Thursday Open Thread [7.5.12]

It is just too hot and it will be too hot all week. Fall cannot get here fast enough.

Yesterday, Cern scientists reported that they found a particle that might be consistent with the theorized Higgs-Boson. It was awesome to listen to the BBC yesterday morning and hear all of these scientists just gush over this discovery — and to listen to a media presentation that let scientists speak and celebrate. Even the comments on the article I linked to are largely good ones. And apparently Stephen Hawking lost a $100 bet on that discovery. Congratulations to all of the scientists involved in the discovery.

The Down with Tyranny blog reports on the League of Conservation Voters report on House and Senate members who are friends of the environment. Surprisingly, Tom Carper gets good grades in the Senate. They also note that Wilco, the Dave Matthews Band and Phish are registering voters as they are touring this summer. How long before the GOP tries to make them look like the new ACORN?

Wikileaks is back! This time with years of emails from Syrian officials.

Remember how GOP types said that aggressive donor disclosure would keep unlimited corporate donations accountable? Guess What? They lied about that.

During their long campaign to loosen rules on campaign money, conservatives argued that there was a simpler way to prevent corruption: transparency. Get rid of limits on contributions and spending, they said, but make sure voters know where the money is coming from.

Today, with those fundraising restrictions largely removed, many conservatives have changed their tune. They now say disclosure could be an enemy of free speech.

The NJ reports that Dennis P. Williams is still behind on his city taxes. Interesting how someone who is telling Wilmington citizens that he is responsible for saving the state when it was broke (!) can’t manage to deal with his own tax obligations. Bovell also has tax issues — owing back taxes and water bills on some rental properties. This from a candidate who wants the City to get into the landlord business.

What interests you today?

26 thoughts on “Thursday Open Thread [7.5.12]”

  4. Delaware Dem

    I thought you were joking. Oh my God. This man is the most socially awkward nominee I have ever seen. Even John Kerry and Mike Dukakis and George H.W. Bush were more charismatic.

    Lemon. Wet. Good.

    There is a meme there peoples.

  10. rustydils

    what is that strange sound I hear. Oh that is lots of people donating to Mitt Romney. Just announced, Romney raised 100 million in June. uh oh liberals

  11. Jason330

    Wealthy idiots with money to blow on a lost cause. For every 1 Romney contributor that kicks in $1,000, Obama has 50 kicking in $200.

  12. Geezer

    rusty: It will be interesting to see the number of individual donors. Dollars don’t vote. Christine O’Donnell outspent Chris Coons by better than 2 to 1 and lost by 17 points. You can’t sell dogshit no matter how much you discount the price.

  14. mike4smom

    Speaking generally, New Castle County Sheriff Trinidad Navarro said he has seen city homes sent to sheriff sale for lesser obligations.

    “There has been no action by the city to begin the process of a sheriff sale for either the Madison Street or Vandever Avenue property, Navarro said Tuesday.

    The city’s minimum threshold for taking action to send a property to sheriff sale for delinquencies is $1,000, Neumann said.

    Both of Williams’ properties have total delinquencies that eclipse that mark. The average delinquency balance on homes sent to sheriff sale is $2,500, Neumann said.”

    The above from today’s news journal.

    Today also on the Sheriff Sale list a home on Vandever Avenue is on the list for taxes $874.52.

    Hmmmm……

  15. Rustydils

    So jason, if your right, then obama is raising 10 times the money romney is. So what is your next arguement going to be in a couple of days when obamas numbers come out, and he gets owned by romney. I guess you did not think that far ahead when making your calculation.
    And geezer, 18 democrat candidates not attending convention in north carolina. the numbers are starting to pile up. many of them in a tightly contested race are staying as far away from obama as possible

  17. Rustydils

    Jason, I checked your math, my comment stands. Now you check your math, 50 times 200 = ten thousand. So you are claiming, obama is out performing romney 10 to 1

  18. Joe Cass

    RDilly, you’re crazy; from the heat? The white horse can and will raise billions for his run. I don’t need a Hadron Collider to show me that you can be bought, but Obama still takes the majority: those without a pot to piss in, Latino/Hispanic Americans, African Americans and the most desirable of ALL the electorate: WOMENS. The GOP/TP has shown their hand and isn’t Willard the most conservative of all? (except when he’s not conservative, only valid in Mass. and N.H.). Pour the money on! We’ve been swift boated and bithered and wall street communists. Every dollar RMoney and his SPACS make speak volumes to the average citizen. Offshore accounts. ROTFLMAO. Mormons 2012

  19. X Stryker

    Uh oh Rusty, looks like Romneytron has more alien robots running his campaign:
    http://abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=16720102
    Different questions to different staffers, same automated response. Just like the dialogue in an old video game.
    Or a hotline:
    For questions about Bain, offshore banks, tax returns, secret Bermuda corporations, or any other shady finance issue, press 1.
    For questions about Obamacare, Romneycare, or the nonexistent Republican health care plan, press 2.
    For questions about tree height, Seamus, car elevators, the taste of lemonade, or any other things relating to what human beings do or say, press 3.
    For questions about immigration, foreign policy, or abortion, please hang up and don’t try again.

  20. puck

    Chris Coons – a rich kid himself – supports a constitutional amendment to fix Citizens United:

    “You can’t kid yourself that people are pouring a billion dollars into an election just out of it’s their hobby or some public spiritedness,” says Coons. […]

    He also says it’s a loss of opportunity for the American people, who are represented by others whose schedule is devoted to fundraising.

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