12 thoughts on “Thursday Open Thread”

1. Things are just not going well for Trump.  His pal Julian Assange has been arrested!  And Chelsea Manning is back in jail.  Add Paul Manafort and the Orange guy himself will make a fourth for bridge.

   And he still stinks!

   Great God Almighty,

   Trump stinks.

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   1. My guess is that Assange either goes to prison, or receives a pardon and membership at Mar-A-Lago.

      By the way, V., you omitted the missing link in the evolution of this case, Roger Stone.

      I thought it ironic that Edward Snowden weighed in – from Russia – on the loss of freedom of the press. You cannot make this stuff up.

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      1. CIA, perhaps, if he requires employment.

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2. WOTD from Mike Littwin: "Colorado Republican Party has come up with a plan…".

   Littwin knocks it out of the park. He deserves a larger podium:

   We all know George Santayana’s adage about those who cannot remember the past being condemned to repeat it. That doesn’t apply here. This past was 2018, last year. I remember, it was on all the calendars. I mean, how does a party forget losing every statewide race, both houses of the legislature, the governor’s seat, Mike Coffman’s seat, not to mention many of the recliner seats in houses across the Denver metro area?

   Not only do Republicans remember, they want you to know they remember. Which is why they have chosen Buck, of all people, to lead the party out of the wilderness.

   Forget Santayana. We’re in Marx (brothers?) territory now. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.

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   1. Excellent.

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      1. Indeed.

         I have met Mike a couple of times. Smart guy. Good writer.

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3. Oil Producers Are Burning Enough 'Waste' Gas to Power Every Home in Texas

   America’s hottest oil patch is producing so much natural gas that by the end of last year producers were burning off more than enough of the fuel to meet residential demand across the whole of Texas. The phenomenon has likely only intensified since then.

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   1. Like someone said — “. . . They are doing a great job of warming our homes the entire planet!”

      (Wildly irrelevant gratuitous cow dung/yurt/stalinist/hypocrite/coal dust comment to follow below . . .)

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   2. Buried in the middle of this diary is the stats on what happened in the Bakken in North Dakota – a time when the industry was flaring off $100 million per month of gas while they pillaged the state's landscape.  So much so that North Dakota lit up at night like an urban city as viewed by satellites in space. At the same time you might recall the nutters pushing meme's and stories for folks like Pfruit to make them believe O-bummer was actually trying to kill the industry in the Bakken. 

      What is old is new again.  Again. 

      Conservatives gonna conserve waste. 

      

       

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      1. Wow, that's lit more brightly than North Korea is at night.

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         1. That's your takeaway from this?  $100 million a month wasted to keep prices up, and your thought is, 

            "Oooh… purty lights!"

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4. Somewhere there’s a country where after a horrendous mass shooting it might be too late to prevent that one, . . . 

   . . . but that doesn’t mean it’ “too soon to talk about it” and also take some positive steps to prevent or limit the carnage of some future one(s).

   https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/04/10/asia/new-zealand-gun-law-reform-intl/index.html

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