Aug 082012
 

This is the last cooler day, before the heat returns.  I’m still very tired.  This will be today’s only article, because I have to take the stone to the urologist.  I’m not current with replies, but will catch up when I can.  Tomorrow my blogging will be limited, because I have a Cardiologist appointment.

Jig Zone Puzzles:

Sunday’s took me 3:59 (average 4:31).  To do it, click here.  Monday’s took me 3:50 (average 4:58).  To do it, click here.  Yesterday’s took me 3:49 (average 5:06).  To do it, click here.  Today’s took me 4:54 (average 5:43).  To do it click here.  How did you do? (Thanks Jerry)

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: Bernie Sanders On How The Supreme Court Sold American Democracy To The Highest Bidder

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Can we survive more Republican appointees to the Supreme Court?

From NY Times: Mitt Romney accused President Obama on Tuesday of gutting one of the signature bipartisan accomplishments of the recent political era: the overhaul of welfare policy.

Mr. Romney, taking up criticism that has gripped conservatives for the last few weeks, attacked a directive by the Obama administration that Republicans say does an end run around the welfare law, signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996, that is widely credited with reducing government dependency.

This is the latest in a long string of Republican lies. Obama's directive does not take out the work requirement at all. It allows governors to request waivers to provide flexibility to streamline their welfare systems to put more people to work. 29 Republican governors have requested these waivers over the last few years. One of them was Willard "Etch Everyone's Sketch" Rmoney, who never met a lie he wouldn't tell.

From Chicago Tribune: Wheaton College has joined more than 50 mostly Roman Catholic religious institutions suing the Obama administration for requiring religious employers to offer health insurance that covers the cost of contraception, including the morning-after pill, for employees and students.

On Wednesday, the west suburban college joined a lawsuit filed by Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., making it one of a handful of evangelical Protestant institutions opposed to the requirement that employers provide insurance plans that include contraception for women at no cost.

In order to join the lawsuit, Wheaton had to cancel their heath insurance first. Why? The coverage they have offered their employees for years included the cost of contraception, including the morning after pill. If they could not offer such coverage without it infringing on their religious liberty, how had they managed to do do for the years before it became a goose-stepping meme for Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians?  Hypocrites!

Cartoon:

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Except for Ford, Nixon had more integrity than any other Republican president since.

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  12 Responses to “Open Thread–8/8/2012”

  1. I think your puzzle days may be off by one, (Saturday's puzzle is really Sunday's puzzle — a Hawk), but here are my last four times.
    Sunday 3:25 (Hawk)
    Monday 3:58 (Door)
    Tuesday 4:17 (Dog)
    Wednesday 4:24 (Butterfly)
    If our times are for the same puzzles, it looks like I beat you on two of them.

    • Hawk 4:18 — gents beat me!
      Door 4:44 — gents beat me!
      Dog 4:31 — gents beat me!
      Butterfly 4:43 — Jerry beat me, but I beat TC!
      Damn, too bad the VAWA didn't pass again!  You guys soundly beat me (although I was under average)!  I wonder how Patty did?  C'mon Patty, the fate of the female gender in the puzzle world is hanging on your awesome scores!

      • Hawk 3:59 Jerry wins this one!
        Door 3:28 Hooray!!!
        Dog 3:52 This one goes to Tom!
        Flutterby 4:29 I guess Jerry gets the gold today!
         

    • Indeed they were.  As soon as I figure out what day it is, I'll be OK. πŸ˜‰

      Thanks.  Fixed.

  2. Puzzles — Well at least I was under the averages but no open doors for me!
     
    MoveOn — AMEN  Bernie!!!!!  Bernie is one in a million!!  The US can not afford any more Republican/Teabaggers in SCOTUS, the Congress or as POTUS! 
     
    Gutting of the Welfare Policy — Just like the ACA (Romneycare good for Massachusetts but not for the nation in 2010), Rmoney was all a twitter when he signed the letter in 2005 requesting more flexibility around the work requirements.  Now he wants to castigate Mr Obama for doing what he himself requested.  What a two-faced idiot!  This kind of thing has happened so many times to Rmoney, how can anyone take him seriously?  He has his feet firmly planted on both sides of any and every issue, and his head so far up his ass that he will never be able to see the light of truth or day!
     
    Wheaton College — TC "If they could not offer such coverage without it infringing on their religious liberty, how had they managed to do do for the years before it became a goose-stepping meme for Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians?  Hypocrites!" — Amen!  I'd like to go into the medicine chests of all those who Republican/Teabaggers who claim that contraceptives violate their religious freedom and see if they live as they call out!  Bet we'd be neck deep in hypocrites!
     
    Cartoon — A good day for the US.  Never did like or trust Tricky Dicky!  TC "Except for Ford, Nixon had more integrity than any other Republican president since." — … and that's not saying much nor a compliment!
     
     

  3. Remember when the Republicans campaigned on States' Rights?

    • Sure I do, Howard.  They are in favor of states rights and federal priority, based on the issue, supporting whichever is convenient.

  4. Sen. Bernie Sanders was right once again.
    Witless Rmoney does it again with his lyin', cheatin' heart!
     
    Hey! Administrators at Wheaton! Get a grip. Nobody said you have to USE birth control, only pay for it in your health plan. If you don't want to pay for it, only hire nuns, priests and monks.

    • Heart?  Where?!!?
       

      Actually, it is less expensive to cover birth control, because it prevents more expensive conditions.

  5. I have fond memories of watching the Watergate hearings with all my hippie friends back then.

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