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Open Thread – 8/5/2010

Posted by TomCat at 1:13 am Open Thread, Personal

Aug 052010

Yesterday I had no time to reply to comments or return visits, because it I was co-facilitating a therapy group. I talked about misattribution error. Nobody can make us angry or happy or whatever. Our emotions are our own. We alone are responsible for them. Any attempt to blame them on another is an error, because it leads to the belief that whatever anti-social action we may take is also another’s responsibility. It’s a tough concept to swallow. Today, I’m getting a haircut and starting to catch up on all those comments and return visits.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 4:46. To do it, click here. How did you do?

Fantasy Football:

Because it was clear that we will not get enough players, and CBS will not let us publish the league to get players from the general pool, I moved the league to Fox Sports, because they will let us go public. I have sent an email initiation to everyone who was in and two have responded, so far. If you would like to play, sign into Fox Fantasy Football with any MSN ID. The League ID is 1023560. The Password is nogop

I’ll be opening the league to the public on Saturday. Please get in and claim your place.

Short Takes:

From Alternet: A new letter from the Department of Justice says that Sheriff Joe Arpaio will have a federal lawsuit on his hands if he continues his refusal to cooperate with an investigation into discriminatory and unconstitutional practices.

Crazy Joe Arpaio needs to be deported.

From Crooks and Liars: A press release from Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle today goes after Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for voting in favor of the economic stimulus package. The release features the headline: "Harry Reid’s Plan to Save the Nevada Economy: Coked-up Stimulus Monkeys."

If she keeps this up, she might even make Batshit Bachmann look sane.

From McClatchy DC: The Obama administration late Wednesday told BP that it can pour cement into its Deepwater Horizon well, a step that could seal the well permanently.

Moments later, BP announced that the cementing would begin Thursday. There was no word on how long the procedure would last.

Maybe the first stage of this disaster will finally be over, unless they let Halliburton do the cementing.

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

5englehart

What’s up?

Open Thread – 8/4/2010

Posted by TomCat at 1:06 am Open Thread, Personal

Aug 042010

Yesterday, I spent most of the day at a meeting and had no tome left for replying to comments or returning visits. Today is my volunteer day co-facilitating a therapy group for former prisoners, so it won’t much better, if at all. I shall reply to every comment and return every visit possible. Potting a big dent, at least, in that backlog id my project for tomorrow.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 3:55. To do it, click here. How did you do?

Fantasy Football:

Short Takes:

From TPM: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has added his voice to those who are speaking out against the construction of a Muslim community center in downtown New York, close to Ground Zero, an issue that has become a major cause on the right.

Once again I call to strip this Republican of his Committee Chair.

From Think Progress: Police in south-central Pennsylvania have arrested prison guard Raymond Franklin Peake for the murder of Todd Getgen on July 21 at a Pennsylvania Game Commission shooting range. What’s most disturbing about this incident is why Peake is involved. Peake told police that he found Getgen already dead and “stole his rifle so it could be used by an extremist group bent on overthrowing the U.S. government.”

This is Republican patriotism at its finest.

From MSNBC: A Teabagger Dovorce

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Grounds? Failure to commit Teabuggery

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

4keefe

Happy Hump Day!

Open Thread – 8/3/2010

Posted by TomCat at 1:49 am Open Thread, Personal

Aug 032010

Yesterday I managed to stay current with replying to comments and returning visits. Today I have a meeting, and I don’t know how much time I will have.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 4:56. To do it, click here. How did you do?

Fantasy Football:

Short Takes:

From Think Progress: Tamara Scott, the state director for the conservative Concerned Women of America, told the NOM rally crowd that “part of the country’s current economic downturn was to blame on the social costs of the threatened traditional family unit through the legalization of gay marriage.”

Lady, the idea that the Republican Recession had anything to do with gay marriage is nuts! Are you going to blame gays for the GOP gusher too?

From Raw Story: The Republican National Committee will invite Andrew Breitbart to its rescheduled "big donor" fundraiser in Southern California, which had been set to feature the conservative columnist and online-media mogul, along with numerous California Republican politicians.

I had hoped they would keep them. He’s a walking definition of who they are.

From TPM: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has come out in support of congressional hearings into the matter of whether the US Constitution grants citizenship to every person born in the United States — so-called ‘birthright’ citizenship.

As we have learned in our Constitutional study, there is nothing for hearings to investigate. All people born here are citizens. Mitch “Bought Bitch” McConnell has joined the Republican “anchor babies” meme, proving that GOP racism goes all the way to the top.

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

3matson

What’s up?

Open Thread – 8/2/2010

Posted by TomCat at 1:44 am Open Thread, Personal

Aug 022010

Yesterday I kept up with replying to comments and returning visits. Today should present no problems doing the same, except that my COPD has acted up the last couple days. Tomorrow and Wednesday will be busy though.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Yesterday it took me 4:35. To do it, click here. How dod you do?

Fantasy Football:

Short Takes:

From The Grand Forks Herald: Teabaggers claim they’re a new political movement, but there’s nothing new about them. Their ignorance and reactionary self-righteousness are as old as humanity.

There were teabaggers in ancient Israel; they were known as the Pharisees. There were teabaggers in the Spanish Inquisition; they burned witches at the stake. There were teabaggers in South Africa; they imprisoned Nelson Mandela for 28 years. There even are teabaggers in the animal kingdom; they’re called parrots.

That paper sure knows about Teabuggery!! 🙂

From TPM: Target donated $150,000 to a group called MN Forward, a pro-business group backed by the state Chamber of Commerce, and which is actively supporting the very conservative Emmer. As a result, they’ve come under fire from gay rights organizations, due to Emmer’s support for a proposed state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, and his close associations with the religious right.

Any company that takes advantage of the Citizens United Decision does not deserve our business, especially when they support bigots like Emmer.

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

2cam

OGIM!!

Open Thread – 8/1/2010

Posted by TomCat at 2:16 am Open Thread, Personal

Aug 012010

Yesterday I kept up with replying to comments and returning visits. I should have no trouble with that today. There will be no Short Takes today, because it’s a slow day for news. Stats will not update until later this morning, so the the Monthly Report for July will be posted tomorrow.

Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:26. To do it, click here. How did you do?

Fantasy Football:

I’m waiting until next Saturday morning to open the league to the public, so if you were in the CBS league and haven’t replied to your invitation to this one, please do.

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

1keefe

May this new month bring you good news.

Open Thread – 7/31/2010

Posted by TomCat at 1:44 am Open Thread, Personal

Jul 312010

Yesterday I managed to stay up to date on replying to comments and returning visits. Doing so today should present no difficulty.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 4:50. To do it, click here. That babe is a real dog. How did you do?

Fantasy Football:

Short Takes:

From CNN: A federal appeals court has denied Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s request for an expedited hearing on the state’s controversial immigration law. Instead, the case has been scheduled for a hearing during the first week in November.

Love it!

From Right Wing Watch: On September 11, the folks at Dove World Church in Gainesville, Florida (perhaps best known for their "No Homo Mayor" signs a few months back) will be hosting "International Burn A Quran Day."

What hypocrites Republicans are! If a Muslim group were to ban Bibles, every Republican in both the House and the Senate would need an underwear change.

From McClatchy DC: Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson Friday became the first Democrat to oppose Elena Kagan, President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.

Were I not so dead set against violence, I’d be tempted to imitate Glen Beck.

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

31bagley

What’s up this weekend?

Open Thread – 7/30/2010

Posted by TomCat at 1:54 am Open Thread, Personal

Jul 302010

Yesterday I devoted most of the day to catching up. I replied to all the comments, which took most of the morning. Then I visited half of our blogroll. I’ll stay caught up today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took med 4:03. To do it, click here. How did you do?

Fantasy Football:

Short Takes:

From TPM: Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) has declined to hold another hearing on the New Black Panthers case, which had been requested by the committee’s Republicans.

Thank you for refusing to allow more GOP distraction.

From Public Policy Polling: One of the interesting dynamics occurring in the Nevada Senate race right now is that Harry Reid is outrunning his approval numbers- about 10% of voters who don’t approve of his job performance are planning to vote for him anyway.

The automatic assumption would be that those are folks who think Sharron Angle’s too conservative, but only 40% of them actually hold that opinion. When you ask them whether Reid or Angle would be more effective as a Senator though 87% of them say Reid to only 10% for Angle.

See? We coulf have dumped Reid as Majority Leader. People who don’t think Angle is a wing nut thing she’s a dingbat. A progressive could have beaten her easily.

From Think Progress: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who many previously thought would co-sponsor comprehensive immigration reform this year, is considering radically changing the 14th amendment. Graham may introduce a constitutional amendment that would overturn the portion of the Constitution which states “[a]ll persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” In other words, Graham wants to end the practice of granting citizenship to the children of undocumented immigrants born on U.S. soil.

And people wonder why I say thet the Tea Party and the GOP are one.

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

30keefe

TGIF!!

Open Thread – 7/29/2010

Posted by TomCat at 2:30 am Open Thread, Personal

Jul 292010

Yesterday was my volunteer day with the therapy group. I feel inspired when I see men committed to making progress toward a better understanding of how their own choices led them into criminal activity, and how to make pro-social choices early enough to prevent another descent. When I returned home I felt too exhausted to reply to comments and return visits. The worst of the heat wave is over. For the first time a week, I can post without wanting to seal my eyelids open with tape. In the next couple days, I will reply to the comments and return the visits.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 5:29. To do it, click here. How did you do?

Fantasy Football:

To join our fantasy football league, click here. It’s desperation time. Unless we have three more players before Monday, I’ll need to cancel the league.

Short Takes:

From Alternet: Japan’s government said Wednesday it had no plan to delay transferring some 8,000 US marines based on the southern island of Okinawa to the US Pacific territory of Guam by 2014.

In Washington on Tuesday, Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, an assistant US secretary of the Navy, told Congress that the lack of infrastructure in Guam could cause delays.

But Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku told a news conference: "I have not confirmed that debate. We think we want to go ahead firmly as promised."

What’s the controversy? We certainly have the infrastructure to base those troops in the US. After 65 years, I think we can reasonably end the occupation of Japan.

From Washington Post: A team of federal investigators known as the "BP squad" is assembling in New Orleans to conduct a wide-ranging criminal probe that will focus on at least three companies and examine whether their cozy relations with federal regulators contributed to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according to law enforcement and other sources.

The squad at the FBI offices includes investigators from the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard and other federal agencies, the sources said. In addition to BP, the firms at the center of the inquiry are Transocean, which leased the Deepwater Horizon rig to BP, and engineering giant Halliburton, which had finished cementing the well only 20 hours before the rig exploded April 20, sources said.

It’s about stinking time!

From MSNBC:

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These Republicans are becoming more Teabuggered every day!

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

29keefe

Are we sick of tea yet? Bring on the coffee!

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