Yesterday I replied to comments, but did not feel up to visiting. Today, I’ll probably do neither, because it’s my volunteer day with the therapy group. To be honest, I’ll be pushing myself just to make it to that.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:11. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From LA Times: The first of 33 gold and copper miners entombed half a mile below ground for more than two months were hauled into the frigid Chilean desert air early Wednesday morning, emerging from a cramped, life-saving haven and into the embrace of family members once forced to confront the likelihood of their deaths.
I’m thankful that they’re going to be OK and proud of the key contributions to the effort by US volunteers.
From Houston Chronicle: The Obama administration on Tuesday lifted the deep-water drilling ban that has idled dozens of rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, but the end of the moratorium is only the beginning for the long process of restarting offshore exploration.
Everyone is mad at Obama over this. Environmentalists don’t want the ban lifted, but Republicans and Oilycrats say the new regulations will stifle it. I’ll reserve judgment for now, but am skeptical that the new regulations will be enough.
From News Hounds: Michele Bachmann visited the Glenn Beck show yesterday (10/12/10) where she and guest host Judge Andrew Napolitano wondered about the effects that winning Tea Party candidates will have on Washington, D.C. and vice versa. Bachmann said she plans to do her part to keep Tea Party legislators from being “so susceptible to melting” by conducting weekly classes on the Constitution for Congressional freshman. But no sooner had she invited Napolitano to be one of the guest experts, than he asked her whether the Tea Party would advocate for restoring civil liberties abolished under the Bush administration. Suddenly, Constitution-champion Bachmann began waffling and fumbling.
Batshit Bachmann is no constitutional expert, but she was an expert in practicing insanity, before she became an expert in practicing InsaniTEA.
Cartoon: from Cagle.com
Happy Hump Day!e
6 Responses to “Open Thread 10/13/2010”
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4:18
Jerry, you didn’t do badly. I just nailed that one.
Yeah! I’m glad there out and safe.
I’m skeptical that the new regs will do anything either. That dickhead in charge of the rigs before had 18 mos to do something and did nothing. He should have been fired. I’m pissed at Obama about this too. I want to see the new regs before I open the off shore drilling. 😡
That’s what I’m waiting for as well. I want to see what has been done to make it safe.
Yeah, like Bachmann knows anything about the Constitution – and to have her teaching classes on it is just absurd. That woman should be locked up with a sweater that ties in the back. 🙄
Yep, I think the Teabaggers have taken up Adolph’s cause. 😡
LOL! Yes!
So have the Republicans. Teabaggers are just too dumb to deny it.