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Verify the Verify
Published March 8, 2012 | 
Wisconsin’s “Verify the Recall,” a far-right wing group created for the sole purpose of trying to disprove the million signatures to recall Gov. Scott Walker and to mock the supposed fictitious signatures (Bart Simpson, Mickey Mouse et al) has instead made a mockery of themselves.
What appears to be running off Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nicholaus’s home computer’s server, an early 90s PC no doubt, the website is slow to load and never produces any worthwhile search results. Not only that, there is no obvious “search” button, which is a bit odd for the claims of it being a “searchable database.” This is more like a “waitable database.” I did try pressing “return” at the end of a word search in the various columns, but wouldn’t you know it, a search on Stan’s last name produced no results, even though he did sign the petition. Why didn’t I search on other things like my last name or my street or my zip code? Well, I did. It’s just that it kept grinding away and never ever produces a result, not even to tell me there are no results. Did I say the server is slow?
Come to think of it, this site is run by tea partiers, and they’re not known for their accurate spelling. Perhaps I should have searched on a misspelled version of Stan’s last name, maybe that would’ve given some results.
Fortunately, the site does have a help page, but it’s a pdf file! And a graphically challenged one at that! It’s right out of the graphic design humorist’s handbook of visual comedy. Aqua-green text bubbles litter the page with instructions pointing this-a-way and that-a-way with blue arrows pointing at various parts of the database, all explained in CENTER JUSTIFIED text!
I guess the good news is that those who wish to use this database for nefarious purposes will be unsuccessful. I have been attempting a Verify search on my computer for what seems like a couple hours now while I am working, however those that must rely on the 15-minute limit computers at the detention center library won’t have that convenience.
I’m not giving a link to the site here, but if you do search on “Verify the Recall” you will find the site, first by finding the main site, which will then direct you to the iverify site, which then makes you read some stuff and then enter the site, and then you have to agree to some more stuff like how you won’t use the search for nefarious purposes which is silly because you can’t use the site for ANYTHING, and then you enter deeper into the site.
Oh, and this is pathetic…Vicki McKenna (google her too, I’m not going to explain) just asked for donations over Twitter because they need a better server. Waaaaaah!
Go ask the Koch brothers, Vicki.
Raising Cain Again
Published January 20, 2012 | On MSNBC this morning, Melissa Harris-Perry said to Herman Cain that Rachel Maddow has suggested his campaign was more parody and performance art than a serious campaign, and Cain’s pairing with Stephen Colbert reinforces that image. Cain goes off on how he doesn’t care whether Rachel Maddow doesn’t understand what he’s about.
But is Cain’s indignation about his being a serious campaigner an Andy Kaufmanesque mask of his own performance art parody? Unfortunately, I’m afraid not. He does not comprehend the levels of satire Colbert is working with. And although Maddow postulated the theory of Cain as performance art and that he could (if it were true) be punking us, the tables have actually turned and Colbert is punking him.
This stuff is hilarious.
Overheard on BBC Overnight
Published January 8, 2012 | Brits were discussing the Iowa caucus on the Beeb early this morning, and someone said:
Santorum comes from behind
That’s even better than “Romney Squeezes Out Santorum.”
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Published December 30, 2011 | 
Romney compares Obama to Marie Antoinette. WTF.
Hi. I’m Mitt Romney. I’m a short, fat Asian woman with dyed blonde hair and many piercings. I’m 23 years old, single, Buddhist, and live in Argentina. I also have no freaking idea who I am, or concept of self or of others, neither do I have a vantage point of comparison, but I do know that Obama is like Marie Antoinette.
Guillotine Fetishist
Published November 17, 2011 | 
Heard that there was a banker @ OWS w/a sign that said “Get a Job.” Does banker realize that the 99% would be happy to eat cake, but that there is no cake to be eaten? Hey, banker “Get a Grip.”
People who live in insulated bubbles really piss me off.
Signed The Petitons
Published November 17, 2011 | Went out of our way looking for a stand because Stan saw one on the way back from work, but by the time we got there, it was down, probably because it was really cold. Figured we could sign them at the rally on Saturday, and if worse comes to worse we could always print them out and sign them and mail them in. But they were canvassing the neighborhood last night so we got it done.
So I guess there’s going to be a “We Are The 99%” rally @ Ian’s Pizza off the capitol AND a Recall Walker rally on the capitol, both starting @ 11 am.
Let’s Recall The Weasel!
Published November 15, 2011 | It’s November 15. Do you know what your Governor is doing?
Allright! Let the petitions be signed!
You Don’t Know Weird
Published August 10, 2011 | 
In all fairness, I think all this noise about how Mitt Romney is “weird” is really misguided. Slick? Yes. Mannequin stuffed shirt? Definitely. Against the best interest of the country? Absolutely. But weird? If you think Romney is weird, I feel sorry for you. You have led a sheltered life.
I am thinking that the people behind the weird campaign are young, probably Xers, maybe with Boomer parents. What they are perceiving as weird is nothing more than an old fogey’s ill-fated attempt at humor. Stan and I were discussing this today, and we were saying that his various lightheartedness caught on camera, i.e.: “Who Let the Dogs Out,” “Jukebox Butt Pinch,” and “I, Too, am Unemployed,” is just an older generation’s sense of humor. We’ve been around it. A lot. It’s not weird. In fact, it’s so lame and milquetoast it’s totally lacking of any edginess, and I would think “weird” would definitely have a little edge. It’s just dumb, not weird. It’s old fart humor.
Now you want weird? Take a look at the people Rick Perry had at his prayer breakfast. That’s beyond weird. That’s bloody frightening.
Skunk Tea
Published August 9, 2011 | 
Yesterday I went into town to get some stuff and saw a small subcompact car that was maybe a decade old in the far corner of the parking lot with a small bumpersticker that said “TEA: Taxed Enough Already.”
Something smelled like skunk tea.
Since it was parked away from customer parking it was probably owned by a worker, maybe a manager of one of the stores nearby.
When are these people going to learn? You are being PLAYED, people! Keep on snorting that Koch, brother! Don’t you get it? It’s making you stupid! You can’t even tell the difference between your own best interests and the Billionaire’s propaganda that you just keep buying and buying hook line and stinker.
Although I’m far away, best of luck to Wisconsin today. We are all Wisconsin now.
“I don’t know how increasing taxes creates jobs.”
Published August 6, 2011 | 
I’m sorry guys, I went to press the embed link over at YouTube, but then I hit copy and it messed up for me so I’m using a link-to link instead. I guess Teh Internets is still too much of an advanced concept for me:
Watch This: 
Rep. Gardner on CNBC
Cory, dude, listen.
If you increase taxes, you increase revenue. Revenue is used by government (which you and your party wants to destroy) to create projects in the public sector that we badly need like bridges, roads, rural broadband infrastructure. This creates many jobs—good paying, not WalMart shit wages. People feel secure with their good wages and buy stuff from businesses, small, medium, large, businesses make money and create more stuff for people to buy and more services for them to use, so they hire more people in the private sector. Win-win, Cory.
How Hard Can It Be?
Published August 4, 2011 | To find a map online of the US broken down by US Senate/Congress, your state Government Governor/Senate/Assembly that allows you to immediately see by color (red/blue) any of the criteria, to click on your state and have little photos of your senators pop up with their names, or zoom in on your state and select a congressional district, click, see your Rep’s pic and name? Continue reading
Gardnerwatch
Published July 29, 2011 | Wisconsin’s First Recall
Published July 20, 2011 | 
That Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay), who had 19,000 recall signatures* filed against him because he was part of the Wisconsin 14 who fled the state in protest of Scott Walker’s Draconian Budget Despair Bill WON the FIRST recall election of the summer, defeating Republican challenger David VanderLeest with 66% of the vote is
SO FREAKIN’ AWESOME!!!!
*So, he had 19,000 signatures filed against him, and his opponent got 10,000 votes. Huh…I wonder if some of those signatures came from Walkersha.
If you’re not Filthy Rich, and You’re a Republican, You’re an Idiot.
Published July 13, 2011 | 
I’ve been saying this for quite some time now, and Bill Maher explains it to you.