Open Thread – 10/19/2010

Yesterday I was busy with personal things most of the day, so I did not get a chance to reply to comments or return visits.  Today I hope to catch up on comments, but that’s iffy.  I’m going out to visit  a potential venue for a 7th Step support group for former prisoners we’re starting up.  Also I’m running short on sleep, because Providence Home Services woke me up from a dead sleep at 8 PM to tell me they were delivering the oxygen concentrator they had promised to deliver to me by Noon today, but stood me up for the second time.  I told them to tale a long …um… walk off a short pier.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 5:05.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Lefty Bloggers Plus Report – Week 6:

Scores:

Week 6	Score
Seahawks Rock Recovering Republic…	109.7 123.6	Final
Jay’s Team hugos misfits	103.2 78.0	Final
Lionel Hutz + The H… Playin w/out a helm…	83.0 64.2	Final
Teabuggery Trashers elliot’s Team	101.1 82.9	Final
Greensburg Wombats Rob’s Roosters	94.3 78.3	Final

Standings:

Team	W-L-T	Pct.	GB
Recovering Republicans	5-1-0	0.833	0.0
Seahawks Rock	5-1-0	0.833	0.0
Greensburg Wombats	4-2-0	0.667	1.0
Lionel Hutz + The Hail Marys	3-3-0	0.500	2.0
Rob’s Roosters	3-3-0	0.500	2.0
Teabuggery Trashers	3-3-0	0.500	2.0
Jay’s Team	2-4-0	0.333	3.0
hugos misfits	2-4-0	0.333	3.0
Playin w/out a helmet	2-4-0	0.333	3.0
elliot’s Team	1-5-0	0.167	4.0

Short Takes:

From NY Times: A federal district judge in California said Monday that she is inclined to deny the government’s request to allow the Pentagon to enforce its “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gay and bisexual members of the military while her injunction against it is being appealed. “My tentative ruling is to deny the application for a stay,” Judge Virginia A. Phillips said at a hearing on the government’s request, according to Reuters. She is expected to issue a ruling to that effect on Tuesday.

I hope so!  I’d love to see no more expelled.

From TPM: Sharron Angle now has an interesting explanation for her recent campaign ads on immigration, which have prominently featured images of Latinos labeled as "illegal aliens": They might not be Latinos, or even "illegal aliens" from Mexico at all — they might be terrorists sneaking in from the Canadian border.

Damn those brown skinned Canadians! :roll:  Obtuse went on to say that the they looked more like Asians, as though that’s somehow more acceptable that Latino.

From Me: From the look of the polls, which I take with a ton of salt, I’d call the Senate 51 Democrats, 47 Republicans, and 2 too close to guess.  Unlike most Pollsters, I’m correctly counting LIEberman as a Republican.  The House is anyone’s guess.

Cartoon:

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