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For those stories that deny global warming or that mass transit is too expensive or anything written by Patrick McIlheran:


And for any article about Scott walker:



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Neumann Wins Second Debate By Default

Saturday afternoon, the TEA Party group, Wisconsin Grandsons of Liberty*, sponsored a debate between Republican gubernatorial candidates Mark Neumann and Scott Walker.

Unfortunately, there was no broadcast of the debate on TV or the radio, so unless you were actually there, there is no direct way of telling who really one.

But I did notice a few things that would indicate that Neumann won this debate as well.

One thing is that he and his campaign were much better prepared. During the debate, one of his staffers was tweeting Neumann's statements and positions for the whole world to see.

Team Walker, on the other hand, didn't even acknowledge that there was a debate scheduled, much less what happened. Jill Bader, Walker's communications director, at least acknowledged it in the form of a retweet, but the rest of it was regarding State Fair. Michael Brickman, Walker's blogger (on the official official blog) has nothing about the debate either. My good buddy, Ashley Moore (aka ashleestarin), Walker's logistics person, has nothing either.

It's like all of Team Walker was avoiding the subject altogether.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sent a reporter to the debate. It was noted that Walker resisted talking about his own record as a career politician, and his dismal record as county executive by attacking Tom Barrett, the presumed Democratic nominee.

Since Walker's campaign was avoiding all mention of the debate, and Walker continues to evade dealing with his failures as county executive, it is likely that he failed in this debate as well.

What was most alarming was Walker's attitude towards education (emphasis mine):

In an interview with reporters after the debate, Neumann declined to criticize Walker's educational background. Walker attended Marquette University but did not graduate.

Walker said he didn't graduate because he got a job and he suggested that in the current economy college students close to graduating might consider doing the same.

What an irresponsible statement to make! Besides the fact that college graduates earn more money, in this troubled economy (which Walker wants to bring further into ruin with his Bush-style economics), it is important for people to have every advantage they can. And a college education is an undeniable advantage.

Perhaps if Walker finished his degree, he would have realized the importance of balanced budgets and of proper and timely maintenance.

Channel 12, WISN-TV, also covered the debate after the fact. In their news video, they unwittingly air a very ironic statement from Walker regarding health care. Walker stated that he did not feel that the federal or state government has a right to tell people what to do with their health care. That is an odd thing for Walker to say, considering that for the first seven of his eight years as county executive, he did the very thing which he claims now to oppose while running the GAMP program.

I must say though that I have a deeper appreciation of the frustration Neumann supporters are feeling. If Neumann wants to win he primary, he will need to continue to press his advantages over Walker, including Walker's hypocrisy and failures as county executive. It can be done without making it appear as an attack, even though Walker's people are so adept at playing the martyr that it is irrelevant of whether Neumann does attack or not.

*NOTE: The name of the sponsoring group has been changed for accuracy.

Now Where Will I Get My DC Comics Updates?

The screaming has been muffled:


I blame Illy-T.

Obviously, it's to focus on crack research, like "What state are we in again?"

Drinking Liberally: A Tolchocking Good Time

Is it really that time already?

According to our ever gracious host, it is:

My dear and only friend,

I was talking with me droog the post-corrective advisor after our last round at the milkbar, and he says something I thought was real horrorshow: "Want to have Dave Westlake come here again?" After a sip of the old knifey moloko, I says, "Yeah, and, Tom Nelson will be showing up for a liberal tolchocking, too!"

Let me translate that if it's been a while since you've read "A Clockwork Orange." Tom Nelson and Dave Westlake, who are respectively Democratic and Republican candidates for lieutenant governor and U.S. Senate, will be at the next Drinking Liberally.

It's the second time we'll have Westlake pay a visit, and the first time we'll have met Nelson. Last time we had Westlake, he and Congressional candidate Todd Kolosso had an impromptu debate. What will what happens this time? Come find out!

Speaking as Your Cordial Host, in no way do I endorses or espouses "tolchocking" a candidate for office, as Alex may have done in that infamous novel. But Drinking Liberally gives you the chance to give them a good verbal workout. Come armed with questions! I hope you'll leave satisfied either with the answers you receive or with the beer you get at Sugar Maple. Speaking of...

Where: Sugar Maple, 441 E. Lincoln Ave., Milwaukee, WI 53207

When: Wednesday 18 August, 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Who: You, and fifteen of your new best friends.

Till the 18th!

Jason Haas
Your Cordial Host and Humble Narrator

I just might have to go this time around. I would like to do some tolchocking with Mr. Westlake.

Extremist Singers

Planned Parenthood made a video warning of the dangers if Mark Neumann or Scott Walker were to be elected governor:



It is kind of scary how they so accurately portray the right's fascist ways and the way they want to control everyone.

What is even scarier is the way they had Walker dancing. They must have heard the same rumors I have...

An Executive With A Power Point

RoJo's come out with another commercial, which is exceptional in that it is exceptionally blase.

I won't go into any great depth on it, since the ad itself has no depth to it either.

But I will let the Chief describe the commercial in a way no one else could duplicate:

Hey, look: it's an account giving a PowerPoint presentation! Feel the excitement!

All that's missing is a TI-85 graphing calculator.

Three Weeks Later, Barrett Still Leads, Walker Still Leaves

It's been three weeks since the Great Brew Town Flood 2010 and we are still dealing with the effects of it. People are still cleaning out the ruined things from the heavy flood waters and/or trying to find a new place to call home.

FEMA came, but they have only guaranteed money for the governments, but nothing for the individuals. This is, quite understandably, causing a lot of anger and frustration for those that were the most affected by the floods.

Tom Barrett is still working hard for the citizens and is still pushing the feds to cough up some money for the individuals most affected:

The mayor outlined concerns in the letter at a news conference in the 4900 block of N. 64th St., in a neighborhood among the hardest hit by flood damage in Milwaukee.

Though the disaster declaration issued earlier this week for Milwaukee and Grant counties by President Barack Obama's administration makes local governments eligible for federal relief, it provides no assistance to residents who suffered lost homes or property damage.

In Milwaukee, where Barrett said 95% of homes have basements, basement flooding can cause damage to furnaces, electrical systems, washers, dryers and, in many cases, living quarters that can leave a home uninhabitable.

"The situation for most of Milwaukee's properties is actually much more serious than the (affected) designation indicates," Barrett said in the letter.

Meanwhile, the Department of Public Works announced Friday that Milwaukee sanitation crews will collect flood-damaged debris indefinitely.

The move was announced after Ald. Ashanti Hamilton released a statement complaining about an earlier plan to end free debris pickup Friday. He argued that the city wasn't doing enough to help flood victims or to prevent flooding and sewage backups that damaged hundreds of area homes.

"We must recognize - we are still in emergency mode," Hamilton's statement said. "The recovery process must be treated with the same sense of urgency and importance as the floods themselves were."

Since the storms, the city has received more than 9,600 calls for flood debris collection, and crews have collected 6,031 tons of flood-damaged trash. Almost 1,000 additional calls have been received this week.

The city's Self-Help Centers, 3879 W. Lincoln Ave. and 6660 N. Industrial Road, also will accept flood debris from residents, DPW officials said.

Barrett's letter said 390 tons of flood debris has been taken to the centers.

Meanwhile, Scott Walker, who showed his true colors by leaving his county high and dry when it was down and drowning, just so he could go campaigning, still hasn't learned from all the negative backlash he got from his self-centeredness and is still avoiding all of his responsibilities so he can go out and sell his snake oil to captive evidence.

If Walker can survive the primary, as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel desperately hopes, it would truly become a race between a man with proven leadership skills in Barrett and a weasel in an otherwise empty suit in Walker.

You Can't Get Something From Nothing

On Thursday, Scott Walker, instead of balancing the budget, or finding enough money to preserve the transit system or even keep buildings from falling down, or helping with the damage from the Brew Town Flood 2010, went campaigning in Stevens Point.

(Psst, hey Scott, Stevens Point is a progressive city and are way ahead of you on transit. Instead of telling them they should follow you, you should be following their lead.)

The Steven Point Journal covered Walker's forced suffering on his captive audience (emphasis mine):

Holding one of his trademark "brown bag" events in Worzalla Publishing Co.'s factory, Walker spent much of his presentation talking about his work to cut taxes and efforts to spur economic development in Milwaukee County. The campaign's paper lunch bags, emblazoned with ideas, "Don't spend more than you have," and, "I have to brown bag it so I can pay Wisconsin's taxes," lay on the folding chairs set up for company employees.

Walker didn't offer many specifics about how he would create jobs, but he said his plan to cut taxes, reduce government regulations to a handful of rules that are "science-based and predictable" and put an end to "frivolous and out-of-control lawsuits" would encourage growth.

For someone who made the claim of getting every single person in the state a job, you would think that he'd have an idea of how he would go about doing it by now.

But this is just another example of the adage "you can't get something from nothing," and there is nothing emptier than one of Walker's promises.

What Really Is In That Brown Bag?

OK, so we have all now been overexposed to Scott Walker's brown bag spiel. So much so that no one is really buying it anymore, but he is still going with it. He probably can't give it up, seeing how much money he blew on the rehashed campaign gimmick.

Of course, the lefties, myself included, had all sorts of fun with it, including the to-be-expected scatological references. One Wisconsin Now even based a short video on it.

However, over the last few days and weeks, I've been thinking about how Walker has been running his campaign, and I've picked up on four basic things that he has been using along with his brown bag gimmick. Those four things is smear, hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty and talk radio.

Smear

Since day one, Walker has been running a negative campaign. First, he was smearing Governor Jim Doyle, even before he officially announced this leg of his perpetual campaign. When Doyle decided not to run again, he took it out on the unions. When Mark Neumann announced his candidacy, Walker turned the smear machine on him. Now he is going after Tom Barrett with whatever he can fling, even if it is no where near accurate.

It has gotten so bad that his cohorts at CRG tried, and of course failed, to put the hit on me personally.

The reason Walker is running such a fierce smear campaign is simple. There is no way he could run on his track record as county executive. Not with the problems at the mental health complex, buildings falling down hurting and even killing people, and hundreds of millions of dollars in deferred maintenance and debt.

Hypocrisy

One of Walker's most famous, or infamous, trademarks is his hypocrisy. A fine example would be when he claimed that he would save so much money as governor just by eliminating vacant positions. What he failed to mention, as did the media, is that Walker is currently using that very budgeting trick of leaving funded spots vacant to balance his budget.

Another example would be his promise to cut waste and fraud, citing specifically the child care system, even though he was the one in charge of the system with the highest amount of fraud occurring in the entire state.

It simply baffles the mind on how his most rabid supporters can blindly overlook such flagrant hypocrisy and even defend it.

Intellectual Dishonesty

This is something else that Walker is fairly prolific in. It can range from making bogus claims of creating jobs without a plan to saying privatization is saving money when in truth it is actually costing tax payers more. Probably the most glaring example is when Walker tells straight up lies about his track record, such as keeping down taxes (he didn't) or keeping down spending (he didn't do that either).

Talk Radio

When the above three things fail, Walker will roll them up into a ball and fire them off through the mouths of talk radio show hosts. This way, he can have the likes of Charlie Sykes, Mark Belling, or Vicki Mckenna. Now, the vast majority of Wisconsinites don't waste their time listening to the blather coming out of these squawkers. The relative few that do, a high percentage of them are people that are listening to the squawk shows don't adhere to it, but listen to either catch them up in their lies or just for the entertainment value (I don't know how people find them entertaining, but some obviously do), and aren't buying into their daily spewage.

But where Walker gets the real value out of talk radio is all the free air time. Because of the machinations of the GOP, they have been able to manage to gain an amazingly high level of influence with most of the talk shows, both nationally and then locally. Thus, people like Charlie Sykes will be more than glad to give Walker all the free air time that they can, as well as lots of exposure on their sites, which are sponsored and owned by their employers. If Walker actually had to pay for that kind of air time and free publicity, his campaign would be broke in less than a week.

In summary, Walker has been running a most negative and dishonest campaign. All of this is to cover up the fact that he has been an overall failure as county executive. He was originally elected to clean up the pension scandal. Not only did Walker fail to do this, he actually made things worse for the citizens and tax payers of Milwaukee County.

But there is one thing Walker does do well. He sure can put a lot of S.H.I.T. in that little brown paper bag of his.

Scott Walker Can Get The Job Done

The WISDems came up with this clever commercial using one of Walker's own:



But once again showing that they need to hire me as a consultant, they missed one that would have fit in very well with that theme:

Walker issues hefty raises to top Milwaukee County aides

I think that actually covers all three points in one.

Scott Walker's Other Republican Opponent

Most people around the state are well aware of two of the Republican gubernatorial candidates. There is, of course, Scott Walker, the floundering and failing Milwaukee County Executive. His primary opponent that is receiving a lot of attention is Mark Neumann.

However, there appears to be another opponent that Walker will have to overcome. This other opponent is almost a peculiar mirror image of Walker, at lease in appearance. But when you listen to him, he sounds like the anti-Walker, much like the Bizarro Superman from DC Comics was a weird, distorted version of the real Superman. In the Bizarro universe, everything was backwards. In other words, up was down and good was bad.

Unfortunately, it appears that because of their similar appearance, the media and the public in general is having a very difficult time telling the real Scott Walker and the Bizarro Walker apart.

Fortunately for you, gentle reader, you have me to guide you to the difference between them with showing you some examples:

On Thursday, July 8, 2010, Bizarro Walker introduced a plan to save tax payers money by cutting vacant positions, even though in reality, it would not save the tax payers one cent.

The real Walker actually uses the same ploy that Governor Doyle used, by not filling all those vacant positions and using the money to fill the holes in his faulty budgets.

Just a couple of days ago, Bizarro Walker said that he would save tax payers millions of dollars by "cutting waste" including excessive overtime.

However, the real Scott Walker, thanks to his irresponsibly excessive layoffs and furloughs, and an inability to produce one single balanced budget, has racked up overtime costs at a rate that is exponentially greater than the state's:

In 2008, Milwaukee County had a budget of $1,342,940,239 and $18,600,330 in overtime costs - 1.4 percent of its overall budget. The state in 2008 had a budget of $29,142,261,200 and $66.5 million in overtime costs - a mere 0.2 percent of its overall budget. Walker has averaged $15 million in overtime costs a year throughout his tenure as county executive. Milwaukee County Department of Administrative Services; Milwaukee County Executive Budgets: 2003-2009; Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau]

In the same proposal as the overtime, Bizarro Walker also said that he would cut waste in the form of fraud, specifically citing child care fraud in an advertisement.

However, as Mayor Tom Barrett points out, the real Walker was actually in charge of the child care enforcement for Milwaukee County which became a leading story with the tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars being fraudulently given out:

"The state's audit was released in tandem with a Milwaukee County audit that found the county lacks a strategic approach to finding fraud and has no way to routinely identify suspicious billing," the story said.

The story noted county Audit Director Jerome Heer's report said there was "little in the way of a coherent approach to fraud."

Indeed, I had pointed out last year the tale of Cindy Jaeger, who was not only leading the county in ferreting out and recouping fraud, but was also the best in the state and the nation. Cindy did this despite being part of the severely understaffed Income Maintenance Program which the state had to eventually take over due to Walker's ineptitude.

(As a bonus to this example, Walker's campaign said that it was really Governor Doyle's fault, but in their rationale, show that they are really the culprit:

"Tom Barrett is yet again trying to desperately shift attention away from failures of his pal (Gov.) Jim Doyle," said a statement from Keith Gilkes, Walker's campaign manager. "Nice try, Tom. The problems continue to be with state licensed child care facilities and the fact that Jim Doyle has failed to fix this program after years of abuse within the system."

His campaign noted the state is in charge of the program and the county merely implements the policies for Wisconsin Shares at the local level.

Um, yeah. Unless Walker's team can show the state law that says they are supposed to pay out money fraudulently, all they did is reinforce the fact that Walker couldn't run the program worth a damn. Not exactly something you want to show in order to run the entire state.)

As a final example, just this afternoon, Bizarro Walker made the claim that he would not furlough troopers or prison guards.

In our reality, the real Walker furloughed both Sheriff deputies as well as the correction officers.

So you see, dear reader, that there is actually two Walkers, the real one that Milwaukee County citizens have suffered under for the past eight years, and the Bizarro Walker who the real wishes to be...

Huh? What's that? You say that they are both the one and the same Walker?

Why, that would mean that Walker is hypocrisy personified and a liar to boot! It would also mean that anyone that thinks he is an effective county executive and would make a good governor must be the ones living in an alternate universe.

Meanwhile, At Milwaukee County First

The latest pieces include:

• Tosa tax payers join the Monarch Butterflies as an endangered species when the Tosa TIF Taxmen cometh, and
• Scott Walker has promised not to cut any routes. But how can we believe him when he's lied about his before?
  

Newt Gingrich: The Prototypical Republican

Political Wire's quote of the day:

"It doesn't matter what I do. People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live."

-- Newt Gingrich, quoted in an Esquire profile, on the hypocrisy of his extra-marital affairs and his family values rhetoric.

And now you know why he endorsed Scott Walker, who is also one of the world's biggest hypocrites.

Was Sensenbrenner Violating Campaign Rules?

Todd Lohenry, of the website "Party of KNOW" (or No or Know-Nothing, if you prefer), has an interesting post up regarding a conversation that allegedly took place between Terri McCormick and Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R- Liechtenstein).

The intent of Lohenry's post is obviously to discredit McCormick, who is running for the honor of running against Congressman Steve Kagan. I don't know much about that race and don't really have much to say in support or against McCormick.

What I do find interesting is the document Lohenry provides for his readers. Said document is supposedly some notes that were transcribed by McCormick, or at least by someone using her computer, which detail the course of their conversation.

The document is dated October 3, 2009, which was a Saturday, which was the date the notes were transcribed. Reading further down Lohenry's post, it shows that the notes were written at 5:50 am on that Saturday morning, but the meeting actually had taken place on October 2, 2009, which was, of course, a Friday. Furthermore, the meeting took place from 10:05 am to 10:35 am that Friday, which is safe to assume it was during work hours.

McCormick also notes that the meeting took place in Sensenbrenner's district Congressional office.

So why are the date, time and place relevant? Well, if you read through the notes you can see that McCormick started talking about her bid to run for the 8th Congressional District seat and Sensenbrenner responds in a very negative way, informing her in no uncertain terms that the NRCC will never support her campaign in any way, shape or form.

Now, I don't know all the ins and outs of election laws, but I do know that it is illegal to be campaigning on the government's time or in a government office.

Since Sensenbrenner was talking about campaign issues (even though not his own) and he was on the clock in his office (albeit the local one), it would appear that this was in violation of the law as I understand it.

Perhaps some political wonk could either tell me I am correct in this, or why I am not.

Tazino's vs. CiCi's: Pizza Buffet Wars

Last week, I wrote about the "dining experience" that my wife and I had when we tried CiCi's Pizza Buffet. My findings were that it was not the greatest thing since sliced pepperoni.

In the comment thread of that post, my friend Jay Bullock recommended that we try Tazino's:

Dude, you need to try Tazinos. Local organic ingredients, great salad selection. Much better than you've described CiCi's to be.

This was followed up by a comment from Bryan Belmer, Director of Brand Marketing for Tazino's, who put forth quite the impressive spiel:

Hello, Capper:

I wish to invite you and your wife to visit one of our Tazinos® Pizza & Salad Bistro locations. We are an emerging brand committed to offering our valued customers the highest quality dining experience, featuring delicious oven-fresh pizzas, savory pastas and freshly made salads, an excellent price point (especially for all you can eat)and an inviting, family-friendly environment.

Tazinos® offers over 15 delicious pizza varieties daily as well as an excellent ‘Pizza Of The Week’ selection featured each week. We also offer fresh focaccia breadsticks, hot pasta selections, cold pasta salads and assorted cold salads all made fresh daily in our restaurants...plus a full salad bar for you to create your own masterpiece! Finally, your meal includes free, unlimited Coca-Cola® beverages and dessert, including rich chocolate brownies, warm Cinna-Pillows® and our incredible new Apple Piezino® dessert pizza.

It’s also important to note that Tazinos® pizza, pasta and salad selections are made with better-for-you ingredients wherever possible. For example, we use only unbleached/unbromated flour, 100% natural real Wisconsin cheeses and sauce made from field-packed tomatoes (not from concentrate). Equally important is what we do NOT use in our recipes, such as no high fructose corn syrup, no MSG and no trans fats. As we say, "Better-for-you never tasted so good!"

Priced at just $6.99 weekdays 11 a.m. – 4 p.m. (kids 10 & under $3.99) and $7.99 weekday evenings (after 4 p.m.) and all day on weekends (kids 10 & under $4.99)...including a free beverage and dessert...Tazinos® is an excellent value!

There are three area Tazinos® locations: Oak Creek, Menomonee Falls and Kenosha...with more on the way. Please visit our web site at www.tazinos.com for our exact locations and hours.

Capper, our team is excited for you and your wife to experience Tazinos® soon. Please know that I personally welcome your feedback at any time.

Respectfully,

Bryan Belmer
Director, Brand Marketing
Tazinos®, Inc.
customercare@tazinos.com

Normally, I don't allow spam to go through, but seeing as that Mr. Belmer took the time and effort to personalize his spiel, I chose not only to let the comment through, but to take him up on his offer to try one of his restaurants.

Today, in keeping with our tradition of quietly celebrating my birthday, my father, my wife and I went to try Tazino's. According to their website, they have three local locations. We chose to try the one in Menominee Falls, since it was the closest and had the least amount of construction obstruction to deal with.

When we walked in, we were cheerfully greeted by a young lady (Claudia according to her name tag) who welcomed us and asked if we had ever been to their restaurant before. Telling her that this was indeed our first visit there, she went on to explain how their buffet worked, where to find the plates, silverware, condiment, etc.

It is worth noting that in her introduction, there was one thing different than the norm, which is that Tazino's requests that the customers bus their own tables when they go up for extra helpings. It is a small request, since they have it set up rather simply and conveniently, and probably helps to keep the costs down.

We claimed a table and helped my father get situated. The first thing I noticed was that there was no game room. Instead, they had a black wall in the middle of the dining area with a bucket of chalk. Kids were not only allowed, but encouraged, to draw or write on the wall. I thought it to be an original and pleasant way to keep the kids busy without having all the distracting noise and lights that come with arcades.

We went in back and took a look at the buffet, which was set in a semi-circle counter. Within seconds, I could see that Tazino's was going to send CiCi's running with their pizza cutters tucked between their legs.

First was a wonderfully complete salad bar. There were two or three kinds of lettuce and a full array of sides that you don't often see at salad bars anymore. They had the staples of cucumbers, tomatoes, and croutons. They also had shredded cheese, peas, chopped hard-boiled eggs, chickpeas (!), onions, and more than I can remember. They also had six kinds of salad dressing (although the Thousand Island looked kind of watery).

Next to this was there were six or seven types of pre-made cold salads, mostly of a pasta variety. I tried the sour cream cucumbers. It had a delicate flavor, but made a good side to the more powerful flavors of the pizza. Plus on a hot day like today, it's coolness hit the spot.

Next up was the warm pastas. They had a cheesy spiral noodle and a butter and herb bow tie. To point out how good they were, my wife went up for an unprecedented fourth helping of each. Their bread, or was it focaccia, left a little to be desired, being very blase and lost among all the other food.

They had about six to eight pizzas up at any given time. There was the traditional favorites of cheese and sausage, pepperoni, Hawaiian, and the works. They also had BBQ Chicken, Cheesy Chicken and a couple of others that weren't identified or identifiable. Their pizza of the week was one that had four types of cheeses on it.

Their pizza, like the rest of the experience, was much better than CiCi's. The pepperoni tasted like pepperoni. The sauce, while still on the bland side, was at least more than the ketchup used at CiCi's.

To really put the topping on the pizza, they had a wide variety of flavoring accents that you could put on your food. They included, but in no way limited to, red pepper flakes, black pepper, basil, garlic, sea salt, Parmesan, oregano, and a slew of others.

The desserts were as advertised. They had their Apple Piezino, Cinna-Pillows and brownies. The apple pie pizza was alright, but could have used more cinnamon and some soft serve ice-cream. The cinnamon puffs were good, but only if you got one of the bigger pieces, and while it was real fresh.

Overall, we found it to be much better than CiCi's. That said, there were some areas where there was room for improvement:

• Put some sort of identifiers on your food. Some had it, like the BBQ chicken, but it was not consistent. People like to know what they're eating.
• Do something with the focaccia bread. Its blandness stood out from the rest of the good food.
• Soft serve ice cream for the apple pizza, please. Who doesn't like pie a la mode? Plus you could turn it into a whole new area for people who like to have something a little lighter for dessert.
• One from my dad, is that the former pizza place, Shakey's also had fried chicken. He said repeatedly that was the only thing missing. As for me, I was happy enough with what was there.
  
• More locations!! I do believe the former Shakey's restaurant on 96th and National Ave is still open.

We will be going back there, which I guess is the best kind of recommendation. However, if and when they decide to increase their presence in the Milwaukee area, we may be going back more frequently. Right now, the drive is a little much just for pizza and pasta, at least on a regular basis. I mean, it's good, but just not that good. Bring it closer, and I would think that you will have a lot more people.