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WHO WILL CARE FOR YOU?
We live our lives with much uncertainty. We can never be sure our plans will work out perfectly, and we may have to adjust due to unforeseen events. It could be weather changes, mechanical problems, an illness or accident that may change our entire life. But, even with uncertainty hanging over us like a cloud, we plan and move ahead.
Most of the time, plans are kept and we live another day healthy and free of worry. If things go as we plan, we will live a long and healthy life. But even as we approach our later years we won’t be able to do the things we once ...
MOURNING RGB
Here at the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, we remain in mourning at the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Among the many causes she championed in her career dedicated to equality and justice, two are right at the heart of our work here.
The first is reducing the influence of money in our politics. She told The New Republic back in 2014 that the worst decision of the Roberts Court was Citizens United. “The notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be,” she ...
CLIMATE VOTERS NEEDED NOW
A recent news feed brought the likelihood that summer sea ice in the Arctic will be gone in 15 years. Almost a lifetime ago I remember reading dramatic, sometimes horrific, stories of hardy explorers trying to find the legendary Northwest Passage and the North Pole. These were the stories of men like Franklin, Nansen, Peary and many more who wrestled with blinding snow, frigid winds and treacherous ice sometimes struggling to their achingly cold deaths.
Soon, I can almost see it now, someone will be the first to water ski the Arctic Ocean. What ...
UNDER PRESSURE: A CALL FOR CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Vote as if your life depends on it because it literally might. This week, as a self-proclaimed pro-life nominee to the Supreme Court avoids answering questions about her past comments on the Affordable Care Act, I have had to begin taking medication for hypertension. I had low blood pressure for my entire adult life, but then Apollo Global Asset Management, while accepting half a billion dollars from the federal government according to a June 2nd article in Bloomberg, decided it would be to their financial advantage to downsize its Verso paper mills.
The ...
HERCULES
It’s October already. Nights are getting longer. You don’t need to wait so long after supper to get out to star-gaze. When it’s dark enough and the skies are clear, you must go outside to see the stars.
This month we are featuring the constellation Hercules, well-placed above the horizon in the western sky. There are many interesting things about this Constellation, but we’ll mention only a few highlights.
Hercules is one of the strong men in Greek and Roman myth. Hercules was fathered by Zeus, the chief god and the mortal woman was ...
OUR DISABLED ECONOMY
Many people with disabilities have found it difficult to find work even though they are capable. Despite protections provided by legislation like the Americans With Disabilities Act the barriers to employment are often hard to spot. For example, many job applications ask the question, “Do you have reliable transportation?” If you answer “Yes” then they ask you for information about your vehicle or driver’s license. This discriminates against anyone who prefers to use public transportation, bicycles or walks to work, disabled or not.
There ...
VOTE TO END ABORTIONS
We are fast approaching the November election and once again, abortion is a critical factor in choosing a candidate. In truth, no one wants to see an abortion. It is a tragic moment in any society. But if we genuinely wish to reduce abortions, we must remember – abortion is the terrible symptom. The cause is unintended, unwanted pregnancy. As always, the cause must be treated if we wish to eradicate the symptom.
Unintended pregnancies, of course, give immediate rise to the common reaction - - “people shouldn’t have had sex, they should have ...
FACT OR FAKE
Our world is filled with misinformation. Here are non-partisan sites for you to check out what you read.
AP Fact Check… The Associated Press website, an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting, founded in 1846.
Fact Check …a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center
Fact Tank: News in the Numbers…Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. It conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, media ...
TRY WRITING A LIMERICK
How are you dealing with all of the stuff going on in your world right now?
Have you tried writing a limerick?
Here are some samples to get you going.
A painter who came from Great Britain
Hailed a lady who sat with her knittin’.
He remarked with a sigh,
“that park bench—well, I
Just painted it, right where you’re sittin.”
There was an old monk from Siberia
Whose existence grew drearier and drearier.
Till he broke from his cell
And with a super-loud yell
Eloped with the Mother Superior....
HOW”DOING NOTHING” WORKS FOR POLITICIANS
While scrolling through social media recently, I saw someone ask, “Why hasn’t Governor Evers distributed funds from the Heroes Act?” Others jumped all over this comment, claiming the Governor failed because the Heroes Act wasn’t being implemented when it could be.
The truth of the matter is the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Heroes Act several months ago to provide more COVID-19 relief to states; but the U.S. Senate hasn’t taken any action on the bill. Governor Evers cannot take action on federal funding that hasn’t actually passed ...