Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Midday open thread

  • Despite claims by anonymous sources that Sarah Palin's speech today to the Iowa teabaggers would be "important and news-making," the half-term governor did not make any announcement about whether she'd actually have the guts to run for president, or whether she's just going to keep sucking on that overflowing Fox "News" teat. In fact, the only (arguably) important thing to know is that she's still one of the dumbest people ever born. Also.
  • The National Journal has a list of all the need-to-know meetings and deadlines for the Super Committee.
  • Well, well, well. It appears Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser, aka Judge Chokes-a-lot, has changed his mind and won't be hearing the case of the fighting teabaggers after all.
  • Oh no! The Vatican says New York's new mandatory comprehensive sex education requirements are "useless and even harmful." Hello, pot? Kettle's on line one for you.
  • Deadlines are for suckers:
    In late July 2010, millions of gallons of oil flowed into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan from a leak in one of the world?s largest pipeline systems. Enbridge Energy, the Canadian company that owned the pipeline, had been warned that old pipes could rupture, according to the Detroit Free Press. And while Michigan?s spill represented only 32 percent of the amount of oil spilled per day in the BP disaster that was ongoing at the same time, it had immediate environmental consequences for the area.

    And more than a year later, the cleanup from the spill ? and concerns about exposure to its contents ? continues. Enbridge missed an Aug. 31 deadline to remove 200 acres from the Kalamazoo River and surround bodies of water. In a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency, which imposed the deadline, Enbridge said factors such as ?the expanded scope of the spill? delayed the process.

  • Rick Santorum is an idiot.
  • Sen. Dick Durbin will be looking into that whole voter suppression thing that's all the rage with the Republicans these days.
  • Man bites snake:
    A California man is in custody after being accused of biting a python in what police said was apparently an unprovoked attack on the pet snake of an acquaintance. [...]

    In a jailhouse interview aired on KOVR-TV in Sacramento, Senk said he had no recollection of the incident after having blacked out from drinking but felt "horrible as hell about it." [...]

    Senk was taken into custody after police, responding to a report of an assault, found him lying on the ground with blood on his face. Officers were then approached by another man and a woman who told them Senk had just taken two large bites out of their python when they let him hold the snake, Pettit said.

    "There was nothing to indicate that the snake provoked him at all. He (Senk) just out of the blue took a bite," the police spokesman said. "From what I understand, he didn't say anything. He was pretty incoherent."

  • Holiday Inn now says Eric Cantor protesters were removed from a hotel ballroom they rented because they were a security threat. Originally, management showed up with 12 sheriff's deputies and told the protesters they were being kicked out because they were smoking. Consistency! -- Chris Bowers
  • Labor unions made my day. How did they make yours? -- Laura Clawson


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