Weekend Open Thread

Filed in National by on June 4, 2011

It’s the weekend, and here is your Open Thread.

Quiz time! What does your car say about you? 20 questions that are supposed to get at your vehicle signification. Based on my answers, my car says:

You are a typical road user; the car plays an important role in your life but it must be reliable and easy to live with, and most of all safe.
Your car says to other people that your family, and their wellbeing, is your first priority.
If there’s money there to be spent, you’d rather it go towards ‘the more important things’ in life.

Meh.

So what do you think? Does your car say something about your personality?

Even more fun — Sean Hannity interviews some random group of so-called experts who want you to know that Sesame Street will make your children into fabulous gay socialists. Seriously, watch this bit of pathetic bullshit:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ypsojc5vFg&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Everytime you think that GOP clownshow can’t get any worse, here they go. And Ken Blackwell as an expert at anything? Jesus, this fool probably thinks Sesame Street is responsible for the fact that he can’t count.

What interests you this weekend?

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  1. jason330 says:

    I’m eager to here about the living hell of euro-socialism.

  2. Geezer says:

    Stumbled upon an excellent article at Naked Capitalism that should give succor to all those who read DL and are disgusted that 2008 brought us not progressive government but instead somewhat less regressive government than a Republican would have given us.

    For those without the time or inclination to click, here’s an excerpt:

    “Protest can have an invisible ripple-effect that lasts for generations. A small group of women from Iowa lost their sons early in the Vietnam war, and they decided to set up an organization of mothers opposing the assault on the country. They called a protest of all mothers of serving soldiers outside the White House – and six turned up in the snow. Even though later in the war they became nationally important voices, they always remembered that protest as an embarrassment and a humiliation.

    Until, that is, one day in the 1990s, one of them read the autobiography of Benjamin Spock, the much-loved and trusted celebrity doctor, who was the Oprah of his day. When he came out against the war in 1968, it was a major turning point in American public opinion. And he explained why he did it. One day, he had been called to a meeting at the White House to be told how well the war in Vietnam was going, and he saw six women standing in the snow with placards, alone, chanting. It troubled his conscience and his dreams for years. If these women were brave enough to protest, he asked himself, why aren’t I? It was because of them that he could eventually find the courage to take his stand – and that in turn changed the minds of millions, and ended the war sooner. An event that they thought was a humiliation actually turned the course of history.”

  3. skippertee says:

    Epiphanies come at unexpected moments.
    At 12, I was deeply changed by a glance and momentary meeting of our distinctly different minds.

  4. cassandra_m says:

    Geezer, I made an edit to your link, it was broken as posted….

  5. cassandra_m says:

    This certainly resonates with me:

    Protest raises the political price for governments making bad decisions. It stopped LBJ and Nixon making the most catastrophic decision of all. The same principle can apply to the Conservative desire to kneecap the welfare state while handing out massive baubles to their rich friends. The next time George Osborne has to decide whether to cancel the tax bill of a super-rich corporation and make us all pick up the tab, he will know there is a price. People will find out, and they will be angry. The more protests there are, the higher the price. If enough of us demand it, we can make the rich pay their share for the running of our country, rather than the poor and the middle – to name just one urgent cause that deserves protest.

    I think that I’ve mentioned here that I was raised by people who occasionally handed over their babies (along with wills and other paperwork) to grandparents to go South working on civil rights campaigns. It took me until I was well grown to understand the magnitude of the sacrifice they were prepared for to make sure we could have the lives we have now. So I *get* how protest and political pain can change the world. What I don’t get is the essential sense of powerlessness that Americans seem to have. Especially now, when pols are always looking to re-election.

    BTW — Yves Smith has done a couple of Harry Shearer shows talking about the banking business and the craziness over mortgages. She’s *very* good.

  6. jason330 says:

    This Palin film sounds about as horrible as you’d expect.

    The director of “The Undefeated,” a glowing new film about Sarah Palin, said he plans to release an “X-rated” version of the film to better convey “vile” comments about her from sources including celebrities and obscure Twitter users.

    The documentary echoes Palin’s own appeal by leading with her victimhood and in a format – two hours of unmoderated hagiography — that’s aimed at thrilling the faithful, not engaging doubters. The film begins with a 15-minute montage of Palin foes using obscene language and insulting her disabled son. After that opening, the film includes the voices of no other Palin critics, and is composed largely of Palin friends, relatives, and supporters singing her praises to the camera and making the case that her Alaska record has been underplayed and misunderstood.

    A NY Post (owned by FOX) reviewer panned it “comparing “The Undefeated” to “the brainwash movie Alex is forced to sit through in ‘A Clockwork Orange.’”

    Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56280.html#ixzz1OQFHWeEt

  7. ZOMG! Someone on Twitter said something mean about Sarah Palin? How does she sleep at night, with so many petty feuds to get into?

  8. Jason330 says:

    Boing boing has the best headline for the announcment by Rick Santorum

    Santorum runny for president

    Eeewwww….