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Mar. 29th, 2011 01:54 pmI have absolutely no idea yet what my grade on that darn paper was, and I'm not going to look yet either. I'm instead going to concentrate on the next paper, and get a first draft prepped for the 31st, which is optional extra credit that I sorely need.
In the meantime - Jack's doing better at food therapy, and Olivia is going to work up a chart from the data she's been taking the last couple months, so Tom and I can get a better grasp of his progress. He IS making progress, but it's in such tiny increments it's hard to see when you're sitting at the table trying to make him eat hot dogs and chili and utterly failing.
Also in the meantime, I wish to express my extreme displeasure with the shenanigans being pulled over the WI anti-union law. A judge issued an injunction against implementing said law until it could be determined whether the maneuvers used to get it passed violated WI's fairly strict open meetings laws. Normally, implementing a law once passed involves the secretary of state publishing the law. Sec. LaFollette was specifically named in the injunction, so could not do so.
The nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau was not named in the injunction. They published it last week on a website, and now Gov. Walker is claiming that's all that's necessary to declare the law published and implementable. So new legal actions are being taken to see whose side will ultimately prevail.
These are seriously not-kosher shenanigans being pulled, I have to say. If Gov. Walker and the Republican portion of the legislature really are on the side of the law with how they passed the anti-union law, then they should have no problem waiting for the injunction and assessment of the legality of their actions, before implementing the law legally and with all normal procedures. I cannot imagine any reason for them to have done this other than knowing they're in the wrong and must bull forward so the law's opponents give up to the inevitable.
Skullduggery and gluteal haberdashery abounds. If I were eligible to sign petitions for Walker's recall, I would.
In the meantime - Jack's doing better at food therapy, and Olivia is going to work up a chart from the data she's been taking the last couple months, so Tom and I can get a better grasp of his progress. He IS making progress, but it's in such tiny increments it's hard to see when you're sitting at the table trying to make him eat hot dogs and chili and utterly failing.
Also in the meantime, I wish to express my extreme displeasure with the shenanigans being pulled over the WI anti-union law. A judge issued an injunction against implementing said law until it could be determined whether the maneuvers used to get it passed violated WI's fairly strict open meetings laws. Normally, implementing a law once passed involves the secretary of state publishing the law. Sec. LaFollette was specifically named in the injunction, so could not do so.
The nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau was not named in the injunction. They published it last week on a website, and now Gov. Walker is claiming that's all that's necessary to declare the law published and implementable. So new legal actions are being taken to see whose side will ultimately prevail.
These are seriously not-kosher shenanigans being pulled, I have to say. If Gov. Walker and the Republican portion of the legislature really are on the side of the law with how they passed the anti-union law, then they should have no problem waiting for the injunction and assessment of the legality of their actions, before implementing the law legally and with all normal procedures. I cannot imagine any reason for them to have done this other than knowing they're in the wrong and must bull forward so the law's opponents give up to the inevitable.
Skullduggery and gluteal haberdashery abounds. If I were eligible to sign petitions for Walker's recall, I would.
