“Fairness.” What a joke. Whoever thought that big business and conservatives go hand in hand is living in a dream world. Big business has become another branch of the liberals, and the only protection that small business gets is from the conservatives out there who work to protect their rights. We watch it happen all over, however this time it’s personal.

“Fairness” has now gone after our local Wisconsin wineries, which threatens to drive many of the smaller wineries out of business and harm the local tourism industry. Since one of my favorite local spots is the local winery (Chateau St. Croix and yes, that is a bottle of their Cheese Head White and yes that is a wedge of cheese on the top), this really gets me steamed.

So just what’s going on here?

Currently, local wineries are allowed to sell directly to local retailers and through mail orders. This eliminates the need for distributors and not only keeps the costs down for consumers, but ensures more money goes directly into the wineries themselves. However, this is apparently unfair.

Distributors are claiming that the current practice is unfair to out of state wineries, and that local wine needs to be sold through distributors to ensure fairness.
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Equality through excessive force… That’s the Democrat way, isn’t it? If they don’t think things are as fair and equal as they want them to be, they will impose their way through force?

It has been a trend with the liberal Democrats for many years, but it’s never been as apparent as it is now with their sudden decision to revisit the  fairness doctrine. The libs out there have decided that they don’t believe in the free market and that the only way to ensure that things are fair and equal is for the government to step in and regulate it.

Mpinkeyes covered this topic from the free speech angle on Wake Up America and did a good job of it, so I’ll instead take the angle of the attack on the free market, which is equally as concerning.
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As usual, I fail to see the logic behind the liberal left’s arguments. Not that this is a surprise, not is it anything new, but it’s still amusing to no end.

So, in news that I consider to be bigger than the damned immigration bill, the Supreme Court ruled that schools cannot use race to determine where kids go to school.

Thank God! I’ve been watching this unfold in Minnesota for a while, as schools play musical students as they struggled to force racial diversity on schools that had lower numbers of minorities in the normal ranks. Of course, other school districts went further than that, and that’s what came up to the Supreme Court.
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I’m really sick and tired of all the bleeding heart media outlets pouring all over the plights of illegal immigrants as if inundating us with this sort of things will change things.

The most recent cause de jour has been the “plight” of Sara Munoz Gonzalez, the mother of five children who spent two weeks in jail which ended with a one-way trip back to Mexico yesterday.

I know it’s not the right thing to say in this politically correct world, but good riddance! Five children (including one autistic child) and a husband aside, she was an illegal immigrant who broke a number of laws, and she has no right to be here.

See, here’s my issue with the whole thing, and it of course differs greatly from the opinion of the bleeding heart media. She:

• Let her visa expire and decided to stay here illegally anyway
• Tried to apply for citizenship twice, using false names and nationalities
• Knew the risk of being an illegal immigrant and continuing to break the law by applying using false information, yet continued to have children
• Had plenty of opportunities to leave the country on her own accord after being ordered by a judge to leave in 2001 and loosing all of her appeals
• Claimed that if there was a path to legal citizenship, she would have taken it (?? isn’t her husband a legal immigrant?)

Combine all of this with the fact that her husband, a legal immigrant who has been her for 20 years, doesn’t even speak English. I’m sorry, but I just can’t find a place in my heart to feel sorry for these people. She gambled and lost. If these people truly wanted to be Americans and take advantage of the American way of life, they should have done things legally and at a bare minimum learned to speak English and joined the American culture. After 15 years for her and 20 years in this country for her husband, there is nor reason for them not have been better assimilated into the culture than they were. Where was the effort? Was being part of the American culture not part of the plan?

I am so tired of the media and the bleeding heart activist groups who go out and try to rally up support for people like this. At the end of the day, she was a criminal. She broke the law byliving her illegally, she broke more laws (and became a felon) by trying to gain citizenship using false information… Despite what the news tells you, she does not have any right to be here. She was given a privilege and she took advantage of it. A privilege is something that can be taken away, and because of her illegal actions, she had the privilege taken from her.

For a real look at the “heart wrenching” media coverage of this, check out this piece of filth…

Yep, the media is at it again. I know I’m hard on the media for their bias and their knack for misrepresenting people’s words in the worst possible way… But this time they’ve stuck their foot directly in their own mouth and I’m not in the mood to pull my punches this time.

Both nationally and locally, Ann’s words regarding John Edwards and his wife’s subsequent response of been plastered all over the news.  So what is all the hubub about? I guess it depends on who you ask.

According to the usual media sources:

“Elizabeth Edwards pleaded Tuesday with Ann Coulter to “stop the personal attacks,” a day after the conservative commentator said she wished Edwards’ husband, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, had been killed by terrorists.”

Whereas that does sound like a horrible thing to say, and heart wrenching that hiswife had to come out and nationally ask for her to stop these aweful things… You have to consider the source. If it were true, I would condemn her the same way that I condemn anybody who would say such things. But things are not always what they appear to be, and this the media has gone too far.

During her interview with Chris Cuomo on ABC News, Ann was challenged about her “fag” comment regarding Edwards. She tells Chris that it was a joke, and goes on to say:

“But about the same time, you know, Bill Maher was not joking and saying he wished Dick Cheney had been killed in a terrorist attack. So I’ve learned my lesson. If I’m gonna say anything about John Edwards in the future, I’ll just wish he had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.”

So, on one hand you have the media telling the country that Ann wishes John Edwards had been killed by terrorists. In reality, you have Ann cracking a joke regarding the fact that in order for her to not get railed over her comments, she would have to make comments in-line with Bill Maher’s.
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Why is it that every time I post on things going on Madison, I feel as if I am writing about something that went on behind the iron curtain? Every day, the Wisconsin democrats are erring closer and closer to left-wing fascism and are threatening to destroy the people and community of Wisconsin - not to mention the economic and business climate.

And how!

So the State Senate, in a move that is even further left than Governor Doyle, passed a universal health care plan as part of the state budget. As always, I can’t help but to ask what is good about this? I can’t help but to ask how the people and the State of Wisconsin can benefit from this?
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Regarding the ethanol mandates that were recently passed in the senate’s energy bill, Senator Amy Klobuchar had this to say:

“It’s just a great victory for consumers in our state and throughout our country.”

As I have pointed out before, Amy is so out of touch with the reality and the economics of ethanol that I can’t believe she’s even involved - yet she’s often seen spearheading the ethanol craze. With this new bill, she succeeded in getting a 700% increase in ethanol production mandated.

Well Klobuchar… Things are not quite as rosy as they seem, especially for the consumer (who supposedly achieved a victory here). For example:

Hormel, one of our local food production juggernauts, has just announced that the price of turkey will increase 4-5% this year, on top of the 2% price hike seen in the second quarter which were not enough to keep up with rising commodity (corn) prices.
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I believe it was back in march when I first started warning about the insanity of giving protest groups the same respect as the GOP conventioners in the Twin Cities for the ‘08 convention. I said it was a bad idea to roll out the red carpet for them, and probably a worse idea for the city councilman who was charged with organizing the protesters to also proclaim he would be a protester himself. I warned that inviting these people with open arms would be a bad, bad idea.

Yet, thanks to the ACLU et al, the plan moved forward because it would be unfair to hurt anybody’s feelings and not treat them the same way you would treat the convention itself.

Well, now people are starting to get worried. Word is getting out, and finally the local media is addressing the concern - albeit a little too late I would say. However, what I can’t quite figure out is why this will be allowed to happen. Protests don’t equate lawless behavior… Yet the ACLU makes sure that lawlessness is the rule of the land when it comes to protest. However, when confronted with the planned disruptions that are being worked up right now, it paints a starkly different picture.

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Bringing us the good news from Iraq that you won’t find anywhere else!

More stories from our local soldiers in Iraq compliments of our mighty embedded reporter, Wayne Anderson…

CAMP TAJI, Iraq— Sgt Shannon Kroeger’s Story
Wayne M. Anderson

Her grandmother was 3 years old when the Nazis threw her into a concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen, Germany. Little Linda was interred there for two years, in the care of her frail grandparents.

The Nazis previously killed Linda’s parents for working in the underground and helping Jews escape to Switzerland. Historical documents show that from 1943 to 1945 the Nazis killed 50,000 people in the camp. The British 11^th Armored Division liberated Linda and 60,000 other prisoners on April 15, 1945

That traumatic-life occurrence made a permanent impression on the young German girl. She never forgot it. And she never let her granddaughter, SGT Shannon Krueger, of Arpin, forget it.

“My grandmother is a concentration camp survivor, so from a young age on I was brought up that you’re very lucky, you’re very lucky to have what you have,” said Krueger, 23.

Because of her grandmother’s life and belief, she was “always very aware of what was going on in the world because of it,” Krueger said. “My grandmother said you have to pay attention or history repeats itself.”

One history lesson she leaned early on from her grandmother was simple, she said. You must stop evil. “If you don’t stop what’s happening in places like Iraq and Darfur—it repeats itself. Be aware. Be aware and make a difference.”

Krueger is making a difference, while serving in Iraq with the Wisconsin National Guard 1157^th Transportation Company. Here in the once-notorious Army camp, she works in an off-pink-colored concrete room, filled with stacks of the most modern communications equipment and one good-old reliable rotary phone from the Vietnam War.
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From Iraq to Wisconsin…

More news from our embedded local reporter in Iraq, Wayne Anderson. As usual, Wayne reports on the good stuff; this time bringing us some views on Iraq from some of the local Wisconsin National Guard soldiers over there.

CAMP TAJI, Iraq - Soldier Siblings in Iraq
Wayne M. Anderson

They are sergeant siblings serving in the US Army with the 1157^th Transportation Company. But if they were US senators they said they would vote to immediately pull the plug on funding in the Iraq war and send the troops home.

Dustin Louden, 28, and Nichelle Louden, 33, of Oshkosh, serve together honorably at Camp Taji, a forward operating base deep in the heart of the Sunni Triangle.

“I don’t think the Iraqis will ever be able to take it over, to run this country the way it should be run,” said SGT Nichelle. “They want us here because we do everything for them. So of course they want us here. They don’t have to do anything.”

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