Early Morning Open Thread
This is hilarious. Vanity Fair copy edits Palin’s resignation speech.
Prominent Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested for breaking into his own home.
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., one of the nation’s pre-eminent African-American scholars, was arrested Thursday afternoon at his home by Cambridge police investigating a possible break-in. The incident raised concerns among some Harvard faculty that Gates was a victim of racial profiling.
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Friends of Gates said he was already in his home when police arrived. He showed his driver’s license and Harvard identification card, but was handcuffed and taken into police custody for several hours last Thursday, they said.
Nate Silver challenges climate change skeptics. Apparently some of them can’t even get their own weather right, and still don’t know the difference between climate and weather.
A city councilman in California sent racist emails to staff and community members. Many of them forwarded the messages to friends.
Perhaps the most overboard e-mail was sent on Jan. 15. It read: “Breaking News Playboy just offered Sarah Palin $1 million to pose nude in the January issue. Michelle Obama got the same offer from National Geographic.”
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Another recipient of forwarded e-mails along with Frago, Don Cherf, a former grand knight in Merced’s Knights of Columbus chapter, said he didn’t recall seeing the e-mails either. But he said the e-mail about Michelle Obama posing for National Geographic was not derogatory. “It’s just a joke, there’s nothing slanderous meant,” he said. “I feel you are reading it wrong. It’s not meant (to be) derogatory.”
Obama lets Republicans (and Blue Dog Republican-enablers) that it is on.
Now there are some in this town who are content to perpetuate the status quo, who are in fact fighting reform on behalf of powerful special interests. There are others who recognize the problem but believe — or perhaps hope — that we can put off the hard work of insurance reform for another day, another year, another decade.
Just the other day, one Republican Senator said — and I’m quoting him now — “If we’re able to stop Obama on this, it will be his Waterloo. It will break him.”
Think about that.
This isn’t about me. This isn’t about politics. This is about a health care system that is breaking America’s families, breaking America’s businesses, and breaking American’s economy.
We can’t afford the politics of delay and defeat when it comes to health care. Not this time, not now.
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That Palin item is awesome. What’s the difference between, “Every one of the ethics complaints has been dissmissed.” and “Most” of them have been?
The charges against Professor Gates were dropped today, but the Professor is looking for an apology from the officer involved. Seems fair, since Entering Your Own Home While Black is not a crime.
And I don’t think that anyone picked up Nate’s gauntlet — which tells me that these guys really are just in opposition because people on their side are in opposition. Not because they are grappling with the discussion or the data. But it is likely smart not to put your money where someone else’s mouth is.