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Monday Morning Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  April 30, 20124:41 am| 29 Comments

This post is in: Kiss My Black Ass, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Readership Capture

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For those who didn’t have a chance to watch over the weekend, via Paul Constant at the Stranger. I particularly like the ‘Man Show’ joke at the six-minute mark…
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What’s on the agenda for the start of another week?

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  1. 1.

    Raven

    April 30, 2012 at 5:44 am

    I looked at my own calendar this morning up at Camp David as I was working on this speech. It showed exactly 1,361 days remaining in my term. I want these to be the best days in America’s history, because I love America. I deeply believe that America is the hope of the world. And I know that in the quality and wisdom of the leadership America gives lies the only hope for millions of people all over the world that they can live their lives in peace and freedom. We must be worthy of that hope, in every sense of the word. Tonight, I ask for your prayers to help me in everything that I do throughout the days of my Presidency to be worthy of their hopes and of yours.

    guess who said this on “This Day in History”?

  2. 2.

    Ben Cisco

    April 30, 2012 at 6:10 am

    Had to look it up. I was shocked at the answer.

  3. 3.

    Raven

    April 30, 2012 at 6:15 am

    @Ben Cisco: Pretty funny huh? Oh Noe’s, Mornin Joes is shocked that Obama would talk about offing OBL and is now explaining that there is a code among military heroes that you don’t go to the VFW and wave your medal around!

  4. 4.

    Ralphie;

    April 30, 2012 at 6:21 am

    @Raven: Fucking Nixon! First and last Republican I ever voted for. My excuse…I was in the Army at the time.

  5. 5.

    Raven

    April 30, 2012 at 6:24 am

    @Ralphie;: I was in the Nam but I was too young to vote!

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    WereBear (itouch)

    April 30, 2012 at 6:35 am

    @Raven: Don’t forget the part where you discreetly stuff some socks in your flight suit, fly onto a carrier, and make a speech under a big banner the rank and file slappped together in five minutes.

    (This was sarcasm. The Bush WH made a big fuss in the most orchestrated way possible.)

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    Hill Dweller

    April 30, 2012 at 6:40 am

    If the Bin Laden raid had failed, Rove, Morning Douches and the rest of the Republicans would have certainly made it ‘political’. Hell, they would have hammered Obama until he left office.

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    Hill Dweller

    April 30, 2012 at 6:43 am

    @Raven: What does Squint Scarborough(h/t Charlie Pierce) know about military heroes, and how they behave?

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    amk

    April 30, 2012 at 6:57 am

    @Hill Dweller: Bingo. What does this ratfucker know about anything for that matter ?

    I love it that Obama ignores the poutrage from these scum bastids and keeps on doing it his way.

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    Hill Dweller

    April 30, 2012 at 7:05 am

    @amk: Did Scarborough whine when the Bush people crawled out from under their rocks after the Bin Laden raid to give their incompetent former boss credit? Has he complained about people like Rove and John Bolton still trying to deny Obama any credit for the OBL raid?

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    Ben Cisco

    April 30, 2012 at 7:09 am

    @Raven: Mourning Joe is a spectacularly useless meatbag. There is no lie he won’t spread, no cognitive dissonance he won’t embrace, no 180 he won’t turn in order to disparage, demean, or undermine this President. His hero strapped on a flight suit and got chauffeured onto the deck of a godsdamned AIRCRAFT CARRIER to take a victory lap, and the job wasn’t even done yet. And he has the BALLZ to criticize President Obama?

    As for that “code”, how the hell would HE know? He’s just another Walter Mitty, living vicariously through people who he would not deign to join when he had the opportunity, another NeoConfederate chickenhawk. F*ck him.

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    Mino

    April 30, 2012 at 7:13 am

    International Labor is beginning to come up with numbers of third world workers injured by lack of industrial safety standards. They are still exposing people to asbestos, for Jeebus sake. Of course, there is no interest in amassing statistics by the governments that are profiting from the exploitation of their people and environment.

    Asia Monitor Resource Center has released a report that suggests 2 million workers a year die from occupational hazards.

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    amk

    April 30, 2012 at 7:14 am

    @Raven: When scumbaggism comes to america, it will be wrapped in patriotism, god and unctuous words.

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    amk

    April 30, 2012 at 7:28 am

    A great video of Obama standing by his record and asking the rethugs to GFT.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    April 30, 2012 at 7:58 am

    @amk:

    Thanks. That in conjunction with (re)watching the WHCD routine combined to give this Monday a good start!

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    Linda Featheringill

    April 30, 2012 at 8:00 am

    @amk:

    Forward video: Nice. Very positive and well done [naturally].

    I like to see elected officials list their accomplishments to justify reelection. That’s the way it should be.

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    HRA

    April 30, 2012 at 8:02 am

    @amk:

    Thank you for the video.

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    bemused

    April 30, 2012 at 8:09 am

    Not a surprise that Morning Joe thought Stephen Colbert bombed at previous WHPC Dinner.

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    amk

    April 30, 2012 at 8:13 am

    @Linda Featheringill: egg.sack.lee. I love the way the ad took its shots at the thugs (yes, thugs) early on and the last few minutes are all positive messaging about his achievements and what he wants for america. A perfect ad in short.

    Can’t wait for mittbot’s “but he is not ‘murkin ” rebuttal ad.

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    Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism

    April 30, 2012 at 8:24 am

    We entertained ourselves yesterday researching the local R candidates for next week’s primary until a search for one led us to the Encyclopedia of American Loons.

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    mai naem

    April 30, 2012 at 8:46 am

    @Hill Dweller: Dude, he watched Hogan’s Heroes, that’s how he knows. So STFU because he a Republican.

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    NotMax

    April 30, 2012 at 9:00 am

    Don’t waste any of my time perusing the real mouth-breathing rightist sites, but surprised that haven’t yet heard even a whisper of a hint pustulating from those quarters that Obama is now denying/dismissing/disrespecting/reversing the outcome of WWII and apologizing/capitulating/surrendering to the Japanese.

    Friday’s announcement by the United States and Japan that 9,000 U.S. Marines will be transferred from a base on the Japanese island of Okinawa is being hailed as a major diplomatic accomplishment. But there are also concerns the actual transfer will be fraught with numerous complications.
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    It calls for moving nearly half of the 19,000 U.S. Marines off Okinawa. Up to 5,000 are to be re-deployed to the Pacific island of Guam and 4,000 moved to either Hawaii or rotated in and out of Australia. Source

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    rikyrah

    April 30, 2012 at 9:15 am

    The President was on point.

  24. 24.

    ruemara

    April 30, 2012 at 9:28 am

    My week probably won’t involve all the awesome of a WHCD, but it will involve editing video and trying to pack the rest of the house before I move.

  25. 25.

    General Stuck

    April 30, 2012 at 9:45 am

    Buncha Obots :)

  26. 26.

    amk

    April 30, 2012 at 10:01 am

    @General Stuck: You betcha. Also. Too. ;) ;)

  27. 27.

    Hujo

    April 30, 2012 at 11:18 am

    “http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/obesity-costs_n_1463764.html”>

    The nation’s rising rate of obesity has been well-chronicled. But businesses, governments and individuals are only now coming to grips with the costs of those extra pounds, many of which are even greater than believed only a few years ago: The additional medical spending due to obesity is double previous estimates and exceeds even those of smoking, a new study shows.

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    LanceThruster

    April 30, 2012 at 2:44 pm

    I liked Kimmel’s comment on the “yahoos” that want to bomb Iran…and the Netanyahus.

  29. 29.

    RalfW

    April 30, 2012 at 3:10 pm

    It may not be the winning margin, but it sure is obvious that Obama has more charisma in one incisor that Romney has in his whole controlled, coiffed, and nasty head.

    I laughed out loud at the “here’s what I’ll look like in 4 years” bit.

    And taking on the dog-eating with snark was excellent.

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