Friday Open Thread

11 thoughts on “Friday Open Thread”

1. I'm not sure what I can add to this, especially in light of recent news:

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGToBubG-H4

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   1. Adorable. I think Mini Me should definitely quit his day job to sing full time.

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   2. Deserves an embed:

      Of course some kids will only make it as far as the Belmar shopping center…

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2. Quid pro WTF?!? . . . 

   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/30/us/politics/an-award-for-bill-clinton-came-with-500000-for-his-foundation.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

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3. Quid pro WTF?!? redux . . . 

   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/29/opinion/selling-off-apache-holy-land.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

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4. VICE: How Bernie Sanders Shaped the Northeast Punk Scene

   It isn't a household name like the now-defunct CBGB in New York City, and it doesn't get the same recognition in the punk rock history books as a spot like 924 Gilman Street in Berkeley. But 242 Main Street is special in its own way: Nearly 30 years after opening its doors, it is now one of the longest running all-ages music venue in the country, beginning as an offbeat government-funded effort to overturn a draconian city ban on live music that resulted in the transformation of an old administrative building into the municipal youth center that exists to this day.

   The leader of that effort, and the person perhaps most responsible for the founding of 242 Main, was Jane O'Meara Sanders, the director of the Mayor's Youth Office who later became the president of Burlington College and now serves as a commissioner for the Vermont Economic Development Authority. As for the mayor who was partly responsible for this DIY, youth-run venue that played host to bands like Fugazi and opened the same month that Husker Du released Candy Apple Grey: It was her husband, Bernie Sanders, now a Vermont Senator and Democratic candidate for president in 2016.

   Do I really need any other reason to vote for him?

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5. VICE: Christian Ted Cruz Supporters Released an Insane Rap Song

    

   Several shout-outs to Ted Cruz in the video.

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   1. Good (if terrifying) song. I can picture a whole hall of TPartiers  boogying to this.  Apparently, they're trying to follow in BHO's footsteps, and have a viral song that boosts Cruz's popularity.

      Some of those lyrics, though

       

      We never panic, when things get rough

      we put our hands up on the granite

      and grind for righteousness.

      Do ya really, now? isn't that special……

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6. Five counties in Arkansas have been declared disaster areas due to flooding……

   Might God be expessing Her disapproval of Mike Huckabee and Josh Duggar? 

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   1. This disasters seem to be happening more and the more in the god-fearing areas of the country. I'm beginning to think they're less his wrath for supporting gay marriage and choice, and more his wrath for not supporting them 😉

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      1. I'm thinking it's more the natural consequences for denying climate change and science in general…the jet streams are picking up more moisture from the warming oceans, and the flatland areas just happen to be in that path.

          

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