May 2011
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imthepunkwiththestutter asked: Glad you like my blog. I write A Beat City Diary!!
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Dear google: The yellow ribbon is officially done.
I am honoring real veterans today. So enough of the vapid patriotic claptrap, google.
I see that every time I use google today i will be encountering an American flag and a yellow ribbon. I’m fine with an American flag. That’s back in the hands of the left through recent protests. However, I register visceral disgust with the yellow ribbon.
Remember those lousy magnetic yellow...
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#Madison Veterans for Peace Memorial Day...
with keynote by The Progressive’s Matt Rothschild, music by Old Cool www.veteransforpeace.org
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#Madison "Saturday, May 28: Be at the Capitol at...
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People in Alberta Darling's district are getting...
I would like to hear from you if you get one of these calls.
“Shorewood residents received calls tonight from the Darling camp. Caller ID says Republican Party, phone number is Darling’s HQ, 414-727-4445. Caller … asks for a person by name. Asks if you are voting for Darling or Sandy Pasch. When you say Sandy, they offer to send you an absentee ballot.” - from facebook
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We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental...
from Black Man magazine, Vol. 3, no. 10 (July 1938), pp. 7-11; quoted inThe Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. VII: November 1927-August 1940; ISBN 9780520072084. Marcus Garvey, author; Robert A. Hill and Barbara Bair, eds. Google Books search.
famously quoted in ”Redemption Song” by Bob Marley
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Anonymous asked: sent the lnk to the koch story that was in al the kansas papers to your twitter acount
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Too many confirmed and TBA global Slutwalks to... →
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Sunday, May 22 · 1:00 - 7:00pm La Crosse Concert...
Location the Root Note and Bodega, La Crosse4th StreetLa Crosse, WI
Local musicians are putting on a concert in support of Jennifer Shilling for State Senate at the Root Note and Bodega, La Crosse on Sunday, May 22nd from 1:00 - 7:00 Root Note 2:30 – Middletown 3:00 – Michael Scott 3:30 – Fayme Rochelle and the Waxwings 4:30 - Mr. Blink 5:30 - Jawbone Bodega 1:00 – Adam Palm 2:00 – Don Harvey...
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I heard from a man at Fighting Bob Fest North that...
pro-Koch brothers biz editorial in the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram recently. He called it an editorial and said it was written by one of the Koch brothers. Anyone vouch for that? Is it online? I’d like a photocopy if I can’t get an online link. Thanks. Carol AKA blue cheddar
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It is a #Wisconsin politics must-listen:...
& Scott Wittkopf of the blog Bdgrdemocracy Listen at The Sara Schulz Show #WI #p2
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Watch“This bill is really voter suppression” Senator Lena Taylor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. frm Nick Nice #wiunion
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I'd like to see where the rape kit capitols of the...
And where their polar opposites are.[Referencing this Cleveland story]
Assuming you get those data points - where we have kit piles - and then map them in GIS so I can find this shit out while Im house shopping, we might hear: ”Gee, I was going to move to Suburbanville, but I checked it out on the web and found out it’s one of the “Rape Kit Capitols” No way in...
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Well THIS is upsetting to me. Nothing says "old...
kits to sit around whilst letting the boys continue their rape and murder. I’m sure officers in Cleveland and cities across the country are instead busy fighting the crucial ongoing and neverending drug war.
http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2011/05/16/dna-in-untested-rape-kit-matches-cleveland-serial-killers/
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sue: there's a rumor out there that your wife is...
-Resident Sue speaking to Sen Fitzgerald @ public “office hours” in Fort Atkinson. @LightReading is live-tweeting.
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I have been his constituent since the...
….or why he hates teachers so much, or why he consistently lies to the public or why is he helping to privatize our entire state? Why does he hate the environment? Why does he hate alternative farming? You get my drift… from Wm J K., Resident of Jefferson, relaying a message to me via facebook to get to @LightReading who’s on twitter at Fort Atkinson-in “office hours”...
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les: you're rewarding the very wealthy b/c the...
and you’re giving them what they want LightReading Lori Compas les: repubs say they want less govt, but you’re handing out mandates to local govts and schools. that’s not less govt! —live tweets from Sen. Scott Fitzgerald’s “office hours” tonight in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
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Request for #WIunion peeps - especially from Sen....
@LightReading is at Sen. Scott Fitzgerald’s “office hours” right now at Fort Atkinson High School. Not a diverse representation there. Loaded with teacher-haters and conceal and carry fans. Location: Fort Atkinson High School, 925 Lexington Blvd. Office hours go on until 7PM.
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(Sen. Scott Fitzgerald flubbed? Or this is a typo?...
spkr: in lake mills you said “human rights are not some kind of human right.” senfitz: that’s right.
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"Bad behavior" in Madison Capitol. I noted the... →
from Capitol Times
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No smart phone? No problem [sort of] for twitter...
I’m going to do a quick inspirational how-to for the twitterites who do not know that even with their crappy $10 phone they too can do tweeting on the run.
I admit it is not as cool as the smartphone apps or as slick. But whatcha gonna do if you’re impoverished and want to rule the world?
Here we go.
Set it up:
First you set up your phone to send and receive SMS messages - -...
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Driving into Madison today? On parking, bus rides,...
(First - - if you need a ride- they are out there…the big list of bus pick-ups:
http://www.wiafscme.org/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=baa46c67-5d1f-4101-8c77-da9451349af3)
If you are driving in “early”, then parking downtown might not be a big deal. Here is the downtown parking map.http://www.cityofmadison.com/parkingutility/maps/Downtown.cfm
My fave is #5...
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“Even though I continue to love this job, I have decided that the time has come...”
– Democratic Senator Herb Kohl, announcing his plans to retire. He is the sixth senator from the Democratic caucus to announce he won’t be seeking re-election. (via wisconsinforward)
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Rep Danou of Trempealeau, #WI - "on 1 day we can...
to disinfect their water, the next we’re imposing a #voterID bill on small towns that will have a substantial financial impact”
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Minnesotans: So you can know who the exquisite...
…your state who could not rest easy in the knowledge that gay people there already can not marry, but had to add a super-duper make us safe from the gays formal ban on gay marriage that will be on the ballot in 2012 for y’all to vote on, and pledge either your love or hatred for homosexuality.
Link to who voted and how: http://www.twincities.com/politics/ci_18042152?nclick_check=1
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HR3 inspired: "Codpiece" and "codify" - no...
[the video: YouTube video: “GOP Attacks Women: Weiner Responds”] …because I was watching Anthony Weiner discussing “codifying the Hyde amendment” and making it clear that the U.S. House of Reps was not doing that. It boils down to electeds, mostly male, sitting around arguing about definitions of rape and access and payment of abortion… So..I admit it. I was...
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Watchdaviddouglastv:
The Dane County Bomb Squad is checking out a suspicious package in downtown Madison. The situation is made more interesting by the fact that it was found in a squad car.
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