Well it's about GOD DAMN TIME somebody stood up for humans being! Ya know, it doesn't make me more defeated when the poisonous shit keeps rolling...it makes me sharper and more willing to stand up and fight this congressional corporate sucking machine. And it is always nice to see someone who gets it! Good on you Judge!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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We have a couple of heroic judges, the one who struck down NDAA, too, which Obama is appealing btw...

Thanks, Big Dan. AP did the switcheroo, as they often do, by updating the story.

Have re-linked to TIME's version of the AP story (identical to the one I initially linked to), and added another UPDATE with a link to a Journal-Sentinel story with many more details now available.

This may be just another example of me being yet again one-step-behind-the-fun but I just read that it's widely believed Karl Rove was the aide from this famous Ron Suskind bit--

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

This helps explain the ongoing Vesuvian nonsense coming outta so many Republicans these days(the Romney campaign, anything Scott Walker says, etc). They really believe they can say whatever they want. That they can create their own reality. Fuck the facts. Fuck the fact checkers. Fuck you. And fuck me.

Hi George. Thanks for the warning.

How fitting, since the damn union-busting bill was so shamefully ratified. The bill itself was passed illegally in violation of Senate rules. The state judge struck it down leading to the appeal to the Court.
Without a decision the union busting would have to be added to the State budget bill to allow the disgusting cuts to school districts.
Huge protests would have resulted. Senate leader Fitzgerald demanded a ruling and the Court complied.
The WI Supreme Court was only supposed to be deciding to accept the case, not to rule on it.
On that fateful day the Republican majority issued a decision anyways with Prosser resorting to physical assault on another Supreme.
Not only that but Judge Prosser freely admits to illegal electioneering when he was a state lawmaker, the same crime Scott Walker is under Federal investigation for.
Reince Preibus was accepting those illegal emails from Walker's assistant 25 feet away that Walker is shocked to learn about.

Walker forced on the state his Koch planned attack on unions and collective bargaining. He may not have been recalled but that does not mean people in the state supported his attacks against union rights.