 Blaska's Blog denounces Комунизъм and its apologistsDavid Blaska on Thursday 11/19/2009 4:43 pmThat bothersome old Communist Clarence Kailin is finally being stuffed into the ground. Dead, you know. >More  Blaska's Blog has regulation fatigueDavid Blaska on Wednesday 11/18/2009 2:45 pm, (15) Comments, (2) RecommendationsStopped by the Dane County Lakes and Watershed Commission hearing Tuesday night at the Verona Senior Center to testify against the so-called Dane County Waterbody Classification Project. >More
 Blaska's Blog: The Stately Manor is besieged by control freaks!David Blaska on Monday 11/16/2009 11:00 am, (28) Comments, (1) RecommendationTo the ramparts! Prepare the boiling oil! Even Ruben Mamoulian has been released from the dungeon for active duty. Stately Blaska Manor, historic and gracious seat of the Blaska Policy Research Center and Experimental Work Farm, is in the gun sights of the collectivists. >More Blaska's Blog hears the fat lady singingDavid Blaska on Thursday 11/12/2009 4:35 pm, (12) Comments, (2) RecommendationsIt is over for the Democrats in Wisconsin. The report card is in on the Jim E. Doyle-Mark Pocan-Mark Miller state budget. The Pew Center for the States, as disinterested party as you can find, puts Wisconsin among the 10 states whose government is in the worst budgetary shape. >More Blaska's Blog battles Rhamnus catharticaDavid Blaska on Thursday 11/12/2009 9:03 am, (10) Comments, (1) RecommendationMy hands are bloodied and bruised for I have been engaged in a pitched battle here at the Blaska Policy Research Center and Experimental Work Farm with my arch-enemy. No, not Bicycle Boy. Something far more sinister (if possible) and fecund: Rhamnus cathartica. >More Blaska's Blog is polarizingDavid Blaska on Monday 11/09/2009 4:45 pm, (22) Comments, (2) RecommendationsEven my wife was appalled. Friday morning I used the publicly subsidized airwaves to good purpose. I called for Gov. Jim E. Doyle to mobilize the National Guard and deploy it in Milwaukee’s public schools. Joy Cardin, the gracious host of Wisconsin Public Radio’s Week in Review program commented, "We’ll just leave that one alone" and moved on. >More Blaska's Blog is brewing up some tea over the Dane County RTADavid Blaska on Friday 11/06/2009 12:56 pm, (7) Comments, (1) RecommendationLeave aside estimates that only 5,500 passengers will ride the Dane County commuter train. Forget that each trip will need to be subsidized to the tune of $40+. Never mind that the train doesn’t really go anywhere that buses can’t already take you and more cheaply. It’s the dishonest way it was done. >More Blaska's Blog says Baa, baa, baaDavid Blaska on Thursday 11/05/2009 2:59 pm, (5) CommentsWe now have a president who is purely the product of the government sector. As blissfully ignorant of how to create wealth as any Progressive Dane collectivist. That divide is showing up as Obama socializes the American economy while Europe steps back from the enervating socialist experiment. >More Blaska's Blog celebrates a comebackDavid Blaska on Wednesday 11/04/2009 4:24 pm, (13) CommentsWhat a difference a year makes in American politics! As Tommy G. Thompson would say, "Isn't it great to be a Republican!" And you know what, kids? It really is! You should try it some time. >More Blaska's Blog encourages Babs to come cleanDavid Blaska on Monday 11/02/2009 4:33 pm, (11) Comments, (2) RecommendationsIn my last blog, I opined that Barbara Lawton owes her supporters and her political party an honest reason for her volte face." Absent that, "speculation is bound to continue" for her sudden decision last week to quit the race for governor. >More Blaska's Blog is extra special irascibleDavid Blaska on Wednesday 10/28/2009 4:00 pm, (1) Comment, (6) RecommendationsIs anyone ever just "rascible?" Today we serve up an extra portion of that Blaska's Blog ir-rascal-ability that you have come to know and love. >More Blaska's Blog gets down with conservative hip hopDavid Blaska on Monday 10/26/2009 3:10 pm, (9) Comments, (1) RecommendationIf the Havens Center will put AlfonZo Rachel on the faculty -- hell, I'll join its master's program! >More Blaska's Blog channels his inner cavemanDavid Blaska on Friday 10/23/2009 4:05 pm, (4) Comments, (2) RecommendationsThey're calling themselves "Cave Men and Women." They are the opponents of the proposed $250 million Dane County Regional Transit Authority. Like any self-respecting refuseniks in this day and age of the tax tea parties, they have their own T-shirts. But they were there first. >More Blaska's Blog majors in Hip Hop Studies. Not!David Blaska on Thursday 10/22/2009 3:57 pm, (17) Comments, (1) RecommendationPerhaps the last sober thing Jeff Wood ever did was to leave the Republican party after the Legislature broke camp last session. >More Blaska's Blog tries to make Obama's enemies listDavid Blaska on Tuesday 10/20/2009 1:16 pm, (12) Comments, (2) RecommendationsI'm talking to the same people who went into high dudgeon for making Nixon's enemies list and wore that honor like an Oxford don's chevrons. I'm talking to people who get fainting spells when the local library puts Tropic of Cancer on the restricted shelf. >More Blaska's Blog visits the Democrat-media complexDavid Blaska on Monday 10/19/2009 11:50 am, (2) Comments, (2) RecommendationsGreat interview with Andrew Breitbart in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. Who? Andrew Breitbart. He’s the guy who disseminated (but did not create) the videotaped sting operation that revealed Acorn to be an immoral, ends justify the means organization. >More Blaska's Blog is divisiveDavid Blaska on Friday 10/16/2009 1:45 pm, (34) Comments, (8) RecommendationsMissouri native Rush Limbaugh joins a syndicate seeking to purchase the woeful St. Louis Rams pro football team and you’d think the Klan was burning a cross on the south lawn of the White House. >More Blaska's Blog salutes the Party of GovernmentDavid Blaska on Thursday 10/15/2009 4:00 pm, (2) Comments, (2) RecommendationsAn economics professor from Georgia Tech once told an annual National Counties Association convention in Washington D.C. that a president dealing with the economy is like the rodeo bull rider: lurching and sprawling for 10 seconds before he is thrown off and trampled then applauded for his wonderful job of riding the bull. >More Blaska's Blog believes in miraclesDavid Blaska on Monday 10/12/2009 3:16 pm, (15) Comments, (1) RecommendationI hear that Pope Benedict XVI is already declaring Barack Obama a saint. No, the guy is not even Catholic but the Pope hopes he will become one. (Pa-DUMM!) >More Blaska's Blog hunkers downDavid Blaska on Friday 10/09/2009 3:42 pm, (4) Comments, (2) RecommendationsYou know autumn is here by the vibrant colors and high temperatures in the 40s. Expecting a killing frost any evening now. The current cold, wet spell heralds what I grew up on the farm knowing as Indian Summer but in Madison these days we call Indigenous Peoples’ Summer. >More
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David Blaska was elected six times to the Dane County Board, worked for Tommy Thompson, wrote for The Capital Times, used to be
a Democrat, is married to the Lovely Lisa, is proud of Number One Son, grew up in a large family on a working farm in rural Sun Prairie,
remembers some of the '60s, thinks Jimi Hendrix and Wm F. Buckley should be on postage stamps (separately, if possible), raises asparagus
in his garden, swims upstream like a heretical flagellate among the collectivist majority, cherishes the tactile pleasure of words printed
on paper but yet doth he blog the chronic electronic phonic. Vicki calls me "irascible" but it's a good kind of irascible. Like they say,
he means well.
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