Weekend Open Thread
It’s time for your open thread – thread away!
THE SUBJECT LINE on the e-mail simply reads, “The End.”
As in, the end of the Valley Club, the small, sleepy Huntingdon Valley community pool that was thrust into the national spotlight this past summer, allegedly for discriminating against minority campers who’d signed up to swim there for 90 minutes each week.
Yesterday, Valley president John Duesler announced that the club’s board of directors had voted 5-1 to file this week for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
I hope the Creative Steps Day Camp buys the pool.
Ummm…guys, this is a really bad idea. Perhaps you should rethink it? Do you really want to bring the craziness of the summer back? Do you think it went well for you?
The Danville TEA Party organization in Virginia is holding a “Fired Up for Freedom” rally tomorrow where it will be “burning Rep. Tom Perriello and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in effigy in response to the passage of landmark healthcare legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives.” Danville TEA Party Chairman Nigel Coleman said that the group’s members feel like they have “no representation in Congress.” Periello, however, met with the organization in the past.
In addition to funding abortion, the RNC also funds death panels:
Over the summer, one of the GOP’s loudest complaints against health care legislation was a provision offering senior citizens Medicare reimbursement for end-of-life counseling. Republicans claimed it would create so-called “death panels” or urge seniors citizens to die. RNC Chairman Michael Steele “endorsed this type of rhetoric, and on July 28, the RNC put out research document claiming that the government would “dictate” Americans’ “end-of-life care.”
But ThinkProgress has noticed that Cigna, the RNC’s health insurance provider, also urges beneficiaries to think about end-of-life services. Cigna’s website has a page called “Care at the End of Life,” which covers topics such as how to talk with “loved ones” about “end-of-life choices” and whether to stop life-prolonging treatment
Tags: Open Thread
The apology press release writes itself:
Conservatives believe in the right to life.
Except when they don’t.
Excellent Alienation Plan! Nice to see the ‘Baggers geting in touch with thier inner mob mentality.
Awesome post by the fabulous Shannyn Moore. http://shannynmoore.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/palins-oily-lies-drip-from-the-pages-of-going-rogue/ on Palin and Exxon.
Sheesh…
http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i12/Gunkadink/Obowmajapancopy.jpg
more groveling
http://domania.us/Oaccess/OBAMA/O-JapanBow.gif
other leaders for comparison
lizard, you know how stoopid this is. There are photos of George Bush holding hands with a Saudi prince for crying out loud.
only liberals equate greeting somone as an equal (handshake or handholding) with bowing.
Daily Mail ^
President Obama has been branded the ‘Groveller-in-Chief’ after giving an exaggerated bow to Japan’s emperor Akihito – the son of the ruler who authorised the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Coming so soon after Remembrance Day, the deep bow caused an outcry in the U.S. While it was seen as a sign of respect in Japan, Mr Obama was attacked in America for ‘bowing and scraping’ to a foreign leader, particularly a Japanese one. Wartime scars are still raw for many Americans. The 6ft 2in President’s mark of deference to the 5ft 5in emperor in Japan on Saturday dominated discussion…
🙄 Republicans are so weird and petty. Is there anything insignificant that doesn’t outrage you? Of course, 48 million uninsured is not outrageous in Republican-world.
I’m excited! I’m going to watch the remake of “The Prisoner” tonight. I’m looking forward to it.
yeah, lizard, in my house — with teenagers — we always equate “handholding” with “handshaking”.
Yikes!
No kids at your house, huh?
so lizard do you think in Japan the article reads….
“and then our emperor had the balls to greet American President Obama, the successor to the Harry Truman who ordered the atomic bomb drops on our beloved Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ”
see how ridiculous that sounds?
also you say
“While it was seen as a sign of respect in Japan…”
Since when is it offensive to be respectful to your host in their own home? maybe he should have just puked in the guys lap…..