A Wisconsin state senator will try to defend his seat Tuesday during a recall election that is giving voters the most direct opportunity yet to react to Republican Gov. Scott Walker's plan that stripped most public workers of their collective bargaining rights.
Nine state senators, both Republicans and Democrats, are facing recall elections amid the fallout from the bitter fight over Walker's proposal, which attracted national attention and tens of thousands of protesters to the state Capitol earlier this year. And the stakes are high: If Democrats pick up a net of three seats, they'll retake control of the state Senate and gain key momentum in their efforts to recall Walker next year.
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The first test comes Tuesday, when Democratic Sen. Dave Hansen is challenged by Republican recall organizer and fellow Green Bay native David VanderLeest. The other two Democratic senators facing recalls will be tracking Republican primaries to find out who they'll face during their recall elections next month.
Hansen entered his race with a major cash advantage, raising $318,000 since April, while VanderLeest raised $2,000. VanderLeest also could be vulnerable because of a criminal record that included convictions in 2006 on two misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is accusing President Barack Obama of committing "an apparent crime" when he recorded a video in the White House as part of a raffle to raise money for his reelection campaign.
"The facts of this case strongly suggest a crime was committed," Priebus said in a letter Monday to Attorney General Eric Holder. "I call on the Department of Justice to investigate this possible criminal act by the President of the United States."
Because, you know, Republicans are above doing anything illegal and such as.
Also, too? Who the fuck names their kid Reince? It's just creepy. Then again it does fit rather nicely into the wingnut vocabulary. Reince and repeat....
China added 27 million Internet users over the last six months, bringing the total number to 485 million, but the growth of China's Internet population continues to slow, according to official statistics released on Tuesday.
US population as of 2010 Census *minus all those illegals and teabaggers that hid out in Wal-Mart for months to escape being counted*
Hold on. The irony is just too fucking thick here. Faux using the word Scientists? Where is Jeebus? And admitting that some Scientists believe that there were Neanderthal's prior to 6,000 years ago? Let's explore...
Is there a little Fred Flintstone in you?
According to a new genetic analysis, some of the human X chromosome originates from Neanderthals -- but it's found exclusively in people outside Africa.
The ancestors of Neanderthals left Africa about 400,000 to 800,000 years ago. They evolved over the millennia mostly in what are now France, Spain, Germany and Russia, and went extinct (or were simply absorbed into the modern human population) about 30,000 years ago.
Well, of course they left Africa! There were black descendants of people there! Night time was no time to be in that neighborhood. Just sayin'
The ancestors of early modern humans left Africa about 80,000 to 50,000 years ago, according to DiscoveryNews.com. Despite that wide spread in time, genetic material from Neanderthals still can be found in a piece of DNA (called a haplotype) in the human X chromosome -- meaning the two clearly mated.
Stoopid scientists! 80,000 years ago? As if! Saddle up my bronto, I'm riding off to part me some Red Sea. I'll need my Harry Potter wand, though. The clay tablet version.
