May 2011
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The Spouse-Swapping Wisconsin GOP Recall Candidate
Just … wow:
[Tea Party leader and GOP recall candidate for state senate Kim Simac] and her then husband James T. Maillette filed for divorce at the same time as Arthur Simac and Cynthia Simac filed for divorce (The same day). It didn’t dawn us what was up until we dug a bit further and here is what we found.
It appears that the two couples filed for a divorce on the same...
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Wisconsin Recall Petition Period Ends
And the final score is … GOP: 3, Dems: 6.
Actually, the final score really should be GOP: 1, Dems: 5, and even that 1 point for the GOP might be a little generous.
Of the three senators the GOP managed to file papers against, only one — Jim Holperin — has a shot at being defeated. Fortunately for Holperin, he’s drawn a local tea party fanatic with no experience running...
“A company didn’t create Auschwitz . A company didn’t create the gulags in...”
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The Intel Mother Lode and Pakistan
One of the strange things about capturing Saddam Hussein is that, relatively speaking, he didn’t know much. He was, after all, the dictator of an enormous bureaucracy and had thousands of loyal followers who were in charge of the day-to-day nation-running operations. If, for example, his interrogator wanted to know who were the names of Iraq’s spies in Iran there’s just not...
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The Honesty Bug Hits Glenn Grothman
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Organizers of the last two recall campaigns against Republican state senators announced Monday they didn’t have enough signatures to force Sens. Glenn Grothman of West Bend or Mary Lazich of New Berlin into elections.
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Grothman, reached in his office in Madison, said: “Between the phone calling, the door to door, the standing outside retail...
The next Presidential debates:
Moderator: Question
Republican Opponent: Answer
Obama: (In a bath robe, smoking his birth certificate) Hey... I killed Bin Laden.
America: (Applause)
~REPEAT~
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April 2011
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Dead Men Rise from the Grave to Sign Wisconsin...
For all the screaming that the Wisco GOP has done about voter fraud in the last decade, this should make head’s explode across the Badger state:
Bill Pocan - father of state Rep. Mark Pocan - may have died long ago.
But that doesn’t mean he can’t sign the recall petition against state Sen. Bob Wirch of Kenosha.
Just check page 362 of the Wirch recall petition, and you will...
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Fill out this anonymous Google Docs survey, then post the link on your Tumblr (the shortened link is http://goo.gl/9mJeZ).
I’ll share the results here next Tuesday (with fancy pie charts and everything).
Special thanks to the 125 people who’ve filled it out since last night!
Hell, I’m interested in the results too.
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Now's the Perfect Time to Buy a Wisconsin GOP...
As counter-intuitive as it may seem, the Wisconsin recall is actually a golden opportunity for high dollar campaign donors. Because of the lax recall finance rules, these folks can shovel unlimited amounts of money into candidate’s coffers under the auspices of ‘paying for recall expenses” (wink, wink). State senators are only allowed to except $1000 per person, per election...
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"Jeff Horn, a leader in the Miller recall, said...
Wow … so near and yet so far.
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Join the Fuck You! Fun Run
April 23, 2011-Protest Run around the Capitol Square in Madison
When: April 23, 1pm – 2pm Where: Capitol Square (start at State Street)
This is a 14 lap (8 miles) protest run around the Capitol square. Run starts at the State Street corner and suits all runner levels. Feel free to join us for 1-14 laps! And if you can’t join us please help by re-posting and spreading the word. Thanks!
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Letter of Congratulations from Karl Marx to...
Sir:
We congratulate the American people upon your re-election by a large majority. If resistance to the Slave Power was the reserved watchword of your first election, the triumphant war cry of your re-election is Death to Slavery.
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The workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American...
Scott Walker's Cronyism gets Cartoonishly...
From the WSJ:
MARINETTE - Gov. Scott Walker’s appointment to the register of deeds office in Marinette County is being called into question.
Walker picked a Republican campaign worker with no experience in land or vital records to head the office, passing over other candidates with detailed knowledge of the register of deeds position.
Renee Miller began her job as register of deeds...
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Randy Hopper's Toll Free Consitituent Hotline...
Most Inopportune Freudian Slip Eva!
In Hopper’s quarterly letter (attached), he lists his office number as 1-888-736-8729. That, in turn, directs callers to 1-800-475-TALK, “the country’s favorite live talk,” where the conversation with “students, housewives and working girls,” presumably is not about Scott Walker’s disastrous “budget repair...
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Randy Hopper's Listen Session Last Night was an...
Good sweet Christ:
Several people in a crowd of about 200 displayed anger and dismay Monday night when state Sen. Randy Hopper, R-Fond du Lac, said a listening session would not involve answers from him.
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Michael Hochrein, a recreational supervisor at Taycheedah Correctional Institution (TCI) and the first person to speak, asked why Hopper would support removing collective ...
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Recall Filed Against 4th Wisconsin GOP Senator
From Uppity Wisconsin:
The fourth recall campaign against a Republican Senator in Wisconsin has announced that they will be submitting signatures. The Recall Harsdorf campaign will be filing 20,000 signatures tomorrow, which is approximately 4000 more than required.
I was just at the celebration in Menomonie which was a standing-room-only event (actually people were spilling out of the...
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Wisconsin Dems Collect 141% of Recall Signatures...
They needed 49,950 signatures.
They collected 70,438 signatures.
Why is this important? Each one of those signature represents people who likely not only want to recall their respective state senator, but also Scott Walker. When the Recall Scott Walker effort begins next January, these will be the first people called.
They also represent a whopping 13% of the total number of signatures needed...
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Recall Signature Filed Against a 3rd Wisconsin...
From TPM:
Another recall effort by Wisconsin Democrats, targeting Republican state senators in reaction to Gov. Scott Walker’s anti-public employee union legislation, is coming to a head on Monday, with signatures to be filed against GOP state Sen. Luther Olsen - the third such petition to reach that stage. And in theory, this development could now put majority control of the chamber...
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“You’ve been so rude, go to hell. You’re trying to divide America.”
– Andrew Breitbart (conservative blogger and pundit), addressing the crowd at a Tea Party rally in Madison, WI. (via laughingcutlery)
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Wisconsin Recall Office Burglarized (and I'm...
Jesus, this is going to be a mess:
Green Bay police are investigating an apparent break-in at the office of the “Recall Dave Hansen”effort at 1136 W. Mason St.
Petitions, a computer and T-shirts were among the items reported stolen, police said.
The Democratic state senator is among the lawmakers being targeted in recall efforts stemming from Wisconsin’s ongoing budget...
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What a Dick
For as shrill as Palin was this afternoon, Andrew Brietbart really stole the show with his elocution on the divisiveness of the current political discourse, after which he told counter protesters to “Go to hell!” a number of times.
The man is nothing if not a douche.
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$arah Palin
By the way, if Palin’s speech today was not pro bono (and there’s no indication that she was speaking for free yet), then have a look at the fabulous parting gifts she gets on her way out of Wisconsin.
It’d be tough for anyone to give up that kind of gig for, actual responsibilities.
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Sarah Palin Just Finished Speaking in Madison (and...
If you don’t like her, then she gave you a ton of reasons to continue not liking her; and if you’re on the fence, then there’s little chance she won you over.
Her speech was mercifully short, but still packed with the kind of childish zingers above which Palin can not seem to rise. It was very thin on Wisconsin-specific commentary. She talked about Scott Walker and unions for...
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