Wednesday Open Thread
Welcome to a regular Wednesday in summer. What, it’s not summer you say? It certainly feels like it. My husband and I waited until 8 PM last night to go running because we were hoping it would cool off some. It didn’t. It was still 80 when we finished the run around 9 PM. So, is something else on your mind besides summer? Share it in our open thread.
Hey, CNN is just asking a question:
California lawmakers are working to abolish an antiquated law that requires doctors to look into “the causes and cures of homosexuality.” The state adopted the law in 1950 “in response to public outcry over sex crimes in California” and added the homosexuality provision as part of a broader effort to to study the psyche of sexual predators. As Bonnie Lowenthal, the Assemblywoman who’s spearheading the repeal explained in this LA Times piece, “In 1950, homosexuality remained, officially, a mental disorder. So when the Legislature promised funding for a study into the causes and cures of sexual deviance, it was, tragically, natural to add homosexuality to the list.”
Taking homosexuality off that list should be a no-brainer, but this afternoon, CNN — which has tried to present itself as the “hard news” cable network and “the most trusted name in news” — hosted a debate between discredited “ex gay” Richard Cohen and Lowenthal to ask, “homosexuality, is it a problem in need of a cure?”
“Tell me why it’s offensive to you, tell me why you wanted to take action right away when you heard about it,” host Kyra Phillips pressed Lowenthal, while seemingly accepting Cohen’s claim that he’s a “former homosexual.” Watch it:
I sure am glad this fake counselor Richard Cohen is getting a lot time on TV. I wonder when CNN is going to learn that they aren’t going to win ratings by becoming Fox Light.
The RNC had its best fundraising month ever in a comparable mid-term election year (which could save Michael Steele’s job). Unfortunately for the, the DNC did even better.
The energy around the health care fight has produced pretty good fundraising figures for both parties in March.
The Republican National Committee — for whose Michael Steele healthy fundraising may be a lifeline — raised more than $11 million, though it was able to sock away just $2 million of that for its war chest.
But the DNC did even better, raising more than $13 million, according to communications director Brad Woodhouse.
The RNC spent $9M in March? On what?
Tags: Open Thread
Palin, Bachmann, and Hannity on the same stage at once = Armageddon.
This could be a great train wreck to watch
Steven Benen on Mike Castle – “All Pandering, All The Time”
Paging John Carney – Michelle Rollins has filed papers to run for the DE-AL House seat.
hold on…
I’m shocked – the News Journal actually decided to pay attention to Castle’s repeal remarks. Will wonders never cease?
TNJ wants to talk to former interns for a story.
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100407/NEWS/100407021/Looking+for+current++former+interns
I hope it’ll mention its own internship policies. Full disclosure and all that.
$9M? Spin and hush money.
I just saw via Twitter that Cullis is announcing he’s dropping out of the U.S. House race and instead will challenge Patty Blevins.
UI. The irony is that Cadtle said the sAme thing twice. They just used Ron Williams style reporting the first time.
It appears that the government in Kyrgyzstan has fallen
G-D forbid the teabaggers get any ideas from this.
“Cullis is announcing he’s dropping out of the U.S. House race and instead will challenge Patty Blevins.”
It will be much cheaper for him to lose that race.
Just seeing on Twitter that a man has been arrested for threatening to kill Nancy Pelosi over health care reform.
Oops! Just posted that over in the other Wingnuts Being Arrested for Threatening Lawmakers thread. And apparently this one was threatening her family too.
Vice President Albert Gore is still obese.
So there! 😉
An interesting blog post from a guy I went to high school with. He is the L in DL kinda guy too.
http://livingtheliminal.com/2010/04/07/an-open-letter-to-president-obama/
But to the point of the vid….religious self-help for-profit enterprises such as turning gays straight is about as bogus as AA or sex addiction bullshit centers. “It’s a disease!”.
No it isn’t; it’s a business taking leads and brainwashing them for the purpose of getting another sheep to the collection plate.
The gay-turners want their business to become mainstream and CNN is happy to oblige.
El Som,
You posit in your ‘Michele Rollins Memo’ that Rollins/Castle are the wealthy pols who have no stake in helping the majority. And you counter that claim by saying Coons/Carney are the antithisis of wealthy pols.
The problem is: Coons married into the WL Gore fortune! Hello???
BTW–when is the next Drinking Liberally? Geek?
Shooting for the last Thursday of the month at Domaine Hudson. More to come.
The problem is: Coons married into the WL Gore fortune!
I actually think that his Mother married a Gore person. Do you have to a link that says otherwise?
If you are going to insist upon using the term teabagger MJ….
Polemical,
Chris grew up in straightened circumstances after his father took a hike. He’s been there and done that. Later in life his mother did marry a Gore, but Chris had already pulled himself by the proverbial boot straps by then. Try to get your rumors straight.