Tuesday Late Night Reads: Open Thread
Posted: May 8, 2012 Filed under: Foreign Affairs, just because | Tags: austerity, Maurice Sendak, Underwear Bomber 27 Comments »Good Late Evening
For tonight we have a few cartoons that highlight today’s news headlines.
Suicide Mission Volunteer Was Double Agent, Officials Say
The suicide bomber dispatched by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda last month to blow up a United States-bound airliner was actually an intelligence agent for Saudi Arabia who infiltrated the terrorist group and volunteered for the mission, American and foreign officials said Tuesday.
Austerity has been the main prescription across Europe for dealing with the continent’s nearly three-year-old debt crisis, brought on by too much government spending. But what does it mean for the average European? Imagine paying sales tax of 23% or more. Or having your wages cut by 15%. Or, if you’re in Ireland, both. Austerity comes in many forms: higher taxes, fewer state benefits, more job cuts, working longer until retirement, you name it.
Here’s a look at some of Europe’s austerity pain:
Go to article to see the rundown of each country.
Maurice Sendak, Children’s Author, Dies at 83
Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83.
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I know it seems a quick post, but I will make it up tomorrow morning.
It’s all good, especially the cartoons
Yes. Loved the CIA one!
Oh good, I liked that CIA one myself…;)
Some updates on the elections tonight:
UPDATE 1-North Carolina voters approve same-sex marriage ban | Reuters
NBC Politics – Six-term Senate veteran Lugar defeated in Indiana primary
Indiana primary results: Dick Lugar routed in Senate showdown – POLITICO.com
Mitt Romney wins North Carolina primary – The Hill’s Ballot Box
Just looking for items for tomorrows post and saw this: Gwinnett woman fights for life against flesh-eating disease | ajc.com
I hesitate to 2nd-guess other clinicians, but the article did say she returned to the ER due to severe pain. Wonder how overloaded the ER was or what. Scary. Necrotizing infections are very rare, but get a lot of publicity.
I had a major relationship with necrotizing fasciitis in late 2010 – 2011. If you’re interested in the ugly details you can read this post: http://ecocatwoman.blogspot.com/2011/06/rest-of-story.html Personally, I think it’s more common that we realize. During one visit to the hyperbaric department I met another patient who had broken her leg & due to an infection after the surgery was going to have her leg amputated. She felt she contracted in the hospital.
Ouch! Sorry to think about what you had to go though, ecocat!
And certainly there are hospital-acquired “nosocomial” infections — too many, though rates are going down.
So the voters approving this crap written by a hate group — can now be considered as part of the same hate group.
Probably the SC dimwits would vote to burn uppity women at the stake — if given the chance to vote on that subject.
United States — BS — double BS — SC isn’t part of any of the US — they are Neanderthal throwbacks trying to bring back the dark ages.
That should be NC dimwits.
NC, SC whatever
OMG! I knew it! It was another sting operation. What a joke. I love that underpants cartoon, JJ.
If something like this happens for real — few people will believe it.
When the Feds consistently lie — we expect that every time they claim to catch the bad guys — that the bad guys are really working for the CIA/FBI/SS
Security theater — as some wag commented — the next TSA trick will be to order everyone to remove their underwear and put it in a zip lock bag for an extra inspection.
The TSA is bad for the economy — fewer people are flying — many who fly for business are opting for teleconferencing etc. The whole objective seems to be to kill off the middle class.
Personally BB, I think the pants should be pulled out of the ass of the CIA agent, but that might be a bit too revealing.
Ugh! Close your eyes fast, everyone!
Wall Street Journal on the screw job of laying off government employees,
Unemployment Rate Without Government Cuts: 7.1%
Yeah, those lazy, overpaid federal, state, and county workers. Our state workers have had wages frozen for 4+ years, or reduced, if they haven’t been laid off. Microsoft and Boeing and other employers provide better benefits than the state, not to mention pay, but nobody whines about that.
And don’t get me started on cuts to higher education, thereby passing the buck to students in the form of higher tuition, bigger-sized classes, fewer offerings.
Let’s lay off a few Congresscritters come Nov.
Man is this ever a message that complacent Democratic donors and voters need to hear!
Carville: Wake up Democrats; you could lose
lol.
I don’t really blame them for being complacent. Mitt and Obama are practically doppelgängers. They share all of the same vulnerabilities, so it’s going to be impossible for Mitt to gain any traction against Obama. I don’t think even Obama’s crack political team can screw this one up.
The hits keep coming. As of March 19th:
Michele Bachmann claims Swiss citizenship
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76072.html
When on earth will the nice young men in their clean white coats come and take her away!!!!!! (Hey Hey, HO HO)
The article calls Michelle Bachmann a “swiss miss” shouldn’t that phrase be used for her husband?
WTF? Crazy…
But this about Obama:
Once again Carville nails it.
ooops, that was supposed to post under Ralph’s link.