Monday/Tuesday open thread

Please keep the 6 missing Utah miners and their families in your thoughts and prayers right now. The miners have been trapped for a week now, and attempts to rescue them have not been successful.

3 Responses to "Monday/Tuesday open thread"

Drewsmom says:

August 14, 2007 at 6:53 am

I met a lady coal miner at my clinic the other day.
She went down in them for over 20 years, now she is in the office. She said its so hard and scary but the money was great, thats why they do it.
God bless them, I think they have gone to be with Jesus.
sanity says:

August 14, 2007 at 10:12 am

How Convenient….

Archivists say the former first lady’s documents at her husband’s presidential library won’t be released until after the ’08 vote.

AFTER the 2008 Presidential vote.

– Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton cites her experience as a compelling reason voters should make her president, but nearly 2 million pages of documents covering her White House years are locked up in a building here, obscuring a large swath of her record as first lady.

Clinton’s calendars, appointment logs and memos are stored at her husband’s presidential library, in the custody of federal archivists who do not expect them to be released until after the 2008 presidential election.

A trove of records has been made public detailing the Clinton White House’s attempts to remake the nation’s healthcare system, following a request from Bill Clinton that those materials be released first. Hillary Clinton led the healthcare effort in 1993 and 1994.

But even in the healthcare documents, at least 1,000 pages involving her work has been censored by archives staff because they include confidential advice and must be kept secret under a federal law called the Presidential Records Act. Political consultants said that if Hillary Clinton’s records were made public, rivals would mine them for scraps of information that might rattle her campaign.

“Those files — that’s the mother lode of opposition research,” said Ray McNally, a Republican political consultant in Sacramento. “Opposition researchers would be very hungry to see what’s there.” Robert Shrum, senior political strategist in Democratic Sen. John F. Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, said: “In 2 million pieces of paper, would opposition researchers hope to find one where she wrote a memo saying, ‘I wish I’d never gotten involved in healthcare?’ Sure. That’s what they’d love to find.”

At the Clinton library overlooking the Arkansas River, federal archivists clad in protective smocks are sorting through 80 million pages of records and another 20 million e-mails from a Clinton presidency that ended in January 2001. About 2 million of those pages concern the first lady’s office.

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I understand backlog, but many requests for information has already been put in more than a year ago, and nothing has been forthcoming.

And I find it highly convenient for Hillary that the information will not be ready for dissemination until after the presidential votes have taken place in 2008.

Convenient indeed….
Great White Rat says:

August 14, 2007 at 3:24 pm

In another thread, Bang makes this point:

I am enjoying watching the panic begin to spread among the moonbat gaggle.

Here’s more evidence of the panic: Hollywood’s terrorists: Mormon, not Muslim.

Money quote:

The film’s deliberately drawn analogy between Mountain Meadows and 9/11 raises the most puzzling question about this peculiar project: Why frame an indictment of violent religiosity by focusing on long-ago Mormon leaders rather than contemporary Muslims who perpetrate unspeakable brutalities every day?

Hmmmm..why indeed? What would be the point, in 2007, of showing Mormons as violent intolerant religious fanatics? I’m suuuuuure it has nothing to do with the fact that one of the leading contenders for the GOP presidential nomination is a Mormon….

Romney’s not my favorite candidate, but this expression of bigotry toward Mormons, and cowardice toward Islamofascists, is just loathsome propaganda. It goes to show Bang had it right…they’re panicking and have their slime machine operating already.

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