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Personal Narrative
Booze and Chickens
Many people call my town of Madison, Wisconsin “67 square miles surrounded by reality”. Honestly, if you can handle certain things it is a nice place to live. One of the things you will need to be able to handle is the super liberal culture that you will be immersed in once here. I have a lot of fun with it. I moved here from Rockford, Illinois 15 years ago and to this day am amazed at what goes on. The two cities are separated by only 70 miles, but are worlds apart.
The Madison City Council is famous for wasting time on declarations that have no effect other than making a statement. They have had votes on impeaching presidents, taking stands on foreign conflicts, and many other things that will drive most normal people insane. All of the hand wringing and time wasting costs MONEY – and, in the end, it is my tax money that they are wasting. It is enough to drive one crazy unless you get used to it. Remember, the city council is made up of mostly Democrats and “Progressives”.
An Image of Martial Discord
The Battle of Bunker Hill by the fabulous Howard Pyle.
I’ve been tagged by History Guy for something called the “meme of seven”.
The Great Flood of ’08, Continued…
Here in Southern Wisconsin we received an unbelievably large amount of rain yesterday, that did nothing but make lives more miserable for residents in this area.
I am fortunate that I didn’t receive any more water in my basement, nor did I get water at my place of business. From what I have seen driving around here, Madison got off pretty well so far (knock on wood). The only thing that may affect us is that we are partially isolated now. The interstates running north (90) and east (94) are closed due to water overtopping the bridges. This will affect my business slightly, as I have freight coming from Milwaukee today that I don’t think will make it. Speaking of business…
The Great Flood of ’08
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Water, water everywhere.
After smashing the record for snowfall due to Gorebal Warming, we have had record rains this Spring due to Gorebal Warming. Many of you may have seen the footage by now of a couple of houses floating down the Wisconsin River. I even saw that footage on Fox News last night; it is on an endless loop on our local media.
To create that footage, Lake Delton overflowed its banks, took out a road and incredibly created its own new river. The ENTIRE lake drained out into the Wisconsin River. It was a spectacular sight.
Six hundred million gallons of water came out of the lake and into the river forty feet below in TWO HOURS, claiming the homes. If you had plans on catching the famous Tommy Bartlett show in the near future, you may consider changing your itinerary as it is pretty difficult to water ski on a lake bottom.