Yesterday I fell behind. It was my volunteer day co-facilitating a therapy group for former prisoners. I learned that the new therapist, with whom I just started working is relocating to the East Coast for personal reasons. I will miss her. She’s a dedicated, compassionate woman. The group will be kept intact, but will move to another firm. She will try to arrange it for me to co-facilitate for the new therapist. I know and respect him. He’s top rate. I hope that works out, because it means a lot to me. I hope to catch up on replying to comments and returning visits today.
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Short Takes:
From TPM: Fiorina, who won a 3-way primary last night, was preparing for an interview with CNN affiliate KXTV this morning and chatting with her aides. In a several-minute chat with the camera rolling that CNN posted online, Fiorina mocks Boxer’s hairdo. Laughing, Fiorina tells her staff that someone had seen Boxer on television and "said what everyone says, ‘God what is that hair?’ So yesterday!" But she also questioned a decision by fellow Republican Meg Whitman to appear on Hannity so soon after winning the GOP nomination for governor.
Carly should not be so snide. Regardless of her hairstyle, at least Boxer is bright enough to shut-up around an open mic.
From Huffington Post: In the latest twist in the ever-growing Mark Kirk military service fiasco, the Illinois Senate candidate appears to have violated military regulations by campaigning while on active duty.
If Kirk did indeed campaign while serving, as a newly released Department of Defense memo suggests, the offense would be punishable by up to two years of confinement and dishonorable discharge from the military.
I love it! What a hypocrite!
From Think Progress: Yesterday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) took to the House floor to defend Israel’s reaction to the Turkish Gaza flotilla. During his speech, he compared Israelis to Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers at airports and suggested that the Obama administration would condone an attack on them.
Has anyone told Goose-step Gohmert that TSA workers don’t assault airports in international waters?
From McClatchy DC: McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory.
Busted! All along they have claimed the exact opposite. I don’t like Hamas either, but it was the Bush/GOP regime that insisted on free elections for the Palestinian State. Elections have consequences.
Cartoon: from http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/
Have a great day!!
5 Responses to “Open Thread – 6/10/2010”
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Listen Carly, I don’t give a shit about her hair – she does her job and does it well. Coming in to wreck the Senate like you did HP? I’m sure that’ll go over well with the voters.
Kirk is toast (thank you Jesus!) – I hope he gets his dishonorable discharge and just goes the hell away. They don’t have time to put in another candidate (Alan Keyes anyone?) so the guy with the name I can’t pronounce is in – booya!
Gohmert sounds exactly like the stupid Texan he is – why people voted this dumbass in is beyond me.
The Israelis are in more trouble than they think they are – especially with the memo. They are acting like a bunch of pirate douchebags and I hope the UN throws the book at them since we are too pussified to do it ourselves.
Great cartoon!
Carpetbagger Alan Keyes was subbed in when that Ryan guy got exposed for forcing his wife to go to sex clubs – remember that? Then Alan came in and got like 2% of the vote – even the Repubs here in IL thought he was nuts. Which of course, he is.
Amen, Lisa! Bring him on!
Both Fiorina and Whitman may have the advantage of being able to run gold-plated campaigns, but they both are cursed with tin ears.
(PS: Barbara – watch out for Carly’s claws.)
So true, Nameless. Meg has more bucks than Sanders has chickens, and Catly still has $12 million left from her golden parachute for trashing HP. But Barbara can be a banshee when she gets going.