UPDATE: The Barking Lot (08/27/11)
Last Saturday’s Barking Lot included a must-see video account of the dog that grieved next to the coffin of its soldier owner. That might be the dog story of the year.
Here’s the latest about Hawkeye.
Important information from Franklin alderman Kristen Wilhelm
Dear Residents:
Please distribute the break-in notice to help keep
community.
BURGLARY - Be sure to secure your home especially before going to bed.
Recently, I received two reports from our police department where break-ins
or entering through an unlocked door have taken place. These incidents
happened in the early morning hours when the residents were home sleeping.
Please make an extra effort to secure exterior doors, close and lock garage
doors and lower level windows and call the police immediately if you see or
hear any suspicious activity.
SEPTEMBER 6TH - Also, a reminder of the upcoming Council meeting Tuesday,
September 6 (after Labor Day). You may want to check your email again prior
to Tuesday. I will make every effort to notice you of items of interest
after I have a chance to read through the meeting packet. The agenda comes
out on Friday's around 5 pm. You can also view meeting agendas online by
clicking the calendar tab at www.franklinwi.gov or Click here for City
meetings calendar <http://www.franklinwi.gov/Home/Calendar.htm>.
ST. MARTINS FAIR -St. Martins Fair takes place on St. Martins Road (County
Hwy. MM), from W. Forest Home Avenue to W. Church Street, the first Monday
of every month, weather permitting, and then Sunday and Monday of Labor Day
weekend. Fair vendors sell a wide assortment of merchandise, while music
groups provide entertainment throughout Labor Day weekend.
First Mondays of each month - 6 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Sunday of Labor Day Weekend - 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Monday of Labor Day Weekend - 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
I hope you are able to enjoy time with family and/or friends over the Labor
Day weekend.
Best,
Kristen
"The changes are saving taxpayers millions"
WLUK investigates and finds Governor Walker's reforms are working.
Hope Unseen
Today in
Smiley is an Army veteran.
He served in Iraq.
A car bomber blew himself up in front of Smiley’s military vehicle in 2005.
Smiley is an Army first.
From CBS' "Sunday Morning" September of 2010:
"American combat operations in Iraq drew to a close this past week, seven years and five months after we first committed our forces to topple the government of Saddam Hussein. Operation Iraqi Freedom claimed more than 4,400 American lives and wounded another 32,000. Behind every one of those numbers is a story, and some of those stories are above and beyond . . . like the one our Tracy Smith will tell in our Cover Story."
Franklin developer files for bankruptcy
The Milwaukee Business Journal is reporting that well-known, highly-regarded Franklin developer Mark Carstensen has filed for personal Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
The newspaper notes Carstensen “has developed more than $100 million of commercial projects.” However, according to the paper, “Carstensen lists assets of $3.2 million and liabilities of $46.4 million, which mainly are from personal guarantees on real estate development loans.”
Carstensen is not alone. Other area developers who have filed for bankruptcy include Robert Patch, Jeff Klement, Scott Fergus and John Kuhn.
Goodnight everyone, and this weekend, don't over-exert
"The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. "
-Leonard Bernstein
It's Friday night. Time to unwind with our regular Friday night feature on This Just In.
The weekend has finally arrived.
The sun has set.
The evening sky has erupted.
Let's smooth our way into Saturday and Sunday….and this week, Monday.
Tonight, some work-related music to segue into the holiday weekend.
Let's get started...
The Barking Lot (09/03/11)
The Barking Lot is a regular weekly feature of this just in…Written by my lovely wife, Jennifer and me. It opens with the weekend dog walking forecast followed by the main blog from dog lover, Jennifer. Then it’s DOGS IN THE NEWS and our close. Enjoy!
THE WEEKEND DOG-WALKING FORECAST: We grade the weather outlook for taking your pet outdoors.
TODAY: Tough forecasting today. Rain and there could be lots of it depending where you are. Scattered thunderstorms. Chance of rain is 50%. Normal high of 79, but it looks like a wet Saturday. "C" If you can avoid those storms, "A"
SUNDAY: Mostly sunny. High of 71. "C'
MONDAY: Partly cloudy. High of only 64, far below normal. Won't feel like Labor Day. A decent d dog-walking day, but unseasonably cool... "D"
Here’s my lovely wife, Jennifer with this week’s main blog:
2011 POO Awards - Week 3
Each week during this year’s high
POO stands for Piling On Offensively (Or if you prefer, Pouring it On Offensively).
Week 1
Luck 73, Birchwood 22
Week 2
Coleman 63,
Week 3
Edgar 71, Chequamegon 7
Edgar usually ends up on my list once a season. It led 59-0 at halftime of their blowout.
UPDATE: Green Bay columnist needs to "chill" about women, football, and underwear
Yes he does and hopefully has done so by now because...
Lost in all the hoopla about the Brewers and Packers and Badgers was this: The Lingerie Football League season is underway.
Bad news, though.
In the first game of the season played at the
Week-ends (09/03/11)
A look back at the people and events that made news the past week. Week-ends is a regular weekly feature of This Just In...
HEROES OF THE WEEK
Marie Rose Abad
Doug MacMillan and his friend
Thomas Sephton
David Reichenberg
Branndin Phillips-Laramore
Michael Perry
Tom Lashinski
Robert Friscia
John Atzbach
The Kragthorpes
Oscar Pistorious
Jeremy Shockey
Emmanuel Marlow
Jon Simpson
VILLAINS OF THE WEEK
Kimberly Garrity's adult children and their father
Michael Ray James and Tina Alberson
Minenetta Walker
Jill Green
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
“Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. Some of them in Congress right now with this tea party movement would love to see you and me ...hanging on a tree. Some of them right now in Congress are comfortable with where we were 50 and 60 years ago but it's a new day with a black President and a Congressional Black Caucus.”
Andre Carson
“All of us, especially Congressman Carson, Congresswoman Waters and others who have engaged in racially-motivated rhetoric, should follow the example of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., not the example of Reverend Jeremiah Wright.”
Allen West
“As reported here previously, African-Americans are hardly underrepresented in the
Though only 12 percent to 13 percent of the
According to The Washington Post, blacks hold 44 percent of the jobs at Fannie Mae and 50 percent of the jobs at Freddie Mac.
The EEOC, where African-Americans are overrepresented by 300 percent, has been asked to oversee the new ‘government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce.’
I'm not making this up.”
Pat Buchanan
‘‘I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’ Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”
Michele Bachmann
“The liberal talking points have been established. Perry is dumb, Romney is weird and Bachmann is scary. Expect that to be repeated endlessly until one is established as the nominee, who will then inherit all three descriptions.”
You Too, Congress
“I have a home on
George Will
"The City is a co-sponsor of the Labor Day parade event, because we provided the payment for the insurance premium for the event, and we agreed to erect a stage and provide city services at no cost to the Marathon County Central Labor Council.
The banning of a political party from participation at any event co-sponsored by the City is against public policy and not in the best interest of all the citizens of the City of Wausau. And therefore, we encourage the event organizer to invite all interested parties, or reimburse the city for other costs."
Wausau mayor Jim Tipple after the Labor Council announced it would refuse Republican elected officials to be in the Labor Day parade. The Council later reversed its decision.
"...unions didn't invent labor. Labor is something we do with our hands, brains and backs and can be successful without the aid of unions."
Swannie Tess of Brookfield in a letter to the editor at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
‘Disenfranchise is the word of the day and the context will be as to “deprive (someone) of the right to vote.” This argument is disingenuous on its face and an outright lie that is perpetuated by the same people that mindlessly parrot this canned spiel.
Recommended Reading (09/04/11)
Here are, in my view, interesting, noteworthy columns and articles from the past week that I highly recommend (You will note that on occasion, I do not endorse the opinions of the author and may point that out. Despite my disagreements, I still feel the piece is worth a read).
Have Wisconsin unions jumped the shark?
“There’s an old TV saying given to the moment when viewers realize a series has peaked – it’s called ‘jumping the shark.’ It’s in reference to the fifth season of Happy Days, when the Fonz, is waterskiing – complete with leather jacket – and proceeds to jump over a shark. The scene was so outlandish and ridiculous, that viewers realized the show as creatively bankrupt. The popularity of the series declined from there.
We may have just witnessed the
Where does David Prosser go to get his reputation back?
“There are some people who need to apologize to Mr. Justice David Prosser now that he has been cleared and soon. They took a shallowly researched and preposterous allegation -- that Prosser held fellow justice Ann Walsh Bradley in a chokehold -- and ran to the guillotine with it.
Here is a list of people who should apologize for their rush to judgment. These named should be ashamed of their lynch mob mentality. Their judgment, blinded as it was by partisan fury, should forever be suspect. Their names must be synonyms for ignominy, the triumph of willful ignorance over patient fact-finding. They are practitioners of the dark arts of ‘by any means necessary.’
They put our democracy in a chokehold.”
Health care law: More insured, but...
"In a key finding, the report said the newly passed law will slice the number of uninsured (WI) residents by 340,000, or 65 percent, primarily because of government subsidies and the existence of an individual mandate that all residents must buy health insurance.
(That latter requirement has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal court of appeals, it should be noted, and is now headed to the Supreme Court for disposition.)
But that's about all the good news the study contained."
Obama WAS trying to use speech one-upmanship as political ploy
“The American left and its handmaidens in the Old Media spent 24 hours desperately trying to spin Obama’s attempt to schedule a joint session of Congress on the same day as the GOP debate as an example of how the GOP is refusing to work with him. These leftists categorically deny that Obama was simply engaging in political brinkmanship, using his selection of Sept. 7 as a political ploy. But the very night that Obama was shot down by Speaker Boehner on the date he chose for his jobs address…”
Six ways Obama might win young voters in 2012
"What potent potion, pray tell, will he concoct to get the 18- to 35-year-olds to actually get off their unemployed butts, leave their mommies’
One tactic that might garner the youth’s vote for Obama would be for him to turn to
For instance, howzabout the following considerations for 2012’s election, Mr. President?
1. Show up to all the debates in an egg like Lady Gaga did for the 2011 Grammys. You could have four of your men—Biden, Geithner, Holder and Napolitano—carry you into each contest like an avian Cleopatra. The kiddos would love it."
"He cannot claim a single success. His resume is a bibliography of failure. His signature achievement, the dubious namesake ObamaCare, was designed by someone else. Its central feature, the individual insurance mandate, is destined to be overturned by the Supreme Court.
My Most Popular Blogs (09/04/11)
As I post every Sunday, here are the five most read blog entries of mine from the previous week. NOTE: some entries may have been posted prior to the past week.
1) Photos of the Week (08/28/11)
My Most Popular Blogs (09/04/11)
As I post every Sunday, here are the five most read blog entries of mine from the previous week. NOTE: some entries may have been posted prior to the past week.
1) Photos of the Week (08/28/11)
Photos of the Week (09/04/11)
1) The top layer of blacktop on
2) Billy Stinson, left, comforts his daughter, Erin Stinson, as they sit on the steps where their cottage once stood before it was destroyed by Hurricane Irene in Nags Head, N.C., on Aug. 28. The cottage, built in 1903, was one of the first vacation cottages built on
3) Mavis Powers puts her hand on her forehead as she looks over the damage to her home in
4) A young couple from
5) Phillip Henry, left, of
6) Norma Jack and Bobby Richards talk on the steps of her son's home in the Laurelton neighborhood of
7) This picture was taken in
8) An unidentified man hangs on to a branch in a rain swollen creek as he waits for rescuers in
9) A wildfire roars through dry trees near
10) The damaged antenna from the
11) The shoes used in the failed attempt to blow up an airplane by shoe bomber Richard Reid are displayed alongside an FBI model of the shoe filled with explosives on August 31, 2011 as part of a new exhibit marking the tenth annivesary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, at the Newseum in
12) A Libyan rebel fighter walks inside the house of Saif al-Islam, son of Libyan fugitive leader Moammar Gadhafi in
13) A Libyan rebel fighter sits in the sitting room of Moammar Gadhafi's private plane at the international airport in
14) Army Spc. David Ibarra embraces his daughter, Hailey Ibarra, 10, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011 in San Antonio, during a surprise homecoming at her school. Spc. Ibarra completed a one-year duty tour in
15) Supporters of the New Berlin School Board applaud Monday during a meeting that attracted hundreds as the board voted on a new handbook. Journal Sentinel photo: Gary Porter
16) Firefighters and rescuers stand near a Cessna sport plane in the city of
17) In this image provided by the
18) A young man - a 'mozo' - dodges a bull during the fifth 'encierro' or bull run held at San Sebastian de los Reyes in Madrid, Spain, on August 30. This local fiesta is known as 'Pamplona Chica' (Little Pamplona) after the larger festival held in the northern Spanish town every July. The bull run left seven people with minor injuries and one in hospital. Photo: Luca Piergiovanni / EPA
19) Arab Israeli children pose with a pet snake at an amusement park in the northern Israeli city of
20) A street dog popularly known as "Lengua," or "Tongue" sits on a sidewalk in Havana, Cuba, Friday Sept. 2, 2011. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)
21) From left, Lee Brewer, veterinarian technician, Dr. Maya Rodriguez, veterinarian, Laura Kousari, animal keeper, and Jodi Tuzinski, animal care manager, from the Miami Seaquarium release Independence, a 10 pound juvenile Green Turtle, in back, and Blondie, a 77 pound adult Loggerhead turtle, front center, on the beach of Bill Baggs Cape Florida Park at Key Biscayne on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011.
22) A praying mantis is seen during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in
23) Dale Marshall is dwarfed by an Atlantic Giant Pumpkin that he estimates to be around 1,780-pounds inside a greenhouse in
24) A reveler is covered with tomato pulp after the annual "Tomatina" (tomato fight) in the Mediterranean
25) Visitors look at an octopus made out of pumpkins at the pumpkin exhibition of the asparagus and experience farm Buschmann and Winkelmann in Klaistow near Beelitz, northeastern
26) Excited Fans at DC Comics Midnight Madness Event Celebrating the release of New No. 1 issue of "Justice League" at Mid Town Comics on August 30, 2011 in
27) Couples take part in the World Kiss Marathon for Education at a square in
28) Official mascot Sarbi imitates Usain Bolt of Jamaica after Bolt won the men's 200 metres final at the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Daegu, South Korea, Sept. 3. Photo: Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
29) Eric Anderson, right, of the West team from
30) The University of Wisconsin student section greets the visiting team, the UNLV Rebels Thursday night in the season opener in Madison, won easily by the badgers, 51-17. Journal Sentinel photo: Tom Lynn.
31) Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers can only laugh after tripping around third base as he tried for an inside-the-park home run against the St. Louis Cardinals last Wednesday at
Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft: Hales Corners Woman's Club program on Sept. 9
Just as September signals the start of a new school year, the month usually marks the beginning of a new club year as well. Hales Corners Woman’s Club, which begins its 55th year in the community, is one of those groups that will be welcoming members back in September and announcing the line-up of programs and fundraising efforts.
At the first meeting on Friday, September 9, club members will learn how to protect themselves against Identity Theft. Hales Corners Police Sergeant Kent Schoonover will give the program at the Village Hall at 1 p.m. Guests and prospective members may wish to join the women for refreshments and hospitality at noon.
Other programs for the coming months include “History and Beauty” of the Boerner Botanical Gardens, by Monica Jeske, on Oct. 14, and “Looking Younger” by Jennie Schellinger of Merle Norman cosmetics on Nov. 4. The December 2nd meeting will be a holidiay lunch and program held at Tuckaway Country Club.
Fundraising projects for the remainder of 2011 include a rummage sale on October 7 and 8; Wisconsin theme basket raffle in December, along with the annual bake sale held in conjunction with the Whitnall Rotary Craft Fair; and a poinsettia sale. Details will be shared at the September 9th meeting and publicized to the community.
Other programs in 2012 will be: “Lewis and Clark Expedition” by Rev. Fred Boettcher (Feb. 3); “The Wool Lady” (Marilyn Jacobson) demonstrating the art of spinning on her loom (March 2); and “The Magic of Butterflies” – presented by Betty Braun. The May 4 meeting will be the club’s traditional spring luncheon where scholarships and other awards to community organizations are presented.
Within the club, groups of women meet for book discussions, golf, bridge and sheepshead. There is also a popular “Unique Antiques” group. One community service project in October will be to help the Visiting Nurse Association with Shoo the Flu clinics.
Those wanting more information about membership or club activities may call Mary Kipfer, 414-425-7547, Vicki Wenke, 414-329-3242, or Kathy Zellmer, 414-529-3175.
