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Here's what happened -- Gov. Brewer told the Arizona Republic that when she signed the immigration law it opened her up to what she says were "unanticipated personal attacks."

Anyway, the Arizona Guardian knows how to google .. they report that Brewer's father worked during the war as a civilian supervisor of a naval munitions depot and died of lung disease in California in 1955.

When will they learn? Hopefully never...

Well, I trashed Democrat Richard Blumenthal when he lied about his military record for the Connecticut Senate race .. so to be fair, I have to give equal trashing time to Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), who's been campaigning on being Navy intelligence officer of the year.

Only he wasn't .. the Navy alerted Kirk and his staff about the inaccuracy last week.

The Chicago Tribune reports:

"[C]mdr. Danny Hernandez, a Navy spokesman, said......

"We just let him know that you, the media, were asking questions about who the Intelligence Officer of the Year was," Hernandez said. "We let him know that there was an individual who was named reserve intelligence officer of the year."

That person was not Kirk.

[K]irk’s resume has repeatedly mentioned the officer of the year award since he first ran for office in 2000, from resumes submitted to the Tribune when he first ran to an appearance before the Chicago Council on Global Affairs earlier this year.

[I]n a House budget committee hearing on March 13, 2002, Kirk said he won the award, though Kirk at the time said he won it in 1998 when his resume stated he won it in 1999, according to a recording on C-SPAN’s Web site.

"I’ve been in the office just one year," Kirk said at the time. "Before that, I was a Navy Reserve intelligence officer. I was the Navy’s intelligence officer of the year in 1998."[..]"

What tickles me, more than catching politicians in a lie, is catching them with their two faces hanging out. Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch was all over the news having a hissy fit about Blumenthal .. said he wants to criminalize lying about one's military record. Then along comes Kirk .. and what do we hear from Orrin? Not so much.

Another thing -- I noticed how uneven the news coverage is of the two military record liars. Blumenthal was reported on day in and day out .. Kirk, not so much. Blumenthal would get 3 minutes, Kirk about 21 seconds. And I'm talkin' CNN's Special Report.

BTW -- Blumenthal's opponent, Linda McMahon (R), is a bigger train wreck than he is .. because his military record fudging hasn't hurt him in his Senate race, he has a double digit lead. Seems when McMahon was nominated to Connecticut's State Board of Education last year, she bragged on record about her degree in Education.

Turns out her degree was in French.

See, no self-respecting wingnut would be proud to claim French as an educational accomplishment. Remember Freedom Fries?

Then, there's all that wrestling soap opera stuff .. and steroid peddling.

Yep, Blumenthal is one lucky SOB.

C'mon, how many Supreme Court justices can you name?

I hate when people talk about how dumb Americans are .. mostly because it's true. Like this new poll that shows, "Nearly two-thirds of Americans cannot name any members of the U.S. Supreme Court."

Did someone ask if Rovie Wade is still on the bench?

I swear, it's a wonder we get our food into the right hole .. but judging from the obesity rate, we do.

I closed my eyes and thought real hard and came up with seven .. I missed Alito and Bryer. But then I'm a political junkie with my nose in several newspapers every day.

I know, this isn't really a big problem .. it's just embarrassing. We don’t vote for Supreme Court justices (directly), and SC justices are SUPPOSED to keep to themselves, you rarely see them on TV. But still ...

"EAGAN, Minn., June 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Nearly two-thirds of Americans cannot name any members of the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a new national survey by FindLaw.com (http://www.findlaw.com), the most popular legal information website. Even as Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan awaits Senate confirmation hearings to replace retiring justice John Paul Stevens, only 35 percent of Americans can name even one member of the nation's highest court.

[A]ccording to the FindLaw.com survey, the percentages of Americans who can name any U.S. Supreme Court justices are:

Clarence Thomas – 19%

John Roberts – 16%

Sonia Sotomayor – 15%

Ruth Bader Ginsburg – 13%

Antonin Scalia – 10%

Samuel Alito – 8%

John Paul Stevens – 8%

Anthony Kennedy – 6%

Stephen Breyer – 3%

Only 1 percent of Americans could correctly name all nine current members of the Supreme Court.[..]"

BTW -- it shouldn't surprise anyone that the ones who can't name a single SC justice are the same ones who are extremely confident that the Arizona show-me-your-papers law is absolutely Constitutional.