Mercury Marine’s economic impact overstated?

Simply amazing. Both of these things cannot be true at the same time.

From Manta:

Mercury Marine Group is a private company categorized under Marine engines and located in Fond Du Lac, WI. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $45,800,000 and employs a staff of approximately 550.

From the  Fond DuLac County [...]

Namecalling in politics

You can read it here.

Let’s see now. I  called other people ‘yellow bellies’ when I was nine years old or whenever I watched John Wayne and I got caught up in that restrained testosterone-dripping inflection of his. How then do we explain this over at Polk Country Republicans?

Career politician Rep. David “Yellowbelly” Obey [...]

Mayor Barrett’s assailant to plead not guilty

Anthony Peters, the man who assaulted Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett with a tire iron earlier this month, will plead not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, according to attorney Anthony D. Cotton. According to his attorney, Peters has a history of mental health problems, including bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and Peters also may [...]

Gwen Moore has another challenger

It appears Rep. Gwen Moore has yet another challenger in the 2010 election. Samantha Carter joins service station owner Dan Sebring in the race to unseat Rep. Moore in 2010, and I’ll give her as much a chance of beating Rep. Moore as Dan Sebring has, which is to say she has no chance at [...]

Rep. Hintz introduces payday loan legislation

A few weeks ago, I wrote about an effort that was underfoot in the State Assembly to institute common-sense limits on the interest rate imposed by payday loan stores, which have sprouted up in Wisconsin like weeds since Wisconsin’s cap on interest rates for consumer loans was repealed by the State Legislature in 1995. In [...]

Unsocialized Healthcare: pre-Obama

Q. How many people in the United States have Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance? A.The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare report that 98 million Americans receive Medicare, Medicaid, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits.

 Long live  the status quo but do not expand it. 

Now that the elderly and the children are taken [...]

There’s a special place in hell reserved for Rush Limbaugh

Listen as Rush Limbaugh congratulates himself for predicting in March that the health care bill wouldn’t be passed before Sen. Ted Kennedy’s death:

Yeah, I hope Rush likes warm weather, because it’s really hot where he’s headed.

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Thursday Music – Tom Petty Edition

We’re going to play some Tom Petty this week.

First up is “I Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, which was requested by our own Anon:

Next up is “Mary Jane’s Last Dance”: And finally, here’s “Into the Great Wide Open”:

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