Open Thread–10/9/2013

 Posted by at 12:26 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 092013
 

I’m writing for tomorrow and hurrying to finish before leaving for volunteer work in prison, a CoDA group with a dozen of my guys.  I hope I can stay awake, thanks to Guitar Man, who interrupted my sleep six times yesterday. Due to my need to recover, on Thursday and/or Friday, I may have just Open Threads, if that.

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Short Takes:

From Upworthy: Fracking Is Pretty Hard To Understand — Until It Isn’t

 

It seems clear to me that the limited short-term benefits do not stand up to the unlimited long-term hazards. But the Republican Party are a bunch of mother frackers!!

From Daily Kos: TIME Magazine’s Cover

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In a Republican Reich, Republicans rule, no matter how small a minority they are. Their ultimate goal is a permanent Reich ruled by the 0.1%.

From NY Times: The bitter fiscal stalemate in Washington is producing nervous ripples from London to Bali, with increasing anxiety that the United States might actually default on a portion of its government debt, set off global financial troubles and undercut fragile economic recoveries in many countries.

Click through for the rest. Online, I know people from all over the world, and they have no trouble understanding that the latest Republican meme that a Debt Limit crisis is not really a matter for concern is pure hogwash! That must be because foreign media do a better job of covering US Politics than US media do.

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  16 Responses to “Open Thread–10/9/2013”

  1. Jerry Critter says:
    October 9, 2013 at 10:01 am

    2:56  I had to move fast to keep from burning my fingers in the hot water.

  2. Pat A says:
    October 9, 2013 at 10:40 am

    How is fracking supposed to be hard to understand?  It uses millions of gallons of water needed for drinking, for industry and for agriculture, and puts a whole stack of toxic chemicals into it (which are mostly kept secret – HOW since they are left polluting the rock and any water that goes through it!) and pumps the chemical cocktail underground causing pollution to water supplies, increasing illnesses in the area, and causes earthquakes…. it is a disaster!

    Bless you TC for your prison work – and bless the guys you work with for all their hard work too! 

    • TomCat says:
      October 10, 2013 at 12:24 am

      Pat, it's hard to understand here, because people so seldom hear the truth about it.

      Bless my guys!  They are the ones working so hard to change!

  3. Pat A says:
    October 9, 2013 at 10:42 am

    PS love the cover of Time – wish it was real…. it isn't is it? (I can hope!).

  4. Joanne D says:
    October 9, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    Pat A, it's a real cover (US edition only), see http://content.time.com/time/magazine/0,9263,7601131014,00.html, and it's a real truth that Majority Rule has been crossed out by the lunatic right.  Which one of those things were you wishing (as if I didn't know)?

  5. Rixar13 says:
    October 9, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    ~ 5:05

    Fracking Is Pretty Hard To Understand — Until It Isn’t

    Don't Frack with our drinking water…

    In a Republican Reich, Republicans rule, no matter how small a minority they are. Their ultimate goal is a permanent Reich ruled by the 0.1%.

     The extreme Republican wing nuts put profit ahead of all else… When you are very wealthy, you possess great advantage (politicans and lawyers).

  6. Edith Belcher says:
    October 9, 2013 at 9:31 pm

    Fracking has all ready caused earthquakes in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and contaminated water in Arkansas.  What about fracking is so hard for the Rep. to understand? 

  7. Lynn Squance says:
    October 9, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    Puzzle — 3:32  I just scalded myself!

    Upworthy — Don't frack with Mother Earth or Mother Nature!  The Republicanus/Teabaggers have sold their souls to the oil and gas companies who have sold out Mother for a few pieces of gold!  Last time I looked, you can't eat or drink gold!

    Daily Kos — Ever so apt!

    "…a small collection of lawmakers is focused on shutting down the government, rather than ensure it functions for those who need it most."

    NY Times — "Too big to fail" (TBTF) is the term most often applied to banks.  But is it possible to apply it to the US itself?  When one looks at the global economy, the US is the largest component affecting so many people. If it goes down, so do so many other nations and their economies.   And it calls into question the whole US political system since the debt default is a political issue, not an economic issue.

    “In the permanent campaign mode the representatives find themselves, there is an incentive to be more radical and less compromising,” he said. “But no democracy works without compromise, and if compromise starts to be elusive, then a democratic system has to rethink itself.”

    Cartoon — That elephant is more unAmerican than Vladamir Putin.

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