Open Thread – Dominoes
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.~Oscar Wilde
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Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.~Oscar Wilde
Jean – you have to read this article about Palin!
http://spectator.org/blog/2011/08/15/palin-cheap-shots-a-good-repor#
Good news from Wisconsin!
The two Democrats who were up for recall today both won their districts. The Republicans still hold a thin majority (17-16) but there was a net gain of two seats for the Dems.
Congratulations, Wisconsin! 🙂
YIKES…a diehard Palin supporter says he’s done with her!
http://www.frumforum.com/why-im-done-with-sarah-palin
What this guy still doesn’t seem to git is Snookie is a cheap Fauxknee imitation of a serious politician and she always will be. Tina Fey does Snookie better than Snookie. She is a fakir through and through. The next original idea she spouts will be a first.
Mike! Cool.
Definition of fakir:a : a muslim mendicant : dervish b : an itinerant hindu ascetic or wonder-worker
And, pretty much lives on alms. Well, that works.
However, I feel she is more of a Philadelphia Mummer. An actor, a pantomimist. In Philly, the Mummers generally have drink taken before the Comic Parade, and sober up before the Fancies start down the street. Sometimes. I figure that Mayor Palin is a Comic, using not alcohol but some kind of prescriptive. Will she ever clean/sobor up to be a Fancy? Not likely.
Oh, I call her Mayor Palin because she didn’t quit.
The last line is great in this article titled: “Palin Cheap-Shots a Good Reporter” (written by a conservative columnist):
“If Palin wants to get rid of the image of being a difficult diva with a rude streak, she needs to stop acting like a difficult diva with a rude streak.”
http://spectator.org/blog/2011/08/15/palin-cheap-shots-a-good-repor#
When your RWNJ pals say that the stimulus didn’t work at all, quote to them from this:
http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2011/08/it-looks-stimulus-worked-after-all
Don’t tell them it’s from Mother Jones.
cut it out Sarah!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/15/lisa-murkowski-alaska-suspicious-packages_n_927797.html
I thought Sullivan cut out first reponders from his balanced budget. Gotta warn ya dear Bubbles,I am still chuckling aboot your last post and rubber bands..
Okay, we’ve all had a difficult few weeks with the debt ceiling crisis and the beginning of the campaign for Craziest Candidate so here’s a little treat guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
The President made a stop in Chatfield, Minnesota and visited with some kids from the local public schools. This is a page of pictures from that visit, where the POTUS is surrounded by kids…and clearly loving every moment. The sheer joy on his face just can’t be faked and the kids obviously adore him. Enjoy!
http://theobamadiary.com/2011/08/15/childs-play-6/#comments
Thanks for that, Lennie! The children know. That little guy clutching our President’s leg, how sweet is that!!! 🙂 !!
The Crazy Train has left the station and is picking up speed!
1. Governor Goodhair proclaims that the US government should put a moratorium on ALL government regulations because they’re “killing jobs all across America”. I suppose he’d prefer that businesses kill people instead of jobs since that would include shutting down the EPA, the FDA, the NTSB, the DHS, among many other agencies.
I guess that COULD open up a whole new industry where people bet on whether we’d die from food poisoning, contaminated medications, chemical spills, plane crashes, bridge collapses or terrorist attacks.
2. Joe “Deadbeat Dad” Walsh says that gay couples don’t make good parents because…are you ready for this?…according to him (and no one else) studies have shown that it is more beneficial for children to be raised in a home with a mother and a father. Hey Joe, what do the studies say about children being raised by single mothers when their fathers abandon them and refuse to pay child support? Huh, huh???
Teh stoopid…it burns!!!
Loud applause
Hey, all you NYC area mudpups…are you all safe and dry?
I saw on the news tonight that LI got about 10 inches of rain so I assume the city got hit pretty hard as well.
I used to live in a ground floor apartment on a skinny finger of land in Bellmore which, according to the news video I just watched, got 9 inches in one day. If I was still there I’d no doubt be stranded because my end of the block was built on landfill and was higher than the end of the street I’d need to use to get out. The only way to escape would be by boat. My apartment was on the water where two canals joined to create a big bay and I remember a nor’easter one year where the water came up over the bulkhead and marched slowly but surely up to within about three feet of my door. I’m sure the water made it all the way into the apartment yesterday!
Stay safe and dry, everyone!
Does anyone with ties to Alaska know if Wasilla was named for All I Saw backwards. I just read that in a certain men’s magazine that magically appeared in my mailbox this very day. BTW, Mercedes Johnston has a much prettier face than Quitty Junior. Beautiful blonde bearskin rug,too also and even.
http://www.cityofwasilla.com/index.aspx?page=82
The City of Wasilla derives its name from Chief Wasilla, a respected local Dena’ina Athabascan Indian Chief. There is some debate about the meaning of the Chief’s name.
Mike i saw that beautiful young woman last week in a certain men’ s magazine. my goodness. what a sweetie!
so the first thing i did was take off my top to see how i compared. oh dear me.
so today i went to my doctor to see what could be done.
the doctor looked at me. he looked askance at my girls. he sat quietly for a moment and then opened his desk drawer. he handed me two rubber bands. said “there that ought to do it.”
that is why i don’t like going to the doctor.
don’t you dare laugh Mike!
Hey, two rubber bands aren’t bad at all. It could have been a lot worse. He could have given you roller skates to put under them! 😉
♥ Leenie♥
Oopsie…right on Hannity the crowd cheers a hearty “NO” when asked if Palin should run for president:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfJ4dVBQYA0&feature=player_embedded
I believe Palin had been with Hannity earlier that evening so was probably watching that segment (which is probably why the other ignoramus asked if the crowd liked her and asked if she was a great American)
This is a story guaranteed to give you nightmares, especially if you’re a parent of a teenager.
It’s about some of the fundamentalist religion-based ‘homes’ for teens in trouble, and the kind of abuse the teens receive as part of their ‘treatment’. Because they are affiliated with religious organizations and because some state laws are lax, these teens and their families have no recourse, and the homes are permitted to operate with few or no restrictions or oversight. When confronted about the abuse, they either claim religious discrimination (which often scares the authorities off) or they close up shop, move to another state and star all over again. All too often, the teens who have been through these programs end up as drug addicts, alcoholics, prostitutes or suicide victims.
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/new-bethany-ifb-teen-homes-abuse
outrageous Leenie. a terrible shame.
Molly Ivins wrote some about homes in Texas that were championed by dumbass dubya that had severe problems. I can’t for the life of me understand why pols are scared of these animals. Typical rethuglican behavior,force kids to be born so they can be abused by so called christians for profit.
There are stories like this about private prisons, too — closures of juvenile detention centers in Coke County, Texas, are horrifying examples.
[Trigger warnings for sexual abuse and unsanitary conditions:]
http://www.texasprisonbidness.org/scandals/tyc-closes-geos-coke-county-facility
i adore Oscar Wilde. clever, witty and oh so suave. my kind of guy.
I agree!
…and continuing the Games theme, we have Horse Races:
http://www.ginandtacos.com/2011/08/15/horse-races/
“Unfortunately the media love elections because they are good for ratings, and they are good for ratings because the media have turned elections into a sporting event. Instead of Marv Albert telling us which team is leading and trailing throughout the basketball game, we have blow-dried anchors constantly reporting poll results to let us know “Who’s ahead?” even though the answer is almost always “no one” once margin of error is taken into account. Instead of broken down, concussed ex-NFL players giving color commentary while scribbling on the Telestrator, we have washed up campaign consultants (Paul Begala, Bill Bennett, Alex Castellanos, etc.) letting us know What It All Means and What Voters Want. Academics call the excessive emphasis on day-to-day poll results “Horse Race coverage”, a phenomenon that eliminates issues and reduces most coverage to reporting how various groups or individuals reacted to a campaign event. The latter – the instant big-picture analysis phenomenon – is just a lazy, stupid way of boiling the election down to a 25 word explanation for lazy, stupid viewers.
These phenomena have been affecting the way elections are covered for years. They are beginning to affect the election itself.”
I continue to wonder how Perry v Palin would be alike or dissimilar to Perry v Bachmann. Well, here’s an interesting read on Perry v Bachmann from this weekend:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/61366.html
“Rick Perry schools Michele Bachmann in Waterloo”
It’s worth your time to take a look at the whole article, but here’s an excerpt or two:
“…the contrast that may lift Perry, and undermine Bachmann, in their high-stakes battle for Iowa had less to do with what they said than how they said it — and what they did before and after speaking…Perry arrived early… The Texas governor let a media throng grow and dissolve before working his way across the room to sit at table after table, shake hand after hand, pose for photographs and listen politely to a windy Abraham Lincoln impersonator, paying respect to a state that expects candidates, no matter their fame, to be accessible.
“But Bachmann campaigned like a celebrity. And the event highlighted the brittle, presidential-style cocoon that has become her campaign’s signature: a routine of late entries, unexplained absences, quick exits, sharp-elbowed handlers with matching lapel pins, and pre-selected questioners…”
A number of Bachmann’s supporters admitted, at the end of that Black Hawk County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner, that they had lost enthusiasm for their candidate. They mentioned the contrast of her arriving quite late, which seems to be her norm now, and that she remained apart from the crowd. In noticeable contrast, Perry arrived an hour early, glad-handing among the people there with ease and warmth, “chatting them up”, and answered questions extemporaneously.
It just confirms to me that Perry is going to roll over Michele Bachmann, and very soon. She’s clueless about schmoozing with the crowds; he does so with such ease. Perry’s been a professional politician for DECADES, and he can work a crowd with the best of them.
I wonder how well PERRY’S well-honed, professional “shtick” will work against PALIN’S blathering word salad? It will be interesting to follow this campaign.
The author should have linked Santorum and Palin with Bachman and Perry for this article about Christian Dominionism and the GOP:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/08/14/dominionism-michele-bachmann-and-rick-perry-s-dangerous-religious-bond.html
She is a category 5 idiot to steal Bill Maher’s line. I hope $arah jumps in to the race at the last minute so her and crazy Michelle can have the proverbial “cat fight” that she keeps mentioning.
This is a great little round table discussion–“The audacity of Sarah Palin”–about how she crashed the party…again. The best comment came from the republican at the table:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2011/08/10/jk.palin.bus.cnn?hpt=po_t1
I watched part of it, and will watch the rest of it later. Wow!
Ouch! That one’s gonna leave a mark!
I liked the line about releasing a preview video whenever he goes on summer vacation.
Okay, sounds like it’s unanimous against the Quitter Queen.
Loved it. Thanks for posting!
Well, all righty then. Not much anyone can add to that. I think they pretty well summed up what many of us have known for a long time, thanks to all the hard work here by AKM. I hope someone sends that to Palin – since it’s not on her preferred network, she’ll probably miss it. And that would be a shame.
Indoor games for me today. It’s back to school, but no students until next week. How many meetings will we sit through this week? Plenty, I’m sure.
I am ready, stoked by the love of all my relations, and all those hugs I shared at the reunion. (Was it only yesterday when I woke up 500+ miles North?!)
Open heart.
Open mind.
It’s a brand new school year, full of possibilities.
L’Chaim! To Life!
Tikkun Olam Shalom. Peace, as we repair our world.
thatcrowwoman
Have fun!
And may you have a wonderful and rewarding school year with students who listen and colleagues who work and play well with others!
We don’t go back until the 1st of September but kindergarten orientation is this Thursday so I get a preview of all my littlest ones. They’re all so cute and shiny at that age!
may the coming school year be all that our Mudflats teachers could want. you are my heroes.
🙂 Thanks, Bubbles!
what bubbles said!!