The Las Vegas Badger

The Las Vegas Badger is about politics, humor, sports, reality shows in Las Vegas, especially Pawn Stars and anything else interesting. While I live in Las Vegas, my heart is still in Wisconsin. Thanks for visiting the blog and feel free to browse the web site.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

New NY Represenative Breaks 4 Camgaign Promises In A Day

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Congressman-elect Bill Owens was sworn in at noon today. Owens indicated in a press release released shortly afterwards that he was now in f...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

Dina Titus and Shelly Berkley- Disgraced Mistresses of Nevada

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Shelly Berkley and Dina Titus (D-- Pelosi ) showed why they are a disgrace to Nevada. Both voted for the health care bill that passed the H...
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Congress Fiddles While The U.S. Burns

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The U. S House of Representatives are fiddling while America falls apart before our eyes. The House is debating the health care bill, which...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Unemployment Rate at 17.5%

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The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 -- and is likely to go higher. Nearly 16 million people can...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

More Welfare For Unemployed

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From The Las Vegas Sun: An estimated 10,000 Nevadans who have exhausted their unemployment benefits could be aided by a bill that gained fi...

Terrorist Attack At Ft. Hood?

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Apparently a Major, with a Muslim sounding name went on a rampage at Fort Hood, killing at least 12 soldiers and wounding around 30. Per ABC...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Your Vote Really Matters, At Least Here

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From the Budget, out of Sugar Creek OH: Some election results: - Baltic Village Council: VOTE FOR FOUR. CHRIS FINLEY - 2 BOB MILLER - 4 CHR...

Wal-Mart Has To Pay, But Is It Fair?

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Wal -Mart has to pay up to 85 million to attorneys/employees for workplace violations. U.S. "District Judge Philip M. Pro in Las Vegas...

Las Vegas Sun: CryBaby

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Starting on Monday, the Las Vegas Sun got smaller. The reason being is they blamed the The Las Vegas-Review Journal for the problem. The LVR...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Pretty Good Night For Conservatives

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The GOP took over the governorships in New Jersey and Virginia tonight. Virginia was not surprising but New Jersey was. I honestly though ...

Turkey Wars In Vegas

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Turkey wars in Vegas has erupted. No, not the race for U.S. senator or governor. The war is between Wal -Mart and Food For Less. Jennio tur...
Monday, November 2, 2009

Barney Goes To The White House- No, Not That Barney

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SEIU, home of the Barney Brigade because of their favorite color is purple, has a strong connection to the White House. Lead Barney, Andy S...

Operation Repo And Pawn Stars- Truth Or Fiction

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I was quite naive when it came to reality shows when I first started watching them. I thought they were real and that includes Operation Re...
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Why Liberals Cannot Be Trusted With Health Care Numbers

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From Blue Sage Views, a blog that is spokesperson for Dina Titus, or at least that is how it seems says this: " Happy Halloween! HCAN ...

What Is It With David Letterman And Sarah Palin?

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I've accidentally watch David Letterman the other day and he was telling a joke about Sarah Palin. I've also read in the LV Sun and...

Global Warming: Sometimes It's A Good Thing

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Today, the temperature today in Vegas is in the low 80's. It is a wonderful day- sunny skies, no humidity and no wind. Normal highs are...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Inside American Jail: Las Vegas Opinion

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I was watching the TV show, Inside American Jail when, of course, they showed the Clark County Detention Center. I have never had the experi...

Stupid Headline Of The Week

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From the Appleton Post Crescent: " Appleton educator draws praise in wake of death from cancer" Just curious: Why did they wait fo...

Da Packers Suck and Favre Rules

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Brett Favre showed why is he is the best QB in history again today, when the Packers played the Vikings today. 4 Touchdowns passes. The Pack...

More Socialized Medicine Horror Stories

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From Fox News: An elderly kidney patient was locked in the back of an ambulance for five hours after the driver forgot about him and clock...

Sue Lowden: Stupid Gaffe, But Way Overblown By Liberals

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Sue Lowden who is running for senate against Harry Reid and made a stupid comment on the Heidi Harris show last week. Apparently, in 1981, ...

Watching Roseanne Halloween Specials

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I have been watching the Roseanne's Halloween shows tonight. Can anybody argue they were not the best Halloween shows ever put on TV?
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ViQueens-Packers Part 2

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Well, The Pack and the Viqueens are playing today in a few hours. I plan on cheering for Brett Favre at my Packer bar. I am sure that will ...

Another Harry Reid Lie

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From the LVRJ: " U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office reported that its figures show 6,134 jobs were created in Nevada, ...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

What A Weekend For Vegas

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This weekend, the Professional Bull Riders ( PBR ) finals are in Las Vegas this weekend. http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=4994...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Federal Government (Harry And Obama) Kill More Jobs

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From the Las Vegas Sun: The Bureau of Land Management signed an order today that withdraws almost 945,000 acres of sensitive public lands fr...

What If A Major Incident Happened At A Courthouse And Not Reported- Did It Happen?

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Yesterday, about 2:10 in the afternoon, we were driving by the Family Courthouse by Pecos and Bonanza when at least 10 police cars or more c...

3 Cheers For Government Health Care At Work!!

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From the LVRJ : " Health officials are urging the public to exercise patience and courtesy after a fight broke out when someone tried t...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

People Are Still Moving To Vegas?

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Channel 8, KLAS , in Las Vegas has a story about the moving costs to and from Las Vegas and it talks about the different costs U-Haul char...

Happy Nevada Day

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Happy Nevada to the fine citizens of Nevada. I will take the day off from school and sleep in. Nevada Day celebrates when Nevada joined the...

Storm Chasers: My Experience

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I am watching Storm Chasers on the Discovery Channel and it reminds me of one scariest moments in my life, when I actually had a small (if t...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Top Chef Las Vegas

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Watched Top Chef: Las Vegas tonight and it was nice to see a Milwaukee chef make it on the show. Paul Bartolotta who has a big restaurant ...
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Why I Can't Ever Live In Wisconsin Again

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Today, when I woke up, it was about 47 degrees and a little windy. I was freezing my butt off. The high was about 63 and I was still cold....

Government and Obama Lies: Anybody Surprised?

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From jsonline : " The government has overstated by thousands the number of jobs that it has created or saved with federal contracts und...

How Sad

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From the Jsonline : " Ask him how he's doing these days and Willie Wood will tell you he feels pretty good. But the 1960s-era Green...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Is This Any Surprise?

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From the New York Post: New Yorkers are fleeing the state and city in alarming numbers -- and costing a fortune in lost tax dollars, a new s...

Go Visit A Very Good Haunted House

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Desert Pines High School in Las Vegas, where I teach, is putting on a haunted house this Saturday. The haunted house is being put on by th...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Stupid Suspension of The Year Followed By a Slapdown

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From ESPN: ESPN broadcaster Bob Griese has been suspended one week for a remark he made about NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya ....During ...

Wisconsin Democrat State Politics: Funny As Hell

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So, now it turns out that Barbara Lawton has taken herself out of the running for governor of Wisconsin, for "very personal reasons...
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Restaurant Service 101: What To Do To Piss Off A Customer

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Today, the family went out to celebrate Cathy's birthday. We decided to go to a Chinese restaurant and it really was the worst experienc...

Government Health Care For You

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Hundreds of people lined up in Milwaukee to get their Swine Flu immunization. http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/65781417.html Think som...

Happy Birthday To My Sweetheart

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A Very Happy Birthday to my wife, Cathy today. May we celebrate many, many more birthdays together!!
Sunday, October 25, 2009

Halloween Events In Las Vegas

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From The Las Vegas Review-Journal comes their on-line edition of what to do during Halloween in Vegas. http://www.reviewjournal.com/media/in...

Wal-Mart Health Insurance: The Real Facts

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As some of you know, I work part time at Wal -Mart and I qualify for health insurance, if I want it. well, it is open enrollment time and s...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Disgusting

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From Jsonline : " An attack on an African-American student from Wauwatosa West High School appears to be racially motivated, Brookfiel...

Dina Titus: Will She Ever Have a Real Job? But Joe Heck Has A Real Job

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Dina Titus (D- Suckup to Nancy Pelosi ) has really never had a real job in her adult life. But yet she thinks she knows what the working p...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Nevada: We're Number 2!!

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According the Las Vegas Sun: " For the second consecutive month, Nevada placed second in the nation for its unemployment rate, trailin...

Nevada supreme Court Gets It Wrong

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From the LVRJ: " The Nevada Supreme Court has thrown out the death penalty conviction of a Las Vegas man who killed a cabdriver in 1990...

Great: Another Traffic Light We Don't Need

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The City of Las Vegas, in their infinite wisdom, decided to put a stop light at the intersection of Harris and Pecos. This light is 1 bloc...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

This Is Just Not A Good Idea

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A Carl's Jr. a fast food restaurant, similar to Hardees , was denied permission to build a restaurant next a pet cemetery . "A con...
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Dan
Grew up in Wauwatosa but graduated from Oconomowoc H.S.. graduated from U.W. Madison, after serving in the Air Force. Taught in MPS and Westfield School District. Coached Special Olympics for several years. Moved to Las Vegas 6 1/2 years ago and teach in the CCSD as a special education teacher. This blog does not accept advertisements nor do we accept other people's writings, unless it is solicited. While I write about Pawn Stars, I do not work there and have nothing to do with the shop or store. Thanks for stopping by and if you have any questions, please e-mail.
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