You have to get to paragraph 9 to find out all the mailings went to Republicans.
I'm sure the DoJ and the UN will be right on top of this 'voter suppression.'
Report: The City of Milwaukee disregarded inelegible to vote lists on the first day of early voting.
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UK's NHS doctors put on notice that they are to move 1 in 100 patients onto the Liverpool Care Pathway. US doctors warn about IPAB.
"Oh, come on, now, Bertie. It's a very nice care pathway, and so dignified."
Meanwhile, manatees in Puerto Rico are lonely and not diverse enough.
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Evidence points to Viking settlement on Baffin Island; other such discoveries likely in future.
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Romney's "Road to Greece" comments spark sell-off in European markets.
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In case you were wondering, 5 former Presidents alive at one time is probably the US record.
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If you've watched the national news at all, lately, you'll have heard of the shootings at the Brookfield, WI spa on Sunday. The shooter's wife worked at the spa and was leaving him. A restraining order had been granted her against him on Thursday of last week, and the spa owners ordered that the doors be locked whenever anyone went in or out, but the guy got ahold of a gun after he was told to turn in any firearms to police, and he killed his wife and two other people, including himself, while wounding four others, one of whom remains in critical condition.
Enoch and I grew up in Brookfield.
Apparently, the guy had signed the Walker recall petition. I don't think that has any bearing on the matter, though I do agree that if he had been, say, TEA Party affiliated, that would have garnered a lot of attention. I think that I can speak for both Enoch and myself when I say that I didn't bother reporting on it at the time because the story is just so depressingly familiar. Victims were rushed to Froedtert Hospital, where our dad was a patient for 45 days, about 10 blocks from where I've been taking care of Mom and Dad in assisted living, while he gets rehabbed enough to move into their apartment from the physical therapy ward. I heard the Flight for Life helicopters and the emergency vehicles, but even the early reports made me conclude that there was nothing to see that we haven't all seen many times before, not even if he'd brought with him some form of IED.
Throughout the Packers game, any time there was a commercial break/stoppage in play, the local news monsters broke in to tell us what they didn't know. As far as they knew, the shooter was still on the loose (it turned out that he had shot and killed himself inside the building). Despite the eyewitnesses, they had no description. They couldn't give a count of the victims. They pondered the number of emergency vehicles on the scenes and the lockdowns at the nearby mall and Froedtert Hospital, which was not admitting anyone who didn't need emergency treatment while they were on standby. Froedtert had also been the go-to hospital for the Sikh slaughter only a couple of months earlier.
Meanwhile, the information that wasn't being shared by Fox 6, on which the football game was broadcast, was rolling through Twitter, including a picture of and description of the shooter . . . which, had he still been alive, might have been germane to the viewers in the area. Instead of reporting that, each of the local networks in turn summoned the shooter's father to the phone to engage him in agonizing conversation, although he had no information beyond what had already been reported. As his son lay dead, the newscasters asked him again and again whether he didn't have fears for his son's safety. He patiently, tearfully and appropriately answered all their questions.
One of the talking heads was quite right when he stated that a beautiful weather day with a Packers victory had been ruined by the 'tragedy' (network newspeople seem not to care for the word 'atrocity'). The constant interruptions, though, can only have been justified to have contributed to watchers' knowledge of the event. Instead, what we got was a lot of posturing about being on top of the news. @BrookfieldPATCH had more information, earlier, than the network people.
There are those who will say that people joining the gamecast late would have benefitted by having that material presented to them. Maybe. But it sure looked to me as though their delays in relaying any substance had less to do with layers of fact checking and more with being content to create the impression that they were live on the ground at the site, and that that in itself constituted reporting. I missed some commercials, it's true, that I have probably seen each a dozen times, if not more. They would have had almost as much information to convey about the event as the first several hours of coverage on Fox 6.
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Use water, plastic wrap, sunlight, paper and patience to start a fire.
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About those "crippling sanctions" of the Great Coalition Builder.
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Michelle Obama lobbied for partial birth abortion against conservative extremists in 2004.
