Tuesday Open Thread [7.3.12]
Another slow newsday.
Sad news today, Andy Griffths died today, according to a local TV station. Most people will remember him from The Andy Griffiths show or Matlock. Me, I’m going to remember him from his first movie — A Face In The Crowd — where he played Lonesome Rhodes, a hobo who rises to fame and fortune in radio and tv, revealing (or becoming) monstrous and narcissistic train wreck. It is a fierce performance and worth seeing if you can:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ4nqphP21k[/youtube]
Have you been paying attention to the Barclays scandal in London? If not, Marketplace did a great explainer of what they did to manipulate LIBOR.
From Andrew Sullivan — who thinks that Chief Justice Roberts is the First Elite Conservative to Say Enough. Count me as unconvinced.
Interesting investigation by Vanity Fair into where Mitt Romney’s money is hidden.
Hope all of you are getting out of work early today!
What interests you today?
Just heard that the Firefly music festival by Dover Downs is supposed to have 40,000 attendees, starting July 2. Have no idea what kind of music.
Lineup for Firefly. Looks sorta awesome, actually.
Happy Birthday Dan Gaffney.
AAAh MJ —that was nice. Montel Williams, Geraldo, and the late George Cohan join him. All Yankee Doodle Dandies.
For the record, Firefly starts on the 20th.
I have known Dan since ’86 he was younger than I thought then;) nice to be back on your air Dan!
Scantron inventor puts his pencil down and hands in his answer sheet.
Gaffney has singlehandedly enabled and covered for Bill Colley, a piece of human garbage. Why do you guys like him again?
And the Dems still have no one to run for an OPEN Senate seat in coastal Sussex County. Siiiiiiggggghhhhhhh …
Federal appeals court says it is ok for the Corps of Engineers to continue their deepening dredge effort in the Delaware.
it was nice knowing you, all living organisms in the Delaware river.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Yes, that is where I want to get my business news from vanity fair. I am sure examing highly complex tax returns falls into their area of expertise. What we really should be suspicious of is how vanity fair is able to falsely manipulate their html to keep getting their story on romneys san diego house to pop up on the first page of google saying the story is days or hours old, when it is really a year old story. Something is very suspicious about the way vanity fair runs their magazine
Send it to the Supreme Court. Delay as much as possible.
Jane Hovington of Georgetown announced her run for the 19th Senate seat. She will face either Bodenweiser or Booth.
Rusty, is that the story about Romney’s car elevator? The one he’s building so that he can keep his many cars stored in a convenient stack? The one he hired a lobbyist to get approved? I’m sure being able to stack them will leave extra space for dressage horses. Perhaps he’ll stack those, too, the way he stacks his dog on the roof for car trips.
s’amatter rusty, licking your wounds inflicted by LIberal Lion Roberts?
I never thought the very phrase ‘car elevator’ would make me smile. Context is everything.
Both R State Senator Gary Simpson and ‘D’ Rep. John Atkins filed for reelection today.
Rusty, Vanity Fair is far more reliable than WND or FAUX News. But you wouldn’t know that. My guess is that you think that Mad Magazine is real news, too.
Seems that Rick Santorum thought that a gay dating/meeting app was something that could help him find a Starbucks – http://dailycurrant.com/2012/07/03/santorum-claims-thought-grindr-coffee-app/. Yeah, right.
Jane Hovington…the black lady?
Good luck with that.
Phil, has anyone ever told you you’re a fucking asshole?
comfirmed! Cats are evil: http://gma.yahoo.com/study-links-cat-litter-box-increased-suicide-risk-194116398–abc-news-health.html
Rasmussen: 70% of Americans support the Declaration of Independence.
If you guys gave this just a little bit of thought you would realize that the elevator is simply an insurance policy in case ann’s condition deterates later on. Of course does not want to put that in the plans as such.
Or it could be for when Governor Christie comes to visit.
Rusty, is Ann’s condition expected to deteriorate to the point she’s the size of a CAR? And living in the garage, one supposes.
Get effective medication, dude. Your life will be better.
Good one puck, pretty, pretty funny
No, Rusty, you’re way off. If you lived in an actual city, you would have seen these “car elevators” in some parking lots, where they are used to effectively double the number of spaces. You drive the car onto the “elevator,” jack it up to six feet and park another car underneath.
Sorry Geezer, it’s too late. We already have the image of hearing a tastefully muted bonng! as the car elevator door opens onto the main ballroom, and Mitt steps out adjusting his cuffs.
Another quiet evening of fundraising at stately Bain Manor. Until a disturbing image appears upon the low-hanging clouds – a glowing, ghostly dollar sign: The Cash Signal! Somewhere in America, a corporation is being victimized by excess labor costs!
A tall, handsome man excuses himself and strides through the crowd of wealthy guests, discreetly pushing the down button on the car elevator: “To the Cashmobile!”
WOW! we can use language like “Fucking Asshole” on this site!? Way Cool Jr.!!
Jesus, Paul, did you just discover the exclamation point? Give it a rest already. You’ve used 32 of them on the front page of your website alone. Good thing keyboards have two shift keys, eh?
PainesMe: Thanks for visiting the site and being so attentive to the contents!!
And let me say thank you, Paul Bodenweiser, for being such an enthusiastic guy.