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Open Thread: Young Girls Should Run and Hide Instead

by $8 blue check mistermix|  March 16, 201211:45 am| 26 Comments

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Here’s some late 80’s nostalgia that seems relevant to the contraception nostalgia in the GOP.

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  1. 1.

    handy

    March 16, 2012 at 11:46 am

    Loved this band.

  2. 2.

    Yutsano

    March 16, 2012 at 11:51 am

    The list keeps growing: Mississippi is getting in on the act even after the rejection of the personhood amendment. One way or another, it’s all about saving teh bebehs until they’re born. Then as soon as they’re out of the womb get a job you fucking moocher.

  3. 3.

    mistermix

    March 16, 2012 at 11:53 am

    @handy: This song is a great illustration of learning more from a 3 minute record than I ever learned in school, to use some more 80’s lyrics.

  4. 4.

    THE

    March 16, 2012 at 11:56 am

    NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center has two terrific new videos about the Moon:

    Evolution of the Moon
    Tour of the Moon

  5. 5.

    Roger Moore

    March 16, 2012 at 11:57 am

    @Yutsano:
    Every zygote deserves an equal opportunity to be born, no matter what its parents think. After birth, everything you do is your own achievement, so there’s no need to do anything more. It’s the wingnut version of equal opportunity for all.

  6. 6.

    kindness

    March 16, 2012 at 11:58 am

    OK, you’re dating yourself now.

  7. 7.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    March 16, 2012 at 11:58 am

    I really miss the days when 10,000 Maniacs was the name of a really good band rather than a fair description of the GOP-controlled Congress and state legislatures in action.

  8. 8.

    Ben Franklin

    March 16, 2012 at 11:59 am

    The Administration wants to renew military aid to Egypt, but our obstructionist Congress is making things difficult.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/world/middleeast/us-military-aid-to-egypt-to-resume-officials-say.html?_r=1&ref=world

    “To restart the aid, which has been a cornerstone of American relations with Egypt for more than three decades, the administration plans on sidestepping a new Congressional requirement that for the first time directly links military assistance to the protection of basic freedoms.”

  9. 9.

    lamh35

    March 16, 2012 at 12:04 pm

    MSNBC reporting George Clooney along with NAACP President Ben Jealous, 3 Dem Senators and Clooney’s father Nick arrested in front of the Sudanese Embassy.

    What will the cops do when the women of America run en masse to free Clooney? Watch out guys.

    Seriously though, good on Clooney for at least using his celebrity for good and not Lindsay Lohan-ing it up.

  10. 10.

    Mino

    March 16, 2012 at 12:08 pm

    Within weeks, Egyptian payments to American arms manufacturers will be endangered.

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    lamh35

    March 16, 2012 at 12:12 pm

    @lamh35:

    here’s the link which includes video:

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/george-clooney-and-his-father-arrested-outside-sudanese-embassy/

  12. 12.

    MikeJ

    March 16, 2012 at 12:16 pm

    @Mino: Actually Egypt builds American style arms in country. If they want M1 tanks, they have the factory there/

  13. 13.

    scav

    March 16, 2012 at 12:18 pm

    @lamh35: It’s certainly front and center at the Guard, with Rowan Williams stepping down much smaller. Might be nice to have a short celeb-induced breather for a half-day (in a decent cause en plus). (Yes, I’m putting off considering the mess the CoE will likely face for a later date.)

  14. 14.

    Joey Maloney

    March 16, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    Did you know that the Monty Python’s Flying Circus troupe recorded two special episodes for Deutsch TV, completely in German?

    I just found them by accident. Weirder than weird.

  15. 15.

    gocart mozart

    March 16, 2012 at 12:22 pm

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
    So true. Also, the Three Stooges were much less threatening but not necessarily funnier, before they decided to run for president.

  16. 16.

    kindness

    March 16, 2012 at 12:28 pm

    @Joey Maloney: Is it really better in it’s original German?

  17. 17.

    Joey Maloney

    March 16, 2012 at 12:33 pm

    @kindness: LOL

    It’s just…odd.

  18. 18.

    Joey Maloney

    March 16, 2012 at 12:41 pm

    OMFG they re-did the Lumberjack sketch!!

  19. 19.

    Amir Khalid

    March 16, 2012 at 1:06 pm

    @Joey Maloney:
    and how did you like the Bavarian Restaurant sketch?

    ,,Wir nehmen die Mantel in Bavaria! Ja in Bavaria, wo die Bäume aus Holz sind!”

  20. 20.

    middlewest

    March 16, 2012 at 1:19 pm

    So, any bets on what’s going in Mitt’s giant basement?

  21. 21.

    WereBear

    March 16, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    @lamh35: Not only that… he’s an animal lover too. One of my favorite stories about him is when he did a short-term slot on Roseanne, and they had a trained pig for one episode. He liked the pig and asked what would happen to him after this gig… and wound up taking him home where he lived with the two dogs.

  22. 22.

    Comrade Mary

    March 16, 2012 at 1:20 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I was scanning channels a couple of nights ago and landed halfway into a Simpsons episode where I thought the German pharmaceutical CEO sounded a lot like Werner Herzog.

    Turns out it was Herzog, and he was brilliant.

  23. 23.

    Wag

    March 16, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    I always liked 10,000 Maniacs. And Natalie Merchant always reminded me of Karen Allen’s character in Animal House. Melancholy, and trying to keep her head straight when everything around was falling apart. It was a worry in Reagan’s 1980’s and I guess it fits for these days, too, with the rise of Santorum-mania.

  24. 24.

    MikeBoyScout

    March 16, 2012 at 2:28 pm

    Thanks for that.

    Good news/Bad news is that there’s a fair amount of Natalie and the 10,000 Maniacs catalog that is going to be back in vogue. Back to the 80’s!

  25. 25.

    gocart mozart

    March 16, 2012 at 2:39 pm

    Today in RMoney news.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/16/world/asia/bain-capital-tied-to-surveillance-push-in-china.html

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    March 16, 2012 at 5:56 pm

    @gocart mozart:

    Also, the Three Stooges were much less threatening but not necessarily funnier, before they decided to run for president.

    That’s not where I thought you were going with that. When I heard Three Stooges, I immediately thought of Boehner, Cantor and McConnel.

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