… that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s watchdog team was going to be on Twitter.
But, tadalafil prostate for the moment, cialis buy try it doesn’t look like I’ll be able to watch the watchdogs:
5 comments December 22nd, 2008
…by Colonel Tribune.
I wonder if I should get a restraining order?
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…of Boots & Sabers on WPR 90.7 in Milwaukee this morning at 8:00 AM.
2 comments December 12th, 2008
…or has Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist Eugene Kane toned his columns down a bit since the newspaper started laying off people?
(I linked to his blog which still seems a little edgy, discount cialis capsule but the last couple of actual columns I read seemed very tame.)
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But this time, cialis buy stuff I can’t resist.
After hearing an NPR story this morning that spoke of President-elect Barack Obama’s unprecedented fundraising with a sense of wonderment, generic viagra remedy I just had to ask myself what the story would have been like if a Republican candidate had raised and spent nearly a billion dollars in a Presidential election.
I think we all know the tone would have been dark and foreboding with hints of corruption and predictions of the end of democracy.
When I first started this blog, doctor I thought most of my posts would be about hypocrisy. But after a few years, I realized that trying to point out hypocrisy is like trying to get a fish to focus on the water it swims in.
4 comments December 5th, 2008
…I can’t believe I never saw this great quote before:
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, tadalafil find if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
-Mark Twain
3 comments December 5th, 2008
And, viagra usa malady no, salve this post isn’t about Paris Hilton.
It’s about the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s newly redesigned web site. The new site looks great. It’s much cleaner and better arranged. But for some reason I can’t find a damn thing on it. I feel like I’m spending twice as much time getting half as much value. I’m not sure why this is the case. It could be that I’m just unfamiliar with the new layout and it will take me a while to get proficient at navigating it. But, shop it’s already been a while and I still feel lost when looking for something to complain about.
So, guys, tell me: is it just me?
How do the rest of you like our newspaper’s new site?
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I’m less interested in the particular conclusion of this
news story on mass shootings:
The other statistic that emerged from a study of active killers is that they almost exclusively seek out “gun free” zones for their attacks. In most states, cialis canada cheap concealed handguns are prohibited at schools and on college campuses even for those with permits. Many malls and workplaces also place signs at their entrances prohibiting firearms on the premises.
Now some tacticians believe the signs themselves may be an invitation to the active killers.
The psychological profile of a mass murderer indicates he is looking to inflict the most casualties as quickly as possible. Also, the data show most active killers have no intention of surviving the event. They may select schools and shopping malls because of the large number of defenseless victims and the virtual guarantee no on the scene one is armed.
Than I am in the fact that the reporters apparently felt that they had to defend the source of their conclusion:
We have received many requests about the source for our assertion that most mass murders have occurred in otherwise “gun free” zones.
The experts are Ron Borsch from SEALE Academy in Bedford, Ohio and John Benner from Tactical Defense Institute.
A summary of Borsch’s study can be found here
We also conducted our own analysis of mass murders in the U.S. The vast majority occurred in schools or on college campuses where firearms are banned as a matter of state statutes. Others took place in post offices where firearms are banned as a matter of federal law. Most of the rest took place in shopping malls or other businesses where the owners posted signs prohibiting firearm possession by anyone including those with CCW permits.
In some states, like Ohio, those signs have the force of law and violators are prosecuted under the relevant statute. In other states, like Texas, the signs are considered trespass notices and violators are first asked to leave, then they are arrested for trespass if they decline (of course, if your weapon is visible, it’s no longer concealed and there are other potential legal consequences).
Based on data from the SEALE study, an analysis by TDI, and our own painstaking research, we are able to say definitively that most “active killer” shootings have occurred in so-called “gun free” zones. The experts who say they may be “invitations” are also John Benner and Ron Borsch who have six decades of law enforcement experience and training between them.
The Luby’s Cafeteria shooting in Killeen, TX in 1991 took place before Texas adopted its Florida-style CCW law. In fact, that mass murder of 23 people was used as an example by those seeking to enact the CCW legislation.It is accurate to say firearms were banned in Luby’s at that time because there was no uniform concealed carry law in place in 1991. In fact, several victims and survivors had legally owned handguns in their cars at the time of the shooting.
While that shooting was not addressed in our story, it and others over the last 40 years were analyzed in our investigation.
As journalists, we are not interested in entering into the heated debate over gun control. We are, however, interested in reporting the facts. In this story, the facts point to the active shooters ignoring gun prohibitions and perhaps selecting those locations because they are “soft targets” where no resistance would be found.
It’s just common sense, folks: if you want to shoot as many people as possible, you go to where no one can defend themselves. You don’t attack the graduating class at the police academy.
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…the National Review’s online product as lowering the tone of political speech:
Now, generic cialis viagra thanks to the coarsening effect of the Internet on political discourse, the magazine may have lost something else: its reputation as the cradle for conservative intellectuals and home for erudite and well-mannered debate prized by its founder, the late William F. Buckley Jr.
In the general conservative blogosphere and in The Corner, National Review’s popular blog, the tenor of debate — particularly as it related to the fitness of Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska to be vice president — devolved into open nastiness during the campaign season, laying bare debates among conservatives that in a pre-Internet age may have been kept behind closed doors.
Excuse me for a moment while I break into gales of laughter:
Hahahahahahahahahahahaahahahaahaha. Oh… Hahahahahahahahahahahaa. God that’s funny… Hahahahahahahahahahaha. They’re serious?! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
I guess, the New York Times never managed to see what liberals were writing about Sarah Palin at The Huffington Post, the DailyKos and even The Atlantic online.
Talk about the degeneration of political discourse.
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