Saturday’s Open Thread

Filed in Delaware, International, National by on October 17, 2009

Cold and rainy Saturday. A great day to watch some college football from the comfort of you living room. Or maybe you would like to discuss some of the following:

  • Delaware gets smacked by a nor’easter (link)
  • Pakistan starts military action against Al-Queda and the Taliban (link)
  • James Monroe biographer says that Obama should take a page out of the fifth president’s playbook (link)
  • Bubble boy (link)

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  1. pandora says:
    October 17, 2009 at 2:21 pm

    Check out Cakes Gone wrong. My favorites: “Nothing” and “Olympic Rings”

  2. nemski says:
    October 17, 2009 at 2:25 pm

    Those are funny!

    This past summer, my wife was making a typical pan cake and we ended up with two containers of icing. Not to let such a good thing go to waste, she spread the icing from both containers on one cake. Mmmm, delicious.

  3. Progressive Mom says:
    October 17, 2009 at 2:43 pm

    The moral: Never hire a cake decorator who takes words literally!

  4. cassandra_m says:
    October 17, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    I love “Congratulations as small as possible”.

    Very funny!

  5. Joanne Christian says:
    October 17, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    Doing “Homecoming Hair”–just you wait Pandora! And send me some telepathic expertise–my 1975 Farrah Fawcett Clairol electric rollers still work!!!!

    How’d the run go UI?

  6. Unstable Isotope says:
    October 17, 2009 at 3:18 pm

    Pictures of the sand dunes on Mars. Very pretty!

  7. cassandra_m says:
    October 17, 2009 at 3:19 pm

    Electric rollers!

    Yo Joanne, we don’t do torture any more…

  8. Joanne Christian says:
    October 17, 2009 at 3:26 pm

    I know WE don’t–but HS kids need their turn!! Hey, she’s going with it. No pantyhose though! 🙂

  9. pandora says:
    October 17, 2009 at 3:40 pm

    Nothing gives lift like those Hot Rollers! And you can’t scare me on this point, Joanne – Didn’t you know, in my past life, I did hair professionally? You should have called. I’d have helped! 🙂

  10. PI says:
    October 17, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    Rented a good movie based on true story “American Violet”. Texas style justice for people of color. Makes you proud to be white…..NOT! Oh, and even more proud of white law enforcement officers.

  11. Joanne Christian says:
    October 17, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    I know you were P–that’s why I invoked the telepathy! Put us down for prom weekend:)!

  12. pandora says:
    October 17, 2009 at 4:35 pm

    Done!

  13. cassandra_m says:
    October 17, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    This is stone cold gross.

  14. Miscreant says:
    October 17, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    Enjoy…

    http://racedetective.blogspot.com/

  15. Unstable Isotope says:
    October 17, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Limbaugh gets his victim on – again! He claims that his opponents have spread false quotes about him. Apparently there were some unsourced quotes floating around. That still doesn’t explain the quotes we know are real. TAPPED explains:

    The NFL is an organization made up of a lot of people who make a great deal of money — I would guess that on average, management and ownership probably skews Republican. But it’s also an organization made up of a lot of black people — and while the right was focused on debunking racist things Limbaugh didn’t say, they pretty much ignored Limbaugh’s record of racist commentary, which includes not only a habit of comparing black athletes to gang members but a general hostility toward black people. Limbaugh only recently suggested that having a black president encouraged black children to beat up white children — he’s also compared President Obama’s agenda to “slavery reparations,” used epithets to reference his biracial background, and compared Democrats responding to the concerns of black voters to rape. In the fevered swamps of National Review, where they’re still defending William F. Buckley’s support of segregation, this kind of behavior is described as Martin Luther King like.

    On the one hand, there’s the general anxiety on the right that comes from the recognition that one can’t actually treat black people this way and expect there not to be social consequences. On the other, there’s actual bewilderment about the very concept of racism — conservatives understand in the abstract that racism is bad, but they seem incapable of identifying actual racist behavior. Instead, because (a) racism is bad and (b) liberals are bad (c) racism is a quality possessed by liberals. By definition, conservatives cannot be racist, because they are good, unlike liberals, and therefore nothing Rush Limbaugh says is racist. Moreover, while liberals have sometimes intimated racial motivation for conservative criticism where there isn’t any, conservatives have refused to recognize when attacks on the president become attacks on black people. Calling the president “an angry black guy” is one of those times.

    This blanket refusal to evaluate their own behavior is what continues to make the GOP seem completely tone deaf when it comes to minorities — the GOP can list as many black Republicans from the 1800s as they like, as long as they continue to adhere to the Bender Theory of Discrimination and refuse to acknowledge even flagrant racism within their ranks, and even imply that minorities are so stupid they’re “fooled” into believing racism exists, they will remain a party minorities do not feel welcome in.

  16. nemski says:
    October 17, 2009 at 5:56 pm

    Sharpton is thinking about suing Rush based on his idiotic op-ed.

  17. Unstable Isotope says:
    October 17, 2009 at 6:06 pm

    I think it’s just striking how much conservatives just don’t get it about race. Don’t they know there’s another side to the 1st amendment that they cherish so much (only for themselves, though, hippies need to STFU). Limbaugh can say what he wants and make a lot of money doing it but people can actually hear him. I can’t believe that an ownership bid would have him in the first place considering his highly-publicized fall from grace from the NFL before.

  18. Unstable Isotope says:
    October 17, 2009 at 6:48 pm

    Jindal and Landrieu call for racist judge’s removal. Good. It gives me hope that this guy won’t get away with his behavior.

  19. Joanne Christian says:
    October 17, 2009 at 10:22 pm

    Just back from seeing Smitty’s wife in EVITA. What vocals….and pit band..great community theatre….can’t believe in talking w/ the cast after the show they only practiced 8 weeks!! It’s a treat Geek. Does Mrs. Smitty shimmy at home?

  20. nemski says:
    October 17, 2009 at 11:12 pm

    Bubble Balloon Boy’s dad will have charges field against him according to CNN.

  21. liberalgeek says:
    October 18, 2009 at 12:05 am

    UI, I have to admit that when I clicked on the Mars pictures, I thought I was looking at Meghan McCain’s breasts again. Who knew astronomy could be so… ummm… interesting. 🙂

  22. Joanne Christian says:
    October 18, 2009 at 8:37 am

    See that LG–God is everywhere.

    Now get that Sunday Open Thread posted 🙂

  23. Jason330 says:
    October 18, 2009 at 10:05 am

    Ron Paul maniacs attacking Lindsey Graham maniacs.

    Oh man I’m loving this. It is like Iran vs. Iraq all over again.

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/14/ron-paul-vs-lindsey-graham-on-the-future-of-the-gop/

  24. Unstable Isotope says:
    October 18, 2009 at 10:19 am

    The tea parties did start with Ron Paul’s movement. The Republican party is trying to harness their passion but is now paying the price. There was a dkos article last week about how the Republican party is now #4 in voter registration in Nevada. I’ll look for it…

  25. Jason330 says:
    October 18, 2009 at 10:22 am

    I think the other parties are called, “The Real Republican Party” and the “No Way Dude! We are the Really Real Republican Party”

    In the end, there is nothing better for the country than Republican fratricide.

  26. Unstable Isotope says:
    October 18, 2009 at 10:24 am

    Ah, here it is:

    Republican Party registration is fourth in Nevada this year.

    Republicans have added just 1,549 voters since February, when the secretary of state’s office cleaned up voter registration rolls.

    Democrats, meanwhile, added 4,860 and nonpartisan registration grew by 3,783. Even the hard-right Independent American Party registered more Nevada voters in that span than Republicans.

    “Coming in fourth? Ouch,” said Erik Herzik, a professor of political science at the University of Nevada, Reno, and a registered Republican.

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