The Bader Blog

My wife and I are just back from a 3 day trip to Atlanta. I want to start by thanking Allen Hunt and his lovely wife Anita for their Southern hospitality in hosting us at their home for the weekend(and now the shameless plug: catch the Allent Hunt show Saturday nights at 8, Sunday nights at 6 on News/Talk WTAQ). They also know a thing or two about picking quality restaurants. Now, some reflections on Atlanta.

Allen suggested the Martin Luther King Junior Center. I was going to skip it; I have seen much of the film of the violence perpetrated against blacks during the civil rights movement, seen the interviews and read several books about it. I didn't feel I had much to learn. My wife and I took Allen's advice and visited the King Center. It was moving. And quite frankly, being one of about three white people in a center filled with blacks was a healthy experience as I saw the video displays of the hate being spewed by southern bigots. And it got me to thinking about something. I believe the race issue in this country can be defined by simple math:

I believe 47.5 percent of America (generally conservatives) believe Jim Crow was a thousand years ago.

I believe 47.5 percent of America (generally liberals) believe Jim Crow still exists.

I believe the remaining 5 percent of whites believe it should still exist(the racists among us)

And if I'm right about this I don't know how we ever bridge the gap. Many conservatives would do well to visit the King Center and study the atrocities of Jim Crow and what happened when blacks mobilized to change it.  And they would do well to understand that for many of them this happened in their lifetime. Many liberals would do well to visit the center too, and learn the difference between real racism and what passes for racism today and how a once noble movement that ended a great injustice in this country has been hijacked by those who would use it for their personal gain. The other five percent I referred to are beyond help. Jim Crow is gone; blacks today have access to accomplishments they could never dream of 50 years ago. And the Obama presidency is simply the strongest symbol of those possibilities, there are many other examples of how far blacks have come(a black man having sex with countless blond white women now makes him the butt of jokes, it doesn't put his life in danger). But having those across the political specturm recognizing how far blacks have come, and how far they HAD to come, would be helpful.

If you're ever in Atlanta, eat at Mary Mac's and skip the Carter Presidential Library; it's as whiny and wimpy as the Carter Administration itself. Thanks again for everything Allen and Anita, and I'm already working on getting the two of you up here for a Packer game this fall!

Well, well, well; whadya know, Al Gore has finally spoken on the massive credibility hits the non-science theory of man-caused global warming has taken in the last four or five months. I traveled to Atlanta on Friday and just got back, so you may have seen this linked on other sites, I haven't checked. But this piece oozes with the desperation of a man who has built a post-public office career on one huge lie.

He tries to dismiss reported retractions and the entire climate gate email scandal as small matters that have no impact on the larger question of AGW. Gore claims the argument by "critics" that there has been no global warming for a decade is "specious." Perhaps the Goracle doesn't realize that Phil Jones, one of the two frauds at the center of the Climategate scandal admitted that, in fact, there has been no statistically signifcant global warming in fifteen years!

And then Gore says this:

it is true that the climate panel published a flawed overestimate of the melting rate of debris-covered glaciers in the Himalayas, and used information about the Netherlands provided to it by the government, which was later found to be partly inaccurate. In addition, e-mail messages stolen from the University of East Anglia in Britain showed that scientists besieged by an onslaught of hostile, make-work demands from climate skeptics may not have adequately followed the requirements of the British freedom of information law.

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was they play? Gore calls skeptics request for raw data to try to replicate global warming research, which is the very essence of the scientifc method, "hostile, make-work demands."

And like any good liberal, Gore believes good intentions is good enough when it comes to global warming research:

But the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes. What is important is that the overwhelming consensus on global warming remains unchanged. It is also worth noting that the panel’s scientists — acting in good faith on the best information then available to them — probably underestimated the range of sea-level rise in this century, the speed with which the Arctic ice cap is disappearing and the speed with which some of the large glacial flows in Antarctica and Greenland are melting and racing to the sea.

Scientists, "acting in good faith." Hum, for an ideology that scoffs at the notion of a higher power, they sure put a lot of "faith" in science. And you gotta love "the scientific enterprise will never be completely free of mistakes." Completely free? How about not rife with fraud? That would be a good start.

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Now we know why WEAC was so afraid of the facts coming out.

The Brown County Taxpayer's Association weighs in on the upcoming School Referendum... and so will I.

Are all men sex addicts?

Brown County child for sale on Craigslist?

Karl Rove on what Republicans should do at the Health Care Summit today

The Toyota Defense

More Planned Parehthood secret videos in Wisconsin

The Toyota defense

Teaching labor union history in Wisconsin Schools

On Monday we shared with you exclusively an email thread that started with a WEAC hack who freaked when he saw Bill Osmulski of the MacIver Institute News Service trying to interview the Superintendent of New Holstein Public Schools. He proceeded to "warn" Superintendents that Osmulski was pretending to be a journalist (he IS a journalist.)

Now that Osmulski has filed his story we have a pretty good idea of what the paranoid panic was all about. From Bill's story:

A $416,219.32 payment to WEA Trust for health insurance and $237,861.68 to utility companies from the New Holstein School District raises questions about how school districts across the country were allowed to spend federal stimulus money.

I urge you to read the rest of Bill's story. It also explains the line in the email thread "as if we didn't have enough to worry about." Yes, it's now clear why a journalist asking questions about this would be something to worry about.

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A landmark moment in Central Falls?

The politics of the roller coaster

Public employee retirement benefits much better than private sector: for this we needed a study????

Is Toyota Falling too hard on its sword?

We went an hour on this story yesterday. I think it could be a watershed moment in education reform that this school board stood behind its superintendent. The key to reforming public education is breaking the government monopoly on schools. They key to do that is reducing the influence of teacher's unions. THIS is a great start toward that end.

Outstanding. Just outstanding.

Does forehead evidence that a prosecutor attended Ash Wednesday Mass violate a separation of church and state? Listen to defense attorney's logic:

"He is representing the state of Iowa," Hawbaker said.

Hawbaker said he was not objecting for any personal or religious reasons, but feared the jury could be influenced either for or against the prosecution's case by the display.

"I tend to agree with that, Mr. Crawford," said Judge Michael Moon. "I tend to think it should be removed."

What if the prosecutor wore a cross around his neck. Would he have to remove that? Does a visible display of one's religious faith constitute a separation of church and state? If a priest or nun was going to testify, would they have to remove any evidence of their vocation before taking the stand. Do I have to ask any further hypothetical questions to illustrate how idiotic this is?

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Who is really getting released from prison to save the state money?

The Obamcare "Ram rod"

The end of the Scott Brown affair?

Should those behind the impeach Obama sign come forward?

The Green Bay Blues?

Shocker: liberal credit card reform hurts those it is intended to help.

Hum, perhaps the company printing the Brown 2012 stuff may want to hold the presses. Conservatives who wanted to believe the Mass. Senate was going to be an "Obama-like" conservative savior saw their hopes dashed last night, when he gave dems a cloture vote on the jobs bill.

I need to dig out that video where Olbermann's head almost exploded on the night of the special election, ripping into Brown for suggest he would be an indepndent. It looks like a lot of people may have been wrong about Scott Brown.

Do you recall the Doyle administration's assurances that its early release of inmates to help close a state budget gap would only be "non-violent" offenders? This Milwaukee Jounral-Sentinel piece shows how many of these inmates re-offend and quickly.

What this story shows is many of the inmates being released are likely to go out and return to their criminal ways. And the state is taking a heckuva chance using its crytal ball to predict these inmates WON'T commit violent offenses just because they haven't in the past. But more to the point; if you release someone who is likely to re-offend to save money and that person heads right back into the criminal justice system, how much money have you really saved?