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Monday Night Twilight Open Thread

by: poligirl

Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 22:21:55 PM EST


blue moonHello there everyone! Good to see you here tonight surfin' the Progressive Blue! Welcome to the Monday Night Twilight!

(photo by LaEscapee)

Hey everyone! Well, it's another new week to get through. Hope the first day of the workweek was good for everyone! So let's start the evening week well!

And hey - Progressive Blue is on Twitter now! Come follow us!

Just in case ya didn't know, this is an open thread where everyone is welcome to congregate and post links and/or other stuff as well as just chatter about whatever's on their mind.

So, I'll start: So many little news bites tonight!

poligirl :: Monday Night Twilight Open Thread
Rep Jack Murtha dies at age 77...

Sarah Palin scribbles her cheat sheet on her hand like kids do when they cheat on a test...

The GOPers only want to work on health care if Obama bows to their every demand - their latest excuse for stalling health care...

The Tea Party Nation loves their racism...

Get your free bumper sticker by clicking on the pic below in Karita's wonderful diary!

And of course - Who Dat? We Dat! Geaux Saints!  :D

So what say you all?

Poll
Will you be watching the Winter Olympics?
yes - all of it
yes - most of it
yes - some of it
yes - certain specific events
maybe
no - i don't do the Olympics
no - i'm not much into sports
no - better things to do
the Winter Olympics are coming up?
other named below...

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So Twilighters - How You Doin'? :D and i'm a Winter Olympics freak... (3.00 / 1)
and this was one of the old great moments - one of the first Winter Olympics I remember...

--poligirl  :D

(-5.75,-4.92) "Compromise sounds a lot like capitulation, doesn't it?" --Elizabeth Edwards


Torvill & Dean were working class Brits (0.00 / 0)
who came out of nowhere and awed the world. I remember that performance to this day.

This Olympics I'm rooting for Johnny Weir, a Pennsylvania native. This three-time National Gold Medal winner has had ups and downs, but keeps coming back. He's a joy to watch and says whatever's on his mind without filter. He is a grand, rebellious original...here rocking a pink tassel:



Abstinence programs breed hypocrites.


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Hey poligirl (3.00 / 1)
RIP Rep Murtha. I can't say I liked everything about him and what he did, but I respect his years of service in Vietnam and his courage to oppose the Iraq war and starting the firestorm which helped along with Dean's 50 state strategy in the 2006 mid-terms.

That was pretty pathetic while complaining about a teleprompter which is the stupidest thing I ever heard, specially after Obama cleaned the House GOP's clock.

Ron Paul, not crazy enough for crazy people in the teabagger movement.

Ahh, cool. I'll have to check it out.

Thanks, poligirl! :D




hey priceman! yeah, lots of news today... (3.00 / 1)
and there were things i didn't like about Murtha too, but he did some good things...

those tea partiers are freaky, along with their screwball leader Sarah "cheat sheet" Palin...

def check it out! i sent out for mine today!

--poligirl  :D

(-5.75,-4.92) "Compromise sounds a lot like capitulation, doesn't it?" --Elizabeth Edwards


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Depression very hard on men, marriages, families (0.00 / 0)
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc...

Last March [2008], the National Domestic Violence Hotline received almost half again as many calls as it had one year earlier; as was the case in the Depression, unemployed men are vastly more likely to beat their wives or children. More common than violence, though, is a sort of passive-aggressiveness. In Identity Economics, the economists George Akerloff and Rachel Kranton find that among married couples, men who aren't working at all, despite their free time, do only 37 percent of the housework, on average. And some men, apparently in an effort to guard their masculinity, actually do less housework after becoming unemployed.

Many working women struggle with the idea of partners who aren't breadwinners. "We've got this image of Archie Bunker sitting at home, grumbling and acting out," says Kathryn Edin, a professor of public policy at Harvard, and an expert on family life. "And that does happen. But you also have women in whole communities thinking, 'This guy's nothing.'" Edin's research in low-income communities shows, for instance, that most working women whose partner stayed home to watch the kids-while very happy with the quality of child care their children's father provided-were dissatisfied with their relationship overall. "These relationships were often filled with conflict," Edin told me. Even today, she says, men's identities are far more defined by their work than women's, and both men and women become extremely uncomfortable when men's work goes away.

We are in a very deep hole, and we've been in it for a relatively long time already. Concerns over deficits are understandable, but in these times, our bias should be toward doing too much rather than doing too little. That implies some small risk to the government's ability to continue borrowing in the future; and it implies somewhat higher taxes in the future too. But that seems a trade worth making. We are living through a slow-motion social catastrophe, one that could stain our culture and weaken our nation for many, many years to come. We have a civic-and indeed a moral-responsibility to do everything in our power to stop it now, before it gets even worse.


Abstinence programs breed hypocrites.

Typo...Last March should be [2009] (0.00 / 0)


Abstinence programs breed hypocrites.

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