Friday Open Thread
It’s Friday! *happy dance*
Let’s get your weekend started out right with some sweet pwnage by Shoshana Johnson:
Commenter a. price points us to this video of Jon Stewart mocking Glenn Beck. It’s some of Stewart’s best work.
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Fight the power teabaggers! Don’t let the man beat you down!
U.S. Capitol Police arrested 10 people this afternoon after the Capitol Hill Tea Party crowd stormed Congressional office buildings.
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Without those official details, protesters in the crowd watching the arrests were furious. They shouted “Let them go!” and one man yelled at the police that “Martin Luther King” was being dishonored and shouted “Letter from Birmingham Jail!”
One woman told officers they were “shameful.” Others called the arrested protesters “political prisoners.”
“This is America, this is not the Soviet Union,” one woman said.
Like a bad game of telephone, the crowd spread rumors without anyone having witnessed exactly what happened.
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Factoid: the next Governor of NJ is a Blue Hen! UofD class of 84.
See, I knew we should have encouraged UD to raise admission standards. 😉
…one man yelled at the police that “Martin Luther King” was being dishonored and shouted “Letter from Birmingham Jail!”
So now we know what Black History Month is good for now — to provide an easy but really clueless way for wingnuts to get their victim on.
A HuffPo reporter gives his harrowing account of attending the Michelle Mob.
The Billionaires for Wealth Care also attended the Michelle Mob:
Shoshana Johnson certainly did own that guy. Definitely the price to be paid for trying to argue against a dumbass stereotype rather than the real person right in front of you.
Jon Stewart and his writers are just brilliant. And I love whoever did the blackboard. NAFTA ≠ NaCl is killer.
Mexico Police Chief Murdered after 5 Days On the Job[4 others killed]
KRGV ^ | 11/06/2009
GARCIA, Mexico – A Mexican police chief has been murdered after being on the job for only five days. Brig. Gen. Juan Arturo Esparza is the latest officer suspected of being killed by a drug cartel. He was the police chief of Garcia, a town outside Monterrey. Esparza was on his way to confront drug cartel members who were threatening the city’s mayor. Officials say the suspects opened fire on the police chief’s car. The chief, two former soldiers, and two police officers were all killed. Five police officers and five other suspects were arrested and are behind bars at…
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organized crime in Mexico is gaining control of the border lands.
Yeah! More ACORN News!
Times-Picayune ^ | 11/06/2009 | martha carr
Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has served a search warrant at the ACORN office at 2609 Canal Street, according to Tammi Arender Herring, a spokeswoman with the office. Investigators in khaki pants and polo shirts loaded several dozen computers and other electronic items into an SUV. They are also carrying records out of the building on handcarts. The large office building sits at the corner of Dorgenois and Canal. ACORN staffers were given no notice that a search would be conducted today, Herring said. “They have been extremely cooperative,” she said. Early last month, Caldwell’s office issued subpoenas for records from…
Does anyone here think the the GEICO gecko (aka lizard) was dropped on his head right after he was born?
I don’t even read his cut and pasting anymore, MJ. No link. No read.
Kevin Drum has a letter from an eyewitness at Ft. Drum.
“FORT HOOD, Texas – A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly went on a deadly shooting spree at the military base that tragically left Glenn Beck alive.”
Too soon?
Go read the Ft. Hood letter that Cassandra posted the link to if you can.
Jason,
You saw this right?
Victim In Fatal Car Accident Tragically Not Glenn Beck
Private “Abortion Insurance” could be a boon for abortion providers and people who need abortions. Stay with me. What if some organization such as NARAL sets up an insurance arm and asks EVERYONE in the country to take out a policy. EVERYONE, that is, who thinks abortion should be a safe. Everyone who thinks that abortion should a private issue between a woman and her doctor. Everyone who thinks that access to that health care option should not be restricted by the Church.
What if all of those people took out a policy?
The premiums would be tiny (because the vast number of people paying the premiums would not be making claims ) – but the coverage would be very nearly universal.
Every woman in the country could have 20 abortions if they felt like it.
Iran Is Said to Ignore Effort to Salvage a Nuclear Deal
NY Times ^ | 11/8/2009 | David Sanger
The Obama administration, attempting to salvage a faltering nuclear deal with Iran, has told Iran’s leaders in back-channel messages that it is willing to allow the country to send its stockpile of enriched uranium to any of several nations, including Turkey, for temporary safekeeping, according to administration officials and diplomats involved in the exchanges. But the overtures, made through the International Atomic Energy Agency over the past two weeks, have all been ignored, the officials said. Instead, they said, the Iranians have revived an old counterproposal: that international arms inspectors take custody of much of Iran’s fuel, but keep it…