Now that summer is virtually over, I’m heading into four days of heat, but the nights should be cool enough to help mitigate it. I hope you are all enjoying your holiday. I’m current with replies, and tomorrow appears routine.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:19 (average 4:14). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: The Graphic For Anyone Who Thinks Paul Ryan Couldn’t Get Any Worse
It would be difficult to find any member of Congress his age, who has voted FOR more debt than this so-called budget hawk. Now he and his party want to take what you paid have already paid for.
From NY Times: Hugh Hewitt, a right-wing talk-radio host, interviewed Mr. Ryan. In that interview, the vice-presidential candidate boasted about his fitness, declaring that he had once run a marathon in less than three hours.
This claim piqued the interest of Runner’s World magazine, which noted that marathon times are recorded — and that it was unable to find any evidence of Mr. Ryan’s accomplishment. It eventually transpired that Mr. Ryan had indeed once run a marathon, but that his time was actually more than four hours.
In a statement issued by a spokesman, Mr. Ryan tried to laugh the whole thing off as a simple error. But serious runners find that implausible: the difference between sub-three and over-four is the difference between extraordinary and perfectly ordinary, and it’s not something a runner could get wrong, unless he’s a fabulist who imagines his own reality. And does suggesting that Mr. Ryan is delusional rather than dishonest actually make the situation any better?
It’s simple. If Ryan is lying, vote Obama/Biden. If Ryan is delusional, vote Obama/Biden.
From Politico: Americans scored Mitt Romney’s GOP convention speech the lowest since Bob Dole’s acceptance speech in 1996, according to a Gallup Poll released Monday.
Following the Republican National Convention in Tampa, 40 percent of voters said that they were more likely to support Mitt Romney for president, compared with 38 percent who were less likely — a net impact of +2.
This is lowest net impact for a convention going back to 1984. By comparison, the 2008 GOP convention featuring Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was +5, and that year’s Democratic convention nominating Barack Obama was +14.
An uninspiring reaction to an uninspiring speech by an uninspiring man, or should I say mannequin?
Cartoon:
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3:19 Well, TomCat, have we done well enough to keep the girls at bay? Or do we have some rough waters ahead?
3:46 Now Jerry, you know that I will never come close to you guys with my mouse hand all taped up. To get that 3:46, I had to go all out and now my hand is so tired that it is going to have to have a nap! For the next half hour or so, I will be the one handed hunt and peck queen!
You beat me yesterday, rather…handily. 🙂
3:27 Beaten by the guys again!
We won, Jerry!
Ryan is just another typical republican. They say one thing and do another.
Always!
I think the only time Paul Ryan strayed into the truth during his entire acceptance speech was when he mentioned the name of his wife and kids.
You better fact-check that, Nameless! 😉
Puzzle — 3:46 To get that 3:46, I had to go all out and now my hand is so tired that it is going to have to have a nap! For the next half hour or so, I will be the one handed hunt and peck queen!
MoveOn — I think Ryan is going through puberty — his devil's horns are starting to show!
NY Times — TC "It’s simple. If Ryan is lying, vote Obama/Biden. If Ryan is delusional, vote Obama/Biden. "
Amen! AMEN!!!!! Any way you slice it or dice it, Ryan is not fit to be VP! Further more, Romney is not fit to be POTUS!
Politico — TC "An uninspiring reaction to an uninspiring speech by an uninspiring man, or should I say mannequin?"
AMEN again!!!!!
Cartoon — Who?
Nobody would blame you for standing down until your hand heals. 🙂
LOL!
Thanks!
Thanks again!
He's saying that frpm way back in a marathon.
I know. Way, way, way back in the mass of runners! Hence "Who?" I guess it is just my dry sense of humour!
And about the puzzles, I won't leave Patty on her own against you and Jerry! She doesn't need me actually but still . . . Besides, I need the practice.
Aha! I get it now.
In other words, you're THAT stubborn!
Obama/Biden 2012
Amen!
Has Ryan ever told the truth about anything?
No
I don't watch the Today show because I can't stand the fluff and prefer Bill Press in the AM. Shane likes to watch it before he leaves for work in the AM so I caught Matt Lauer interviewing Paul Ryan today. What a hoot! Matt asked him outright about the lies he told during his speech and asked if he wanted to walk any of them back given that they were all exposed as lies by independent organizations and even some RepublicanTs. Ryan adamantly refused and said he did nothing but tell the truth. I had all I could do do keep my coffee from coming out my nose.
It’s simple. If Ryan is lying, vote Obama/Biden. If Ryan is delusional, vote Obama/Biden. YES! YES! YES!
I'm glad we agree!