Yesterday I got my haircut as planned. Dang! Maybe I’m not as decrepit as I thought! When I returned home I replied to comments, but did no visiting, as I became tied up with healthcare planning issues and volunteer stuff. Today I hope to do some overdue visiting.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 5:35 (average 5:50). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From LA Times: The bipartisan House Ethics Committee recommended Thursday that embattled New York Democrat Charles B. Rangel be censured by the full House of Representatives for ethics violations, the stiffest penalty a member can face short of expulsion.
It’s appropriate. What isn’t appropriate is that it’s been over thirty years since the last censure.
From Think Progress: On Twitter yesterday, Michael Goldfarb, former McCain presidential campaign flack and current adviser to former governor Sarah Palin, said that Ghailani should have been executed while in CIA custody.
Dang! He forgot to read that Constitution again!
From TPM: Speaking then about Juan Williams, who quickly landed a $2 million contract at Fox News after being fired from NPR, Ailes said he hired Williams because he was "mad" about the pundit’s losses. He had even stronger criticism for NPR than he did for Stewart.
"They are, of course, Nazis," Ailes said. "They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don’t want any other point of view. They don’t even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive."
Welcome to Foxtopia.
From Me: I just heard on the news that, next year, Obama plans to award the Presidential Medal of freedom to GW Bush!
WTF?!!? 
Cartoon:
TGIF!!
10 Responses to “Open Thread–11/19/2010”
Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Is there any average American who is tired of being a ping pong ball between the two parties smacked with the paddle of the talking heads besides me?
I’d rather have one party stand up for what I value.
He had 280 charges against his ass – expel him.
How about we switch shoes and have him executed?
Sounds like Allies needs a can of whoop ass. Douchebag.
Funny cartoon!
He was singled out for conduct that is routine on both sides of the aisle.
How could we bury him without polluting ground water?
Really!
Thanks!
5:44 hard one! 🙂
Yeah it was!
I hope that last comment above the cartoon is a snide comment by somebody that came out as “news.” Can Obama really be that stupid? I am truly beginning to wonder. However, I’ll vote for him in 2012 over ANY republican.
It was Tweety, Chris Matthews, from Hardball. 🙁
Not a whole lot better, but the Medal of Honor is going to George H. W. Bush – fortunately NOT Dubya. It’s reportedly being given for his charitable work w/ Pres. Clinton (and why he’s not getting it in tandem, I have NO idea).
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/11/17/announcing-2010-medal-freedom-recipients
Thanks, Nameless. I’m glad I misundertook that. 🙄