.

re: When the doors open, how many will be there?

Kevin Fischer — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:28:13 GMT

It will be one of the solutions offered by state Democrats to fix our budget crisis which is, who knows, $2 billion $5 billion?

For the record, my boss has long opposed the idea:

www.legis.state.wi.us/.../col2007-018.htm

re: When the doors open, how many will be there?

dad29 — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:33 GMT

Note the number of commenters who state that they shop online...

No wonder the Taking Class in Madistan is rushing towards the uniform sales-tax agreement...

re: The worst Christmas songs

David Murphy — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:46:51 GMT

I like John Lennon too, but War is Over is not a Christmas song. It mocks Christmas. People like me originally thought of it as a Christmas song because rock stations played it at Christmastime, we all like John Lennon and it has the word Christmas in the song. It isn't really a Christmas song.

re: J. Gravelle's life is about to change

jgravelle — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:17:08 GMT

You wouldn't know it from reading my diatribes, but I have friends all over the political/philosophical spectrum. (Now that I look at it, I could have probably ended the previous sentence at the word "friends".)

The fact of the matter is that, if you ever run across somebody who agrees with you 100% of the time, odds are they're trying to sell you something. I happen to really like a lot of the afore(nearly)mentioned Franklin blogger's topics.

I wasn't joking in my first MJS submission [blogs.franklinnow.com/.../swing-and-a-miss.aspx] that I loved reading Joel McNally growing up. I got to meet him a couple years ago and he was pleasant and friendly and we could, in all probability, do lunch without impaling one another on our salad forks.

Mostly, 'cuz I don't eat salad, but that's tangential to my larger point.

I know Kenosha's 66th District wannabe Democrat assemblyman Larry Zamba [http://electzamba.com/] from a previous life. Politically, we vehemently disagree, but I'd give the guy a kidney if he needed it. Maybe not my own, but still... I'd find him one.

I've even written about meeting Mayor Barrett [community.myfoxmilwaukee.com/.../Santa_Barrett] and how I believe he seems both sincere AND sincerely wrong. But yeah, if MY life suffers a consequence of his actions (or anybody else's), it's going to get under my skin and I'm going to write about it.

Politics IS factional. Metaphorically, politics is a gun in the middle of the table. People wrestle over it, and the winner of that struggle uses the weapon to force the loser to bow to their will. That's ugly by its design. It's polarizing by nature.

Staring down that barrel tends to make one bitter. Venting that rage can be a cathartic relief for a writer or a catalyst for his readers' anger. Or both.

I'd love to be able to blow off steam without heating up the room, but I'm not sure I know how. Yet. I'm still learning to dance, so toes will get stepped on.

A couple things regarding my new friends at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

1) My rejected submission was written long before I received/read their guidelines, and I understand why it was turned down;

2) Everybody I've met down there has been courteous, friendly, professional, and not one of them burst into flames when I sprinkled them with holy water; and

3) That sort of familiarity is going to make it harder in the future for me to poke the paper in the ribs when the S.S. M.J.S. comes hard to port (that's "takes a sharp left turn", for you land-lubbers).

Not impossible, mind you. Just harder...

-jjg

DailyScoff.com

re: The silver lining in our crummy economy

J. Strupp — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:00:06 GMT

What a bunch of generalized nonsense.

As someone who has been in the manufacturing sector my entire career and only slightly older than the age group in question, I'm flat out dumbfounded by the ignorance of Mrs. Falk's blog entry. You can BET her company has focused extensively in the past few years on attracting young, talented professionals to the Falk/Rexnord and other manufacturing companies throughout Milwaukee. Making idiotic generalizations about an extremely diverse group of people only confirms how many manufacturing companies in this city remain stuck in the stone-age and why many of them have gone the way of the dinosaur.

I happen to know several mid 20-somethings with the education, training and management skills that run circles around their older co-workers. One happens to be a lead engineer (at the ripe old age of 26 years old)for Mrs. Falk's parent company.

re: "Favre trade a bad -- and getting worse -- decision"

Mighty Mike — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:10:56 GMT

Maybe we can trade Ted Thompson...naw..wouldn't be any takers...

re: Who took who to the next level?

Kevin Fischer — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:57:55 GMT

And corporate managers make stupid mistakes. This one by Ted Thompson and his kiss-butt sidekick was a doozy!

re: OK, get off your duppa and get yourself down to...

Bryan Maersch — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:21:58 GMT

Czekają Czekają Kevin

re: Who took who to the next level?

Karen123 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:53:07 GMT

Maybe the other players are not playing up to par because they have no reason to do so. I mean Aaron Rodgers??? Please. These guys are watching the Jets games they know the deal, they know what their coach and GM gave up.

The same is true for the Jets. Those players are rising to the occasion of having Brett Favre as their quarterback and they are playing better and WINNING!!!

This is not rocket science. It is just the blatant facts and statistics.

re: Who took who to the next level?

dad29 — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:47:28 GMT

No, Kevin. You trade a 3x MVP because there's only one GM and only one head-coach.

No different than in corporate life. Lotsa folks get fired--not because they don't produce, but because they think they run the joint.

They're wrong.