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Hey folks, I thought we could get a re-start on OFST, but after getting the last one I did (mostly) removed by one of the Mods, I don't know if it's worth the effort. Not blaming the Mods, of course...there are probable copyright issues I may have stepped all over. Anyway, let's be silly in random spots, because we need all the silliness we can get.

<p>A police officer came upon a terrible wreck where the driver and passengers had been killed. As he looked upon the wreckage a little monkey came out of the brush and hopped around the crashed car. The officer looked down at the monkey and said, "I wish you could talk."</p>

Hey hey kids! Time for more silliness, and...you know...the thing!----------------------A pizza and an apple were thrown down from the 15th floor, which will reach the ground first? The pizza will, it's fast food!---------------------------------------------The devout cowboy lost his favorite Bible while he was mending fences out on the range. Three weeks later, a sheep walked up to him carrying the Bible in its mouth. The cowboy couldn't believe his eyes. He took the precious book out of the sheep's mouth, raised his eyes heavenward and exclaimed, "It's a miracle!" "Not really," said the sheep. "Your name is written inside the cover."------------------------------------------------------A...

Ladies and Germs...Introducing...The Official Friday Silliness Thread...the Son of OFST!!!--------------------------So, this thread had taken a sabbatical...but we're BACK!!!!With a Sleepy Joe Biden administration, we will need (and get) all the silliness we can handle!Here we go...let's give this a try---------------A stranded motorist knocked on the door of an inn named “St George and the Dragon.” “Could you spare a poor stranded motorist a bite to eat?” he asked the woman who answered the door. “No!” she screamed, slamming the door. A few seconds later he knocked again. The same woman answered the door. “Could I please have a bite to...

The White House raised eyebrows on Wednesday when it suddenly cut the feed of a virtual event after President Biden said he was "happy to take questions" from Democratic lawmakers.

Hey, I was away for a while...no, I wasn’t in the shower! Did we ever save the Friday Silliness Thread? God knows we need it more than ever!

The city is doing a full “180” on its plan to shutter Trump-operated ice skating rinks. City Hall on Sunday reversed Mayor de Blasio’s move to shutter Lasker and Wollman rinks in Central Park six weeks ahead of their typical April closing dates — in an effort to freeze-out his political rival.

When a Republican lawmaker in 2011 asked an Obama administration Office of Management and Budget official to name regulations where costs were not justified by benefits, the official had a ready answer. "There is only one big one that comes to mind," said Cass Sunstein, then administrator of the White House OMB's Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs. "It is called Positive Train Control.''

The parent company of Assurant Health said Tuesday that it will sell or shut down the Milwaukee health insurer — which employs 1,200 people in the area — by the end of next year. Assurant Health has struggled to adjust to changes in the health insurance market imposed by the Affordable Care Act and is expected to report an operating loss of $80 million to $90 million in its first quarter. That comes after it lost $64 million last year. The company, whose headquarters is in downtown Milwaukee, specializes in health insurance for small employers and individuals, the two market...

Dear SHAW Red Team of 2014-2015: Instead of boring you and your friends and family with a summary of the games of this past weekend, this week I am looking forward to your date with history. I hope I speak on behalf of 15 families when I say, whatever happens this weekend, YOU ARE CHAMPIONS, and we are VERY PROUD of you and your accomplishments this season. Who could have known, back in early October of 2014 when this team was assembled, that you would be knocking on the door to greatness in March? I would like to say all...

All, Please take some time today to pray for the health of our very own AlBaby, who's been hospitalized. It appears yesterday he was suffering from some internal bleeding, and today the doctors will be taking a look at his intestines. Any and all prayers are very welcome for our FRiend.

I blame global warming.

Courtney Sue Reschke, a 35-year-old Idaho mother was charged with providing alcohol to and having sexual contact with four 15-year-old boys. The Idaho Statesman reports that Reschke appeared in 4th District Court on Dec. 3, 2012, on two counts each of felony injury to a child and felony lewd conduct. Prosecutors allege Reschke has had several sexual encounters with friends of her oldest child at her Kuna home since the start of the school year. Reschke's public defender sought her release without bond so she could keep her job and care for her children. District Judge Cathleen MacGregor Irby said...

Remind us again, Bill...where are you? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWNr0lsS-bU

I just received a Twitter Direct Mail from Amy Kremer of the Tea Party. I'm posting what she sent me Hey! Don't know what city you are in, but we r having a press conference for Lt Gov at 1pm in downtown Milwaukee. We need supporters there. Can you help get the word out pls. Don't want more counter protestors than supporters. She needs our help! It is at the Hyatt at 1pm. Thx!

A state-subsidized investment program yielded huge returns for three out-of-state financial firms and their partners while netting just 202 new jobs for Wisconsin, at a cost of more than $247,000 per job, a Journal Sentinel analysis has found.

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With teacher pay and benefits coming to the forefront in a heated political climate, the effort to recall Gov. Scott Walker has found its way into one Whitefish Bay classroom. Conservative talk radio host Charlie Sykes reported Tuesday that a Whitefish Bay Middle School teacher wore a "Recall Walker" pin in the classroom — a cause for concern for some of the students' parents.

A committee working to recall the state Senate's Republican leader has raised a little more than $3,500 since mid-November. Democrats and their allies are trying to gather enough signatures to force Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and three other GOP senators in recall elections next year. The Democrats want to oust the senators from office because they supported Republican Gov. Scott Walker's contentious collective bargaining law.

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