Tuesday’s Open Thread
For those of you who are unfamiliar what an open thread is, it is a post open to all our visitors as a place to let everyone what’s on your mind — what articles you’ve been reading, what thoughts your having about subjects we haven’t covered, etc.
To help you out, some things you may have missed at Delaware Liberal: Markell shows leadership while ignoring the flacid Rick Jensen, Michelle Bachmann is doing her best Glen Close impersonation, the Queen is poisonous, and, on a more serious note, the shootings in Pittsburgh which we covered here and here.
So have fun and don’t be shy.
The delawareway reports:
But we all say John Carney is running for Congress. Remember when we all though John Carney would be our next Senator. Good times, good times.
Seriously, how many times have I heard “Carney is running for Congress?” I’ve heard it so much I probably won’t believe it until Carney knocks on my door to tell me personally.
Just because you have a bumper sticker that reads “Jesus is my co-pilot”, that doesn’t mean that you don’t have to pay attention to what is going around you.
BTW, The Empire State Building is going green. Cost of $20 million with savings of $4.4 million per year.
You mentioned Pittsburgh, so don’t forget the classic post of the Republican Mafia’s direct involvement with the massacre in NY last week as described here.
FTR, the media-partisan-pundit-blowhards of all persuasions are self-absorbed jagazzes who couldn’t give a rat’s ass about you or me, so, no, I don’t defend them.
You’re a little angry right now. 😉
How’s the old Mafia rebuilding going there, Rsmitty? 🙂
I think he’s off killing bunnies. 😉
Well the blind squirrel (Jason) found his political-point nut with the Pittsburgh tragedy (have I ever stated my case about how the partisan-media-blowhards are jagazzes), but when he thought he found it with the NY tragedy, in which he was apparently wrong, he never had to deal with a come-uppance, because once it fell into an NRA debate, he just snuck out of the picture.
Didn’t John Carney say he was running for Congress on Delaware Talk Radio? I didn’t hear it, but could have sworn that I read someone report that a few months back….
Aw geez, I think I’m ready for some cowbell….
In 2010, the dems will pick up Delaware’s one House seat, 2 or three US Senate seats and lose 10-15 house seats (the dems are maxed out on pretty much all of the contested regions).
QOTD: When the economy turns around, what will the republican argument be? So far it’s been, it won’t work. When it does, what will the argument be?
anonie, the answer will be that the economy goes in cycles.
Funny that the up cycles only occur in during Democratic Administrations.
When the economy turns around, what will the republican argument be?
Cut taxes, of course.
Kumar is off to work the White House . . . . he’s quite disappointed because he thought he was asked to work at White Castle.
I heard from a pretty reliable source that John Carney is going to run. Not swearing to this or anything, but it looks like a very strong possibility. Huzzah – the NCCC will have a candidate they can support.
Just wanted to put this out there and see what everyone else thought…
So I flew from Philly to Austin on Saturday, with a layover in Chicago. On the flight from Chicago to Austin, I was awoken from a nice sleep by a man that was having what appeared to be a heart attack in the aisle next to me.
Long story short, there is a doctor on board, he tends to Ailing Man and recommends to the captain that we divert, which the captain does. Ailing Man recovers and walks off plane with EMS people.
Captain then explains to us that we cannot take off until we have a full oxygen tank, because the one on board was used for Ailing Man.
In the end, we end up in Springfield, MO for 7 hours while the captain and crew fly to St. Louis to get a new tank.
As we prepare to board, Ailing man gets in line to board after apparently waiving his right to a hospital visit. Delta gave the OK for him to board, but the captain says, “Uh. I don’t think so.” Ailing man becomes irate, and then is arrested.
I arrived in Austin 745 pm Saturday evening instead of 1100 am. My purpose for the trip was to attend a record show on Saturday and Sunday and to return home at 5 pm Sunday.
My question is this: Do I feel pissed that Ailing Man ruined my weekend, or do I feel relieved Ailing Man was unharmed and rather OK?
In the end, we end up in Springfield, MO for 7 hours while the captain and crew fly to St. Louis to get a new tank.
It is good to know there is no oxygen in Springfield MO.
You ave no idea.
Never forget, Republicans want Obama to fail. That is their whole game plan.
Their biggest fear? What if due to Obama’s policies, the economy comes back better than ever?
The last CBO reports sucked, but their growth estimates are low. In the early 90s, they issued similar reports, and then kept revising them upward every quarter to account for the unexpected growth.
I always said if Bill Clinton had managed to keep his zipper closed, we’d be building public statues of him in towns all over the country.
Remember this?
“My fellow Americans, the state of our union is the strongest it has ever been.” (2000)
I fully expect President Obama to be saying these same words sometime soon.
Callit:
It depends on your political party affiliation:
If you’re a liberal Democrat, you can feel pissed and guilty or you can feel relieved and virtuous.
If your a repub, you’re just happy that the guy was arrested.
And by the way in case you missed the link above…. the 2000 SOTU is a great read; it shows how fast and how far we have fallen:
http://www.insidepolitics.org/speeches/clinton00.htm
is there something SO WONNERFUL about Carney that I’ve missed over the years? I haven’t found this guy worthy of a second look in the years I’ve lived in Delaware…Please do tell, what is the love affair with him?
Callit:
You can feel both relieved and pissed.
My question is this: Do I feel pissed that Ailing Man ruined my weekend, or do I feel relieved Ailing Man was unharmed and rather OK?
Pissed.
That was easy.
Rush gets called out!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/07/republican-caller-tells-l_n_184244.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/07/biden-cheney-dead-wrong-c_n_184191.html
Our Boy Joe
Thanks for sharing those links, TT. It’s good to see Republicans attempting to take their party back. It’s a shame that it takes a regular voter to take on Rush and not the so-called leaders.
More safe? how about safe, safer, safest???? 😉
This Huffpo comment is not to be missed:
9/11
Iraq.
Torture.
Rendition.
Wiretapping.
Habeus corpus.
Detainee abuse.
Pre-emptive war.
The trade deficit.
The national debt.
The federal deficit.
Outing Valerie Plame.
Suppression of science.
The aftermath of Katrina.
Empowerment of enemies.
Creation of untold terrorists.
Alienation of traditional allies.
Subversion of the electoral process.
Perversion of the legislative process.
Overlooking system of checks and balances.
Undermining Constitutional separation of powers.
Allowing global warming to intensify at crucial time.
Refusing to fund stem cell research as millions suffer.
Enriching a small group of oil and petrochemical interests.
Appointing unqualified cronies in order to discredit governance.
Glibly estimating civilian deaths in Iraq at “30,000, give or take.”
Signing statements that undermine laws even as they’re signed into law.
Referring to the Iraq war and the death of our American soldiers as a “Comma.”
“Not really thinking about” Bin Laden, the terrorist responsible for the 911 attacks.
EPIC GOP FAIL
For Jason, a great cartoon:
Link