Posted on Wed, Aug 27th 2008 at 04:08 PM by Patrick

Here is the point where our liberal friends come and tell us that this isn’t going to lead to vote fraud.

Driver’s/voting records often don’t mesh
One in five voters who registered to vote this month do not match driver’s license records, state officials said today.

Many of those matches are likely typos or other problems, such as someone appearing under a name and a nickname - David and Dave, for instance - in different state databases. But officials said they have no hard numbers on how many mismatches can be attributed to those types of problems or something more serious.

The state Government Accountability Board started comparing voter information to driver, death and felony records on Aug. 6. Between then and Tuesday, 22% of voters who registered did not match driver records, said Barb Hansen, project director for the board’s voter database.

Almost a quarter of the new registered voters if fraudulent, why bother keeping a record of registered voters if almost a fourth of them are bad?

But we don’t need voter ID, right?

The RINO Attorney General JB Van Hollen just sits in the corner gazing at his belly button.

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Posted on Wed, Aug 27th 2008 at 01:08 PM by Patrick

So, Barack Obama is going to give his acceptance speech from a replica of… A Greek temple? Well, I guess he really does want to be a “world citizen,” but one would think that someone wanting to be the President of the United States of America would want to do something a little more… well, American.

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Posted on Wed, Aug 27th 2008 at 01:08 PM by Patrick

If allowing America to drill for our own natural resources wouldn’t have an effect on price (a popular, but bogus liberal claim), then how come a storm that might disrupt the flow of oil from a few off shore oil wells next week, has such a drastic effect on the price of oil?

Oil Rises Above $117 on Storm Concerns
Oil prices rose for a third day Wednesday as Tropical Storm Gustav spun toward the Gulf of Mexico on a possible collision course with offshore oil and gas installations.

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Posted on Wed, Aug 27th 2008 at 11:08 AM by Patrick

Details to follow…

It sounds like an inmate was being taken to St. Luke’s Hospital this morning and escaped. The area around 27th & Oklahoma and along the Kinnickinnic river are blocked off and being searched.

The inmate, Martin Williams was being held, but has not yet been charged with armed robbery.

From 620 WTMJ Radio
Martin Williams fled the custody of the House of Corrections while he was being transported for medical tests at St. Lukes.

Officials say he overpowered an officer and escaped.

There is nothing in the paper yet, but WTMJ is covering it and I will keep an eye on things too.

Latest news is he is wearing a dirty gray t-shirt and shorts. He is 6 feet tall, 200lbs and is Native American, but looks Hispanic.

The paper has caught up and reports:

He has been held in the House of Correction since May 8, when he was transferred from the Milwaukee County Jail on a charge of armed robbery with threat of force, according to Mayer. Williams’ trial is scheduled for Oct. 13. He is also on a felon probation hold, Mayer noted.

Williams fled wearing an orange jumpsuit and a grayish white T-shirt underneath. He had a waist chain but apparently had gotten out of his leg irons.

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Posted on Tue, Aug 26th 2008 at 08:08 PM by Patrick

Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama

“Suppose for example you’re a voter. And you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver. For whom would you vote?”
– Bill Clinton

Denver drama: Can Clintons get over it?
Bill Clinton believes the Democratic nominee, far from practicing a unifying, transformational brand of politics, has the political instincts of “a Chicago thug,” one longtime associate said. Clinton has told people that Obama allowed surrogates to try to suppress Hispanic turnout in the Nevada caucuses, and played “the race card” in reverse against the Clintons in South Carolina and other states.

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Posted on Tue, Aug 26th 2008 at 08:08 PM by Patrick

Just a quick note, I got the new phone today, same number for calls and texting, so I am open for business again. If I had your number, it was probably lost with my old phone, so please call, text or email it if you think I need it.

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Posted on Tue, Aug 26th 2008 at 07:08 PM by Bruce

WISN-TV reported within the past hour that the Milwaukee DA’s office WILL investigate MPS School Board member Charlene Hardin’s recent trip with an MPS staffer to a conference in Philadelphia.

Journal/Sentinel reporter Dan Bice, who broke this story yesterday, tells BadgerBlogger via e-mail this afternoon that neither Hardin, nor the staffer, ever “checked in for the conference, picked up their [name] badges, or ever officially registered for the conference” according to an employee at the conference’s registration table.

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Posted on Tue, Aug 26th 2008 at 11:08 AM by Patrick

Alderman Bob Donovan is asking District Attorney Chisholm to open an investigation of Milwaukee Public School Board member Charlene Hardin and the events surrounding the trip she made, without actually doing any MPS business.

You can read Ald. Donovan’s letter to the District Attorney, here. (.pdf)

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Posted on Tue, Aug 26th 2008 at 10:08 AM by Patrick

Experience vs. A Speech (written by someone else)

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Posted on Tue, Aug 26th 2008 at 06:08 AM by Patrick

Just in time for the Olympics, a Russian invasion and the Democratic National Convention, a BadgerBlogger reader sends us a video of the latest fashion trend… Throw back Soviet Union military uniforms, complete with medals and ribbons.

What’s next? Nazi Brown-shirts… Ku Klux Klan hoods?

Way to show your true colors Burlington Coat Factory!

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Posted on Mon, Aug 25th 2008 at 11:08 AM by Patrick

Dan Bice has an outstanding look at the latest fiasco to hit the Milwaukee Public Schools. This whole system needs to be blown up and either the mayor needs to take it over or MPS needs to be broken up into smaller districts, but the mess they have now is horribly flawed.

MPS board member, secretary go MIA at safety conference
Even with the district’s financial troubles, Milwaukee School Board member Charlene Hardin could probably justify taking a taxpayer-funded jaunt to a school safety conference in Philadelphia last month.

Violence in Milwaukee Public Schools has been on the rise, and she might learn something at the conference.

But for that to have happened, she would have had to actually attend the event while in the City of Brotherly Love.

She didn’t.

She blew an estimated $2400, and only came for about 5 minutes on the last day to get her free stuff, and she was mad that some of the free stuff was already gone… What a freakin’ embarrassment… But you will reelect her, won’t you?

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Posted on Mon, Aug 25th 2008 at 11:08 AM by Patrick

Ouch…

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Posted on Mon, Aug 25th 2008 at 06:08 AM by Patrick

Barry’s poll numbers continue to plummet after adding Senator Gaffe to the ticket.

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Posted on Sun, Aug 24th 2008 at 01:08 PM by Patrick

Frost in the middle of August, just for AlGore.

The National Weather Service says areas of northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin could see patchy frost this weekend. That’s right, patchy frost in August.

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Posted on Sun, Aug 24th 2008 at 08:08 AM by Patrick

Way to go Johnny Mc!

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Posted on Sat, Aug 23rd 2008 at 08:08 AM by Patrick

Barack Obama has selected to be his running mate, a man that only a few months ago called Obama “not ready to be president…” But at least he thinks he is articulate bright and clean (where does that leave Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson?).

I’m sure Biden will bring the 7-11 and Dunkin’ Doughnuts owning Indian vote…

Biden is a known plagiarist but, if they can hold him to one word answers, I think he will be fine.

Thank you Barack, the man that has been called a “one man gaffe machine” is just what you needed…

Yep, I see a 57 state landslide now… tee-hee

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Posted on Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 at 08:08 PM by Patrick

Let’s review
Remember last year when the Sheboygan mayor, city attorney and police chief all tried to intimidate a blogger because Jennifer Reisinger, a political opponent of the mayor, had the audacity to link to the Sheboygan police department website? It was called The Link Heard ‘Round Wisconsin and was covered first by bloggers and talk radio, and eventually the main stream media.

After a few days, former Waukesha Co. District Attorney Paul Bucher was retained by Reisinger and the city attorney immediately backed down, but Bucher said

“The issue is whether or not … the City of Sheboygan or the government in Sheboygan used the powers of the government to intimidate, silence or infringe upon another individual’s right to express their political views.”

Citizens for Responsible Government also leapt into action filing open records requests and still has the information they received, posted on their website.

Update: The $%@& hits the fan

The Courthouse News Service reports:

A Web developer sued the mayor, police chief and city attorney of Sheboygan, claiming she lost half her income and received death threats and vulgar and obscene letters because they had police “investigate” her for placing a link to the Sheboygan Police Department on her business Web site. The woman says Mayor Juan Perez had a vendetta against her because she designed a Web site for a recall effort against him.
Jennifer Reisinger claims she lost 53% of her annual income, and received “death threats, other threats to her personal safety, including vulgar and obscene comments and letters left at her residence, causing her (to) fear for her own personal safety … to the point that video cameras and a burglar alarm was installed at the Reisinger residence.”
Reisinger claims Mayor Perez and his henchmen retaliated against her for her involvement in a recall campaign against Perez.

Go read the rest. Good Luck & Don’t Back Down Jeni!

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Posted on Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 at 07:08 PM by Patrick

Charlie Sykes has a great piece at the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute. He looks at where both the Milwaukee Police Department and the Milwaukee Public Schools have gone over the past year.

While Milwaukee has seen a drastic reduction in violent crime under the leadership of a new Police Chief, our public school system has remained the rudderless ship with an insatiable appetite for tax dollars… While our children suffer.

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Posted on Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 at 06:08 PM by Patrick

I lost my @#&! phone! Grrrr, that sux! So stop calling and texting me… I’ll let you know when I am back on the phone, probably be a few days before I get it replaced. They don’t even sell my phone anymore… #*&$%^!

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Posted on Fri, Aug 22nd 2008 at 11:08 AM by Patrick

ROFL, apparently someone from ABC accidentally reported via text message that Virginia Governor Tim Kaine was going to be Obama’s VP pick… then within minutes, they realized that they screwed up.

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