Wednesday Open Thread
Welcome to your Wednesday open thread. I’ve been trying to follow the weather predictions and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m hopelessly confused about the weather. I’m going to try the old-fashioned look out the window technique.
Did you all see Jon Stewart’s takedown of Fox News and Megyn Kelly? It’s worth a watch (or a rewatch).
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That was brilliant, Jon Stewart at his best. I just want to add for the record, only Nazis are like Nazis. It’s never appropriate to compare your opponents to Nazis and I wish people would stop.
Oh look, it’s another leader of the left who none of us have ever heard of. Glenn Beck has been demonizing an elderly academic named Francis Fox Piven who has been getting death threats.
A City University of New York professor and scholar of grassroots activism, the 78-year-old Piven has been the target of relentless Glenn Beck attacks. For an entire year now the Fox News talker has been pushing a tangled conspiracy theory that puts Piven, and her late husband, fellow academic Richard Cloward, at the center of an all-powerful left-wing movement to “collapse” the United States economy and government — a devious collapse designed to allow President Obama to radically transform the country, according to Beck.
The talker’s basis for the dark attacks date back to a Nation essay Piven and Cloward wrote 45 years ago. And as part of his misinformation campaign, Beck has repeatedly demonized Piven, denouncing her as an “enemy of the Constitution” and someone who wants to “destroy America.” Piven has become a star player in Beck’s rogue gallery of treacherous, all-powerful (often Jewish) liberals, seeking to eliminate the American way of life.
Beck’s fans have recently taken notice of Piven. On a website Beck runs, The Blaze, which also traffics in the Piven smear campaign, readers began posting lurid threats against the elderly academic. “ONE SHOT…ONE KILL!” announced one. “Why is this woman still alive?” asked another. And this particularly shocking threat: “Maybe they should burst through the front door of this arrogant elitist and slit the hateful cow’s throat.”
This new era of civility is looking a lot like the old era of incivility. But hey, Democrats and Republicans sat together at the SOTU so it’s all good.
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I want to know WHY, on the one day Good Morning America is on that I happen to see, and I have to listen to Christine O’Donnell sitting in a pundit seat? I thought Donna Brazile (sp?) was holding down a hurl.
Why can’t I be so lucky in job searches?
Venus I was watching ABC last night and was absolutely shocked when this was announced. I went to the website just now and made a comment. There are already a number of scathing comments there.
Here’s the link:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2011/01/mixing-it-up-odonnell-and-brazile-on-obama-olbermann-and-oprah.html
Anybody reading this, please go and let George have it. This is crazy!
Good on Jack Markell for shoving the Rt 113 fail in the faces of those Sussex County nit wits who fucked it up in the first place.
Good on Jack Markell for shoving the Rt 113 fail in the faces of those Sussex County nit wits
Sussex conservatives have been asking for spending cuts, so there you go.
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Wait for the Sussex rethuglicans to start crying that they don’t get their fair share of DelDot projects or funding.
I just love this Markell quote:
“If they can get their act together and develop a consensus, then I will reconsider,” Markell said. “But if not, there are plenty of other places in the state that would like to see that kind of investment made.”
That’s how you deal with a buncha loudmouth R’s.
Talk about our litigous society! I though COD was the only pol who sued for ridiculous reasons.
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Kucinich sues House cafeteria – Ben Smith: Kucinich sues House cafeteriaJanuary 26, 2011
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Beat this:
Rep. Dennis Kucinich has sued a U.S. House of Representatives cafeteria for selling him a sandwich wrap that caused dental damage when he bit into a pitted olive, according to a Jan. 3 lawsuit filed in Superior Court for the District of Columbia.
The Cleveland Democratic congressman’s lawsuit seeks $150,000 in damages from companies that operate the Longworth House Office Building’s cafeteria.
It says he bought the suspicious sandwich wrap “on or about April 17, 2008,” and aeating it caused “permanent dental and oral injuries requiring multiple surgical and dental procedures.”
“Said sandwich wrap was unwholesome and unfit for human consumption in that it was presented to contain pitted olives, yet unknown to plaintiff, contained an unpitted olive or olives which plaintiff did not reasonably expect to be in the food prepared for him, and could not visually detect prior to consumption,” the lawsuit said.
Here’s the complaint.
President Jack Markell. Okay, maybe I’m getting ahead of myself.
OMG! Wwmsnbc do? An excellent look at ‘Palin-fatigue.’
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/msnbcs-sarah-palin-sickness-75184