Open Line Friday!

11 thoughts on “Open Line Friday!”

1. Is he still on the air? Oh wait a minute clear channel has a ton of dollars tied up in him. And, the pay off is approaching.

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2. We’ll respond in kind!

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   1. are as incomprehensible to me as Log Cabin Republicans. It makes about as much sense as Jewish, Hispanic and African Americans aligning with white supremacists.

      I just love the latest jobs, jobs, jobs legislation being proposed in state legislatures.  Oh wait.  It’s not about jobs.  It’s about allowing insurance companies to demand proof that a woman’s birth control prescription is for a “medical” reason, such as acne, not for contraception. Family planning for healthy child spacing?  I guess the right thinks that a desire to have sex with your spouse without having a child every year makes a woman a wanton slut. Of course that would include most of their own, given the close to universal (99%. That number is getting to be a recurring theme this election cycle)) use of birth control in this country.

      One thing’s for sure.  The number of women with a strong urge to screw the GOP is growing larger every day. Thanks, Rush, for revealing for all to see the sad fact that today’s GOP pols aren’t man enough to stand up for the dignity of their mothers, wives, sisters and daughters if that means standing up to you and your hate spewing lunatic fringe acolytes.

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3. Friday Jams, but . . .

   this one goes out to the “Mayor of Realville” and all his addle-brained constituents

   because we know how much you think of women.

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4. Liberals & Conservatives Join Fight Against Fracking

   By Amy Mall, senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council

   As oil and gas production continues to expand by leaps and bounds across the country, more and more people are concerned about the threats to human health and the environment. New organizations are cropping up every place, and their members are not necessarily people who would describe themselves as environmentalists or liberals. Some of these individuals are politically conservative and may even be very supportive of the oil and gas industry or be mineral owners.

   http://voices.rodale.com/liber…
   

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   1. you’ll love the water wars!  Maybe that dawning realization…there are other sources of energy we can live with even if they initially cost consumers more but we can’t live without water…has something to do with it.  

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      1. in the direction the Good Lord intended, and woulda done if he didn’t take that last day off.  That would be East.  

         There are some thirsty wells in Weld, ya know?  WE need to be taking that fresh water from the headwaters of the mighty CO, pipe and tunnel, and dam and pump it up and over, down to the frackers and drillers and dust suppressors…

         Colorado was put here to be a resource colony and nothing more.  If God hadn’t wanted us to divert water and pump it thousands of feet in the ground to extract a substance He buried there…why would he have allowed us to invent water lawyers and petroleum engineers?

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   2. http://boingboing.net/2012/03/…

      Fracking liquid is called “brine” and it’s often referred to as being water, but it’s actually water mixed with a lot of other stuff, some of it toxic. Wastewater treatment plants aren’t set up to deal with this kind of contamination, so the standard way of disposing of this liquid is to pump it into the ground. In Ohio, regulators say, the site chosen for wastewater disposal wasn’t vetted carefully enough. Instead of being geologically inert, it turned out to be the site of a fault line. The liquid lubricated the fault line and helped it move. The result: Earthquakes.

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5. One of the four Republican State Senators that was facing a recall has resigned today citing a number of family health issues requiring her attention.

   With the resignation of State Senator Pam Galloway, the Wisconsin State Senate moves to a 16-16 tie (and one moderate Republican has been voting a lot with the Dems lately…).  The legislative session is technically over within a few days anyway, but it is expected that they’ll have to come back to fix up some badly gerrymandered State Senate maps.  Thanks to the resignation, the leadership now devolves into co-leadership (until the recall election, anyway).  (For those who are curious, Galloway’s seat will still be up in the recall election, but Galloway’s name will not be on the ballot.)

   Also today, the Wisconsin GAB certified the recalls of Gov. Walker and Lt. Gov. Kleefisch.

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6. complete freakin’ dumbass . . . er, I mean a Republican Presidential canditate . . . you’ve gotta be the best one that you can be . . .

   Santorum tied his English language requirement for Puerto Rico as a prerequisite for statehood, according to Fox News Latino.

   “As in any other state, you have to comply with this and any federal law. And that is that English has to be the main language,” Santorum told El Vocero, a San Juan newspaper.”

   In addition to his focus on the changing the primary language of Puerto Rico to English, Santorum has lead the attack against women’s rights on birth control, abortion and healthcare issues.

   Santorum’s Puerto Rico demand appears to fit his profile for being the 2012 candidate most likely to divide and alienate entire groups of people.

   http://www.allvoices.com/contr…

   What are the chances that one of these days one of the asshat GOP constitutional scholars actually, you know, reads the constitution?

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7. The myth of the overnight success

   Angry Birds was Rovio’s 52nd game. They spent eight years and almost went bankrupt before finally creating their massive hit. Pinterest is one of the fastest growing websites in history, but struggled for a long time. Pinterest’s CEO recently said that they had “catastrophically small numbers” in their first year after launch, and that if he had listened to popular startup advice he probably would have quit.

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