Open Thread – 12/7/2010

Yesterday I managed to keep up with comments, but I got tied up going to the store, talking to a friend in the hospital, setting up a father and daughter to visit the prison, helping a recently released prisoner realize that the new job he thought was his salvation, was just an Internet scam, and replying to a ton of email that’s been waiting since Friday.  I didn’t get a thing done on putting my computer area back together.  In hope to keep up with comments today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 3:38 (average 4:12).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Salem News: U.S. Rep.-elect Bill Johnson announced he will forgo congressional health insurance when he takes office as a gesture of support for the many Americans struggling during the recession.

"This is one substantial way I can show that my commitment to the people of eastern and southern Ohio is to help them, not to gain exclusive benefits for myself," he said, in a news release issued by his office.

What the damn Republican hypocrite is not telling us is that, as a veteran, he already has government funded health care, so his gesture of self-sacrifice is a total pretense.

From TPM: Lawyers for former Senate Candidate Robin Carnahan are arguing that the Fox News network is singling the Missouri Democrat out in its lawsuit alleging her campaign violated the network’s copyrights.

To strengthen their argument, lawyers for Carnahan are pointing to Fox News clips posted on the websites of Republican candidates during the 2010 election season that the network doesn’t seem to be worried about.

Here we have more evidence that Foxtopia is nothing more than the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda.

From Right Wing Watch: For the last few weeks, we’ve been chronicling efforts by right-wing activists in Texas to replace Republican House Speaker Joe Straus, who is Jewish, with a true "Christian conservative." And last week we noted that while David Barton was saying that the efforts to replace Strauss had nothing to do with his faith, State Republican Executive Committee member John Cook was sending out emails saying "We elected a house with Christian, conservative values [and] we now want a true Christian, conservative running it."

Pseudo-Christian Republican Theocons hate Jews as much as they hate any other minority group.  They are only pro-Israel, because that want the temple rebuilt as a condition for the return of Supply-side Jesus (not the real Jesus, the Republican invention).  After that, in their worldview, all but 144,000 Jews who convert become crispy critters.

From NY Times: Just a week ago, the Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen vowed that Josh McDaniels would return as his coach. But a few hours later, the Broncos curiously issued a statement in which Bowlen backtracked from the vote of confidence, saying he would review the situation at the end of the season.

But on Monday afternoon, with his team at 3-9, Bowlen reversed course entirely, shocking the N.F.L. by firing McDaniels with four games remaining.

Yes!!  There is a God!!

Cartoon:

If you think ping pong balls is oriental VD, you might be a Republican.