@FLOTUS (arrows added)
Greta Thunberg is 16 years old.
And our president has the emotional development of a 6 year old.
Related reading:
I Wonder Who Wrote That Melania Trump Tweet. (HuffPost, 5/31/2018)
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Melania the marionnette
Greta Thunberg is 16 years old.
Related reading:
I Wonder Who Wrote That Melania Trump Tweet. (HuffPost, 5/31/2018)
Friday, December 13, 2019
Judge Paul Malloy: GOP pay to play the voter suppression way
Judge: 234,000 Wisconsin voter registrations should be tossed. (Wisconsin State Journal, 12/13/2019)
In cahoots? The judge sided with three voters represented by a conservative law firm who argued the state Elections Commission should have immediately deactivated any of the roughly 234,000 voters who didn't respond to an October mailing within 30 days. The voters were flagged as having potentially moved.
GET ME REWRITE: Treig Pronschinski lives in an alternative universe
Not exactly a dominating performance. Data collected in the Current Employment Statistics survey found Wisconsin manufacturers employed 6,800 fewer people in September compared with a year earlier, which continues a trend toward the largest year-over-year decline since the last recession.
Or put another way.
The states are important for Trump, whose pledges to reignite the sector are a cornerstone of his economic message. In the past year, though, manufacturing has weakened amid a trade war with China and slower global demand, making some companies hesitant to invest. The president was in Pennsylvania last month speaking to employees of Royal Dutch Shell Plc, where he said assembly lines are “roaring.”
UW-Madison Hamel Music Center
Photos by Retiring Guy
The $55.8 million facility faced years of delays, including design changes, fundraising challenges amid the Great Recession and a legal fight over the property with its former owners. The music center will open its doors to campus and the larger arts community next month.
Located at the corner of University Avenue and North Lake Street next to the Chazen Museum of Art, Hamel is part of a plan to establish an arts corridor on the east end of campus.
Greetings from Trump's America: Buchanan County, Virginia, where coal was once king
Reported in Can a coal town reinvent itself? (The New York Times, 12/6/2019)
And that, today, is a problem. At the peak of coal’s fortunes in the 1970s, more than 35,000 people lived in Buchanan. Over 5,000 worked in the mines. Mr. Rife remembers downtown sidewalks in Grundy, the county seat, packed with thousands of people on weekend shopping expeditions. Karen Brown, the principal of Grundy High School, recalls Porsches and Mercedes-Benzes parked in the high school lot when she went to school there.
Source: Wikipedia (Buchanan County, Grundy)
Grundy is the county seat of Buchanan County.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts
% of population 25 and older with bachelor's degree:
- 10.8% - Buchanan County
- 37.6% - Virginia
- 30.9% - U.S.
% of population 65 and older:
- 22.2% - Buchanan County
- 15.4% - Virginia
- 16.0% - U.S.
% of population living in poverty:
- 27.6% - Buchanan County
- 10.7% - Virginia
- 11.8% - U.S.
Greetings from Trump's America
Source: Wikipedia
3rd-party candidates received 8.6% of vote in 1992, 9.6% of vote in 1996, 2.5% in 2016
(George Wallace received 11.4% of the vote in 1968)
Buchanan County Public Library, Grundy (shared space)
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Cheryl is correct; her client received glowing reviews from his students
Photo credit: Johns, Flaherty and Collins, SC
Reported in Accuser says ex-UW-La Crosse professor preyed on many women, and got away with it for years. (La Crosse Tribune, 12/13/2019)
Source: Rate My Professor
GET ME REWRITE: Milwaukee Brewers guarantee $9 million to pitcher with 5 career major league baseball victories
The most recent one in 2013.
Source: Baseball Almanac
Brewers sign right-hander Josh Lindblom to three-year deal out of Korean baseball league. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/11/2019)
The Brewers reached a three-year deal Wednesday guaranteeing $9.125 million to Lindblom, 32, who pitched most of the previous five seasons in the KBO with great success. Jon Heyman of the MLB Network was first to report the deal, and ESPN's Jeff Passan reported with incentive bonuses the agreement could reach $18 million.
Related reading:
How One Man Changed Korean Baseball. (FanGraphs, 6/14/2019)
Heo Koo-Yeon is one of the biggest names in Korean baseball history. At this moment, you could say that he is the most influential figure in the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO).
Raymond Morrison Jr. (1937-2019) Warren High School class of 1955
1955 Dragon yearbook
1967 Warren City Directory
- Morrison Raymond F Jr (Victoria) firefighter Warren Fire Dept h17 1/2 Plum Street
1983 Warren City Directory
- Morrison Raymond F Jr & Victoria H; firefighter Warren Boro Fire Dept h445 Prospect Street
The popularity of Raymond is graphed here. Let's look at granddaughter Victoria.
Other class of '55 members:
2019
Rose Quiggle Barney. (7/23/2019)
2018
Donald Mahaffey. (1/5/2018)
2017
James Rose. (12/17/2017)
Howard Russell Buchanan. (7/13/2017)
Carol Burgeson. (6/9/2017)
Theoidore Huber. (5/3/2017)
Mary Sperry. (4/11/2017)
James Graziano. (3/28/2017)
2016
Lavonne Devore Saber. (12/8/2016)
Martin Gage. (12/5/2016)
Sally Jean Nelson Kittner. (11/15/2016)
Lester Nero. (9/8/2016)
2015
Cleo Stack Yaegle. (10/24/2015
Carl Stranburg. (1/30/2015)On Donald Trump (Matteo Renzi edition)
Photo credit: Wikipedia
83 not-very-flattering things foreign officials have said about Trump. (Washington Post, 12/7/2019)
Related reading:
The world is staring at Trump, mouth agape. (Washington Post, 10/16/2019)
Such incoherent rage, combined with confusion distinguishing between friend and foe, is uniquely disconcerting coming from the most powerful man in the world. Trump once worried that “the world is laughing at us.” Now the world is staring at us, mouth agape.
12/10/2019 entry
Photo credit: Parliament of Australia
Trump drives Australian trust in US to all-time low. (The Guardian, 6/20/2018)
The Lowy Institute poll shows that since 2011 faith in the US to act responsibly has fallen from 83% to 55%, while only 30% of Australians have confidence in Trump’s foreign policy.
12/9/2019 entry
Photo credit: Wikipedia
Trump says he could be 'most popular person in Europe’ and 'run for any office'. (The Independent, 1/2/2019)
In a 2016 Pew Research Centre poll, 84 percent of people in Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Sweden believed the American president would “do the right thing in world affairs,” Mr Romney wrote. “One year later, that number had fallen to 16 percent.
12/8/2019 entry
Related article:
Pope Francis on Trump’s border wall: ‘Fear that makes us crazy’. (Washington Post, 1/23/2019)
Pope Francis has made no secret in the past of his disdain for President Trump’s immigration policy. Francis speaks frequently of welcoming migrants; he has said he prefers bridges rather than walls.
34 GOP members of the House of Representatives voted for the Farm Workforce bill, none of them from Wisconsin
House of Representatives Passes Farm Workforce Bill. (Dairy Herd Management, 12/12/2019)
The bill would provide a path to legalization for current farm workers and expand the H-2A foreign guest worker program. The next step would be for the Senate to create a companion bill. Edge* urged the Senate to continue with this process to address the needs of dairy farmers in the Midwest.
Related reading:
Brody Stapel Elected Edge* Cooperative President. (Farm Journal's Milk, 3/21/2018)
Brody Stapel, a dairy farmer from Cedar Grove, Wis., was recently elected president of Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative, replacing John Pagel, who was killed in a plane crash February 22. Stapel was elected to the Edge Board of Directors in 2016, and had been serving as its vice president since January. Todd Dornink, Baldwin, Wis., was elected vice president, having served on the board since 2011.Wisconsin's dairy industry would collapse without the work of Latino immigrants — many of them undocumented. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11/22/2019)
Voting against the bill
What good are they if they can't lift a finger to help their constituents.
Thursday, December 12, 2019
Trump loses his November head of steam in December Marquette poll hypothetical match-ups
Against Biden: From +3 in November to -1 in December
Here's a quirk. Trump shrinks Biden's advantage by 8 percentage points among 18 to 29 year olds.
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Against Warren: From +5 in November to +1 in December
Here's a quirk. Warren goes from a 16 percentage point advantage over Trump with 18 to 29 year olds in November to a 7 percentage point deficit in December, a shift of 23 percentage points. Young Republicans are answering their phones!
Dear Charles,
In what alternative universe do you poll?
Best,
Retiring Guy
Against Sanders: From +3 in November to +2 in December
Here's a quirk. Sanders goes from a 23 percentage point advantage over Trump with 18 to 29 year olds in November to a 3 percentage point deficit in December, a shift of 26 percentage points.
Dear Charles,
In what alternative universe do you poll?
Best,
Retiring Guy
Against Buttigieg: From +8 in November to +1 in December
Here's a quirk. Buttigieg goes from a 10 percentage point advantage over Trump with 18 to 29 year olds in November to a 1 percentage point deficit in December, a shift of 11 percentage points.
Dear Charles,
In what alternative universe do you poll?
Best,
Retiring Guy
Related post:
Marquette poll question: In general, would you describe your political views as... 1 Very conservative 2 Conservative 3 Moderate 4 Liberal 5 Very liberal. (12/12/2019)
Eyeroll, please: If the latest Marquette polls can be believed, the Fox Valley is cooling down on Trump while Milwaukee is warming up. (12/12/2019)