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March 22, 2024

Stopping by woods on a snowy noon.

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Open thread in the comments.

30 comments:

Big Mike said...: Kate Middleton has announced that she has cancer. Meanwhile, at a time when his wife needs all of the love and support a husband can give, William is out boinking his mistress. His grandmother had class, his father and him not so much. The Prince of Wales.can’t even be bothered to be discreet.; 3/22/24, 5:10 PM
rhhardin said...: Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village though
He will not mind if here I sit
To watch his woods fill up with s___; 3/22/24, 5:19 PM
narciso said...: You dont know that stop removing all doubt; 3/22/24, 5:25 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Email I received from State Rep. Joel Kitchens (State Representative for Wisconsin's First Assembly District, in Door and Kewaunee Counties, NE Wisconsin.):

"Not long ago, some of the clerks in our area came to me with concerns about the voting rights of senior citizens. Right now, state law isn’t clear on how people need protection and clarity on their voting rights. Often people declared incompetent don’t even know they aren’t allowed to vote because they weren’t given a copy of the ruling. Our law also doesn’t have a process for notifying clerks when someone is declared incompetent to vote.

This confusion led to many people casting ballots who lost that right because of a court ruling. A review by Dane County election officials found nearly 100 people who cast more than 300 ballots since 2008 despite being declared incompetent to vote. Many of those people voted in multiple elections.

Unfortunately, Governor Evers vetoed my bill that will help protect the voting rights of seniors. Assembly Bill 572 clarifies laws for people declared incompetent and makes sure their loved ones know when voting will take place in a care facility.

In more than half of those cases, the voter was registered under a different address than the one listed in the state’s adjudicated incompetent list. It’s highly unlikely a clerk would turn someone away if they provided proof of their residency. The bill would have installed a process to notify the clerks if they have been ruled incompetent to vote.

My bill also included a safeguard for families of individuals in nursing homes by requiring nursing homes to email the designated contact for a resident when special voting deputies will be in the facility to facilitate voting. While current law already requires municipal clerks to post a notice at the home or facility and on the internet indicating the date and time that absentee voting will take place at that home or facility, there is no notification process for the individuals or individuals whom the resident has designated as authorized contact persons.

Under the current process, families very often miss the notification and this bill would provide transparency and assurance that no one is interfering with their loved one’s right to vote. It is a felony for anyone, including a family member, to interfere with anyone’s right to vote.

AB 572 also provided that if a court restores the voter's right to vote, the Wisconsin Election Commission must, within two business days, notify the voter that the voter is eligible to vote and that the voter is required to complete a new registration to vote if the voter intends to vote.

My bill improved the difficult process of declaring someone incompetent, making sure they and their guardian know their rights, giving clerks the information they need to enforce court orders, and making sure family members are looped in when voting happens in a nursing home.

While the governor supported parts of the bill, he misguidedly let trivial concerns prevent us from providing much-needed oversight and transparency. These are important issues and should be clarified in state law."; 3/22/24, 5:54 PM
Eva Marie said...: I’d like to recommend an app: Merlin
It’s free, by Cornell Lab. Download it (if you wish), give it access to your microphone, press the Sound ID when you hear birds - back yard, on a hike. And it will instantly start identifying the birds you’re hearing. You can then click on the bird and hear its songs and calls. And do further research if you’re so inclined.
I’ve lived in my area on and off for 15 years and I had no idea we had red cardinals and never saw one till Merlin identified one for me. Deserving of its name, it’s a magical app.; 3/22/24, 6:06 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: The evergreens to one side and the sometimes green on the other.

DE&I nods.

Snow blizzards are nature’s paint job.; 3/22/24, 6:09 PM
traditionalguy said...: Do I see White supremacy caused by Global Cooling. That must be up north. It’s Spring here in Georgia and Masters Week starts in 17 days.; 3/22/24, 6:14 PM
Rusty said...: You got a lot more snow than we did. Barely a dusting and it's melting away now.; 3/22/24, 6:30 PM
Scott Patton said...: RIP Vernor Vinge
From the link: "Vinge was perhaps the most technologically visionary sci-fi writer of the past 50 years — a worthy successor to H.G. Wells and Isaac Asimov."
I preferred Peace War/Marooned in Realtime and Rainbows End over the "Zones of Thought" series.; 3/22/24, 6:30 PM
narciso said...: https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1771311184697794875; 3/22/24, 6:44 PM
tcrosse said...: There once was a poet named Frost
Who went to the woods and got lost.
But his horse knew the way
To carry the sleigh.
'Cause the old boy was probably sauced.; 3/22/24, 6:54 PM
Mason G said...: Transparency? Who would be opposed to that, he asked rhetorically?; 3/22/24, 6:55 PM
narciso said...: Apropos of nothing https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8sbhGggvCRI; 3/22/24, 6:56 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Marjorie Taylor Greene Issues ‘Warning’ to Speaker Mike Johnson With Motion to Vacate ~ WSJ

True hostages of themselves. The minority dictates the party. Presumably Johnson can now hold and win a vote on Ukrainian aid since he has nothing to lose. He can only be voted out once.; 3/22/24, 7:10 PM
narciso said...: You sold out george

https://youtu.be/DogR9ThhsEE?si=QauBh5cyMUwiboc1; 3/22/24, 7:17 PM
wildswan said...: I read about Kate Middleton with great interest since we both had abdominal surgery in January and neither of us wished to talk about it till it was over. You don't really feel like yourself most of the time and you rely on hero family members and dedicated medical people. There's no real way to thank them for what they do. And what they do is help you be upright again. It's an achievement to sit upright as she is doing but time goes on and you do achieve it. But who wants to hear that you are upright for awhile and soon for longer? And you lie there and think about how you have your life back and how good it is. You look at the wars and you pity those people, People were striving to save me but over there even in hospitals they were striving to kill. Hamas started a war and I could feel what a war is. How terrible when all the doors close on hope for awhile. How terrible to be a hostage with untreated wounds and uncaring captors. How terrible to know that Hamas gunmen are running the hospital you where lie helpless. And the Israeli are coming for Hamas. I wish for something better for all of us. We are captives of the past, and really captives. No group can dash in to our rescue. We can only tunnel out slowly, one by one, if we try hard.; 3/22/24, 8:11 PM
gilbar said...: if the democrats couldn't receive votes from ineligible voters.. HOW Would They Win Elections?; 3/22/24, 8:49 PM
Joe Smith said...: Who is paying the R traitor congressmen who are quitting?

Somebody must be.

They should be tried for treason.; 3/22/24, 8:49 PM
Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...: Horse pill. they said.
big-pharma jab. you can trust it. "no one is safe until everyone is safe" They regurgitated in loyal Putin-like unison.
F the left.

Chi-coms and left in bed.

"Remember when Ivermectin won a Nobel Prize and had decades of data showing its safety and effectiveness, and then the FDA called it a “horse drug” during Covid b/c its Big Pharma vax sponsors told it to?

Well a Federal court just ruled the FDA broke the law & needs to delete its propaganda

The truth about the Covid cartel keeps coming out."; 3/22/24, 9:51 PM
Mutaman said...: Trump to App Div: "Please lower the bond amount because I cannot afford to pay it"

Trump to rest of us: "ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WHICH I INTENDED TO USE IN MY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT.”; 3/22/24, 11:23 PM
Rt41Rebel said...: Why is Kate Middleton having cancer dominating the news cycle? Millions of people have cancer every year. I don’t know them, I feel bad that people get cancer, but I really don’t give a fuck about Kate having cancer news.; 3/23/24, 12:55 AM
Rt41Rebel said...: Why is Kate Middleton having cancer dominating the news cycle? Millions of people have cancer every year. I don’t know them, I feel bad that people get cancer, but I really don’t give a fuck about Kate having cancer news.; 3/23/24, 12:55 AM
lonejustice said...: Rt41Rebel said...

"Why is Kate Middleton having cancer dominating the news cycle? Millions of people have cancer every year. I don’t know them, I feel bad that people get cancer, but I really don’t give a fuck about Kate having cancer."
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Likewise, no one gives a fuck about how you don't give a fuck about Kate having cancer.; 3/23/24, 4:33 AM
wendybar said...: "I don’t think many Americans realize how difficult it is to come to America legally.
Among my own friends, I know an academic who has spent the past year in legal limbo, not allowed to work between teaching positions and constantly waiting to learn whether he can stay in America.
In Georgia, I know a couple — the husband is American, the wife British — who can still not legalize as a couple, despite years of marriage and years of being together, who want to get themselves to America.
The only reason I mention the plight of the law-abiding is because it stands in such stark contrast to the situation of the law-breaking.

Our pro-immigration politicians in America are loudly on the side of anyone who comes to America illegally."

https://nypost.com/2024/03/21/opinion/american-reps-will-speak-up-for-illegal-immigrants-while-not-bothering-to-help-the-law-abiding/; 3/23/24, 4:36 AM
Kakistocracy said...: "Why is Kate Middleton having cancer dominating the news cycle?

If you want a shortcut to sift out bad media from good, scroll back to see who speculated crap about Kate and who had better things to focus on. It will save you a lot of bother in the future.; 3/23/24, 5:56 AM
wendybar said...: “There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another, all the world's ills will be cured.”—Henry Ford; 3/23/24, 6:19 AM
MadTownGuy said...: Whoa.
Elon Musk @elonmusk
First ever post made just by thinking, using the @Neuralnk Telepathy device!

"Noland Arba[...]@ModdedQuad
Twitter banned me because they thought I was a bot, @X and @elonmusk reinstated me because I am."; 3/23/24, 8:29 AM
wendybar said...: THIS is the Joe Biden/ Hussein Obama's Fundamentally transformed America!!! Enjoy!!

https://dailycaller.com/2024/03/23/resendo-tellez-eating-human-leg-allegedly-train-accident-california-wasco/; 3/23/24, 9:56 AM
Original Mike said...: Best wishes, wildswan.; 3/23/24, 10:14 AM
Tina Trent said...: That's beautiful, Wildswan. Keep writing.; 3/23/24, 3:29 PM