Justice Michael Gabelman And one vote was on not just any case, but the deciding vote in the case on Governor Walker’s elimination of collective bargaining rights. From theMilwaukee Journal Sentinel Online: Madison– State Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman in two cases cast the deciding vote in favor of parties represented by a law firm that gave him tens of thousands of dollars of free legal services, a review of state records shows. One of those was a high-stakes case this June that allowed Gov. Scott Walker to implement a law that all but eliminates collective bargaining for most public … Continue reading WI Supreme Court Justice Voted with Law Firm that Gave Him Free Legal Services
Tomorrow’s the last day to get your SS gift into the e-mail. We’ll do a thread on the 22nd where the Santas can reveal themselves! A. Continue reading Secret Santa Reminder
There was a very large crowd today for the Solidarity Sing Along which continues to gather at the WI state Capitol despite the controversial Capitol Access Plan.From The Progressive: DespiteGov. Scott Walker’s edict that no more than three people can gather inside the capitol for a demonstration without a permit, about 1,000 people joined the Solidarity Sing-along at noon on Monday. Here is video from today that begins with a People’s Mic reciting the article on the right of the people to peacefully assemble from the Wisconsin State Constitution, and then a singing of “Recall Now” which is set to … Continue reading Solidarity Sing Along Grows Larger
I WAS NOT ANGRY SINCE I CAME TO FRANCE, BITCHES: Madison — Gov. Scott Walker grabbed half of the $5 million he raised in unlimited funds from outside of Wisconsin, including $250,000 from Texan Bob Perry, the architect of the infamous “Swift Boat” smear ads. Absolutely not. No way. NOT AGAIN. The shame of my country in my lifetime was that we let these sleazy assholes ruin the one chance we had to stop everything that was going wrong. We let them crawl back out of the slime and peddle their hippie-blaming, progress-hating, Nixon-bagman bullshit all over the news, for … Continue reading Now It’s Fucking ON
Posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 12:20:20 AM byTwoSwords
My first and probably last vanity.
Picture a crowd of people gathered for a political rally. The speaker gives out the old bromide “Why are we here?” The crowd replies in a frenzy. “We want change!” Is this Occupy or a college campus? No, it’s Free Republic. Let’s face it, we all admire our favorite candidates in the Republican field. They all have their strengths and weaknesses, don’t we all. The real problem is that they’re unable to differentiate themselves from each other, in a defining manner. Considering the trampling of rights, unemployment, regulation, immigration, crime, education (lack of and cost of), corruption, lack of leadership, zero (he has to come last, because he’s earned it), why is one of these candidates not really able to capture our desperate imagination? Some will say Cain has done this very thing. Would the majority of them have said the same thing 2-3 months ago? I think not. I think he’s a better man, than I. And I truly mean that. But I don’t sense the killer instinct that is needed right now. Cain is passionate, he’s just not desperate. Desperation is where too many of us living(sic).
Desperation is all right-wingers have.Everything’s a fucking crisis with you yobboes. I’ve been listening to this crap about howfill-in-the-blank is the most horribleist thing EVAR and will immediately cause America to go up like a piece of flash paper – for decades. Know what? Hasn’t happened yet, and isn’t going to happen.
But do you thimble-witted planarians remember and learn? No. You just keep bouncing from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis, becausethat’s all you have.
We’re debating between Cain, Perry, Romney, Bachmann, Santorum, Gingrigh, Paul. It’s great that we have such a diverse field to choose from and we still haven’t made a decision. The right’s version of diversity is reality. The left’s is checking a box on a form. It will take a person willing to make unlikely political decisions.The left has torn this country usunder(sic) for many a year and many a way and it has to stop. The right has to show it’s(sic) teeth, and if necessary use them. We need to draft Palin. I see no other option where we win back our country from the abject corruption we see daily reported on FR. There are many on this board who consider her a fraud. I never saw that side of her. My favorite study through my life has been military history. I’ve read of the most narcissitic(sic) people in the world over and over, generals and politicians. Ruthless, to the max. Of all the times I’ve seen her on TV I’ve never once sensed a need for political revenge. This, to me, is standard operating procedure for a politician. Never seen it from her. I can’t think of anyone whom I’m not related to that I believe in their goodness and good intentions. No person can be all things to all people (cept Jesus) and maybe she rubbed people the wrong way. Isn’t that normal? I, for one, believe she was put her for a reason, to be President of the United States. I want to re-institute the draft. Just for POTUS.
Paragraphs are your friends.
1 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 12:20:21 AM byTwoSwords
Did I mention you mollusc-brained porkmuffins’ tendency to spew spittle-flecked venom in one long screed until you run out of breath and fall over?
To: TwoSwords
She said no. Leave it at that.
3 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 12:22:08 AM bybuccaneer81(ECOMCON)
This FR version of “ECOMCON” is threatening “Seven Daisies In May”.
To: TwoSwords
Eisenhower said ‘no’ over and over, until he was finally drafted at the nominating convention. He then said ‘yes’.
And didn’t you just shit yourself when he warned us about the military-industrial complex?
If you pasty-witted sockwads had someone with half the integrity of Eisenhower, this election would already be over.
But what do you have? Perry and the pirates.
Don’t count Palin out. She said recently that she could be persuaded to reconsider her decision if she saw an “earthquake” develop. Many of her supporters heard her say that, and immediately responded with a flood of postcards and letters, begging her to reconsider her decision.
Now, even her brother Chuck is trying to get her to change her mind.
17 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 12:43:22 AM byWindflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: fight_truth_decay
The media has to be dealt with. And I’ve finally figured out a way.
Have you, now?
Quid Pro Quo.
There’s no need forthat kind of language.
At any press conference the interogatee gets to ask the reporter a question
That sounds ripping!
Let’s give it a try, shall we?
and if they don’t like/agree w the answer they move onto the next reporter. If the reporter is able to answer the question responsibly they can ask a question.
30 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 1:12:13 AM byTwoSwords (Has anyone seen my suspension of disbelief pills?)
To: starlifter
“Draft her for what?”
I understand your cynicism. Still let me clarify: draft her for the presidential nomination.
If it becomes apparent that Romney could be the GOP nominee then drafting Palin could become a reality, as the only way to save us all.
35 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 1:18:11 AM byb9
You leave her flotation devices out of this.
To: Darkwolf377
Exactly. This is why I was so frustrated by the cries of “You’re a hater!” whenever anyone raised any question about Palin here.
Cor blimey, I got so sick of that.
I stopped expressing any support or otherwise for Sarah Palin a few months ago because I didn’t want to be associated with some of those people in any way whatsoever.
They were (and still are, just for a different candidate now) embarrassing.
45 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 1:37:59 AM byAllegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
To: TwoSwords
Glad to see those sacred of Sarah are still here attacking someone else…
Run Sarah Run…I’m with you…she is the only one…
Just be prepared to be endlessly attacked here…they don’t want to take any chance that she might change her mind, so they get vicious at every mention of Sarah running
It’s called “Occupy FreeRepublic”
52 posted on Friday, November 04, 2011 4:25:03 AM byThe Wizard (Madam President is my President now, and in the future)
A genuinely great man has died today at the age of 75. Vaclav Havel was a playwright, dissident, statesman and Zappa fan. He’ll be missed. Continue reading Vaclav Havel, R.I.P.
On the end of things: The final column of around 100 mostly U.S. military MRAP armored vehicles carrying 500 U.S. troops trundled across the southern Iraq desert from their last base through the night and daybreak along an empty highway to the Kuwaiti border. Honking their horns, the last batch of around 25 American military trucks and tractor trailers carrying Bradley fighting vehicles crossed the border early Sunday morning, their crews waving at fellow troops along the route. “I just can’t wait to call my wife and kids and let them know I am safe,” Sgt. First Class Rodolfo Ruiz … Continue reading ‘Hey guys, you made it’
Pretty sure I’ve posted this one before but I thought a repeat was in order after yesterday’s shitty holiday tune question. This is my favorite Christmas song: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Elf’s Lament
Least favorite Christmas song. Go. I fucking hate that Paul McCartney thing I can’t even name because then it’ll be in my head all day. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
Patronizing local and national media have made it their business to explainto me and about 200,000 other folks all over the world that we’re rubes. The reason? We plunked down $250 (plus $25 for a handling fee) to purchase a piece of the Green Bay Packers. When the Packers, the nation’s only publicly owned major sports franchise, made an offering of stock on Dec. 6, the shares began flying off the shelves.The timing for the Packers couldn’t be better: The team was coming off a Super Bowl-winning season, the team was 12-0 and Christmas was about three weeks away. Add … Continue reading Memo from the owner’s desk: Go fuck yourself
A large crowd gathered for today’s Solidarity Sing Along as it was presumed this was the day that the Walker administration’s controversial Capitol Access Plan would go into effect. It would have required the singers to obtain a permit to gather which the group refused to do on the grounds of the right to free speech. However it was announced that the administration had revised the plan.From Channel3000.com: MADISON, Wis. —A spokeswoman for Gov. Scott Walker’s administration said no arrests will be made if gatherers at the state Capitol don’t have the required permits to hold a rally. Department of … Continue reading Solidarity Sing Along -Free Speech Rings
Now that people areclose to the number of signatures necessary to force a recall, suddenly the certification process for signatures is flawed and must be destroyed. Suddenly the people who pass muster on the signatures are suspect. Assholes, let that FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND number be a hint. The people coming for you won’t stop. I was up in Wisconsin last weekend for hockey and some Christmas shopping, and people were standing on street corners, outside shopping centers, in the blistering cold wind, in conservative-ass Brookfield, not because it was fun or it was cool or they were getting paid or … Continue reading Hey Walker: Screw Us and We Multiply
It is presumed that tomorrow is the day that Walker’s Anti-Free Speech policy will go into effect. I was at the Capitol today and here is a short video of the Solidarity Sing Along including a People’s Mic call to come to the Capitol tomorrow: Here are some photos: A group called the Wisconsin Family Council has displayed a Nativity scene in the Capitol: Then the Freedom From Religion Foundation put up this display: For more detail: Oh and here is Wisconsin’s High Speed Rail circling under the tree: Will have more tomorrow… PS…Forgot to mention this: In just one … Continue reading The Day Before…
It comes from Christine O’Donnell who recently endorsed Mitt Haircut: “That’s one of the things that I like about him — because he’s been consistent since he changed his mind.” So, he’s consistent in his inconstancy or something like that? Jeez, I’ve really missed Christine… Continue reading Quote of the day: I am not a witch edition
ViaONTD, apparently our schools are now teaching Penguin Sex [Facebook link]: Jeff’s 6yr old son came home with a somewhat controversial book about gay penguins. Should the school have had this book in the library for kids in kindergarten and first grade? Let Deminski & Doyle know your take on it now. 1-800-283-1015 The comments to this post are full of angry parents who have lots of opinions about what should be taught in school and what should be taught at home. Spelling and grammar, for instance, is clearly something these kids are not going to get around the dinner … Continue reading Man on Man Penguin
We’ve all gotten used to seeing people doing remarkablystupid things with their smart phones. Criminals have noticed so the latest NOLA crime wave is a high tech variation on the old snatch and grab: there has been a wave of smart phone robberies/muggings in the last few months. Some of them have even happened in broad daylight on busy streets. I wondered if we were on the cutting edge of this trend but it seems to becommonplace in big cities around the globe. So, the next time you’re walking down the street texting or tweeting just remember to pay attention … Continue reading Deep iCrime Wave Thought
FromAlbum4 In fact, there are prisons. With Newt advocating the repeal of child labor legislation, Think Progress notes another fine example of Dickensian justice, or, as the wingnuts call it, The Good Old Days. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if in their headlong rush to bring back the Dark Ages, they demanded a return to theTyburn Tree or thegibbet…though I’m sure one or more of them would whine about how it doesn’t make the condemned “suffer enough.” Continue reading Are There No Prisons?
Oh, GOD, just stop it. It’s getting embarrassing. Just stop pretending you’re interested in reporting on anything, and let the Internet take over. Honestly, tell me it could possibly get worse. A. Continue reading We’re Sorry You’re Bigots
Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinelreports: On Tuesday, authorities arrestedAndrew P. Jensen Jr., a commercial real estate broker withBoerke Co. and a past president of theCommercial Association of Realtors-Wisconsin. SNIP Insiders toldNo Quarterthat he was arrested after refusing to cooperate with the long-running John Doe investigation by Milwaukee County prosecutors. For more analysis on thischeck out Capper at Cognitive Dissonancewho is probably one of the most knowledgeable WI bloggers on Walker Continue reading Walkergate’s First Arrest
Merry Christmas everyone! Having served various administrations, we know that politicians of both parties love this country and want to keep it safe. But right now some in Congress are all too willing to undermine our ideals in the name of fighting terrorism.They should remember that American ideals are assets, not liabilities. You may know that, General. Me, I’m not so sure anymore. Continue reading Assets, not liabilities
That listening to batshit crazy shitballs who see Islam in their coffee grounds every morning would lead to bad things. Also the best lead ever is at the link. You know, after the wholeRachael Ray-is-leading-the-donut-jihad nonsense, after theSharia Turkey thing, after ACORN and NPR, afterSears and porn, and every other time that any conservative outrage avalanche turned out to be made of horseshit, you would hope that corporate PR folks would learn, and would have a meeting with their bosses in which they were able to say, “look, these fuckballs don’t shop at our stores anyway, most of them can’t … Continue reading Nobody Could Have Predicted
Via Shakesville, this entire story is worth a read, but this type of thing kept jumping out at me in places: When fifth grade started, Wyatt was gone. Nicole showed up for school, sometimes wearing a dress and sporting shoulder-length hair. She began using the girls’ bathroom. Nikki’s friends didn’t have a problem with the transformation; there were playdates and sleepovers. “They said, ‘It was about time!’ ‘ Nicole says. She was elected vice president of her class and excelled academically. But one day a boy called her a “faggot,’ objected to her using the girls’ bathroom, and reported the … Continue reading What Do They Think Goes On in Girls’ Bathrooms?
God Almighty: While the arguments fly, McCormack waits quietly in her small, dark apartment. A bedraggled bouquet of silk flowers hangs outside her front door along with a plaque that says “Welcome” in Spanish, French, and German.Even if her suit succeeds, there is no victory for her. She says she has “no friends at all, no one to talk to.” She knows no one who’s had an abortion, or at least no one who will admit it. “My mother, she’s Mormon, you know? She’s a proud person, and this is a terrible thing for her to have to look people … Continue reading Shaming Her Will Fix Everything
