Recent content by WRellim

First time I ever heard this "man"... do people actually listen to this kind of little pissant whiney crap? Why?

Yup. Haven't checked in here in a while, but I'm up here just north of Elkhorn. I was rather active in the 2008 season, running a Walworth meetup and sponsoring one for UW Whitewater. Got a bit burned out, and felt a bit betrayed at the middle/end of the 2008 campaign, and figured I would hang...

What, you mean like when the "grassroots" didn't want the bailout passed? :rolleyes: Seriously, they know the population gets pissed off one day, and then forgets about it the next (and even if they don't forget about it, the anger can be fairly easily co-opted and redirected -- witness the...

And in other news, Congress Republican leadership has decided to disband the "Monetary Policy Subcommittee" and merge it's responsibilities with the "Subcommittee on Environmental Excrement Disposal", which will be chaired by senior Congressman DerpDerpDerp. Because that is exactly what the did...

I wouldn't be to sure about Boehner, so I wouldn't go getting a "woody" about him if I were you... I think he's just another hack who is just riding the current bandwagon. The WSJ piece by Jim DeMint warning his new associates about the fact that the establishment will be trying to co-opt (and...

Both of those districts are completely gerrymandered -- Moore's as a permanent (D) seat, and Ryan's as a (R). You have to understand that the way the political parties rework the districts is to achieve this ON PURPOSE. By making Moore's district a "permanent Democrat" one, they isolate...

As insane as that always seems when it happens, what people (at least those who are aware) are really doing is either electing a _[Insert Appointee Name]_ (R) or a _[Insert Appointee Name]_ (D) -- or, as in this case, calling for a "do-over" in the form of a special election. To my mind this is...

Wisconsin "flipped the pancake" to see if the other side will do any better... See: Wisconsin only state where Democrats lost governor, Senate seat, [and entire State] Legislature Not only did Russ Feingold get ousted (by purported "Tea Party(R)" Ron Johnson -- wait and see on that one...

OTOH, they also just re-elected that certifiably insane, uber-corrupt, skin-on-a-skeleton John McCain. Also... Sheriff Joe Arpaio won't be dead & gone for quite a few years and I'm sure he has half a dozen "mini-me" understudy-thugs just itching for the chance to take his place and once...

Wisconsin checking in here. Wisconsin is a PURPLE state -- about 1/3 D, 1/3 R and most importantly about 1/3 Independents (and we have an open primary that lets you PICK which party primary you want to participate in, and then pick a different one the next time). Feingold lost because: The...

I Am Not A Lawyer -- but that looks to me like an "actionable" threat -- meaning you could either seek charges and/or sue his pants off for it. At the very least, a nice little "letter" from your attorney would likely shut his piehole (and probably cause the muscles on the other end to clamp...

Crisis and chaos also equals "opportunity" in many people's minds. The country was hit by a major earthquake, yes. But I've seen the videos, and not every building collapsed (far from it) -- it seems mainly the multi-story "fancy" buildings in the downtown areas (ones with government officials...

Book -- singular, by Edward Gibbon (last name is singular you are missing the apostrophe in "Gibbon's" ) Anyway, he published ONE major work on Rome, it was entitled "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" which was a HUGE work, published in SIX volumes (like a...

Haiti (it's not like there hasn't been "aid" there for years now): http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/1_7_5a.html And then there is the primary problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti#Demographics

I would STRONGLY suggest that you start with an "appetizer" of "breakfast" in the form of first reading her short (but deep concept) novelette, Anthem. Then, if you liked that, work your way up to a "lunch" and "dinner" with her (relatively small) novels We the Living, and The Fountainhead...