This past week, 5-1/5-7 has been quite a ride, highlighted by the death of Osama Bin Laden, called by different names, but none the less, the master-mind of the September 11, 2001 attack is no longer breathing air. Not worm food, rather fish food, or as the Muslim faith believes, in heaven with 25 virgins for his murderous activity against the infidels during the latter part of his life.
There was celebration in the streets, rejoicing in all political parties here in the United States and a growing debate as to the amount of credit that should be shared between the Obama administration and the former Bush white house.
There was an interview between Lawrence O'Donnell of MSNBC's "The Lasts Word" talk show and former Secretary of State director, Condoleezza Rice, a defamation suite field by a former Green Bay labor negotiator against Brown County Board chairman and the board attorney, news that some American companies are experiencing a hiring spree, how a UW-Oshkosh professor was admonished by the university for dubious activity regarding a recall petition, how Wisconsin Governor Scott "Sleepy" Walker wanted to "put kids before adults." In addition, some lively police logs will be examined in a sleepy southern Upper Peninsula city. Sadly Sarah Palin refused to open here big mouth, saying something like she could "See Pakistan from her homes back window in Alaska. I hope your ready for the ride, cause here we go.
SHOOTING DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN,
(American Conservative, National Review, The Weekly Standard, Boston Herald, Frazer Chronicles)
There is no doubt that Osama bin Laden needed to be brought to justice and his continued freedom did not help in the so called "war against terror." I for one thought that he had been killed years earlier and was surprised when he was found and killed Sunday, May 1st. in Pakistan. I do not think that the main objective should have been to shoot him in the head and then several hours later, bury his remains at sea, honoring some religious belief. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he a war criminal, needing to be debriefed and then put on trial for his crimes against humanity. He would not have been a marter, wouldn't he have probably been convicted and punished appropriately, isn't that what were are supposed to be all about?
Some have called the jubilation "most justified", others simply call it "justice," while yet others call for praise for both President Obama and former President BUSH. I guess if you use that analogy, the Green Bay Packers success and world championship this past February could be traced back to former General Manager Ron Wolf.
Seems to me as if Obama said one of his goals was to bring Bin Laden to justice during the very early part of his presidency. G.W. Bush wasn't to concerned about Bin Laden, and "didn't really care where he was." Bush kind of gave up on trying to ferrite out the terrorist leader and bring him to justice.
Celebrating in the streets, proclaiming a euphoric sense of jubilation, slamming a few beers and glad handing one another seems, to me, not to be a proper attitude to portray to the rest of the world, no matter how bad the guy was, after all, he took a slug to the head, was unarmed and now can never reveal important information to the rest of the free world.
CONDI IS AT IT AGAIN, (Frazer Chronicles)
There is absolutely no doubt that Ms. Condoleezza Rice is one of the most brilliant orators in the latter part of the twentieth century and the early part of the twenty first century. Her intellect might be unchallenged, her knowledge of the subject matters she debates is infinite, I know I wouldn't want to bet the milk money on any debate I might have with her, and hope to come out on the best side. She is one tough broad, is intimidating and never, never loses sight of her train of thought.
Lawrence O'Donnell found this out the other night on his "Last Word" MSNBC liberal talk show. As the host, in a live conversation he found out exactly why Condi was one of the most tough neocons in President Bush's administration and why she became one of the top spokes-people for the administration with regards to the war in Iraq.
She smoothly controlled the usual aggressive O'Donnell, and actually made him look rather foolish and uninformed on the topic of the war. She never once called him stupid, silly, or overbearing, she steered him, every time to a place of being uninformed, not having his facts straight and out of touch with the reality of the war on terror.
Actually poor ol Condi is the one that was out of touch and she has never had her facts straight, the war in Iraq was never about weapons of mass destruction, humanitarian rights, a democratic system of government, or any of the other spurious crap that the Bush administration slung around. There was a "spit balling" of nefarious information to see what would stick to the wall.
Oil, baby, is what Iraq was all about, the control of oil, America's interests and the need for the United States to have a footprint in the middle east. The "bad boy of Baghdad" was just the simplest and easiest to, first defeat, militarily and then to hunt down and execute. Condoleezza Rice is still the best "mouth piece" that Dick Chaney and his buddies have.
DEFAMATION AND GUY ZIMA, (Green Bay Press Gazette)
Guy Zima is at it again, attacking other politicians or high ranking officials, this time even if their retired. This time the wily political lighting rod has been named in a defamation suite brought by a retired former labor negotiator, but the suit also names the Brown County board and board attorney, Fred Mohr.
The price tag, $250,000 in damages and $140,000 claimed is still owed the litigant from 2010 and services rendered. Donald VanderKelen has brought the suite, showing once again that young people cannot Flem Flam older people in the work place. VanderKelen, who is 84, has been a labor negotiator for the county for more then 50 years.
The Frazer Chronicles has absolutely no doubt that Mr. Zima really holds the best interests for Brown County and Green Bay upper most in his mind. He, (Zima) has served many long years and although I personally do not agree with much of his rhetoric, he does get things done and is available to his constituents. We here at Chronicle headquarters wish the litigants luck.
AMERICAN COMPANIES HIRING REAL FAST, (Green Bay Press Gazette)
Good news again for those people looking for gainful employment in Green Bay as well as in many areas around the country. In April more then 260,000 jobs were created, even the beleaguered construction industry. It is the third month in a row that at least 200,000 jobs were created.
To bad at this time of year, spring, new jobs spring up, "no pun intended" because of the coming summer months, traditionally the busiest time of the year. Even with the rosy report, the enthusiastic attitudes and the posturing by economist and the administration, more then 13 million people remain unemployed.
The vast majority of unemployed throughout the Midwest are factory workers, who were used to making $20 to $30 an hour, plus benefits and those jobs are gone, possibly forever. Cited as adding to their workforce were retailers, factories, financial companies, education, health care and the construction industries.
Sadly the new jobs that are being created pay less then half of what the former factory workers made, so the economic surge from these jobs won't be as robust as those jobs prior to 2007. There is a level of trust that will need to be regained by workers before they are willing to spend there new found wages.
Analysts and economists point to higher gas prices and lower consumer spending as slowing the economic recovery, but predict that the economy, which has been expanding for almost two years, will grow ever faster for the rest of the year.
We here at Chronicle headquarters see things a bit differently, until home sales and the construction industry begins it's rebound, America's economy recovery will remain tenuous at best. Service and restaurant jobs do not make the kind of money that drives big item purchases.
DEMOCRATS GET HELP FROM UNLIKELY SOURCE, (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
When a criminal justice professor at UW-Oshkosh encouraged a class to sign a recall petition, recalling a Republican state senator, he crossed the line with his actions. Seems that the Titans school has a policy against just such action.
UW-Oshkosh in fact has a defined policy that addresses even discussing politics in the classroom and that the "prof" failed to abide by the prescribed guidelines. There also was concern that the professor's actions might have "tarnished" the university's reputation.
During classes in February, on two occasions, the Oshkosh teacher spent much of the class time discussing his view of Governor Scott "Sleepy" Walker who proposed collective bargaining changes, and "possibly" how the professor did not agree with the changes.
The professor, Steve Richards sent emails apologizing for his actions, and promised to "never, ever do it again." We here at Chronicle headquarters can only say, "give the prof. one more chance," and make sure he didn't have his fingers crossed when he wrote the email.
KIDS BEFORE ADULTS, "HOW CAN THAT BE?" (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
"I've read Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go" quite a bit over the past several weeks as I visit schools in Milwaukee, Green Bay and Stevens Point. Apparently Governor "Sleepy" Walker knows the value of grade school kids learning how to read. Now we have to worry whether he knows the value of having teachers in the classroom to teach these little ones.
Citing bureaucratic rules, shortfalls and the latest educational fads, improving accountability with regards to making expectations clearer and fairer, while continuing to raise the bar, rewarding teachers who have especially difficult assignments and not using one measure of success, the "Sleepy" one sees success by using multiple gauges as a better way to measure reading success.
Sounds to me as if I should go back to school and learn to read at whatever level I can attain, by using whatever the above means, "unless I'm reading it wrong." Whenever budgets need to be cut, and they do, the first place a politician goes is education. Up the class size, cut teaching positions and those very important teacher's aids positions.
There is one thing that I do agree with with regards to what "Sleepy" did say, "get the parents involved" with teaching their children how to read. My mother read to me a little, I never read to my kids, I left that to my wife, "the proof reader" and that was wrong.
Keep taking away from the kids and we will reap the benefits of young people not understanding what the hell is going on and they will not compete with the twenty first century world.
A GOOD WAY TO MAKE MONEY, (Iron Mountain Daily News)
Iron Mountain, Michigan and it's sister city, Kingsford has a combined population of around 13,000 people. A former iron mining town, Iron Mountain was once called the "paycheck capital" of Michigan. Those day's are sadly long gone and the economy has had to re-invent itself into a service orientated community, like many other cities throughout the nation.
But I think Iron Mountain has hit an a rather unique way to cut into the deficit that has dogged many smaller communities, they issue speeding citations at an increasing rate, and when you figure each ticket is worth a minimum of $80, well it doesn't take to long to create a nice little cash cow for at least part of the community.
On a typical night in April, the "speed cops" pulled over and issued 8 citations in less then 24 hours. A city celebration, a party, a parade, workers going home, or a holiday, wrong, a Thursday night. That's right, a simple Thursday night with nothing going on, except the ca-ching of city coffers being filled by excessive speed. As your editor & chief, I can only offer one piece of advice, ssslllooowww done.
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