Open Thread – 10/14/2010

Yesterday I tried to make it to the group where I volunteer, but before I could make it to the bus stop, I had two severe COPD attacks, so I turned around and returned home.  I replied to comments and should be able to do so again today.  We’ll see about returning visits.  I’ll be here all day waiting for an oxygen concentrator to be delivered.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 5:38 (Have at me Jerry! ;-)).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From CNN: O’Donnell was tripped up by the same question that caused problems for then-VP candidate Sarah Palin in her interview with Katie Couric about Supreme Court decisions.

Asked if she could name a recent Supreme Court case she disagreed with, O’Donnell said "can you give me a specific one?"

So much for O’Dingbat and the Constitution.

From Law Week: The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the appeal brought by two people who say their rights were violated when they were kicked out of a 2005 speech by then-President George W. Bush because of a “No More Blood For Oil” bumper sticker.

SCOTUS subverts justice not only by unconstitutional decisions, but also, by refusing valid cases a fair hearing.

From SPLC: An embattled South Florida police chief — already serving a 30-day unpaid suspension for using city computers to share racist, tasteless Internet jokes with his command staff, including one E-mail suggesting President Obama should have been shot by his own honor guard — resigned late Tuesday.

A city investigation determined that Wilton Manors Police Chief Richard E. Perez distributed 86 messages with “inappropriate content” using the city’s E-mail system during a four-month period this spring and summer.

Can’t you just feel the Republican love?

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

What’s on your mind?