You know, the ladies at The World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc. are gonna miss Christine —-

Christine O’Donnell had a book signing for Troublemaker: Let’s Do What It Takes to Make America Great Again in Naples, Florida last week but the News-Press reports just five people showed up and “members of the media outnumbered customers.”

The failed U.S. Senate candidate also “politely turned down a request from a young man who asked her to sign his book on demonology instead of a copy of her book.”

I guess there’s always Michele Bachmann.

Thanks to David for the heads-up.

It seems that the Houston based corporation, TaxMaster, has had better days.

HOUSTON — TaxMasters Inc. (OTC: TAXS) has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle fraud charges pressed by Minnesota’s attorney general without accepting admission of liability.

The Houston-based company, which assists people in resolving tax problems with the Internal Revenue Service , was accused last December of falsely claiming in TV advertisements that it could reduce individuals’ tax debt by up to 90 percent, and for collecting upfront fees of up to $8,000.

TaxMasters disclosed in an SEC filing that its agreement with Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson to pay the $500,000 over 28 months, settling all claims, was approved by a court.

And in case you’re wondering if the Texas Attorney General will follow suit, I seriously doubt it.

You see, we know how pay to play works here.  Click here and scroll to the bottom to see who’s being paid.

And how much of that money has been donated to charity?  $0.00, that’s how much.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads-up.

UPDATED:  Alfredo found that the President of TaxMasters, Patrick Cox, has become pretty good at fidgeting with his name to make more contributions.

Lookie who is showing up now —

That’s $97,000 from a dude who freely pays a $500,000  fine for fraud.

I wonder why Republicans even go outside on Labor Day.

So do the hard working folks in Wisconsin.

Community parades often feature local politicians waving to the crowds, but this year’s annual Labor Day parade in Wausau may be short a few elected officials.

That’s because the head of the group that sponsors the Wausau Labor Day Parade, the Marathon County Central Labor Council, is telling Republicans lawmakers from the area that they’re not welcome on Sept. 5.

“Usually they’ve been in the parade, but it seems like they only want to stand with us one day a year, and the other 364 days they don’t really care,” said Randy Radtke, president of the Council. The Council is made up of about 30 local unions from the Marathon County area.

In a statement, Radtke added that parade is intended to celebrate working men and women and what the labor movement has given them: weekends, a 40-hour work week, child labor protection and a safe working environment.

Thanks to Carl for the heads-up.

We have a new Anthony Weiner.  Except, as always, with a Republican twist.

It seems that Puerto Rican senator and GOP cheerleader Roberto Arango’s profile appeared on gay hook-up app.

In a not flattering pose.  Sorry, I can’t put it here because Momma comes here.  But trust me on this, no telling how many hours of yoga it took to be able to do a self photograph of one’s hiney doggy style.  Trust me on this, too, that’s all you want to know.

Gawker has it all and by all I mean his hiney.

Thank you Davenport for the heads up!

The rightwing is never, ever slow to pick up on natural disasters.

Pardon me, I didn’t say that right.  There is no such thing as “natural” disasters.  There are only “Pissed-Off God” Disasters.

Check out Michele Bachman’s comments in Florida –

“I don’t know how much God has to do to get the attention of the politicians. We’ve had an earthquake; we’ve had a hurricane. He said, ‘Are you going to start listening to me here?’  Listen to the American people because the American people are roaring right now. They know government is on a morbid obesity diet and we’ve got to rein in the spending.”

Okay, I dunno about you, but I am not prepared to let Michele Bachmann interpret for the Big Cowboy in the Sky.  I think her cell connection to the Pearly Gates is breaking up.  I’m pretty sure that God didn’t tell her to marry a gay guy.  I think he said, “That Hayes guy,” referring to Cletus Hayes, an almost famous tinted-sand-in-a-bottle artist in Saginaw.

So when Michele says the earthquake and the hurricane means that God is trying to get the attention of “politicians” to rein in spending in the United States of America, how do we know that it wasn’t God reacting to the draconian cuts they’ve already made?

Me?  Hell, I can’t even read tea leaves or Tarot cards so how am I supposed to know what God means by brutally killing 21 people just to get Bernie Sanders’ attention?  How do we know that God wasn’t trying to get Michele Bachmann to shut the hell up?  Or was simply reacting to Rick Perry entering the race?

I do not want to tell the Head Honcho how to do his business, but these Republicans are kinda slow.  I mean, I can truly see President Michele Bachmann running out of ink in her pen and stumbling on the carpet edge in the same day and interpreting that as a message from God to invade Canada.  Or Saginaw.  You never know.

So, I am making a request of God.  Hire a sky writer and make sure he knows English.

Personally, they can come up with all the stories they want to, but I think the Rick Perry / Mitt Romney fued is all about hair.

It ain’t about political consultants.  It’s about rugged good looks.  And Hair.  Capital H Hair.

Republican men take hair very seriously.  Just look at Newt or Paul Ryan or Eric Cantor.  These guys are as serous as a snakebite about hair spray.

There is not room on that stage for both their hair.  Those boys will scratch each others eyes out before they will relinquish the “rugged good looks” title.

I say that whichever one comes in 2nd gets the next contract to be the Brawny Paper Towels guy.