Saturday, March 8, 2025

Child sex abuse in the Name of the Lord (#103 in a series)

 
Screengrab and headline:  WCNC, 3/4/2025

Hank Lee writes: 
The Union County Sheriff's Office arrested 79-year-old Waymon Jordan of Waxhaw on Thursday following a weekslong investigation into reported child sexual abuse. Deputies launched the investigation after receiving reports of a child sexual assault in the Waxhaw area. 
During the course of the investigation, detectives interviewed multiple potential witnesses and collected data they say pointed to Jordan as the primary suspect in the case. Jordan was taken into custody on Thursday, March 6. 
He's charged with four felony counts of statutory sexual offense with a child. Jordan was given a $200,000 bond and has since been released from jail.

"Just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire." (Jude 1:7)


Other miscreant posts:
March 2025

February 2025
Jesse Santos.  (2/26)
Ruel Barbee.  (2/16)
Lee B. Patrick.  (2/14)
Timothy Nall.  (2/7)

January 2025
John Fiedler.  (1/26)
James McMillan.  (1/25)
Jeffrey Merrow.  (1/18)
Johel LaFaurie.  (1/17)
Jeff Taylor.  (1/16)
Dallas Majewski.  (1/15)
Bruce Hollen.  (1/14)
Timothy Nall.  (1/9)
 
December 2024
Edward Monk.  (12/23)
Joshua Lough.  (12/22)
Ignazio Medina.  (12/20)
Anthony Odiong.  (12/19)
Vincent Bishop.  (12/9)
Arturo Alarcon.  (12/8)
Hunter Eubanks.  (12/7)
Roy Shoop.  (12/5)

November 2024
James McMillan.  (11/30)
Stephen Melton. (11/29)
Charles Sulivant.  (11/24)
Geoffrey Carter.  (11/22)
John Radcliff.  (11/21)
Garrett Harmon.  (11/20)
Edward R. Monk.  (11/16)
George Bell.  (11/14)
Jose Mora.  (11/13)
William Pounds.  (11/12)
Charles Randall.  (11/9)
Jackson Gatlin.  (11/7)
Charles Goff.  (11/1)

October 2024
Stephen Johnson.  (10/27)
Josh Howerton.  (10/26)
Craig Stone.  (10/26/2024)
Steven Lawson. (10/25).  
Scott Crenshaw.  (10/25)
Byron Copeland.  (10/25)
Josiah Anthony.  (10/25)
Ronald Goines.  (10/24)
Tony Cammarota.  (10/24)
Robert Morris.  (10/24)
Mike Buster.  (10/23)
Tony Evans.  (10/23)
Terren Dames.  (10/23)
James Randolph.  (10/23)
Matt Queen.  (10/18)
Roy Shoop.  (10/12)
Gabriel Mills.  (10/3)

September 2024
John Raymond.  (9/27)
Juan Barrios.  (9/23)
Demiro Johnson.  (9/22)
Glen Dean McCoy.  (9/22)
James Swanson.  (9/21)
William Dunfee.  (9/21)
Steven Lawson.  (9/20)
Rocky Goodwin.  (9/19)
William Johnson.  (9/17)
Tim Ballard.  (9/13)


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On day 23,750 in office, 91-year-old Chuck Grassley spews nonsense about supremely unqualified Linda McMahon

 
Headline:  Raccoon Valley Radio, 3/7/2025
US Senator Chuck Grassley believes Linda McMahon is going to be an excellent Secretary of Education.

Related posts:
February 2025
Day 23,725.  (2/11)
Day 23,726.  (2/12)
Day 23,727.  (2/13)
Day 23,728,  (2/14)
Day 23,729.  (2/15)
Day 23,730.  (2/16)
Day 23,731.  (2/17)
Day 23,733.  (2/19)
Day 23,737.  (2/23)
Day 23,738.  (2/24)

March 2025
Day 23,746.  (3/4)
Day 23,747.  (3/5)
Day 23,748.  (3/6)
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Baker's Place, Madison Wisconsin (March 2025 construction site visit)

 
Photos by Retiring Guy





Renderings:  The Neutral Project


















Other East Washington posts:
2025
Baker's Place.  (1/28)

2024
Bakers Place.  (9/28)
Baker's Place.  (5/6)

2023
The Continental.  (7/25)

2022

2021
The Valor.  (10/19)
800 block project revisited:  Love notes to the temporarily shuttered Sylvee.  (2/14)

2020
The Arden.  (12/18)

2019
Hotel Indigo.  (12/2)
NIMBY chronicles.  (11/12)

2018







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Empty block next to GEF 1 in downtown Madison is next isthmus redevelopment target

 
Photo by Retiring Guy

Wisconsin State Journal, 2/4/2025

The city-owned Brayton Lot has about 270 parking stalls and was used most recently as a construction staging area for Madison’s new Bus Rapid Transit route. Buildings there could be up to 10 stories tall, staff said, with the potential for a couple of additional stories if some units are set aside for lower-income residents. 
Using the Brayton Lot for BRT staging helped the city secure enough federal funding to build the $194 million Route A, which now runs directly past the site. Because of that arrangement, however, the Federal Transit Administration must sign off on any new development there. 
Any future project at the site must meet FTA standards, including having no more off-street parking spaces than the 270 that exist today and benefitting public transit by increasing demand for service in the area. It must also return $9 million — the value of the lot — to Metro Transit. 



Other East Washington posts:
2025
Baker's Place.  (1/28)

2024
Bakers Place.  (9/28)
Baker's Place.  (5/6)

2023
The Continental.  (7/25)

2022

2021
The Valor.  (10/19)
800 block project revisited:  Love notes to the temporarily shuttered Sylvee.  (2/14)

2020
The Arden.  (12/18)

2019
Hotel Indigo.  (12/2)
NIMBY chronicles.  (11/12)

2018





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Start spreading the news: Time for NASA to reassess private contractor strategy?


    New York Times, 3/8/2025, page A18

BBC, 4/23/2021


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More like a crypto Enron


Headline:  New York Times, 3/6/2025

David Yaffe-Bellany reports
“This Executive Order underscores President Trump’s commitment to making the U.S. the ‘crypto capital of the world,’” said David Sacks, the White House’s crypto and A.I. policy czar, in a post on social media. He said the United States would not sell any Bitcoin in the reserve, which he likened to “a digital Fort Knox.”

Related post:
So at what point do we call it  ‘klepto’ instead of ‘crypto’?  (7/15/2023)
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Where do most eggs come from in the United States? CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations)

 
Headline:  The Hill, 3/7/2025

Kelvey Vander Hart opines:
Looking at the average American egg farm, it is easy to see how these facilities become infectious disease factories. At the end of 2022, the U.S. had 308 million commercial egg-laying hens. According to World Animal Protection, more than 95 percent of these hens live in factory farming conditions. 
Chickens hatched on factory egg farms lead horrifying lives. Male chicks are nearly always killed, often thrown into grinders while they are still alive. That’s awful enough, but female chicks have a dismal life ahead of them. As they grow, they are often held in battery cages, which are small wire enclosures where several birds are crammed together. According to PETA, the average factory farmed egg-laying hen spends her life in a space no larger than a piece of printer paper. Hens are not just in close contact with the other birds in their cage — battery cages are often stacked so that feces and urine from the top layers of cages falls into other enclosures.  [emphasis added]

Related posts:
February 2025

January 2025
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GET ME REWRITE: First Felon Donald Trump withdraws U.S. from World Health Organization and fiddles while bird flu rampages

 
Headline:  GB News, 3/7/2025

The World Health Organisation (WHO) added bird flu to its list of '37 priority pathogens' with pandemic potential last year. 
The virus has already spread from birds to cows, creating a pathway that allowed it to infect farm workers. 
Czech scientists have raised new concerns that the highly pathogenic virus could be spreading through the air.

Related posts: 
March 1-15:

February 15-28, 2025

February 4-14, 2025


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Another China boogeyman: Some Wisconsinites unknowingly complain about Canadian ownership of U.S. agricultural land

 
Headline:  Capital Times, 3/7/2025

Erin McGroarty reports: 
Tyler Wenzlaff, director of national affairs at the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, also said he is not aware of any foreign adversary buying farmland near a Wisconsin military base. But Wenzlaff said he thinks it’s a good idea to keep an eye on potential property sales to foreign buyers. 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that as of Dec. 31, 2023, the four countries considered foreign adversaries — China, Iran, North Korean and Russia — combined hold less than 1% of foreign owned agricultural land in the United States.  [emphasis added]
[snip]
The majority of foreign land ownership in Wisconsin is related to Canadian forestry projects, Wenzlaff pointed out.

Related reading:

Wisconsin Public Radio, 7/10/2024

Trevor Hook reports:
Zhang and two other researchers recently published an article — “Mapping and Contextualizing Foreign Ownership and Leasing of U.S. Farmland” — in the 2024 Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. 
Zhang said his recent research found that China and other “adversarial countries” hold zero acres of land in the “Lake Region” of the U.S., a space that includes Wisconsin. His team found that Canada, Denmark and Portugal are the top three holders of Wisconsin’s foreign-held land.

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GET ME REWRITE: Far-right Republican Barbara "Babs" Dittrich gets a lot of pushback with latest transgender assault

 
Headline:  Wisconsin Public Radio, 3/7/2025

Nick Rommel reports:
Democracy was in action at the Wisconsin State Assembly Thursday — in the form of a 10 ½-hour public hearing in front of its education committee. 
The hearing focused on two Republican-backed bills. Both bills propose statewide guidelines for local school policies on transgender students. 
The first would compel school districts to set certain conditions under which teachers and administrators would be allowed to address students by a new name, including one typically used by the opposite biological sex. 
The second would prohibit biologically male students from playing on girls’ sports teams or using their locker rooms.

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Madison Wisconsin construction news: low-income housing development proposed at site of WMC headquarters

 
From this...

Photos by Retiring Guy



....to this


Wisconsin State Journal, 3/8/2025

Nicole Pollack reports:
A developer that has done several low-income housing projects in the Madison area is looking to build apartments at an East Washington Avenue site five blocks from Capitol Square that has long been occupied by Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce. 
Bear Development of Kenosha would demolish the WMC headquarters at 501 E. Washington Ave., which the business association built when it moved from Milwaukee in the 1980s, and construct a seven-story apartment building with 223 studio through two-bedroom units. The project would also have a parking garage with 68 stalls. 
The developer is aiming to break ground on the project by the end of this year and have it completed by 2027, Nick Orthmann, a project manager with Bear Development, told a meeting with neighbors in January. Later filings with the city put the construction start date in early 2026.

Other East Washington posts:
2025
Baker's Place.  (1/28)

2024
Bakers Place.  (9/28)
Baker's Place.  (5/6)

2023
The Continental.  (7/25)

2022

2021
The Valor.  (10/19)
800 block project revisited:  Love notes to the temporarily shuttered Sylvee.  (2/14)

2020
The Arden.  (12/18)

2019
Hotel Indigo.  (12/2)
NIMBY chronicles.  (11/12)

2018





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Friday, March 7, 2025

Here's a laugh: Former Wisconsin Governor Bald Spot calls himself a 'hardworking American"

 
The 2014 book was his Presidential campaign biography.  What a humiliation that decision turned out to be!

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High point of Scooter's political career

And most definitely the low point!


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Martha's Vineyard backyard chicken flock depopulated as a result of bird flu

 
Headline:  MV Times, 3/6/2025

Eunki Seonwoo reports:
The Martha’s Vineyard Boards of Health announced on Thursday that the chickens from a “small, non-commercial backyard flock” on the Island tested positive for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). [emphasis daded]
Since the owner was not selling eggs or meat, no additional safety measures are required. “Four were confirmed positive and the remainder of the flock of 50 was depopulated as a safety measure,” Edgartown Health Agent Brice Boutot told the Times. 
The health department did not release the address of the backyard flock nor which town it was in.

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