Wisconsin: What the Fuck?!

Wow, really??? Not that you ever hear about anyone shooting cats...

And cats, by the way, don't just kill birds. My cat seems to take particular pleasure in torturing them first. The cats that would be shot would at least in most cases die a swift and relatively painless death.

Death to the feral cats of Wisconsin!

http://www.twincities.com/localnews/ci_15509218?nclick_check=1

Man believed clowns were attacking home in Roberts, Wis.
Mother's house shot up; Arizona visitor admitted taking hallucinogen
By Andy Rathbun
arath✧✧✧@pioneerpr✧✧✧.c✧✧
Updated: 07/13/2010 10:44:27 PM CDT

Police responded early Friday to a call of shots fired at a home in Roberts and found a man apparently hallucinating an attack by clowns.

The 40-year-old man, armed with a shotgun, had fired several shots in his mother's home. It also appeared that he fired a shot at his mother and visiting father as they fled from the home in a vehicle, said St. Croix County Sheriff Dennis Hillstead.

"Pellets probably hit their windshield," Hillstead said.

Police arrived about 4 a.m. and surrounded the home. The man came to the door at one point and was "yelling at what he could see in the yard, but there was nothing there," Hillstead said.

The man went back into the home and fired more rounds, Hillstead said. In total, about 22 shotgun rounds were fired into the walls and ceiling of the home.

The man then went to the porch with the shotgun in hand and a bag of ammunition around his neck. He did not respond to police commands, but after the man slipped and fell, deputies were able to take him into custody, Hillstead said.

While being taken to a hospital for examination, the man indicated he had taken a hallucinogenic drug. He said he believed that people dressed as clowns were attacking his mother's home and that he had shot and killed a number of them, Hillstead said. He also said he had shot dogs that were attacking him and that his mother had been shot and killed.

"He was ... not in touch with reality," Hillstead said.

No one was injured in the incident.

The man, who was visiting from Arizona, is being held in a mental facility while he undergoes a psychological evaluation, Hillstead said Tuesday.

He has not been charged with a crime, and police have not released his name.

Andy Rathbun can be reached at 651-228-2121.

i'm just going to keep reviving this thread when i read shit like this:

http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2011/related/proposals/sb507

quick summary: 'Senate Bill 507 introduced by Senator Grothman and requires the Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board to emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect. '

grothman lives alone w/ his mom btw

http://www.care2.com/causes/wisconsin-equal-pay-law-repealed-because-money-is-more-important-for-men.html

"Wisconsin Equal Pay Law Repealed Because “Money Is More Important For Men”"

this fuckin' guy

it's really pretty next-level

basically the trolls are in charge right now in this state

yup i bet there is no difference between walker's behind-closed-doors meetings and a youtube comments box

He also repealed a law allowing hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples. Guess he figures since he's about to be recalled out of office, he may as well cram all this shit in.

i feel like i'm living in an alternate universe these days. like a twilight-zone style instructional purgatory.

He also repealed a law allowing hospital visitation rights for same-sex couples. Guess he figures since he's about to be recalled out of office, he may as well cram all this shit in.

― Frank Youngenstein (Phil D.), Monday, April 9, 2012 8:19 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he did this last may, actually.

our new senator, ron johnson, hard at work: http://www.rollcall.com/news/in_pivot_to_messaging_ron_johnson_looks_to_purge_staff-213740-1.html?pos=hftxt

“He’s an interesting case study of someone who has talked more than he has listened, lectured more than he has developed relationships with his colleagues, and now he’s having a tough time because of that behavior in advancing his policy goals,” one senior GOP aide said. “It’s kind of like watching a temper tantrum by a 2-year-old in the middle of the grocery store.”
“The Senate is still about relationships, and he doesn’t seem to get that,” the aide continued.

man this blows.

how are the senatorial recall elections going? is that a possible silver lining?!?

yeah i can't any news on that. well, scott fitzgerald survived a recall, no surprise there. but no word on the really contentious ones.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/152346265.html

walker's margin of victory will likely decrease quite a bit as most results from the city of milwaukee aren't in. but walker will still win.

feel free to make wisconsin jokes; we deserve it.

I can't be too smug about Minnesota. Some of us will keep voting her into office until she remembers that she's supposed to be in the kitchen.

x-post re Wisc.

$30.5 million: Amount raised by Walker to fight off the recall effort

$3.9 million: Amount raised by his challenger, Tom Barrett, the Democratic mayor of Milwaukee

Thanks for nothing DNC in not getting involved.

As was said on the other rolling us politics thread

lol, by "her" I meant the one who is not to be named, apparently; but it should be obvious

democrats seem to have lost all the senate recall efforts too. pardon me, i'm going to go shoot myself.

have you cleared that with jesus?

i'm enjoying the comic relief from what this thread was started for vs what it's used for now

i'm not

i'm breaking out the cheap whiskey here. gonna be a long night bros.

you think this is something wait til november!

We'll all be honorary Wisconsinites then?

Green Bay goes @Detroit and @New York Giants back to back end of November.

fuck this noise. fuck the dnc, fuck obama for making a fucking TWEET the sum total of his support, and frankly fuck the party for picking a guy who had ~already lost once~ to run again.

sorry, amateurist. i feel like "solidarity" is a corny thing to say here, but--you know.

http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/as-republicans-see-victory-lehman-declares-win/article_90a8c3ae-af76-11e1-ba46-0019bb2963f4.html

this mayyyyyyyyy be a win for the senate, which would give it back to the dems.

yes but there are new elections in november so we could either consolidate gains or lose the senate to the republicans again.

things are bleak my friends.

though it's too bad i don't get to type "Wanggaard" much longer.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/senate-back-in-session-after-democrats-delayed-key-votes-b99223756z1-249764691.html

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_03/another_curb_on_the_innercity049471.php

Republican state senators narrowly approved bills Wednesday to end weekend voting before elections, allow lobbyists to make political donations earlier in the political season and curb lawsuits by those exposed to asbestos.
Under one bill, approved by a one-vote margin, early voting in clerks’ offices could occur only on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. Clerks would not be able to hold early voting during all of that period, however, because they would be limited to allowing a total of 45 hours of early voting a week.

curb lawsuits by those exposed to asbestos.

if men are to be free the iron grip of Big Lung must be broken

yeah there are lots of things like that happening in wisconsin. first you think, "why would any legislator want to sign a bill like that into law, much less introduce it?" then you think, "oh. $$$$$$$$"

oh wait I mean "limited government"

wow. wisconsin is so much more fucked up than i realized! no offense of course. but i really had missed a lot of that..

oh yeah, it's crazy town here.

http://host.madison.com/news/local/writers/jack_craver/dale-schultz-i-am-not-willing-to-defend-them-anymore/article_7c3598f2-ae16-11e3-8097-0019bb2963f4.html

Wisconsin state Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, will not ride off quietly into the sunset.

In an appearance on the Devil’s Advocate radio show (The Mic/92.1 FM) last week, Schultz told hosts Mike Crute and Dominic Salvia that his party’s support for a series of election law changes was indefensible.

“I am not willing to defend them anymore,” he explained when Salvia asked why Republicans sought to limit the number of voting hours a municipality could offer. “I’m just not and I’m embarrassed by this.”

Since announcing his retirement in the face of a tough primary challenge from conservative state Rep. Howard Marklein, R-Spring Green, the Republican iconoclast has become more strident in criticizing the party in which he has made a political career. Schultz has served as a legislator from southwestern Wisconsin since 1983, including two stints as Senate majority leader in 2003 and 2005.

Last week, Schultz argued that there were no legitimate justifications for some of the election reforms pushed by Republicans.

“It’s all predicated on some belief there is a massive fraud or irregularities, something my colleagues have been hot on the trail for three years and have failed miserably at demonstrating,” he said.

However, the suggestion that his party holds a sincere but misguided belief constituted one of Schultz’s gentler criticisms of the GOP. He hinted that Republicans are trying to gain an electoral advantage by depressing voter turnout.

“It’s just sad when a political party has so lost faith in its ideas that it’s pouring all of its energy into election mechanics,” Schultz said. “We should be pitching as political parties our ideas for improving things in the future rather than mucking around in the mechanics and making it more confrontational at the voting sites and trying to suppress the vote.”

Although Schultz voted for the voter ID bill passed by the Legislature in 2011, now tied up in the courts, he said he now believes that a lack of access to the polls poses a far greater threat to the integrity of state elections than voter fraud.

The course his Republican colleagues are charting, he said, is a depressing departure from the legacy set by those who championed voting rights during Reconstruction and later during the Civil Rights Era.

“In the spirit of the champion of the 1957 Voting Rights Act, I have been trying to send a message that we are not encouraging voting, we are not making voting easier in any way, shape or form with these bills,” he explained. “Back in 1957 with the leadership of Dwight Eisenhower, Republicans were doing that. And that makes me sad, frankly.”

Later, Schultz attacked a bill aimed at helping companies escape asbestos litigation that has been criticized by groups representing veterans, who account for a disproportionate number of those suffering from mesothelioma, a cancer linked to asbestos exposure.

“This bill is certainly a slap in the face at the very least to some of the people who gave some of the most vital years of their life in the service of their country,” he said.

need more dudes like this

Government by "drafting error"

http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/290789421.html

yeah, that was all folks around here were talking about today

i think he's just realizing the amount of blowback this is getting and how it will hurt his presidential chances

i mean, you couldn't come up with a parody of a conservative ideologue that would be any more asinine than this guy. he literally removed "the search for truth" from the mission statement of the University of Wisconsin.

There's just something so LITTLE about this guy, the way he can't even just say "OK, that change was a bad idea, thanks for letting me know," he has to make this transparently false claim about it being a typo. It's really infuriating.

Appropriately leading Drudge Report poll atm.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/herman-cain-tops-mitt-romney-in-latest-cbs-nyt-poll/

i love how every single story is like 'the governor, who does not have a college degree'

'the governor, who doesn't know shit'
'the governor, who is a dumbass little resentment monkey'

yeah having 15% in a 38-man race not all that thunderous

made the NYT editorial page: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/opinion/gov-scott-walkers-drafting-error.html

The citizens of Wisconsin, clearly more appreciative of the state university than is their governor

Or, the citizens of Wisconsin, clearly more appreciative of their asshat Gov they keep electing than students are of them?

yeah, that was an optimistic gloss. there's a lot of contempt for the UW around the state, most of it due to the kind of anti-intellectual scapegoating Walker engages in, but a little of it earned. that said, Walker's attempt to change the charter was so ham-fisted that even his supporters are balking.

He's a douchebag, but he's been elected multiple times and he survived a concerted recall effort. When I go up to WI I see Walker stickers and signs everywhere. Clearly the state of WI does not give a shit.

that depends on who you ask, as always

it's not like being reelected in a low-turnout election means that the populace universally holds you in high regard

Absolutely, I just mean, from personal experience, I see stickers and signs for him all over the place in and around Milwaukee. Not sure I've seen more than a bumper sticker or two for Rauner here.

Or, you could say a low turnout election is a sign that even a dick this awful can't get people out of bed.

I canvassed up in WI during the last national election, and people I talked to were so sick to death of elections. Down here, you generally know how things will go (this year excepted, I guess). But people there were literally pleading with us to stop sending people to their door asking them to vote.

i'm not disputing anything you're saying, really, except the breadth of your generalizations.

reagan . . . bush . . . walker!

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a33275/how-scott-walker-is-defeated-by-butterfat/

This is from 2013, but I just now came across it, missed any earlier discussion: reprisals for some who signed recall petitions(This American Life, "It Says So Right Here, " Act III)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/509/it-says-so-right-here?act=3

http://www.thenation.com/article/199369/how-scott-walker-built-career-sending-wisconsin-inmates-private-prisons#

This is from 2013, but I just now came across it, missed any earlier discussion: reprisals for some who signed recall petitions(This American Life, "It Says So Right Here, " Act III)
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/509/it-says-so-right-here?act=3

― dow, Monday, February 23, 2015 6:24 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

how do you play this? :(

click the little white arrow pointing right in the purple circle

More on the Inglett story.

http://www.wiscnews.com/news/article_216e9d60-d4aa-11e2-a860-001a4bcf887a.html

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/1622070_932117096822772_3022253640380038444_n.jpg?oh=5b7912cb2bb081641f65fb70f1236981&oe=55BD3402&__gda__=1434252095_660741297df523beedd3f88f147c7bc0

i hate macros, but... yup.

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-destruction-of-the-wisconsin-supreme-court

That New Yorker article reads like a Clive Barker-novel level of horror absurdity. I used to laugh tongue-in-cheek at my wife bemoaning the craziness in her home state, but now I have a front row seat to watch Rauner do the same in Illinois. It's hard to cheer for such a stooge as is Madigan.

One of the only major media pieces I've seen that gets Wisconsin politics roughly right.

http://languagepolitics.org/2015/06/01/uw-post-mortem-outcomes/

good inside UW source to follow

http://www.jsonline.com/news/national-focus-on-uw-sharpening-over-tenure-governance-b99511901z1-306017731.html

it's a disaster.

and probably coming to your state next

what a nightmare.

http://m.host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/university/regents-won-t-fight-controversial-tenure-changes-by-legislature/article_23e46e2f-f03e-54d3-b5e2-b4be9a31aeee.html?mobile_touch=true

regents oked it

full vote tomorrow

something like 16 of 18 regents were appointed by scott "i flunked out of college" walker

http://www.startribune.com/uw-madison-professor-discouraging-prospective-students/316118691/

A University of Wisconsin-Madison professor is under fire for encouraging prospective students to go elsewhere because she believes academic freedom is in jeopardy in Wisconsin.

Sara Goldrick-Rab has acknowledged searching Twitter for future Badgers and says she wanted to inform them of changes to faculty tenure and shared governance. She tweeted the changes will hurt the quality of their education, but that the university isn't telling them about that.

lol

http://academeblog.org/2015/07/17/in-defense-of-sara-goldrick-rab/

Even worse, the executive committee of Madison’s Faculty Senate declared in a statement. “As faculty members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, we support free speech and diversity of opinion, as has been our tradition. Such freedom requires responsible behavior and in this respect we are deeply dismayed with the actions Professor Sara Goldrick-Rab has taken toward students and faculty on Twitter in recent weeks to discourage them from coming here. While claiming to stand for academic freedom, she has in fact damaged that principle and our institution with inaccurate statements and misrepresentations.”

wtf indeed

http://www.wkow.com/story/30204204/2015/10/07/republican-lawmakers-seek-gender-restrictions-on-wi-school-bathrooms

once again, the wisconsin supreme court, ladies and gents

http://www.jsonline.com/news/rebecca-bradley-called-gays-queers-who-opted-to-kill-themselves-b99682686z1-371276861.html

http://www.salon.com/2016/12/14/gop-super-pac-linked-to-paul-ryan-used-illegally-hacked-material-against-democratic-house-candidates-report/

schadenfavre

https://deadspin.com/brett-favre-loses-another-one-late-1845575041