Wisconsin hospitals should send the bill for the next spike in cases to the the justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
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THERE IT IS. That is the most salient point. I saw on Daily Beast an article about people getting all prepped to go from IL to hit WI bars.
IL has over 80k confirmed cases and 4000 deaths. WI has 10k, and 430 deaths.
There was a pact between midwest states on how to handle all this. The WI SC just ripped up 3+ states coordinated responses between their Guvs and Health Orgs. WT flying F? Just unbelievable.
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It is also the same distance basically from the IA border.
That’s my mayor!
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Ahhhh, things haven’t changed in Wisconsin since they got rid of one of the best senators ever, Russ Feingold. Why would anyone want to live in a corrupt state that Scott Walker turned into a cesspool.
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The Repub legislators announced this morning that there’s no way to come up with a plan. They won’t even talk to Gov. Evers. “No point bothering.”
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Despicable.
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The Supreme Court? Yes. Although they lose the 4th & deciding “Justice”, Daniel Kelly, soon. He lost re-election in the terrible Wisconsin Pandemic election April 7.
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benthere said: “The hypocrisy [of the WI S. Court] stinks to high hell!”
It does. Also the bad faith of GOP [minority-gerrymandered] legislative leaders Robin Vos & Scott Fitzgerald, who claimed they only wanted “a seat at the table” to “have a voice” in crafting the safer-at-home rules.
Now, having gotten the Supreme Court ruling they wanted, it’s “Switch” time in their BAIT AND SWITCH routine.
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I’ll take a beer, a brat, and a rona to go.
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Fortunately, all the students from UW-Platteville were already gone, or it would have really been a giant petri dish…
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It’s appalling that she is left with nothing but hope that folks in surrounding communities will adhere to sensible precautions.
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I guess we now have to change Gov. Dreyfus’s aphorism
Madison is 30 square miles surrounded by reality.
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The FIBS are Coming! The FIBS are Comming!
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This is one of the most egregious failures of this entire pandemic. To put it in perspective, during the four years of WW II, we built:
49, 324 Sherman tanks (and that was just one model put into service)
over 300,000 aircraft of all types
over 560,000 trucks
over 160 aircraft carriers
16,000,000 men & women were armed & equipped
Hell, we produced so much material, that we were literally giving it away to our allies. The Russian army ran on American trucks, the British got several aircraft carriers and lots of aircraft, the Canadians got a couple carriers more for convoy escort duty, hell we even gave one to the Aussies - a country roughly the size of California! 160 f*cking aircraft carriers!
And we did all this is four years.
And today, we can’t produce enough rubber gloves and paper masks after almost six months of notice. It’s downright embarrassing…
ETA: And I just looked it up. We also made 640,000 Jeeps!
And another fun fact., the U.S. built three times more aircraft in 1942 alone than had been built since the first Wright brothers flight in 1903.
Now, it’s “hey buddy, can you spare an N95 mask?” Let this be to the everlasting shame of the Republican party - they failed us…
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Thanks! I’m positive that I’m negative and I’d really just love to get me an authentic N95 to stay that way.
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I sincerely hope you do.
And my dad probably built and/or supervised the building of all 160 of those aircraft carriers. That was what he did during the war. Tried to enlist; they wouldn’t let him.
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There are so many stories from that time, I do hope he shared some with you.
My dad had just qualified as an A&P (Airframe & Powerplant) mechanic when the war broke out, so when he entered the recruiting office at the start of 1942, it wasn’t a big surprise that he was immediately shuttled off to the Army Air Corps. Within a few months he was in Australia and a couple months later was rebuilding carburetors for A-20s and eventually P-47s in New Guinea. He served under “Dugout Doug” MacArthur throughout the war and was eventually posted as a crew chief in an A-20 (light bomber) squadron, where he flew a bunch of missions against Japanese airbases. he was also eventually in one of the first units landed in Japan after the surrender, where he helped disassemble and destroy the remnants of the Japanese air force before shipping home.
After the war he became a private pilot and hung around Chino airport in southern California, which had become a hotbed for WW2 aviation folks. I used to sit with them all in the coffee shop and listen to their stories - just amazing.
One day, I’d been reading about how there was a ferry pipeline shuttling aircraft to Europe. It started originally in Montreal and up across Greenland and Iceland to northern Ireland, but when the U.S. entered the war they opened a “southern route” which flew the aircraft across the Atlantic by way of the Azores and up through Africa. The Germans apparently tried to interfere with this by having their submarines try to fake the Azores radio homing beacon (which simply put out a machine-generated Morse code signal with the station call sign). If successful, you’d track off into the wilds of the Atlantic, to run out of fuel and ditch in the middle of the ocean.
So there I was, sitting next to Raul, who was apparently a ferry pilot during the war. I asked him if he’d ever flown the southern route? “Oh sure, lots of times”.
So I told him of the story I’d just read and he laughed - “Oh yeah, we heard that all the time! The problem was, your Morse code ‘fist’ is like a unique accent, we could tell when it was a German fake every time, never fell for it!”
History came alive when I was in the room with those guys. Just amazing what they did without thinking about it twice. Now folks are fighting for the right to cough on your neighbors in the local bar… 
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