I’m back. If things go as planned, I’ll be publishing in the afternoon or early evening from now on. I hope to catch up on comments tomorrow.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:17 (average 3:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From LA Times: Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with regional leaders Saturday to sign an agreement for a massive energy project that could eventually net his country billions of dollars in revenue: a 1,000-mile natural gas pipeline whose proposed route cuts through the heartland of the Taliban insurgency.
This is the same pipeline from the Stans to Karachi that Bush installed Karzai, his puppet, to build. Karzai is a former Unocal employee. Watch for increased tension with Russia, as Gazprom now controls gas from the Caspian Sea region.
From Think Progress: Today, friends and families gathered in Raleigh, NC to mourn Elizabeth Edwards, who died this week after battling cancer. Outside, a small group of protesters from the extremist anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church picketed the event because they said Edwards “spent her life in defiance and disobedience to God.” The church regularly harasses the families of dead American soldiers by picketing homosexuality at their funerals with signs like “pray for more dead soldiers,” and “your sons are in hell.”
But at Edwards’ funeral today, the tiny group of hate mongers was confronted by more than300 counterprotesters, who turned out to stand against hate, despite the rain.
Congress should take a lesson from those demonstrators on standing up to Republicans.
From The Vile Plutocrat: Bernard Madoff’s son Mark was found dead in the living room of his SoHo apartment this morning, hanging from a black dog leash on the day of the two-year anniversary of his father’s stunning fall from grace. He was 46 years old.
An excellent example that other Banksters should follow.
Cartoon:
Keep hanging in there!
7 Responses to “Open Thread–12/12/2010”
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Ahhhhh. Beat me by 10 seconds.
Getting a full night’s sleep is more important than us having our TC fix in the am.
Watch also for the Taliban to blow up the pipeline at every step.
Bernie’s son hung himself on the anniversary of his father’s arrest. I think that even though they turned him in, they knew they would be next.
Great cartoon and some of these things are of Obama’s own making so he can’t blame it all on Bush.
The longer he is in office, the less he can blame on Bush especially things, like get out of Guantanamo, that he promised during the campaign.
Agree, Jerry.
Thanks!
I agree that securing the route is dubious at best.
Do you think they turned him in just to escape their own culpability?
Thanks and agree.
TC –
With all due respect, I can’t help but feel that your comment about suicide, and encouraging others to do likewise, is extremely insensitive – especially to those who may have lost friends or family members that way. Since I cannot think of a scenario where suicide should be promoted, I would encourage you to delete it.
Nameless, to delete it would be to cover up my own error, but I will happily admit fault and apologize. As my own mother hung herself in my youth, I should have been more sensitive. I intended it as dark humor, and had no wish that anyone should actually do so.