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December 21, 2011 04:31 PM UTC

Wednesday Open Thread

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”

–Dylan Thomas

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15 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Thread

  1. I’ve always liked A child’s Christmas in Wales. From the intro:

    One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

     

    1. Okay, I have to say I think that’s pretty cool. I haven’t read much by Thomas but I just love his work. I’m not even really sure where to start or what work to start with.  

      1. where Dylan wrote most of his work. I named my son Dylan, which in Welsh means “Son of the Sea” since my son was born just a mile from the Pacific Ocean.

        In college, I had a gig reading Dylan Thomas at what was then called “Back Porch Radio” in Madison WI.

        It was loads of fun:-)

        http://www.dylanthomas.com/ind

        1. I looked at your link but am stumped as where to begin with his collection of works.

          Love the story about your son and Back Porch Radio, by the way. I love Madison, WI; the reading gig’s name seems so fitting somehow.  

            1. I will email you at the address you have in your profile from my gmail account but only on the condition that you just send me some tips on what to read and you don’t send a gift. You save your money for you and yours.

              If that’s a deal, I’ll be taking long term, total advantage of your reading insights, believe me. 🙂 I love to read. It’s my favorite hobby and I love exchanging titles with fellow readers.

              I’m in the middle of “Predatory Bureaucracy: The Extermination of Wolves and the Transformation of the West” by Michael Robinson right now. Written about the extermination of wolves in Colorado.

              In depth, well written and utterly depressing read. He works for the Center for Biological Diversity but spent about 12 years in Boulder writing the book.  

  2. Hedge-Fund Titans Got Inside Political Tips

    To counter Republican opposition, Democrats needed votes from Messrs. Lieberman and Nelson, who said they had major concerns with a robust government-insurance plan. As negotiations neared a resolution, JNK Securities and its hedge-fund clients met a half-dozen lawmakers in the U.S. Capitol. Among those who spoke to the hedge funds were Mr. Lieberman and Mr. Carper on Dec. 8, according to their offices. The roster included Viking Global’s Scott Zinober and Karsch Capital’s Eric Potoker.

    What’s key here is not just that the Hedge Funds were told in advance how it would play out, but almost certainly influenced how it played out.

    But Senator Bennet raised 7 million and that’s the important thing…

    1. The conditions economically and politically that the president has had to work under have been absolutely terrible.

      Politics being the art of the possible, I’m more tolerant.

      1. Those people, their family & friends, and those focused on the future of the middle class in this country tend to measure political success by that one number.

        But for the remainder, the long list of small and medium success is something to celebrate.

        1. … in a separation-of-powers gov in which he really couldn’t get more progressive legislation on the economy, health care, etc.

          But hey, it must be nice to be actor who plays fictional action heroes who can pretentiously declare, “if only Obama were TOUGH!”

          1. He could have made the original stimulus bill a lot larger.

            He could have spent the last couple of years focusing on jobs and fighting for more legislation to fix the economy. FDR didn’t get everything he fought for. But he did consistently fight.

  3. Via Raw Story:

    A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill.

    As Rep. Stenny Hoyer (D-MD) attempted to call for a vote to extend a payroll tax cut to middle class and working Americans, his Republican colleagues adjourned the House and walked out of the chamber. And if that weren’t odd enough, it got even stranger: As Hoyer railed against them for failing to help working Americans, footage from C-SPAN went silent, then cut away.

    Moments later, C-SPAN took to the Internet to explain that it wasn’t their doing, but someone working for House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).

    I think this will not end up looking good for the Republicans. (Say, whatever happened to all those sheep GOP commenters who used to come on with all the poll numbers showing the low approval numbers for Congress? They’ve been conspicuously absent since the GOP took over.)

  4. shaking his head.

    For Illegal Immigrant, Line Is Drawn at Transplant

    Without treatment to replace his failing kidneys, doctors knew, the man in Bellevue hospital would die.  He was a waiter in his early 30s, a husband and father of two, so well liked at the Manhattan restaurant where he had worked for a decade that everyone from the customers to the dishwasher was donating money to help his family.

    He was also an illegal immigrant.  So when his younger brother volunteered to donate a kidney to restore him to normal life, they encountered a health care paradox: the government would pay for a lifetime of dialysis, costing $75,000 a year, but not for the $100,000 transplant that would make it unnecessary.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12

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