Joe Biden's New Year's Resolution

To become known.

HAPPY 2010!

~~~~~~~~ Merry Christmas ~~~~~~~~~~

The passage of Health Care Reform - Step-by-step socialism

It was inevitable.

Washington (CNN) -- The House of Representatives on Saturday night passed a sweeping health care bill by a vote of 220-215.

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The House Democrats needed 218 votes to ensure passage of the bill. On Saturday, it appeared the vote would come down to the wire, as the intentions of some conservative Democrats remained unknown.

In the final tally, 219 Democrats voted for the legislation, and 39 voted against it.

Rep. Joe Cao (R-Louisiana) was the only Republican who voted in favor of the bill.

Read the House bill (PDF)

PFOX asks for RESCIND of Award being given to West Bend Library

Letter from PFOX to Graduate SLIS.  The SLIS has refused to respond.  The truth hits home, doesn't it?  WHO is censoring?  Guess we know the answer to that one.


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Dear Faculty of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:


Please rescind your award to the West Bend Community Memorial Library in West Bend, Wisconsin, as the recipient of the 2009 Robert B. Downs Intellectual Freedom Award.  Contrary to your beliefs, this library bans ex-gay books for children, and therefore cannot be considered a champion of intellectual freedom.  We at PFOX have repeatedly asked the Library Director Michael Tyree to place an ex-gay children’s book in the library which we offered to donate to the library’s shelves.  He has refused to do so, in effect only allowing gay children’s books.  Banning ex-gay books for children while allowing gay themed books should not be rewarded.


Although your press release mentions that the American Library Association has issued statements in support of this library and against censorship of controversial books, the ALA has refused to state specifically that libraries should not ban ex-gay books.  Please issue such a statement so that we can encourage the ALA and all other intellectual freedom organizations to stand boldly for actual intellectual freedom.


Thank you for your consideration,


Sincerely,

Regina Griggs

Executive Director

Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays
PFOX
804-453-4737
www.pfox.org
pfox@pfox.org

Communist Christmas Tree in the White House

Chairman Mao Zedong graces the presidential Christmas tree in our very own White House.  Another curiosity?  An ornament with Obama's face on....Mt. Rushmore?  It's there.  And more. Designed by Simon Doonan, the tree is an assault on family values and a tribute to communism.


Click on quote below for photos:

These photos of ornaments on the White House Christmas tree in the Blue Room were taken just days ago. Of course, Mao has his place in the White House.

Milwaukee and Madison Planned Parenthood Abortion Mills Next on the Hit List

The same group that caught the deception at the Appleton (un)Planned Parenthood killing facility has promised to produce more convicting evidence of PP propaganda soon.  Sure would be nice to see our tax dollars go buh-bye for this organization.  Hats off to Lila Rose.

Pat McIlheran writes about it HERE:

After Lila Rose posted undercover video of a Planned Parenthood abortion counselor covering up statutory rape, PBS pundit Bonnie Erbe groused online that the student doing the sting should be prosecuted for trespassing. Besides, said Erbe, since those opposing abortion will never win, "why don't they just go away?"
Yes, nothing to see here.

But of course there is, the latest being a sting by Rose's kids-with-cameras group, Live Action, at the Planned Parenthood abortuary in Appleton.
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As Journal Sentinel community columnist Kathy Banaszak pointed out, such "counsel" - and it was all the counseling the ostensible customer got from Planned Parenthood - utterly fails in any ethical duty to inform a patient. It's a pitch, not advice, and it's based on demonstrable falsehoods about human development.
As Rose later put it to me, it's propaganda "trying to dehumanize that unborn child."

The reason this is publicly relevant is that it strikes directly at the claim by Planned Parenthood to be a neutral, reliable dispenser of information.

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Rose, 21, and a college senior in Los Angeles, has been catching them for a couple of years now, getting Planned Parenthood clinics to say, on video, how to evade parental consent laws and other ethical niceties.As a result, the organization has fired staff in Indiana. Its taxpayer funding was cut off in Tennessee and threatened in California. Rose says her group picked Wisconsin because our law insists women be given accurate information. She says her group has more video forthcoming, showing misleading counsel in Milwaukee and Madison.

The Los Angeles Times labeled Rose's work "a new-media twist" for the pro-life cause. Now, by Internet, anyone can show video to the public, something that used to require a TV network.

West Bend Mason group has kids pledge to AID and UPHOLD governmental institution

The West Bend Masonic Lodge has a local chapter of the Order of Demolay.  This chapter is open to KIDS and young adults ages 12 to 21.

The DeMoray chapter states the purpose of the club -  "build confidence, teaches responsibility, encourages cooperation and community service, and fosters trust, respect, fellowship, patriotism, reverence and sharing throughout the organization."

(Sorry, I know it's small.  The 5th line reads "I promised to aid and uphold the public schools.")

This sounds great, but I'm wondering about the "pledge" that the kids have to take in order to become a DeMoray club lifetime member.  The one in which they covenant to "AID and UPHOLD" the PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

I find this an oddity. Why would the Masons put a plug into children's minds that "aiding" and "upholding" a governmental institution should be their lifetime goal?  One's first inclination would consider the untoward advancement of a political agenda to indoctrinate as the answer.  Of course, it could simply be what the purpose stated above reinforces, that being "ENCOURAGING COOPERATION."

But you don't have to take MY word for it.

Arlington Wreath Project

Beautiful.

"In what began in 1992 as one man's dream and a heartfelt gesture, Worcester Wreath Company initiated the Arlington National Cemetery project - donating over 5000 wreaths each year to adorn the headstones of our fallen veterans.

2009 marks both the 18th anniversary of the Arlington Wreath Project, and the start of the Wreaths Across America campaign to honor veterans in each and every State and National cemetery across the country."

Arlington Wreath Project @ Yahoo! Video

WHEDA spends $1400 on...FLOWERS?

After calling out WHEDA for spending $1400 on flowers for a Christmas party, Sen. Glenn Grothman receives this untoward response:

Grothman's response:



Some of you have been wondering what happened to my request that the Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority (WHEDA) not spend $1,400 on flowers at this year's Christmas party. 
Of course, they shouldn't even have had a party at a total cost of over $10,000.  In the correspondence I received from Antonio Riley, the Executive Director, they were defiant.  They went ahead and spent the money.  They felt that since they had given out money to various housing-related charities that they were entitled to spend $1,400 on flowers. 


Quite frankly, this amazes me as I felt that they would just quietly not buy the flowers.  I am sure there are many employees around the state that work hard at their jobs not getting flowers for Christmas because of it.  I'm sure this matter will be discussed further at the next WHEDA Board meeting.  Of course, it raises the question if there is such a lack of common sense on such a minor bill for $1,400, it is probably true that lack of common sense is also being displayed on larger matters involving hundreds of thousands of dollars.

West Bend School District Finance Admin. bites the dust?

Hidden INSIDE the blankets of the West Bend Daily News (keep it quiet, please).  I just had to include the title given to this story by the WB News.  Quits?  Really!  Gives a harsh tone to this story.  But that's just my opinion.  At any rate, I find this intriguing.  Wonder what REALLY went on behind those closed doors?  Do stay tuned.



West Bend School District’s administrator of finance quits



    The West Bend School District will soon begin the search for a new administrator of finance.

    Brian Dasher, who held the position for the past two years, submitted his letter of resignation to the district about a week ago and the school board approved his request after meeting in closed session Monday.

    Dasher had been on medical leave since Oct. 5.

Planned Parenthood - Liars, Murderers and Thieves, OH MY

Superior article written by Owen Robinson in today's West Bend News reveals information concerning the video in my previous post from the Planned Parenthood in Appleton, Wisconsin.

 "In a recently released video produced by Live Action (liveaction.org), an undercover woman entered the Planned Parenthood clinic in Appleton under the false pretense that she was pregnant and seeking an abortion. In the video, she asked the staff and the doctor some questions about her pregnancy and received some startling answers. 

    The woman, who was reporting to be about eight weeks pregnant, asked about the heartbeat and was told by an employee, “Heart tones are at 7 weeks. Heart beat is when the fetus is active in the uterus – can survive – which is about 17 or 18 weeks.” 

    That would be news to most parents who have already heard their child’s heartbeat by eight weeks and, indeed, news to most doctors. TheCleveland Clinic says that the heartbeat can be heard as early as six weeks and is definitely audible by 11 weeks. If a parent hasn’t heard a heartbeat by 17 weeks, as the Planned Parenthood employee says, it’s a crisis. 

    The same Planned Parenthood employee tells the woman that “A fetus is what’s in your uterus right now. That is not a baby. A baby is what’s born at 40 weeks.” Parents of babies who were born prematurely would likely disagree. In the United States, babies are considered truly viable at about 24 week and some have survived when born earlier than that. 

    Beyond the dubious medical information that the Planned Parenthood clinic is dispensing, the salesmanship displayed would make a drug dealer blush. At one point, the doctor tells the woman, “You know, women die having babies.” When the woman asked if women die during abortions, he answered, “Yes, but it’s never happened to me.” "

We can thank our government for supporting entities such as the one mentioned above.

In 2005, it was reported that in the previous seven years Planned Parenthood had earned profits – or built a surplus – of more than $350 million.  During that time, Planned Parenthood had been given government grants of nearly $1.5 billion.

I would call that "subsidizing the abortion industry". 

Planned Parenthood rakes in over a quarter BILLION dollars per year while bragging about being the nation's largest abortion provider.  Now there's something to be proud of!

Abby Johnson, former PP director in Texas, said "The money wasn't in family planning, the money wasn't in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem with that," said Johnson.

Indeed.

Lakes Not Safe Yet

Fishermen - keep your panties on your shanties.

"The temperatures have plunged, but experts say the ice is not thick enough yet to travel on Lake Winnebago.

Ice expert Don Herman told the Oshkosh Northwestern there was only about a half inch to an inch of ice in the western bays of Lake Winnebago on Friday."

How to Survive a Fall Through the Ice

All in good time -

West Bend School Board Meeting MONDAY night 7 p.m. - BARTON SCHOOL

Regular Board of Education Meeting

Barton Elementary - Gym

614 School Place

West Bend WI 53090 December 14, 2009

7:00 p.m.

AGENDA
7:00 1. Call to Order
2. Pledge of Allegiance
7:01 3. Approval of Agenda
7:02 4. Recognition of Hannah Lawrence as a state qualifier for Diving
7:07 5. Student Reports – update on high school events
7:11 6. Superintendent’s Report-update on recent as well as upcoming events
7:14 7. Public Participation
7:16 8. Board Briefs – update on community events
7:26 9. Clerk’s Report (reminder: declarations due January 5, 2010 @ 5:00 p.m.)
10. Discussion
Leverage Point: Student Performance & Trend Data
7:29 a. Barton Elementary School Improvement Plan (15 minute
presentation, 5 minute Q & A)
Leverage Point: Strategic Infrastructure (Policy)
7:49 b. First Reading of revised Board Policy 830: Use of Facilities -
Regulations
7:54 c. Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) Delegate
Assembly
7:59 d. Jackson Wireless Contract
11. Action Items
Leverage Point: Strategic Infrastructure (Fiscal)
8:04 a. Resolution Awarding the Sale of $7,300,000 General Obligation
Qualified School Construction Bonds (Tax Credit)
8:15 b. 2008-2009 Financial Audit
8:25 c. Consent Agenda
i. Minutes of the November 23, 2009 Regular Board
ii. Disbursements Posted to December 14, 2009
iii. Resignation
8:27 12. Reports
a. Facility Update
8:32 13. Committee Reports
a. Joint Instruction/Stakeholder Communications (12/14)
b. Joint Finance/Facilities (12/14)

Homeless Camp claim to fame "Obamaville"

I believe they have a captivated national audience on this one.

From WND:

"Residents of Colorado Springs, Colo., have a mystery on their hands: Who came up with the idea to erect a sign reading "Welcome to Obamaville" on the site of a homeless tent camp in the city?

The sign, which was visible from the Cimarron Street ramp to Interstate 25, clearly conveyed a political jab at rising unemployment under President Barack Obama, for it read in full, "Welcome to Obamaville – Colorado's fastest growing community.""

Planned Parenthood in Appleton, Wisconsin says Abortion is Safer than Childbirth

Watch this revealing undercover video to listen to the lies.  


The intake nurse (?) and baby killer contradict each other as to when a baby is actually a baby.  The nurse says "when it's born"; the killer says "6 or 7 months or so."  They should really coordinate their deception if they want to sound believable.  

Snow Dumpage

Took a few more pics this a.m. before hitting the coffee pot.  I like the "drive away and leave the mess for the kids" attitude!  (Note tire tracks leaving the garage...)

(Above)  My kids have always referred to this look as a "powdered sugar" day.


Looks like the Christmas bush out front may have to undergo a little rescue operation...   >>>>>>

West Bend School District CLOSED for Wednesday - Official SNOW/PLAY day!

West Bend, Kewaskum, Hartford, Kettle Moraine Lutheran, Jackson - virtually of Washington County is shut down for Wednesday.  Happy faces, kids!  (Secretly working on my chore list now!)


BLIZZARD WARNING IN EFFECT.

Winter's Official Arrival

Snow Total 3-4" today....  SUNBURST SKI RESORT is open with up to 15" of snow base on two runs; three more runs being groomed and ready soon.

Schlafly Denounced ALA's Banned Books Week - Calls it "Bullying"

Curtsy to Safelibraries:


Transcription of commentary:

A few weeks ago, the American Library Association announcedwith much fanfare that it was celebrating the ridiculous event called “Banned Books Week.” This announcement accused Americans of being “zealots and bigots who live in fear of discourse” and of being “screamers and book banners and book burners.” This Association arranged events and set up displays at libraries all over the country to pretend we have a problem with censorship.

The American Library Association puts out a list of books that it claims are being censored, which is a fraud because only government can engage in censorship and I assure you that our government is not censoring books. A so-called list of “banned books” was created by crying “censorship” anytime library patrons or parents of public school children complain about risque books being given to their children. The American Library Association claims that there were 186 cases of supposed censorship last year. But those were merely cases of ordinary people filing complaints with schools or libraries. Nearly all of these challenges to books took place at schools, and the rest of the complaints involved books available in the youth or children’s section of public libraries. These complaints had nothing to do with any book read by an[y] adult. These people accused of being “book banners” are just ordinary parents who want to limit their own children’s exposure to material they consider harmful or obscene.

Banned Books Week is not a celebration of free speech. It's a way for leftwing bureaucrats to bully ordinary citizens by stigmatizing those who complain with nasty names such as ‘bigots,’ ‘screamers,’ and ‘book burners’. The purpose is to intimidate parents from ever complaining about books that are given to their own children.


Listen to entire commentary HERE.

Fondy hunter gets 30-pointer

Believe it.

CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTO

"Wayne Schumacher’s “lucky buck” holds the new state record as the largest non-typical buck shot with a bow in Wisconsin history.

The 30-point rack was measured Saturday by a team of certified scorers, earning the record-breaking score of 243 6/8 inches."

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"It took two teams of certified scorers three hours to measure the rack, using steel cable and flexible steel tape measures, said scorer Mark Miller of Fond du Lac."

Straight No Chaser - Acapella

Just watched this group's performance on PBS.  LOVED it!

Hartford's WTKM ends Polka, starts Good Time Rock 'n Roll

A new genre for landmark Wisconsin radio station, WTKM AM 1540, Hartford.  Bob Seeger til the cows come home.

Crusin' 1540 WTKM .:. Good Time Rock n' Roll

FACEBOOK 'EM HERE.