Friday Open Thread
Welcome to your Friday open thread. Soooo, snow. That means it’s time again for Delaware drivers to lose their collective minds. At least it’s Friday. Some of us are looking forward to the weekend.
F*ckin’ tides, how do they work?
O’REILLY: I’ll tell you why [religion’s] not a scam, in my opinion: tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can’t explain that.
SILVERMAN: Tide goes in, tide goes out?
O’REILLY: See, the water, the tide comes in and it goes out, Mr. Silverman. It always comes in, and always goes out. You can’t explain that.
Science education must really be at a low point if we can’t even understand the tides anymore. (Hint: it’s the moon’s gravity.)
Constitution! Constitution! Republicans have their priorities, you know.
Two House Republicans have cast votes as members of the 112th Congress, but were not sworn in on Wednesday, a violation of the Constitution on the same day that the GOP had the document read from the podium.
The Republicans, incumbent Pete Sessions of Texas and freshman Mike Fitzpatrick, missed the swearing in because they were at a fundraiser in the Capitol Visitors Center. The pair watched the swearing-in on television from the Capitol Visitors Center with their hands raised.
Wow, it took like hours for Republicans to mess up. Who’d a thunk it?
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I’m rooting for the Eagles to lose! The Eastern Washington Eagles, that is. Good luck to the Blue Hens tonight in Frisco, Texas.
Eastern Washington has an explosive offense, although they are missing their top running back. I expect a close game despite Delaware being a considerable favorite. If the Hens can bottle up EWU quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell, they should be in good shape. UD should score 40 points tonight.
This from the Bellingham Herald: If the Eagles win, Markell will send Gregoire some Dogfish Head Beach Beer (root beer only available in Delaware), lima beans and Delaware chicken. If the Blue Hens win, Gregoire will send Markell some Walla Walla wine, steak and Washington potatoes.
Did anyone else know Dogfish Head sells root beer?
Go Hens!
Magnets! How the fuck do they work? Fish breathing under water? It’s a fucking insolvable mystery and it proves the Republican Jesus is real.
Coons staff hires:
http://coons.senate.gov/press/release/?id=FE22725E-C4B5-4A72-96C2-ACCB7BCD82E6
Thoughts?
My thoughts? I am a bit disgruntled with Coons with hiring, though to be fair the process is political so I didn’t really have any expectation. Just with the hiring vets push with the adminstration, I thought it might help.
Besides with Castle going, we are losing the best office in the state for helping with vets. His staff knew their stuff.
So I thought I would make an excellent veterans liason.
On another side. since very few know this. The only protected class in our population in which affirmative action is legal is with disabled people. And disabled vets can be hired without advertising or open competition.
In the federal government positions can be created just to give to a disabled vet, and for the first 2 years the VA will cover the budget for the position ( and it does not count against the agencies budget ).
The problem is that these programs are not widely known in the agencies. Obama has been trying to really push for hiring vets, though the issue is in the technical implementation, and always has been.
Census Bureau confirms 47.8 million living in poverty. Thanks repukes. With the insane running the asylum in DC, there will be double that in 2012.
The Kennedys finally dodge a bullet:
Apparently it was a revisionist wingnut docu-drama. The campaign to stop it was here.
Remember these names:
Good riddance, fucktards.