"Bukowski reads 'The Secret of My Endurance'"

Charles Bukowski has been featured here before:

http://www.jtirregulars.com/2011/01/poetry-corner.html

The phrase "belt buckle him pretty good" is a nod to his own youth when his father did it to him 3 or 4 times a week.

"Latvians Reject Russian as Second Language"

From The New York Times:

"By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

Published: February 19, 2012

"MOSCOW — Voters in Latvia on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to adopt Russian as a second official language, defeating a constitutional referendum measure that underscored the ethnic and political tensions that remain more than 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

“'The vote on a second state language endangered one of the most sacred foundations of the Constitution — the state language,' the Latvian president, Andris Berzins, said in a statement after the vote. 'I would also like to thank everyone who, despite the emotions and impassioned atmosphere which were conjured up by the referendum, maintained a cool head and tolerance without yielding before provocations and attempts to foment hatred.'”

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/world/europe/latvia-rejects-bid-to-adopt-russian-as-second-language.html?_r=1

Booyah!

Journal Times Policy For Sale

You cannot comment on a story that the Journal Times posts on Curt Johnson and his child molestation case. The Journal Times lie for this is that the case involves a minor and the case is still in court. Of course, that never stopped the Journal Times from allowing commenters to destroy the reputation of other accused molesters in Racine, just Curt Johnson.

Fine, that's their "new" policy. Then today, I see an editorial on the 15 year old girl in Madison who was allegedly starved and sexually assaulted for years. This case involves a minor and has not even begun, but the Journal Time sees fit to run an editorial on it, and allow comments: http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/journal-times-editorial-calls-for-help-went-unheeded/article_5ae516ba-5ab1-11e1-bc04-001871e3ce6c.html

You hypocritical pigs! Where was the "safety net" for the girl in the Johnson case, asswipes? How do you even dare to print a newspaper? You are sick sons of bitches, protecting the perverts that you see fit. Fuck you, Journal Times. And fuck the pedophiles that you support, especially the ones in your employ and the ones you protect in city and county government.

I know that some of you belong to the "special club" in Racine for bigshot movers and shakers with a hankering for young meat, but I didn't realize that they control the paper, like they do the courts in Racine.  What a twisted, sick city.

Useless Information

Did you know:

In the olden days, ‘sharp shooting’ was quite the event to go and see. Companies such as Smith & Wesson would send their sharp shooters all over the country to advertise their products. These events would out bring around 200 people to a show.

Soon the companies realized they could save a ton of money by advertising in newspapers verses sending their sharp shooters all over the country. A show had 200 people where the newspapers were seen by over a 100,000.

Just one more...

And then he drove home.

I've seen the clip before, but not put to music.

"Reed, Elise, Haley & Eben - Night Has A Thousand Eyes - American Idol 2012 (Vegas)"

By request:



I was surprised to see Steven Tyler as a judge.

Four for Fridays

Hello everyone! Welcome back to Four for Fridays after a week going through the motions. Nothing new or exciting happened. Here are some random questions.

1) What cities have you lived in?

2) What was the most shocking thing you have heard in the news lately?

3) What do you do when you are bored?

4) What movie do you really want to see?

Enjoy your weekend!

Open Blog - Friday & Weekend

Feel good all weekend, too.

"Balloons You Can Eat"

Yum-yum. I wonder if you could use laughing gas as well? Those would be quite the party favors.

Bedtime Games

Bedtime Games

Installment 29

Make your best guess and.... GO TO BED!

Answer revealed tomorrow.

 Im a fleabit peanut monkey
All my friends are junkies
That's not really true
Im a cold italian pizza
I could use a lemon squeezer
What you do?
But I've been bit and Ive been tossed around
By every she-rat in this town
Have you, babe?
Well, I am just a monkey man
Im glad you are a monkey woman too


I heard this song by The Rolling Stones on the way to work this morning and it made me smile. 
So it appears it is acceptable to be proud of my monkey woman side?  ;>

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Oh, and good luck with this week's picture.... it is super difficult! Don't lose any sleep over it. Bwaaaahahahaha

I believe Why Not's guess is the first, most correct answer. I have to admit that I deviously aimed and took the first picture to look like the top of a Platex Nursing Bottle. So sorry to those who fell for that deception.


You always collectively surprise me with your ability to unfocus and refocus my blurry photos to come so darn close to the original items. Congratulations!  I'd like to say that there is a plane ticket available to Beejay's crib for your prize;  however, if there had been one laying around, I would have definitely redeemed it by now.

"They're Made Out Of Meat"

Interesting, and somewhat disquieting, video.

I think I'm more fat than meat.

Dear Madame Zoltar

Hello, my post-valentine valedictorians! How are you? How about that freezing weather last week? You’d think it was February. Actually, I kind of enjoyed our dips into the single digits for the extra blanket on the bed and sounder sleep. No thank you, however, to waking up to a cold house with cold floors. And a cold, er, throne. Oh my.

I try to keep my weekly blog “P & P,” as Mr. jedwis would say. Positive & Productive. I try. But when I scan the weekly news, it seems there is little P & P out there anymore.

I see that our Mr. Mayor John Dickert went to Paris recently: http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/racine-s-traveling-mayors-dickert-s-expenses-less-than-becker/article_5a874674-563e-11e1-9702-0019bb2963f4.html That is so romantic. I would love to go to Paris. (Hint, hint, Señor Zanza.) Perhaps we can sell the French bottled Racine water. We have “The Best Tasting City Water in America”: http://usmayors.org/79thAnnualMeeting/documents/watertastetest_062011.pdf Racine is French for “root,” right? Call it. “Eau de la Rivière Racine.” There, I just made a million dollars for the city and I didn’t even have to leave Racine.

On the state level, we see . . . oh, never mind.

Nationally, uh, . . . forget it.

Internationally, well, that leaves me ill, too…

Here, here is what I have for you, my dear Irregulars. Madame Zoltar will always love you:



Thank you so much for stopping by. My readers are my raison d'être. Oh dear, Ms. kk will be correcting my French, I’m sure. I don’t have her savoir-faire.

Stay in Racine or join the French Foreign Legion? Ask Madame Zoltar: madamezoltar@jtirregulars.com.

Be careful out there, my dear Irregulars. Although I always watch over you, sometimes I get bonked on the head, and things get a little mixed up. Expect the best, but prepare for the worst. What am I even saying? I’m tired and fading fast, my French fries. Fremescent!

Happy Birthday

A very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our friend, Sassa!

Sorry.... I couldn't wait.  Hope you have a lovely day!  :)

Open Blog - Wednesday & Thursday

Wednesdays are glamorous and romantic.

"WELCOME TO RACINE COUNTY CORRUPTION.COM," Part Two

Previously on WELCOME TO RACINE COUNTY CORRUPTION.COM:
http://www.jtirregulars.com/2012/02/welcome-to-racine-county-corruptioncom.html

Yesterday, the gentleman who runs that site asked me to upload the following two documents because he is too busy to tend to his site right now. As a favor to a fellow Racine county resident, here they are:

 

MEMORIALIZATION OF PHONE CALL            2-8-2012    W/  DONNA, CLERK of COURT  CASE #  11-FO-57

# 262- 636-3151

Relevant conversation:

Received phone call from Donna, Court clerk, (636-3151) @ 4:23 pm     ( 2-8-2012)   Donna stated Judge Ptacek is not feeling well , there may not be a trial, I informed her to find a substitute/ reserve judge if Judge Ptacek is not in court , as I have no choice but to bring all my witnesses  in for trial.

MEMORIALIZATION OF 2-9-2012 SCHEDULED TRIAL BY COUNTY, UNHEARD WITHOUT A JUDGE, NO JUDGE TO ADJOURN OR DISMISS:         CASE #  11-FO-57

Let the record show the following relevant actions:

 No Judge appeared in court or appeared for record to adjourn or dismiss the trial.

Harry Wait, with witnesses and subpoenaed defense witnesses (adverse) Michael Nieskes, Amanda Kopahch, Kristen Merten and Amy Chess appeared for trial @ 8:30 a.m.  as required by law.

8:30 a.m.  Assistant District Attorney Noah Wishau  stated there is no trial today.

8:35 a.m.  Court clerk Donna and Noah Wishau stated Judge Ptacek is not appearing as he is sick.  Harry Wait requested  a substitute/reserve judge to try this case. Donna and Noah stated no substitute/reserve judge would be appearing.   

8:37a.m.    Noah Wishau and Donna  again stated no judge was going to appear to conduct court and they together rescheduled  the court date to March 28^th. 2012.     Harry Wait under protest accepted the new court date.

Noah Wishau appeared, without  witnesses Steven Jones or Nicholas Sheen,

Noah Wishau stated he contacted Steven Jones before the scheduled trial of 8:30 am, not to show for trial, Noah would not give me the time or date when he contacted Mr. Jones about the adjournment. Sheen, Ratkowski, Hogan, no shows? I didn’t see them.

Noah Wishau again did not contact Defendant before trial, yet again Noah Wishau contacted Plaintiff Witnesses not to show for trial before the scheduled time of trial.

Noah Wishau requested /suggested I release the defense witnesses. I agreed.

@ 8:43 a.m., I notified my witnesses that no Judge appeared for trial.  There was no adjournment or dismissal declared by a Judge, that I appreciate the witnesses for showing for trial and released my witnesses to go about their business

Other non-relevant discussions occurred

Here is the Wisconsin Court System Circuit Court Access site: http://wcca.wicourts.gov/index.xsl  The county is Racine and the case number should be entered: 11FO57

Other related links:
http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_9616f660-c726-11df-900b-001cc4c002e0.html
http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/burglars-held-at-gunpoint-are-charged/article_7ce33bfa-c82e-11df-982c-001cc4c03286.html
http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/suspects-in-foiled-dover-metal-theft-take-plea-deals/article_d9214e20-d3c2-11e0-9596-001cc4c03286.html
http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/theft-of-metal-nets-man-probation/article_86b4c97c-f6be-11e0-aba2-001cc4c002e0.html

Voting Information

Did you get your official letter from the City of Racine, today?  A simple sheet arrived, telling which Municipality, Ward, Assembly, Senate, Congressional and Aldermanic District  to which you now belong. On the right side of the table in the center of the letter, it gives the address of your new polling location. I can see all of this being rather confusing to many voters.

What it fails to list are your representatives.  If you want to look this information up, here is the website to do so. You simply put in your address and the information is readily available. Why was this not included?  Have your representatives changed?   http://legis.wisconsin.gov/w3asp/waml/waml.aspx

Due to redistricting, I am now driving 2 miles to vote as opposed to walking one block to my neighborhood school as I have for the past 20+ years.  This could be a hardship for elderly people or those who do not own a vehicle or have access to readily available transportation. Does this not have more of an impact on lower income individuals?

I know there was a lot of speculation that the boundaries were unfairly set up to protect some elected seats in this hot political climate. What do you think? Is there some voter intimidation associated with any of this? What about the confusion over whether you must presenting a valid ID? Are we becoming  paranoid with each and every newly instituted change or proposal?

Believe me... I will begrudgingly find my new polling place...(I can be such a creature of habit)  but will gladly cast my vote for those who represent my views.

14-Feb-2012

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

EVERYONE

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The Mitchell Domes

On vacation in the middle of winter here in Wisconsin...there isn't much to do, except go to someplace warm like the Mitchell Domes Horticultural Conservatory. Located in the heart of downtown Milwaukee, the Mitchell Domes are basically biosphere like greenhouses that literately holds thousands of different species of plants from different regions of the globe in three diverse domes.


Over a thousand plant species are on display in the Tropical Dome. Many of these are economically important fruit bearing trees such as banana, papaya, ackee, avacado, cocoa and guava. Hardwoods include big-leaf, little-leaf, and African mahoganies, ebony and lignum vitae. The center of the Tropical Dome is dominated by a large kapok tree. It is one of the tallest trees under glass growing up to 95 feet. Amazing as it was, when we exited the Tropical Dome we were sweating from the humidity in there.

Expecting to especially hot in the Desert Dome, we found it be surprisingly cool and quite comfortable. A large number of plants, mostly from the Americas and Africa are on display here. Most these are native to the Sororan Desert in Arizona. Among them are species of shrubs, trees, annuals, bulbs as well as familiar cacti. The African section has aloes, crassulas, euphorbias and the unusual Welwitschia plant which has only two continuously growing leaves and may live for over a thousand years. From Madagascar, come the succulent flora of Euphorbia, Pachypdium, Adenia, Didierea, Alluaudic and Operculicatya.

The Show Doom was kind of cool... It hosts four seasonal shows and one holiday exhibit held annually in December for visitors to enjoy. Each show has a theme chosen based on cultural ( German, Japanese and French) literary as well as historical. In most recent years, the Winter Show has featured an extensive killer garden railroad display that will surely please kids and adults like me. It has become one of the most popular displays during the year and is one of the largest indoor Garden Railroad displays in the Midwest.

For $6.50 per adult to get in, I couldn't complain. It was a sure fire way to getaway for a winter afternoon. After that, we had dinner at TGIF's at Miller Park. Talk about a succulent meal...

"70 MPH Mobility Scooter in the Snow"

Oh man, I want one of those sooo bad!