I’ll manage to cobble together this and another article before leaving to physical rehab today. I won’t have time to distribute the links until tomorrow. Yesterday was not quite as hot, and in the middle of the night, my apartment finally dropped back into the 70°s for the first time in three days. Today will also be a bit milder, before it shoots up again tomorrow. If I have not caught up on replies, when I post this, I will by tomorrow, which appears routine, but will be hot.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:39 (average 4:22). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: SHUT UP AND DO MY NAILS, 99%: What Mitt Romney’s Wealthy Supporters Really Think Of Us
What a surprise! Rmoney’s big backers are just like him!
From Raw Story: A Washington, D.C. judge has ordered an anti-LGBT preacher to pay MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s attorney’s fees after he filed a $50 million lawsuit for allegedly defaming him.
Over the weekend, the blog Bradlee Dean Info first reported that Dean and his You Can Run International ministry had 30 days to pay $24,625.23.
Dean had sued Maddow last year after she aired a segment from his radio show where he said that Muslims were “more moral than even the American Christians” because they were “calling for the execution for homosexuals.”
The radio host claimed that Maddow’s report was an attempt to undermine the presidential ambition’s of his personal friend, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN).
LOL!! Love it! Maybe his buddy, Batshit B, will pay for her pet Republican hatemonger.
From kockblocked.com: For your viewing pleasure!
Is that wonderful or what?
Cartoon:
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3:28 The door is still slightly open. Patty? Lynn? Will the ladies make it two in a row?
Not today Jerry. 3:41
At least I wasn't last for once!
Jerry, I wasn't the horse's ass and out of the picture, but I was average, so an old nag bringing up the rear!
I can vividly recall that great Coke commercial tune before I lost my hearing – so I really enjoyed that YouTube video of it:
I’d like to buy the Kochs a world – So they’d leave ours alone
Then go back to Park Avenue – And crawl beneath their stone
I’d like to teach the Kochs about – A true democracy
Where working class kicks corporate ass – From sea to shining sea
(They’re the Evil Thing)
I’d like to give the Kochs the bird – From my whole family
Just keep your phony culture war – And keep your f*cking tea
They’re the Evil Thing – Make them go away
It certainly is a classic!
Puzzle — Holding my own at the average. You just had to say "I told you so." yesterday didn't you?
MoveOn — There are so many things that Rmoney and his silver spooned ilk have never done because it was 'beneath' them, or never knew how to do because they would not dare to learn them, that if the 99% were not available or were unwilling, Rmoney and the silver spooned would be tarnished beyond all recognition. For those that don't know, silver spoons etc oxidise aka tarnish very easily and quickly and look very ugly!
Bradlee Dean — According to a Care2 article yesterday, Bradlee Dean advocates: "…ministry preaches an extremely conservative version of Christianity, arguing in favor of proscribed gender roles, against homosexuality, and against the separation of church and state. …"
Not only does Dean have extreme fanatical evangelical Christian religious beliefs, but he has admitted to using deception to gain access to public schools in order to target his preaching to young impressionable minds. This all seems very "Christian" don't you think? Republican/Teabagger supply-side pseudo Christian, absolutely!
I listened to the Rachel Maddow tape and there is absolutely nothing there that defames him, unless of course he is ashamed of his own professed beliefs. But hey, she can't be responsible for that!
I agree, if he is so hung up on Guano Girl, maybe she will pay the fees for him. Both of them are such losers!
Koch Blocked — A wonderful, wonderful piece! Last year, this same Coke Ad came to mind when we were discussing the Kochs. I'm glad to see that someone was able to carry forth.
Cartoon — Alexander Graham Bell would be WOWED again! A communications satellite that would be developed partially by Bell that set in motion international coöperation in communications. As Wikipedia says "It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, fax images and provided the first live transatlantic television feed."
Yup!! 😛 😉
But there are always servants to apply silver polish and elbow grease.
There is one thing that defames him: his own mouth.
Glad you liked it!
Yep. It was the first commercial one.
I want to share with you my reply to the Care2 story about Bradlee Dean suing Rachel Maddow, NBC, and MSNBC. It is such a frivolous law suit, so totally without merit especially after you watch the video that TC provided which I am going to take to Care2 so others can see just what Rachel is supposed to have defamed him with.
http://www.care2.com/causes/bradlee-dean-must-pay-maddow-website-court-costs.html
The Freethinkers by Susan Jacoby is a look at secularism in America, from the time of the Declaration of Independence forward. I have only just started reading it but in the first thirty pages or so, have found interesting ideas. I have no expectation that I will agree with all her ideas, but when you realise that it is possible to be secular and at once a person of faith, it is quite freeing.
I mention this book because of the Republican/Teabagger press for religion in government. And that is part of what Bradlee Dean advocates. From the article: "…ministry preaches an extremely conservative version of Christianity, arguing in favor of proscribed gender roles, against homosexuality, and against the separation of church and state. …"
I am a Canadian, yet I have read the US constitution several times and am familliar with some of the amendments. The 1st amendment guarantees among other things, the freedom of and from religion, and prevents the government from taking on the mantle of a theocracy. From Wikipedia: "… Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Nowhere in the constitution is 'God' mentioned. Right from the outset, the founding fathers stayed away from this idea. Their families had come from Europe where the church and state were bedfellows. Did you know that after Henry VIII of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church forming the Church of England, there was a law that the Catholic mass could not be celebrated, and if caught, the penalty could be death? They did not want the same for their new nation. So the founding fathers very deliberately put this in the constitution. But the Republican/Teabaggers are trying to undo this, and they aren't the first over the years.
Actions like Dean's, taking fundamentalist Christianity into the schools directly to young children who are easy to manipulate is reprehensible. This is one of many tactics used by Hitler (Hitler Youth), the East Germans after WWII, and countries like Romania who took orphaned boys and trained them like a para military unit. Children are easy to indoctrinate. But likewise to have one predominate religion in the US government is likewise unconstitutional, but also unseemly given that the US is a 'melting pot' of cultures and religions from around the world. The Statue of Liberty calls to all in the words of the New Colossus poem
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
It does not say "Christians only!"
Very well said!
TC, you asked about Limbaugh and his advertisers the other day. Can't answer your specific question but here is something from Huff Post about it — UPS and AOL are the newest dissenters.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/09/rush-limbaugh-ad-boycott-ups-removes-content_n_1659308.html?ir=Media
The fewer the merrier!
Thanks Lynn! Here's a link to his present advertisers.
Click Here
Just love the anti-Koch commercial. It should be aired on national tv instead of all the drivel with which they bombard people on a daily basis.
Good! I'm glad they fined that bigoted preacher. Rachel Maddow doesn't defame others. They do it to themselves every time they open their mouths.
Agree on both counts!