Fake on the Friday OPEN thread
Shot by Dan at Chocolate Paper on Market Street
“I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don’t get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn’t, somebody else would have and we’d still be here. Big deal.”
John Waters
March 1, 2013 - 10:00 AM
No boobs in this comment. Happy Birthday to Yellowstone National Park.
“Early in 1872, Congress moved to set aside 1,221,773 acres of public land straddling the future states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho as America’s first national park. President Grant signed the bill into law on this day in 1872.”
Happy Friday to all you crazy folks. Waiting for Godot opened last night and runs for five more nights if anyone is in the mood for a tragicomedy.
In other news, I should be reading and posting more now that things have slowed down a bit. Though I’m still learning to like the new layout here.
Also, kinda upset I lost my icon. What is that website again that attaches it to your email address please Dan?
Miriam, welcome back!
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Thanks Dan! I’m back on the prowl. HOWL!
Is Henry around today? Sounds like Woodward is walking back the idea of a White House “threat” directed at him. Oops!
Are you sure Dan? The fact is, Woodward never said it was threat. The media did. Woodward said that this was a media sideshow being used to divert attention from what the White House has done and doesn’t like being called on. Woodward is the one focused on the issue. The White House and the rest of the media wants to keep the public focused on anything but that.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21134540/vp=51003533�
Chuck,
Fox News and regular blogger Henry called it a threat. Did you read my post carefully? It was directed at Henry, fyi.
This isn’t local but maybe interesting to some…a somewhat historic parole decision today in California. Governor Jerry Brown will decide if former Charles Manson family member, Bruce Davis will be released after spending over 4 decades in prison. Decision due anytime now.
Only one other Manson family murderer has been released. Steve Grogan was released in 1985.
Why is it the “person of interest” in a murder investigation with 10 previous felony convictions in the possession of firearms can get a $20,000 bond while an elementary Franklin County (Sontag School??) school teacher, with no previous criminal incidents is arrested for attempting to have her husband killed and she can not? BTW, her co-hort in this enterprise was arrested, initially denied bail, then after one day, granted bail in in the amount of $75,000 – not for murder, just conspiracy…What is up with that???
If someone says: “You might regret that”, isn’t that just advice?
I would consider it just that, not a threat.
Oh, and I sure hope Mr. Woddward has no outstanding parking tickets
and all his taxes in order.
As a side note, the above post had a blank line to devide it into two
paragraphs.
The new format magically closes the hole.
I don’t think Obama can wriggle out of this one. His presidency is over.
“Jedi? Vulcan? Mind Meld? Mind Trick? What Was Obama Thinking?”
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/01/173251266/jedi-vulcan-mind-meld-mind-trick-what-was-obama-thinking?utm_source=NPR&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130301
Roll tide.
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http://www.warner.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/blog?ContentRecord_id=e3a8a865-26de-469c-b952-26a478e7f647
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[b]U.S. Sen. Mark Warner Signs DOMA Repeal Brief[/b]
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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) today signed an amicus brief filed in the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Edith Schlain Windsor, a challenge to Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, known as DOMA. A total of 40 Senators and 172 members of the House signed onto the brief.
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“To me, repeal of DOMA is an issue of fairness. Under DOMA, committed relationships legally recognized by some states are made financially and legally unequal in many ways: taxes, inheritance, insurance benefits, and a thousand other rights and benefits that the federal government routinely grants to other married couples. I am proud to lend my name to the amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to reverse this discriminatory law. Marriage equality now receives growing bipartisan support, and DOMA repeal is supported by a significant number of leading U.S. businesses, who correctly believe that DOMA represents an impediment to economic competitiveness.”
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In 2005, Sen. Warner was the first Virginia Governor to ban employment discrimination based upon sexual orientation within state government. In 2006, he spoke out and campaigned against passage of a proposed marriage amendment to the Virginia constitution. In 2011, Sen. Warner voted to repeal the U.S. Defense Department’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” restrictions on gay and lesbian servicemembers.
Ron May
And, as you may know, Yellowstone Park is one giant volcanic caldera. If it ever blows, we will have much bigger problems than sequestration. So let’s not blow our tops today.
gdad | March 1, 2013 at 3:18 pm
I don’t think Obama can wriggle out of this one. His presidency is over.
“Jedi? Vulcan? Mind Meld? Mind Trick? What Was Obama Thinking?”
Gdad. This one is easy. He’d just spent an hour in a room with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell!
I love John Waters’ movies. (Is that the John Waters you quoted?)
Ron May | March 1, 2013 at 10:04 am
No boobs in this comment. Happy Birthday to Yellowstone National Park.
“Early in 1872, Congress moved to set aside 1,221,773 acres of public land straddling the future states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho as America’s first national park. President Grant signed the bill into law on this day in 1872.”
Yeah! All those tree hugging liberal socialists caused this huge big government takeover of what should be private land. Just think of all the natural resources (oil, timber, and God knows what else) that could have been utilized by American corporations by this time. After all corporations are people too.. And we shouldn’t have to be paying taxes to the federal government just to support some damn park out in the middle of nowhere for God’s sake! We should be using that money to cut taxes for millionaires
and corporations or to buy more weapons for middle east countries or maybe add some bombs to our nuclear arsenal. What were we thinking?
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13 Suns,
The one and only, Baltimore-born and raised!
wayne goodman,
As a historian who has studied U.S. Grant, he was probably drunk at the time he signed the bill.
old blue,
Yep it sure is. Also, Crater Lake, in Oregon, was formed after a volcanic eruption more than 7000 years ago. It is one of the deepest lakes in the world.
The west is full of potential volcanic activity.
http://tinyurl.com/bbuxhac
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Harvard Economist: Legalizing Drugs Suits Ideal of American Freedom
Harvard University professor Jeffrey Miron has advocated the legalization of drugs for decades. In a SPIEGEL ONLINE interview, he explains why prohibition is more dangerous than selling drugs in supermarkets.
SNIP
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The Republicons and and tea party extremists whoare so fond of the stereotypes about welfare queens and what they characterize as low information voters are simply parroting what they hear from ideologues
like Antonin Scalia, who totally embarrassed himself and the supreme court
this week with this nonsense.
http://news.yahoo.com/debate-over-voting-rights-act-shows-resentment-still-050022727.html
Wayne@23. . .the article you link does not support your other verbage The article mentions Scalia once with a small quote which, if taken out of context,
could be construed as derogtory. The article insures this by failing to identify
the section of the VRA which Scalia was addressing.
Obviously, you fall for such Lypocrisy hook, line and sinker. This appears to
be your schtick.
Voter fraud is a problem. Hence we presently have investigations and charges occuring all over the country. . .like the Democrat voter who voted
six times for Obama. I’d like to see an investigation into why the Obama
administration did not enforce the requrements passed after the 2008 election to facilitate voting of service members in oversea posts. It appears
a substantial portion of the military vote was supressed in this manner in
the 2012 election by the inaction of the present administration.
Voter fraud is a criminal act. . .although I realize the Liberal/Progressives
prefet to treat it as a science thay have down pat. . .like Moran’s son who
had a teachable moment in NOVA.
wayne goodman | March 1, 2013 at 4:42 pm
gdad | March 1, 2013 at 3:18 pm
I don’t think Obama can wriggle out of this one. His presidency is over.
“Jedi? Vulcan? Mind Meld? Mind Trick? What Was Obama Thinking?”
Gdad. This one is easy. He’d just spent an hour in a room with John Boehner and Mitch McConnell!
XXX The one that will stick is “I am not a Dictator”. Very Nixonian.
sure we resent It, he isnt a real president, he is a shill for geroge soros, but then that is old news babe, read something other than this rag and you might learn something..they are not the only low info voters, (nice title you gave them -welfare queens- how liberal of you, your words). I’d say ANYONE who voted for obama is low info, no brain, shill for communism and a lover of a liar
http://www.inquisitr.com/516916/ohio-woman-admits-to-voting-twice-denies-committing-vote-fraud-video/
#23 Mr. Goodman:
Are these the voting rights Mr. Justice Scalia spoke of?
The unnamed official allegedly said the reporter would come to “regret” his writing on the sequester.
‘might’ wasnt in the threat…dont make it out to be what you want it to be dearie
“as a friend, I think you will regret staking out that claim” – exact verbiage
pammala,
Read the whole email. There was no “threat.” And Woodward never called it such. The guy who wrote it was a friend, who was trying to help Woodward avoid a storm of criticism. The RW dittohead crowd is the one who turned it into “a threat.”
Btw: I urge you to avoid selling listeria-contaminated hot dogs, because you will regret that. It will reflect negatively on your store.
See? No threat. Just good advice that even you agree with.
Pammala,
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Keep up the good work! Every time you post I hear the pitty patter of another neocon child being converted to true blue babe.
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You are a blessing in disguise.
pammala, pulled in hook, line and sinker by the right wing extremist parrot machine. So sad.
Leon | March 2, 2013 at 8:19 am
Wayne@23. . .the article you link does not support your other verbage The article mentions Scalia once with a small quote which, if taken out of context,
could be construed as derogtory. The article insures this by failing to identify
the section of the VRA which Scalia was addressing.
Obviously, you fall for such Lypocrisy hook, line and sinker. This appears to
be your schtick.
Voter fraud is a problem. Hence we presently have investigations and charges occuring all over the country. .
1. Obviously, you did not read the article which I linked or failed to comprehend what it said.
2. Listen to the audiotape of the Supreme Court hearing which has been released if you consider that to be a remark out of context.
3. Voter fraud is not a problem in this country. There are adeqwuate laws on the books to prosecute voter fraud and as hard as the Republicons have searched, they haven’t been able to prosecute a hundred single cases of voter fraud in the United States in the last ten years. Despite all the false screaming to the contrary the Voter ID laws and efforts to make voting more difficult in states controlled by Re publicons is nothing but an effort to suppress the vote because they know it will help them win elections.
4. Election fraud however as opposed to voter fraud is a problem. The vast
majority of cases of election fraud that have been uncovered haqve involved conspiracies by republicon sponsored groups to cook the books on election returns as in Florida in 2000, Ohio in 2004, and Wisconsin more recently. Included in this type of fraud have been examples like the ones in Florida this year andin Virginia (notably Harrisonburg) by Republicon paid operatives who destroyed legitimate voter registration forms after portraying themselves as non partisan voter registration groups.
So your made up word (lypocrisy) applies to you more than anyone else
because none of what you just said has a real basis in fact.
Leon
There were various urban legends and claims of suppression of the military vote by Obama in 2012. Here are the links to the more prominent ones and how they were treated by snopes.com:
. snopes.com: Obama Campaign Seeks to Restrict Military Voting? ••••
Is the Obama campaign seeking to restrict military voting in Ohio?
…Military Movies Music Old Wives’ Tales Politics Pregnancy Quotes Racial Rumors Radio & TV Religion Risqué Business Science…
…to restrict military voting in Ohio. Example: [Collected via e-mail, August 2012] Is the Obama campaign suing to restrict military voting? This is…
…taken with members of our military. So, why is his campaign and the Democrat party suing to restrict their ability to vote in the upcoming election? On…
Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:45:27 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/military.asp
2. snopes.com: Overseas Voters ••••
The Obama administration disenfranchised 2.8 million overseas military voters by failing to send them absentee ballots on time?
…Military Movies Music Old Wives’ Tales Politics Pregnancy Quotes Racial Rumors Radio & TV Religion Risqué Business Science…
…Overseas Voters Claim: The Obama administration disenfranchised 2.8 million overseas military voters by failing to send them absentee ballots on time….
…has allowed a deadline for the military men and women overseas to receive their absentee ballots and cast their votes to expire. They had more than 6…
Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:58:23 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/ballot/overseas.asp
3. snopes.com: Military Absentee Ballots Delivered One Day Late ••••
Would uncounted military absentee ballots delivered after the voting deadline have won the 2012 presidential election for Mitt Romney?
…Military Movies Music Old Wives’ Tales Politics Pregnancy Quotes Racial Rumors Radio & TV Religion Risqué Business Science…
…Military Absentee Ballots Claim: Uncounted military absentee ballots delivered after the voting deadline would have won the 2012 presidential election…
…Is it TRUE that military absentee votes for the 2012 Presidental election were held up for three months, mis-labeled and were not counted as they came in…
Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:59:02 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/absentee.asp
4. snopes.com: Afghanistan Plane Crash Burns Military Absentee Ballots •••
Did a plane crash in Afghanistan destroy the absentee ballots of U.S. military personnel?
…Military Movies Music Old Wives’ Tales Politics Pregnancy Quotes Racial Rumors Radio & TV Religion Risqué Business Science…
…ballots of U.S. military personnel. Examples: [Collected via e-mail, October 2012] AFGHANISTAN PLANE CRASH burns military absentee ballots: HOW…
…CRASH burns military absentee ballots: HOW coincidental…..? The military is voting almost 8 to 1 for Mitt Romney, now tens of thousands of ballots and…
Sat, 02 Mar 2013 12:57:15 GMT http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/ballots.asp
Wayne linked to a great column by Cynthia Tucker, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. It slammed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s eruption last week during a hearing on a case that seeks to overturn the Voting Rights Act. Tucker at one time in the past had supported overturning the act.
Here’s how her the column ends:
“But Republicans responded to President Obama’s breakthrough first victory — and the realization that it was powered by voters of color — by becoming more imaginative in their tactics to discourage, inconvenience and disenfranchise those voters. Not only did they pass strict ID requirements, but they also moved to limit early voting. It’s no accident that most of the marathon waits were endured at polling places with predominantly black or Latino voters.
The Voting Rights Act can limit the damage of those voter suppression efforts, at least in those areas of the country where Section 5 has jurisdiction. In the past three years, for example, the Justice Department used its authority to rebuff harsh voter ID laws in Texas and South Carolina and to temper restrictions on early voting in Florida.
Those examples show that the Voting Rights Act, for which some brave souls gave their lives, is still necessary. Unfortunately, Scalia and his fellow partisans see the law — which simply ensures that voters of color can exercise their right to vote without harassment — as a giveaway to appease those uppity blacks.”
http://news.yahoo.com/debate-over-voting-rights-act-shows-resentment-still-050022727.html
The whole thing is worth reading.
Ron May | March 1, 2013 at 5:53 pm
wayne goodman,
As a historian who has studied U.S. Grant, he was probably drunk at the time he signed the bill.
Absolutely! Though upon further reflection this may have actually been the true beginning of the Illuminatti plot which morphed into the Un/ICLEI
conspiracy fostered by the Saul Alinsky cabal which began plotting in 1960 to pick a back Kenyan baby in 1961 and train him as an enemy agent to be foisted off on the American people in 2008. Don’t you just love a good conspiracy theory?
here’s a piece on a lawsuit challenging section 5 of the Voting Rights Act by the citizens of kinston, NC, which was denied by holder. go figure.
http://constitutionalrightsandresponsibilities.ncbar.org/newsletters/theconstitutionalistjune2010/kinstonvoters