Thursday Open Thread

Filed in National by on February 4, 2010

It’s Thursday and it’s the day after the Delaware Tweet-Up. I liked the opportunity to meet some of our readers and I hope some of my Twitter friends will read the blog. Let’s open this thread!

This is great news for John McCain!

Ret. Gen. Colin Powell, who helped instituted the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in the 1990s, now supports the efforts to repeal it.

Powell, who was chairman of the joint chiefs when the military’s policy toward gay servicemembers was instituted, said “I fully support the new approach” in a statement today.

That new approach Powell cites, presented by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Michael Mullen yesterday, includes appointing a commission to study the effects of such a repeal, and possibly stopping action against servicemembers who have been outed by a third party.

McCain cited Powell in his statement in opposition to DADT repeal.

Oops. The winner of the Illinois Democratic party Lt. Gov primary has an arrest for domestic violence. Unfortunately, the Democratic party didn’t figure this out until after he won the primary.

Scott Lee Cohen — a pawnbroker who shocked state Democratic leaders Tuesday night by winning the party’s nomination for lieutenant governor — was arrested about four-and-a-half years ago and accused of holding a knife to a former live-in girlfriend’s neck, newly obtained court records show.

The misdemeanor charge against Cohen was dropped weeks later when the woman — who had just been found guilty of prostitution — failed to show up to testify, according to those records.

That seems like a simple thing to find out, Illinois Democrats (especially primary opponents). Do they know about the Google?

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  1. delacrat says:

    Director of National Intelligence Tells Congress Americans Can Be Killed Overseas

    Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, told members of the House intelligence committee that he was speaking publicly about the issue to reassure(sic) Americans that intelligence agencies and the Department of Defense “follow a set of defined policy and legal procedures that are very carefully observed” in the use of lethal force against U.S. citizens.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/03/AR2010020303968_pf.html

  2. xstryker says:

    The people of Huntsville, Alabama are pretty upset about NASA cancelling their moon plans because 2500 jobs at Marshall Space Flight Center are at risk. They should go talk to their congressman, Parker Griffith… oh wait, he’s the guy who switched from Democrat to Republican a few months back and is now a back bencher without committee assignments in the minority party. Yeah, sucks to be you, Huntsville. But don’t worry, I’m sure your Republican senators will work real hard to get that government spending back.

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100203/ap_on_sc/us_sci_nasa_budget_impact

  3. anon says:

    think123 strikes again. This one will leave a mark.

  4. V says:

    I cant even read what’s over there. How can people live in a completely different universe?

  5. Lizard says:

    India to ‘pull out of IPCC’
    Telegraph ^ | 02/04/10 | Dean Nelson

    India has threatened to pull out of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and set up its on climate change body because it “cannot rely” on the group headed by its own Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr R K Pachauri.

    The Indian government’s move is a snub to both the IPCC and Dr Pachauri as he battles to defend his reputation following the revelation that his most recent climate change report included false claims that most of the Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035. Scientists believe it could take more than 300 years for the glaciers to disappear.

    The body and its chairman have faced growing criticism ever since as questions have been raised on the credibility of their work and the rigour with which climate change claims are assessed.

  6. xstryker says:

    Yes, if you disbelieve really hard, climate change will magically go away. Don’t forget to click your heels 3 times, Dorothy.

  7. cassandra m says:

    Anyone see the article reporting that the Penn State climatologist who the denialists made the poster boy of their climate change jihad was cleared?

    Cleared — as in no evidence of the allegations against him found.

    Anyone hear wingnut heads exploding today?

  8. John Manifold says:

    There’s a GOP candidate for Congress.

    From today’s Delaware State News:

    Wade announces run for Congress during tour

    Republican congressio­nal candidate Kevin Wade announced his intention to run for the U.S. House of Rep­resentatives in a tour of the three Delaware counties on Saturday.

    Mr. Wade is an engineer and small busi­ness owner.

    In Sussex County he was introduced by the Republican Chair of the 40th District Monet Smith. In Kent County, Levy Court Commissioner Eric Buckson introduced Mr. Wade.

    Due to illness, state Rep. Mike Ramone, who was due to introduce Mr. Wade, was unable to attend the announcement. Bran­dywine Republican activist Bill Shields filled in for Rep. Ramone.

  9. Delaware Dem says:

    Yeah, the socially conservative Delaware Politics has been hyping this Wade guy, which makes me believe he is some male version of Christine O’Donnell, a religious nutjob who will only take orders rather than think for himself. Regardless, Wade has no chance against Carney.

  10. cassandra m says:

    That would make it a second GOP candidate for Congress — the stealth wingnut Cullis was first to declare, I think.

  11. a.price says:

    Fixed news is NOT covering the swearing in of Scotty! …. i guess they are ALL watching it on their own private tv with their pants off

  12. a.price says:

    ok, well they didnt cover it live

  13. Just saw on Twitter: the House passed PAYGO rules. All Republicans voted no, including Mike Castle.

  14. cassandra_m says:

    Markets were down almost 3% today (Dow -2.61%; NASDAQ -2.99%; S%P -3.11%) — looks like the markets did not like Scotty taking his seat today!

  15. Delaware Dem says:

    BREAKING NEWS: Markets React Negatively to GOP Budget Proposal, Brown’s Swearing In