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Groups: Military Community Members of Daily Kos, In Support of Labor and Unions, Badger State Progressive, Madison Kossacks, Occupy Wall Street
Diaries published: 494 (2834 days since last diary on Sat Mar 05, 2016 at 07:19 AM PST)
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I have written very few diaries here recently, and this will likely be my last. I have been hanging around here for about 10 years but almost never in the past year. I will always be grateful to have had a place to vent after Scott Walker dropped a bomb o
by Giles Goat Boy
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on Sat Mar 05, 2016 at 07:19 AM PST
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Almost 30 years ago I served on a jury. A man was accused of assaulting and robbing another man. There was little doubt that the defendant had committed a crime, but if we were to find him guilty we ...
by Giles Goat Boy
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on Sat Sep 05, 2015 at 06:08 AM PDT
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CONSUMER QUIZ… I recently started shaving with an old-fashioned safety razor to save money, so when I stopped at CVS pharmacy yesterday to pick up a prescription for someone I checked their ...
by Giles Goat Boy
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on Wed Aug 19, 2015 at 02:46 PM PDT
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I am still laughing after reading about this earlier. Wisconsin State Representative Mandela Barnes posted the story on his facebook page last night.
Three things you need to know in advance:
1. ...
by Giles Goat Boy
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on Tue Jul 14, 2015 at 05:36 AM PDT
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UPDATE 1, 7/3/2015 2:15 CDT: The pressure is working. One Republican State Senator, Rob Cowles, issued the following statement a short while ago:
“I was shocked and appalled to see the attack on ...
by Giles Goat Boy
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on Fri Jul 03, 2015 at 08:13 AM PDT
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The Joint Finance Committee of the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature has agreed to a set of changes to the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC), including a provision to fire ...
by Giles Goat Boy
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on Fri May 22, 2015 at 10:08 AM PDT
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- A Wisconsin Congressional seat considered “safe” for the Tea Party carpetbagger incumbent has a worthy local Democratic challenger. Sarah Lloyd is running against Glenn Grothman, the 6th District Ultra-Conservative Representative who shoved out...41 comments 49 Recs
- (crossposted at Overpass Light Brigade, all photos by Overpass Lightbrigade — view album on Flickr) “He who toils here hath set his mark,” says a motto carved into a large medallion at one of th10 comments 46 Recs
- You may have heard a little something lately about a big Scott Walker donor landing a $63M standardized testing contract. From the Journal-Sentinel : The president and CEO of the Minnesota firm ...17 comments 22 Recs
- (illustration by DonkeyHotey) From the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel : Faced with a swift and fierce backlash, Republicans Saturday abandoned a plan that would have gutted the state's open ...103 comments 260 Recs
- Oneida County, WI is a deep red part of the state. In the 2014 gubernatorial election, the vote went 57% for Gov. Scott Walker. So, as Giles Goat Boy pointed out with a Whoah! yesterday, it was ...90 comments 238 Recs
- It seems that they've been embarrassed too many times. Like, for example, when Scott Walker's budget came out and the time-honored mission of the University of Wisconsin, known as the Wisconsin Idea,21 comments 60 Recs
- Back in 2010, my friend Giles Goat Boy was trudging around in the snow in Madison, Wisconsin with a sign that said "I thought Cairo would be warmer." I hadn't met him yet, but I saw that sign. It ...73 comments 48 Recs
- This morning I need to discuss a phenomenon that I've noticed since my return to dailykos in early February, and that is that almost every time I'm in a Wisconsin diary a certain group of people ...24 comments 35 Recs
- Madison's Capital Times newspaper ran a disturbing online dispatch over the weekend suggesting just how Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has handled some of those in the crowds demonstrating against ...16 comments 26 Recs
- For a bankruptcy lawyer, there is much to like about Right to Work. The following is a transcript of Attorney James Murray's testimony to the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Labor today. Here's a ...56 comments 64 Recs
