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The GOP has temporally left Wisconsin with guns blazing and high hopes. Yet there is a 900 pound gorilla in the room that no one seems to notice, at least the media. Well, one guy noticed it several primary's ago and he almost whispered it on national TV.

I think they don't want to say it out loud because it will make them look like they are picking sides.

The GOP's REAL problem is that . . . . nobody cares.

Wisconsin officials predicted a 35% turnout for the Primary or 1.5 million voters. Well, only 779,000 turned out. Even less then Illinois. One reporter commented "you could have a Green Bay Packer rally in the middle of Chicago and get more people then the number who voted in ILL".

Of the Republicans I know (I actually know more then a handful) are not very excited about the options. And the ones that are still gung ho it seems that don't really have a clue what the candidates stand for but more of a "anybody but Obama".

Those same ones are still mad that Obama gave the car industry money (actually the Republicans were responsible for that) and they forget that it actually worked (instead of taking credit they point fingers).

Mitt Romney = John Kerry.
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I want to congratulate my home brew buddy Nick Zweifel for winning a seat on the Dane County Board of Supervisors. In fact in almost all of the elections in Wisconsin the left won. Walker seems to have united the Democrat's.
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Jet Blue - the big news which I thought was pretty obvious is that that Jet Blue Pilot has mental issues. REALLY?? DO YOU THINK? When a pilot starts screaming WE"RE ALL GOING TO DIE!! that I believe would be a clue. I really could not see why they threw him in jail and NOW?? they say wait, we think he should have a look at his mental condition? Good grief YEA!!!

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I'm sure most of you have seen this but here is the video of the Dallas tornadoes lifting the trailers into the air - AMAZING. Don't see THAT everyday.

http://youtu.be/NTjR91JC850



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Of of our most favorite shows on TV right now is "Once Upon A Time". If you have not seen this it is written by one of the LOST writers and the premise is that all fairy tales are real. The evil queen of old has cursed everybody to never be happy and now in modern times all the fairy tale characters are in one town. Oddly only the evil ones know they are from the past. ANYWAY - here is a very awkward moment (thanks Jenny).

When the main character is forced to arrest her mother on suspicion of murdering her stepmother, only for your estranged song to convince her that she might be being framed by her step-grandmother, his adoptive mother, who also murdered her grandfather, and then killed your boyfriend, who was also her boyfriend, after she paid him to murder your mother.

AWKWARD!!!!!

It's a great show, going back and forth from fairy tale land to present day.
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I gotta get me some of this!!   It would be great for my shelter I'm building for when the world goes whacky and I must defend my family against the zombies!

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I was mowing the lawn yesterday and smelled this wonderful aroma.  I looked and our neighbors have this awesome flowering tree that is wafting this amazing aroma!   I thought it was a flowering crab but it's actually a Purple Leaf Plum. 

hmmmmmmmm

I'm only a tree expert when I have to be but I know where to look things up.  We were looking into Red Buds but were told those are really hard to grow especially in our area with the wind.      

We and our neighbors are thinking of putting Lombardy Poplars  between our two house as a privacy screen but man, after reading about this tree I wonder if there are alternatives!   Yea - they grown 6 feet a year but are very short-lived and susceptible to a large number of pests and diseases. Plus long before Lombardy poplars die, they will become disfigured by these pests and diseases, rendering them unattractive as landscape plants and necessitating their removal.  PLUS their roots will cause  havoc with basement foundations.

One alternative is the European aspen (Populus tremula 'Erecta') BUT - the McKay guy is coming over Saturday morning (9:00) and we're going to discuss alternatives!!  (He mentioned more birch trees but they don't get as high).   I know we want to order more Red Chokeberries which are one of my favs.

OH - a photo of out pear tree which seems to like the warm weather. The Don Wyman  flower crab which seems to like sunshine (they normally bloom at the same time). Our neighbors yellow . . forsythia (????) which I really like and their Purple Leaf Plum  which will be an AMAZING tree when it gets bigger! 

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 That's it - gotta work on an idea for posters for The Great American Time Machine Festival today.

 Have a great Wednesday

Rod