Tuesday Open Thread
Welcome to Tuesday on another dreary day. I keep hearing rumors that the end of the week will be nice and sunny. Bring it on! What’s on your mind today? Share it in our daily open thread.
I’m not so sure that Republican donors should be that outraged at the RNC’s expenses. Scamming their followers seems like a way of life for national conservative leaders. Sean Hannity and Oliver North are holding charity concerts where most of the money is going to the Hannity-North charity:
CREW’s complaint, lodged with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), alleges that Hannity and Freedom Concerts have been dishonest in suggesting that the entirety of the revenues from ticket sales goes straight to a scholarship fund. Freedom Alliance does not actually manage the concerts, Crew discovered via a Freedom of Information request and promotional materials. Instead, they’re organized by a middleman—a promotional company called Premiere Marketing. The firm is headed by Duane Ward, who is also the president of Premiere Motivational Speakers Bureau, which represents both Hannity and North and has a “long history in conservative activism.” Ward previously worked for Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority and ran North’s legal defense fund following the Iran-Contra scandal in the late 1980s. Premiere in turn donates an “unknown portion of the concert proceeds to the Freedom Alliance,” alleges CREW. “We have no idea how much money it actually is,” CREW executive director Melanie Sloan told reporters on Monday. But CREW argues that Hannity and Freedom Alliance’s claims that the revenues go directly to scholarships amounts to “illegal and deceptive marketing practices.”
A man was arrested yesterday for making threatening You Tube videos. The newest one directly threatened the life of Eric Cantor. The Philadelphia man, Eric Leboon, seems to be severely mentally disturbed and also seems to have quite a hobby making threatening videos:
The initial portrait emerging of the man charged with threatening to kill Eric Cantor and his family suggests he’s made similar, if not criminally actionable, threats on dozens of occasions against an ideologically diverse array of public figures.
According to the federal complaint against him, Norman Leboon of Philadelphia has admitted making some 2,000 videos that contained threats. A sampling of his “work” reveals rambling incoherent videos that mix pseudo-religious incantations with random warnings and threats. In one video he addresses President Obama, Vice President Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid by name and says, “Your punishment is coming, the swine, it will be severe, and you will beg for mercy to your god, it will be severe, you will know god’s swine, god has warned you.” (Some conservatives are already chortling over the fact that Leboon contributed to Obama’s 2008 campaign, though it’s not clear what that’s supposed to signify.)
Leboon did give $505 dollars to the Obama campaign. The DNC announced they are planning on giving that amount to charity.
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Failure of NYC Bookmaking Monopoly Proves the Government Can’t Run Anything Properly
Off-Track Betting, New York City’s paramutual gambling monopoly, has laid off 1300 workers and is threatening to shut down all 66 of its betting parlors throughout the city. How a gambling monopoly can lose $45 million in 5 years is a case study in why the government can’t run anything properly and a horrifying preview of the coming healthcare implosion under Obamacare.
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Remember those two skinheads who threatened to kill lots of black people and President Obama? Well these wingnut terrorists both pled guilty and are finally going to jail. So much for the myth of right wing terrorism.
Silly Cassandra. Did you not notice they were white? That means they can’t be terrorists. They were “expressing themselves” … with the threat of high-velocity projectiles.
They should actually listen to the promotion before they file a complaint. The proceeds of the concerts go to Freedom Alliance. Freedom Alliance would lose money if they actually tried to organize and manage it. They make money by Hannity having a contractor run it and giving them the proceeds. Shawn gave 200K of his own money. The blogger is just another whiner who doesn’t do anything near for the troops what they do.
If you can stand it Christine O’Donnell will be on Fox Business network tonight at 7 PM. I’m not sure why Fox Business wants to have someone on who has a hard time managing money.
Does anyone have the balls to go to one of the 9/12 DE Patriots meetings this week and ask Christine about the rumors during the Q & A?
One thing I haven’t figured out: These Young Eagles – are they “tops” or “bottoms?”
Teabonics Hilarious!
So where is my census form? When are they due back? All I’ve gotten is a letter saying I’m going to get a census form–but it didn’t say when. And I have things to do.
Teabonics!
omg, G-d does love me today! I’m laughing so hard, I’m actually crying.
What I want next is a lolteabonicz site, please!
Hmm. I got my form awhile ago and finally sent it in today. Maybe we can get Mike Mahaffie to clue us in.
I, for one, am looking forward to gazing at the oil wells off the Delaware beaches. Thanks, President Obomba!