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CNN asks if police protected one of their own in regards to Drew Peterson and his third wife? Apparently, they were called out to his place for domestic disturbances 18 times in the short span of two years!!! I’m no math genius, but I think that works out to about once every month and a half! And he was not arrested a single time. Anyone’s gut feeling telling them, ‘No, of course they didn’t protect him, that kind of thing doesn’t happen!’?? Not mine, I must admit.

In Appleton, a man has been arrested for lacing his lover’s drinks with RU-486, causing her to suffer two miscarriages. Can anyone say that their gut feeling, their raw, unedited by the brain, emotion, upon hearing this story, was NOT “This guy’s a murdering scumbag!” Murder, of course, being the extermination of a human life. Can anyone say that wasn’t their reaction? Not me, I have to admit.

Also here in Wisconsin, J.B. Van Hollen, our attorney general, elected with the help of 2.5 million dollars from the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce lobbying group, has refused to ask Annette Ziegler, a State Supreme Court justice newly elected to the office with the help of 2 million dollars from the same group, to step aside in a Supreme Court case WM&C has directly financed the appeals for and calls winning the case a ‘top priority’. A WM&C spokesman gives an example of a straw man fallacy by saying

“No one should recuse themselves because they ran a campaign for public office,”

Of course, the standard for recusal is more about whether an appearance of conflict of interest can be logically inferred, and has nothing to do with whether one ran for office or not. Anyone’s gut feeling telling them, “Of course there’s no conflict of interest, what would make anyone ever think something like that?”

Again, not mine, I’m afraid.