I’m writing early for day 31,and I just finished putting away groceries. It’s 96° at my desk, and I am NOT a happy cat!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:15 (average 4:57). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The Nation: Media on the left, right and center have been fanning the flames of fear-mongering, speculating that people—and black people especially—will take to the streets. That fear-mongering represents a deep white anxiety about black bodies on the streets, and echoes Zimmerman’s fears: that black bodies on the street pose a public threat. But the real violence in those speculations, regardless of whether they prove to be true, is that it silences black anxiety. The anxiety that black men feel every time they walk outside the door—and the anxiety their loved ones feel for them as well. That white anxiety serves to conceal the real public threat: that a black man is killed every twenty-eight hours by a cop or vigilante.
Many of those cases, no doubt, are justified, but the frequency certainly indicates that many are not.
From Alternet: Committed capitalists don’t seem to recognize that people depend on each other, and that individual success is a result of collaborative effort, usually over a long period of time. The less free-market thinkers are regulated, the less they seem to care about others. They ignore the fact that America’s most productive eras were driven by progressive taxes that funded entrepreneurship in the middle class. And they fail to see the deficiencies in a system that relies solely on profit-making to the exclusion of social responsibility.
Like the images of a dreaded disease, their beliefs might best be defined as obscene.
What follows is a list of five big obscenities in today’s capitalism. Click through for an excellent read. However, the word should be spelled ObsceniTEAs.
From Huffington Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 16th, expect a Senate showdown vote[Reich-wing delinked] on the confirmation of Richard Cordray to a full term as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (read a letter of support from over 150 members of Americans for Financial Reform, including U.S. PIRG and state PIRGs).
Meanwhile, however, consumer protection opponents continue to make stuff up, from saying again and again without justification that the CFPB is unaccountable to repeating their latest false claim: that its "creepy" use of data equates it with the NSA.
First, the CFPB is accountable to Congress and the American people. That question has been asked and answered. Wall Street and other CFPB opponents simply don’t like the idea of an agency with the job of protecting consumers.
When they block him, and they will, NUKE the Filibastards!
Cartoon:
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I strongly recommend that people click onto the Alternet link – but one caveat – keep your blood pressure medicine handy – or leave some strenuous cleaning to be done to try and get rid of the fury that may well fill your system as a result of reading all the corporate lies that are quoted there! OMG! Here's just one …..
"Post-crash, in 2009 and thereafter, the capitalists noticed cracks in the foundation, but relied on self-correction. Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein assured us that "The financial system may have led us into the crisis but it will lead us out," and the Chicago Tribune echoed his sentiment: "Western-style private enterprise, despite its penchant for booms and busts, will lead the world out of the mess it led the world into." "
Do you know, I think I can hear hollow laughter coming from the distance, where those deluded by Lloyd Blankfein are sobbing with laughter…..
PS – TomCat – with this new cheap Toshiba laptop (which praise the Lord actually WORKS!!!) – I cannot do any Jigzone puzzles at all – would getting a mouse help? Could I use a mouse with this laptop? The cursor keeps going mad and leaping wildly off into the distance and taking about ten seconds (and ten repetitions of effort) to bring back to where it should be – then pauses for three seconds and does it again – constantly. Impossible to try Jigzone…. I have done a full scan and found nothing amiss…
You were sooooo right. I am sure my blood pressure is sky high. Those morons think they can keep fooling all of us and keep making obscene profits without paying taxes like the rest of us.
Very well said, Pat, and I fully agree.
I strongly recommend getting a mouse. With my laptop, I use a wireless mouse. If you have more devices to connect than you do USB ports, then get a USB hub with it;s own power supply.
3:40 I was left behind by the tram and the bicylcles.
3:31 TomCat left me sitting on my bike while he jumped on the tram.
4:44 I missed the tram and the bikes were all locked!
Wooo Hooo!! But I'll be last today.
TC, I hope you get some relief soon. We are having a heat wave here this week, but it is nothing compared to what you are having.
Edie, outside it was just in the low 90s, but it's this building and wherfe I am in it. Outside it's 64°. In the enclosed breezeway, that my windows open to, with brick walls retaining heat, it's 98°.
Puzzle — 4:44 I missed the tram and the bikes were all locked!
The Nation — I heard on the radio that LA is having "riots", vandalising stores etc, looting, fires etc in reaction to the Zimmerman verdict. Police have made arrests and have cancelled all protests. I haven't had a chance to check the details as I just came in.
People need to learn to treat eachother with respect, regardless of race or ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender.
Alternet — Thanks for the warning for BP meds! ObsceniTea indeed! . . . also pure bull shit!
Huffington Post — The only way to get around the obstruction in the Senate for now is to kill the filibuster. In 2014, turn out as many Republicanus/Teabaggers into the unemployment line! As we already know, the Republicanus/Teabaggers don't give a rat's ass about the health of the country, only the wealth of the 1%.
Cartoon — "That's one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind." — Neil Armstrong
I'll be last today.
In LA, people riot on all days that begin with T, and yesterday ot was Today.
Respect is key.
Amen!
Read today's lead article. 🙁
Yes it was, until Republicans cut back the space program.