Nature sighting

I took Tennessee Petunia for her walk this morning. It was very warm and very cloudy, but not everywhere. The sunrise was brilliant to the east, and five minutes later Tennie was under a bush and I was under a tree to escape the deluge. The thunder clap and the lightning up ahead convinced me the tree idea was not such a good one.

We set off for home in the pouring rain. I was crossing Mitchell Blvd. heading east, when a deer bounded across the street on my left. She stopped in our tiny park.

Where did she come from? It would make sense if she lived on the VA grounds, but did she cross the pedestrian bridge over the freeway? Did she come up the Menomonee River, crossing Wisconsin Avenue and Bluemound Rd. on the way? Did she wander across the Miller Park parking lot?

Hmmm….

Mitch Blvd Deer

The deer in Mitchell Blvd. Park

JS sinks deeper

The JS let stand the most (anonymous, of course) racist and offensive comments on its Bradford Beach story stand for hours and hours and hours without taking them down (they are STILL there as of this writing).

Just who is the paper’s target audience these days?

It’s just sickening. It’s just time stop allowing anonymous comments.

Busalacchi apologizes for grave disturbances; wants to disturb more

State Secretary of Transportation Frank Busalacchi apologized this week to the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for a Wisconsin Department of Transportation highway project 50 years ago that disturbed tribal graves, according to the JS.

Busalacchi also said the transportation department has been working with tribal historic preservation officials for nearly five years to establish a policy that protects cultural heritage. He hopes to institute the transportation policy by the end of the year.

Here’s hoping that policy applies to veterans’ graves as well. Busalacchi has embraced plans to expand east-west I-94 in Milwaukee by adding freeway lanes either through or directly above the graves in historic Wood National Cemetery.

Guess it’s OK for the government to (quite literally) run over you if you have served honorably in the military.