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Monday Morning Open Thread

By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Mon Oct 24, 2005 at 01:28:21 AM EST
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I have court this morning. Choose your topic, I'm counting on readers to fill in till noon.

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    Monday Morning Open Thread | 14 comments (14 topical)
    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#1)
    by roger on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    Raining hard, at least there is still power. Dogs are hysterical

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#2)
    by unbill on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    So, here we go with the J. Miller scandal once again. Miller seems to fire off an e-mail every time that she is criticized. This time in response to the NYT Public Editor.

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    I feel like a kid again...it is nearing Christmas eve and Santa Fitzgerald knows that I have been very very good this year.

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#4)
    by Kitt on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    I don't know if I can take it any longer. My chest is tight; I have blurry, double-vision; my head hurts. It's either caffeine withdrawal or the suspense really IS killing me - close enough.

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#5)
    by Johnny on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    FBI misbehaving Dunno about you guys, but I feel safer...

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#6)
    by profmarcus on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    let's not forget paul wellstone... three years ago tomorrow...

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    If you Dems want a nifty way to make Bush look really bad to millions of Americans, look into how illegal aliens are taking Katrina cleanup jobs away from the victims of the storm. Nagin, Blanco, and Landrieu have all come out against this, yet other Dems have refused to help themselves while helping them out. This would be a good way to show that the Dems aren't just sell outs to various racial organizations and support American workers. Also, here's an obligatory pimping: each day, the linked site has over a dozen threads where you can comment on that day's posts from those sites that don't have comments, like Instapundit. And, unlike many other sites, I don't use the odious nofollow tag.

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#8)
    by Dadler on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    A new story about the feds' criminally negligent response to hurricane Katrina. How to ignore a tragedy 101

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    BMB,
    Also, here's an obligatory pimping:
    Thank you for conclusively establishing that you are little more than a pimp, running a string of ideological whores for the Right.

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#10)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:18 PM EST
    Juan Cole has a take on the Miller Fiasco that I couldn't agree more with. linked text

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#12)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:19 PM EST
    Yesterday josh marshall asked this question:
    It's been variously reported and rumored that Patrick Fitzgerald has either cooperated with, received critical information from or even taken over Paul McNulty's Franklin/AIPAC investigation in Northern Virginia.
    He asks this: With Bush nominating McNulty to the post of Deputy Attorney General, Fitzgeralds boss, why would Bush appoint someone who was helping Fitzgerald broaden his investigation? josh marshall Billmon has the answer and it ain't pretty:
    McNulty is a Republican loyalist in the mold of the flatulent cable TV duo of Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing, the Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn of partisan spin.
    The rest is worth a read as he backs up his take on McNulty with lots of history. billmon Fortunately he adds that it may be too little too late to reverse the impending damage coming from Hurricane Fitzgerald. I hope he is right.

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#13)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:19 PM EST
    Posted by BigMediaBlog: 'If you Dems want a nifty way to make Bush look really bad to millions of Americans" Mission already Accomplished, BM. John Kerry outed the Iraq Demockery lies to 60 million Americans last October, just prior to winning the presidential election. Then your bully boys stole it, like they steal everything they've got. "Never worked an honest day in my life, and proud of it." -- Defiant GWB, witness stand, heavily guarded to protect him from his victims.

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#14)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:20 PM EST
    humor break:
    Little David was in his 5th grade class when the teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living. All the typical answers came up -- fireman, policeman, salesman, doctor, lawyer, etc. David was being uncharacteristically quiet and so the teacher asked him about his father.
    "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off all his clothes in front of other men. Sometimes he'll go out to the alley with some guy and turn tricks for money."
    The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises and took little David aside to ask him, "Is that really true about your father?" "No," said David, "He works for the Bush administration, but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."
    via greenboy

    Re: Monday Morning Open Thread (none / 0) (#15)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:05:21 PM EST
    E & P reports that The Onion is infringing on the a WH trademark:
    White House Orders Satirical Paper 'The Onion' to Stop Using Presidential Seal
    gee hasn't The Apostolic Congress been doing the same, except theirs is not meant to be parody. Check out their seal of approval. The Apostolic Congress

    Monday Morning Open Thread | 14 comments (14 topical)