Yesterday my need for sleep won out over the heat and I finally got some. The heat wave continues here, but in the last hour the temperature in my apartment dipped below 90°. I have a lot of catching up to do. I don’t know how much I will accomplish today, because I have my monthly grocery delivery coming today, and putting it all away is a strain even under normal circumstances.
Jig Zone Puzzles:
Today’s took me 4:24. To do it, click here.
Yesterday’s took me 4:04. To do it, click here.
Saturday’s took me 4:10. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NY Times: Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s president, abruptly rejected calls on Sunday from the Roman Catholic Church to pardon dozens of imprisoned military officials convicted of human rights violations during the era known as Chile’s dirty war.
Chile’s dirty war was the GOP inspired coup in which Nixon and Kissinger plotted the overthrow and murder of President Allende. Many of the military officers imprisoned in Chile now received their training in the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, GA.
From The Colorado Statesman: Predicting that the winner of the Republican gubernatorial contest between candidates Dan Maes and Scott McInnis is doomed to lose to Democratic candidate Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper in the general election, former Congressman Tom Tancredo has pitched a “Catch 22” plan — the GOP candidates either vow to quit the race after the primary or Tancredo will run as the American Constitution Party candidate against the Republican primary winner and Hickenlooper.
Tancredo is a typical Republican in that he plots to get something he has not earned.
From Think Progress: Compensating for damage the Republican National Committee’s unsteadiness may cause Republican candidates this fall, several high-profile GOP operatives — including Karl Rove and two former RNC chairmen — recently founded American Crossroads as a “grassroots,” “shadow RNC.” Salon’s Justin Elliott now reports that the group raised 97 percent of its funding from just four billionaires.
This should be no surprise, since folks like these ate the only ones Republicans truly represent.
Cartoon: from Cagle.com
OGIM!!
2 Responses to “Open Thread – 7/26/2010”
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I only hope that Tancredo’s virulent, racist anti-immigrant “nativism” will only spur Dems into securing every Latino vote in Colorado (and elsewhere) – and NOT just assume they’re a sure-thing.
We can’t afford another Hubert H. Humphrey fiasco (the campaign, not the man) and sit out an election just to “punish” one of our own. If you remember, Humphrey lost by less than 1% … to Richard Milhous Nixon.
And we all remember how THAT turned out.
I know, nameless. That’s why all this disaffecion on the left disturbs me so.