Open Thread

So what is going on in your part of the world today? We have a couple of clips of Governor Markell making the rounds talking about Paul Ryan:

So there has been two days of chatter on Rmoney-Ryan (I saw a cartoon over the weekend that transformed the Romney logo into the Rolls Royce logo for Romney-Ryan, wish I could find that again), what do you hear?

So Mitt Romney has decided to go all Culture War on the President, issuing outrageous and racist lies about the President and welfare, and now issuing ads about a "War on Religion." Do you know what that means? It means Romney has lost the election. Already. On August 9, 2012.

Politico has a story on how some in the GOP are now panicking that Romney might choose Paul Ryan. Meanwhile, Claire McCaskill gets the Teabagger nutjob she wanted to face off with. She just might be reelected now.

The consensus seems to be that Mitt Romney is nearing a decision on his running mate and is just waiting until the damn Olympics are over with to announce it. It also seems that the consensus choices for the second slot are as follows, as they have have been left out as convention speakers so far:

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin are both big names in the party believed to be among those Romney is weighing for the vice presidential slot or for the keynote address. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio also were noticeably absent from the slate of announced speakers and may be contenders for running mate.

My money is on Paul Ryan. Take the poll in the middle column.

So how about those Olympics? Are you watching? What do you think? According to this Gawker article, Every Single Person in America is Pissed at NBC’s Olympic Coverage. Use this thread to tell us what you think.

Ever wanted to know how a Creationist Christofascist Science textbook reads? Check this out.

"This isn’t about mutual tolerance because there’s nothing mutual about it. If we agree to disagree on this issue, you walk away a full member of this society and I don’t. There is no “live and let live” on this issue because [Chick-Fil-A CEO] Dan Cathy is spending millions to very specifically NOT let me live. I’m not trying to do that to him. Asking for “mutual tolerance” on this like running up to a bully beating a kid to death on the playground and scolding them both for not getting along. I’m not trying to dissolve Mr. Cathy’s marriage or make his sex illegal. I’m not trying to make him a second-class citizen, or get him killed. He’s doing that to me, folks; I’m just fighting back."

This type of documentary would never appear on American television. Personally, I could give a rat's ass about Romney's religion. But since the GOP cares so much about Obama's to lie about it, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.

View from the ISS at Night from Knate Myers on Vimeo.