Yesterday I did my housework chores and installed a new plugin here called sendlove.to. It recognizes famous people in my articles and gives you an opportunity to vote them up or down on a national network and to make comments about them in addition to the comments here. To see it in action open the comments in any article. I found a bug early this morning. It interfered with our nested indents. I’ll report it. I am current on replies, but exhausted from missing sleep to track Wisconsin. Tomorrow, I’m hiding.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:18 (average 4:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From TPM: An offshoot of the South Florida Tea Party called "Tea Party In Space" is looking to break apart the government’s socialist takeover of the final frontier.
Andrew L. Gasser launched Tea Party In Space [InsaniTEA delinked] in June as a way to "bring fiscal responsibility" into the space program, he told TPM Tuesday. He called the group, which was formed in conjunction with the South Florida Tea Party, the first "issue-specific" tea party in the country.
In matters pertaining to outer space and space cadets, Teabaggers may have a natural advantage.
From Think Progress: Tom Delay Wants a Government Shut Down Next Month
Doing too much harm is never enough for them.
From Reuters: A U.S. regulator sued Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), accusing the bank of violating federal and state law by selling risky mortgage-backed securities to two credit unions that later failed.
The National Credit Union Administration is seeking more than $491 million of damages related to the sale of about $1.18 billion of securities, according to the agency and its lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. district court in Los Angeles.
Keep those lawsuits coming!
Cartoon:
15 Responses to “Open Thread–8/10/2011”
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I think one of the indicators of the direction the dems are about to go is my brother standing in front of his house in Mass. – holding a sign sarcastically saluting Obama as one of the “greatest” and thanking him for the condition of the economy. Today it was another sign – “blessed are the rich for they shall inherit the US” . He’s a “tame” democrat – but a rather typical one – as a result, I don’t think Obama has a chance in hell to be reelected – unless the dems can come up with a reasonable – PROGRESSIVE alternative – I think we’re probably in for President Bachmann for a term or so! I’m trying to get used to it – such a refreshing sound – just a little reminiscent, but a bit of a “morph” of the “twig”!
Lee, have you decided to give up and be a victim?
We need more of this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/08/al-gore-global-warming-rant_n_921721.html
Do we ever!
TC –
Am I the only one who has experienced that your Comment section is acting funny when posting? The fonts and formats change right in front of my eyes – and the left border is partially obscured just a bit.
Nameless, that is the bug I discussed in the opening paragraph. The fonts are different in the new plugin, but the format change is fixed. Try out the new plugin on a page with names it recognizes.
I thought Delay was in jail.
It appears he was at Gov. Perry’s “Preying On America” event. Did he ever go to jail? He was supposed to have. Maybe he is on furlough !?!
Looks like he is out on bail pending appeal of his conviction and 3 year sentence.
Gaaaa! 👿
Jerry is correct.
3:27 Not a bad time, but not good enough to win. I am 71 out of 222 (320).
I’m not easy today, but within reach.
3:56
DeLay will probably never serve a day of jail time.
That would disappoint me, but not surprise me at all.