Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 42. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:25 PM for 9h 01m 57s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 83.5% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1947, the transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories. The Milwaukee Journal…
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Big Lie, Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Elections, Sen. Ron Johnson, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 12.20.21: His Worst Idea Yet
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 38. Sunrise is 7:22 AM and sunset 4:23 PM for 9h 01m 40s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 98.3% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM, and the Whitewater Unified School Board meets in…
Big Lie, Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Elections, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 12.19.21: Gableman Fiasco Investigation Recap
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 33. Sunrise is 7:21 AM and sunset 4:23 PM for 9h 01m 43s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.8% of its visible disk illuminated (the moon’s peak visible illumination was at 11:35 PM last night). On this day in 1776, Thomas…
Big Lie, Conspiracy Theories, Daily Bread, Elections, Wisconsin
Daily Bread for 12.18.21: Wisconsin on the Frontline of Election Conspiracies
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 33. Sunrise is 7:21 AM and sunset 4:22 PM for 9h 01m 49s of daytime. The moon is full with 99.7% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1865, Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting…
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Daily Bread for 12.14.21: State Sen. Kathy Bernier Speaks Honestly
by JOHN ADAMS •
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 46. Sunrise is 7:18 AM and sunset 4:21 PM for 9h 03m 03s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 81.9% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater School Board’s Policy Review Committee meets at 9 AM, and the Fire Department…
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Daily Bread for 10.9.21: Michael Gableman Brilliantly Reprises a 1940 Film Role
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 70. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 6:21 PM for 11h 18m 32s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 12.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1936, Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit…
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Daily Bread for 10.7.21: Michael Gableman’s Candid, and Disqualifying, Ignorance
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be rainy with a high of 70. Sunrise is 7:00 AM and sunset 6:24 PM for 11h 24m 13s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 1.5% of its visible disk illuminated. There will be a meeting of Whitewater’s Finance Committee at 4:30 PM, of the Landmarks Commission…
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Daily Bread for 9.26.21: The Vaccine Divide and the Economic Divide
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 82. Sunrise is 6:47 AM and sunset 6:43 PM for 11h 55m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 73% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1789, George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary…
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Daily Bread for 9.16.21: The Biased Leading the Biased
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 6:36 AM and sunset 7:01 PM for 12h 24m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 77.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater Fire Department, Inc. meets at 6 PM. This day in 1959, the first successful photocopier, the…
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Daily Bread for 8.19.21: ‘People Into Chimpanzees’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with scattered afternoon thunderstorms and a high of 88. Sunrise is 6:06 AM and sunset 7:49 PM, for 13h 42m 45s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 88.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1812, the American frigate USS Constitution defeats the British frigate…
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Sen. Ron Johnson: ‘An all-access purveyor of misinformation’
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Ron Johnson, one of the two United States senators representing Wisconsin, has earned a new epithet: BROOKFIELD, Wis. — Senator Ron Johnson incited widespread outrage when he said recently that he would have been more afraid of the rioters who rampaged the Capitol on Jan. 6 had they been members of Black Lives Matter and…
Congress, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation, Insurrection, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson Reads Lies about the Capitol Riot
by JOHN ADAMS • • 2 Comments
In for a penny, in for a pound: Sen. Ron Johnson hopes someone will believe that the rioters who marched from a Trump rally to the Capitol on 1.6 weren’t Trump supporters at all. (Most likely, he does not expect rational people to believe this; he hopes to soothe the feelings of the irrational faction…
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Ron Johnson: ‘No Enemies to the Right’?
by JOHN ADAMS • • 1 Comment
During an interview yesterday, Sen. Ron Johnson declared of the Capitol riot that ‘this didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me.’ Tim Elfrink reports that As a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol last month, rioters battered police with a multitude of weapons: metal flagpoles, baseball bats, wrenches and clubs. Many soaked police in caustic…
Congress, Conspiracy Theories, Crackpots, Disinformation, Mendacity, Sen. Ron Johnson
Ron Johnson Searches for the Real Killer
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
United States Senator Ron Johnson wonders if, possibly, maybe, perhaps it is Nancy Pelosi who is responsible for the Capitol riot. He doesn’t have any proof for this contention, and after all, he’s only askin’ questions, so don’t ask Johnson for substantiation: “Is this another diversionary operation? Is this meant to deflect away from potentially…