It Feels Like Monday Open Thread

It’s just a little after 6am out here in the West. Yesterday was a sloooooow news day so it’s gonna take a while for me to wake up and find something to post about. Check back in a little while. Klown

Welcome Summer Open Thread

Yeah, I know – Summer doesn’t officially start for a few more weeks. It’s not even June yet. But I always considered Memorial Day to be the beginning of Summer and Labor Day to be the end. Besides, it’s already been in the 90′s here in Big Smoggy. I’m spending the day watching a Band [...]

Happy Memorial Day!

Memorial Day started out as a holiday to honor the Union soldiers who died in the Civil War. It has since been extended to honor all Americans who have died in our nation’s wars. Today is not a day that glorifies war. Today is when we honor those who gave their lives in service of [...]

Remembering Anthony’s Wiener

One year ago Weinergate erupted: On May 27, 2011, using his public Twitter account, Weiner sent a link to a photo on yfrog of his erect penis concealed by boxer briefs to Gennette Cordova, a 21-year-old female college student from Seattle, Washington, who was “following” his posts on the social media website. Though the link [...]

Fat Chance

What if they held an election and the media refused to report it? John Wolfe Sues Arkansas Dems For Delegates Won In Primary Against Obama Earlier this week, Breitbart News reported that Arkansas state Democrats might attempt to disenfranchise the state’s voters by refusing to award delegates to John Wolfe, a Tennessee attorney who was [...]

This is a disturbing development

From the City of Brotherly Love: Hecklers mar Romney’s visit to inner-city charter school in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA – When Mitt Romney came to an inner-city charter school here Thursday to promote his new education agenda, he received something of a history lecture about the persecution of blacks in America and the struggles of African American [...]

TGIF Open Thread

Well, it’s the start of another 3-day weekend. My big plans include mowing the lawn and maybe a trip to Walmart or something. Monday I’ll probably have a BBQ. I’ve been wanting to try Indonesian food and my neighbor has a couple of annoying schnauzers that look about the right size. What’s on your schedule?

The real world

Hot Air: Here’s a riddle: what do you call several years in college, a couple of years as a community organizer, and almost an entire career as a Chicago machine politician? If you’re Barack Obama, you call it … “the real world“. And you call it that while appearing at a $40,000-a-couple fundraiser, too: President [...]

I get mail

I found this in my spam folder: Myiq2xu, Daily Kos turns 10 years old tomorrow. In internet years, that’s more like a century! From a tiny one-man blog, Daily Kos grew to become a community where tens of thousands analyze news, take action, share information and work to change the world. Please, wish the Daily [...]

Hillary is 1/32 Honey Badger

F*$k Yeah, Hillary Clinton Popped Her Collar Honestly, in response to this turn of events, I just feel like screaming a string of celebratory expletives. That’s how I feel. Hillary Clinton popped her collar to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations committee. Popped her collar! What the fuck is happening? First she spawned the meme [...]

I love a story with a happy ending

She got robbed last night but it all worked out: American Idol’s Jessica Sanchez First Album to be Produced by Tommy Mottola Phillip Phillips may have won “American Idol” over Jessica Sanchez, but the Mexican/Filipino singer is already in talks to work on her new album with Sony’s main man, Tommy Mottola. [...] Mottola, a [...]

Racism Über Alles

This started as a comment and ended up as a post. Ta-Nehisi Coates: White Resentment, Obama, and Appalachia [...] The presumption here is that race can somehow be bracketed off from the perception that Obama is “ultra-left.” Thus unlike other shameful acts of racism, opposition to Obama race as a possible “factor” but goes “beyond [...]

4 out of 10 Democrats in Arkansas and Kentucky are racists

4 in 10 Democrats desert Obama in Arkansas, Kentucky primaries Four in ten Democratic voters chose someone other than President Obama on Tuesday in primaries in Arkansas and Kentucky. In Arkansas, John Wolfe — a perennial, long-shot candidate — took 41 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary, with 71 percent of precincts reporting. [...]

20/20 CDS

Matt Stoller has it: Bill Clinton’s $80 Million Payday, or Why Politicians Don’t Care That Much About Reelection “There was a kind of inflection point during the five-year period between 1997 and 2003 — the late Clinton and/or early Bush administration — when all the rules just went away. You went from a period, a [...]

Chris Matthews – Village Idiot

I was gonna write a post about this but somebody beat me to it: The Misplaced Loyalties and Dubious Code of Chris Matthews When the average television viewer sees someone on a public-affairs show making arguments about a political controversy, they presume that the speaker believes whatever he or she is saying. That is the [...]

Huh?

Barack Obama: Well, first of all, I think Cory Booker is an outstanding mayor. He is doing great work in Newark and obviously helping to turn that city around. And I think it’s important to recognize that this issue is not a “distraction.” This is part of the debate that we’re going to be having [...]

We wouldn’t want him to run on his own record, would we?

Facing Criticism, Obama Defends Ads Attacking Romney’s Record at Bain Capital Responding to criticism from some Democratic supporters, President Obama said Monday that attacks on Mitt Romney’s experience at Bain Capital were fair game and that Mr. Romney’s years at the helm of a private equity firm were worthy of serious debate. “This is not [...]

#twittergulag

Twitchy reports another misuse of Spam-block features by Obots to shut down opposing voices. The first example of this was when some pro-Hillary Google blogs were shut down during the 2008 campaign. A few weeks ago conservative blogger Chris Loesch had his Twitter account suspended due to multiple users abusing the spam/block feature to trigger [...]

Curiouser and Curiouser

Directorblue: Barack Obama’s biographical brief edited repeatedly over 17 years, but Kenyan birthplace changed just weeks after his presidential run announced The biography provided by Barack Obama to his literary agent specified his birthplace as “Kenya”. And, over the course of 17 years, despite multiple revisions by Obama, the Kenyan birthplace remained a fundamental part [...]

I hate Mondays open thread

I just woke up. Here’s a fresh thread for you to play with until I find something halfway interesting to post about.