Prime-time

Perhaps the retirement of Brett won’t have an impact on the Packers getting national games this year following the great season last year.  The first game of the Rodger’s era is in prime-time.
The post-Brett Favre era will begin against the division rival that gave Favre the most problems.
Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers will [...]

Is it political?

In a letter to the editor of the WSJ, LCMS President Kieschnick responds to this article in the WSJ last week regarding the cancellation of “Issues, Etc.”  Here’s an excerpt from the article:
So what happened? Initially, the bureaucrats in St. Louis kept a strict silence, claiming that the show had been canceled for “business and programmatic” [...]

Wilken message

Pastor Weedon has posted  this message from Pastor Todd Wilken.
Thank you Pastor Wilken for such wonderful words of wisdom during what must be a very difficult time.

The weak explanation

So late this past week came this letter from David Strand attempting to explain the cancellation of “Issues, Etc.”
Here’s part of it  -
In fiscal year 2007-08, KFUO-AM’s operating deficit was $620,698.  Since 2001, the accumulated deficits at the station have been in excess of $3.5 million. The LCMS budget, entrusted to our care by members of our [...]

Spicy Curry

Read that on a sign CBS showed during the Davidson-Wisconsin game last night.  Now I haven’t watched a great deal of college basketball this season.  So I didn’t do a bracket for this year’s tournament.  Had I done one I surely wouldn’t have had Davidson making it to the Elite Eight.  I didn’t get the [...]

Publicity for Issues Etc.

(H/T - Bring Back Issues Etc. )
It appears that news of the cancellation of “Issues Etc.” has gone national -

My church denomination, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, owns a radio station in St. Louis where the church is headquartered. Far and away the most popular thing on that radio station, KFUO, was a program they [...]

No explanation

I hadn’t posted on this topic as of yet due to lack of knowledge.  Not about the situation, it’s all over the Lutheran Confessional blogsphere, but about the radio program “Issues Etc.”  I wasn’t a regular listener of either the local program or the national syndicated program.  However from what I’ve read the last week [...]

Complete the Fence Now

A message from Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) - 

Here’s the website - http://www.completethefencenow.com
This about more than illegal immigration:

TERRORISM:
The Office of National Drug Control Policy released an unclassified counternarcotics strategy for the southwest border in 2007, stating: “Since the events of September 11, 2001, the Southwest Border has assumed even greater significance. The threat of terrorism looms [...]

Slow to report

Apparently the FDL Reporter isn’t up on getting news to folks fast.  It took until YESTERDAY for there to be any mention of Tim Lakin planning to run for the 18th Senate District.  That’s 5 DAYS LATER than the Oshkosh Northwestern and the local radio stations.  One would think if you were going to report [...]

Cool movie connection

The above photo is from the FDL Reporter.  It seems Johnny Depp’s movie “Public Enemies” will have a Fond du Lac connection.
In a jaunty cap, J.R. Julka looked the part.
The Fond du Lac man and his 1931 Ford Model A coupe were employed as extras last week during Universal Studios production of the film “Public [...]