Welcome to your weekend open thread. It’s been quite a week, hasn’t it? I’m hoping this weekend is calmer than last weekend.
This is freaky! Click at your own risk. (Don’t say I didn’t warn you!)
This will go nowhere but that won’t stop them from trying.
This is starting to get pretty silly.
A member of the House Armed Services Committee plans to introduce legislation next week designed to put the brakes on repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay troops.
The measure by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) would add the four military service chiefs to the list of those who must sign off on repealing the policy before it can be officially scrapped. […]
The aide said Hunter could introduce the bill as soon as Tuesday evening, adding that “15 to 20” members — so far all Republicans — have signed on.
I’m genuinely surprised so many Republicans are bothering to pursue this. Remember, it’s not just Hunter — Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee’s military personnel panel, said he’d look for chances to bring back DADT, too, and presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty (R) announced this week he would “support reinstating” the repealed, discriminatory policy.
I guess some people have trouble accepting defeat. In fact, the repeal of DADT and the (hopefully) end to Prop 8 has led to a mini-resurgence in professional homophobes. Look at what is happening to CPAC, the once-premiere conservative conference, because they dared to let GOProud attend.
The Tea Party not only appeals to the living, it also appeals to the dead.
Joan Snyder Holmes has been dead for nearly four years. But during the past two years, she’s managed to make thousands of dollars in donations to one of the country’s premier Tea Party organizations.
Those donations, uncovered by the Center for Responsive Politics in a report released Friday, gives an alternate, more cryptic meaning to the term grassroots.
According to the money-in-politics investigative organization, Tea Party Express’ PAC reported receiving three donations from Holmes in autumn 2009 for a total of $2,500. An additional lump-sum donation of $5,000 was made in September of that year.
Had Holmes not died of cancer on Feb. 1, 2007 — she was cremated, and her ashes are at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia — this would have all be relatively unremarkable. As it is, neither her husband nor the Tea Party express could conjure up any explanation for the money.
According to the TV psychics, the dead never have a message except that they’re fine. I guess Joan Holmes found an issue that was worth communicating from beyond. Would it shock you to hear that Mrs. Holmes’s husband is a big Tea Party donor?