Yesterday I was pretty busy, but I still managed to stay up to date with replying to comments and returning visits. I expect to do the same today, before a couple very busy days later this week.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
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Short Takes:
From Raw Story: The Republican nominee for a New Mexico congressional seat suggested during a radio interview that the United States could place land mines along the Mexican border to secure the international boundary.
Asked Monday to clarify, Tom Mullins emphasized that he does not advocate doing so.
If he doesn’t mean it, then why is he inciting the rabid sheeple?
From Huffington Post: Middle class workers are the ones who die in coal mines and on oil rigs.
Afterwards, CEOs say anything to save the bottom line — the one that will determine their bonuses.
There is great wisdom here.
From Daily Kos: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has been fined by California’s Fair Political Practices Commission for failure to report nonmonetary contributions it made to the official campaign to pass Proposition 8 and outlaw marriage equality in California.
If the Church made contributions, monetary or otherwise, they violated the law that makes them tax exempt as part of the separation of church and state. All churches who do so should lose their tax-exempt states for all the years in which the violations took place.
Cartoon: from Cagle.com
What’s news in your world today?
4 Responses to “Open Thread – 6/15/2010”
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Land mines? Really? Isn’t that against INTERNATIONAL LAW? Oh, excuse me, I’m just an average citizen and EVEN I know that.
Dear Mining Industry: Since it’s only middle class workers that die in mines, it’s perfectly ok to ignore safety violations for your bonuses. Please keep on doing what you’ve been doing for 100 years now. Signed: All of America.
Oh, too bad for the Mormons – I hope they get fined to death and lose their tax exempt status for what they did in California.
Too bad the World Cup isn’t being held in Louisiana. That would make this cartoon perfect.
Of course it is, Lisa. You also have the mining industry pegged.
I won’t paint all Mormons with the same brush. But the church leadership deserves the worst.
Even a Teabagger would be better then the ref we had today.
These wingnuts are getting wingnuttier all the time. I keep thinking they’ve hit bottom, and they keep sinking lower. “We could put land mines along the Mexican border,” followed by “oh, I mean, I’m not advocating that.”
We could kidnap and torture Tom Mullins. Er, uh, I’m not advocating that, of course…
Tom, every time a colision alarm goes off, bottom moves lower.