Friday Open Thread

Filed in National by on July 22, 2011

Welcome to your Friday open thread. All I can say is oh dear Lord it’s hot. I’m afraid of the outdoors. It wants to cook me.

I’m not the biggest fan of “statement” activism but I love this. A group of gay “barbarians” went to Marcus Bachmann’s clinic and demanded discipline.

Today a group of gay “barbarians” descended upon Marcus Bachmann’s Christian counseling center to protest the harmful ex-gay therapy offered there. During a radio interview in 2010, Bachmann compared gay people to “barbarians” who need to be “disciplined.” Organized by Nick Espinosa, who famously showered Newt Gingrich with glitter, the protest glittered Bachmann’s empty waiting room and reception area, chanting “You can’t pray away the gay — baby, I was born this way!”

I’m still pretty skeptical of Bachmann’s viability as a candidate. I think she has too much baggage, some of it in the form of Marcus Bachmann.

This is just evil:

The Park Hyatt at 800 N. Michigan Ave. was among the hotels where picketing was held, and at some point Thursday morning, someone turned on the outdoor heat lamps that are usually used in winter.

Combined with the outdoor air temperature, Linda Long says it was hotter than the Hyatt kitchen she’s worked in for eleven years.

“They put the heat lamps on us, like we were nothing,” Long said. “If the heat didn’t kill us, the heat lamps would.”

The heat lamps were turned off when the press showed up.

Wow. I can’t believe they thought this was a good idea. Is it even legal?

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  1. Blu Gal in De says:

    I was just over at Kos and there’s a diary up that’s begging for local commentary: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/07/22/997338/-Why-the-Tea-Party-Capsized-in-Delaware?via=siderecent

  2. donviti says:

    I know you guys have been busy bashing Anonone all this week for having…gasp… an opinion. but, did you know he is a blogger at Outside The Machine too.

    I know you guys/gals don’t really link to other Delaware blogs anymore or mention them. So, I thought I would do it for you.

    Anonone is a blogger! ha! go figure

  3. fightingbluehen says:

    With NASA’s future uncertain at best, can we say that whitey’s off the moon?

  4. Jason330 says:

    Je pense que nous avons tous la fin du cycle de maliase. la chaleur n’est pas aider.

  5. anonone says:

    I am pretty sure that translates to “anonone is still a lazy ass” or something to that effect.

  6. Aoine says:

    no it doesn’t anonone – it says something else entirely

    and its pretty funny – true to, I think

  7. Jason330 says:

    I’m a francophoney

  8. Rebecca says:

    You’re right Jason, the heat isn’t helping. But I’m wondering, is cycle de maliase a colloquialism for PMS or did you mean it literally?

  9. Jason330 says:

    lol. No. Just a clunky translation on my part, but I like your way better.

  10. anonone says:

    Meanwhile, Obama continues to rake in big bribes, er, campaign contributions from Wall Street:

    “Obama and the DNC combined are on pace to blow away the amounts Obama raised from Wall Street donors in 2008. At the current pace, Obama and the DNC will far surpass his 2008 Wall Street fund-raising numbers both in raw dollar amounts and as a percentage of what he raises overall.”

    http://www.cnbc.com/id/43854224

  11. anon40 says:

    @anonone–

    I’m disappointed, but not surprised, that Obama kneels to his corporate (and union) masters.

    One question–why is it OK for Republicans to suck corporate ass, but not ok for Democrats to suck both union and corporate ass?

    The American public gets screwed regardless. Both sides are whores to their corporate/union masters.

    FWIW, I’m a former union member & I have no prob. w/ unions exercising their right to support a given candidate, so Joe Cass can save his keystrokes.

  12. anonone says:

    @anon40-

    Until we have public campaign financing and election reform, we’re screwed. Corporate dollars insure that progressives will never have majority representation.

    See also:

    http://www.outsidethemachine.com/?p=1152

    anon1

  13. puck says:

    I have no illusions that progressives will become a majority, barring a populist wave caused by great deprivation.

    What I do expect is that Democratic leadership, given a choice, will favor progressive positions over conservative positions. The financing perversion is that now even if you elect Democrats you still get conservative policies.

    Also, Progressives haven’t helped themselves much by caving in to conservadem policies. Progressives could have killed the individual mandate and the tax cut extension, but they bowed to the President and the conservadems.

  14. Amy Winehouse has died. She was 27. Drugs/alcohol suspected. Addiction is a disease every bit as nasty as cancer.

  15. puck says:

    Isn’t 27 the standard rock-and-roll age for early death?

  16. liberalgeek says:

    It is. It’s actually one of the things that made me disrespect Cobain more. He killed himself at 27, so that he could join the Joplin/Hendrix/Morrison pantheon.

    I’m sorry to see Amy Winehouse die.