Snowed In Wednesday Open Thread
Well, I guess we all should have plenty of time for blogging today since we’re snowed in. So, here is a fresh open thread for you to play in.
Ezra Klein on the Republicans’s health care reform ransom note:
Just screams “we would like to cooperate with you to reform the American health-care system,” doesn’t it? But don’t take my word for it: You’ll really want to read the whole thing. These are not folks who concern themselves with the appearance of good faith. The only thing missing is an obscure riddle that Obama must answer before he can speak to Mitch McConnell.
But I think the administration should release a counter-proposal. They will agree to literally every one of the GOP’s demands — including the ones that don’t make any sense — in return for one, simple promise: The final legislation is guaranteed an up-or-down vote in the House and the Senate. No filibusters. No delays. No procedural tricks. If the GOP wants a clean process, I bet a deal can be struck here.
I think we all know this will never happen, but perhaps calling their bluff will be a good way to highlight the Republican obstructionism.
Republicans have also painted themselves into a corner concerning the Christmas undiebomber. They started objecting to putting Abdulmutallab through the civilian courts even though they never objected with other terrorism suspects, including Richard Reid. In fact, John Brennan, Deputy National Security Advisor, wrote an op-ed for USA Today taking Republicans to task for their lies and distortions on the case. That hasn’t stopped the GOP from continuing the attack, no matter how nonsensical. TPM catches Gingrich lying about the similarities of the Reid and Abdulmutallab cases on the Daily Show.
Classic moment last night on The Daily Show when Newt Gingrich explained that it was okay to mirandize “shoe bomber” Richard Reid and not Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab because Reid, unlike Abdulmutallab, is a US citizen.
Only, of course, Reid is a British citizen. Watch the video here.
What was so classic about this to me isn’t that Gingrich got a fact wrong. That happens, though to some more than others. But it was a larger illustration of how much Republicans are flailing to find any ‘fact’ to plug in to explain why the Abdulmutallab arrest was an outrage even though it went down just like every other arrest of a terrorist on American soil in like forever.
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Oh my…just got the call. All Red Clay schools closed remainder of the week. Ugh…
Bring Howard Dean back the DNC.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/10/835623/-The-chairmanship-of-the-Democratic-National-Committee-is-the-wrong-job-for-him.
The Chairmanship of the DNC is too important of a job to leave to people from Virginia.
I’m not surprised that schools close for the rest of the week. I’ll bet roads won’t really be passable until Friday.
Anyone taking bets on how long the State of Emergency lasts? I’ll say until noon tomorrow.
Liberalgeek is reporting on Twitter that he’s lost power. Please stay on electricity!
Brandywine School District is closed for Thursday.
Brandywine School District just called to cancel school for tomorrow.
I’m so sorry, LG! I really don’t want to lose power. Mr. Pandora is out of the country, and while the kids are enjoying this right now that would probably change if we had to spend the night in the dark with no heat. Fingers crossed!
Nemski,
I’ll take the over if the betting line is noon. Suck about LG. I, for one, love electricity.
I don’t think there was ever any question that the schools in Sussex would be closed through Tuesday. The back roads are practically untouched since the weekend storm. The only plow that came down our public road came on Saturday midway through the storm. Glad I don’t have to go in until Friday.
12 plows for 800+ miles of roads. But hey, I’m not complaining. What would we do with more plows the other 10 non-snowy years?
meatball agreed.
Down here in Dover we’re getting the brunt of the wind now….I’d say the State of Emergency will last until tomorrow at 10:00. If I wanted to shovel right now I couldn’t (and I don’t really want to anyhow 🙂
Even if this snow wasn’t here today, I’m sure that there are many developments that bus drivers wouldn’t want to venture into.
I’m with meatball and nemski with the plows.
WILMINGTON SNOWBALL FIGHT!!!!!!!!!! (5pm triangle park)
gun optional
anyone else think sigourney weaver and michelle O kinda look alike?
Townsend Fire Hall Roof Collapse video, from Twitter:
I wanna go back to work! I swear, SoE or not I am opening my store tomorrow, and getting it back in shape.
Brian if you want to get into shape, come up to North Wilmington and shovel me out.
That video is nausea inducing. My flat(ish) 10,000 sq ft roof is 8 miles from there.
The Snowpocalypse in danger of disrupting the Olympics — Ice Dancers stranded in Philly, it looks like.
It’s a wonder no one has thought to just move the Winter Olympics to here, really.
just got back from playing with the dog outside (she wanted to go). Very windy, snowy – we’ve gotten about 6 more inches down here. I’ve over it.
So, who’s going to start the pool on how many babies will be born in DE in November?
enough to give us a new congressional district in 2020
Brian – I told my manager that since I telework, I was going to go ahead and work from home even though the Federal govt was closed. I was told that I couldn’t.
Just saw a flock of geese headed south.
I like the term Snownami.
The internets in North Wilmington are getting slooooow. We never had storms like this when Bush was President.
Kids are amusing themselves by making disturbing Miis that look like Michael Jackson.
Snowkake?
I’ve decided to take my case of beer to brandywine park and make snowmen…. lots of em. Calvin Style.
Instead of Snowgasm, it should be Goregasm.
I am thinking of all those steep streets in Wilmington – anybody tried downhill skiing or skijumping yet?
I spoke too soon. Three giant combine type farm tractors just when down the road I live on. They deposited a round snowball that comes up to my nipple line smack dab in the center of my driveway egress. It couldn’t have been more perfectly placed even if they had a guy out there with a tape measure.
I used a garden spade and went all ninja warrior on. Now that was fun.
awww tom! so cute. SHHHHHHH don’t anyone tell him there is more to the planet than the mid atlantic US!!! his small conservative brain might not be able to handle it!
Meatball, you’re welcome 🙂
a.price-you’re slowing down. 10 minutes before you insulted me. Must be that beer.
sorry to deny you your validation Tom. I know you come here for the ridicule and stay for the humiliation. but i was in fact doin stuff.
Conservatives only think in logical fallacies. Because it is the only way their world makes sense. To them, global warming means it can never snow again on the planet anywhere. For they see the word warming and think everything just gets warm. They lack the requisite brain cells to understand that global warming changes the climate, and thus gives places like Washington, DC three blizzards in one year when they are only supposed to get one blizzard every 15 years.
This snow is just proof that global warming exists, rather than proving it does not exist. But their little minds cannot get beyond the “warming” part.
a.price-4 minutes. Better pop another one!
Channel 10 just had a cute video of a calf that was born during the blizzard. They named her Snowflake.
I like snownami. I’ll add it to the poll.
Global warming has a lot to do with added moisture in the air which leads to bigger storms. But that’s just some of that icky science.
Just close your eyes and imagine it,s memorial day weekend and your all packed to go to the beach but you can,t because it,s still snowing.
Stuck in an ACME store line this morning behind some dumbass saying that the storm proves that Al Gore is a fool. The cashier said “the weather sure is bad…the climate is what I’m worried about”.
the guy had no idea that he was totally pwnd by an ACME cashier. You have to feel sorry for these simple minded goofs.
One of the things that confuses me about the Republican hatred of science is that capitalism would be dead without science.
well, the bible make knowledge a sin. maybe that is the driving fore behind Tom and Palin’s love of ignorance.
Keep name calling and stereotyping…1 hr, 19 minutes, better slow down on the beer
Tom, we are intolerant of your intolerance. You are an anti-science fool who in earlier times would be known as the village idiot.
Is Tom S Downlow David’s bf?
The power is out at my house.
Oh no, UI! I’m sorry.
City plowing our streets now! Only problem… they’re piling the snow into mountains (at least 10′ high) on every corner sidewalk and burying parked cars behind a wall of snow.
Tom, why are you so obsessed with the idea of me having a couple cold ones? Am i gonna have to put up with this crap every time i make a valid point against one of your insane arguments? you tell me how long i was doing something other than thinking about you and blame beer? Because that is a real pathetic sad cry for attention.
almost an hour… i know you missed me you lonely lonely wingnut.
(pst…. i was helping people shovel)
teabag.
Sorry UI….hope they get your power back without much wait.
Jason…my son is an Acme cashier and smarter that any of the republicans I know!
Nemski, you’d be snowed in until June. I tweaked my back on the last storm and and only push around about 20 shovels full every so often before I have to rest. Hardly cardiovascular.
Didn’t help that my roommate didn’t help. All of the sudden that fucker has a bad back and hasn’t touched a shovel. Bastard.
I should throw all of the snow against the garage door where his car is and leave for work.
Hey DD – we still ca ’em village idiots – and a.price – he probaby wishes he could have one. So you should enjoy yours AND show him the middle finger while drinking.
Unstable Isotope’s power is back on. I think she lives in Pike Creek or Newark.
I’m back! I’m in Newark. Delmarva Power told us that our power outage affected 500 homes.
Welcome back! My power outage only lasted a mere 65 hours. However, I did see my first snow plow today.
It was a good day.
Miscreant wins this round. He should enjoy it since he always loses the political rounds. 😉
I still in shock from the last year of this administration…
Yes, 3 hours isn’t much suffering.
Cool picture of snowpocalypse proves global warming is liberal hoax.
http://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/11/satellite-photo-of-the-2010-snowpocalypse/