Good morning.
Friday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 38. Sunrise is 6:44 and sunset is 5:33 for 10 hours 48 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 11.4 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1939, a Madison Square Garden Nazi rally is the largest ever pro-Nazi rally in the United States, with 20,000 members and sympathizers of the German American Bund present.
One reads that Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will retire at the end of his current term. There’s a FREE WHITEWATER category of posts about Vos. There one can find posts on his many errors and transgressions against sound public policy.
And yet, and yet, the best summary of Vos’s career comes from Dr. Mark Copelovitch, Professor of Political Science & Public Affairs & Director of European Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison:
Almost everything now happening at the federal level now has a direct antecedent in Wisconsin GOP politics under Scott Walker & Robin Vos in 2008-25. The lying. The defunding. The violating laws & norms. The demonizing some people as not being part of the Herrenvolk. It was all here first.
Yes.
Considering Vos’s career calls for a palate cleanser afterward. Here’s something incomparably better than a bad politician from Wisconsin — a good boy at the Winter Olympics:
@nbcolympics Nazgul started the day as just another Italian dog. He'll end it as a #WinterOlympics legend. ? #dogs #sports #olympics ? original sound – NBC Olympics & Paralympics