Weekend Open Thread

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This is a trapped-inside-the-house-please-halp version of your weekend open thread. Anything else going on besides snow and snow removal? The 10 strangest pieces of unclaimed luggage: 1. Hoggle from Labyrinth.…

SNOWGASM DAY 2

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Well the former thread is getting filled with comments and is getting buried, so here is a fresh thread. In this and I am sure newer threads, please post your anecdotes and pictures of the END OF THE WORLD, er ah, I mean the Blizzard of 2010.

Kos on Coons-Castle Race

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Castle starts of this race as the favorite, but it's a long 10 months before election day, and in politics, that's an eternity. If Castle continues to vote lockstep with the obstructionist Republicans, Coons benefits. If Castle tries to be that "independent voice" he claims he is, he'll raise the ire of the teabaggers and potentially fuel a real primary challenger.

Tea Party Racism

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Former Republican presidential candidate and Congressman Tom Tancredo opened the Tea Party Nation convention. In his speech he said the U.S. had elected a "committed socialist ideologue" because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country."

Pre-Snowgasm Open Thread

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Well, it's Friday and we're all watching the skies waiting for the snow to start. I'm ready to dash out of here the minutes I start seeing snow flakes. I hope you all have bought your bread, milk and eggs so that you can make French toast during the storm - apparently that's really important. So let's open this thread.

USC Recruits 7th Grader

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Via Gather: David Sills, a seventh-grader at Red Lion Christian Academy in Bear, Delaware has got a great arm and seems to know the game of football. Even his quarterback…