Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 54. Sunrise is 6:35 and sunset 5:39 for 11h 03m 33s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 98.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1986, the People Power Revolution forces the president of the Philippines Ferdinand…
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Daily Bread for 2.25.24: WISGOP Holdouts Admit the Truth About
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Daily Bread for 1.19.24: Wisconsin Assembly’s Queen of Crackpottery Comes Up Short (Yet Again)
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 11. Sunrise is 7:19 and sunset 4:51 for 9h 31m 26s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 66.2% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1983, the Apple Lisa, the first commercial personal computer from Apple to have a graphical user interface and a computer mouse, is announced.
Credit where credit is due, including credit for recognizing that the attempts to impeach the Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe are baseless (where baseless properly excludes drunken delusions, chanting voices in one’s head, or congenital cognitive deficiency). Scott Bauer reports Wisconsin Republican leader derides GOP impeachment attempt targeting state’s top elections official:
In the Assembly, state Rep. Janel Brandtjen has introduced a resolution to impeach Wolfe. As of Thursday, it had just five co-sponsors in addition to Brandtjen. It would require 50 votes to pass.
Brandtjen tried in vain on Tuesday to be recognized to speak in an attempt to get a vote on her proposal. Brandtjen, who has endorsed discredited conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, accused Republican leaders of being “Administrator Wolfe’s PR team.”
During a news conference before Thursday’s session, Assembly Majority Leader Tyler August said Brandtjen’s proposal would not be voted on because it doesn’t have enough support to get out of committee or be approved by a majority of the Assembly.
“We have a process that has been utilized in this building for decades of how to bring a bill or a resolution to the floor,” August said. “And that’s the process that we’ll continue to use.”
August said if Brandtjen has enough support to bring the measure forward for a vote, she can.
“But the fact is she doesn’t,” August said. “Our caucus is focused on real things, not grifting and not making a big show for the cameras. And that’s all she’s interested in doing.”
Now, I’m not inclined to agree that the WISGOP is focused on real things, but it’s indisputable among non-lunatics that Brandtjen is focused on unreal things. A low bar, yes.
And yet, and yet, among the 5.8 million Wisconsinites, Brandtjen is not the state’s only crackpot, although she now seems to sit on the crackpottery throne. (Where Michael Gableman is these days I do not know, as Arkham Asylum is a fictional place. )
Amish man, horses help pull SUV out of snow in Ethridge, Tennessee:
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Daily Bread for 8.8.23: WISGOP Election Official Battles Her Own Party
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
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Daily Bread for 7.17.23: Partisanship Overpowers Fact-Checking
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 76. Sunrise is 5:32 AM and sunset 8:29 PM for 14h 57m 24s of daytime. The moon is new with none of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Library Board meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1955, Walt Disney dedicates and opens Disneyland…
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Daily Bread for 7.16.23: Where the Conspiratorial Leads
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
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Daily Bread for 3.17.23: Offer and Acceptance (It’s Acceptance or Rejection that Matters)
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Good morning. St. Patrick’s Day in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 34. Sunrise is 7:01 AM and sunset 7:04 PM for 12h 02m 11s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 22.5% of its visible disk illuminated. The City of Whitewater Common Council Whitewater Aquatic and Fitness Center Subcommittee meets at 10…
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Daily Bread for 3.3.23: When Neither Sympathy Nor Empathy Are Present
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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be mostly cloudy with a high of 41. Sunrise is 6:25 AM and sunset 5:47 PM for 11h 21m 28s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 85.8% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1931, the United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national…
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Daily Bread for 3.2.23: The Late Pete Carril’s Approach Applied to Whitewater’s Politics
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 39. Sunrise is 6:27 AM and sunset 5:46 PM for 11h 18m 34s of daytime. The moon is a waxing gibbous with 79.4% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission will meet at 6 PM and there will be a Whitewater Aquatic and Fitness…
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Daily Bread for 2.6.23: Trump Campaign Knew It Lost Wisconsin in 2020, So It Prepared to Lie
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Monday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 41. Sunrise is 7:02 AM and sunset 5:15 PM for 10h 12m 33s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 99.5% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Equal Opportunities Commission meets at 5 PM. On this day in 1778, in Paris the Treaty of…
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Daily Bread for 1.16.23: Ron Johnson on Meet the Press
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Daily Bread for 1.13.23: The Conspiracy Capital of Wisconsin (It’s Not Whitewater)
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Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 30. Sunrise is 7:23 AM and sunset 4:44 PM for 9h 21m 22s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 65.6% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1888, the National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C. Henry Redman reports…
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Daily Bread for 11.17.22: A Bit of Fallout from the Wisconsin Elections
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Good morning. Thursday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 30. Sunrise is 6:50 AM and sunset 4:29 PM for 9h 39m 08s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 41% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Community Development Authority meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1820, Captain Nathaniel Palmer…
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Daily Bread for 11.15.22: Populist Election Deniers Wreck Their Own Chances
by JOHN ADAMS • • Comments
Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be snowy with a high of 35. Sunrise is 6:47 AM and sunset 4:31 PM for 9h 43m 18s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 59% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1864, Union General William Tecumseh…
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Daily Bread for 10.18.22: Hey Whitewater, That’s Not What a Big Bad Looks Like
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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 46. Sunrise is 7:12 AM and sunset 6:06 PM for 10h 53m 54s of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 42.6% of its visible disk illuminated. The Whitewater Common Council meets at 6:30 PM. On this day in 1851, Herman Melville‘s…