Thursday Open Thread
Welcome to your Thursday open thread. This has been an interesting week for a news junkie. There’s just too much going on to keep up with. Use this open thread to help highlight those stories that we miss.
Scott Walker is not the only new governor raising some eyebrows. Maine’s new teabagger governor opposes regulation of Bisphenol A for ummmm….interesting reasons.
In his comments last week, LePage said he has yet to see enough science to support a ban on BPA, a common additive to plastics that some research suggests may interfere with hormone levels and could cause long-term problems. LePage said until scientists can prove BPA is harmful, the state should not rush to restrict its use.
“Quite frankly, the science that I’m looking at says there is no [problem],” LePage said. “There hasn’t been any science that identifies that there is a problem.”
LePage then added: “The only thing that I’ve heard is if you take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave and you heat it up, it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen. So the worst case is some women may have little beards.”
I suppose if you complain, it means you’re prejudiced against people with facial hair.
Rick Santorum is running for president for some reason. I would label his level of historical understanding as “Palinesque.”
“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical,” former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) told a South Carolina audience yesterday. “And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom.”
Santorum’s defense of the Crusades came in Spartanburg, S.C. reports Andy Barr of Politico. South Carolina is an early and important GOP presidential primary state, and Santorum is considering a presidential run.
Referring to the “American left,” Santorum observed: “They hate Western civilization at the core. That’s the problem.” Sanoturm also suggested that American involvement in the Middle East is part of our “core American values.”
There’s so much wrong in that statement it’s hard to begin. For one, the Crusades had nothing to do with American values. For another, Europe sent armies to the Middle East to take over the historical Holy Land. I don’t know how Santorum defines aggressor, but that seems like a textbook case to me.
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Two words concerning this article: hypocrisy and duplicity.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50081.html
Just more santorum from Santorum.
Ha! American left hates western civ! That’s precious, especially since western civ of today was founded and based on the writing of liberals of their time. Conservatives wanted to stay loyal to the crown, and our founders all read and based their ideals of liberty from Voltaire and Locke…not exactly the standard bearers of conservatism back then, eh?
Wherever FecalLube Guy got his degree, they should ask for it back. He’s so embarrassing.
What he means is that the Mooslims started it by invading Europe. So they were just asking for it.
You just gotta love a guy whose idea of Christian values is bringing home their stillborn son to show to all the other kids in the family.
With just the addition of a few more vowels Rick could conquer his GOOGLE problem.
Just change it to Sanitarium.
Problem solved.
And he could still wear those cool cuff-links with his initials the Koch bros sent him.
Geez,
Are you KIDDING me? He did that?
THAT is SICK!
But,god help me, this is funny.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRj-S8Aklcw
I’m pretty sure testosterone is reponsible for facial hair growth, so he got the science wrong too.
Skipper: The details, from a Washington Post profile of the then-senator printed in 2000:
“In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of his seven children. Named for two archangels, Gabriel Michael was born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on Oct. 11, 1996, and lived two hours outside the womb.
Upon their son’s death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a funeral home. Instead, they bundled him in a blanket and drove him to Karen’s parents’ home in Pittsburgh. There, they spent several hours kissing and cuddling Gabriel with his three siblings, ages 6, 4 and 1 1/2. They took photos, sang lullabies in his ear and held a private Mass.
He and Karen brought Gabriel’s body home so their children could “absorb and understand that they had a brother,” Santorum says. “We wanted them to see that he was real,” not an abstraction, he says. Not a “fetus,” either, as Rick and Karen were appalled to see him described — “a 20-week-old fetus” — on a hospital form. They changed the form to read “20-week-old baby.”
Wonder how they turned out?
I’m sure he was baptized while alive, dear little baby.
Still, this guy is a whack-a-mole short a mallet.
Abuse of a corpse. Really sick thing to expose children to.
Meatball, you beat me to it. I think the idiot governor could have said men might grow little breasts. Whatever, he’s the real boob.