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Corruption Probe, Press
‘Secret inquiry gets closer to Walker’
by JOHN ADAMS •
Hall and Spicuzza (with Barbour) on byline for recap of John Doe corruption probe now onging out of Milwaukee County District Attorney’s office:
….the judge overseeing the John Doe investigation released documents showing that nearly a dozen people, including Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie and campaign fundraiser Rose Ann Dieck, had received immunity from prosecution in exchange for their testimony.
John Doe investigations are secret proceedings in which witnesses can be compelled to testify about possible criminal matters. Immunity grants, which must be given in open court, can be for witnesses in jeopardy of being criminally charged themselves.
Because those involved are typically barred from discussing such investigations, much about the case remains a mystery. But recent developments suggest the probe into Milwaukee County staffers, launched about 17 months ago, may be creeping closer to Walker himself….
State Journal‘s been chasing the Journal Sentinel on this story, and publication indicates unwillingness to cede coverage (and almost certain suspicion that other shoes will drop).
Via Wisconsin State Journal: Secret inquiry gets closer to Walker.
Daily Bread
Daily Bread for 10.3.11
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning.
It’s a warm and sunny day ahead for Whitewater, with a high temperature of seventy-one.
There’s a Park & Rec Board meeting today at 5 p.m. The agenda is available online.
Video camera traps reveal animals that people, venturing noisily into a jungle, might never see otherwise. From a Wired story entitled, Video Camera Traps Capture Indonesian Jungle Animals, here’s an edited five-minute clip that shows the variety of life to be found in that part of the world.
Enjoy.
Public Meetings
Police Commission
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Landmarks Commission
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Common Council
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Parks & Rec Board
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Economy
Number of the Week: The Economy’s Housing Albatross
by JOHN ADAMS •
No recovery:
In the second quarter, residential investment — money spent on building, adding to and maintaining homes — accounted for just 2.2% of GDP, according to the Commerce Department.
That was the lowest level since 1945, when America was on a war footing. If residential investment were to rebound to its average share of the economy from 1950 to 2000 of 4.7%, GDP would be 2.5% higher than it is now. That’s about as much as it grows in an average year.
Via Wall Street Journal.
Recent Tweets, 9.25 to 10.1
by JOHN ADAMS •
Diamondbacks batting coach Baylor faints at Miller Park bit.ly/puJc1o
Just ten months on: Walker’s chief of staff to head campaign for expected recall attempt http://bit.ly/nQWN6F
Brewers-Diamondbacks Twitter war – bit.ly/r1ozQQ #BeatAZ
The worst political class in America: Wisconsin Assembly meets for jobs special session & immediately adjourns bit.ly/mTtmqz
Journal Sentinel joins call to end Milwaukee’s anti-consumer taxi cartel: Lift the cap on permits – bit.ly/pxpzd4
Past political policy is prologue not because it must be, but because nature & environment ask no more of officials
That’s quite a ‘lapse in judgment’ Elections Board: Waukesha County clerk violated state law, but not on purpose bit.ly/rgSdC7
How can a state paper not cover this story up & down? Walker says he was unaware of aide’s immunity deal – bit.ly/pRPAml
Incredible: Gov. Walker says he was unaware of his own press secretary’s immunity deal – bit.ly/pRPAml
“You know what your problem is? You used up all your damn luck getting here” Strauss on Jimmy Carter FREE WHITEWATER bit.ly/nsazY5
On WTDY: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel‘s Dan Bice on the John Doe Corruption Probe bit.ly/mZRzta
Inauspicious lede: Has Tommy Thompson become the Brett Favre of Wisconsin politics? bit.ly/nh5eM8
Yes: From a financial standpoint, Greece is toast – chicagotribune.com trib.in/ruN0kv
Cartoons & Comics
Sunday Morning Cartoon: Bugs Bunny in Rebel Rabbit
by JOHN ADAMS •
See, @ Wikipedia, more on Rebel Rabbit.
Foreign Affairs
About those two U.S.-born terrorists killed in an American drone strike
by JOHN ADAMS •
For those Al Qaeda members killed, I’ve not the slightest sympathy. One would prefer fewer entanglements abroad, but that preference doesn’t alter the clear right of Americans to defend themselves, and exact retributive justice against those who have committed themselves to war with this republic.
The president was right to order the dispatch of Bin Laden, and he has been right to continue America’s legitimately defensive and wholly justified war against Al Qaeda.
Via Fox News.
Comment Forum
Friday Poll and Comment Forum: Brewers v. Diamondbacks
by JOHN ADAMS •
Having arrived in the playoffs, with a home field advantage against Arizona, how will Milwaukee do? My prediction: Brewers in 4.
What do you think?
I’ve a poll and forum for comments below. The post will remain open until Sunday morning. Comments will be moderated against profanity and trolls; otherwise, have at it.
Beautiful Whitewater, City
Tomorrow
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Cats
Friday Catblogging: Hardy cat with two faces lives twelve years (and counting)
by JOHN ADAMS •
We all know cats have nine lives, but … two faces?
Meet Frank and Louie, a rare cat known as a Janus who has earned a place in the 2012 Guinness World Records book as the oldest-living two-faced feline.
Luckily for Frank and Louie’s owner, who according to media reports lives in Worcester, Mass., the cat has only one stomach and one brain, so he doesn’t require extra food to fill two bellies and has no split personality issues. He eats with just one of two mouths and does not have to worry about his three eyes making life confusing. Only two of them — one on each face — work, while the middle one just stares ahead, giving Frank and Louie perfect vision despite the somewhat cyclops-like appearance.
But love is blind, and Frank and Louie’s owner loves him — or them — so much that she may have contributed to the cat’s unusually long life.