 Blaska's Blog: Elmer Fudd can sign recall petitionsDavid Blaska on Monday 11/28/2011 12:15 pm, (26) CommentsThe Road Runner, too. Not legally, but in practice. The State of Wisconsin acknowledges that it does not have the resources to cross check the recall petition signatures for duplicates, made-up names, fake addresses, or ineligible voters. Not even with $650,000 allocated to the Government Accountability Board for the job. GAB just won't be able to data-enter 540,000+ signatures to automate a file-check. >More  Blaska's Blog talks turkey with China, Saudi ArabiaDavid Blaska on Sunday 11/27/2011 9:29 am, (2) CommentsStately Blaska Manor U.S.A. hosted an international Thanksgiving this year. To a table groaning with bounty from the Blaska Experimental Work Farm, the Squire and his family made welcome a young student from China and a student couple from Saudi Arabia. >More
 Blaska's Blog asks: What would Russ Feingold do?David Blaska on Wednesday 11/23/2011 12:31 pm, (7) CommentsHappy Thanksgiving everyone! I like a little extra pepper on my T-bird. Ann of Althouse is convinced that Russ Feingold will run for governor should the recall petition drive succeed. The former U.S. senator remains a super hero to the Left: Spiderman with a PAC. But he is still trying to digest the rancid meat of his defeat one year ago. The Squire has tasted defeat himself and it does not come with stuffing and gravy. >More Blaska's Blog and philosophy is written on Steve Jobs' iMac computerDavid Blaska on Monday 11/21/2011 3:53 pm, (11) CommentsThe featured book in the Karl Rove Reading Room here at the Stately Manor is Walter Isaacson's biography of Steve Jobs. Deservedly, it is #1 on the New York Times best-seller lists, both in hard-cover and -- fittingly -- its e-book incarnation. It is a chronicle of how one baby boomer "dented the universe" by driving the best and the brightest to "think different." >More Blaska's Blog: Gov. Walker recall crew yells fire in a crowded swimming poolDavid Blaska on Wednesday 11/16/2011 4:14 pm, (6) CommentsThere is an inverse relationship: the more vituperative the language, the weaker the case. It is no coincidence that the recall movement uses doomsday language to describe what are, at root, merely policy differences. >More Blaska's Blog: Tin ears, big egos and paycheck padding on the Dane County BoardDavid Blaska on Monday 11/14/2011 9:40 am, (17) CommentsThese are difficult times. The Great Recession is, functionally, in its third year. So, what is the Dane County Board's response? Pay raises all around! Break out the sham-pag-nee! A 32 percent hike for chairman Scott McDonell and 3 percent for the other 36 members! >More Blaska's Blog salutes veterans at the 11th hourDavid Blaska on Friday 11/11/2011 1:49 pm, (1) CommentThe Eleventh Hour sometimes means, "at the last minute" or "in the nick of time." But it also has connotations of war and peace. Today is 11/11/11. That is 63 in binary numbering. This morning it was 11:11:11 a.m. on 11/11/11. In binary, that is 4,091. The only thing better was 11:11:11 a.m. (or p.m.) on 11/11/1111 when Henry I, the third of the Norman line, was king of England. >More Blaska's Blog is outraged: Sen. Schultz's office is egged! Threats to kill Gov. Walker? Ho hum.David Blaska on Wednesday 11/09/2011 3:07 pm, (4) CommentsWelcome to this edition of crime stoppers. State Sen. Dale Schultz is the progressives' favorite Republican at the moment, other than long-retired or -- better -- dead Republicans, of course. Schultz takes pride of place for being the lone Republican holdout on Gov. Scott Walker's public employee compensation reforms. >More Blaska's Blog just says No to the wheel taxDavid Blaska on Tuesday 11/08/2011 1:38 pm, (19) CommentsYour über-blogger warned that a new tax could be coming our way, courtesy of the Progressive Dane contingent. It is the Dane County wheel tax. >More Blaska's Blog: Occupy, shut down or smash! What's the difference?David Blaska on Saturday 11/05/2011 4:35 pm, (16) CommentsIf you write often enough it will happen to you. The eminent personage you have so faithfully profiled is arrested for window peeping the morning your opus is due on the editor’s desk. You rewrite like crazy but there is no time to undo the thrust of the panegyric you spent weeks constructing. Yes, your subject is a window peeper, you concede in a parenthetical note, but other than that, a man for all seasons! >More Blaska's Blog: Liberals defend public sector perks, but mining jobs? Yuck!David Blaska on Thursday 11/03/2011 4:06 pm, (3) CommentsWhen our liberal you-know-whats cry salty tears over Governor Walker's "war on the middle class," their concern is usually expressed in terms of unionized public sector employees and not so much the Joe Lunch Buckets in the private sector. My thesis was reconfirmed last week when I crossed rhetorical swords with Peg Lautenschlager, the former Democratic state attorney general who was speaking from Fond du Lac, on Wisconsin Public Radio's Week in Review program. >More Blaska's Blog asks Liberals to do 'the wave' from Assembly galleryDavid Blaska on Wednesday 11/02/2011 3:24 pm, (10) CommentsIf ever a man wanted arresting, it's Matt R. Like many Progressives, he wants to bring the disorder of the Capitol Rotunda this February and March into the legislative chambers themselves. If ever a man wanted arresting, it's Matt R. Like many Progressives, he wants to bring the disorder of the Capitol Rotunda this February and March into the legislative chambers themselves. >More Blaska's Blog smokes out Occupy Wall Street and the Walker recallersDavid Blaska on Monday 10/31/2011 1:27 pm, (11) CommentsWho will be the next Steve Jobs? You simply must read his sister's eulogy, published online in Sunday's New York Times. (I didn't see it in my print edition.) I want to thank his birth parents for choosing life. >More Blaska's Blog hears the Left's hypocrisy: Prosser must go! Ald. Solomon must stay!David Blaska on Wednesday 10/26/2011 12:16 pm, (4) CommentsA Dane County prosecutor says she believes Madison Ald. Brian Solomon is guilty of sexually assaulting a city employee who is assigned to work with the common council. But the district attorney's office won't bring him to trial only because, it says, getting a unanimous jury to convict would be chancy. Is the Left calling for Ald. Solomon to resign? Not that I can tell. >More Blaska's Blog unsubscribes to the Jackie Mitchard miseries mini-seriesDavid Blaska on Monday 10/24/2011 4:06 pm, (5) CommentsOur soap opera heroine may have hit hard times, but hard usually doesn't come with three bedrooms and a fireplace on Cape Cod. The Mitchards will not be living in a van down by the river, however much it may seem that way to the novelist. >More Blaska's Blog is trained for concealed carry of weapons, but will he?David Blaska on Thursday 10/20/2011 4:41 pm, (21) CommentsI took the training, now all I need is the $50 permit to conceal the handgun, knife, pepper spray, or Taser of my choice on my person or in my automobile. Wisconsin's new concealed carry law goes into effect on Tuesday, November 1, and I intend to be among the first to qualify. The only question is this: How often will I actually use that CC permit? >More Blaska's Blog is trapped by trap shootingDavid Blaska on Tuesday 10/18/2011 2:39 pm, (2) CommentsEven at my advanced age, the Squire of the Stately Manor likes to experience new thrills. Sunday, your intrepid blogmeister accompanied the Divine Miss Vicki, rock star of the airwaves, to the Stoughton Conservation Club to experience our first trap shoot. >More Blaska's Blog is in the Badger-Brewer-Packer and shooting sports modeDavid Blaska on Friday 10/14/2011 2:30 pm, (2) CommentsIs pessimism a Wisconsin trait, something borne of winter's cold and dark? Or has it been nurtured by too many years of disappointment (and two years of Barack Obama)? >More Blaska's Blog hopes the recall Walker crowd enjoys the rideDavid Blaska on Wednesday 10/12/2011 1:16 pm, (2) CommentsOur liberal-progressive You Know Whats are riding the bomb down to the ground like Slim Pickens in the movie Dr. Strangelove. The MacIver Institute finds that the core group of the professional protestors who have been intimidating private business, stalking elected officials and disrupting the legislature are cozy with leading Democrats, including Assembly minority leader Peter Barca. >More Blaska blogs U.S. Senate candidate Frank Lasee, a district of charter schools, and Steve JobsDavid Blaska on Monday 10/10/2011 5:01 pm, (37) CommentsFrank Lasee is a fine looking man approaching age 50, the prime of life. He stands 6 feet, 4 inches tall. That was the first question I asked over lunch at Cooper's on the Square last week: his height. >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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