Yesterday I was busy with chores. I’m current with replies, but I’ll be busy today unpacking and putting away a grocery delivery this morning. It will be much more difficult that usual, because it will contain many foods that I’m not used to buying and storing in my limited space. Starting Wednesday I’ll be on a toothless diet for two weeks, and planning for that has been a pain in the Republican.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:49 (5:14 average). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Reuters: IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, arrested by police in New York for sexual assault, is the front-runner in opinion polls to win next year’s presidential election in France and replace incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.
Strauss-Kahn, a 62-year-old Socialist who starred as finance minister in the late 1990s, left for Washington in late 2007 to head the International Monetary Fund, just as the world’s worst economic downturn since World War II hit.
The polls show Strauss-Kahn, who has yet to officially declare, trouncing Sarkozy and also leading all other potential challengers in what many in his home country expected to be a dirty campaign leading up to an election set for next April.
I hope that the charges against this man prove to be unfounded. I understand that the bogus scandal to discredit opponents is almost as common by European conservatives as it is by Republicans. The way conservatives are screwing up Europe, Sarkozy must be desperate.
From Politico: Mike Huckabee opted against a run for the 2012 Republican nomination Saturday night, saying that despite all the signs saying yes, “My heart says no.”
The former Arkansas governor’s decision instantly reshapes the contest, creating a wide-open field in Iowa, where Huckabee won the 2008 caucuses, and an opening for some of the second-tier hopefuls who could appeal to Huckabee’s base of conservatives and evangelical Christians.
I have to credit the Huckster for brains, even though he was lying. Although his heart says yes, all the signs say know. Even though he had a chance of winning the nomination, he knows he’d get his butt kicked in the general.
From Alternet: Shirley Sherrod is back at the United States Department of Agriculture, almost a year after she was forced out by a misleading video spread by conservatives falsely accusing her of discriminating against white farmers.
Sherrod will not take her old position, reports Politico, instead rejoining the agency to work on civil rights. In her new job, she’ll lead a program designed to improve relations with minority farmers.
After the disgraceful performance by the Obama administration in falling for and overreacting to a scam by O’Keefe, Breitbart and the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda (Faux Noise), I’m glad to see Shirley back with the USDA.
Cartoon:
Teabaggers get a discount at the Fukushima Hilton! (That was not intended to be a true statement.)
4 Responses to “Open Thread–5/15/2011”
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4:35 I didn’t stretch enough. I’m44/135 44 out of 135 (326).
Less of a stretch today, Jerry.
Toothless diet? What does that consist of? Nevermind, I don’t want to know.
I don’t know TC. Sexual assault is a pretty tough crime to beat and usually NYC cops don’t arrest some one on just suspicion. If there’s DNA in involved, he’s screwed. Then it comes down to he said, she said. And the odds on that one are generally not in the man’s favor.
Everyone of those douchebag repubs would get there ass kicked by Obama. There is not one even semi creditable or sane candidate among the hordes that running. You think Michele Bachmann could beat him – I don’t even think Americans are that stupid and we are a stupid bunch. 🙄
Good for Shirley! They better be paying her out the ass for what they did to her. I can’t believe they fell for that idiot Breibart’s tape; that man should be in jail for defamation of character, serving a nice long term in a Supermax prison.
Newt the fruit has NO chance of winning the nom. Even Repubs are disgusted by his slimy ass and he’s not going to play well with the Christofacists who are not Catholic and didn’t have 3 wives. Hell, Romney’s a Mormon and he didn’t even take 3 wives. On top of that, having an affair while impeaching Clinton, pot meet kettle. Plus he had to resign from the House or be indicted. None of that is going to look good although his new wife is very pretty, I have no idea what she is doing with a serial adulterer. He says he’s “matured” now. He was in his friggin 40’s when he did all this crap. 20’s, I can see, but 40’s – no fucking way. Plus he’s getting fat again – I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a heart attack stumping in Iowa. Stay on Fox Newt, that way I’ll never have to look at your slimy mug again. 😉 Mitt is the only one that has a half way chance of getting the nom, but then he has Romneycare hung around his neck. Is there any one of them who is not incredibly faulted or half way sane?
Repubs too – it’s free – get your asses over there.
Just soft foods, Lisa. Cottage cheese, canned fruit, mushables like baked beans, etc.
Lisa, so far he has been “provisionally” charges, and false claims by the maid are enough for the cops to take action. He agreed to complete forensic examination.
That’s what is saving us.
Amen.
I agree. Faux Noise is down on him.
Heh heh.