Plus, you could use the medical savings for more tax cuts for the rich.
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Open Thread
I assume professional football is still played in this country, right?
Do You Want to be a Polyester Bride?
Here’s Rick Snyder’s ad appealing to the ever-fickle under-25 bridezilla demographic. Do you think Bob Shrum has switched sides?
(via Dan Savage — click on that link to see a group of links explaining how Republicans are still at war on women. I’m still having trouble with the yuck factor of a 56 year-old man putting out a video where a 21 year-old is picking out the dress to marry him.)
Update: As dmsilev pointed out in the comments, there are a whole series of these ads. You can find them on the College Republican YouTube channel, where a bride is saying “yes” to Bruce Rauner, Tom Corbett, Asa Hutchinson, Bob Beauprez and Rick Scott, in addition to Snyder. It’s hard to decide which is the creepiest, but I’m going to go with Corbett.
Sunday Garden Chat: The End Is Near
From loyal commentor Marvel:
I hope that the end of the Hectic Season finds you happy and ready for a break from gardening.
There’s still armloads of fresh fruit & vegetables littering every countertop hereabouts (and plenty of peas & other Fall crops patiently waiting it out under cover out back), but we’ve processed the last of the tomato paste/sauce; canned all of this year’s plum jelly, cran-apple sauce and spiced grape/apple juice; frozen the last of the peppers; stored all the potatoes and tucked all the cabbages & cauliflower into crispers galore.
We’re pulling up spent crops and readying newly-vacated beds for next year’s planting. Soon we’ll clean our tools & put away the freezing & canning supplies, happy to have seen another wonderful, robust growing season (and frankly, happy to sit down for a minute or two — sheesh!).
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Here in New England, it’s been mizzling down since Tuesday, and Fall has most definitely fallen. Assuming the weatherpersons are correct that the sun will finally emerge this afternoon, I’ll be taking down the last of the tomato ladders…
What’s going on in your gardens this week?
Late Night Open Thread: Stop Helping, Maher
From the ripples I’m seeing on the sane side of the Twittersphere, looks like the Wingnut Wurlitzer has found itself another “convert” — they’re sure that Bill Maher finally understands The Truth About Ragheads Muslims. Look how the weak-sister Hollywood lie-bral is shouted down by the Righteous! Of course, from Maher’s (and Sam Harris’s) perspective, it’s just one more proof that all religious people are dupes at best and monsters at worst, but their gleeful embrace of ISIS=TRUE HEART OF ISLAM is a gift to the xenophobes that will be all over Facebook no later than tomorrow afternoon.
Me, I stand with Ben Affleck… or even, less enthusiastically, with Michael Steele. (Not a phrase I’d ever expected to write.) It doesn’t take “religion” to make some people hunger after murder — strict rationalists like Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger have certainly done all they could do to demonstrate that. If your robust defense of “secularism” puts you on the same cheer team as Bill Kristol’s worthless son-in-law, it’s time to reconsider your premises.
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Not-Football Open Thread
This is a monster day for college football fans (see below). But here’s a playground for those who don’t give a rat’s ass.
Football Open Thread
Looks like it’s time.