Wednesday Open Thread: June 8th, 2011
Today in History: June 8th
1949 – George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that Washington, D.C. restaurants could not refuse to serve black patrons.
1967 – Six-Day War: The USS Liberty incident occurs, killing 34 and wounding 171.
2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.
So…what’s on your minds this Wednesday?
What are people talking about in your part of the world?
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I will VOTE for the candidate who gets the "R" nomination to run against Obama……
That's my battle cry for 2012!
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A Chinese Pentacostal man applied for asylum in Canada. The questions the board asked him make me so angry I can barely see straight.
The best (worst) bit?
"…the court ruled that the visa officer’s questions were not fact-based and arbitrary and noted that the officer admitted her knowledge of the Pentecostal faith was based on Google searches."
http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/2011/06/what-the-in…
Some people should not be allowed to have jobs. Certainly not ones where they can send Christians back to persecution.
Another moron Dem…. http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/06/congress…
Thanks for the link, reshas1.
Emphasis added. Note that it's not just the idiot
ReprehensibleRepresentative, but ABC News and its blogger Sheila Marikar who are responsible for this insane propaganda. Part of the "spew anything" anti-Palin campaign. Note that it's the idiot Rep's confused "concern" that make the headline and the lede, and the truth-telling park spokesman who gets buried in paragraph 5. Alternative headlines come to mind, but, well, why bother. It's as easy as ABC.Boy, President-to-be Palin sure is doing a great job of scaring the pants off lefties. Although, I haven't seen her blamed yet for scaring the pants off of the Weiner.
Er… emphasis a little too added. Guess I munged the close-strong tag. Siiigh.
Only meant to emphasize "press accounts suggest".
I wished I hadn't jumped to that link right before bedtime here (Germany). Now my blood pressure is raised and I'll do the tossing and turning over this idiot's remark. To this nitwit big mouth I asked when is bo and mo going to reimburse me for all of the headaches they've caused when they come into town? All of the traffic jams, the prohibition for planes to land, etc… Heck, when are the New Yorkers going to get paid back for their "date night" where they thought the public would be on their knees to kiss his ass? Of course, this pipsqueak wouldn't think to apply his standards to the nitwits in the wh.
Not Another one!!! It's getting hard to keep count. LOL
Politician offers pre-emptive apology for sexual misconduct:
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2011/06/heh…
If wishes were horses, beggers would ride, as the saying goes. Here goes my wishing: I wish the various figures who intend to run for the GOP nomination would just announce at the right time. Then I wish GOP primary voters could have a series of events and debates to help determine the best candidate. I wish there would be no mud-slinging. Maybe this will happen? Wishes . . .
Sarah Palin WILL run for President; FOX News drifting leftward; obviously a business decision
If FOX News thinks leftist moronic trolls holding up signs behind FOX Reporters saying “FOX Lies” is damaging, wait till they see what fiscal conservatives can and will do to them as they swing in the left-appeasing, RINO-appeasing direction.
http://votingfemale.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/sara…
The Fox audience crash is already ongoing. O'Slyly's ratings are melting down as he has contiues attacking & shouting down conservatives "guests"as well as covering for Obahammed. After Beck exits Fox's overall ratings will dive even further. So far Hannity has seen his audience shrink only a bit while the rest of its lineups audience numbers are crashing.
If your cable service carries Right Network it will serve to be a good Fox replacement. My PC cable service doesn't.offer Right Network so I will soon tell the cable company I do not need their service and save $58 a month.
Fox has a political reporter, Carl Cameron , who is a total RINO A'hole. He bashed Sarah during the 2008 election. He seems to be Fox's future. I seriously think it's because Rupert Murdoch is getting older and his Liberal son is taking over News Corp. JMO.
http://conservatives4palin.com/2011/06/does-miche…
Today Michele Bachmann’s spokesman, Ed Rollins, whom she recently hired, had some rather nasty things to say about Governor Palin. In order to give Bachmann the benefit of the doubt, we respectfully request that she either affirm her support for the long-time beltway fossil’s idiotic comments…or refudiate them.
Ed Rollins?? Just screams ESTABLISHMENT doesn't it?
Rollins Versus Palin
by John Hayward
Representative Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has been gearing up for a presidential run, and recently hired tough-talking political pro Ed Rollins to run her campaign. He decided to level some of his tough talk at Sarah Palin in a radio appearance today.
“Sarah has not been serious over the last couple of years,” Rollins declared. “She got the vice-presidential thing handed to her.”
For those who lack Rollins’ encyclopedic knowledge of political history: prior to 2008, the Republican vice-presidential nomination was decided through single combat inside a dome-shaped metal cage. The contestants were suspended from the top with elastic harnesses, while various deadly weapons were hung from the sides of the cage. This difficult trial was waived in the case of the lightweight Palin, who was simply invited onto the ticket by presidential candidate John McCain.
“She didn’t go to work in the sense of trying to gain more substance,” Rollins snorted about the woman who has written several best-selling books since the 2008 election, and offered detailed policy critiques of everything from socialized medicine to quantitative easing. Nearly all of her criticisms have been proved accurate, producing a series of very pained “Sarah Palin Was Right” headlines. Have you heard Ed Rollins’ detailed critique of quantitative easing? Don’t feel bad, neither has anyone else.
“You know, I think Michele Bachmann and others have worked hard,” continued Rollins. “She has been a leader of the Tea Party, which is a very important element here. She’s an attorney, done extraordinary things with family values and what have you, so I think she will connect. She’s a great, great communicator.”
That’s actually a pretty lame description of Bachmann, who deserves a better summary of her resume than “family values and what have you.” Maybe Rollins should spend more time studying his own candidate, and less time obsessing about Sarah Palin.
All of those things, aside from the “attorney” part, are equally true of Palin, which is the problem here. Rollins has obviously concluded that Bachmann and Palin will be fighting for market share if they both enter the race. It’s understandable that he wants to give his candidate a leg up, but all of these hired campaign pit bulls should be a little more careful about using the preferred narrative of the Left to club each others’ candidates. A healthy primary is a vigorous contest that produces a strong candidate, not a political bloodbath whose sole survivor limps, mortally wounded, into the general election.
It seems like an odd tactical mistake to try appealing to people who like both Bachmann and Palin by trashing Palin. I would imagine some of them will view that as a species of contempt, as if their own support for Palin were not based on sound matters of policy. If a Palin supporter is going to gravitate to Bachmann, it will happen because they view her as a superior champion of the causes they believe in, or because Palin doesn’t enter the race. The Rollins approach implies that Palin’s supporters are as unserious as he claims Palin is.
Personally, I hope Bachmann and Palin both get into the race and fight like the dickens for the voters they share. I hold the same hope for all of the other presidential candidates. I could do with a bit less ankle-biting from the hired guns. Obama will have plenty of paid operatives and media volunteers peddling his campaign narrative in 2012. He doesn’t need any free help from GOP consultants.
OK – here's a cautionary tale for Michelle Bachman from someone who has gone through the Ed Rollins' "open-mouth/spew insanity" cycle. When Christine Todd Whitman won the governership from incumbent Jim Florio, the day after the election Rollins was at the Press Club in DC holding court on how "he" won the election by spreading half a million dollars in "walking around money" in the inner cities. It wasn't true but he thought he'd tweak Carville who ran Florio's campaign and also was going to run Lautenberg's upcoming senate campaign. He also had a few too many bloody mary's. It set off a very expensive legal quagmire causing the R party and the campaign in NJ and the staffs to hire lawyers to defend itself against a negative that wasn't true.
PS Fortunately both entities kept astonishingly accurate records for every dollar they received and spent. In addition, the mayors of the cities mentioned [i.e. Newark] came forth and said it didn't happen. Mayor Sharp James was quoted: "that kind of money makes a lot of noise on the street…I didn't hear anything". Rollins is a blowhard who egrandizes himself above all candidates…unless they lose and then it's all their fault.
So why in the world would Mrs. Bachmann hire him or in any way include him in her campaign?
He's already put her in the damage control mode.
I don't know why she would hire him – she needs the back story on every person he has worked for. From what I know and from what I've heard, he's more trouble than he's worth. A LOT more trouble.
STOCKTON, CA – Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
"I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers," Wright said. http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-…
Wright is a lot more understanding than I would be.
Having a SWAT team break down a door and barge in over defaulted student loans seems a bit much. Other than the estranged wife, what were they searching for that took six hours? Either there is more to this than meets the eye or this is overkill and an extreme case of the use of excessive force.
Ah good – someone noticed this.
The guy's reaction is why we're doomed – he probably doesn't realize how close he was to being dead (if he'd been in the living room holding a TV remote, he probably would be). He should be suing everybody in sight basically, for everything they own (personally – leave my tax money out of this).
WTF does the Dept. of Education have a SWAT team for, exactly?
I made an earlier comment that said: I will VOTE for the candidate who gets the "R" nomination to run against Obama…… That's my battle cry for 2012!
Then DC Troll replied to this comment: paid campaign roboposter??
My response to DC Troll: No I am not a paid campaign robo-poster! I am a father of five children that is fed up with the current white house goons and the declining values of our government officials. I will listen to all the candidates and I will settle on one of them that will get my vote.
But if MY candidate does not win the R nomination to run against Obama, then I say: I will VOTE for the candidate who gets the "R" nomination to run against Obama……
As the loony left has not figured out yet, it is not a vote for the Republican, it is a vote AGAINST THE DEM'S, in this case OBAMA….
I agree.
In my case it is a vote for the R and a vote against the Dems…
paid or volunteer – roboblogger ?- tomAto-tomato
I only call it once the pattern is confirmed!
we have not been wrong yet in our years here – we always get hammered by such people – hence the name – a badge of honor – in this regard our record stands
why post the same cut and paste line here over and over each day if you will vote (R) no matter who the cocktail party picks – that is …the (R) who the LSM/DNC/Cocktail Party jointly pick?
IT DOESN'T MATTER – save this time instead for quality time for the 5 kids as you will vote for whomever THEY choose you are not adding to the debate
why post the same cut and paste line over and over here every day – a site whose founder _ Kevin DuJan's sole stated purpose – from a Gay Catholic Man's Urban viewpoint – is to Elect Sarah Palin AND rid the Republican party of the cocktail party establishment – if no matter what you will recklessly vote so why post here knowing this?
saying you will vote for anyone – a la Rain Man – does not advance the dialogue or debate
do not lose focus – direct your daily energy to elect Sarah Palin – NOT to give the now hopeless soulless cocktail party HOPE – our goal is to make the cocktail party feel hopeless and leave the Republican Party and go home to the Democratic Party!
we want to get rid of (1) Obama and the (2) Cocktail Party and (3) REPEAL OBAMACARE (aka RomneyCare 2.0)
the message to the Cocktail Party IS NOT to say carry on as usual we will back you in the end.
read here for our two likely outcomes:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/gop_conten…
I am going to email her, to dump her campaign manager, the last thing you will want to do is go after Sarah Palin.
You see who is pushing that story, the Politico.com.. I saw that and this will be the new meme..
Orwell's 1984.
He didn't miss the year by all that much, did he?
Wisconsin protesters disrupt a Special Olympics ceremony:
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2011/06/wisconsin-pr…
Says it all, really.
Putting down Governor Palin will work no better for Ms. Bachmann or Mr. Romney than putting down her supporters here works for you.
There's more than one regular from C4P here. Rest assured we're not 15 year old gossips, as you've just asserted.
Your reply doesn't speak to momrn1's post. It just belittles anyone who might agree with or benefit from knowing more about it.
Just announced: Atlas Shrugged Part 2 to be released in fall 2012! Just in time for Election Day… http://www.atlasshruggedpart2.com/
GM CEO: Hey’s who’s up for a one-dollar hike in federal gas tax?
They don’t call it Government Motors for nothing, you know: http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/08/gm-ceo-heys…
The beatings will continue until sales improve.
In a nut shell: What's holding back our economy
http://sistertoldjah.com/archives/2011/06/08/in-a…
Need a hearty chuckle? Check out this brilliant "Debbie Downer" ad from … believe it or not … the GOP.
Puts Wasserman Schultz in her place.
http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/08/american-crossr…
http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/08/final-weine…
Well, looks like the denouement in the der Weiner saga. Apparently, the final "full frontal" pic has been leaked by a couple of sirius radio jocks. (Breitbart will be with Greta On the Record tonight discussing the leak, which the jocks have admitted, and which Breitbart has called a "complete violation of trust." ) But, to me, the most interesting part of the linked HotAir article is not the graphic photo (which just about everyone had to know really was ‘out there’ somewhere), but rather the quoted section from a Salon article recapping how der Weiner first gained the 48th District seat on the NY City Council that started his political career. Apparently, der Weiner deliberately sent out anonymous flyers exacerbating/exploiting the district’s racially charged atmosphere in the wake of the Crown Heights riots, which allowed him to discredit and defeat his two opponents in the primary. True to the der Weiner MO, the lying sleaze only admitted to being the flyers’ source after he had already won the election. IMO, der Weiner's cheating, clandestine, creepy, lying, two-faced. and now we learn, race-baiting, tactics seem eerily like those of another highly placed Obamacrat we know so well.
Also, breaking news is that der Weiner's wife apparently is in the early stages of pregnancy. If this is true, all I can say is that I genuinely pity her and the child. I hope she divorces the scumbag, and that Congress expels him or demands he resign. (Perhaps the very capable, independent, smart, strong Huma, who was HRC's personal assistant, was just using der Weiner as a sperm donor after all.)
I read an interesting email tonight , which originated from "The Nation Magazine". They say that Verizon & AT&T directly helped elect Tea Party Candidates, and if you use something called Credo Mobile, which is a Progressive phone company, and which shares their values, it would never give a dime to Tea Party politicians, and Credo will automatically donate a percentage of the bill to liberal causes…supposedly they have donated 67 million to groups such as Planned Parenthood, Doctors without borders, Earth-justice and Democracy Now. I can't decide if it is a serious email or a joke. I have never heard of Credo, but was really glad to hear that my provider, Verizon, was on the no-call list for The Nation Magazine.
Earl Blumenauer should change his name to Earl Blumenidiot and be done with it.