Jan 052013
 

Yesterday, my coughing was quite severe, so I’m still down.  The Church of the Ellipsoid Orb offers playoff meditations today and tomorrow.  My Broncos, as the top seed in the AFC, have a bye week.  I’m current with replies.  Soon, I hope.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:19 (average 4:57).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From NY Times: O.K., people, we are really in 2013. It took a few days, but now we’ve settled in. Test your New Year’s knowledge.

"Your score: 8/8." How did you do? Don’t give away the answers in comments, please.

From Right Wing Watch: American Family Association spokesman Bryan Fischer today blew up over the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), warning in a blog post [pseudo-Christians delinked] that “ENDA would represent the return of Jim Crow laws.” On his radio program Focal Point, Fischer warned that if ENDA is signed into law businesses will be faced with a barrage of “flaming homosexual” job applicants.

 

Fifty years ago, the pseudo-Christian issue would be that civil rights legislation would force business to hire African Americans, no matter how dark they were. When peop0le express hatred in God’s name, you can be sure that God has nothing to do with their views.

From MSNBC: Fleecing the sheeple.

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First, it’s interesting to note that, whenever a fellow proves himself morally unfit for service as a Democrat, there is always a place for him with the Republican Party. Now, to all the Republican sheeple who donated to Super PAC for America, you’ve been fleeced. Drop your skivvies, bend over, grab your ankles and say BA-A-A-A-A-A-A!

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  11 Responses to “Open Thread–1/5/2013”

  1. 4:10  I hope I didn't stop too long to smell the flowers on my way up the stairs.

    • 3:36  I guess I have more of a green thumb than I thought, but I'll guess that Patty-Monster has a greener thumb.  Jerry, if those posies are what I think they are, I'll send you a first aid kit for lacerations to your nose.  I think that may be a member of the cactus family, although not a succulent.

  2. (Cryptic message:

    The power of Alexander Graham Bell prevails again …)

  3. Puzzle — 3:36 I guess I have more of a green thumb than I thought, but I'll guess that Patty-Monster has a greener thumb.

    NY Times — Only 5/8 — missed 4, 6 & 7.  Oh the ignominy of it all!  

    Right Wing Watch — 50 years ago, the pseudo Christian issue might have been that civil rights legislation would force business to hire African Americans no matter how dark their skin.  But guess what, the world did NOT end!  In fact, with that in mind, it is a better world!  And once more, newsflash, Jesus was not a "white" man.  Isn't it also interesting that Jesus spent his time with prostitutes and thieves, tax collectors and everyday people, not the pharisees (pharisees = pseudo Christians today).  Seems it is still that way, thankfully.  And now more bear scat from the politically incorrect pseudo Christians.  Of all the homosexuals I know, none of them fit Fischer's abhorrent description. People are people and not subject  to our preconceptions.

    I remember in the movie 'Exodus', Peter Lawrie played a British Army officer in Palestine at the end of the war and Paul Newman played a Jewish freedom leader, for a lack of other descriptive title.  Newman was trying to get authorisation to move some European Jews from a camp to the ship 'Exodus' (although not its name at the time).  Newman, dressed as a British soldier, requested Lawrie's signature for the transfer.  During the exchange, Lawrie said he could smell a Jew from some distance.  At that point, Newmwn stepped closer to Lawrie asking him to examine his eye for a cinder.

    My point is that our preconceptions have nothing to do with reality.  ALL people are created equal and that was in the Declaration of Independence.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. 

    So Fischer, get over it and start acting like a real human being and a real Christian.  Enough hatemongering!      

    MSNBC — Even from here north of the 49th, I can hear a lot of coughing from Republican/Teabagger land!  The sheeple are being used by the Republican/Teabagger 'tyrants' — they are being teabuggered!

    I came across an article, or more appropriately an extremely conservative rant on the 1st and 2nd amendments, which used the following quote to open the piece. (hxxp://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/51977?utm_source=scribol.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=scribol.com)

    “Tyrants preserve themselves by sowing fear and mistrust among the citizens by means of spies, by distracting them with foreign wars, by eliminating men of spirit who might lead a revolution, by humbling the people, and making them incapable of decisive action…” … Aristotle

    While I can't verify that it is Aristotle, it appears to be in keeping with Aristotle's definition of a tyrant as, "one who rules without law, looks to his own advantage rather than that of his subjects, and uses extreme and cruel tactics—against his own people as well as others".  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrants

    My first reaction was that this is how Republican/Teabaggers operate.  This is Teabuggery.

    Cartoon — Knowing only that the name 'Benedict Arnold' was or is synomomous with 'traitor', I read the Wikipedia article.  He was quite a character, often acting like a petulant child and schemer when he didn't get his way.  One American officer

    …Brown was particularly vicious, publishing a handbill that claimed of Arnold, "Money is this man's God, and to get enough of it he would sacrifice his country".

    …Arnold lamented over the "deplorable" and "horrid" situation of the country at that particular moment, citing the depreciating currency, disaffection of the army, and internal fighting in Congress for the country's problems, while predicting "impending ruin" if things would not soon change.

    Interesting that as evidenced by these two passages, and the fact that Arnold was a British Torie once he went to England, he would fit right in with the Republican/Teabaggers.  Irony too that today's Tea Partiers being namesakes of the Boston Tea Partiers who were against taxation (and other things)  from the Crown, have more in common with the Crown of George III than the original Tea Partiers.

    • So far, so good.

      That was a tough one.

      Well said, and amen!

      It was Aristotle and he was, unknoiwingly, describing the Republican Party.

      Exactly!

       

       

  4. I got half right and half wrong. I am neither an optomist nor a pessimist. I am a realist.

     

    Now I am going on to today's open thread because I'm too tired to comment on all of these. The puzzle and the quiz were enough. I did not expect a pop quiz this AM, Teach.

    • Is that like being neither slow nor fast, but half-assed?  😉

      Next time, do your homework, or I'll make you stand in the corner. 😉

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