Stinque’s favorite Israeli-Russian emigre, birther, dentist, and soon-to-be-disbarred member of the California Bar may very well end up winning the GOP primary for California Secretary of State tomorrow.  While she’s only raised $6,000 for her campaign (H/T Bloggie), and there has been no official polling for this race,  straw polls at Tea Party events indicate that the teabaggers are rallying to support Orly Taitz’s campaign against a former professional football player, Damon Dunn, who is the party establishment’s choice.

More than a few party operatives are chewing their fingernails at the thought of another Rand Paul-type upset in a GOP primary.

On the other hand, your West Coast editors at Stinque are overwhelmed with excitement at the thought of four months of covering Meg, Carly, and Orly campaigning across the state. Oooh, and what if Talibunny joins them on the campaign trail?

A girl can dream…

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“Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer has released the results of a lie detector test which he says proves he isn’t behind a string of attacks against one of his Republican opponents, Rep. Nikki Haley.” [WIS-TV, via Political Wire]

Part the First:

A court in Bhopal, India has sentenced seven men to two years each in jail after finding them guilty of criminal negligence over the accident that spewed tonnes of poisonous gas from a Union Carbide India Ltd plant in 1984. These are the first convictions related to the Bhopal gas accident, which is estimated to have caused the deaths of at least 15,000 people.

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“Mark Pincus, chief executive of Zynga, comes on stage to announce that FarmVille will be coming to the iPhone at the end of June. He says 70 million people play the game each month, mostly on Facebook. You can now farm anytime and anywhere, Mr. Pincus says.” [NYT iPhone liveblog]

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She said a bad thing, the right-wing blogosphere had a field week, Craig Crawford disowned her, Walt Whitman High disinvited her as a commencement speaker, and now she’s out.

We prefer to remember her in better times.

Helen Thomas retires ‘effective immediately’ after Israel remarks [The Hill]

OneEyedJess [Yfrog, via PourMeCoffee]

The most hated bank in America is also reviled by everyone who works for it, toiling in excruciating conditions, attempting to keep up with the bank’s horrifically antiquated systems and to stop its fee and penalty schemes from careening out of control and completely destroying customers caught in its programmed snares and bug-infested computing infrastructure, struggling long into the night, every night, without the benefit of overtime pay, according to a suit filed against this scum-sucking piece of shit bank.

Reuters reports:

Workers for Bank of America Corp, one of the nation’s largest employers, have sued the company for allegedly failing to pay overtime and other wages. The lawsuit filed on Friday in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas, consolidates 12 lawsuits filed on behalf of employees in California, Florida, Kansas, Texas and Washington.

Stinque.com applauds the guts and blood-in-the-eye determination of the bank’s victimized employees to strike back at evil and avarice, to drive their thumbs into the eye sockets of the twisted monster, rip out its eyes and skull fuck it with righteous aplomb in a court of justice.

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