My Goofy Job: The Harlem Shake Edition

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Wednesday February 20, 2013 · 5:49 AM PST

2013/02/20 · 05:49

I work at the local NBC station here in Green Bay, Wisconsin on the morning show, pushing cameras and stroking egos. Every once in a while we have some goofy fun. On even rarer occasions I feel compelled to share the "goofyness" with my pals here at the Kos.
We've had a few videos go viral in the 2 years that I've been toiling away at the Frozen Peacock. The first big one was when we pranked our weatherguy by putting "I love lamp" into the prompter. He's a nice guy, but he's way too busy tracking our daily blizzards to pre-read his scripts. This video has over 2 Million hits now on Youtube.

The second one we hit with featured your's truly as the "Replacement Weatherguy." Our beloved Packers had just gotten royally screwed by the replacement refs in Seattle. We made fun and ended up with over a million hits.
Follow me below Satan's Squiggly to see our latest attempt at having fun in the morning.

tundraman

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Wednesday April 04, 2012 · 8:39 AM PDT

2012/04/04 · 08:39

Yesterday TPM identified Francis Grady as the suspect held in connection to the firebombing incident at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. This morning, I spoke with William Roach the Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin regarding the Francis Grady case.He confirms that Mr. Grady WILL be charged today in Federal Court in Green Bay, at 1:30p.m. on an Arson charge and a charge of Violating the Federal Access to Clinic Entrances, or "FACE Act. The Criminal Complaint will be available at that time. Mr. Roach told me that there wasn't any real debate about charging him with terrorism and that these were the appropriate statutes to charge him under. After doing a little reasearch on the FACE Act, I tend to agree with him. The FACE Act was drafted specifically to address cases like this one.
For those of you new to the story, Mr.Grady has an extensive criminal record as revealed by the Wisconsin Simple Case Search website. http://wcca.wicourts.gov/...

Mr. Grady has NOT signed the RECALL Walker petition according to the searchable database.

I'll try and update this story if anything new develops today.

Here's the specific statute that he will be charged under...

Title 18, U.S.C., Section 248
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act
This statute prohibits (1) the use of force or threat of force or physical obstruction, to intentionally injure, intimidate or interfere with or attempt to injure, intimidate or interfere with any person or any class of persons from obtaining or providing reproductive health services; (2) the use of force or threat of force or physical obstruction to intentionally injure, intimidate, or interfere with or attempt to injure, intimidate, or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship; or (3) intentionally damages or destroys the property of a facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility provides reproductive health services or intentionally damages or destroys the property of a place of religious worship. This statute does not apply to speech or expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment. Non obstructive demonstrations are legal.
Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment for an offense involving exclusively a nonviolent physical obstruction, the fine shall be not more than $10,000 and the length of imprisonment shall be up to six months, or both, for the first offense: and the fine shall, notwithstanding section 3571, be up to $25,000 and the length of imprisonment shall be not more than 18 months, or both, for a subsequent offense; and if bodily injury results, the length of imprisonment shall be up to ten years, and if death results, it shall be for any term of years or for life.

Planned Parenthood Alleged Bomber Nabbed(UPDATE Name released)

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Tuesday April 03, 2012 · 11:06 AM PDT

2012/04/03 · 11:06

Well that didn't take long.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/...

The Press Gazette is reporting that they have a man in custody in relation to the firebombing of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Grand Chute, Wisconsin. He is currently in the Outagamie County Jail on a probation violation. He has not been charged. The surveilance video showed a vehicle and a matching vehicle was involved in a crash and towed. It is not yet clear as to whether he will be charged in Federal Court, or in the Outagamie County Court system. At this time he has NOT been charged in the incident, nor has he been identified.

I'll try and update on this story as more information becomes available.

tundraman

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Monday April 02, 2012 · 2:09 AM PDT

2012/04/02 · 02:09

I work in a newsroom, and we got this fax from the Grand Chute authorities a few hours ago. The War Against Women has escalated here in Wisconsin.
Sorry for the short diary, but I do have to work...

On Sunday April 1, 2012 at 7:41 P.M. the Grand Chute Fire Department responded to
Plannned Parenthood, 3800 N. Gíllett St for a fire alarm. While investigating the cause for
the alarm, firefighters found evidence of foul play and requested assistance from the
Grand Chute Police Department.
An unknown person placed a small homemade explosive device on an outside window
sill to the buílding. The device later exploded, causing damage to the building. A small
fire broke out at the time ofthe explosion, but it quickly burned itself out prior to the
arrival of the fire department.

The Grand Chute Police Department is investigating this incident. It is believed the
incident took place around 7:30 P.M. If anyone has about this incident,
please contact the Grand Chute Department at 920-832-1575.

tundraman

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Friday February 10, 2012 · 9:22 AM PST

2012/02/10 · 09:22

I work in a newsroom in Green Bay, and today I got a press release that was so full of good old fashioned smackdown that I felt compelled to share it with my fellow Kossacks.
As you may know the Uber evil Majority Leader Fitzgerald is claiming to have more than enough challenges to his recall petition to stop it dead in it's tracks.
For the blow by blow takedown, follow me below the Satanic squiggle.

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Tuesday January 03, 2012 · 4:41 PM PST

2012/01/03 · 16:41

I don't do diaries, I lurk and comment. This is my 2nd. It isn't about electing more and better Democrats, so I am a tad queasy putting it out there. This is just for giggles. We all can use a daily giggle, and today I helped Green Bay giggle.

I work for WBGA26 the NBC affiliate in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I do some editing and run the cameras for the morning show. It's a struggling show on a struggling station, but it's home.

Today we pranked our Weatherman on air. I giggled. Everyone who makes the show happen giggled. If you liked Anchorman maybe you'll get a giggle too. On a whim, I sent the video to the Huffington Post today, and they must have gotten a giggle, because it's on their comedy page right now.
(Insert follow me under the squiggle cliche here)

tundraman

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Tuesday July 19, 2011 · 1:15 PM PDT

2011/07/19 · 13:15

I don't do diaries, I lurk and enjoy and add a rec here and there. I realized today that I should share because I am in a vortex today that the KOS community cares about. I am in the 30th district in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Yup, that state.
Today, me and the wife got to vote to retain Dave Hansen. It was not busy, but the new "Show me your papers" twist to the system was awkward. It's obvious that it is going to slow down the process and that's really the point of it. Clearly they want to discourage voting in general and specifically to those with busy lives.
That's not the point of the diary tho, it's about my gig and what I didn't see in the mail. I work at a local tv station that shall remain nameless because I'm shy and they don't need the attention. The key is I read all the emails that are sent to the newsroom. Every day hundreds of photo-ops come in. Cover this, cover that.
Oh dang, I guess this is where I say go over the fold.

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