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Great Day at the Lake

March 9th, 2010


The Great Day at the Lake
Posted 3/4/2010 9:35 AM CST

I’m thinking Sheboygan should have a wild card day this summer. Fourth of July rules like bonfires and pits on the beach, yet on a completely random day chosen by the Mayor.

The Mayor simply sends a twitter message declaring It’s a Great Day at the lake, the world retweets and texts the message, a link to a youtube video detailing the event is included, and the masses are mobilized for a flashmob super day of all that is Sheboygan County. No worries about weather, no advance tickets, just a great day at the lake.

Johnsonville could fire up the big grill, Old Wisconsin and Miesfelds could go old school, and Sparky could move his cart into position if he wants. Ty Gutschow and the boys from Larry’s could setup the beer pumps, Sargento could pimp cheese, you get the idea. Musicians would be encouraged to come out and play, drum circles could be formed, and coffee could flow.

Cost would be minimal because it’s a great day, no tents needed, no advertising, it’s a great day. Sheboygan’s miles of lakeshore would be showcased for the world to see. We could crowdsource a website documenting the day and the public could go live on our cable access. The whole thing can be cost neutral and potentially go to retiring municipal debt, the bottom line is nobody profits directly but the citizens. Companies that participate would find numerous benefits and would be allowed to recoup costs if they would like, or good will and notoriety.

Thousands of people could drive golf balls into the big lake, local businesses could sponsor cheesy contests and we could all have a great day. Crime would drop because nobody wants to be in lockup and miss the great day. Local products could be showcased as sculptures for the day and I, for one would have a great day.

This is a win, win, win, win situation, nobody has to participate, yet, this could be a modern day Woodstock on the water.

gowisconsin wrote:

I like!!! (except for the golf balls in the lake idea. Do you not watch Seinfeld? Oh yeah, no whales in Lake Michigan)
3/4/2010 10:55 AM CST
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US Sailing Center-Sheboygan to Host ISAF Nations Cup Finals

March 5th, 2010
ISAF Sheboygan

Click the Pic for ISAF Sheboygn 2011 Site

The ISAF Nations Cup is a global competition to find the world’s top match racing nation and to develop match racing infrastructure around the world.

Sheboygan’s a small town on a great lake.

Busan, Korea; Chicago, USA; Gdynia, Poland; and Sheboygan, USA all submitted bids to host the 2011 ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final.

Sheboygan’s a small town on a great lake with a world class sailing event to get ready for!

The US SAILING Center Sheboygan will host the Grand Final of the sixth edition of the ISAF Nations Cup from 13-18 September 2011. Competition will be held on Lake Michigan in the Sonar (with a crew of three) for the men’s event and the Elliott 6m (with a crew of three) for the women’s event. The ISAF Nations Cup Grand Final is the culmination of an 18-month competition staged over a series of Regional Finals held across the globe to find the world’s top match racing nation in both men’s and women’s events.

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Mass Layoffs Up – Jobs Down

February 23rd, 2010

In the 26 months to January, a total 53,739 mass layoff events were effected and involved 5,425,101 workers, the Labor Department said.

Reuters will tell you more.

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Sheboygan Common Council Candidate Forum

February 10th, 2010

The Sheboygan County Taxpayers Alliance; “Meet the Candidates” forum. Tuesday, Feb. 9, in the Rocca Room of Mead Public Library. The forum includes those seeking the position of alderman on the Sheboygan Common Council. The primary election is Feb. 16; the general election is April 6.

Candidate Forum Opening

Allen Brunke Opening Statement ……………… Allen Brunke Closing Statement

Mark Hanna OpeningStatement .………………Mark Hanna Closing Statement

Vang Neng Vue Opening Statement ….……Vang Neng Vue Closing Statement

Scott Versey Opening Statement …………………Scott Versey Closing Statement

Joel Hammen Opening Statement………… …Joel Hammen Closing Statement

Ed Surek Opening Statement …………………………Ed Surek Closing Statement

Collin Kachel Opening Statement ………….…Collin Kachel Closing Statement

Dennis Radtke Opening Statement…….……Dennis Radtke Closing Statement

Sheboygan County Primary Ballot

Vicky Meyer was not present

Vang Neng Vue on City Administrator……Vang Neng Vue on Downtown

Dennis Radtke on City Administrator……Dennis Radtke on Downtown

Allen Brunke on City Administrator……Allen Brunke on Downtown

Ed Surek on Residency … Ed Surek on County Tax …Ed Surek on Expansion …Ed Surek on City Administrator/Mayor’s Reorganization…Ed Surek on Section 8 Housing & Police/Fire Cuts

Collin Kachel on City Administrator/Mayor’s Reorganization…Collin Kachel on Residency …Collin Kachel on County Tax …Collin Kachel on Section 8 Housing & Police/Fire Cuts…Collin Kachel on Expansion

Scott Versey on Residency …Scott Versey on City administrator/Mayor’s Reorganization…Scott Versey on Expansion…Scott Versey on Section 8 Housing & Police/Fire Cuts…Scott Versey on County Tax

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When I Think Comedy I Think Hitler

January 21st, 2010

The wheels are falling off of the Obama band wagon. The economy is getting worse, debt is out of control, and the world is sounding the death drums for Uncle Sam.

Even Adolf Hitler has lost hope in the “Magic Negro“, and well folks, comedy ensues. This Youtube video is spreading faster than Pants On the Ground and for good reason, it’s funny!

This is an instant classic in the lore of political advertising and will be talked about by strategists long after we are gone from Biosphere 1. This video shines a light on the failures of the Obama administration in a way simple reporting will never accomplish. The comedy element transcends party lines, color lines, heck, every demographic boundary imaginable. The video not only calls out failures, it manages to associate all current and future plans of the administration with failure. More importantly, the most hated man in history is not only associated with the Obama camp, but looking down at all that is Obama.

No amount of media control or advertising dollars can undo the damage this video has and will do to the Democrat party. Hats off to the people behind this video, job well done, nothing against Barack, it’s just the politics of dancing.

One more thing, even though the deal between Rush Limbaugh and the Devil is exposed at the end of the vid, It’s my guess the smiling king of radio hit the play button a few times. Rush may be associated with the devil, but he comes off better than Obama.

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Kristen & Toro Trophies Introduce Sheboygan to Governor Wannabee Barrett

January 20th, 2010
Kristen and Mayor Barrett at Toros

Kristen and Mayor Barrett at Toros

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett makes Toro Trophies his first stop in Sheboygan as he begins his bid for the office of Governor of Wisconsin.

Kristen Buschmann who runs the place with her brother Robbie said a bunch of stuff ,and most certainly didn’t say fuck, even though I told her I couldn’t believe she did.

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Ted Turner’s Droid Army

October 22nd, 2009

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Droid, I said Droid!

640×480 Video at 24fps, 5MP IS camera, microSD cards, dual noise canceling mics,  USB 2.0, and EVDO Rev.A (think different 3G).

Ted Turner should forget about running TNT and get me a gross of these suckers. Live Video everywhere, good enough video, the kind the rich kids watch on their iPhones.

If  the image stabilization works on video, if the network can handle this stuff, and if this thing is as good as a flip or better, this will be a paradigm shift that shouldn’t be ignored. Interchangeable batteries, my TV just told me this things got an interchangeable battery,  better.

I spent a good chunk of summer working with HD camcorders with specs like these and they are good enough. Good enough to gorilla tape on the side of the car while I drive, good enough to tape on anything and cover anything. Perfect, no, good enough, while the specs say DVD, the video says good enough.

Pipe me to the moon with an unlimited data plan that works as good as it would in a commercial and I will take those droids Ted Turner’s going to give me and change live at five, to live, always live or more importantly live when it matters. No satellite truck, just me, my army of droids, and good old gorilla tape.

Live is cool, yet on demand is better yet, this baby probably spits some form of h.264 yum onto the cloud where youtube or Qik could store the stuff in a no shit kind of way. No ingesting, copying, encoding, just on the cloud, the same cloud that is everywhere. Hours become seconds, the dark side of video storage and processing is gone baby gone and I can has beer while editing video, better yet, some intern can edit the video, heck everyone can edit the video, because the cost of production has just left the building.

If the pipes are willing, and the specs translate to real world goodness, droids will rule the world.

“Designers faced a fundamental paradox—make the droids overly intelligent, and they might rebel; yet make the droids not intelligent enough and they would be ineffectual”

Wookiepedia

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Sheboygan to Consider Decriminalizing Marijuana

October 19th, 2009


The City of Sheboygan, Wisconsin  has the following item on their agenda for tonights common council meeting;

ORDINANCES INTRODUCED X
Lies Over:
14 – 47 – By Ald. Bohren, Surek, Kath, VanderWeele & Vue creating section of the Municipal Code so as to make possession of 25 grams or less of marijuana and possession, manufacture, or delivery of drug paraphernalia a city ordinance violation.

This is .8815 ounces of weed my fellow americans.

Typically, decriminalization means no prison time or criminal record for first-time possession of a small amount for personal consumption. The conduct is treated like a minor traffic violation.

Weed will not be legal in Sheboygan, this is a get the stoners out of our courts and prisons kind of thing and in no way legalizes dope. A couple of joints will still smack you upside the wallet and ganj in the car will be worse by far. Think of this as a kinder, gentler way of being busted for cannabis

This could save gazillions of dollars, close down most of our prisons, and bring world peace. This is inteneded to free our police, legal system, and prisons to focus on other areas and as a result save some money.

While this is new to Sheboygan, it is business as usual for many cities in Wisconsin and will bring Sheboygan into the forefront of stoner tourism line with the rest of the world.

Milwaukee’s 1992 move to decriminalization allows prosecutors to charge 25 grams or less of marijuana as a municipal ordinance violation rather than a crime. Fines range from $250 to $500 or imprisonment of up to 20 days. Offenders also have the option of performing community service or receiving substance abuse education.

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Nasa Delay Raises Questions About Moon Bomb

October 9th, 2009

Le Voyage Dans La Lune –  Georges Méliès - 1902

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Le Voyage Dans La Lune –  Georges Méliès - 1902 - watch in english french

NASA shoots the moon in a search for water and time stands still, as information is stuck in some unexplained bottleneck.

We live in real time,  communicate in real time, and watch stuff in real time, yet NASA spends billions on a big project and real time is transformed into “the lighting was bad and work needs to be done on images to make them easier to see”.  All of the data is already collected,  images and video have been captured and more than enough time has passed for a child with a laptop to process the imagery and data from NASA’s moon bomb. NASA’s “rocket scientists” said we would know in less than an hour. The sand has settled, time moves on, yet nothing has been shared.

This leads me to believe that no trace of water was found and NASA is trying to find an interesting spin on the data. At the same time, massive amounts of image enhancement are taking place, or NASA simply has no imagery  from the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite. The LCROSS had five cameras and four other pieces of equipment to look for ice or any form of water and somehow we have images so bad that we can’t even see them.

The next time NASA shoots the moon they should strap an iPhone onto the sucker and stream the video, yes, there’s an app for that.

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Tased Sheboygan Man in Coma?

September 5th, 2009
no tasing bros

no tasing bros

WITI-TV6 out of Milwaukee Wisconsin aired this segment yesterday, the only other mentions I can find on the internet are the following tweet;  fox6local Sheboygan man in coma after being tased twice by police – http://bit.ly/PHLjo and retweet; DeliverImHungry RT @fox6local: Sheboygan man in coma after being tased twice by police – http://bit.ly/PHLjo, and of course the bit.ly short link to WITI.

This has not been covered by any other media, I am wondering how this failed to make the local news sites?

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Revolution 9 – iPod + mobileme = The Medium is the Message

August 27th, 2009

The Medium is the Message

IPods suck, music, pictures, video, everything about an iPod sucks! That will change on September, 9, 2009, when Apple injects millions of BB sized cameras into the iPod line. A beefed up mobileme, WiFi, and the power of the cloud Apple will do nothing less than redefine modern communications. the rest of Revolution 9 – iPod + mobileme = The Medium is the Message

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SheVegas Welcomes Tom Schwanke

June 18th, 2009

tom schwanke ts@verizon.net 71.186.105.141 Submitted on 2009/01/26 at 3:25 PM

what exactly is the purpose of all your internet bling? is it news, if so, the sheboygan press need not worry too much. hope you find a claim to fame other than the fact that you look like sammy hager.

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