Open Thread for May 22nd…….
It’s Saturday……The Dogs weekly spend money day…
We only have one of our pups at home…
But every Sunday we bring all of them home for a BBQ…..
Makes Mom and Dad feel good….
Andrew Cuomo starts the ball rolling, So doe Blumenthal…..
Rand Paul is finally going to give it a rest and take the rest of the weekend off from the media…
Hillary needs to do a good job cooling tensions on the Korean Pensulia while covering the South’s back…
Obama keeps the pressure on for more government movement….
Tiger Woods divorce isn’t going to be so easy afterall…
And the Oil keeps coming……
Oh, Yea….
The Mets still suck…..And Jerry’s gonna get fired……
Does Lebron come east?
And the US deals with Russia and China to get some juice for Iran…
Ain’t gonna work though….
They’re gonna get a bomb…..
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‘Artificial life’ breakthrough announced by scientists
Scientists in the US have succeeded in developing the first living cell to be controlled entirely by synthetic DNA.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10132762.stm
and a SHOUT OUT to Conservative Democrat
Someone I can always count on to be strong on pride
Yes!
Based on what Sarah Palin said today on FoxNews
About BP
She is obviously
“UnAmerican”
And will be shortly condemned by Rand Paul
What?
You dont believe he will?
Hey he is
“Principled”
Right?
jack
I am surprised Sarah would talk about BP considering
For eighteen years, TODD PALIN worked for BP in the North Slope oil fields of Alaska. In 2007, in order to avoid a conflict of interest relating to his wife’s position as governor, he took a leave[10] from his job as production supervisor when his employer became involved in natural gas pipeline negotiations with his wife’s administration.[3] Seven months later, because the family needed more income, Todd returned to BP. In order to avoid potential conflict of interest, this time he accepted a non-management position as a production operator.[1][10] He resigned from his job on September 18, 2009, with the stated reason of spending more time with his family.[1
From Politicalwire:
“Rand Paul’s philosophy got in the way of reality.”
— RNC Chairman Michael Steele, in an interview on Fox News Sunday, on Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul’s (R) recent controversial statements.
Yep, time to play by the rules Rand. Now the big question is whether or not his tea party devotees who flocked to his anti-establishment primary campaign will stick with him now that he is part of that establishment. I think they will, he’s still a Republican–and at the end of the day that’s what it’s REALLY all about for the “tea party”. But independents and moderates will be turned off. Personally I hope to see more statewide GOP nominees from the tea party bench. It’s good news for Democrats!
Scott P
I talked to a SENIOR Tea Party member in my area
He said they were neither political party
His MAIN CONCERN was the deficit
Intel post becomes ‘wicked problem’ for W.H.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37643.html
Sounds like they need to tap someone with MASSACHUSETTS connections
mmmm… if Leon Panetta can be CIA head.. perhaps Barney Frank can be DNI head
The job needs to be folded back into the the CIA director’s office
Even Gibbs says the job sucks
Russian president orders all World War II archives to be on Internet by 2013
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Perhaps this will help realize why the COMMUNISTS,NAZIS, AND DEMOCRATS formed a UNION
they all love things being NATIONALIZED
Ive yet to see ANY Tea Party member offer any suggestions as the significant reduction of the deficit
Instead they babble on about abolishing the National Endowment for the Arts or other such trivialities
I want to know
How much are they going to cut the bloated defense budget?
How much they are going to cut “subsidies?”
How much they are going to raiese taxes?
Anyone who claims they can “balance the budget”
Without all three of the above
Is a Liar and a Hypocrite
In other words
a Republican!
jack
Instead they babble on about abolishing the National Endowment for the Arts or other such trivialities
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You sure you are not stuck in 1994
If so I hope you finally “come to” modern day
So the tea party is independent of either party and the deficit is their biggest concern? Well if that’s the case they should all love Bill Clinton since he was the only President in my lifetime to balance the budget.
Ask Dick Armey, who is about the closest thing the tea party has to a national chairman, what he thinks of Bill Clinton.
i woul love the tea party to put up a candidate/third party line in 2012. their damn ralph nader.
lol, rand paul is a the face of the national gop now. awww, according to paul obama is placing too much blame on poor bp. he wants to take the side of big oil, let em.
Terry Green
i woul love the tea party to put up a candidate/third party line in 2012. their damn ralph nader.
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I TOTALLY agree with you
I mean if the Tea Party is a Political party where the hell are their candidates
” mean if the Tea Party is a Political party where the hell are their candidates”
they can be found on the ballot under the heading–Republican.
Blackhawks sweep into Cup final
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A BIG CUP of congrats to all the Blackhawks fans across the world
especially Corey, Illinois Jim, and Brandon
Here, Here!
read the second to last paragraph of the article regarding Iron Man 2…I still can’t get over the Disney’s marvel studios, what a great purchase by Disney…
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37301966
Some people REALLY know how to make money!
Benjamin DOG
thanks SO much because of YOU
I discovered this
http://digg.com/d31RegI
Thanks from the bottom of my heart
*#+#*!
*#+#*!
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what does that mean
I missed that LESSON
Even Gibbs says the job sucks
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Gibbs.. Obama should have selected Rahm to do his job
Rahm as press secretary?
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4209317/sarah-palin-on-fns
Sarah — doesnt seem OVERLY confident she will be nominee in 2012
but she didnt seem OVERLY confident at the Governor’s Association
Who know’s?
Who know’s?
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well u get Gunzburger stationed in SC and he could figure it out
Rahm as press secretary?
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Yep.. that would be worthy of daily visits to locate a TV
ain’t never gonna happen…..
pity.. neither Obama or Gibbs do a good job as MOTIVATIONAL communicators
Useful guide to blogging at the British “Liberal Democratic Voice”:
Welcome to the New Bloggers
Afternoon DSD!
Rossi is going to run in Washington State.
He just picked his General Consultant for his Senate Bid
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37687.html
James B, my predictions for the TV show 24 series finale tonight:
1. Jack will NOT get justice for his slain girlfriend, Renee because CTU and the police are likely going to haul him to jail.
2. President Taylor will be exposed for her part in covering up the conspiracy on the Russians’ involvement in Hassan’s assassination and Renee’s death.
3. Logan will get away with murder once again.
4. Dalia Hassan will find out who was involved in her husband’s assassination and I’m telling ya, it will get UGLY.
5. The Russian President will get killed.
CD,
Rossi to run
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politicsnorthwest/2011942043_rossitodeclarerunforsenatethisweekkeystaffhired.html
Say goodbye to Senator Murray.
Pat Shortridge who is also advising Marco Marco has signed on with the Rossi Campaign.
Please read the last sentence of Rossi the piece several times…….
A loss this time would make him a 3 Times loser!
I’m out!
This time Rossi will win. You’re such a SORE LOSER james.
He, he, he….
I haven’t lost anything….
Take care …..I’m out!
Rossi only down 4 to Murray in Senate Race according to a new Washington Poll
Don’t Washington state Republicans have anyone else besides Rossi?
Not that it’s impossible for a two time state wide loser to be successful eventually, but maybe he needs to take a break or concentrate on another office he can win in the meantime like a house seat. For example, my Governor Jay Nixon lost two previous senate races (1988 and 1998) before winning the gubernatorial contest in 2008. But those two losses were 10 and 20 yrs. prior and inbetween he won 4 times as Attorney General so by 2008 he didn’t seem like a guy that was constantly running and losing.
Scott,
You forget about the Political Environment. It was obvious Nixon would run in a “Montrous” Democratic Year.
This year especially on the Senate Side it’s toxic for Democrats.
Your luck has finally run out. You’ll be lucky that Thompson & Pataki declined otherwise the Senate would go Republican this year.
Atta guy…Scott!
BREAKING
Houston Chronicle reports former Washington State Senator Dino Rossi (R-WA) to declare Senate Bid against Murray on Wednesday.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/7019866.html
Well, FAILURE to the DSCC who tried to scare Rossi out of the Race. HA,HA,HA
MSNBC confirms it:
Rossi to challenge Murray
Campaign Launch Wednesday
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37320951/ns/politics-decision_2010/
NBA Playoff update:
Western Conf. Finals
LA Lakers vs. Phoenix (Lakers lead 2-1)
Game 4 at Phoenix on Tuesday night.
Eastern Conf. Finals
Boston vs. Orlando (Celtics lead 3-0)
Game 4 at Boston tonight at 7:30 pm, and I’m going out on a limb the Celtics will sweep the Magic in embarrassing fashion.
James B, Crystal is NOT a slam dunk to win the American Idol crown this week because Casey’s votes are likely going to benefit Lee, who will give her HELL.
From Politicalwire:
“In Colorado and Arizona, Public Policy Polling sees Hispanic voters swinging dramatically towards Democrats in the wake of Arizona’s new immigration law.
“Hispanics in the Mountain West are leaning much more strongly toward the Democrats since the Arizona law was passed. The big question then becomes whether there are white voters who are going to go Republican this fall who wouldn’t have if that bill hadn’t been passed. We don’t see any evidence of that happening yet.”
Ben Smith: “This has always been Democrats’ belief about immigration politics: That among the voters for whom this is a single, motivating issue, whites may get more attention, but Hispanics are more numerous.”
Crap, crap, crap this is. Nonsense PPP
I see nothing at all surprising here
How do you think Hispanics were gonna react?
Oh PLEASE Republicans
Stop us on the street and demand our citizenship papers?
As Ive said constantly
The Republicans are running out of White people
Heres an idea
have Sarah Palin give a speech and wink
Thatll bring them Hispanics around!
Whatcha think Daniel?
Don’t tell me anything about Palin. This is the last what we need.
Jack, tell James B that his fav Crystal Bowersox will NOT win the Idol crown this week because of several factors:
1. The Blue Staters (Lee is the only Blue stater left) are likely due for a victory for 8 years of Red State dominance just to piss Corey off.
2. Crystal’s horrible appearance: her UGLY-ASS teeth, and the dreds are making folks back away from her in droves.
3. Lee will benefit from getting Casey James’s supporters.
4. Red State Fatigue.
5. A Lee DeWyze victory is going to make President Obama happy.
I do think that during the midterms the GOP is going to do better than they have recently in western states like AZ and CO.
So they will think that their decision to double down on the aging white demographic is working.
But that will be due primarily to angry white voters being the disproportionate % of those who turn out in midterms.
In 2012 they will be hard pressed to win those states and others with similar demographics in a Presidential year.
I agree with the above post by Scott
I will also note that noted conservative commentator David Brooks has expressed a similiar view
CD
I have never watched American Idol
I am SURPRISED Hispanics would flock to the Democrat Party
that makes as much sense as someone that wants to have same sex marriage donating to Obama
Hispanics should form a THIRD PARTY that has as its purpose to be a VOCAL advocate for Hispanics
SC crew
WORSE economic times AHEAD for 2011
http://www.independentmail.com/news/2010/may/23/democratic-hopefuls-governor-say-tax-increases-cou/?partner=popular
Oh PLEASE Republicans
Stop us on the street and demand our citizenship papers?
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kinda silly to mark all LEO as Republicans
it is LEO that will be asking about citizenship status not the legislators
DONT BLAME THE COPS BLAME THE LAWS
Good TPL…I never thought you’d come up with that!
The laws adopted by REPUBLICANS
Notice once again this supposed “Independent” defending ah yes
REPUBLICANS
But he REALLY is against all this you understand
Liked this article on the intelectual brain drain in the US.
http://heraldnet.com/article/20100523/BIZ/705209656
Evening BDog…The place is busy today over 3,400 hits!
Notice once again this supposed “Independent” defending ah yes
REPUBLICANS
But he REALLY is against all this you understand
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Yep that is the POWER of being Independent you can defend and attack without REGARD to Party Affliction
james,
Did you get my Kansas Post too. Please check your Mail.
both done and up….
How are you?
You see the Case story?
At the State Opening of the new Parliament at Westminster, Queen Elizabeth delivered the Queen’s Speech, written by the government of the day and giving a general outline of the next year’s legislative programme. It’s rather similar in function to the U.S. President’s State of the Union Address.
Among various measures proposed by the Cameron-Clegg Coalition are the scrapping of national identity cards and other authoritarian legislation, election of big-city police commissioners (seems like a terrible idea to me, while elected police authorities would be good), monetary incentives to educate deprived children (the “pupil premium”), fixed five-year parliaments and a minimum no-confidence vote of 55%.
The real pain ($10 billion in spending cuts) will come in an emergency budget on June 22nd. When the full budget is completed, there will be far more pain; the 6-billion-pound ($10 b) cut is just an appetizer, which the Tories insist should be served now, while during the election campaign, both Labour and the Liberal Democrats followed the great Liberal economist John Maynard Keynes in saying it should wait until the economy stops falling.
See Queen’s Speech: Cameron hails ‘radical’ programme
Details here:
Bill-by-bill: All the measures in the 2010 programme at-a-glance
Following tradition, the first response to the Queen’s Speech was delivered by the acting Leader of H.M. Opposition, Harriet Harman (Labour).
Watch fifty minutes of her speech and David Cameron’s rebuttal (and/or read a written summary) here:
Queen’s Speech: Harman attacks ‘Loveless Coalition’
If I was privy to see the Queen I would hold a sign lambasting her refusal to visit Israel
I actually saw a few of them up close…..
They are LITTLE people…You’d be surprised!
well I went to Greenville to see a Nazi Hunter
and probably the most surprising thing he said was that of all the Nazis he had crossed paths with NONE of them had any remorse
http://www.expatica.com/ch/news/news_focus/The-last-Nazi-hunter.html
James B, I TOLD YA SO.
Dial Idol is predicting Lee DeWyze of IL will become the first Blue Stater to win the Idol crown ending 8 years of Red State dominance.
I warned you and everyone on here that Casey James’ supporters were going to vote for Lee and never vote for Crystal, who will LOSE tonight because of her ugly teeth and horrible hairstyle.
I told my wife your prediction….
If you are right my middle son has to take my wife out to dinner…..She’s hoping you are correct!
“ending 8 yrs. of red state dominance”.
Didn’t one of the Idol winners a few years ago hail from North Carolina? That state went blue in 2008, though I guess you could argue it was a red state at the time of the Idol championship.
I would venture to guess that Corey and CD are the only two of the millions who faithfully watch American Idol (and I’m not one of them) who think of it in red state/blue state terms.
He, he, he…….
Corey, huh?
Where is Corey Gross
and what is Corey Gross FAVORITE newspaper????
Told ya…I tried to feature him on the Dog….No dice…Didn’t want to be here…
james,
Haven’t you checked your Mail. I’ve sent you two Mails.
they are both up…..I did them first….
I do not see them. Please check your own Blog.
My Bad…they where done..but not sent out…..Sorry…
Rossi is up….
And I’m doing the second one…
Again…..My Bad!
The second one I can see. You updated the Idaho Results Post. Nice work.
I try…stay on my case….. I miss things sometimes…..
Never mind. When you miss something I’m telling you. That’s why we both work this Blog.
I’ll do a Polling Summary tonight.
It will go up when when I come back on…
Okay…the boards yours…
I’m out…..
No problem….
New thread tonight also…..
Later!
New thread tonight also…..
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SORRY I AM JERK TO YOU
but I get so ANGRY that you are so INTELLIGENT yet dont recognize BAD POLICY
CARING/ CONCERNED Body guard endorses Barrett
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37821.html
Who Cheney?
http://www.infowars.com/machete-director-admits-he-went-too-far-race-war-scenes-to-be-cut-state-is-funding-film/
First change I noticed was they swapped the actor that shoots Danny Trejo
Conservative Democrat
Art Linkletter, the easygoing emcee famed for his long-running hosting gigs of the radio show “House Party” and the TV shows “People Are Funny” and “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” has died, his publicist said. He was 97
Bless him….Prayers for his family…97?…..he had a good run!
Federal ban on gay men’s blood donation to be reconsidered
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/05/25/gay.blood.donation.ban/index.html?hpt=Sbin