The link between crime and immigration

So we were watching the Brewer game in the 8th inning the other night when they were losing.  I told DJ that I had just lost my last two SOM baseball games and my pitcher Leone gave up a freak home run (Home run 1-4 fly out 5-20) to lose the game and he was pitching right now on TV.

I told her I put Leone in for 1 batter and BAM - I lose!

Well, we all saw what happened when for the first time in MLB history a game started with back to back home runs and ended when MY pitcher gave up back to back Home Runs. The good thing was I also have Yelich who hit one so . . . . . .

Then at the Home Opener I heard a friend we call The Black Cloud say he was taking the OVER on the Brewers winning 84.5 games.  Well, I said right here that I was taking the UNDER.  I feel better now that I know he is taking the OVER.  The Brewers are just too thin at Starting pitching.

Then this morning  I read on ESPN that Brewers / Cubs are the next best rivalry in baseball . . . "fake rain outs, feisty fans and two good teams".  REALLY? ESPN is just seeing this?   Next thing you know they will say Packers/Bears are a rivalry!

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Then in Columbus. A drug dealer who's facebook page is full of gun loving, NRA backing alt-right fake news garbage gets held up at gun point when selling drugs in Columbus.  What does he do? Well, the next thing you know the guys with guns are arrested for assault and the drug dealer is arrested for . . . . dealing drugs.  That is a drug dealer FAIL in so many ways  LOL

Well done Police Department.  (no really I mean it).

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Latest job numbers came out and it's MUCH lower then anticipated but still a winner.  The 90th straight month of job growth.  The PROBLEM is that wages continue to lag behind and there are just not enough workers to fill jobs.

The new IKEA in Milwaukee had to ship in 100+ workers from other states to fill positions for the store.  So . . . .where will FoxConn get their workers? They need like 13,000 low paid  workers right?   Remember, Wisconsin  residents are paying part of THEIR wages (I guess we do that now).

Here is the break down for jobs

2.6% are unemployed AND looking for jobs
49.2% are working full time
11.1% are working part time
1.9% are not looking BUT want a job
35.3% are unemployed and DO NOT WANT a job

Basically America is at full employment.  YET - the GOP keeps harping on how they need to fix the economy.

Take the job numbers and add or subtract 120,000 to get a real idea as every month is revised. 10 of the last 13 months have been revised downward.

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OH - Fanduel.  I decided to get into a MASTERs fanduel contest.  I took all the odds for everybody in The Masters and then took all the "salary's" for each golfer and matched them up. That way I could see who was overrated and who was cheap.

After one day I'm in the money because I have Jordon Spieth and Matt Kucher on my team of 6 golfers. I also have Ian Poulter, Bubba Watson, Bryson DeChambeau and Alexander Noren.

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Amazon is creating a new series that adapts "The Lord of the Rings" and the cost is $1 BILLION.  I swear there was a movie that did this. Maybe it was a dream.

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OH - Trump already has 50 BILLION in tariffs (also called taxes for Americans) in play and today said $100 BILLION more because China pissed him off.  OH - IT'S ON.  Trade war here we come.

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Sergio Garcia named his new daughter Azalea, the trademark flower at Augusta.  Yesterday he took a 13 (thirteen) on the 15th hole at August after he dumped 5 (FIVE) balls in the water.  The worst score for a hole in Master History.

ODDLY - I have done that "virtually" at Augusta.  When you have a lot of back spin on those slick greens and are landing the ball on a downhill, you just can not hold those greens.   It is a nightmare.

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I, of course voted and one person said "YOU QUIT" (in a friendly way).  No no - I just didn't run.  I said 5 years ago I can do more for Columbus NOT being an alderman. So many projects were put on hold.  Have you seen many NEW photos of Columbus the last 5 years? NO!

It's like a cook that does not cook at home.  I was so engrossed with city stuff I just had to get away from city  . . .. stuff.

BOY I will miss being part of it though. I didn't think I would like it as much as I thought I would.

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There is a link between crime and immigration.   Since 1980 the immigrate population has grown 118% while violent crime in america has decreased 36%. Cities with the highest rate of immigrants have also seen the biggest decrease in violent crime.       

Of course border crossing at the Mexican border is at an all time historic low as our groper in Chief lies about a surge so he is mobilizing troops.

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SO - Weather.  Can't get much worse right? TRUE!!   High of 30 today which is about 24 degrees BELOW normal. I see no above normal days in the next 10. The good news is that 40 is fine. Yesterday did not feel too bad actually IN THE SUN.

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Never happened before last night in MLB

Brewers/ Cards did something that has never happened before in MLB history.  Back to back homes runs to start a game and back to back home runs to end a game.  I'm glad the Brewers had the last part and not the first.

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I am very comfortable with the make-up of City Council and am extremely happy with the outcomes of most of the elections. SADLY the Columbus School board dropped the ball in a school referendum (by not having one) as almost all school referendums passed.  The only one that failed was in Beloit that lost by 2 votes.

There was  referendum in Sun Prairie that in the last count I saw was winning 1075 - 14.  I'm not sure what the referendum was but I'm thinking it was about "should we do away with hanging witches" or something and I wonder about those 14 NO votes.

I mention this as my family has a history of witch issues in seems.

From my moms book

   GENEOLOGY

My ancestor, Lydia Gilbert
was accused of witchcraft in Hartford
in November of sixteen hundred and fifty-four.
Her son was the Marshall of Hartford.
He arrested and jailed his mother.

Her accusers sat as her jury.
She was convicted and sentenced
to die on the gallows at Albany Street and Vine.

In Hartford the hanging of witchs
was one of the duties of the Marshall.

There is no written proof of her hanging
That page has been torn from the records,
but in January her husband left Hartford, alone
He moved to the village of Nayuag.
In sixteen-sixty he died there
Without ever seeing his son, the Marshall, again.

      -- E.V.Melotte

from the book "Snapshots along the way: A lifetime of poetry".

oddly - and I literally just thought of this - when I worked in Madison at 1 W Wilson there was a couple that were wicken and they loved my moms book and set many of her poems to music.

There are a number of instances in my younger days where my mom had an uncanny ability to see things she could not see.  She saw her own death once when her appendix exploded.  The light, floating above the curtain and seeing the Doctors and so forth.

The Edmund Fitzgerald where she went to the hospital because she could not stop shivering. They could find nothing wrong and was released only to see a week later a relative went down with the ship at that very time we were taking mom to the hospital.

My brother having his foot caught in a railroad crossing.  She and I were doing something and all of a sudden she jumped up and was running down the street to the RR crossing a block away.

Maybe . . . . ??     

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and the elections - wow - massive blue turnout.  Greater then 2016 a Presidential year and much greater then 2014 and 2016.  Still unsure about the State Treasurer who really . . . has no real job.  This is not a all of a sudden let's dump the Treasurer, this has been an issue for a few decades now.

The State Treasurer really has no real duties to speak of.  There is only 1 person in the entire Department.   At least that is what I have read.

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I really dislike Roseann. She tweeted that the Parkland Student raised the Nazi salute and she is  basically a Trump shill spouting fake news in her tweets.  Never liked her decades ago and REALLY loath her now.

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Assembly Speaker Robin Vos - what a glottal buffoon.  So Dane County Circuit Judge Rosann Reynolds declared that the Wisconsin GOP and corrupt Governor Walker, who are intent on GOP democracy suppression, MUST hold elections for open seats that have been open for a year.

Well, as we all know Dane County Circuit Judge Rosann Reynolds was appointed by Walker. YET - Vos is calling her a "activist Dame County Judge".   ummmmmm . no idiot!  Maybe she is doing her job and has not been paid off yet?

Once Vos's verbal diarrhea ended William Hanrahan the Head Circuit Judge came to Reynolds defense blasting Vos for taking “the low road” and “sullied his own reputation, diminishing any hopes of being taken seriously as a statesman.”

MORE GUNS IN SCHOOLS???? A good idea??

Dennis Alexander is a reserve Police officer in the Sand City California Police Department and he appeared at Seaside High School for a talk about gun safety. During his talk he pointed his gun at the ceiling and the gun discharged. The bullet hit the ceiling and pieces of the ceiling broke off and fell into the group of students injuring three students, one of whom took a bullet fragment to the neck.

Mr. Alexander is a reserve Police Officer mind you, trained as well as possible in gun safety protocols. Yet he hurt three children when he brought a gun into Seaside High School.

Yea - more guns is a great idea.

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I see the Trump stock market is doing GREAT today as the trade war begins in earnest.  The woman groper says "America has already lost the trade war".  I AGREE!!

SADLY - while the market is in free fall a normally efficient free fall net is not available as major corporation can not buy back the 800 billion in stocks they that normally would be able to buy back on dips.   There is a share buyback lock up period so they are stuck watching.

Is Trump bragging about how he is killing farmers in Wisconsin?   Hogs, ginseng, dairy, motorcycles and 120 other things america sells overseas are now stuck in the US are all of a sudden and NOT going to China.

ANYWAY - WEATHER  Gus the Weather Dog was on the low end of being close  3.5 inches fell last night about 12 hours AFTER it was suppose too.

High of 28 on Friday - only 25 degrees below normal.  More snow coming Sunday and Monday 2-6 inches followed by a warming trend and 3 days of rain Wednesday into Friday NEXT week.  Although long range is not the MOST accurate.

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Trailer trash

As we wait for the 47 inches of snow coming I'll do a little typing.

Starting with Friday. Friday we were going to have a new counter top delivered because the one they delivered LAST week was cut wrong. 1 inch to wide on one side and 4 inches to short on the other. It was not even close to being correct and the great thing was that I had nothing to do with measuring.   

So the big Cabinetry Plus truck pulls up Friday and the 2 guys are bringing the counter top around the house into back (no stairs) entrance.  

BAM!  We look out the window and there are 2 guys carrying the piece back to the truck.  OOPS!  They dropped it and it broke.  FAIL #2  LOL   sigh!   So what started December 27th continues.  My Marantz receiver was reordered as the one I have cannot connect to our WiFi  and we still have no plumbing but otherwise it's a sweet basement.  I have 27 images on our walls (all the ones that don't sell).

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Black Panther is responsible for 23% of ALL movie tickets sold this year. The second highest after Titanic.   

With that said we watched Three Billboards Friday night - GREAT movie.    Woody Harrelson plays a role where I actually like this guy.  A slightly dark comedy. I applauded at the end!!  I don't want to have these people out of my life. Love them all.  It's almost like a Coan Brothers movie.

Oh - a fair amount of swearing in this trailer. 

https://youtu.be/Jit3YhGx5pU

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Grindr, a gay hook up app (I only pay attention as it uses MY handle)  seems it shared personal information such as HIV status and other medical info with other companies.   OOOPS SORRY we were caught!!

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I have nothing to say about politics - The American Oligarchy Government is just a buffoonish mess. Farmers are angry (they voted for Trump) and basically anybody in business are pissed off . . WHY!  It's not like anything the woman groper has been a surprise.  The Oligarchy we have now is so much better then Clinton?

But the good thing is that if Clinton would have won she would have been 4  years and out.  Now Trump is showing the world the true GOP playbook.  Give to the rich (themselves) and screw everyone else.  Just like when Bush won reelection for a 2nd term and I said in this blog that guarantees at LEAST 8 years of Democrat rule (I was close) Trump is doing even better to help the so called left.

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OH OH -there is a show  on Tru TV called Nobodies!  Never heard of it but DJ saw an add and we watched it - EXCELLENT. 

https://youtu.be/lLj2nSoIygs



OK - nuff said. 

I'll get into the Brewer home opener at another time when I have more . . time.

RM

OH - weather - the PROBLEM with this storm is the temperature - this who storm seems like it shifting to a later and later opening round.  Maybe start in earnest around 2?? and last 12 hours.  3-5 inches of wet wet snow.   High on Friday? 26!!  YEA - TWENTY SIX.  about TWENTY SIX degrees below normal!

CHEERS