Monday Open Thread [12.2.13]
Amazon Delivery Drones. I don’t see how this will possibly work. My property and house is covered by trees. Will the Drone simply mow down my trees with machine gun fire in order to attempt delivery?
Did you hear that Rosa Parks, all the way back in the 1950’s, ended racism? Yes, there has not been any racism in the United States for over over sixty years now. Amazing. No racism at all. Since there was no racism any more in 1968, it seems very silly that the GOP then devised the entire Southern Strategy to attract the votes of racists. I am amazed Nixon and then Reagan won at all, since obviously they attracted zero votes with that core campaign strategy, since there were no more racists or racism.
Rush Limbaugh has declared war on Catholicism.
“I mentioned, last night — I was doing show prep last night — usual routine. And I ran across this — I don’t actually know what it’s called — the latest papal offering, statement from Pope Francis. Now, up until this — I’m not Catholic. Up until this, I have to tell you, I was admiring the man. I thought he was going a little overboard on the “common man” touch, and I thought there might have been a little bit of PR involved there. But nevertheless, I was willing to cut him some slack. I mean, if he wants to portray himself as still from the streets of where he came from and is not anything special, not aristocratic, if he wants to eschew the physical trappings of the Vatican — OK, cool, fine.
“But this that I came across last night — I mean, it totally befuddled me. If it weren’t for capitalism, I don’t know where the Catholic Church would be. Now, as I mentioned before, I’m not Catholic. I admire it profoundly, and I’ve been tempted a number of times to delve deeper into it. But the pope here has now gone beyond Catholicism here, and this is pure political. Now, I want to share with you some of this stuff.
“”Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as ‘a new tyranny.’ He beseeched global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality, in a document on Tuesday setting out a platform for his papacy and calling for a renewal of the Catholic Church. In it, Pope Francis went further than previous comments criticizing the global economic system, attacking the ‘idolatry of money.’ ”
“I’ve gotta be very caref– I have been numerous times to the Vatican. It wouldn’t exist without tons of money. But, regardless, what this is — somebody has either written this for him or gotten to him. This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope. There’s no such — “unfettered capitalism”? That doesn’t exist anywhere.
The New York Times:
“As the Obama administration’s weekend deadline for a smoothly functioning online marketplace for health insurance arrives, more than a month of frantic repair work is paying off with fewer crashes and error messages and speedier loading of page.”
“But specialists said weeks of additional work lie ahead, including a major reconfiguration of the computer hardware, if the $630 million site, Healthcare.gov, is to accommodate the expected flood of people seeking to buy health insurance. Without the additional changes, experts predict, the website may continue to crash during periods of peak use.”
The Washington Post:
“Officials are preparing to say Sunday that they have met their deadline for improving the website, in part by expanding its capacity so that it can handle 50,000 users at once. But other goals remain.”
“[D]during the height of the Cold War, the US military put such an emphasis on a rapid response to an attack on American soil, that to minimize any foreseeable delay in launching a nuclear missile, for nearly two decades they intentionally set the launch codes at every silo in the US to 8 zeroes.”
So the nuclear launch code was 0000 0000. Are you serious??? The more we learn about what really was going on during the Cold War the more I am amazed that we survived it.
Until he is poisoned by Archer Daniels Midland, I’m glad Pope Francis has Rush Limbaugh around to tell him how to be Catholic.
Drones couldn’t be any worse than my lazy ass mail carrier (please don’t tell her I said that) who must believe my mailbox is some kind of tesseract that any size package will fit into. I must admit that I no longer greet her when the mail truck horn blows from the drive way as it is much more fun to watch her struggle to place oversized packages upon my flower bed without getting her fat ass out of the truck (don’t tell her I said that either, you don’t want to piss off your mail carrier).
Everyone needs their Leatherman Skeletool® CX Multitool ($107.00) delivered in under 30 minutes. I mean, what are we savages waiting up to 2 days?
Must have been a slow day for Delaware Liberal. Nothing better to post, so lets start a post with race baiting, then bash Limbaugh, throw in some quotes about our outstanding healthcare gem, and end with a cold war reference.
And of course Rosa Parks ended racism, about 100 years after the Republicans ended slavery.
Do you have to go back a 150 years to defend the republican party? The history of both parties is complex. Republicans were progressive until they became the party of Taft. What matters is what the parties are doing now.
Why not go after Limbaugh, he is the de facto head of the Republican party.