ALERT: We can expect to be cudgeled with this starting immediately

boojieboy

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Friday April 01, 2011 · 9:32 PM PDT

2011/04/01 · 21:32

Short diary, to alert the dKos community, and Badger State Progressives:

I suppose a case like this was bound to happen

Wisconsin Teacher Sends EMail Threats

(Link goes to Google News)

It looks like this is solid reporting, so I'm comfortable at this point in assuming that it is pretty much as portrayed in various reports of it.

JUST TO BE CLEAR HERE: Making physical threats to lawmakers, their families or friends is unacceptable in any circumstance.

Ms. Windels and her exceptionally poor judgment will surely be used to bludgeon every last one of us as "extreme" and every other possible name. I can hear the right wing noise machine cranking up even now.

Guardsman deploys to Iraq, Loses His (DoD) Job

boojieboy

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Monday March 28, 2011 · 8:57 PM PDT

2011/03/28 · 20:57

This will be a short diary, merely meant to make this community aware of a single case in my neck of the woods (Western Wisconsin). The subject of this story is Mike Hanke, a National Guardsman with the rank of Sergeant. Here is the lede from the online edition of a local paper, The Chippewa Herald

If he had worked in the private sector, Mike Hanke could be assured by federal law that he could resume his job after returning from his second tour of duty in Iraq.
But Hanke is a sergeant with the Wisconsin Army National Guard. And when he got back from overseas duty in January 2010, he no longer had a job as an ROTC Cadre at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

Oh, but it gets better (by which I mean, worse). Follow me below the fold...

boojieboy

Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.)

Sunday March 13, 2011 · 9:47 AM PDT

2011/03/13 · 09:47

NOTE: First time diarist. Be gentle.

So me, Mrs. Boy, and The Boy (our ten year old son) got in the car early Saturday morn, and drove the 3 hours from our place in Western Wisconsin to Madison for the festivities on Saturday. It was the second time for each of us. Mrs. boy had been to Madison that fateful Tuesday in February, when a few thousand gathered at the capitol to lament the BRB, before our senators fled for Illinois the next day. I went to Madison on Feb 27, for what (until yesterday) was the biggest rally. Wherein lies our tale...

Poll

31 votes Show Results

Now for a little science: If you went to more than one rally at the Wisconsin state capitol, taken as a whole, have the signs

31 votes Vote Now!

Now for a little science: If you went to more than one rally at the Wisconsin state capitol, taken as a whole, have the signs

gotten steadily more angry

20 votes

anger level is about the same as it has been

7 votes

gotten steadily less angry

0 votes

pie for me thanks!

4 votes

RSS

ALERT: We can expect to be cudgeled with this starting immediately

Guardsman deploys to Iraq, Loses His (DoD) Job

Some observations from Madison