Retiring Guy's Digest: 2016-10-09

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Product placement in the dentist office?

Photos by Retiring GUy

This week in the cereal aisle: 'Tis the season for Pumpkin Spice Cheerios

Photo by Retiring

Pumpkin Spice Cheerioes are coming soon. (USA Today, 8/4/2016)

Speaking of reviews....

No surprise that this video has just 366 views since its 8/26/2016 posting. (That's about 7 per day.)

Related posts:
Wedding bells chimes. (10/5/2016)
The price of convenience (22.54 cents per ounce). (8/19/2016)
Make up your mind already! (8/14/2016)
Remember Nabisco Shredded Wheat? (7/13/2016)
This week in the cereal aisle features Batman and Superman. (7/7/2016)
Post wants you to have ice cream for breakfast. (6/30/2016)
Tiny Toast. (6/21/2016)

For WISN headline writer, it's all about the money

WISN, 10/11/2016

Mayor Tom Barrett takes a service-oriented view.

Related reading:
Fine forgiveness program. (Milwaukee Public Library)
Fine forgiveness programs. (Public Libraries online, 8/9/2016)

UPDATE. Randy Hopp participates in tangle at candidates' debate

Reported in Kane Board candidates tangle at forum. (The Courier-News, 10/14/2016)

Related articles:
Randy Hopp not running for a library board seat this year, now shooting for Kane County Board. (2/26/2016)
Randy Hopp may continue to use the Gail Borden Library, but he will not be serving on the board. (4/9/2015)
The Randy Hopp saga returns. (1/8/2015)
Randy Hopp is no longer a Gail Borden library trustee. (5/27/2013)
Elgin Library trustee Randy Hopp not yet fit to stand trial . (5/23/2013)
Sign this guy up for anger management classes. (1/19/2012)
Library board member from hell is here to stay. ( 6/19/2011)
Add Elgin Community College to the list of places where Randy Hopp is banned. (5/2/2011)
Gail Borden's 'board member from hell' is back in the news again. (3/26/2011)
Crossing t's and dotting i's aren't enough for this library board member. (1/15/2011)
The strange saga of Randy Hopp, library trustee. (5/23/2010)

Original 3/16/2016 post, "Randy Hopp one step away from joining Kane County Board", starts here.

As reported in Hopp captures Democratic nod in Kane County Board District 22. (Daily Herald, 3/16/2016)

UPDATE. Blanchardville Public Library holdings, 2011-2015

Source: Wisconsin Public Library Service Data

2011-2015 changes:

Books | - 214
Audio | +161
Video | -149
Periodicals | -18
Expenditures | +$9,958 (+83%)

Beloit Public Library. (10/6/2016)
Benton Public Library. (10/7/2016)
Berlin Public Library. (10/9/2016)
Big Bend Village Library. (10/10/2016)
Black Creek Village Library,. (10/11/2016)
Black Earth Public Library. (10/12/2016)
Black River Falls Public Library. (10/13/2016)
Blair-Preston Public Library. (10/14/2016)

Original 11/12/2015 post, "A to Z through the Wisconsin Public Library Service Data: Collections (Blanchardville Public Library)", starts here.

This series takes a look at the numerical changes in Wisconsin public library collections in 9-year increments: 1996, 2005, and 2014.

All statistical information from the Wisconsin Public Library Service Data.

Blanchardville Public Library

Shared online catalog: Verso (Southwest Wisconsin Library System)
Collection development policy: Not available online

Photo credit: Google
(shared space in village hall)

Friday, October 14, 2016

Meet Ken Hambone, America's favorite undecided pervert

America’s sweetheart Ken Bone posted some really gross stuff on Reddit. (Death and Taxes, 10/14/2016)

Brought to you by the Scott Walker vetting team. If we’ve learned anything from 2016, it’s that America really sucks at picking the right people to be popular.

The latest on the GOP sexist pig running for President

Quoted in Donald Trump implied Hillary Clinton has a subpar ass. (Death and Taxes, 10/14/2016)

Pennsylvania place names: It takes up to 4 hours and 30 minutes to get from Intercourse to Climax

And there are at least 3 ways to go by car.

I learned about Intercourse in grade school after a friend returned home from a family trip to Pennsylvania's Amish Country. We shared more than a few fits of giggles.

On the other hand, I never reached (awareness of ) Climax until today, when I encountered the place name in an obituary in my hometown paper, the Warren Times Observer.

Put another way, Trump pulls out of Virginia

Wall Street Journal, 10/13/2016

Source; Real Clear Politics

Clinton has won every Virginia poll at least since June of this year.

Related posts:
Trump's support remains stable. Why? Cuz Morning Consult sez so! (10/11/2016)
UPDATE. Latest national polls, even Rasmussen, show Trump in big, well-deserved trouble. (10/10/2016)
Pennsylvania UPDATE. Dear Allentown Morning Call, Time to get out of the polling business, (10/3/2016)
UPDATE. Colorado turns from blue to purple since our last visit there. (10/3/2016)
UPDATE. Clinton tries to put some space between her and Trump in North Carolina. (10/3/2016) Live Free or Die UPDATE: Trump still can't crack 40% in 4-way New Hampshire presidential polls. (9/30/2016)
Clinton keeps Trump at bay in Michigan throughout September. (9/30/2016)
Clinton gets big bounce in first Nevada post-debate presidential poll. (9/30/2016)
UPDATE. It's been a Clinton and Trump nip and tuck in Florida Presidential polls all September long. (9/30/2016)
Latest Florida presidential poll: Where Trump is lagging. (8/28/2016)
Trump campaign engine stalls in Michigan. (8/17/2016)
UPDATE: Trump can't crack 40% in 4-way New Hampshire presidential polls. (8/15/2016)
Trump seriously tanking in Colorado. (8/12/2016)
Clinton extends lead in North Carolina polls. (8/12/2016)
Clinton holds slight advantage in Florida presidential polls.  (8/12/2016)
Trump keeps up his inane, disparaging, name-calling tweets as his poll numbers erode. (8/7/2016)
Clinton takes big lead over Trump in Virginia.  (8/7/2016)
Clinton takes it to Trump every time in Michigan.  (8/6/2016)
UPDATE: Now pinch-hitting for Rasmussen, the Los Angeles Times. (8/6/2016)
Trump pisses away his advantage in Georgia, of all places!  (8/5/2016)
Dem. challenger Katie McGinty tightens race against GOP incumbent Sen. Pat Toomey in PA. (8/5/2016)
New Hampshire Senator Kelly Ayotte can't run away from Donald Trump fast enough. (8/5/2016)
Latest national Presidential polls has GOP worried. (8/5/2016)
Clinton starting to put room between herself and Trump in national polls. (8/4/2016)

Apparently, Bethel Park PA football fans want to "Make American Great Again"

Washington Post, 10/13/2016

Incorporated as a borough in 1949, Bethel Park is a suburban Allegheny County community located 7 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts

Source: Wikipedia

Related article:
Woodland Hills remains an NFL football factory. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 5/11/2016)

UPDATE. Blair-Preston Public Library holdings, 2011-2015

Source: Wisconsin Public Library Service Data

2011-2015 changes:

Books | +1,483
Audio | - 33
Video | + 19
Periodicals | -4
Expenditures | -$7,244 (-30%)

Original 11/11/2015 post, "A to Z through the Wisconsin Public Library Service Data: Collections (Blair-Preston Public Library)", starts here.

This series takes a look at the numerical changes in Wisconsin public library collections in 9-year increments: 1996, 2005, and 2014.

All statistical information from the Wisconsin Public Library Service Data.

Blair-Preston Public Library

Shared online catalog: WRLSWEB (Encore) (Winding Rivers Library System)
Collection development policy: Not available online

Photo credit: Blair-Preston Public Library
(shared space in village hall)

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Winning 216 games over 20 seasons with 5 teams seems to have left Curt Schilling with few functional brain cells

Must have been separated at birth with Lenny Dykstra.

Stats from Baseball Reference

Shared at Curt Schilling tries really hard to defend Trump’s creepy comments about a 10-year-old. (Death and Taxes, 10/13/2016)

Santa Ana as the face of a new California

Source: U.S. Census QuickFacts

Source: Wikipedia

This City Is 78% Latino, and the Face of a New California. (The New York Times, 10/11/2016)

The power and presence of Latinos in this community in Orange County — itself once a bastion of Republicanism — is echoed up and down the California coast. Latinos now make up just under 40 percent of the state’s population, projected to increase to 47 percent by 2050. The leaders of both houses of the Legislature are Latino, as is the secretary of state, the current mayor of Los Angeles and the previous mayor.

Related reading:
From 1940 census: How has Orange County changed? (Orange County Register, 8/21/2013)

The most instructive graphiic from the above article.

I was twice a resident of Orange County -- from August to November 1971 and June to August 1972 -- working as a cook at the Cottage Restaurant (now the Urth Caffe) in Laguna Beach. (The Cottage closed in late 2012.)

Postcard from Retiring Guy's collection

For the spineless Darryl Glenn, what a diff'rence a day makes

Reported in The Daily 202: Republican politicians fall back in line behind Trump after defecting. (Washington Post, 10/12/2016)

Real Clear Politics' poll average has Glenn trailing Democratic candidate Michael Bennet by more than 10 percentage points -- 51.3% to 40.0%.

Dinah Washington's version of a 1934 Dorsey Brothers' hit spent 20 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 during the summer and early fall of 1959. It peaked at #8 but reached #1 on Billboard's rhythm & blues chart.

Clearly, the Trump campaign has no sense of irony

Found at Donald Trump Campaign Response to Report That He Sexually Assaulted Two Women. (Heavy, 10/12/2016)

UPDATE. Once again, it's 'mission accomplished' for proponents of voter ID

Quoted in Federal judge says voter ID training for Wisconsin DMV workers was 'manifestly inadequate', by Jesse Opoien. (The Capital Times, 10/12/2016)

A federal judge said Wednesday the state of Wisconsin has fallen short on its court-ordered obligations to inform voters lacking necessary documents how to obtain a photo ID, but signaled it is unlikely he will suspend the state's voter ID law for the November election.

Original 10/9/2016 post, "How it goes in Wisconsin: Scott Walker's toolbox presents Brad Schimel's whitewash", starts here.

Reported in State voter ID review finds no new problems with how state gave out free voter IDs. (Madison.com, 10/8/20160

Related voter ID posts:
One of the voter ID smoking guns unearthed by the Guardian. (9/16/2016)
Robin Vos approves of voter ID to press his limited government goals. (9/13/2016)
Dear Donald Trump, Here's what voter ID rigged elections look like. (8/24/2016)
Despite recent appeals panel ruling, Brad Schimel continues to waste taxpayer money. (8/24/2016)
Robin Vos, Jim Steineke defend GOP right to suppress the vote. (7/30/2016)
Voter ID hokey pokey. (5/20/2016)
Giddy over voter ID, Leah Vukmir (R-Brookfield) is also a big fan of redistricting. (5/17/2016)
The fact is, Scott Walker, Wisconsin spent a lot of time and money on a solution in search of a problem. (4/28/2016)
Ted Perry, GOP hypocrisy, voter ID, and anger. (4/8/2016)
Voter ID controversy: Glenn Grothman just makes it worse. (4/6/2016)
The hyper-hypocritical Scott Walker: Hunters are ethical, voters are not. (3/10/2016)
It's not an oversight; just part of the Republican plan to disenfranchise voters. (2/1/2016)
Republican candidates for President want voting to be a privilege, not a right. (8/6/2015)
Apparently, it's OK to plagiarize a Voter ID law. (10/17/2014)
The Republicans' voter ID, "common sense" echo chamber. (10/13/2014)
GOP reaches out to Blacks and Hispanics while making it harder for them to vote. (10/3/2014)
What are the odds? Joint Finance provides funding for Voter ID campaign. (10/1/2014)
In the news: Wisconsin Voter ID law and absentee ballots. (9/18/2014)
Wisconsin Republican legislative leaders cry like a baby. (9/17/2014)
Reality sandwiched between two slices of Leah Vukmir white bread. (9/15/2014)
Scott Walker on Voter ID: It's going just according to plan. (8/2/2014)
Meet Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Patience Roggensack, who authored majority opinions in voter ID cases. (8/1/2014)
So as a result, you want your government to make it harder for you to vote? (5/22/2014)
The cat's got Fitzgerald's tongue. (5/14/2014)
I can see how these pie graphs from a 2005 report might have informed the discussion for voter ID proponents. (5/11/2014)
When it comes to diversity, all they want to do is talk. (5/4/2014)
We're still awaiting a statement from Governor Walker. (4/29/2014)
Voter suppression: Rep. Tom Larson uses the City of Milwaukee as the bogeyman. (3/31/2014)
Sen. Mary Lazich shows her true colors. (3/18/2014)
And the hypocrisy just keeps on coming: Republicans can't even give lip service to their "principles". (2/14/2014)

Related reading:
New G.O.P. Bid to Limit Voting in Swing States. (The New York Times, 3/29/2014)
ALEC Exposed: Democracy, Voter Rights, and Federal Power. (Center for Media and Democracy, 9/28/2012)
Right-Wing Operatives Take Up ALEC's Voter Suppression Agenda. (Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch, 4/19/2012)
Voter Suppression 101. (Center for American Progress. 4/4/2012)

Likely to be other reasons why Trump and Glenn Grothman's relationship might be "less than perfect"

Reported in Grothman to Trump: Sharpen your pencil. (Ripon Commonwealth Press, 10/12/2016)

UPDATE. Black River Falls Public Library holdings, 2011-2015

Source: Wisconsin Public Library Service Data

2011-2015 changes:

Books | +3,392
Audio | - 538
Video | - 187
Periodicals | -10
Expentures | -$16,415 (-41.5%)

Original 11/10/2015 post, "A to Z (A to WY, actually) through theWisconsin Public Library Service Data: Collections (Black River Falls Public Library)", starts here.

This series takes a look at the numerical changes in Wisconsin public library collections in 9-year increments: 1996, 2005, and 2014.