Thursday Open Thread
It’s Thursday and it’s open thread time. Remember, tomorrow is DL’s War on Christmas Party. The WOC party starts at 7 p.m. at C.W. Harborside. We’ll be collecting canned goods to donate to the Food Bank. Come on out and forget your troubles for a while!
A Costco in Salt Lake City, Utah reportedly removed all of its tomatoes ahead of a Sarah Palin book tour event, after a man was arrested for attempting to hit Palin with a tomato at an earlier event in Minnesota.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Costco management was “determined” to avoid another tomato-throwing incident, and resorted to removing all of the tomatoes from the store.
I have to add that I think it’s wrong to throw items at someone you don’t like. Doesn’t the Costco reaction seem a bit extreme?
Sarah Palin is all about regular folks:
Halliday was called by a friend at 8 a.m. last Wednesday and was told Palin needed her hair done that morning. Halliday had planned to take her 3-year-old to the dentist for her first filling that morning, but arranged for her husband to get off work for that chore.
She was told to meet the group at the Monaco Hotel in downtown Salt Lake City and to just leave her car with valet parking.
After being ushered to a room on the 15th floor and given some instructions (don’t talk to Palin unless she talks first) she did Palin’s hair while the former Alaska governor chatted with her family.
Then, the Palin party left to get to the book signing at Costco on time. Halliday was the last one out of the room because she had to put her equipment away, then watched as they all drove off without anyone mentioning payment or a tip, which is common when the hairdresser travels to the client for the appointment.
When the valet attendant got her car, he said that would be $10. She said she was with the Palin party and assumed they would take care of parking. That was news to him, so she had to fork over the $10.
She says her friend has contacted Palin’s assistant and was told to send them an invoice.
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another Obama appointment:
Paying Off ‘La Raza’
Townhall ^ | December 16, 2009 | Ben Shapiro
If you were president of the United States, would you hire an alleged former spy for Fidel Castro to be ambassador to El Salvador, a country teetering on the brink of hard-core socialism? President Obama just did. On Dec. 9, Obama nominated Mari Del Carmen Aponte to be ambassador to El Salvador, despite the fact that in the late 1990s, the FBI discovered that she was working with Cuban intelligence officers. According to Insight Magazine, “When the FBI eventually questioned her about her involvement with Cuban intelligence, she reportedly refused to cooperate.” Why would Aponte escape the Obama administration’s scrutiny?…
Lizard gullible
http://mediamatters.org/research/200912160019
Since the teabaggers want to return to how things were when our nation was founded, throwing tomatoes and other refuse was an acceptable form of expressing one’s dissatisfaction with a public official (short of challenging them to a duel). So I say let the people throw tomatoes.
Too lazy to find the link, but I read a blog post the other day that when Sarah Palin shows up at Costco for a book signing, they have to temporarily remove the tomatoes. Supposedly because of an actual tomato throwing incident.
Oops, UI found the story first…
Before you go thinking that they might be overreacting, keep in mind that this was at a Costco. People wouldn’t be throwing one tomato, they’d be throwing like ten pounds of them.
They have lots of large pies over in Bakery…
She’s safe there — Soupy Sales passed away in October.
Ha!
Full Episodes
The Castle Amendment is back:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/15/AR2009101503036_pf.html
You remember, the one that lets insurance companies double your premiums if you flunk or don’t participate in a Wellness Plan?
This is exactly the bill that AHIP wanted.
Merry Christmas from Goldman Sachs
Fox News ^ | 12/18/2009
DEVELOPING STORY: India and China walked out of the climate summit in Copenhagen on Friday, the India news agency Press Trust of India reported. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao walked out of the summit along with their respective delegations, as talks failed.
Energy Update: 50% Now Say Global Warming Caused by Long-Term Planetary Trends…
Rasmussen ^ | 12/17/2009
Public skepticism about the officially promoted cause of global warming has reached an all-time high among Americans. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of likely voters now believe that global warming is caused primarily by long-term planetary trends. Just 34% say climate change is due primarily to human activity, even as President Obama and other world leaders gather at a UN summit to limit the human activity they blame for global warming. Six percent (6%) say there is some other reason for global warming, and 10% are not sure. Belief that human activity is the primary…
lizard, who cares what public opinion on global warming is? what do 50% of SCIENTISTS say?
because see, that’s the thing about science. there’s a right and a wrong answer. and no amount of commericals or radio djs or idiots on fox news, can make a right scientific answer into a wrong scientific answer.
also, i hope your christmas tree catches on fire.
Breaking:
Inquisitor^|12/17/1491
Even as Ferdinand and Isabella continue to plan on spending the country’s wealth to “find a new route to the Far East” evidence mounts that Spaniards are solidly against it. Over 60% say that they are certain or somewhat certain that the Earth is flat.
Opponents of the Columbian fantasy point out that this shows that the “Learned people” have not proven their assertions. Representatives of the Vatican (home of most of the skeptics and the most learned people) say that they hope that this evidence helps clarify how ordinary Spaniards and Europeans feel about…
v, Lizard’s reality CLEARLY is based in truthiness.
One thin September soon
A floating continent disappears
In midnight sun
Vapors rise as
Fever settles on an acid sea
Neptune’s bones dissolve
Snow glides from the mountain
Ice fathers floods for a season
A hard rain comes quickly
Then dirt is parched
Kindling is placed in the forest
For the lightning’s celebration
Unknown creatures
Take their leave, unmourned
Horsemen ready their stirrups
Passion seeks heroes and friends
The bell of the city
On the hill is rung
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
Weight loss and portion control
With the advent of “super-size” meals and increasingly huge portions at restaurants, our concept of normal serving sizes is a distant memory. Be mindful of the amounts of food you consume at a sitting. When necessary, divide your food in half and ask for a take home bag. It is all too easy to be a “plate cleaner” even when served enormous portions. Learn to pay attention to your hunger level and stop eating when you feel comfortably full, not stuffed.