But a couple of problems:  The AG's job is defined as defending state law, the Open Meeting Law, not attacking it.  That may be the reason that he did not petition the appeals court for himself, i.e., the people of Wisconsin.  He cited the state Secretary of State as the petitioner.

However, the AG did not ask the state Secretary of State -- a Dem -- to be the "client;" the state SoS said he knew nothing about being named in the appeal by the AG, and the state SoS says he has no problem with the temporary injunction.

Now, can an AG file an appeal for another official without asking?  And could the SoS just request that the appeals court withdraw "his" appeal and let the temporary order stand?

Baby red pandas frolicking in the snow.

The American people have at least taken notice that their elected representatives have totally abandoned their concerns about jobs and the economy.

Majorities feel that everyone in Washington pays too little attention on job creation. Fifty-three percent think President Obama spends too little time on the issue of jobs 68 percent feel Congressional Republicans give it too little time, and 68 percent believe Congressional Democrats spend too little time on jobs.

...Yet, if anything, it seems both parties are spending even less time focused job creation, as if the Washington elites have simply gotten bored with the whole jobs thing.

The total disconnect between the concerns of regular people and the Washington political elites has rarely been so blatantly obvious, and yet the gap seems to grow almost daily.
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BERLIN (AP) -- Germany is determined to show the world how abandoning nuclear energy can be done.

The world's fourth-largest economy stands alone among leading industrialized nations in its decision to stop using nuclear energy because of its inherent risks. It is betting billions on expanding the use of renewable energy to meet power demands instead.

The transition was supposed to happen slowly over the next 25 years, but is now being accelerated in the wake of Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant disaster, which Chancellor Angela Merkel has called a "catastrophe of apocalyptic dimensions." link

Btw, re the first part of your comment, yes, we once again have Repub boyz and grlz behaving badly.  But how could you miss another marvelous part of the Randy "Bed Hopper" story? (Great nickname by the lib blogs there.) The young mistress's previous employment was with a lobbying firm with a moniker of Persuasion Partners. Sounds like an escort service, huh?

Plus, her new job with the Walker administration, to which she was hired by Walker's Chief of Staff himself -- usually not involved in her level of hire -- pays $12,000 more, about a third more, than the same job did for her predecessor in it.

Food - vegetables and milk - contaminated with radiation.
10,000 dead.
Thousands of people unaccounted for.
Thousands without food, shelter or heat.

Trouble with the spent fuel storage - which could spew plutonium - lethal to ingest.

And the discussion of the danger of nuclear plants has been aborted.

But the nightmare continues.

But we have Libya on our minds.

Scrap the TSA, lock, stock, and barrel.  

The report, which was released today, found that 43 percent of Catholics favored allowing gay and lesbian people to marry; 31 percent favored allowing them to form civil unions. 22 percent said there should be no legal recognition of a gay relationship.

Here are a few more findings from the report:

-- Only 39 percent of Catholics give their church top marks for its treatment of the issue of homosexuality.

-- 56 percent of Catholics believe that homosexual sex is not a sin.

-- When marriage is defined as a civil marriage "like you get at city hall," 71 percent of Catholics support it link h/t Atrios

. . . the latest project to get flak for "whitewashing" (as it's called) its roles is Warner Bros.' live-action remake of Akira, the iconic Japanese animated film. A recently revealed shortlist indicated that only Caucasian actors are currently in the running for the lead roles of Kaneda and Tetsuo. (The shortlist also showed that the studio is only considering actors ten years older than the originally teenaged characters, but that's an issue for another day -- we already knew it wouldn't exactly be a faithful adaptation.)

This photo accompanies an actual news release from an actual Iranian news service, which claims the Islamic Republic has built a flying saucer.

Watching the two clips in sequence is like watching a highlight reel of Jordan when he was on the Bulls followed by one of Kobe when he was in high school. The skill levels are different, obviously, and the latter still has much to prove, but ... the potential. So much potential.

Someday this kid will win a state championship, sign with a major college, play in a bowl game or two, and eventually be drafted by the Jets. And then, thanks to the k-a-r-m-a that surrounds the J-E-T-S, he'll reek. I'm already preparing myself for the disappointment.

The new Suave shampoos, they work really well and I can't tell the difference between them and the Aveda products that they resemble that I like.

And the Cover Girl Simply Ageless foundation that Ellen DeGeneres is helping them hawk is a pretty good bang for the buck and doesn't make your wrinkles look worse....has good coverage.  Probably not as many shades available though as my prefered Elizabeth Arden.  But its good stuff for the moola.

Square envelopes mailed at first class rates incur a 20 cent per piece surcharge because they are considered nonmachinable. That would steeply increase postage costs. Doing simple math on Netflix: How much does Netflix spend on postage each year?, it would cost Netflix an extra $225MM to $270MM a year. If you buy a square greeting card, the envelope often has a note that extra postage is required. The inference is that postal service sort equipment needs a long edge to ensure that it can correctly read address information. There has been a longstanding controversy within the USPS about Netflix return mail pieces causing machines to jam because of the leading floppy edge. If you Google it, you can find a long inspector general report on the topic. They found that at some sort facilities postal workers will just pull Netflix envelopes out of the mail stream manually. (Good thing they're bright red!)