I got up a couple hours early this morning to get a head start, because I have a month’s groceries being delivered today, and I’ll be pooped when I get them unpacked and put away. I’m current with replies. Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, so There may be no articles. It will depend on how the day goes.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:59 (average 4:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The Guardian: The US and China have agreed to co-ordinate their response if North Korea goes through with a planned rocket launch next month, a day after Barack Obama urged Beijing to use its influence to rein in its unpredictable ally.
Speaking at the start of a two-day summit on nuclear security in the South Korean capital, Seoul, the US president said China and the US had a shared interest in preventing nuclear proliferation.
I consider this a far more sensible approach that the Republican method: threats followed by invasion.
From CNN: Taking advantage of relaxed campaign finance laws, a cadre of deep-pocketed donors are spending gobs of money to bankroll super PACs, a phenomenon that is reshaping the modern election cycle.
It is a select group. The top 100 individual super PAC donors make up just 3.7% of those who have contributed to the new money vehicles, but account for more than 80% of the total money raised, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
And just the top 46 donors have given a total of $67 million, or two-thirds of the $112 million in individual gifts to super PACs this cycle. Membership in this select group requires a $500,000 minimum donation.
According to SCROTUS, rich people deserve FAR more “freedom of speech” than we do.
From Raw Story: When the Supreme Court put its stamp of approval on the creation of super PACs, they could never have seen this one coming.
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has launched a new advertisement showing a man catapaulting a bunny rabbit and blasting it into bloody chunks, as a little girl compares the animal to “small business” in the current U.S. economic climate.
Leave it to Republicans to murder innocent animals to stimulate Republican blood-lust, just to promote a lie.
Cartoon: (Hat Tip Lynn Squance)
6 Responses to “Open Thread–3/26/2012”
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3:36 Good for a Monday.
Too good for me. In the next two I expect you or Patty to get one.
Puzzle — 5 flat on a 7:16 average when I did it. Even at yoour average, I was not bad.
US and China — I’ve always preferred the diplomatic route. Let’s see if China lives up to its commitment. And you’re right, had the Republican/Teabaggers been in control, they would have invaded first, unilaterally and illegally, then tried to ‘negotiate’ (if that’s what you want to call it) when things are all screwed up!
Campaign Finance — First Citizens United has to go and then SCROTUS needs to be sent to the lockerroom permanently! The only difference between a rich man and a poor man is the kind of cloth his pants are made of. They both put their pants on one leg at a time. It isn’t that the rich are entitled to greater freedom of speech, it is that they buy it! And anything that can be bought is transitory.
Herman Cain — All I can say is that Herman Cain was despicable before, and he is more so with this abomination! I hope it backfires in his face, although I doubt he’ll realise it.
Cartoon — Thanks for the hat tip. I had to have a word starting with ‘P’ and that had the right attitude or satiric quality to make these idiots no better (probably at lot worse) than the rest of us. Hence ‘Pharts’.
Not at all bad.
Precisely.
The only way to accomplish that is to keep the White House Republican-free.
Me too.
YVW and well deserved.
4:30 Very bad!
I will only comment on Herman Cain’s ad because I have nothing more to say on Citizens United or China and N. Korea that hasn’t already been said. His newest commercial is just as bad as the first one with the same girl and the goldfish. Just what is he trying to prove?
Not that bad.
Republicans are the Party of Death.