April Fool’s Day Open Thread
It’s the first day of April and that means it’s time for April Fool’s Day. April Fool’s is becoming a bit of an internet holiday, so be careful what you read over the internets. I’ve already read that Google is changing its name to Topeka and that the journals Science and Nature are combining to be either Scientific Nature or Natural Science. So, share your stories, either real or unreal in our daily open thread.
This is no joke, the Republican repeal strategy is already falling apart.
The Republican message gets a little more muddled.
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker said Wednesday that Republican efforts to repeal sweeping health care reform are futile, and instead promoted incremental fixes in a wide-ranging talk in Nashville.
In the immediate aftermath of the reform’s passage, many of Corker’s Republican colleagues, including 2008 presidential contender Sen. John McCain, have pledged to repeal the legislation. Corker described that as unlikely, given the reality of needing 67 votes in the Senate to overcome a presidential veto of repeal legislation.
“The fact is that’s not going to happen, OK?” Corker told dozens of people at Vanderbilt University.
Corker’s remarks come on the heels of Sen. Richard Burr’s (R-N.C.) comments that he doesn’t see a full repeal as a realistic option, either. “It may not be total repeal at the end of the day,” Burr said in a radio interview. “It may be a series of fixes over the course of this bill getting enacted that allow us to change and possibly bend that cost curve down.”
So, we’re not experiencing health care reformageddon after all?
This is also real and not a joke – the Catholic League took out a New York Times ad blaming the pedophilia scandal on homosexuality.
The Times continues to editorialize about the “pedophilia crisis,” when all along its been a homosexuality crisis. Eighty percent of the priestly abuse victims are male and most of them are post-pubescent. While homosexuality does not cause predatory behavior, and most gay priests are not molestors, most of the molestors have been gay.
They call that a defense? Plus, the first half of that paragraph doesn’t match with the second half. It’s quite a distraction but a big part of the scandal involves the church cover-up of wrongdoing, especially the Pope.
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Not to mention that they seem to be suggesting that being post-pubescent means it isn’t pedophilia.
Not to mention that they seem to be suggesting that being post-pubescent means it isn’t pedophilia.
Technically that is correct. But it is a distinction without a difference.
Is it just me–or do you guys and gals agree that today being a “response” day from many colleges–and of course, over the internet–a bit cruel? Waiting……..in light of some of these hoax posts today, we’re feeling a lil’ bit vulnerable about those crazy kids who work in admissions offices!!!!
Somebody come play rummy with me……
In honor of either Congress and some state legislatures being on an extended break, or maybe because it’s April Fool’s Day, cable channel AMC is running back-to-back episodes of The Three Stooges until 8:00 PM tonight.
Food for thought – I doubt females are less abused than boys by priests. Boys are just easier to get to for CATHOLIC priests than girls.
From http://www.snapnetwork.org/female_victims/women_face_stigma.htm
“A.W. Richard Sipe, a psychotherapist and former priest who has written extensively on clergy sex abuse, says he believes that, among young children and early adolescents, boys are twice as likely as girls to be victimized by priests. But Sipe found that the numbers change dramatically among late adolescents and adults, with woman victims outnumbering males 4 to 1.
Gary R. Schoener, a Minneapolis psychologist whose counseling center has consulted on more than 1,000 cases involving people sexually abused by clergy, has reached similar conclusions.
Among clergy of all denominations, Schoener said, ”Far more clergy offend against women than against men,” and more often against adults and late adolescents than children. But in cases involving Catholic priests, he said, victims are more likely to be children, and usually boys. One possible reason, Schoener said, is that the large number of Catholic-run schools, hospitals, and orphanages gave priests extraordinary access to children, and especially to boys. “
Happy birthday the awesome Maddow. 🙂
BTW–who’s Maya, and what’s with the tweet? I’m afraid to hit it.
Scar my tattered body no more with your punishing dildo mallet. <-- Real line from a video produced by one of the arrested Hutaree militants.
10:00 PM, Turner Classic Movies on cable – Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Be there or be square.
UI – all I can say is OMG!
I don’t get the Maya thing either.
At least they weren’t Texas textbooks…
Errors abound Sacramento math books
upi ^ | April 1, 2010
SACRAMENTO, – People in the Sacramento area might be pardoned for asking if the folks who publish their schools’ error-filled math books are smarter than a fifth-grader. The Sacramento Bee reported Thursday the new Macmillan/McGraw-Hill math books distributed to second-graders at 79 city-area elementary schools in the Sacramento City and Folsom Cordova districts include the equation: five times three equals five. It’s not an isolated faux pas, either. Folsom Cordova District Assistant Superintendent Janie DeArcos says fourth-graders have found 90 mistakes in their textbook and related materials, the newspaper said. State officials say the publisher is responsible for correcting errors,…
Maya is a Delaware real estate sales person who twitters a lot, and is using her friend’s annoyance or fondness of that to raise money for an orphanage. In Kenya, I believe. She wants to raise $50,000 to announce with her matching tweet, so she now refuses to explain herself, lol. You can donate through the button on the side of the page, which I believe LG installed.
Yes, I’m going to do a post on the Maya thing. Hopefully it will be today. She is in tweet-conservation mode herself, so I’ll try do do her cause justice.