Condolences

Rick Esenberg of Shark and Shephed fame and one of my fellow Community Columnists lost his mother on Friday.

Our prayers are with the family.

Thanks to Patrick where I first read it.

No theme, no haiku, no video

Just Bites.

Badger Bites is up at Badger Blog Alliance.

At FoxPolitics.net

I already noted that James Wigderson will be blogging at FoxPolitics.net on Thursdays, now we see that Fred Dooley will be taking Mondays. Lance Burri has already blogged over there. More guest bloggers will undoubtedly be added later.

The reason, also as noted earlier, is that Jo Egelhoff is running for the 57th Assembly seat.

Waukesha Carnival 05/04/08

First of all, my apologies to anyone who has been submitting via Blog Carnival. It seems every time I try to logon (which was not often, I admit), they were down. I still get all the e-mail notices, as far as I know.

With that welcome to this week’s carnival. Let’s get to it.

The Asian Badger starts us off with this thought,

Local politicos and some screwy business leaders are blind to the obvious. They think business will relocate to Wisconsin simply because we have water availability thanks to Lake Michigan.

Josh at Blog Waukesha wants to identify wasteful spending locally and so he’s learned about the laws concerning public information and checked out some spending.

Fox Head shares a humorous story on government regulation.

Bryon Houlgrave has a stunning picture of a lightning strike.

In state related topics, Sen. Mary Lazich (or perhaps, aide Kevin Fischer) shares a study of what Americans say when asked about voter ID.

Dad29 looks toward the next Wisconsin Supreme Court election next April.

Closer to home, j gravelle points out that the Journal Sentinel thinks more highly of Eugene Kane (Laurel Walker, too, for that matter) than Patrick McIlheran.

Cindy Kilkenny shares a link to a Racine Post Blog post on what digging on Sixth Street has revealed.

Jeff at Five Points Blog attempts to answer a question posed at Tuesday night’s Blog n Grog. “If you could change one thing about Waukesha, what would it be?”

Speaking of Blog n Grog, Sancho announces at Hobo Springs that Blog n Grog will be a monthly event. He again stresses that any one who can get to Waukesha is invited.

Silent e celebrates his 2nd blogoversary. Congratulations.

Kyle Prast posts her observations on the recent Sensenbrenner town hall in Brookfield.

Linda Richter criticizes a couple of New Berlin school board members at Inside New Berlin. Matt Thomas replies.

James Wigderson will be guest blogging at FoxPolitics on Thursdays.

Nationally, Troy Fullerton examines Republican empathy for Hillary Clinton.

Tim at The Other Side of My Mouth made me crack-up, even though my ideology is the one he’s making fun of. I couldn’t help it.

Finally, David B. Bohl presents Do you have a personal plan for success? Want a Free One?

That concludes this edition. If you’d like to submit something, you can either us this form, or email the link directly to me at thoughtfulconservative [at] yahoo [dot] com. Past and future editions can be found on this page.

James T. Harris

OnMilwaukee.com interviews James T. Harris blogger, motivational speaker, talk show host.

Waukesha Carnival - Better late than never edition?

Yeah, it was quite a weekend. I lost my internet on Sunday so couldn’t post, or even write it until tonight. I’ve got a busy weekend coming up so next week’s may be late also.

As usual, you can submit a post of your own to the next edition using our this hand submission form. Past posts and future editions can be found on the blog carnival index page.

We’ve got another lengthy one so let’s get started.

On the national front, Shawn Matson has another look at Obama’s potential VPs at The Case for Milwaukee, while silent e gives us two bumper stickers for our amusement. Sancho still believes it’s Obama’s race to lose and tells us why he thinks that at La Raza de Waukesha.

Other postings of national interest find Dad29 notes a possible correlation between the rise in gasoline prices and Alan Greenspan’s money policy. Posting at Rendezvous With Destiny, Troy Fullerton asks Why Are Democrats Doing the Bidding of Hugo Chavez?

Ready for a break? Bryon Houlgrave has some shots that prove spring really is coming.

Next comes state affairs. The Asian Badger dissects strategies of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy and the Wisconsin Council on Children & Families. James Wigderson treats us with the latest installment of his Idiot Politician of the Week. Cindy Kilkenny investigates Kevin Fischer’s vacations at Fairly Conservative.

Taxes done? Feeling pain? David B. Bohl gives us another helpful post with his 5 Ways to Reduce Tax Stress Next Year.

Local news finds the New Berlin bloggers hot and heavy into controversy. Read Matt Thomas, Linda Richter, J. Gravelle (whose two blogs have been added to the blog roll and will no doubt appearing further in this carnival. His April 1 post last year is too funny as is most of his posts), and New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government may have something too.

Kyle Prast at her BrookfieldNOW blog Practically Speaking has notes on the Elmbrook school board meeting on the human growth and development curriculum.

Lisa has reviews the latest comic books at her blog, Sequentially Speaking.

Finally in Waukesha city, Curt Otto, who lives in downtown Waukesha, shares his thoughts on the Harley event. Jeff at Five Points blog defends the city administrator and mayor nelson from what he considers unfair criticisms. Fox Head gives his first thoughts about the potential Waukesha School District referendum.

Spring City Chronicle reflects briefly on floods.

I was going to feature a post on media election spin by Jessica McBride, but I can’t link to the post without permission and probably not too many others could either, so I’ll link to her excellent column in the Waukesha Freeman on Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Dave Umhoefer, whose article, by the way, you can read here.

Wow, that does it for this week. Hopefully, I’ll post the next edition of the carnival on Sunday this week, or, at least, Monday.

Latest Badger Bites

Jib has posted his latest edition of Badger Bites over at the Badger Blog Alliance.

The Other Side is back

Tim is resuming blogging.

Badger Bites

Jib has another edition of Badger Bites up at Badger Blog Alliance.

Let’s give them another post to find

For some reason, there’ s a sudden interest in “cat urine drug” or some combination thereof. I’ve had almost 1000 hits since last Thursday, including my best day since moving to WordPress (691 on Thursday) resulting from searches for that phrase or similar because this post ranks second. But I haven’t heard any news about it since that post.

Oh well, as long as I get hits.

Waukesha Carnival time!

After missing last week due to another trek to north central Ohio (where we got but a dusting from the storm that left 10+” here), we have another rather large edition of the carnival. We better jump right into it.

David B. Bohl starts us off with How to Maintain Professional Boundaries posted at Slow Down Fast Today!

Kyle Prast from Practically Speaking posts some statistics crimes at the Brookfield High Schools.

Dad29, who is in favor of the Elmbrook referendum, wonders if the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board will be speech cops.

Cindy Kilkenny is against the Elmbrook school district referendum.

Linda Richter wants us to hold Alderman Ken Harenda accountable.

The New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government shares their April 1 Ballot recommendations.

Curt Otto has some pictures of Harley Fest.

Spring City Chronicle recommends Christopher Hernandez For Alderman in Waukesha District 3.

James Wigderson clarifies things in Which candidate is he [not James but Charles Betker] not endorsing?

I included this post from Jeff entitled Sweeping The Streets: March 27, 2008 because he touched on Mayor Nelson being unfairly blamed for downtown vacancies and because once again we are shown how much the public doesn’t understand TIFs.

Bryon Houlgrave posted a funny picture. While this shot is humorous, this post tells some of the trials of trying to get those pictures.

Josh presents some good thoughts on sex offenders posted at Blog Waukesha.

Pete Fanning gives us a truly disturbing political video.

Wisconsin State Senator Mary Lazich (aide Kevin Fischer?)informs us about taxes in her post, Tax Freedom Day in Wisconsin is April 24 posted at Conservatively Speaking.

Shawn Matson has made some adjustments to his blog now entitled The Case for Milwaukee to his blog. You can now also get to it via this link.

The Asian Badger has a post showing us that not all liberals are completely brain dead.

That concludes this edition, but by no means exhausted all the fine posts this time. It is election time, after all.

Submit your blog article to the next edition of the carnival using the convenient carnival submission form. Past posts and future editions can be found on the blog carnival index page.

Jessica McBride has a new blog

Called Election Watch Wisconsin, it’s aim is

to post periodic items in the April 1 2008 elections in an organized fashion. No other items will go on this blog. You can send tips to jessbucher@sbcglobal.net.

The first post is Butler gins up phony stats on crime, but when will the media notice?

Waukesha carnival time - March 16, 2008

Welcome to this, the March 16, 2008 edition of The Waukesha Carnival. Let’s get to it.

David B. Bohl starts us off this week with the post Where is the Love? Tips for Getting Back that Old Spark posted at Slow Down Fast Today!,

Healthy, committed relationships can sometimes lose their luster because we get too comfortable and fall into old routines. We take each other for granted and put our partners on the Low Priority list. But it doesn’t have to be that way!

Tom Gehl posting at Brookfield Basics informs us that he will be going on hiatus and blogging infrequently.

Let’s move to the budget.

Fox Head tells us why both sides need to work to fix Wisconsin’s budget.

Sen. Mary Lazich (Kevin Fischer?) tells us that the Democrats have the wrong solution for our budget shortfall It’s posted at Conservatively Speaking.

Dad29 links us to Boots and Sabers where Owen shows that the numbers in Governor Jim Doyle’s budget “rescue package” does not add up. Surprise, surprise.

Okay, let’s move to, let’s see, photography which The Asian Badger discusses at The Asian Badger Kultural Korner.

In Waukesha County politics, Linda Richter, who posts at Inside New Berlin, insists that a post at New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government has spin & blunders .

Kyle Prast compares two different referendums and two different tour themes from her blog Practically Speaking.

James Wigderson tells why he’s going to need more hose at Wigderson Library & Pub. It was picked up by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s “Best of the Blogs” feature.

Jeff, posting at his Five Points blog shares the answers to his downtown survey.

More photography is next as Spring City Chronicle has some interesting old pictures from previous Circus Parades.

In national news, Jessica McBride has not blogged often recently but she does have a regular column in the Waukesha Freeman and Saturday she discussed the Spitzer double standard.

Bryon Houlgrave opines that Daylight Savings Time is costly. You’ll have to click on the link to find out why.

Pete Fanning talks about a recent trip to Giggles Comedy Pub at his blog PeteRepublic.org.

That concludes this edition. I may skip next week as we’ll be in Ohio next week. It depends on if I can get an Internet connection.

You can always submit a post to the next edition using the helpful carnival submission form. If it I don’t post next week, I’ll include it in two weeks.

Past posts and future hosts can be found on the archive page.

Better late than never

Nice to see the print media keeping up.

The new address of Gov. Jim Doyle’s campaign Web site seems to indicate he will be seeking a third term in 2010.The new address is http://www.jimdoyle2010.com . The previous address was http://www.doylelawton.com.

Doyle’s campaign finance director Mike Edmondson said Friday the governor still has not made a decision on whether he will run again.

Let’s see, I’ve seen that somewhere before. Oh, yeah, that’s right. Spring City Chronicle saw it here and I saw it at Cindy Kilkenny’s who read it at Boots and Sabers.

On Wednesday.

Dan Deibert has moved

The comedian and former co-host of Early Spin now blog is now The D Spot.

Update your feeds and blog rolls if you haven’t already.

Poll: Most Americans don’t read political blogs

From Reuters

A majority of Americans do not read political blogs, the online commentaries that have proliferated in the race for the U.S. presidency, according to a poll released on Monday.Only 22 percent of people responding to the poll said they read blogs regularly, meaning several times a month or more, according to the survey conducted by Harris Interactive.

Well, 22 percent ain’t bad, is it?

More posts on this:

steveegg at No Runny Eggs.

Neo Con News, where there is a list of more folks posting on this.

Let’s update the blogroll

Wiggy has led us to Joey the love sponge and Wisconsinology.

Via silent e, we are made aware of Shepherd’s Laxative.

In my own surfing, I’ve found Responsibility Now, a blog by candidate for the Fifth District congressional seat, Jim Burkee.

Addition to the blog roll

We add Roaches and Twinkies, a first year law student at Marquette University who describes himself as fiscally uber-conservative and socially moderate.

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A Waukesha Carnival for 3/2/2008

OK, better late than never, right? After getting my connection problems solved, here is this week’s Waukesha Carnival. I attempt to post here links to posts that were submitted by Waukesha bloggers via the Blog Carnival form or sent directly to me at thoughtfulconservative [at] yahoo [dot] or that I’ve read that piqued my interest enough to read it.

We’re still in the middle of the presidential campaign and The Asian Badger add one more name to the list of possible McCain vice president choices.

Shawn Matson at Cooler Near the Lake began a series of Barack Obama administration possibilies. Perhaps a bit early after last nights results.

This past week the conservative icon, William F. Buckley, died. There were tributes all over the internet from both the left and right. Two in the Waukesha part of the Cheddarsphere that I saw were Tom Gehl at Brookfield Basics and James Wigderson’s personal recollection.

Cindy Kilkenny is traveling. Start here and, at least, look at the pictures.

Now let’s have some economics posts. Dad29 starts us off with a post entitled “The Donkey: Greenspan” highlighting how the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board had a penchant for printing money. Foxhead has a snippet on oil, taxes and taxing oil. silent e takes a look at those “tax cuts for the rich.”

News about Waukesha bloggers. Jeff details changes at Five Points blog. Kyle Prast at Practically Speaking celebrated her first blogoversary. Congratulations! We also note the addition of The Veritas Project to our blog roll.

Spring City Chronicle fills us in on a recent trip to dreaded downtown Milwaukee.

David B. Bohl posts on Slow Dance - A Way of Life, where he shares, “A friend of mine sent me a chain email today presumably written by a terminally ill young girl who was being treated for cancer in a New York Hospital.” He goes on to note the hoax, but also a wonderful poem that is used in the e-mail.

Pete Fanning tells us about the USS New York and a fascinating fact about the ship.

That’s it for this week. You can share ones from your reading in the comments.

If you want inclusion in next week’s carnival, submit your post on the convenient carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found here.