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September 13, 2012 03:30 PM UTC

Thursday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Excessive fear is always powerless.”

–Aeschylus

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40 thoughts on “Thursday Open Thread

      1. A tradition down here, and the timing is good once we are off of daylight savings.  

        From my patio we can watch the sun go down to the west, which is Sarasota Bay and Longboat Key, two miles further.

        Or, a two minute car ride and the same at our little Indian Beach Park.  It’s a social event, lots of people including many art school students.  Hula hoops, cameras, hugs, it’s great.

        Sometimes I have to (grumpily) admit there are a few nice things here.  Once past mosquitos, humidity, hurricanes.

  1. I don’t have a TV, but do watch some when I’m Mommy-sitting.  Last night I found to my (political junkie) delight CNN delved into this matter of the statement from the Egyptian US embassy, the Libyan US embassy, and Rmoney’s statement.

    My opinion of American “News” reporting isn’t very high, often not only getting facts wrong, or not asking the obvious, or generally being criminally stupid.  But to their credit, CNN stated a number of times that Rmoney’s statement was bullshit.  My term, not their’s.

    The only supporters they put on the air were Norm Coleman and John McCain.  And, of course, they just blathered about being an American and not giving up sovereignty, blah blah blah. General Wesley Clark stated emphatically in his interview that Rmoney was wrong, wrong, wrong.

    I don’t recall if names were mentioned, but apparently some Pubs are distancing themselves from Rmoney and this event.

    Wait…..was that an iceberg scraping the hull?

    1. So if you believe them they waited for 16 hours until the officer tweeted it again to try to walkback their AWOLness.

      And for those in the know, well know the embassy is the presidents representative … It is the President.

      The us embassy was overrun and remains so. The ambassador one country over was hunted down and killed.

      I’m glad to see the administration is stepping up security, after all the presidency has been attacked. It appears the USMC has held off Yeman and Tunisian effort to break security.

      1. before it was attacked, very similar to statements put out over the years.  At one time I thought you just tried to be constantly offensive, crass, ugly and provocative.  Now I believe you really are stupid as well as those other things.

        You certainly have never provided me evidence to the contrary.  

        1. I meant to say, “Keep plucking that chicken.”

          Sorry for the mixup.  

          And why doesn’t the video zoom in on the woman newscaster who was visibly shaken by my faux pas ?    

      2. you being Willard’s apologist and representative here today means that Willard recently called the President a “silverback”?

        “Moron” doesn’t begin to cover it when describing you, Tad.

    2. The image of a black Al Qaeda flag flying above the United States Embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11 shocked Americans. It should have shaken the Egyptian Government as well. Egypt receives $1.5 billion annually from the U.S., and Washington is about to forgive $1 billion in the ailing state’s debt.

      But Egypt’s government is charting a different course. Rather than denouncing the egregious violation of U.S. sovereignty, Egypt’s ruling party, the Muslim Brotherhood, is doubling down. This Friday, the Brotherhood is slated to hold a mass demonstration just two blocks from U.S. compound in Cairo.

      Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opi

        1. Maybe we should have censored or highly discouraged religious blasphemy so many years ago….you know set up social norms to discourage this radical and offensive behavior.

          What I also find interesting is who made the movie that “sparked” this action…..first it was blamed on a mystery figure and 100 Jews financial backing. Now nothing.

          Ps I saw a few trailers and can understand how it might piss off some islamics. Not that I don’t condem their actions to attack the presidency and kill his guys.

          1. The AP has tracked a phone number given out for casting to a Coptic Christian living in California – a crook known to use aliases, especially those similar to his middle name, Baselley. One consultant on the film is a California militia-Christian who is bent on protecting America from a takeover by the Muslim Brotherhood (which he believes is imminent).  The actors are looking to sue because the script they filmed didn’t have any of the anti-Islamic crap in it – that was edited in after the fact.

            Who really backed it is anyone’s guess at this point. The joke would be on the folks who worked to make it if this was some sick al-Qaeda plot designed to stir up anti-American sentiment, or some Egyptian military element looking to destabilize the new Egyptian democracy.

      1. Mehn Fadlik.  Asif.  

        but I’m pretty sure that the black flag is more “anti-colonial” than “terrorist.”  

        .

        WHY couldn’t they hold their demonstration at Tahrir (“Liberation”) Square, instead of a location only a couple of blocks from the Embassy ?  

        Also known as “Martyr Square,” it is where large demonstrations are normally held.

        Plus, it’s only a couple of blocks from the Embassy.

        oh.  nevermind.  

        p.s.: when I put Arabic script in the comments, the whole darn comment wouldn’t post.  

    3. You are such a dunce, Tad.

      To imply that the statement had any approval by Obama just clinches my unkind accusation.

      Unkind, but accurate.

      (“It’s not libel if it’s true.”)

          1. Not even the GOP leadership of the House or Senate or any of the serious conservative pundits are defending Romney on this.  Arap isn’t even showing up, unless I’ve missed something.  Looks like the Big Fat Idiot, Sarah Palin, ‘tad and a few other nitwits are about all Mittens is getting for back up.

  2. Establishment repubs are publicly gently chiding Romney for being wrong in his timeline and inappropriate in his criticisms.  Base repubs are cheering the newly aggressive Romney.

    I still say that romney should release his medical records to demonstrate that he does not have cognitive difficulties due to the aging process.  I think he does.

  3. I suspect the catholics and radicals like the southern baptists and lutherans will be thrilled to know that it’s our nations new policy to deplore art and what not showing Jesus having sex, nuns smoking dope or priests with the heads in nuns crotches.

    “The U.S. deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others,” Clinton said

    So liberal friends do we censor now and in the future or do we ride it out? Do we stop certain national art funding for art under this statement? What’s your opinion?

    I’d suggest you not opine as we pray for Obama as he leads America through this crisis.

  4. Paid for by themselves, their parents, neighbors and businesses operating within the confines of the city.

    Blocked by union bosses and overriding NEA “reform policies”.

    Like on Seinfeld, it’s the education nazis …. No School For You!

      1. If The Turdster says something is fact, it must be true!  Despite proof otherwise, he is always right!

        Getting slightly more serious, I am of the opinion that cognitive dissonance is the only way modern Republicans can prevent their heads from exploding.  It’s also how religious people can believe one thing (“Love thy neighbor.”) and do another (“Kill the motherfuckers – in the name of God!”) without a hint of hypocrisy.

  5. Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R-voter suppression) was smacked down hard yesterday by the Ohio Supreme Court, which ruled that Husted corrupted the intent of a redistricting reform initiative when his office wrote the ballot language.

    Husted’s office removed language from the ballot summary indicating that the new redistricting process would be led by a bipartisan commission and that it would follow guidelines similar to those in Colorado.  The GOP-altered summary was polling poorly among voters because it did not inspire confidence in the reform.

  6. First Dick explains, to paraphrase: “I have my own dark recess from which I reach and pull my prognostication.”

    Then Dick goes on to insult voters.


    “When I put it all together, I believe Romney is ahead, has been ahead, will continue to be ahead, and will win by a reasonable margin,” said the nationally known Republican political analyst. “I take my own polling and I do my own damn weighting, and I have a six- or seven-point Romney victory.”

    …Morris said Republicans must redouble their efforts in order to offset the 50% of Americans whom he called “professional voters,” those who receive means-tested government checks and thus “make their living off their vote.”

    http://thecoloradoobserver.com

  7. This is big. The Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Republican candidates for president in 2000, 2004 and 2008. But this year, it has refused to endorse Mitt Romney for president.

    They couldn’t go so far as to endorse Obama, but at least they know how labor/union unfriendly Rmoney and the Pubs are.  Slow learners, but at least they finally got it.

    1. Willard don’t need no steekin’ FOP endorsement . . .

      . . . he’s still got his Michigan State Trooper uniform somewhere in one of those closets.  

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