With Wisconsin suffering the worst job loss numbers in the nation for the calendar year 2011, Governor Scott Walker promised yesterday that he will reveal newly revised numbers this week that will, effectively, change water into wine on the Wisconsin job front.
And he's done it just in time for the June 5th recall election.
So, just how is Walker about to turn Wisconsin's dismal job numbers from lemons to lemonade?
The Governor has simply decided to ignore the system used by the Department of Labor —and every other state in the nation —to measure job growth (or loss) and elected instead to go with a different set of numbers that makes things in Wisconsin look better.
Who knew it could be so easy to solve a jobs crisis?
More: [Link: www.forbes.com...]
Hopefully the Barrett campaign will call him out on his lies on this and other matters.
Day after day, a tall, shy woman weaves her way unnoticed through the earnest and learned campus swirl of Brown University. She enters the hush of a library, then promptly vanishes from sight.
Down goes Marie Malchodi, 48, who attended but never graduated from Brown, down to the library's subterranean warrens, where she works as a 'book conservation technician.' She sweeps her long dark hair into a bun, pierces it with a paint brush and starts her day, caring for ancient books and ephemera that are sensitive to the touch.
A few weeks ago, Ms. Malchodi opened yet another leather-bound book, one of more than 300,000 rare volumes in the hold of the John Hay Library. With surgical precision, she turned the pages of a medical text once owned by Solomon Drowne, Class of '73 (1773, that is). And there, in the back, she found a piece of paper depicting the baptism of Jesus. It was signed:
'P. Revere Sculp'
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]
Gov. Scott Walker and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett are in a virtual tie in the recall election, according to a new poll released Wednesday.
The Marquette University Law School poll said Barrett, who lost to Walker in the governor's race in 2010, has a 47 percent to 46 percent lead on the governor among registered voters, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said.
The one-percentage point lead goes to Walker when considering only likely voters.
UW-Madison political science professor Charles Franklin, who is a visiting professor at Marquette, is director of the law school poll.Read more: [Link: host.madison.com...]
These are the pollsters that called me the other evening. Very good, highly professional polling without the leading questions of of some of the "Name" pollsters. I find it easy to believe their results.
Biggest take away for me - despite being massively outspent and coming into the race at the very last minute, Mayor Barrett is only 1% point behind.
More on the poll is here:
[Link: www.jsonline.com...]
Solidarity!
[Link: photo.net...]
Found a vintage Nikon bokeh meter, but need manual.
Matt Laur , Apr 01, 2012; 01:07 a.m.So, I was looking through the dusty old camera gear at a recent abandoned storage auction, and came across a taped up box labeled "Assorted Nik Stuff - M. Johnston." Feeling lucky, I bought the whole box for $10, in hopes of finding a gem or two. Sure enough, in with the old lens caps and dry-rotted leather camera straps, was one of the very sought-after early vintage Nikon bokemeters. This looks like one of the hand-made ones built in Japan for the US market - one of the ones that actually reads +/- 50 micro-B. But I can't be sure on the scale without reading the manual. So, if anyone knows where I can track one down, that would be great.
A fellow member at The Liberal Gun Club was sent this link by his local range. He promptly informed the range he'd not be using them any more, which is appropriate.
[Link: graphics.nra.org...]
But the more important question - for gun owners and non-owners alike - is how to combat people like this who use every chance to lie and poison the well? That go out of their way to make compromise extremely difficult if not impossible? When they actively work to prevent different groups from seeing their common goals, aspirations and values?
Given propaganda like this, and the NRA has been doing this since the 70's, it's no wonder that such a gulf has opened up between those of the growing urban communities and the mostly dwindling rural areas.
A second Dane County judge on Monday ruled that the photo identification requirements of the state voter ID law are unconstitutional and permanently barred further steps to enforce those provisions.
Circuit Judge Richard Niess wrote in his decision in a case brought by the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin that the photo ID requirements are "unconstitutional to the extent they serve as a condition for voting at the polls."
He said that photo ID requirements are not always unconstitutional, but the requirements of the state voter ID law that disqualify otherwise qualified voters from casting ballots violates the state constitution, which guarantees the right of any qualified elector to vote.
In another case last week, Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan also held that the photo ID requirements are unconstitutional and issued a temporary injunction until a trial in that case can be held next month.Niess' ruling appears to have a broader and longer-lasting impact than Flanagan's, and the next step in the case would be an appeal by Gov. Scott Walker and the state Government Accountability Board, who are defendants.
Read more: [Link: host.madison.com...]
