Wednesday Open Thread
Welcome to your Wednesday open thread. It’s Wednesday of a really crappy week, especially if you’re in Japan. Does anyone have good news to share? I think we could all use some.
Republican-turned-Democrat-turned-Republican Jack Davis is running for Congress again. Jack Davis is the millionaire businessman who came so, so close to defeating Tom Reynolds in NY-26. I guess running for the seat is a hobby of his now. A new report shows why NY-26 is lucky that Davis didn’t squeak through in 2006:
A Republican candidate running for Rep. Chris “Craigslist” Lee’s seat in upstate New York isn’t doing his scandalized party any favors. Jack Davis, a local businessman vying for the seat, shocked local GOP leaders by suggesting that the area’s Hispanic farmworkers should be deported, and that inner city blacks should be bused in to pick the crops instead, as The Buffalo News reports.
Davis made the comments during a February 20 endorsement interview with local Republican Party leaders—and it’s not the first time he’s floated the idea. In 2008, Davis told another local paper: “We have a huge unemployment problem with black youth in our cities. Put them on buses, take them out there [to the farms] and pay them a decent wage; they will work.”
*TWITCH* I think you can see why despite his name recognition and his money, Davis didn’t get the nomination.
I’ve never been a fan of the Huffington Post (too much celebrity gossip and pseudoscience) but they did feature a lot of good political reporters. Arianna Huffington has decided there’s more money on the other side of the aisle I guess.
Bloggers have been coming and going very rapidly over at Huffington Post since Arianna Huffington sold out to AOL last month. There has been mounting speculation about the death of the once liberal-leaning HuffPo in light of editorial changes. Well, we can now confirm that the old HuffPo is dead and something hideous is sprouting in its place. We know this because of the revelation today that right-wing extremist Andrew Breitbart is now blogging for Huffington.
And what has Breitbart chosen to write about in his premiere post? His friend James O’Keefe.
The latest James O’Keefe success story against NPR has taken a predictable pattern — panicked press releases and firings, followed by denunciation of O’Keefe in a belated attempt to discredit him. Naturally, conservatives are crowing about it, but I wanted to give a little perspective to those Huffington Post readers — whatever your political stripe — who share my passion for free speech, honest debate, and fairness in the media.
Fairness? Hahahahahaha. How many of you have a HuffPo habit? Try to break your addiction.
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Is this going to kill Arianna’s invitations to the Sunday news shows? BWAAAAAAHAHA! sick.
“Andrew Breitbart is now blogging for Huffington.”
Just in time, right? I was just thinking that conservative extremists needed another outlet for their toxic bile.
(I never developed a Huffpo habit, so I’m safe.)
i had a hufpost habit, but much like the time my dealer Bus$t0PP slipped rat poison into my junk… i’ll be going elsewhere from now on.
Well, *I* have good news… particularly for theatre goers.
My amazing daughter has been cast in The Tempest, as Miranda. I can promise you, worth a trip. Show goes up in late June. 🙂
Where?
Arianna used be a repuke! She went went the money is? Used all those reporters at no pay for years, and when her Post got hot she sells out to a monopoly. Breitbart on Huff post..is incredible.
12 teabag Governors who are doling out tax cuts to corporations while slashing services:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/16/gop-state-corporate-tax-cuts/
Anyone have any report on the rally for the middle class in Georgetown last night?
Mongo needs to vent about his party, which he loves. I hope you all don’t mind.
Why are Democrats so fucking:
Lazy? They won’t show up at fundraisers, won’t help canvas, won’t help write letters, call in to radio shows, you name it.
Satisfied with failure? They won’t take actions to make things better, but sit back, cross their arms and say, ‘Well, what are you going to do?’
Cheap? Good people are willing to put their asses on the line, but supposed party faithful won’t go to a fundraiser, a dinner or even send in five bucks.
What really pisses off Mongo is that there are a handful of Democrats who are the opposite of all that. But they toil with no one by their side. Watching these awesome people work so hard makes Mongo even agnrier. They keep banging their head against the wall, and too often that wall is comprised of party officers who can’t bothered to help.
Which one are you? If you aren’t helping, showing up, writing in, then sit the fuck down, resign from the party and please, please, please shut the fuck up and get the fuck out of the way. Because some people would like to at least try to make things better.
Reading about that rally in Georgetown put Mongo over the top. Did you know that chicken catchers showed up, to speak out and march? After a brutal day working in awful conditions, they got cleaned up, and instead of sitting their weary asses down, they drove over to Georgetown and spoke up. There was only 75 people there? 75? There should have been 750! Democrats should have flowed over the circle.
Okay. Mongo feels better now. Thanks for listening.
Mongo should be the Democratic leader in his county, wherever that is.
Thanks for the update. I think.
Good for the chicken catchers to attend.
While I share your sentiment to some degree, you have no idea who I am or what positions I hold or have held in the Democratic Party. I can’t make it to every event, meeting and fundraiser. My work limits my ability to attend everything that happens in this county.
BTW, are you a member of your local RD committee, Dem club and will I see you at the Sussex County Democratic Party Dinner this Saturday at 6 PM in Georgetown and the Cheer Center? If you can’t make it, 1PM in Seaford the Dem Party is co-hosting an event to register voters and signing people up for the 39th committee.
Thanks for the “get off your ass and fight speech” coach Mongo.
There is at least one meeting a week in this county. Clubs, RDs, subcommittees, planning, events, fundraisers. I urge everyone to please get involved.
Ahh Mongo – its tough to see the same people toiling away, year after year
The same people that care, that write checks, that show up when no one else does.
if we had something happen like WI did, maybe the sleeping folks would rally – they need to understand that its all the small things that will kill us – just as dead as one large cut.
I will also say that having Skippertee come as far as he did to make sure his fellow bloggers were OK was a delight.
we need a little more of that type of commitment….its out there I can feel it – we just sometimes need a rally point or spark.
Thanks MJ but Mongo isnt so much good at leadershipping.
However, if you’re a member of a RD committee in Sussex, and you were not at the rally in Georgetown, you better get a good excuse ready or some fucking plane tickets. Mongo might talk with you. The fucking chicken catchers were at the rally! The chicken catchers! Where were you?
Okay. I promise for real. Ranting is over. Mongo found some candy.
Anon, yes mongo is a member of a RD committee. And mongo will be at the dinner Saturday night. As long as his date doesn’t mind riding on the ox with me.
Mongo loves that he can vent here on this website. Thanks.
Good news?Bad news? At least we have each other. We also have the happiest person in America.
I’d like to share an excerpt from a chapter in my musings yet to be organized into “Luck: Born of Tears. Centuries of Strength”
“According to global accuraries, the ethnic grouping most prone to alcoholism is native American. Grouped by country America again tops the list. The highest rate of consumption is led by Russia followed by several eastern European countries, South American countries then back to France, Ireland and Finland. Stereotypes make one’s ignorance pronounced; even worse is to play up the convention in acts of debauchery. Even though most people who binge drink are not alcohol dependent the health risks grow exponentially on certain days such as March 17.”
By all means, gather your friends and family and tear it up/kiss my ass but please don’t celebrate the enslavement of a people and the destruction of their culture.
Brightboy got his start at Arianna’s side as she first ventured so BFD. Its all fluff anyway. Join The Young Turks.
@ Aoine- Hey, for about the cost of seeing a new movie in a theater I got to sit with a couple of buds and be entertained for a couple of hours. And it was inter-active in your case, which was really cool!
I liked to have been able to FF through the boring parts though.
Carpetbagger Carper has made a new list folks. He is on the list of republicans “who voted to protect big financial insitutions”….not us worker bees, but the Queen Bee! When will the democratic party in Delaware dump this corporate slub.
Yea, anon, I saw that too. He’s holding up the limits on “swiping” fees.
Just another favor to his DARK LORDS, the BANKERS, who have been pulling his strings for decades now.
And Chris Coons jumped too.
I’m not sure if he asked,”How high?”, on the way up.
Gee, I’m lost if HE did.
Carper didn’t “make” that list. Carper drafted that list on a clay tablet with a cuneiform stylus while sitting under a tree near the Euphrates River when he invented banking during the the Uruk IV period 4,000 years ago.
Tom Carper will be the one to dump the husk of Tom Carper when Tom Carper feels like transitioning to a higher plane of existence.
HAHAHAHAHA-Good one, Jason.
The “husk” is more pronounced every day.The worship of Ra came later , I guess, or he doesn’t have a membership to a tanning salon.
How can we urge him to make the transition?
The sooner, the better.