JS Online: Waukesha County to live under microscope
Pay attention to this paragraph…
“The study will follow children from the womb – and in some cases pre-conception – to adulthood. Study designers hope the program eventually will expand to include 100,000 children at 105 centers selected to represent various geographical, ethnic and socioeconomic regions in the country.”
This is a government funded study that explicitly states that that clump of cells is a child!
http://www.jsonline.com/news/wauk/
This is the best the Journal Sentinal can do for a front page? Why give Waukesha it’s own section if you are just going to list a few lame stories. We have over 373 THOUSAND citizens in the county. And we can’t even get a friggin decent home page?
This blows
We know from the petitions for recall that many of the people circulating the petition are NOT Pewaukeeans.
We know that they have identified themselves as being “with Pewaukeeans for Better Government” thereby indicating that they are Pewaukeeans.
PBG will NOT publish a list of it’s members.
When posting on Blogs they use fake names and will not answer the PBG members question except by saying “do some research” and yet it is not on the web site or in any of it’s documents.
Many of the proposals that Nowak pushed helped Pewaukee at the expense of Waukesha.
Is this what is behind their recall drive? A very few Pewaukeeans who have been either used by outsiders or needed outsiders to get their way, which is it?
Perhaps OWP (Outsiders for a Weaker Pewaukee) should be their name?
Any PBG members out there to clear this up?
Here is (apparently because it is hard to find specifics) The ACLU’s main beef with the patriot act. I will address this in individual posts.
Reform the Patriot Act A Primer:
1) SEARCH YOUR HOME AND NOT EVEN TELL YOU. The USA Patriot Act expands law enforcement’s ability to conduct secret “sneak and peek” searches of your home. Investigators can enter your home or office, take pictures and seize items without informing you that a warrant was issued, for an indefinite period of time. (SECTION 213)
2) COLLECT INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT BOOKS YOU READ, WHAT YOU STUDY, YOUR PURCHASES AND YOUR MEDICAL HISTORY. The USA Patriot Act gives law enforcement broad access to any types of records ” medical, financial, gun, library, educational, sales, etc. ” without probable cause of a crime. It also prohibits the holders of this information, like librarians, from disclosing that they have produced such records, under threat of imprisonment. The court orders are issued by a secret intelligence court in Washington and judges have little power to deny applications. (SECTION 215)
3) SEIZE A WIDE VARIETY OF BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL RECORDS, and in certain instances access the membership lists of organizations that provide even very limited Internet services (message boards on your church website for instance) using national security letters, or NSLs, which are issued at the sole discretion of the Justice Department. The Patriot Act expanded access to these NSLs, which also impose a blanket gag order on recipients and are not subject to judicial review. (SECTION 505)
4) READ PARTS OF YOUR E-MAILS AND MONITOR WHAT YOU LOOK AT ON-LINE. The Patriot Act lets the government get records that could show the subject lines of your e-mails and details about your Web surfing habits (like your recent research on Google), all without probable cause. (SECTION 216)
You have all been inundated with requests to give to the victims of Katrina. I will not ask more of you in that regard.
I will, however, ask that if you have a few coins left over that maybe you might want to concider sending a note (or a pizza or a fruit basket or something) to the nurses at St. Joes.
Ever since St. Mikes closed it’s ER the staff at St. Joes have been the primary ER for the milwaukee area. Their administrators could not forsee the influx of people from Katrina so those poor nurses that work the ICU and ER are having to treat more and more patients.
Keep in mind that these victims have no physician here so they are being sent to the ER with minor complaints but they are being warmly recieved by a staff that is overworked but I bet you anything that if you asked the patients they would tell you the staff seemed unhurried and caring. The simple fact folks is that the staff is extremely overworked and are busting their asses.
So go ahead, call Dominoes or whatever and tell them you want to send a pizza. Send flowers, send something. Because when this is all over do you want these fine examples of humanity retiring to escape the stress before you have a stroke or something?
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