Yesterday I wasn’t feeling well, but I still managed to catch up on comments and returning visits.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 5:46. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football:
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Short Takes:
From Seattle Times: President Obama has picked Lt. Gen. James Clapper as director of national intelligence, tapping a retired officer with decades of experience to improve coordination of the nation’s sprawling spy apparatus amid increasing threats at home and escalating operations abroad.
This could prove interesting. The GOP dislikes this guy, because GW “ChickenHawk” Bush fired him for challenging Donald “Reichmeister” Rumsfeld on GOP lies presented as intelligence. Many on the left dislike him, because of his close ties with the military.
From Raw Story: BP’s shareholders may receive more this year from the company’s coffers than those affected by the spill in the Gulf of Mexico will receive in their lifetime.
BP CEO Tony Hayward has indicated that he will go ahead with massive dividend payouts to shareholders in the aftermath of the worst oil spill in US history. $10 billion in payouts are scheduled for this year.
The bastard is giving away our people’s money!
From TPM: The Clinton Library this afternoon released thousands of documents related to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s service on President Clinton’s Domestic Policy Council in the 1990s, including memos related to hot-button issues of abortion and gays serving in the military.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have requested more information given that Kagan, currently the solicitor general of the United States, has no judicial record. She was dean of the Harvard Law School until she took the current job in the Obama administration. Her confirmation hearings begin June 28.
The documents can be found here.
I’m certain that people already predisposed to oppose Kagan, left and right alike, will be flaunting snippets of this, often out of context, with glee. I’m not saying that the material will not contain valid reasons to oppose her. It well may. I do strongly suggest that we withhold judgment on this material until such time as comprehensive overviews become available.
Cartoon:
How’s your weekend?
8 Responses to “Open Thread – 6/5/2010”
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James Clapper sounds like a winner since no one likes him. 🙂
Elena Kagan submitted 45K pages of info and that’s not enough? WTF do they want?
LOL, Lisa. Good point!
What do they want? An excuse.
The Kagan hearing comes at a good time. Either the GOP will wisely damp the fires of controversy this summer to enhance their campaign image, or they’ll shoot themselves by taking aim at her. My money’s on the latter.
Love the cartoon, too!
Good observation, SF. That’s a bet I refuse to take. 😉
Sorry you’re not feeling well, Tom – hope you’ll feel better over the week-end.
A good selection of articles for all of us to read – thank you for always being so diligent to be current with your readers, even when you’re under the weather.
Thank you, Diane. Rapidly changing weather playes hell on my COPD, and it’s spring, so I can’t let how I feel keep me from what I do.
Good grief, how do you find the time for all these posts? I am shocked at the fact you leave comments on most all mine. You surely need not Tom, reading is more than enough and a comment now and then most appreciated. I can’t repay the compliment with this dial-up. I can only download a page at a time, and then shut it down when it reaches the point I need it. and then watch slowly as the little green bars slowly show my progress. In reality I have more patience than Job ever thought of having! lol..Great work here Tom.
Hi Sherry. I spend over eight hours a day researching, posting, replying to comments, and returning visits. I’m disabled and have no family.
DIAL-UP?!!? 😯
Why?