Friday Open Thread
Welcome to your Friday open thread. It’s Friday, so feel free to celebrate/commiserate/complain as needed. Also, tell us what else is on your mind.
This is a strange and sad story any way you look at it:
A “Black Widow” suicide bomber planned a terrorist attack in central Moscow on New Year’s Eve but was killed when an unexpected text message set off her bomb too early, according to Russian security sources.
The unnamed woman, who is thought to be part of the same group that struck Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on Monday, intended to detonate a suicide belt near Red Square on New Year’s Eve in an attack that could have killed hundreds.
Security sources believe a message from her mobile phone operator wishing her a happy new year received just hours before the planned attack triggered her suicide belt, killing her at a safe house.
At least no innocent people were killed in this incident. There is a lot of disturbing unrest going on in the world right now.
Rep. Paul Broun had a “You Lie” moment during the SOTU when he tweeted that Obama didn’t believe in the Constitution but in socialism. Now he’s letting us know that the GOP has a secret plan to solve all the nation’s problems.
Yesterday, in a radio interview, Broun pushed the envelope a little more.
“The Republican Party is the party of K-N-O-W. We know how to lower the cost of health care. We know how to take care of the uninsurable. We know how to put patients in charge of their health care and have a market-based, patient centered health care system that’s not going to kill jobs like ObamaCare is going to do. And we know how to stimulate the economy. We know how to create jobs in the private sector. We know how to prevent this huge government takeover of health care as well as all of society.”
Now, I suppose the first temptation is to note how spectacularly wrong Broun is on the substance. The poor guy just seems to have no idea what he’s talking about, getting policies backwards. The “government takeover” line has already been labeled the “lie of the year,” and with good reason.
But let’s put all that aside. Arguably the more interesting claim here is that Broun and his Republican colleagues have unlocked long-sought answers to a variety of pressing national needs. The GOP, Broun boasts, knows all kinds of things — how to lower health care costs, how to bring coverage to the uninsured, how to create jobs,
and how to grow the economy.
Let me guess, it has something to do with tax cuts.
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Joe Biden:
Hoo boy.
“We were against them before we were for them, but we will try to be against them again… pretty soon.”
Remember Obama described how he was forced into supporting the tax cuts for the rich to save the hostages?
Well what are you supposed to do once the hostages are safe? Go after the hostage-takers and get the ransom money back. Unless it was just a staged kidnapping and you were in on it all along…
And with all these spending cuts on the Republican’s wish list, why give them away for free? they would make great hostages for tax increases. One dollar of spending cuts for one dollar of tax increase on the rich, and pretty soon you’ve cut your deficit $1.5 trillion.
Joe, why do we have to wait two years?
One wonders what President Barack Obama’s imprisoned fellow Nobel Peace Prize recipient must have felt when he got the news (if he got it) that Obama honored his jailer with a glittering White House state dinner. That prisoner is Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was awarded the 2010 Peace Prize last month for “his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights.” He could not receive the prestigious award in person, as Obama did in 2009, because Liu sits in a prison cell in Jinzhou where he is serving an 11-year sentence for subversion.
can DL put up this as a thread – PLZ?? its a good idea
altho – no more Domino’s Pizza – well, its not good for ya anyway
http://www.lelandyee.com/take-action/rush-boycott/
Did you see that MSNBC has now censored Ed Schultz? http://tinyurl.com/4ftvu9q
Tune in Sunday night for CBS 60minutes. Julian Assange of Wiki will be exposing the bankster/gangsters. Some say it will be Bank of America, but Assange says, “I like to keep them all sqirming”. BOA thinking its them, has already garnered several ad and pr agencies to deflect their dirty business practices.