WORLD UPDATE: It turns there are other things going on besides Sarah Palin being on Facebook! Libya is still on fire, literally in many places. Wisconsin is still on fire, figuratively speaking. God even wanted to get into the act, throwing an earthquake New Zealand’s way so it would catch on fire, very much literally. In turn, it seems people are angry at Col. Muammar al-Gaddafi, Gov. Scott Walker, and God. (Does God have a title? How about “Capt. God”? You’re welcome, God.)
All three of these guys are really into upending the social order, aren’t they? Whatever happened to pragmatic leadership? (Yes we just compared Scott Walker to both Gaddafi and God at the same time. You people with your “Wisconsin is Egypt” metaphors are so bush league.)
New polling conducted for the AFL-CIO and shared with The Huffington Post shows Wisconsin voters siding with the state workers, unions and protestors by large majorities and expressing net disapproval of Republican Governor Scott Walker
But awful biased polling firm Rasmussen Reports also did a poll that said people support the governor.
Meanwhile, Gaddafi delivered a weird, rambling speech in a wizard costume saying he will stay put. We bet everyone living under that dictator enjoyed that! And New Zealand is trying to clean up its wreckage and bodies.
Yeah, that Palin thing is probably more important. Never mind. [uwtravis via Wonkette operative chascates/HuffPo]
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Scott Walker is Gaddafi?
Yes, except without the flak jacket, bad perm, and skin that looks like it's in dire need of a Pro-Activ chemical peel.
Also teh puffy…when did old muamarr get so damned puffy?
When he turned into an evil Sith Lord and succumbed to the deteriorating effects of the dark side of The Force.
He's also scheduled to give his own rambling statement refusing to listen to the people tonight.
Well, Walker did threaten to send in the Wisconsin Army.
And Walker does have nightly dreams of being "bombed" by Ronald Reagan. If you get what I mean.
Sometimes, he changes it up, to ski-poling Reagan & the Iron Lady.
No, just a half-wit, needle dick, completely souless bastard.
The Koch Bros. Circus. Coming to your state soon.
Their elephants are bought and paid for and will perform for peanuts.
As will your public employees after the circus has moved on.
Scott Walker is Sues? That doesn't even make sense, tho it makes me feel bad for Sue.
He's a boy named Sue.
Sues everywhere…
Yes we just compared Scott Walker to both Gaddafi and God at the same time. You people with your “Wisconsin is Egypt” metaphors are so bush league.
Burning bush league, apparently.
You're onto something with the fire thing. Tonight Scott Walker is apparently giving a fireside chat. The AFL-CIO will now ask Wisconsans whether or not they'd prefer to see Scott Walker, like Libya, also on fire, literally, in many places.
The correct term is "Wisconganders."
I thought it was "cheeseheads".
Hey, no fair. Us Michiganders earned that pejorative fair and square.
Didn't you get the memo? God's title is now officially "House Minority Leader Pelosi".
And those responses are just from his wife. Imagine what the people who don't like him say.
I don't care what the google says, "Scott 4" is a fucking classic and is still one of my favorite rainy day albums. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_4
Does this mean Glenn Beck was right about Google?
"GIenn Beck is" gets me almost the same list:
…an idiot
…crazy
…evil
…a racist
I get:
…child molester
…serial rapist
…murderer rapist
…christian huckster
Encouragingly, the top term for "Gaddafi is"?
"Gaddafi is next."
Oh yeah, I've played this game before.
… Santorum?
Colbert tried to help poor Rick out last night http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-v…
http://img10.imageshack.us/i/sistersarah.png/
I'm not surprised.
all of 'em are correct. after all she is a double nought russian spy keeping an eye on the american airspace, because that's where Putin is going to rear his head
Or it means that Scott Walker is a secrete communist Muslim who is endeavoring to bring chaos so that the new caliphate may take over the United States and place George Soros in his proper place as head Imam.
I'm confuzed, isn't Soros head of the Jew cabal? I gets my Abrahamic religion conspiracy theories so mixed up these days!
All conspiracies find solace in the empty spaces of Glenn's mind.
A Kiwi reports: Christchurch is a thousand kilometers away from me, but the inquiries after my safety from my geographically-ignorant North American friends are welcome and appreciated. The worst thing about the earthquake – apart from the dozens of dead people – is that Christchurch Cathedral has fallen down. It was pretty beautiful. Still, here's hoping they rebuild the city 10 times better than it was before, and hopefully get rid of the white supremacists and prostitute-killers while they're at it.
You got earthquakes and national health care, we got Scott Walker and tea partiers. Can I come live there?
The thing is, US Americans are notorious for moving here and then complaining that things aren't just like they are back in the States. And we have our own Scott Walker, he's called John Key.
Haha! Americans are like that everywhere they speak American, even with a funny accent.
Tell me more! I've already read all the Canada brochures, but hadn't considered the Backwards Seasons Hemisphere…
Okay. Important things to remember:
- the indigenous people were not wiped out, and even have their own political party with seats in the legislature, so do NOT try to do "that funny war dance";
- on the subject, get a Maori pronunciation guide so you don't embarrass yourself with placenames such as Whakatane or Paekakariki;
- this country loves rugby and considers American football, with its layers of protective armour, huge platoons of players and frequent breaks, somewhat homosexual;
- books are very expensive and Kindles are not for public sale yet. Deal.
- the coffee shops only serve espresso. We put that muck you drip through filters out on the street for the dogs.
But take heart, there are some things in common. For example – we live in nightmare dread of Sarah Palin getting anywhere near the White House.
I think watching their poop swirl backwards in the bowl on the way down is what freaks them out the most.
Well it's not like we know what a thousand kilometers is anyway, is that a measurement of time or something? like an hour?
It's less than 12 parsecs.
Someone's fishing for a proposal or two with that line.
Glad you're safe.
I'm thinking there's a pretty big overlap between the white supremacists and the prostitute-killers. Just a hunch.
one might think the white supremacists need the prostitutes alive, otherwise who'll have sex with them?
That's only if you're, you know, into sex with the living. Geez.
My daughter spent some time in NZ a few months back, and was impressed by the beauty of both the landscape, and the hearts of the people.
As a Californian, I am acutely aware of the destructive power of earthquakes, and am glad you were far away.
Isn't Christchurch the city where those two teenage lesbians killed the one's mom, then later Peter Jackson made an awesome movie about it with Kate Winslet?
I realize the question is appros of nothing, but I am SO bored at work today.
Hah! Yes, yes it is. And one of those teenage girls ended up in Scotland where she's now an accomplished mystery novel writer. Trufax.
Should point out that the teenage girls denied being lesbians, but then they would, wouldn't they.
But the important this is, how far are you from Bag End?
SCREW HOBBITS AND SCREW PETER JACKSON.
ouch, I was so looking forward to living in the Shire!
What's that about?
Kiwi rage , I guess. Too much wool in their diet.
Peter Jackson is a union-busting asshole whose tactics in a recent pay dispute got the spokeswoman for the actor's union driven out of her house by roaring mobs carrying signs saying "PETER WE'LL WORK FOR FREE".
What do we have to do to add:
Scott Walker makes the baby Jesus cry?
Former Governor of Eden?
He quit half-way through his term also?
Yeah, he quit after a labor dispute to write a book. Sold pretty well, If I remember correctly.
Way worse. He evicted his only constituents, then encouraged their kids to commit incest, and after a while, in a fit of pique, killed everyone in his district except for this one crazy coot on a boat. And yet he keeps getting re-elected.
So, this God fella's a Republican, I take it? Figures.
His unbeaten streak is due to his reliance on the "Cosmic-Chicago" election system: ONLY dead peoples' votes are counted.
I hope so. I'd hate to think that this is the best he could do.
What about Qaddafi? He's been the all-powerful dictator of Libya since 1969 and STILL can't make general. That's just fucking pathetiv./
Could a general in the Libyan army just go in and say, Look, son, I outrank you…
If Eden was so fucking great, where is it?
You see that big patch of the middle east that's on fire right now? Somewhere in there.
I thought it was in Missouri.
Minnesota? Oh that's Eden Prairie
Joe, is that you?
Actually, there is somewhat of a consensus that eden was located in the great marshes of Iraq. Saddam Hussein, in a display of monstrous narcissism, drained them because the people living there annoyed him. The marshes are now making a comeback. If you have time to read teh article, you may find it interesting.
Don't we own that shit, as being part of Irokk, or am I too drunk??
I said, am I too drunk!!!???? Hah? Am I???
Missouri.
These polls mean nothing; giving the unions the shaft is the will of the people of Wisconsin, because the right-wing pundits say so. Enough of your liberally biased "facts."!
In related news, 137% of Faux Noise viewers support Scott Walker's attempt to grind the Teacher's Union under his bootheel.
Your comment is LIKED by Lou Sarah and Goatsebeck.
FTW
Scott Walker's moving to New Zealand with Gaddafi? Get outta here?! Really?
Someone has to play Golem and Gandolf in the Hobbit.
This is news to me! Where are they registered? I hope M. Ganddolfi plans on changing his robes. One year for the Yule Ball, I wore robes like the ones he's been prancing about in, made my face look puffy…
Nate debunks Rasmussen poll.
Really, at this point, Nate needs a template for that article.
At this point, isn't saying "it's a Rasmussen poll" an automatic debunction?
Man – old Nate kinda made Rassy look like the douche that he is…yikes.
The sad thing is, in an automated poll, it must be the easiest thing in the world to randomize questions to negate a potential framing bias, if you're concerned about that sort of thing. Not that Ras actually cares about offering any sort of explanation, but if you wanted to try to explain this away, you'd basically be forced to argue that the pollmakers were both lazy and stupid, and probably also ugly.
Rasmussen is
… lazy
… stupid
… ugly
… evil
… a douche
… a douchebag
Google is the Leader of the New World Order? Fuckin' A. Those computers got awful smart awful fast, doncha think?
Just ask HAL 9000.
Are you Sarah Conner?
AFAF.
He's still no 'santorum' but this makes my heart glad.
I disagree. Scott Walker is a giant, slippery pile of santorum.
If you pass gas…do you still call it a fart? OR is it "excuse my santorum?"
Jack you must warn us when you ask the heavens to rain down the bolts of volts. Captain God! Lulz, oh the lulz.
So is that Army Captain God or Navy Captain God? If it's Army, then I'm thinking he needs to try harder – should have made Colonel or at least Lt. Colonel by now. On the other hand, most Navy Captains believe they are God, so that would make sense.
Lou Sarah thinks Walker is awesome.
Amen!
T
Scott Walker is an addict. He snorts Koch.
I heard it doesn't make you an addict if you just rub it on your gums…
Yeah, and Charlie Sheen thinks you can use crack "socially".
He was kidding when he made that statement on the DP show.
"Ha ha! Just kidding!"
"(not)"
Whose crack?
I heard he sucks Koch for money.
God fares little better in the Google test. Current top four are "…is not great", "…is dead", "…is in the neurons", and "is an astronaut".
Well, the last one is kind of cool.
Google simply auto-suggests GoDaddy. How does Google know and what makes the Google go???
Search goes in, results come out. You can't explain it!
I was really hoping for "Scott Walker is a Koch Whore."
That would make an awesome bumper sticker and/or sign!
(Is it already? I don't get out much.)
What does this mean for Charlie Sheen?
Well it looks as though TPM has sent Eric Kleefeld in. Where is Our Wonkette? Shouldn't Wonkette have boots on the ground in Mad-town? Hey, in addition to everything else, it's a college town. In Wisconsin. Lots of beer and cheese. Jack? Riley? Arielle? Ken? Sara? It's either Madison or Tripoli, you choose.
I’ve read too many comment sections in MSM articles on this topic. I’m astounded that so many people think these unionized public workers are getting rich while the rest of the Wisconsineers are dumpster diving for their next meal. On guy claimed that union bus drivers make over $100,000 a year. I blame FOX news, God and my stupid neighbor.
“In fact, according to an analysis by USA Today, state employees earn about 5 percent less than comparable employees in the private sector, on average,”
There you go, denying their faith-based reality again; they're not gonna listen.
The longer this goes on, the zanier the Wingnut claims get. I've even seen claims that President Obama is personally directing the protests.
Riley's molester claimed Obama is leading "anarchists" and public sector unions in an effort to intimidate Americans. Limbaugh is comparing Wisconsin teachers to the Muslim Brotherhood.
At some point people are going to realize these guys are fucking assholes who don't give two shits about anyone else, right? Right??
On last Sunday's Faux Noise Sunday, Scott Walker claimed that 75 percent of Americans understand that unions for government employees need to go away.
Yeah, well I know for a fact that 110% of Americans think Scott Walker is a barely-sentient slime mold.
Wingnut? WINGNUT? John BOEHNER said that today! "Keep your 'Chicago friends' out of Wisconsin," but I paraphrase. Anaconda I am still so fucking furious about the whole thing.
I'd love to believe John Boner is a wingnut, but I don't think he's sober enough to hold a thought.
Actually in Madison there are bus drivers that make over $100,000 a year. It is the result of a hiring freeze that was supposed to save money, but the resulting overtime payments have cost more than it would have cost to hire new drivers at the base rate. Another Conservatard policy that ends up costing more in the end.
And really tired bus drivers.
My wingnut boss has been circulating emails sent to him by various Olds (I rue the day that Olds learned how to use email, not to mention the Facebook and the Twitters) which "prove", through random and largely irrelevant photos, that the protests are being taken over by Anarchists and Marxists. OK, this IS Madison, and there are surely some of each group there, but I don't think all those firefighters, cops, laborers, and operating engineers were members of either…
Yeah, but how many facebook friends does he have?
Wok Scalker?
Few, but check out his Lou Scott profile. Okay, I just made that up.
And how many Facebook sock puppet accounts does he have?
"John Scott liked I Stand With Scott Walker."
I'm thinking I've seen that Gadaffi outfit before…..didn't Glen Beck wear that on his promo once….bet he got it half-priced….
When you google Ken you get worst person in the world. Congrats are in order, that's a valuable limited edition now!
New polling conducted for the AFL-CIO and shared with The Huffington Post shows Wisconsin voters siding with the state workers, unions and protestors by large majorities and expressing net disapproval of Republican Governor Scott Walker.
Just when I'm ready to throw in the towel, I read something like us and, for a brief moment, allow myself to fell a glimmer of hope that America might actually be able to pull its collective heads out of its asses and use them to improve the lot of this country and its people.
Hey, I like lost causes and futile gestures.
I'm just waiting for the police and firefighters unions to come to the realization that they are next on the chopping block, and Wisconsin descends into total anarchy.
When will Walker learn that no one will take him seriously until he sends in the tanks and the goon squad. Until then, he is just Sarah Palin light.
It would have been easier if these reasonable Wisconsonians had gotten off their dairy-air and fucking voted last November. This is the hard way to refudiate peace-loving patriots.
It just gets better. Walker wants to sell off WI's power plants (privatize)with no bidding.
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_wor…
Oh, goodie–that worked out so well in Russia…
Maybe Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling can get with them and help lay out a business plan.
Jesus christ. I hated him so much less when he was just hell-bent on screwing our county government into oblivion. This smarmy, detestable chud is unfuckingreal.
I'm sorry that you are now all being subjected to this doorknob.
Two great lines off that page Monsieur,
the notorious libertarian Tea Party puppet masters, the Koch brothers.
and
Glenn Beck said something stupid about Jewish people, today. Just FYI. On his radio program, while discussing George Soros, Beck says Reform Judaism is "almost like" "radicalized Islam."
Well hey, he's almost right, in that you get a true statement if you replace either "reform" with "ultra-orthodox" or "radicalized" with "secularized".
both are askeerd a barbecue?
Gaddafi says he'll "die a martyr".
See? And people say there's no common ground any more.
Martyrdom…with a double dose of dumb. Can I beat him with a stick? Please?
Get in line.
Just as long as GaDaffy does it hugging the Lockerbie bomber.
I am sure many in Libya would love to accommodate him and his sons.
Is *that* what they're calling it these days? A commo date? Isn't that sweet?
Those Right-Wingers are so cute
Especially when stuffed and mounted over the fireplace of the log cabins we all will be building soon.
Sort of like a pit bull with lipstick.
In his first week as Guv, Walker turned down a $850m for high speed rail and away gave $117 m to reduce business taxes. And now this all out assault on state workers and unions. This guy has become serious contender in the La Ptomaine Gubernatorial Douchebag of the Century Awards. His acceptance speech, "I'd like to thank all the little people who helped me get where I am today. Look, you can see them squashed on the bottom of my boot heel."
He wasn't even governor yet when he kicked all that high speed rail money out of state. He was just on deck.
Details, details. He's still a dick.
Agreed.
That's Leader God, to you.
Leder god works better for me.
I’m no fan of Scott Walker. Now his uncle Johnny is a different story. That guy is great at parties.
You think Google has a potty mouth, you should see what Old Man Lycos has to say about Scott Walker.
Now Indiana's Democrats have also gotten balls and gone to Illinois to prevent a vote on anti-union legislation; although it looks like their Republican Gov is more reasonable that Walker:
http://www.indystar.com/article/20110222/NEWS/110…
Sounds like a partay in ChiTown….maybe Idaho's Dems (all three of 'em) ought to do the same.
I just don't think the Republiklans/Tea Baggers understand what forces they may have put into motion. After three years of crippling unemployment, companies hoarding dollars, and the Republiklans voting "NO" on any measure to help ease the pain, the American worker may have finally gotten pushed to the point where they aren't going to take it anymore.
This is the kind of balls the Democrats should have started showing in 2008.
Lets hope it's not a passing fad.
I'm jealous, Google says our Scott (Gov. Rick) is only a crook, idiot, and criminal. Just give him time.
I agree – Scott Walker is all of those things the Google called him….now he just needs to make a weird, rambling speech in a wizard costume and all would be taken care of.
Google SSL Beta? Jack, no "third parties" give a crap what you're searching on the Googles.
John Ashcroft just called and wants to know why you are searching for "palin kill killing muslim terror gays how-to"
"Meanwhile, Gaddafi delivered a weird, rambling speech in a wizard costume saying he will stay put."
Since that worked out SO WELL and all for Muburak.
And will work very well for Walker.
When I googled "Republicans are " I get:
Republicans are evil
Republicans are stupid
Republicans are idiots
Republicans are racist
Why can't Governor Walker just hire some African mercenaries to quash the protests? It's what Qaddafi is doing.
Brown-skinned people? I think not!
Now, maybe some Idaho skinheads …
For the professional African warrior on the go, it sounds like a really good break from the old business of slogging about with machetes:
"Reports from Tripoli described corpses left in the streets, burnt-out cars and shops, and armed mercenaries who looked as if they were from other parts of Africa. Residents were running out of food and water because they feel too threatened to leave their houses.
"Videos emerged on a filesharing website of mobs lynching two people who were understood to be mercenaries. Other film appeared of a demonstrator shot in the head by a sniper and of bodies torn apart, perhaps by artillery fire.
"Men in brand new Mitsubishi cars without licence plates are shooting at groups of people, three or four, wherever they see them gathering," said a resident of the Tripoli neighbourhood of Fashloum. "These are Gaddafi's death squads."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/22/muamm…
Plus, if you Google "Dickwad" Scott Walker's name pops up, also, too and as well as…
scott walker iz in ur state, killing ur d00z
Searching "unions are" returns about the same amount of hate.
A poster at TPM provided this link on the TeaHadis and Ohio … his comment:
This is regarding Ohio's SB 5, which is very similar to what's happening in Wisconsin. The comments section is especially telling. Notice how the administrator backpedals (and gets angrier) as he responds to tea partiers voicing their opposition to Ohio S Bill 5. You could tell he wasn't expecting much opposition.
The Teaparty guy stirred up a lot of police, firefighters and others with the post and they just got angrier as it went on.
Some fun stuff on these Scott Walker-hating sites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7e4bj5rrd8
I'm surprised that Scott "Not The Governor" Walker didn't come up on that suggested list. http://host.madison.com/wsj/business/article_7ba5…
Scott Walker was a man
Or maybe, he was a dragon man
Or maybe, he was just a dragon
I saw Gov. Douchenozzle on the news this evening. First, he reminds me of every jock in high school who hated me because I was a smart music nerd. I want to punch him in the nose; he is that smug and self-satisfied.
So he is taking this whole No Compromise position, basically going all in on this issue. Unlike Kasich, Corbett, and Daniels, he is not trying to bust unions with any finesse or even attempt to compromise – he is just saying Fuck You to the public unions. In the process, he has managed to alienate his own base -because sadly there is an overlap between union members and teatards – and stir the lefties out of their post- Chris Christie funk. Instead of fapping to photos of Barry while tearfully remembering Election Nite '08, now we lefties finally have something to be pissed off at.
Gov. Douche is nearing the point of no return. The Capitol building is filled with pissed off people, mass layoffs are about to begin, and yet he won't blink.
It's obviously time to dress like a wizard and go batshit insane on national teevee.
The color rendition of your computer monitor sucks.
<Just trying to help out here.>
Indeed. When God is raining destruction down on a place called Christchurch, you know something ain't right with the world.
Meanwhile, across the Lake in Automobilia….
Republican-because-he-had-to-choose Governor Rick Snyder wants no trouble with the unions:
All kinds of Republicans are distancing themselves from this bastard.
In totally unrelated news, a very, very urban state senator, here, was attacked by a pitbull and fell into his snowblower:
Should we try learning some Elvish before going down there as well? What's the best way to protect against orc raids?
Duly noted! I would observe, however, that continuously grappling with platoons of other men "bareback," as it were, seems rather more homoerotic than just hitting them and walking away. But whatever floats your boat!
'considers American football somewhat homosexual' and 'the coffee shops only serve espresso'…well then count me in mate (what's that in Maori?)
So I guess a rugby team named, say, the Wellington Whakatanes is out of the question…meanwhile we have the Washington Redskins. Nice.
Also, ANZAC Day is a much more stirring holiday than Memorisl Day for me, because while we Murrikans were trying like shit o stay out of WWI, you Kiwis and Aussies fought honorably against the meat grinder of the Ottomans ..
I'm pretty sure they'll have to shoot him first…
You forget that it was the British who threw the ozzies and kiwis into that meat-grinder.
Well, we have the Waikato Chiefs. But I only support the Wellington Phoenix.
Yeah, but there's a certain something to having your national memorial day for people who died in popular foreign wars celebrate a battle/theatre we lost badly, but still celebrate it because of how well our troops were supposed to have behaved under hideous conditions, both towards each other and towards the enemy. Beats 'We kicked ass' any day. Although the recent emergence of 'Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi' is at least as depressing as 'USA! USA! USA!' as a brainless piece of nationalism. Here's hoping our Kiwi cousins haven't come up with anything so hopelessly stupid just yet.
Hmm. Good point. They certainly didn't behave half that well evacuating Malaya and Singapore during WW II. But yes, they did well in Gallipoli indeed, poor sad lads. Celebration, memorial, it's all the same thing I suppose. And WTH is this rise in provincialism and chauvinism all about anyway? Can't those gits just go knock their brains out playing ball, or something?
If you read the primary sources from Gallipoli, they didn't exactly behave all that well there either – most of the legend seems to have come out of Bean's post-war myth making. But it's nice that the *idea* that standing by your mates in difficult times is a national characteristic, and one to be emulated if at all possible, and I think it's sometimes helpful. Particularly when you start talking about things like who should have healthcare.
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