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30 Responses to “Open Thread – Trickle Down”
  1. mikefromiowa says:

    I just read that legendary folk guitarist Bert Jansch passed away at age 67 in a hospice in London. My ignorance must be showing as I cannot recall ever having heard of this gentleman and I thought i had some savvy when it came down to older music/musicians. If any one has some info,I would be more than grateful for the pleasure of reading your thoughts,etc.Muchos Gracias in advance or retreat.

  2. Alaska Pi says:

    I’m sitting here watching my borough’s election results come in. Mostly looking good for candidates and proposotions I care about but looking sad as usual for voter numbers in municipal elections. Dang.
    Our home rule cities and boroughs have an enormous amount of effect on our lives here. They have more decision making ability than in many other places/counties across America.
    Home rule was granted by the state constitution and there’s no Dillon’s rule provisions here.
    We have something a whole lot of other people want. I wish we could get more.folks out to vote to make use of these rights. Dang.

    • Alaska Pi says:

      The propositions I voted for are looking good to pass too, along with the proposotians 🙂

  3. Clemtown says:

    No worse than Walmart taking out life insurance policies on their employees to be paid to…..
    Wal-Mart Corp.
    Despicable!

  4. OMG says:

    Now C4P are suggesting that Palin run as a third party candidate and pick up “Herb” Cain as her VP running mate. Can you imagine anyone playing second fiddle to a fraud?

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65149.html

    • mikefromiowa says:

      the back of the bus deniers sure sound like they want the Black guy at the back of Palin’s bus,if they let him on in the first instance.

  5. carol says:

    This picture reminds me of the saying “laughed so hard, tears trickled down my leg”.

    • Dagian says:

      *gasps*

      I am joining you in a moment of silent reflection.

      I don’t suppose anyone knows which company was her ‘health care provider’, do they?

    • That is such a sad story for a woman who was so brave and strong in her fight for the rights of the workers. And how awful that the insurance company chose to play games with a woman’s life.

  6. lemonfair says:

    So what are we thinking Christie’s bowing out and Perry’s polls plummeting are going to do to SP’s decision to run or not? For once I’m almost hoping she’ll get in. She’ll have a clear shot at the Tea Party contingent, but not much else. She’ll avoid debates.

    I think it’s more likely though that she’ll get in as a third party candidate – claiming to not be partisan, and because she’s a third party she won’t have to/be able to participate in Republican debates.

    • Riverwoman says:

      That’s what I have been thinking. She will get in as a third wheel, suck money out of tea-partiers, fly around on private jets and campaign on facebook. She knows she can’t win, she doesn’t want to win. She doesn’t want to govern, she wants to campaign. It’s the beauty queen mentality. Good part of that strategy is she will split the conservative vote.

  7. lemonfair says:

    via Andrew Sullivan, a great poster seen at the wall street protests:

    “Obama is not a brown-skinned anti-war socialist who gives away free health care – you’re thinking of Jesus.”

    http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2014e8c043270970d-popup

  8. OMG says:

    Just when you thought it was safe to assume Palin might not run, her lawyers call states to query filing rules:

    http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65115.html

    • LibertyLover says:

      She’s just NOW having her lawyers find out when the state filing deadlines are? Jeez… Wouldn’t you have done this a long time ago? The woman is extremely lazy. I’ll bet she crammed the night before her finals in college, too. Memorize and purge. Just like her bingeing.

    • Lazy and cheap. She wouldn’t want to part with any of her donated funds to do things like properly run a campaign. And she has been able to avoid all those early debates. Now that Christie is definitely out, she also wouldn’t have to worry about the kinds of comments he would make about her. I don’t care for him, except that he doesn’t pull any punches and I doubt that he has much to say about Palin that she would want to hear.

    • Dagian says:

      Catch the jewelry she’s still wearing! What a maroon. She has a long way to go before she has the brains to be a washed up bimbo.

    • Baker's Dozen says:

      So she’s thinkin’ of officialin’-ly signin’ ontuh the Ship of Fools, uh, Republican nominee wannabees– for the Voyage of the Damed, uh Republican debates?

  9. Pnwskier says:

    Hard not to think about a certain unnamed half-term governor while listening to Chris Christie speak fairly convincingly about not thinking it was right to leave the job he was elected to do after just 2 years. Also, unlike the aforementioned half-term governor, it didn’t seem like he was concerned about the presidency being too shackle-y.

  10. Elsie says:

    Okay. It’s because I think you need a laugh that I’m linking you to a funny thing over at Miss Juanita Jean’s place right now:

    http://juanitajean.com/2011/10/04/not-even-political/

    • mikefromiowa says:

      Gay Perry(the Texas guv,not the city in France,Europe) has a problem with the name of a hunting lease camp his parents purchased years ago. Seems there is a rock at this camp with the name N____rhead painted on it. Perry claims he has seen the rock and the name was painted over,so he is not a racist. I,in my usual serious demeanor,casually mentioned that klear-kote doesn’t exactly cover the offending words,no matter how many times it is applied.Am waiting official reply from Perry’s camp. Not holding my breath. Most of the preceding story is true.

    • Zyxomma says:

      Thanks, Elsie. The next post (about that redneck idjit Hank Williams, Jr.) is good, too.

  11. merrycricket says:

    I think it may have happened this way. I get more fed up every day as the corporate money grab becomes even more blatant. Had a customer last night that blamed the president for our store closing. WTF?

    • Concerned Too says:

      One thing that does not seem to change is the human nature to blame. It is so much easier than examining your own actions or working to change things.
      Keep you spirits up…hopefully something good will come from the store closing.

    • yardwork says:

      I ran across this on IM, Elizabeth Warren at the beginning of video crystallizes why deregulation got us where we are today. I hope she wins her bid for office to help put some common sense back into the mayhem the money changers have brought upon us. http://tinyurl.com/3d8gjcx