- Michael Tomasky: Captures my mood many days pretty well
My friend R passed along the below, which landed in his in box the other day.Subject: Letter to the Red States:Dear Red States.If you manage to steal this election too, we've decided we're leaving.We intend to form our own country, and we're taking the other BlueStates with us. In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all of the Northeast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of New California.To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.We get stem cell research and the best beaches. You get faith healingand swamps.We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood.We get Intel and Microsoft. You get WorldCom.We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.We get 85% of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. You getAlabama.We get two-thirds of the tax revenue; you get to make the red statespay their fair share.Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22% lower than the ChristianCoalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get a bunch of singlemoms.Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war,and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once. If youneed people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they'reapparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, and theydon't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq and hope that the WMD's turn up, but we'renot willing to spend our resources and the lives of our loved ones inBush's Quagmire.With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of thecountry's fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92%of the nation's fres 私の友人のRは、その彼のボックス他day.Subjectで：レター赤い州に上陸、以下に沿って：親愛なるレッドStates.Ifあなたも今回の選挙を盗むために管理渡されると、我々はleaving.We予定していることを決定した我々自身の国を形成するために、私たちは私たちと他のBlueStatesを取っている
- Video: Victim of alleged catholic church sex abuse speaks out
As the New York Times reported that a Catholic priest sexually abused up to 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin, Arthur Budzinski, 61, held a news conference in Milwaukee saying he was a victim
としては、ニューヨークタイムズ紙は、カトリックの司祭性的ウィスコンシン州、アーサーBudzinski、61で200聴覚障害者の少年に、彼は被害者だったというウィスコンシン州ミルウォーキーで記者会見を開く虐待を報告
- Michael Tomasky: Feingold, get it together
Russ Feingold, Democratic senator of Wisconsin, is, as I mentioned, threatening to wreck finreg reform.The rules: a bill that comes back to the Senate after the House-Senate conference does not have to pass the hurdle of a cloture vote, a vote to cut off debate and proceed to final passage, which is the one that requires 60. Doesn't have to. However, the minority may request a cloture vote after the conference bill returns, and obviously in this case the GOP will.Here's where things stand, to show you how ridiculous this supermajority business has become. You see, a generation or two ago, senators often would vote for cloture and then vote against the bill if they opposed it. This was done for collegiality's sake, out of regard for the body's traditions and norms, and all that. So it was not especially uncommon to see senators, even ones from the minority party, vote to move something to the floor, on the general grounds that minorities of 41 shouldn't be blocking everything in sight, and then vote against the bill.But now, in our super-partisan times, that norm has disappeared. Senators figured out that in essence, voting for cloture meant letting the bill go through, rendering their later no vote irrelevant.Well, that depends on your values system. Your later no vote was irrelevant only if you regard every piece of legislation as a battle of wills kind of death match; if you think your job as senator is to gain political advantage at all costs. If however you think your job as senator is to represent your state, vote your beliefs, but not excessively gum up the whole works, then your later no vote isn't irrelevant at all.But we're at the point in history where those old norms are long gone, especially with the GOP in the minority. And so we have a situation where Dem 私が述べたようにラスファインゴールド、ウィスコンシン州の民主党上院議員、、、reform.Theルールをfinreg破壊することが脅かしている：バック上院議員にハウス上院会議の後に来る法案クローチャー投票のハードルを渡す必要はありません投票は議論を切断し、60を必要とする1つの最終的な通路に進んでください
- Badgers Cut Ties With Nike Over Labor Concerns
University of Wisconsin cuts ties with Nike over treatment of Honduran workers
Nike - University of Wisconsin。Madison - Wisconsin - Sports - United States 大学米国スポーツ-イギリス-ウィスコンシン州-マディソン-のウィスコンシン州のウィスコンシン削減の上にネクタイをナイキ治療のホンジュラス労働ナイキ-大学
- Nokia Adds iPad to Its Patent Fight Against Apple
The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in Wisconsin, claims that Apple’s iPad 3G products infringes five important Nokia patents. 訴訟、ウィスコンシン州の連邦裁判所に提出された、と主張し、Appleの計算された第3世代の製品は5つの重要Nokiaの特許を侵害し
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