{"id":339,"date":"2006-09-14T11:57:35","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T16:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2006\/09\/14\/this-weeks-carnival-of-the-badger\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T09:55:34","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:55:34","slug":"this-weeks-carnival-of-the-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/this-weeks-carnival-of-the-badger\/","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s Carnival of the Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I participated in the 2,996 Tribute, to honor the 2,996 victims of 9\/11 with one tribute per blogger.  Please read my tribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2006\/09\/11\/a-tribute-to-john-patrick-tierney-one-of-the-2996-victims-of-911\/\">John Patrick Tierney<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The focus for this week&#8217;s carnival seems to either politics or crime and punishment.  We start off with a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nickschweitzer.net\/2006\/09\/13\/DamnThatGeorgeBush.aspx\">George Bush cutting funding for community oriented policing programs<\/a> which really weren&#8217;t being run properly or getting any results anyway.<\/p>\n<p>We had some important primary elections this week, and in that spirit, we have a discussion of campaign reports and <a href=\"http:\/\/realdebatewisconsin.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/1st-cd-cash.html\">cash-on-hand for local politicians<\/a>.  In the continuing saga of Milwaukee crime, we had a <a href=\"http:\/\/badgerblogger.com\/?p=4328\">moonbat D.A. candidate (not anymore!) who accused police<\/a> of shooting a  13-year-old.  The only problem was that the actual shooter had already turned himself in.  In my line of work, we call that (turning himself in) <strong>a clue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, crime does not pay, and you&#8217;ve got to be held accountable. Local real estate developer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/2006\/09\/05\/convicted-felon-boris-gokhman-ordered-to-pay-90000\/\">Boris Gohkman must pay $90,000<\/a> in the civil suit regarding his Medicaid fraud. Oh, and let&#8217;s not forget about the Democrats who hired <a href=\"http:\/\/marquettehomelandsecurity.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/liberal-hypocrisy.html\">workers for a campaign on raising the minimum wage.<\/a> They paid the workers less than minimum wage.<\/p>\n<p>One blogger reminds us that if you receive a check in the mail and you don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s for, <a href=\"http:\/\/olbroad.blogspot.com\/2006_08_01_olbroad_archive.html#115703668594119322\">it might not be yours<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>And in one final post totally unrelated to politics, [tag]crime[\/tag], or [tag]money[\/tag], the Badger Tracker isn&#8217;t happy with the UW-Madison <a href=\"http:\/\/badgersportsfan.blogspot.com\/2006\/09\/why-you-shouldnt-be-happy-with-24.html\">24-point victory over Western Illinois<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I participated in the 2,996 Tribute, to honor the 2,996 victims of 9\/11 with one tribute per blogger. 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