Blogs Speak: Ziegler and Shoebat

My what an opinionated bunch we are (I guess that's why we blog):

Paul Soglin has a take on the UW-M/Walid Shoebat affair that's interesting and very reasoned. I do agree that they have every right to bring Shoebat in to speak, but I also still think Shoebat is an extremist who pays a lot of lip-service to being pro-Israel but is then prone to making statements like these:

Your third offense is your sheer stupidity, a thing the Jewish people cannot afford for their survival. It was sheer stupidity that cost so many Jewish lives. Many Jews tend to trust the wrong people, but when the right people come along they doubt. Jews trusted in Oslo and were sold, Jews trusted in Germany and were killed, Jews trusted their Arab employees and where slaughtered....

When will Jews ever trust the right people? Better then this question is this - why should rightous gentiles stand with the Jewish people, risk everything to get stung by so many Jews who doubt them?

Again, I'm trying to find his love and respect for the Jewish people, but it's hard to sort it out through the thick clouds of condescension.

Rick Esenberg weighs in on the Judge Ziegler conflict of interest debate and, despite his many typos (seriously, these things do have a spell check function), makes some valid points.

Now, while everyone else is wailing and gnashing their teeth over not being able to watch the Packers-Cowboys game tonight (well, everyone except those who live in the designated "home viewing areas" of Green Bay and Milwaukee and those with satellite), I'll be desperately trying to get my novel up to the 50k mark before midnight Friday, which will include a marathon writing session tonight. Wish me luck!

Ziegler's many conflicts of interest

She's at it again!

Ziegler to hear case funded by election supporter.

I'm not sure why the attorney general hasn't asked her to recuse herself yet. Doesn't $2 million in donations from the company that's partially funding the defendent in this case count as a big, fat, super obvious conflict of interest? If not, what does count as a conflict of interest in this state?

I was ticked off that voters put Ziegler into her current position in the first place, what with all of the major conflict of interest issues that came up during the election. Heck, even she admitted to a violation of the state's judicial code, and all she gets is a slap on the wrist in the form of a reprimand. Have we given up entirely on holding public officials accountable? Because that's the message I'm receiving, and I don't like it one bit.