nor do they fly off with children
What, never? Ripoff.
No small, brown babies clutched in their beaks?
Yeah, they're more likely to eat the baby where they find it.
an adult can quickly gulp down several pounds of decomposing flesh
I'm think Arby's. Anyone in?
2: This only happens in the Guacamole Islands.
I mean, about the red tape in the bush, not the death of Peter Falk.
5: not to be pedantic, but the Flamenco Dancers of Death were protected by the Guacamole Act. Vince never reveals where he encountered them, other than to say, "the bush". Would you like me to recite the entire movie? No? Too late. You might want to avoid my house for the next ninety seven minutes.
10: actually, the "v" is accented. It's "Vw".
If the wasp became a threat, it would join a host of species from Asia on the government's most unwanted list of harmful plants, insects and animals.
I'm against it.
I'm ashamed to say that I had forgotten that it was the Guacamole Act of 1917. What kind of historian forgets something like that?
That's all history is, right? Memorizing dates?
There's also acquiring asthma from the moldering archival materials. But really, one only goes to the archives in search of more dates, so I guess you got it in one.
goes to the archives in search of more dates
History keeps one regular.
I had never heard of The In-Laws prior to this thread.
Serpentine Shelly Stanley. Serpentine!
OT: The Wisconsin recall elections are three called for R, one called for D, one within a 100 votes, and one where D is ahead though the counting hasn't gotten very far at all.
And the only natural predators of the wasps are radiation-enhanced Komodo dragons on roller skates.
21: The Wisconsin recall elections are three called for R
See? I knew it was a dumb move not to hold the capitol. They were all so naive.
The other two look very close. I'm following it here. District 8 just got very close, probably because the Milwaukee votes were both counted first and strongly Democrat.
18: Neither had I. But then all the old people starting groaning about their aches and pains in the other thread and I figured it was a generational thing.
Don't these people have computers? This is going to take all night to count, probably longer as a recall doesn't seem out of the bounds of possibility. I'm going to sleep.
24: 8 is going to be tough, only 1 of 11 precincts in for Waukesha County which is the one that had the vote issues in the spring and which is strongly Republican. Fortunately only part of the county is in the district. Will only hold if the Milwaukee precincts showing as not counted are "real" or phantom (from watching prior results in Wis., many counties have a lot of "precincts" that are not standard and have very few or no voters and make it look like more votes are outstanding than is in fact the case).
Does anyone else get that sense that, even in Wisconsin, Republicans are outworking Democrats at the moment. I suppose it makes sense. When Bush was president, the Democrats enjoyed a huge enthusiasm margin over the Republicans. Why shouldn't the inverse be true now that a Kenyan socialist has turned the White House black? (No, I'm not going to bother getting into whether Obama has let down the Democratic rank and file or vice versa. I'm just observing that Republicans seem more mobilized for now.)
They just called a second seat for the Democrats. One race left.
Ah, some more real results from Milwaukee push the lead in 8 up to 1,700 and in 18 Dem up 1,200 with only 3 precincts left so that looks good done. However, Waukesha is late again and will probably come in 70/30 R and swing it (the primary town in district 8 there went 8400 3200 for that asshole Prosser in the spring). Fucking exurbs.
Looking at some more past results, the JPS-o-meter says <10% of victory there. Sorry to be a downer. Will probably not be that close in the end.
Who is doing the counting in the area where the Supreme Court race had some possible irregularities? This isn't another case of "I count on my personal laptop which no one has access to but me" is it?* Because if it is, it would not be surprising if just barely more people who are needed to win will turn out to have cast ballots that just happen to have gotten counted at the end for the Republican. No, I'm not paranoid.
*Note: I don't know if that report turned out to be accurate.
Waukesha was the city where the Republican politician took the votes home with her and then brought them back the next morning to reveal that Prosser had managed to win, right?
32, 33: It was in Waukesha county, but the "missing" votes were from Brookfield which is not in the relevant district.
But the same effed up County Clerk with the personal laptop process collating them. (The town counts themselves were done quickly and accurately from all evidence, it was the countywide compilation that was slow.)
I guess that's better for democracy, then, even if the Republican wins. Absent any knowledge of Wisconsin local politics, it seems like 6 recalls and 2 wins, though not enough, is actually an accomplishment. As long as the Dems hold next week. And unless the pick-ups "should" have been Dem anyway.
Honestly, I'm not all that much of a fan of some of the Progressive era structural reforms, but a Congressional recall after the debt ceiling vote sounds appealing. Or some kind of no confidence vote that triggers elections, or a referendum, or something. Progressives/liberals might still lose, but at least there'd be some kind of participation to it.
Waukesha in (10/11). 4K swing to Republican (actually better than I feared). Only hope is if some of the 12 remaining Milwaukee County precincts are "real".
Everyone seems to agree that it's over, just not calling it yet.
38: Yes, up to 5K lead. There might be some tightening with Milwaukee votes, but not enough. The Reps squeaked by in 2008. The two the Dems won were similarly close in 2008 but were more rural/town/small city.
I knew it wouldn't work. There are a lot of fucked up people in Wisconsin.
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can. At least as long as there aren't too many fucked up people around.
The lesson is that you have to believe that you can. Not that some first term Senator with the gift of the gab can.
There are a lot of fucked up people in Wisconsin.
Sure, but is there any state you could substitute that would make that statement false?
I believe I can fly. And have sex with teenagers.
some first term Senator with the gift of the gab can.
"I don't even know what a gab can is."
47: If you don't know, you can't afford it.