Retiring Guy's Digest

Saturday, May 25, 2024

GET ME REWRITE: UW Regent and mega GOP donor Robert Atwell joins Robin Vos Clown Show Menagerie

Headline: Wisconsin State Journal, 5/24/2024

In an email sent Monday, Atwell told UW system President Jay Rothman, Regents President Karen Walsh and the board’s executive director, Megan Wasley, that he had been ~~advised~~ [urged] by Assembly Speaker Rep. Robin Vos, R-Rochester, that he can hold the seat until the Senate confirms his successor.

As summarized here:

Vos wants to keep the spigot running. (A sampling of Atwell's donations to GOP candidates)

Source: Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

Dear Turd in Water Fred Prehn, You owe us. Please pay in full immediately. Best, Wisconsin Taxpayers. (12/27/2022)

The sins of turd in water Fred Prehn and his GOP enablers. (12/27/2022)

Wisconsin GOP leadership encourages its political appointees not to play by the rules. (9/30/2022)

"Turd in water" Frederick Prehn refuses to be flushed, swirls around on DNR board to provide stronger conservative stench, (9/29/2022)

Meet makeover MAGA Queen Misti Kristi, America's latest laughingstock

Headline: The Hill, 5/23/2024

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) is now banned from all tribal lands in the state after the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe voted to bar her from their reservation Wednesday, citing her repeated claims that tribal leaders work with drug cartels.

Among the worst-ever examples of damage control

Twitter

More Misti Kristi posts:

2024

The truth is, grievance-filled career politicians like Misti Kristi are what's wrong with America. (5/8)

Kristi Noem to Donald Trump: I don't know the meaning of the word 'nice'!. (5/3)

Welcome to Misti Kristi's Melania makeover. (4/22/2024)

2023

Kristi Noem's Trump flip-flop. (8/4)

When it comes to choosing a running mate, appearance is everything to Donald Trump. (8/2)

Meet Misti Kristi Noem, the Errors and No Facts Queen of South Dakota. (6/27)

Most Americans agree that South Dakota governor Kristi Noem is wholly unqualified to be President. (6/8)

Desperately seeking relevancy, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem ends up looking like a clown. (5/28)

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem rolls out the CAFO welcome mat for headache-inducing, eye-burning manure pits! Not to mention water pollution and fish kills. (5/19)

There are at least two reasons why South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will never win the 2024 GOP nomination for president. (5/18)

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem thinks her virulent anti-abortion stance is just what USA voters want. (4/27)

Native Americans comprise almost 10% of South Dakota's population, but you'd never know it from these photos. (2/5)

2022

GOP South Dakota governor Kristi Noem earns a grain of salt for this tweet. (10/27)

Retiring Guy does the math for GOP South Dakota governor Kristi Noem. (4/22)

Keeping tabs on authors in LINKcat: Shirley Conran

Based on thee SCLS holdings, Shirley has no staying power.

Source: South Central Library System LINKcat online catalog

New York Times, 5/22/2024

Shirley Conran, the industrious and proliferous British author whose 1982 novel, “Lace,” was a tale of female autonomy disguised as a bonkbuster (to use the British term for a steamy best seller) that made her a millionaire and introduced the lowly goldfish into the erotic canon, died on May 9 in London. She was 91.
The cause of her death, in a hospital, was pneumonia, her son Jasper Conran said.
Ms. Conran was already a household name in England when she set out to write a sex guide for schoolgirls, but ended up writing the potboiler that was “Lace.” In 1968, she was the founding editor of Femail, The Daily Mail’s popular and revolutionary women’s section; when it was launched, a photograph of her face, with a rose between her teeth, was plastered on billboards throughout London.

The 50 member libraries of LINKcat