Then the companies' servers crash after they threaten to sue. hmmmmm.
Thursday, July 16
China Steals Code and More
Then the companies' servers crash after they threaten to sue. hmmmmm.
By Lucas at 12:03 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, July 14
Roberts Influence
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Friday, June 26
w Ron g Kind of Vote on Global Warming
Except for the petroleum production, this list IS Wisconsin.
Even as we see the Janesville WI GM plant destroyed by government policies, we can expect this same regulation to entrap much of the rest of the state.
By Lucas at 8:42 PM 1 comments
Monday, June 22
Chrsit the King Lutheran Church near Spring Valley
desire to preach the Word of God? Christ the King Lutheran Church in Wilson Wisconsin shares your desire to worship the Lord in all the glory and majesty.
Worship Service Times
9:00am Sunday Worship
10:30 Truth Project
By Lucas at 8:07 PM 0 comments
Sunday, June 21
Climate Change Reconsidered: 25,000 Scientists
An important work has been published by prominent scientists and signed by thousands that questions the whole man made global warming fraud. Don't get caught swallowing the lure before you read Climate Change Reconsidered. By Lucas at 4:10 PM 2 comments
Thursday, June 18
Around the Web: Website Development
For website hosting I used Fatcows. Not only do they provide one of the cheapest plans but they also have top of the line customer support. I had used GoDaddy in the past and was satisfied with their price (not as good as FatCows though) but had troubles with their help and site navigation. Fatcows has a better navigation system and less service advertisements. It is simple, clean, and effective.
I have had a few issues with server speed, but they seem to have addressed those. If you do use Fat cows, please enter my website (www.visitchristtheking.org) in as your referral and I will get a slight discount on my next membership renewal.
By Lucas at 6:00 PM 1 comments
Wednesday, June 17
Menomonie Strawberries!
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Monday, June 15
Serious Cutting of Gov't
being complacent and even advocates for bigger government. In fact, they still aren't getting it. Their report they spend 99% as much as President Obama according to Heritage. Brian Riedl also offers some other ways that Republicans could and should advance to cut the size of government.
* Eliminating the $60 billion spent annually on corporate welfare programs.
* Reducing farm subsidies for large and profitable agribusinesses, which actually worsen the farm economy.
* Devolving functions like highways, economic development, education, housing, and anti-poverty programs to state and local governments that are closest to the people. This would eliminate the expensive Washington middleman, and tailoring local programs to local needs (while eliminating failed programs) would surely save tax dollars. Given the unpopularity of Washington, this should be a no-brainer.
* Most importantly, addressing Social Security and Medicare, which would otherwise require a doubling of all current tax rates. A logical place to start would be a progressive indexing of Social Security benefits for upper-income seniors and also stopping over-subsidizing the Medicare B and D premiums for upper-income seniors.
By Lucas at 9:31 PM 2 comments
Monday, June 8
Shelby Steele Hits the Problem with Sotomayor
By Lucas at 10:43 PM 0 comments
Hispanic Conservative on Sotomayor
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Thursday, June 4
Microsoft responds in positive way to porn criticism
By Lucas at 4:53 PM 0 comments
Ecuador Gov't v. Chevron Recap
One would really have to be a judge and see all the evidence to make a final and conclusive judgement on the matter, but after reading both sides the fault and blame seems to fall most heavily on the shoulders of the government of Ecuador.
The Ecuador gov't started out with a 25% stake in the operation that rose to 65% and finally to total control in 1992. Texaco/Chevron and others had much of the control of the operations but had to constantly wind their way through the loops of gov't control. When Chevron finally was given the boot out of the country they negotiated an exemption from liability with the government with a clean up of their portion of the problem that cost $40 million. Did they actually clean up what they said they would? The government then said yes, and signed the contract. Outside interest groups now say no, and want to hold Chevron responsible.
I might sound like a broken record soon, but I firmly believe that good government is about following the law, and that includes the government as well. The Ecuadorian government followed few laws.
In 1999 a new law was passed that created a loophole for new Chevron liability in the case. An ex post facto or retroactive law was passed to make it possible for not only the government to hold Chevron responsibile but individuals as well. This violated the Ecuadorian constitution.
Further, the present government of Ecuador has threatened to dismiss any judge that rules in favor of Chevron. Say goodbye to an independent judiciary.
This whole scenario reminds me of John Adam's position in the Boston Massacre. John Adam's at the peril of his career and even safety argued in defense of the soldiers who shot and killed individuals at a Massachusetts protest. Why? Because the law supported them.
Chevron might not be a nice company. Maybe they are. That should not matter. Those responsible should bare the costs, and that appears to be the Ecuadorian government.
By Lucas at 9:54 AM 0 comments
Monday, June 1
If we only could tax gov't stupidity not gas companies
The Chicago-Tribune Reports:
[T]he nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau, have questioned whether Wisconsin can legally or practically stop large oil companies like Exxon and British Petroleum from raising prices at the pump to make up for the state tax.
No other state taxes oil companies and bars them from passing the tax along at the pump, the Fiscal Bureau said.
....
"It is likely the oil industry will litigate swiftly in the hope that successful litigation would put an end to any efforts by other states to enact similar provisions," the Fiscal Bureau said in a memo for lawmakers.
The tax is a percentage based on revenues of the oil companies, not their profits as Doyle has repeatedly characterized it. Because fuel may be bought and sold several times before it gets to the pump, tracking the costs of each buyer and seller would be difficult, the Fiscal Bureau said.
So this law is not only wrong because of the higher taxes, but legally it appears fishy as well. And if the companies get lower profits in Wisconsin what is going to keep them from just leaving the state? Or at minimum building fewer gas stations or offering fewer services (like free air) with your gas purchase. There is no free lunch and that goes for the government as much as the consumer.
Really, if you hate Exxon Mobil don't buy gas from them. Taxing them will only make your gas purchasing more expensive one way or another. I for one have a bigger contempt for bad and illogical government laws.
By Lucas at 7:26 PM 1 comments
Wednesday, May 27
The Hispanic Conservative and Tuition for the Illegal
I do not agree with my conservative brethren that the children of immigrants should be punished because their parents elected to flee from a land of oppression. And yes, I use the word “punish” because it most accurately reflects Pillman’s position. Pillman’s argument misses its mark because it assumes that children are guilty of breaking the law vicariously through their parents. Thus, according to Pillman, they are rendered ineligible for receipt of equal educational privileges enjoyed by non-immigrants.
I argued in the comments of the original article that children can be caught by legitimate laws that their parents don't obey. However, in this case, the children are also breaking the law. It is not even as Alex argues that the equivalent is punishing a child if the parent stole a car. The equivalent of Doyle's proposal would be giving a stereo system to the kid after you caught both the kid and the parent stealing and both have continued in theft.
Again, I just can't see how giving tuition is rewarding lawlessness.
By Lucas at 9:24 PM 1 comments
Lady Justice: I have a Dream!
"Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends. 
And so even though we face the difficulties of everyone saying a justice should be confirmed simply because of her race and sex, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on Capital Hill, the sons of sixties radicals and the sons of former racists will be able to sit down together at a confirmation hearing and be blind to race.
I have a dream that one day even the Supreme Court that tortures the definition of blind equality with affirmative action will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be voted for or appointed by the color of their skin but by their character and qualifications.
I have a dream today!"
By Lucas at 6:55 PM 0 comments
Tuesday, May 26
Chronicle of Irresponsibility
Sample:
- $138,000.00 in savings over two years from the Medigap Helpline. Oh wait, the "savings" is lapsed into the general fund for other spending. Not a cut.
-Approved $25,000.00 for a feasibility study. Looks like I spoke too fast. With a $6 billion dollar deficit staring us in the face, do we have the money, even if it is only $25,000, to spend on a study?
By Lucas at 8:30 PM 1 comments
Thursday, May 21
Help the legal not illegal
Laws are made to be followed. People are punished for breaking the laws, not rewarded. Such notions might be common sense and require the barest of understanding of justice and government but don't count on it when it comes to illegal immigration.
Doyle has proposed instate tuition for illegal immigrants but doing so will only hurt immigrants and the state and country they so desire to come to.
Of course I have to say before we actually engage the argument that I'm not opposed to immigrants or hate Mexicans, latinos, etc. In fact I was personally born in Ecuador and have Ecuadorian citizenship. I love to speak Spanish and enjoy Latino culture. I have frequently visited South American countries and have shared the heartbreak of those who live there and here and try to navigate the increasingly obtuse immigration laws.
Indeed, Doyle's idea must be opposed precisely because it hurts legal immigrants.
Please let me introduce you to Adrianna Sari a good friend of mine from Ecuador. She worked hard through high school and had the the academic and even financial means to come to study here in the United States. She knows English. She had plans to return to Ecuador and was willing to not even work here if the laws dictated such. No luck. After wasting hundreds of dollars on speaking to American immigration officials she remains stuck with not only no tuition but no opportunity to study here. Why? Because she followed the law.
Contrast that with any random illegal immigrant whether they are from Canada, Ecuador, or Poland. They break the law and avoid the proper course that Adrianna took to try and come to our land of opportunity. We miss them on the boarder and they graduate from a Wisconsin high school. Luck strikes! Free tuition! Why? Because she broke our law and ran the boarder.
Since when has the American opportunity become the opportunity to reward those who break the law and punish those who follow it? Why have we developed a false sense of compassion for those illegally within the country and still discriminate against those who want to follow the law?
One of the biggest differences between America and other countries people flee from is the rule of law. Ecuador has a very fragile understanding of the rule of law and their security and prosperity suffer. And yet Doyle is trying to destroy this same bedrock principle.
Doyle, stop rewarding the lawless and punishing the lawabiding. Give and help the legal not illegal for our own good and their own good.
By Lucas at 12:07 PM 9 comments
Ecuador Battles Chevron
Texaco [now Chevron] reached a $40 million agreement with Ecuador to clean a
portion of the well sites and waste pits in its concession area,
absolving it of future liability. But that cleanup, carried out in the
1990s, was far from the bookend Texaco hoped to achieve. Instead,
villagers in Ecuador became convinced they were getting sick from the
pollution left behind. They filed suit in 1993 in the United States,
and later claimed that their grievances were not covered by Texaco’s
settlement agreement.
With little respect for the law and major populism sweeping the country, any company should be ware of doing business there.
By Lucas at 11:26 AM 3 comments
Monday, May 18
Common Ground between dead baby and live baby?
All smoke screen.
By Lucas at 10:38 PM 0 comments
Picture of the Day

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Saturday, May 9
More talk about Mitch Daniels for Prez
That is correct. Our old friend Mitch Daniels, who went home to Indiana to engage in some hands-on governing after years as a well-liked Republican apparatchik here in Washington, says lambasting the other guy is not enough. The voters kind of like to know where candidates propose to take them.
By Lucas at 10:18 PM 0 comments
Thursday, May 7
A Modest Marriage (Institute) Proposal
The continued disintegration of marriage continues to weigh heavily upon me. It is time that Wisconsin have a marriage institute to ward off problems and work to sustain and promote healthy marriages. Here is the need:
According to the Bureau of Health and Information Policy “[i]n 2008, the ratio of Wisconsin marriages to Wisconsin divorces was 1.9 to 1 (there were 1.9 marriages for each divorce). This ratio has been falling since 1920, when it was 9.2 to 1; it was 6.7 to 1 in 1960; 2.2 to 1 in 1990; and 2.1 to 1 in 2000.”
Hardest hit are the children under the age of 18. Over fifty of all Wisconsin divorces in 2008 involved children under the age of 18.2
Although marriage has been defined under the Constitution as being only between one man and one women, this too continues to be under constant pressure primarily by homosexual activist who want recognitions for other forms of marriage. Just look at the same sex register for couples that Doyle is promoting.
The Program:
Wisconsin Marriage Institute would recognize its members by sending the wife an anniversary gift. Gifts and gift registries for couples soon to be married would also be promoted to establish new members.
Wisconsin Marriage Institute would also provide educational resources to its members who face marriage difficulties—another given reason to be a member. Membership in WMI would be a type of marriage insurance. Not legal or absolute insurance but a guiding hand and dedicated organization to the preservation of your marriage. These resource would be especially targeted at pastors to help WMI members in their church. For example, WMI would email and/or mail the couple evaluation questions once during the year to measure their marriage health and encourage the couple.
Once every year it would also hold a couples “date night” with extra special dinning, speakers, and celebration of each of the married couples and marriage in general in the state. Members would also renew their membership at this time.
Interested? See full .pdf of the proposal.
By Lucas at 8:39 AM 0 comments
Wednesday, May 6
US Finds Decades worth of New Natural Gas
A massive natural-gas discovery here in northern Louisiana heralds a big shift in the nation's energy landscape. After an era of declining production, the U.S. is now swimming in natural gas.
By Lucas at 11:02 AM 0 comments
Tuesday, May 5
Supreme Court Nomoniee
Avoid: Litmus tests. Be it issue, race, creed, or party. Please can we move past nominating people for the color of their skin or gender?
By Lucas at 1:41 PM 0 comments
Proof Needed: Homsexuals support Marriage
Yet they seem AWOL when it comes to marriage in any other context. Advance laws that decrease divorce? Strengthen laws against sex offenders? Porn filters in libraries? Sexual abuse against minors?
The facade should be obvious: It's not for the sake of marriage; they have no desire to strengthen marriage. All homosexual activists desire is societal legitimacy for their actions and a normative redefinition of the family structure.
Also, Maggie Gallgher has one of the best, thorough, and solid defenses of marriage.
By Lucas at 11:47 AM 0 comments
Source of Government Corruption
How about too much spending? The balloon analogy is especially good.
By Lucas at 8:52 AM 0 comments
Monday, May 4
No school disapproval of religion
Kudos to the court for getting closer to consistent when in comes to irreligious belief in the classroom, but this ruling got schools no closer to a sane and logical solution.
Again, I would give much more deference to the parents in matters of education. What did they think?
HT: Worldmagblog
By Lucas at 8:40 PM 0 comments
Saturday, May 2
National Organization for Marriage Launches Miss California Ad
And then Perez Hilton thinks he can sue for copyright infringement for the use of this profane personal attack that show his true colors? Now that is laughable. Small thing called "fair use" and 1st Amendment here Hilton.
By Lucas at 12:01 PM 0 comments
Friday, May 1
Pakistan/Afghanistan Problem: Militant Islam
Contrary to Western "international nannies," the primary conflict motivators in both countries [Pakistan and Afghanistan] are ethnic and tribal loyalties, religious fanaticism and simple opportunism. It is not a case of the "have nots" rising against the "haves," but of True Believers on a divine mission. Accordingly, neither greater economic assistance, nor more civilian advisers upcountry, nor stronger democratic institutions will eliminate the strategic threat nearly soon enough.
By Lucas at 11:43 PM 0 comments
Planned Barrenhood Covers up Sexual Abuse...Again
In a recorded telephone conversation between a girl posing as a 14-year-old
and a Planned Parenthood employee at its Overland Park, Kansas facility,
the employee is informed that the young girl believes she may be pregnant
by her 23-year-old boyfriend.Planned Parenthood invites the young girl to the clinic for a pregnancy test
and informs the potential statutory rape victim that her sexual abuser
can come to the clinic to pick up the contraceptives.The lawmakers tell LifeNews.com that, at no point during the recorded
conversation, does the employee raise any concerns about sexual abuse,
despite the fact that the situation described constitutes Aggravated
Indecent Liberties under Kansas law.“This shocking conversation is consistent with a nationwide Planned Parenthood
pattern of covering up sexual abuse of young girls,” said Huelskamp,
also a candidate for Congress.
By Lucas at 10:05 PM 0 comments
Domestic Partner Registry and Response
1. Try and block it in the Assembly and Senate. This will be tough however as Democrats control both chambers. Let's be blunt: they don't care about the Constitution or the laws and will try and pass this.
2. Challenge the law through the courts. The constitution and the will of the voters was plain when they passed it was to protect marriage and anything "identical or substantially similar to marriage." This is blatant disregard for our Constitution. Isn't the governor suppose to protect it?
3. Pairs of guys (who are not homosexuals) should apply for the registry if it is enacted. The whole system falls apart if every college dorm roommates can collect partner benefits. This is bluff, so call them on it.
By Lucas at 4:34 PM 5 comments
Doyle on Chrysler: I don't know why the baby cries when pinched
“This plan is contrary to what Chrysler has been telling us all along,”
Governor Doyle said. “Now we find out through the news media that they
may be shipping Wisconsin’s jobs to Mexico. This is outrageous.
Wisconsin workers are willing to invest their hard earned tax dollars
to help save Chrysler but it is unfair to ask those same workers to
sacrifice their jobs to save a foreign plant making the exact same
product.”
Yeah, but through the other side of your mouth you raise taxes no wonder businesses are moving out. And to Mexico? If labor is cheaper why not. We aren't letting the Mexican's in.
By Lucas at 4:10 PM 0 comments
1 a.m.: When drinks drunk and taxes enacted
Joint Finance committee voted on the budget 14 hours after the
scheduled time, at 1 a.m. Part of the plan was a new light rail system
for a train system in south eastern Wisconsin. Seeing that taxpayers
will pay $25 per ride to cover the difference for a $28 ride I don't know who thinks this is much of a deal either.
Nothing
wrong with trains. I would ride and use a train if practical. I like to
be able to read on my way to work. But $28? How is that suppose to help
the people of Wisconsin during these hard economic times? I can drive
across the state to Madison for $28 each way. This is a huge government
rip-off.
All Republicans voted against; all Democrats for.
By Lucas at 3:48 PM 0 comments
Thursday, April 30
Governor Elections 2010
At least two people will run: Scott Walker and Mark Nuemann.
I respect both of these guys. Couldn't one of them run for Senate instead? Of course with Doyle's numbers in the tank it is no surprise that he is attracting strong candidates to run against him.
Scott Walker is the Milwaukee Co. executive and has done an amazing job on keeping down costs and effectively running a tough county. He ran and lost in the primary against Mark Green.
Mark Nuemann is a former Congressman from Paul Ryan's 1st District. He ran against Feingold in 1998 and only lost by 2%.
By Lucas at 11:36 AM 1 comments




