Hey O'Rielly , ...over here ya Git.

Hey Lickspittle Guess what? You made inside page of the conservative Wis. State Journal Sunday edition. Way to go Bill you just managed to alienate a half million people in one 5 second sound bite. I applaud you... that takes guts.

I don’t know if any of you heard Stephanie Miller mention how Mr. "O'lielly" made the comment of people in Madison Wisconsin communing with Satan... I did. I let it go. Cuz some probably do. But you know what? Some probably do in Boise too.

After seeing it in the paper and continually being assailed by that pirate mug a yers today... well I thought you ought to know a few people connected to Madison to affirm your stupidity.

The following is sprinkled with :sarcasm:

First a couple of minor naturalists...you know these guys were out in the woods communing with Beelzebub by golly.


John Muir

Muir's insights were landmarks in the history of environmental conservation. The words and deeds of John Muir led to the establishment of the U.S. National Park System, (including, during his lifetime, Yosemite, Sequoia, Grand Canyon, Petrified Forest, and other parks). He was the founding president of the Sierra Club, which remains today the leading American grassroots organization for protecting wilderness and the human environment.

He recognized that all living things were a part of a whole, and that if we lose that whole we lose part of ourselves. "There is not a 'fragment' in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself." For Muir, this was not a matter of merely conservation of natural resources, but a matter of human physical and psychic survival. Muir wrote, "I know that our bodies were made to thrive only in pure air, and the scenes in which pure air is found." He advocated preservation of natural areas for reasons of mental health: "Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the log cock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains."


Aldo Leopold

Considered by many as the father of wildlife management and of the United States’ wilderness system, Aldo Leopold was a conservationist, forester, philosopher, educator, writer, and outdoor enthusiast. Following a transfer to Madison, Wisconsin in 1924, Leopold continued his investigations into ecology and the philosophy of conservation, and in 1933 published the first textbook in the field of wildlife management. Later that year he accepted a new chair in game management – a first for the University of Wisconsin and the nation. A prolific writer, authoring articles for professional journals and popular magazines, Leopold conceived of a book geared for general audiences examining humanity’s relationship to the natural world. A Sand County Almanac was published. With over two million copies sold, it is one of the most respected books about the environment ever published, and Leopold has come to be regarded by many as the most influential conservation thinker of the twentieth century.


How ‘bout these politicians... had to be hanging out with the “Prince of Darkness.”


Robert Marion La Follette, Sr.

"Fighting Bob" La Follette was an American politician who served as a U.S. Congressman, the 20th Governor of Wisconsin from 1901 - 1906, and Senator from Wisconsin from 1905 - 1925 as a member of the Republican Party. He also ran for President of the United States as the Progressive Party candidate in the 1924 elections. He is best remembered for his support for direct election of United States Senators and opposition to big businesses. La Follette was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1884, where he served until 1890. His opposition to "pork barrel" projects and his support for a protective tariff helped secure his appointment to the Ways and Means Committee From 1901 until 1906, he served as Governor of Wisconsin. While governor, he championed numerous progressive reforms, including the first workers' compensation system, railroad rate reform, direct election of Senators and progressive taxation. These ideas became known as the Wisconsin Idea. He played a key role in initiating the investigation of the Teapot Dome Scandal


Gaylord Nelson

In 1969, as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson came up with one of the most powerful ideas of his time: Earth Day. Inspired by the teach-ins dealing with the Vietnam War, Earth Day was an instant success, drawing 20 million participants the first year (1970). American Heritage Magazine called the first Earth Day "one of the most remarkable happenings in the history of democracy."

In 1995 he received the nation's highest civilian award: the Presidential Medal of Freedom. "As the father of Earth Day, he is the grandfather of all that grew out of that event: the Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act," said the proclamation from President Clinton. In 1992 the United Nations Environment Programme presented Gaylord Nelson with the Only One World Award. In 1990 he received the Ansel Adams Conservation Award, bestowed upon a federal official who has shown exceptional commitment to the cause of conservation and the fostering of an American land ethic.

He was the author of legislation to preserve the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail corridor and to create a national hiking trails system. He sponsored or co-sponsored countless conservation bills, including the Wilderness Act and the Alaska Lands Act. In Wisconsin, his U.S. Senate legacy includes the St. Croix Wild and Scenic Riverway and the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Nelson also was a trailblazer in consumer protection, especially involving prescription medicines. He was one of only three Senators to vote against the $700 million appropriation that signaled the start of the ground war in Vietnam.

We lost Gaylord just this year on July 3, 2005

It was a sad day for Wisconsin.


By the way Russ Feigngold... well... he’s actually from Middleton that would make him a "Pastafarian.," one of the "bowling" synods. (He’s a clever and principled fellow.)


And Writers... well heck yeah, Satanists.


Thornton Niven Wilder

Born in Madison, Wisconsin on April 17, 1897, the son of Amos Parker Wilder and Isabella Niven Wilder. By the time he died Thornton Wilder was an American icon, and an internationally famous playwright and novelist. To this day, his works are read, performed and appreciated by audiences worldwide. a three time Pulitzer Prize winner and the only winner for both fiction and drama.

..."and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning." (from The Bridge of San Luis Rey)


That Band of Brothers stuff... Lucifer group think!!


Stephen E. Ambrose

Ambrose grew up in Whitewater, Wisconsin, the son of a physician who served in the Navy during World War II. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, he taught at several universities, retiring from the University of New Orleans in 1995. Honors Ambrose received for his writing and civic contributions include the George Marshall Award, the Teddy Roosevelt Award, the Department of the Army Award for Distinguished Public Service, the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award, the Will Rogers Memorial Award, the Bob Hope Award from the Congressional Medal of Honor Society, and the National Humanities Award. He was awarded the highest medal a civilian can receive from the Defense Department, the Medal for Distinguished Public Service, in 2000.


And you know ...these next two guys met “Old Nick” at the crossroads.


Richard Davis

Richard Davis is an international performing musician and Professor of Bass (European Classical and Jazz), Jazz History and combo improvisation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Downbeat International Critics Poll named him Best Bassist from 1967-74. He has recorded a dozen albums as a leader and 2000 recordings/jingles as a sideman. Some of his performance/recording credits include Sarah Vaughan, Eric Dolphy, Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Miles Davis Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Band, Dexter Gordon, Ahmad Jamal and a host of other notables.

Mr. Davis is equally at home in the world of euro classical music, having played under the batons of George Szell, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Boulez, Gunther Schuller, and Leonard Bernstein. His great versatility as a bassist keeps him in constant demand for worldwide concert appearances. For nearly fifty years he has drawn enthusiastic audiences in Japan, Europe, Russia, South America, Puerto Rico, Cuba, The West Indies, Hong Kong , Israel and United States.


Ben Sidran

Although best known in some circles for writing Steve Miller’s hit song “Space Cowboy”, Ben Sidran is more widely recognized as the host of National Public Radio’s landmark jazz series “Jazz Alive”, which received a Peabody Award, and as the host of VH-1 television’s “New Visions” series, which received the Ace Award for best music series. A pianist, producer, singer and composer, he has recorded twenty five solo albums, including the Grammy
nominated “Concert for Garcia Lorca,” and has produced recordings for such noted artists as Van Morrison, Diana Ross, Mose Allison and Jon Hendricks. He composed the soundtrack for the acclaimed film “Hoop Dreams”, and scored the documentary “Vietnam: Long Time Coming”, which won both the Aspen Film Festival audience award and an Emmy. He is the author of two books on the subject of jazz, “Black Talk,” a cultural history of the music, and “Talking Jazz,” a series of conversations with well known musicians.


And then there’s that Heiden family ...the parents ...fornicatin' with “The Tempter”.


Eric Arthur Heiden

An American speed skater who won all the distances and thus an unprecedented five gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

Beth Heiden, Eric's sister, won a bronze medal at the 1980 games as well, giving the Heiden family exactly half of the medals won by the United States at those games.

During his short speed skating career, Heiden also won 3 World Championships and 4 World Sprint Championships. He 3 times broke the 1,000 metres world record, 1 time in the 1,500 metres, 3,000 metres and 10,000 metres, and he broke the points world record in both allround and the sprinting distances. Heiden finished his speed skating career by finishing second behind Hilbert van der Duim at the 1980 World Allround Championships in Heerenveen. Heiden stood at the top place of the Adelskalender for an impressive time period of 1495 days, and won the Oscar Mathisen-award four times in a row from 1977 until 1980. As of today he still is the only skater who has won the award four times.


Now to you sir, ... this whole anti-Christmas bullshit and all the other divisiveness you use in an attempt to divide family, friends and Citizens, Guess what Bill? Your listeners are beginning to see through you. Your ratings are tanking, your image is tarnished and your downfall through your own actions is a comin...

Strikes me you’re the one who seems to have stuck a deal with the devil.

Merry Christmas, Bill ...may God bless you... your going to need it where your going.

:evilgrin:

...Drink to me with thine only eye. ;)

:rant: He will have a whole lot of company where he is going. :evilrant:

He stole my pantaloons.

evenin. :hug:

I spect "Woodie's" behavin himself?

are making the neighborhood festive.

evening to you :hug:

The good Rev needs to see this thread.

Monday Night football and all.

I think she is just a wee bit addled by the game, she isn't even Catholic.

It looks mighty cold at that game. You all put up with some awfully cold weather. :freak:

She probably incorporates some sort of penance with Limburger no doubt.

She offers you sacramental wine and asks you to make an offering. :silly:

They will never catch up to us Catholics doing things that way. ;-)





pssst: You are now a member of the 700 club :freak:

Yes. Did you know we invented christian guilt... Tho the Lutheran's are workin on perfecting it.

Our leader was a Jew, and the Jews have their own special copyright on guilt.

;-)

...and then you die.

As told me by a Jewish friend.

I kid. I kid. One has to admire a culture as old as theirs.

and one should appreciate where they came from to know where they are going.

g'nite :hug:

Angel for BiloxiO8)

:hug:

We Wisconsonites are dealing with human sacrifice in Slab City, blasphemy in Beaver Dam, and witches in Waunakee! Save us from ourselves Bill:evilgrin:

:rofl:

Well I am... there are over 10,000 Wiccans in Wisconsin. They are proper folks...

I hear Bill does a Little naked dancing from time to time... in the wilderness.

I was just unaware that such a large portion of Wautoma's (i think that's where you said) population were also. Of course my step-mom is from Madison...don't tell O'reilly;)

The ones I hear tell of are west of Madison. I am sure they are everywhere... oh God, keep your children inside conservatives.

Bill Proxmire. Golden Fleece awards.

And I am not demoralized. I am pure green and gold.

We shall make an addendum.

How goes the Fox Valley? ...Oh shepard of "mill"ites.

It's a good 5 degrees warmer here. A balmy 12 degress, by golly. :P

:hi:

Welll there you go makes perfect to me now... your holiness...Which side?

Not the tourist trap that the peninsula has become. Nice, quiet, relatively friendly, and good people. Life here is very, very good.

(you need to stop listening to Beer commercials. :))

Home of Satan's creatures...House on the Rock

Oh yes and that little guy...Frank Lloyd Wright and that funny house he designed ... Taliesin, with a spooky Cantilevered balcony ...More of the devils work I'm sure.

I know the area of where you speak.

I grew up in Fort Atkinson. You know, home of The Fireside.

Where are you? Dodgeville? Spring Green?

For a while on the lower Wisconsin and then on top of the ridge... with a view you would not believe, Both, old farm houses.

I am now not more then hop skip and a jump from the "Fireside", home of chicken, green beans, blue hairs, busses and fluff.

Fort Atkinson is also the home of the farmers all time favorite publication "The Hoards Dairyman".

Is Peninsula Players still intact?

...although I have not been to see them yet, despite my 2-1/2 years of living here. I understand they're wonderful.

American Players Theatre. Theater oudoors is quite special.

It is late I have early chores in the morrow...

God night Rev. I have read many of your words this past year.

Peace to you and your flock.

And peace to you as well!

awesome

I had the good fortune of shaking his hand one day.

The Wisconsin Democrat, who served 31 years in the Senate — he was elected to complete the term of the late Republican Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy in 1957, then reelected five times — made a career of skewering examples of government waste with his monthly Golden Fleece awards.

But he also personified the progressive politics rooted in the upper Midwest since the era of Robert M. La Follette, a governor and then senator at the turn of the 20th century. Proxmire supported a wide array of government programs — most notably consumer-oriented banking issues, as chairman of the Senate Banking Committee — while seeking to trim what he saw as Pentagon waste at the expense of education programs.

"He was a unique, singular figure … who listened to his own drummer," said Mondale, the former vice president.

"The independent streak, the maverick streak — Wisconsin liked that," said Georgia Duerst-Lahti, a professor of political science at Beloit College in Beloit, Wis.


.....He was evil incarnate I tell you pure evil.:P

My condolences to his family.