What’s that noise? Why, it’s the sound of Labor Secretary Elaine Chao– wife of Mitch McConnell– trying to poison American workers. She and her cronies at the Department of Labor are working at lightning speed to push rules through the Bush Misadministration to make it tougher to regulate on-the-job exposure to deadly chemicals […]

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It’s Friday. We’re ready to blow this you-know-what. So enjoy your weekend! Don’t do anything we would do.
First Lady Jane Beshear today announced ‘Horses and Hope’ - a program to fight breast cancer. Along with the Kentucky Cancer Program, the project will work with the horse industry to provide breast cancer […]

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Fayette County Democrats selected Kathy Stein to run as Ernesto Scorsone’s replacement in the senate. Shocking, right? Also, Repubs say they’re working to field a candidate to face Stein. [PolWatchers]
God. Larry Craig is gayer than me. Way gayer. Jerk us around by the gas nozzle? I may throw […]

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Louisville-based Yum! Brands could have a brand-damaging story on its hands. A KFC/Taco Bell combo restaurant had to pay a police officer and his family in Sydney, Nebraska $40,000 for serving urine-tainted food.
Coworkers saw one of their own at the KFC/Taco Bell contaminate the officer’s food with saliva and urine and promptly told management. […]

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Please accept our apologies for being slow today. Too much business to handle, not enough hours in the day. Also, who is buying a new laptop for us? And who is gifting us a new iPhone?
Lunsford’s second quarter numbers are out and the McConnell camp is huffy. [PolWatchers]
Bill Cox quit as […]

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Mitch McConnell raised $3 million in special interest funds during the second quarter and Bruce Lunsford can write a $300 million billion trillion check. [PolWatchers]
Poor Ed Whitfield’s wife got axed from the Equine Drug Research Council and was replaced with Dr. Jerry Yon of Lexington. [Business First]
Sonny Landham thinks he’s a climate scientist! […]

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We have no idear, but we hope she leaves us all of her money before she kicks the bucket:
Yes, indeed, folks, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has an excellent plan to pump more money into the pockets of rich folk: let old people die. You see, the less old people there are, then the less those […]

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Robert Felner round-up of the day:

UW-Oshkosh Provost Likely To Lead UW-Parkside Temporarily [WISN]
UW-Parkside interim leader announced [Kenosha News]
New UW-Parkside interim chancellor picked [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel]
New interim UW-Parkside chancellor endorsed [The Capital Times]
Via Racine Post, Interim chanceller for Parkside; he’s now provost at UW-Oshkosh [The Wheeler Report (PDF Link)]
Jake’s not letting up [The ‘Ville Voice]

And the rest:
All […]

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The Office of Kentucky Homeplace is being closed in Morgan County.
We’re wholly infuriated and can’t do much more than post a letter to the editor published in The Morehead News:
On July 1 the Morgan County Office of Kentucky Homeplace is scheduled to be closed in our region. This important program works together with Christian Social […]

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Diane Brumback is going to basically beat Mitch McConnell up on women’s issues this year. [Kentucky Women]
Frank Simon and his gay-hating friends have decided that America’s fat farm– McDonald’s — is horrible, horrible, horrible because of the gays. Some dude sits on some homo board or whatever and now McDonald’s has to be […]

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