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Meg Whitman screwed over her illegal housekeeper for nine freaking years, ignoring letters from Social Security telling her the woman was illegal, then made the woman source her own replacement when she got pregnant then fired her for being illegal after her campaign started. Then eMeg cried crocodile tears when it all became public.

Gloria Allred is Nikki Diaz Santion’s attorney, and Meg Whitman is NEVER going to be governor of California. [video] [Jeralyn's take]

You already know about James O’Keefe’s latest cock up (actually, I’m not sure it got quite that far). Julie Millican at MMfA delves into the sticky misogyny of the frat boy right. It’s looking, btw, like the scapegoat for this plot to get the girl will be the other girl. Isn’t all of this a gross violation of O’Keefe’s terms of probation?[Dave Weigel] [TPM with a pimp daddy photo] [TBogg with more scorn and ridicule] [Neiwert] [Karoli]

Up in Alaska, Joe Miller has already worn out his welcome and is rapidly becoming a poster boy for hypocrisy. He’s looking at up to $50,000 in fines for brilliantly ignoring election laws and just doing his own teabagging thing.

See also Matt Taibbi on Rand Paul.

Digby follows up on Andrew Shirvell, the obsessive asst. A.G. in Michigan who spends his off time stalking a gay college activist. In or out of office these people are now and forever more the Red Queen’s tea party so, off with our heads!

Fox News (and friends), as usual, will do everything short of actually manufacturing the Zyklon B if it means helping Republicans, but I think these folks are beyond anyone’s help. [The return of David Bossie]

Funny, all those folks sounded great at the last Klavern meeting. Now, even the Koch Brothers are crawling back under their rock. Senate Republicans are up in arms over Jim DeMint’s “leadership.” (The kind of leadership that teams up with Tom Coburn to block a National Women’s History Museum because the quilting and cowgirl museums already exist, but that’s nothing compared to Coburn holding up $$ to Haitian quake survivors.) (Not to mention seeking to cancel all health care consumer reforms.)

It’s not the primary season anymore, so if you’ve got money to give, ActBlue has three candidates who need help in beating their Teabagger opponents. If you need any encouragement, check out Charlie Melancon’s David Vitter Whoremonger reenactment ad. You might also want to consider the fact that Karl Rove is trying to buy Florida.

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Fox’s sins do not absolve the HuffPost of their sins as they backstab a woman they never paid by cheapshotting her for having the temerity to ask for compensation.

That joke’s getting very stale. For years I’ve felt like I was scabbing on local journalists simply by feeding content to 500 readers daily. I wonder how it mustfeel to give away your product to tens of thousands of readers just for the byline?

Also from Romenesko, Jack Shafer mocks the dead tree folks for their inability to let go.

Increasingly, dead tree publications are a complete waste of natural resources from the pulp trees to the diesel burned by delivery trucks. We need a Manhattan project to create a cheap text reader that contains no toxic parts and that doesn’t rely on scarce/toxic materials for battery life.

At some point you have to move on.

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Lawrence O’Donnell asked Levi Johnston the same questions Couric asked Palin.

Not as ironic as you might hope, but still he didn’t do worse than Sarah.

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More on Nick Marsh, the DOJ suicider who, imho, cashed out because he couldn’t face 1) perjuring himself incessantly, or 2) blowing the whistle on the maggot bucket that was Bush-Cheney DOJism. [more from Scott Horton]

Either he wasn’t strong enough to out the ratfuckers, or he was too weak to accept his fate.

Related: Abramoff witness recants. (Surely perjury charges will follow? Hello? Is anyone still there? Oh, I see. I guess discrediting DOJ prosecutors has its ramifications….)

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Econacy:

The Strib ran an article on resumes (How to Be a Good German 101), and they’re getting absolutely hammered in the comments (leading me to wonder just exactly how many of the Strib’s reichwing commenters are retirees who never read articles about job hunting) (seriously, check out the high percentage of thumbs up for the anti-Wall Street commenters, yours truly included)

Refusing to participate in a dildo-passing nekkid man circle can now get you fired

81 Republican hypocrites and 9 Blue Dog traitors

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World:

Honduras (no, it hasn’t gone away, or gotten any better)

Why in the blue fucking blazes would the world’s mightiest military power hire a bunch of cunt-faced, hadji-humping, steroid-driven mercenaries to guard a mega-base?

Sidney, NY, makes the religious cops in Iran sound ecumenical by comparison

Obama is begging Netanyahu not to be a fucking prick (I don’t think London bookmakers would even bother to post odds on this one)

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Bye, bye, Rahmbo, bye bye.

And good luck to Chicago if they Giuliani themselves by electing this prick.

Not related but congruent: Denver jailers who tasered noncompliant inmate to death will not face criminal charges.

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Supreme Borks pick fourteen cases for the upcoming session of Let’s Rewrite the Constitution Our Way, including Fred Phelps fucking whelps.

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Etc.:

Publishers could make more from ebooks, but just can’t wrap their pea brains around the concept (industries die and the dead tree folks need to start getting over it)

Bits

A timely free speech poster from The Mudflats

Awareness of Prop 19 hits astonishing 94.4% mark among young voters who, like older voters, appreciate what legalization would do for prices

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Harper’s Ken Silverstein is moving on. I’ve passed on dozens of his links to you and I’ll be checking out his replacement closely.

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Tony Curtis, R.I.P.

I loved his movies as a kid, and thought everyone out East talked that way.

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