Welcome to your Thursday open thread. Dang, Wednesday was a really long day for me. Can I just skip Thursday and go straight to Friday? Please?
The Midwest may have a lot of new wing nut governors, but let’s not forget Maine’s new wing nut governor Paul LePage. He won a three-way race and he’s already caused controversy since taking office (remember he was the one who told the NAACP to kiss his butt). Now he’s taking potshots at labor by removing a mural in the state capital that depicts the history of labor.
Acting labor chief Laura Boyett emailed staff Tuesday about the mural’s pending removal, as well as another administration directive to rename several department conference rooms that carry the names of pro-labor icons such as Cesar Chavez.
According to LePage spokesman Dan Demeritt, the administration felt the mural and the conference room monikers showed “one-sided decor” not in keeping with the department’s pro-business goals.
“The message from state agencies needs to be balanced,” said Demeritt, adding that the mural had sparked complaints from “some business owners” who complained it was hostile to business.
Demeritt declined to name the businesses.
Depicting the history of labor is anti-business now? I guess businesses now only need a CEO and other managers. Those production lines just run themselves.
Wingnutterific newspaper The Washington Times published an op-ed on Libya by noted foreign policy expert Ted Nugent. Yes, this Ted Nugent.
Africa isn’t called the Dark Continent for no reason. Africa has forever been a politi- cal nightmare full of overt corruption, tribal warfare, genocide, murderous regimes and brutal dictators.
There is no country in Africa that truly respects freedom or the rule of law. The majority of countries in Africa are in economic ruin because of political corruption and a history ugly with cruel despotism. That’s why starvation and disease are rampant. AIDS is projected to kill as much as half the populations of some countries. Genocide is a way of life. There is little light in Africa.
You stay classy, Ted! Perhaps a few dozen more drafts will make it look less like it was written by a 10th grader.