Friday, June 27, 2025
New York Times: 10 years and counting of normalizing and sanewashing Donald Trump
Madison Wisconsin construction news: GEF 2 and GEF 3 await the wrecking ball
GET ME REWRITE: RFK Jr. Is systematically undermining vaccine science and endangering health while spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. dithers
President Donald Trump’s appointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a decades-long vaccine skeptic, as secretary of health and human services (HHS) is already undermining public trust in highly safe and effective vaccines. During his February 2025 confirmation hearings, Kennedy made a series of promises to Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA), pledging to “work within the current vaccine approval and safety monitoring systems, and not establish parallel systems” and to “maintain the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices without changes.” Despite Sen. Cassidy’s skepticism and expressed reservations, he ultimately granted Kennedy his linchpin vote, predicated on ongoing communication and collaboration.
In just his first few months as secretary, Kennedy has already broken these promises, endangering America’s vaccine system’s credibility and leaving families and communities exposed to imminent health threats in the process. [emphasis added]
Chapter 12. (3/14)
West Point graduate Lucien K. Truscott IV gives Trump's bonehead defense secretary Pete Hegseth a much-needed history lesson
In history. Got that?
Hegseth was standing there in the Pentagon where General George C. Marshall, working in conjunction with General Dwight D. Eisenhower and British General Bernard Montgomery and General Omar Bradley planned and executed the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944.
That invasion involved a fleet from eight different navies of 6,939 vessels, including 1,213 warships, 4,126 landing craft, 289 escort vessels, 277 minesweepers, and 864 merchant craft. Beginning around midnight, 2,200 American, British and Canadian bombers attacked targets along the coast and inland German military positions.
According to the Eisenhower Presidential Library, about 133,000 combat and support troops landed on French soil during the 24 hours of D-Day. 73,000 American troops, including the airborne troops who parachuted and flew on gliders behind enemy lines and Army Rangers who climbed the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc, came ashore at Omaha and Utah beaches. Approximately 83,000 British and Canadian soldiers landed at Sword, Juno, and Gold beaches.
There were at least 10,000 allied casualties on D-Day, with more than 4,000 soldiers confirmed killed.
The Normandy landing on D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history involving one of the largest one-day bombing campaigns in history.
The Secretary of Defense needs to go downstairs to the Pentagon’s department of military history, assuming it survived DOGE, and do some reading.
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MISCREANT PREACHERS: Sodomy in the Name of the Lord (#143 in a series)
According to the department, on Sunday, June 22, the Laverne Police Department requested OSBI to investigate allegations of sexual assault.
OSBI agents launched an investigation and identified 66-year-old Christopher Cassel, a pastor in Laverne, as the suspect.
Cassel was arrested and booked into Harper County Jail on two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of distribution of narcotics, and one count of furnishing alcohol to a minor, OSBI officials said.
Out-of-scale home on Middleton Street in Middleton Wisconsin (June 2025 construction site visit)
Around Town Middleton WI: Lush vegetation along Tiedeman Pond walking path
According to a recent Next Door post, this apartment building allegedly has roaches. (10/15)
What a concept! Dual-purpose dumpster. (11/4)
Jim's BP reboots as Jim;s Auto Service. (10/18)
August 2020
Sugars Court. (8/31)
December 2019
Roman Candle survives the cut, even without the availability of convenient parking. (12/12)
The Monona side of town. (12/6)
November 2019
Bike rack at Sauk Trail Elementary School. (11/8)
Not everybody's on board in the Meadows neighborhood. (11/4)
October 2019
Matching car and garage door. (10/11)
September 2019
Around Town Middleton: Bees love ornamental onion plants. (9/4)
August 2019
60-year-old resident arrested for armed robbery. (8/21)
Staff and visitors may now park in the MCPASD Services Center lot . (8/2)
June 2019
"ROAD WORK AHEAD" trumps "DRIVE LIKE YOUR KIDS LIVE HERE" on Park Street. (6/27)
Free lunch Friday. (6/24/2019)
CBD, just like everywhere else in Wisconsin. (6/24)
February 2019
According to chapter 8.07 of the city ordinances.... (2/4)
January 2019
More than a snow fort, but not a standing-room igloo. (1/2)
December 2018
This section of sidewalk was replaced in 1980. (12/18)
The post office's new and improved self-service kiosk. (12/18)
November 2018
Spell checker. (11/19)
August 2018
Must be on a tight schedule. (8/6/)
July 2018
What type of seeds? (7/6)
June 2018
If it's not one thing, it's another. (6/23)
Bloom Bake Shop to reopen as Bloom Bindery, a bakery/bookstore. (6/15)
May 2018
The Tiedeman Pond frog chorus. (5/15)
March 2018
Tiedeman Pond winter fish kill. (3/30)
Hear that lonesome whistle blow. (3/22)
Explosion on Elmwood Avenue. (3/20)
Googling 'Henry Hubbard'. (3/18)
A not-so-faded Flo strikes a new pose. (3/12)
This corner house is now a rental. (1/16)
This 1955, 1296-square-foot ranch on Cooper Avenue was listed at $219,500. (1/13)
It's always the season of the witch at this Anderson Street address in Middleton. (1/11)
December 2017
A sure sign that this request went unheeded, if not unseen. (12/24)
Turnstile Christmas Eve services at St. Luke's. (12/13)