'sconsin stuff

Issued by the Wisconsin Tourism Bureau to ALL visitors..... well, at least it's making the email rounds: 1) Don't order filet mignon or pasta primavera at Al's Lodge. It's a diner. They serve breakfast 24 hours a day. Let them cook something they know....

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You all remember Kevin Barrett? He's the former UW lecturer who taught a single semester course on Islam during which he expressed his personal view that 9/11 was an "inside job" planned to justify a longterm war in the Mideast, in the name of Empire...

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Favre Says "Release Me": The Packers Respond "The Green Bay Packers are aware of the latest developments regarding Brett Favre. Brett earned and exercised the right to retire on his terms. We wanted him to return and welcomed him back on more than one...

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Ah yes, Precious is almost ready for her trip.

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Sissybar removal and bag support addition, which requires taillight relocation as well. Rewiring taillights is....interesting, to say the least. Look out Ontario, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, New York, and Michigan. The (3200 mile) IronButt Rally of...

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I have been presented with a set of tickets. A little celebration, I guess you'd say. Even though this is my "school band"; even though they've performed in the area dozens of times, even though one of the members lives only about thirty miles away from...

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Geez. Maybe it's a GOOD thing that Mr. Tom from the last post was too busy showing off for the ladies to pay any attention to me! Postal workers attacked by wild turkeys - Yahoo News MADISON, Wis. - Rather than rain or snow, or even dogs, postal workers...

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No, not *that* kind of Turkey Day. Up until 5 or 6 years ago, I had never seen a wild turkey. I won't ever forget the first "herd" I saw, about 30 in a single flock alongside Hwy. 29 a half-dozen years ago. I recall spotting large dark "things" in the...

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Nothing like waking up to 8" of Mother Nature's Gift. 50 degree temps predicted for the next two days.... we go from one extreme to the other up here, don't we? Sloppy, soggy, horrible wet stuff as well. So I figured it was time to introduce Rudy to "'sconsin...

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It could have been much worse. Instead of braving 40 degrees and occasional sunshine, I could have been here on Friday. Glad it was them, and not *us*. Sorry. NOT.

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