Yesterday I caught up on replying to comments before football. I spent over an hour in Blog Talk Radio with Gwen, Jack, Oso, Beach and a couple other folks. If you want to listen to the conversation, click the link. It was both a privilege and a pleasure. Today, I expect to catch up with returning visits.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 4:53 (average 4:57). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Extreme Religious Agony:
Short Takes:
From Crooks and Liars: A former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff suggested Sunday that gays shouldn’t be able to openly serve in the US military because no country with openly serving gays has ever defeated the US.
Gen. Hugh Shelton told ABC’s Christiane Amanpour that it’s the servicemen in the Army and Marines that should get to decide whether or not the controversial ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy is ended.
Shelton’s argument is absurd. To the best of my knowledge, the US has never defeated a country with openly serving gays either. The general suggests that troops should decide what legal orders to obey.
From Blue Oregon: After less than two years in office, Jeff Merkley has shown himself willing to stand up not just to Republicans, but also members of his own party when they make unacceptable concessions to Big Oil. This week Merkley came out strong for clean energy again by joining at least two other US senators in criticizing Hillary’s Clinton suggestion that as head of the State Department she is “inclined” to approve permits for a dirty cross-border oil pipeline.
This makes me proud to have helped on his campaign.
From News Hounds: Today, on CBS’ Face The Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked guest Rove if he thinks Palin will run for president in 2012 and, if so, whether she’d be a good president. Rove responded, "I don’t know whether she’s going to run or not and if she runs, she would be a formidable candidate.
Rove dances around the issue, refusing to admit whether or not he thinks Drill Baby Dingbat could be a good President. When will the falling out between the Neocon/Corperacon/Plutocon segments and the Theocon/InsamiTEA segments of the Republican Reich bloom?
Cartoon:
OGIM!
10 Responses to “Open Thread – 10/25/2010”
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No wonder our defense spending is astronomical! It’s hard to count the number of times we have had to defend ourselves against those gay-infiltrated armies. Why, the list of countries that permit openly gay people to serve in the military is practically endless – and I wish they’d stop attacking us!
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and Uruguay.
PLEASE NOTE: Obviously it’s true we fought Germany. But when that happened gays were most assuredly NOT permitted in Hitler’s military. Tens of thousands were arrested, forced to wear the Pink Triangle and sent to concentration camps.
Then the theory may be tested. If Drill Baby Bingbat wins the Presidency in 2012, I’m sure we’ll soon be at war with a few of them. 🙄
4:23 Finally! 😀
Ptuifffffffffffffft! 😛
😉
And just what country has defeated us? Arguably North Vietnam. A stalemate with North Korea. Both supported by China. Is he suggesting that we should be more like China?
I think he’d like us to be more like Saudi Arabia.
What is Blog Talk Radio? I sounds rather cool. You should have told us before so we could have listened live.
Wow – the Broncos got their asses handed to them. Bummer.
That’s the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard. General Shelton should go back to the home. His visiting time is up! 😆
Merkley sounds like a good egg – no salmonella in him. 😉
Can we stop talking about the Tundra Twat running for president? She’s not even capable of raising her own kids, much less running a country of 300M people. 🙄
You can see how those kids would make that mistake. 😉
I’ll post a link this week.
Amen!
In the primary, I supported his opponent, but I’m thrilled with him.
Yup 😉
Tundra Twat — I love it. I’ve actually spent some time on the tundra and Tundra Twat brings up some strange images.
Me too, but if I use it, it’s sexist.