Tuesday Open Thread
It’s that time of day again, the time for your open thread. Share your thoughts, opinions and links below.
The Ohio Senate race looks to be interesting. Current Lt. Governor Lee Fisher is running against former Bush OMB Chief Rob Portman for the vacant seat being vacated by Voinovich. Republicans have hit on Lee Fisher for a shirtless video made by Lee Fisher last year (the commercial has been taken down for copyright reasons and can no longer be viewed). Here is the original video:
Lesson for other politicians – don’t do this. Anyway, the Fisher campaign has hit back with an amusing video, “Rob Portman Took the Shirt Off My Back.”
I love that Fisher was able to make fun and turn the controversy around on Portman. Please, though Ohio, no more shirtless videos!
Today, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger delivered the undergraduate commencement address at Atlanta’s Emory University. At one point in his speech, Schwarzenegger took a swipe at Arizona’s newly passed radical immigration law, joking that he was planning to speak in Arizona, but with his “funny accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me“:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger joked that he was afraid of being deported in Arizona during a commencement speech he delivered Monday at Emory University in Atlanta.
Schwarzenegger’s office provided a copy of his prepared remarks and confirmed he made the Arizona joke. “I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend,” Schwarzenegger said. “But with my accent I was afraid they would try to deport me.”
Remember when Republicans talked about changing the law so Schwarzenegger could run for president? Good times.
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Big news day.
what about Jenna Fis(c)her and Nathalie Portman topless?
That story about the prayer ban in a Georgia senior center is starting to smell like a campaign stunt cooked up by local wingnuts.
The story got started by a single AP story, which quoted VP Tim Rutherford:
But then the next day, Georgia Public Broadcasting gets the story:
It turns out Patricia Lyons (“Patti”) is a connected Republican, who donated $400 to this man, who just happened to show up at the senior center to grandstand:
Can we have a reboot on today? More bad news: Explosion at Texas A&M Chemistry Annex Building
From a comment on the Texas A&M story:
Can we have a reboot on today?
Tell me about it. Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. Not enough liquid nitrogen in the trap. Will these people never learn? I’m sure it was just an aggiecident.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/11/headlines
Red Cross: US (Obomba) Is Running Secret Prison at Bagram
The International Committee of the Red Cross has confirmed to the BBC that the US is running a secret prison at the US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan. Nine former prisoners have told the BBC that they were held in the secret site. Many former prisoners refer to the secret jail as the “black jail.” Prisoners reported being subjected to sleep deprivation, freezing temperatures and other abuses.
On Saturday, May 22nd our friends from Democracy for America are coming to Delaware to present a full day of field training to Democratic candidates and activists. This is a wonderful opportunity for you to learn and network with other activists in the State. You won’t be “giving-up” a Saturday. You’ll be enriching that Saturday, and everything you do in any group in the future.
For more information go to: http://www.deldems.org/get-involved/calendar/?event_id=849
WHAT: Democracy for America Field Training Seminar
WHEN: Saturday, May 22nd beginning at 8:30 AM
WHERE: Del Tech Dover Campus, 100 Campus Drive, Dover
The things you will learn won’t just come in handy during the 2010 election cycle. They have broad application to anything you do that involves getting folks moving. It’s a funny thing, but the techniques that work for campaigns also work for civic associations, public boards, even your book club. Come and learn about interaction and motivation skills that work.
Progressive Democrats for Delaware is a proud sponsor of this event, along with our friends from Progressive Democrats for Sussex. We should be there to show the Progressive strength we’ve been building in Delaware. It’s FREE!!
UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown has resigned.
really P? and you arent somehow characterizing it as bad for america and entirely Obama’s fault?
BREAKING: Cameron To Be New Prime Minister Imminently
Sky News ^ | 05/11/2010 | CFH via Sky News
Tory leader David Cameron is at Buckingham Palace with his wife Samantha to ask the Queen permission to form a new government…
in other good news… and this should interest all you “Obama is a tool of the Jew-bankster crowd” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/11/judd-gregg-feds-biggest-d_n_571667.html
Um a.price, the phrase, “Obama is a tool of the Jew-bankster crowd” does not appear anywhere in your link.
Pretty clear now the real reason Obomba doesn’t want to prosecute the Bush Torturers: he is running his own secret chamber of horrors in Bagram.
It is a wonder that he didn’t nominate John Yoo for the SCOTUS.
Feelin’ all hopey changy now?
Bagram 2010 = Gitmo 2005
BTW, DL might consider giving a free advertising banner to the event Rebecca just wrote about.
I don’t know if a ad square does that event justice, Anonone. But I will post on it frequently up until May 22.