Rainforest Dispatches for June 1, 2007

What kind of weather is this for June first? Cool, clammy and dark is no way to go through summer, son.

• My first car was ’62 Ford Fairlane with manual choke and a hole rusted through the floorboard. Plus, I didn’t get it until I was to leave for college. The West High student involved in the accident the other day was driving a Saab.
• Oh, and there was stuff in their car that was never in mine.
• Bill Kramer is a smart and fearless politician. I take back anything bad I ever said about him.
• Diamond Jim Doyle wants to raise your gas taxes at a time when gas is almost $3.50 per gallon because he needs to reward the road building industry for their bribes support. If Republicans don’t stop this, and they can because they still control the state assembly, there is no viable Republican party in Wisconsin.
• The nanny state will ban smoking state-wide. All the revenue from cigarette taxes will have to replaced. Guess where Diamond Jim will go to get it.
• Congressman Sensenbrenner still thinks the immigration proposal on the table smells like amnesty. Smells like surrender to me.
• Bethesda School staff support their principal.
• I’m sorry but the more I look at the Clarke Hotelle operation, the more I see something that simply cannot succeed because it is way too much of an overreach.
• Valet parking has to have a very high overhead for wages, parking fees and liability insurance, doesn’t it? It depends on a high volume of customers which I simply cannot foresee and it takes away spaces from everybody else downtown. At least the building will get rehabbed before it’s converted to condos.
• But, as I’ve said before, I’m not a businessman. I hope it’s a fabulous success. I just don’t see it.
• “Let’s change the length of time you can park.” Do you know how many times I’ve seen that in the past 50 years?
• Is Alan Huelsman related to Bill and Joanne?
• Update: I’m told via e-mail that Alan is their son.