Welcome to your Monday open thread. It’s officially spring now! Today is the first full day of spring. Are you excited? What else is on your mind? Share it below in your open thread.
These Wisconsin Republicans are really classy. Judge Prosser (who is up for election in April) had some choice words for a fellow judge.
Madison – As the deeply divided state Supreme Court wrestled over whether to force one member off criminal cases last year, Justice David Prosser exploded at Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson behind closed doors, calling her a “bitch” and threatening to “destroy” her.
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Prosser acknowledged the incident recently and said he thought it was becoming public now in an attempt to hurt him politically. Prosser faces Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg in the April 5 election.
He said the outburst came after Abrahamson took steps to undermine him politically and to embarrass him and other court conservatives.
“In the context of this, I said, ‘You are a total bitch,’ ” Prosser said.
“I probably overreacted, but I think it was entirely warranted. . . . They (Abrahamson and Justice Ann Walsh Bradley) are masters at deliberately goading people into perhaps incautious statements. This is bullying and abuse of very, very long standing.”
Gotta love that “apology.” He’s the victim! The chief judge is just sooooooo mean.
Is there ever a backlash against these guys who predict the end of the world which never happens? Now it’s Franklin Graham (son of Billy) predicting the rapture.
Graham said that Jesus told his followers that earthquakes were one of the signs of the second coming.
“Maybe this is, I don’t know. But regardless, all of us need to be prepared to stand before almighty God,” Graham said.
As he explained, an increase in natural disasters was just like how “as a woman gives birth to a child, those labor pains as they begin they start intensifying with more frequency.”
I don’t think he’s in the May 21st group (he’s not actually predicting a date). Has anyone else noticed the huge billboard on Kirkwood Highway? I wonder if their lease on the billboard lasts beyond May 21st?