I just read a few blogs that are talking about putting caps on CEO pay. True some are paid millions and get great benefits. That is not an issue that should be managed by the government. Most CEO’s have worked their way to that position and negotiate with the companies they will manage. Do these same people want to limit other peoples pay through legislation? Should we limit sports stars, reporters, movie/TV stars, engineers, lawyers, etc also? Hmmmmm no talk about those but it is the greedy businessperson that needs to be slapped down. I am also sick and tired of being told that business execs are bad because they only think of the bottom line and not the people they manage. I hope to be back in those ranks soon and I do not just look at the bottom line. Bottom line is everyone has greed in them.
09 February 2006
08 February 2006
COB schedule as of Feb 8,2005
This is the schedule for the Carnival of the Badger. February 9th - Wigderson Library & PubFebruary 16th - Texas Hold 'Em BloggerFebruary 23rd - Territorial Pissings All other dates are still available!
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MPS Waterfollies
With MPS and WEAC complaining about how tight budgets have been for decades and we need to pony up more dollars to pay to keep programs like Art, Music, and Sports going, I found another reason why some people think MPS and WEAC spends and wastes money on a regular basis. In the online version of the MSJ the headline reads “Water's fine for figuring” the tagline is “School uses pool to make kids comfortable with numbers” The story is about how one school is using swimming in a pool to help kids learn math. “Like little Jacques Cousteau’s, the children show no fear as they dive for fish, sea horses and other exciting treasure. “ Nice spin by the writer.“As they splash around in one of the state's only elementary school pools, the 4-year-olds at Milwaukee's Gaenslen School are learning the basics of two skills that would frighten many adults five times their size: swimming and math.” “Gaenslen has a particularly high population of students with special needs, about 40%, many of whom also receive therapy in the pool.” Ok, more spin. While at first glance this is a good idea on the surface, What the ‘reporter’ glanced over was that MPS spent money on a pool while complaining the district was having financial difficulties. The question is why MPS thought it was a good idea to spend money on a swimming pool in an elementary school instead of using that money for things like books, supplies for the children, or other essential educational equipment. I do see that some of the children need therapy but MPS should not be in the business of medical therapy they should stick to the educational needs of the students.
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06 February 2006
I could be President
Thanks to James at Wigderson Library & Pub for finding this.
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Blog Outages
I'm not moving the blog (for now). I know blogger.com went down several times over the weekend and it's been a pain. For those of you that are moving and that I have linked please give me a shout out from your new digs
05 February 2006
Movie Review
We watched a couple of movies today Flight Plan and The Corpse Bride. Flight Plan was on my must see list and I was not disappointed in it. The plot summary is "In this modern retelling of a classic urban legend, a mother finds herself at odds with a unremitting flight crew and her own sanity when her daughter vanishes in the middle of a flight, with only a few clues left behind. She must now challenge the boundaries of her will and her mind in her desperate search." Jodie Foster gives another great performance in a very good movie. The Corpse Bride was OK. It reminded me of The Nightmare Before Christmas, same animation and types of characters. However, it killed(pardon the pun) a 76 mins on a boring Saturday before the championship game in pro football.
02 February 2006
Heh??
Pair Ran Brothel Across Street From Police Station
MARTINEZ, Calif. -- Officers in Concord, Calif., didn't have to go far to bust a brothel.The house of ill repute was across the street from the police station. Now, a married couple has pleaded guilty to running the house. Debra Watts, 52, will serve one year of home detention for pimping and pandering. Her husband Ernest, 63, pleaded to a misdemeanor count of maintaining a house of prostitution.Police said the hookers who operated out of the place charged $160 for a half hour and split the money with the couple.Surveillance of the apartment revealed a Monday-through-Friday operation in which women would arrive by 10 a.m. and leave by 7 p.m. Men would enter and leave throughout the day, staying for about 30 minutes at a time, according to the affidavit.How long was this going on??
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01 February 2006
Updated slogans
- If you like the state, don't forget to tip the Governor
- Welcome to Americas Taxland
- Wisconsin – Doyle’s Payland
- Wisconsin – We Enjoy All Cheese
- Land of a thousand Fees
- Milwaukee – Great place by a Great sewer
- Milwaukee – The NEW Chicago
- Visit Downtown Milwaukee (before 6pm)
- Milwaukee – Wake up and smell the lake
- Milwaukee – Don’t drink the water
- Milwaukee – We don’t need a stinkin mayor
COB
Just a reminder Matt at Know What I Mean? has the Carnival of the Badger this week.
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31 January 2006
Clouseau is Real
Inspector Jacques Clouseau is alive and on the loose!
French police take 2 years to uncover time of death
BREST, France (AFP) — French police who spent two years trying to identify a woman who was murdered by a blow to the head were relieved to discover the reason their efforts were failing: the woman died half a millennium ago. The skeleton of a woman in her 30s was found during an exceptionally low tide in December 2003 near the seaside Brittany town of Plouezoc'h. A long gash in the skull convinced investigators she was killed with a hatchet or other sharp implement. Police ploughed through missing persons' files to no avail. A theory that the woman was the wife of a Normandy doctor who disappeared with his family in a famous 1999 case was dismissed after DNA tests. Eventually radiocarbon dating established that the death had occurred between 1401 and 1453. "We are satisfied because at least we know the date now," said Francois Gerthosser of the Plourin-les-Morlaix police. "We reckon it was pirates."
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30 January 2006
Photograph shows Cyclopes, a kitten born with a single cyclopic eye. Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was one of two in the litter. Its sibling was born normal and healthy.
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Bad news From Title town
Farve is leaning towards retirement. See Farve's mind on retirement.
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Weapon Carry law
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was spotted over the weekend! He and other anti-PPA people had a press conference over at State Fair Park. They were/are claiming we will have wild west type situations at all the festivals because the act does not include these events in the ‘banned’ areas. This is another way from the left to take away from the law-abiding citizens their constitutional right to bear arms and to protect themselves and their families using any means they so choose. The JS has this in their article: Under the bill, people 21 and older would be allowed to carry concealed weapons after passing a course, provided they had not been convicted of felonies or certain misdemeanors, such as for domestic violence. Among the places people would be able to carry firearms are the grounds of State Fair Park and Summerfest.I am not a lawyer, but I do see a loophole in the law that gives the examples a way to ban weapons. Hint, these are government owned facilities.Instead of opening up the way for people to carry concealed weapons, Barrett said, the Legislature should be working to rid Wisconsin of illegal guns. There are laws on the books that prevent the sales of weapons to certain people; the people committing crimes with weapons do not care about those or any other laws and that makes it illegal. In addition, is it not the job of the local and state police to enforce the laws set forth?
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Good article In the J.S.
It's not often that I agree with the J.S. But in today's paper they wrote a story on blogging that does make sense and goes to both sides of the political aisle. To read it go to http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/jan06/388511.asp.
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28 January 2006
I don think so
I'm a Honda S2000!
You live on the edge, and you live for the adrenaline rush. You don't need luxuries, snob appeal, or superfluous gadgets. You put your top down, get your motor revving, and take all the curves that life throws at you at full speed. So what if you spin out occasionally?
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
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26 January 2006
Changes in Blogs
Changes in the badger realm for now Disgruntled Car Salesman is on a sabbatical but he is leaving his blog up and Sadie from Sadie Says is going over to WATCHDOG MILWAUKEE.I wish both good luck and Gods speed for their future.
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COB XXIII
- I forgot
- I need coffee
- I’m gassy today
- DOH
- I'm secure in my manhood
- I love school
- I need to go fishing more
- Memory is for computers and not me
- Git-er-done
- I don need no steekin bage
- I forgot …
- Heh?
- When I was your age …
- Duct Tape … STAT
Thanks to all of our staff writers at the home office in Layton Park WisconsinJay, Mike, Steveegg, Sadie, Lisa, Patrick, Aaron, James, Grumps, Fred, ElliotIt's been fun hosting this week. Matt at Know What I Mean? has it next so get yer posts ready.
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25 January 2006
Heating Bill
ZANESVILLE, Ohio - Lewis Miller joked with his son as he opened his gas bill that the amount likely would give him a heart attack. Then, he saw that The Energy Cooperative of Newark had billed him $8,095 for the first nine days of service on his new account for his apartment.
"I thought I was just going to lay down and die," Miller said. He then had an anxious weekend because he received the bill Friday and couldn't get a hold of the gas company until Monday.
When Miller reached the Energy Cooperative, the error was corrected.
Brian Byrd, a spokesman for the utility, said the company apologized to Miller for its mistake.
"These things are very rare, but they can happen," Byrd said.
The company suspects that a contractor mixed up or misread the numbers while taking a reading of Miller's meter. The information is downloaded into a computer that checks for billing errors by looking at what a customer was charged in the past. Since Miller's account was new, there was nothing to compare it to, Byrd said.
I added the emphasis. Sure blame a contractor don't blame the computer. How bad do you have to mix up the numbers to get that kind of number, if its true?I found this at Yahoo! news
