It’s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. My Broncos have the Monday Night service with the Bengals. Otherwise I have to figure out how to combine six drawers into three and free up 1/3 of my desk space. ARGH!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:55 (average 5:53). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos (Best of 2015): I am a Christian business owner in Indiana…
…Not really. But If I were, this is the sign I would put in my door.
"Dear Valued Patrons.
Due to my sincerely held religious beliefs, and in light of the RFRA, recently signed by our Dear Leader Pence, I will no longer be doing business with the following persons; nor permitting them in my establishment:
1. Divorcees. Matthew 19:9: “And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for unchastity, and marries another, commits adultery.”
2. Anyone who has ever read their horoscope or called a psychic hotline. Leviticus 20:6: "As for the person who turns to mediums and to spiritists, to play the harlot after them, I will also set My face against that person and will cut him off from among his people."
3. Anyone with a tattoo. Leviticus 19:28 "You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the Lord."
4. Anyone born illegitimately. Also, anyone who, back to ten generations, is descended from someone born illegitimately. If you can not PROVE, using appropriate church sources, that ten generations of your family were born in wedlock, I will have to err on the side of caution and not serve you. Deuteronomy 23:2 "No one of illegitimate birth shall enter the assembly of the LORD; none of his descendants, even to the tenth generation, shall enter the assembly of the LORD."
Click through for the other four. And don’t forget Leviticus 25:44. I get to own a Canadian!!
From The New Yorker:
Within this cycle, it’s been a delight to publish Andy Borowitz’s humor column—and to be continually reminded that, sometimes, the only way to make sense of what’s happening in American politics is to laugh. In that spirit, here are fifteen of my favorite Borowitz Reports from the past year, arranged chronologically.
Joe Biden Releases Both E-mails Written While Vice-President
Iran Offers to Mediate Talks Between Republicans and Obama
Indiana Governor Stunned By How Many People Seem to Have Gay Friends
New Hillary Clinton Ad Features Just Kittens
N.F.L. Sentences Brady to a Year with the Jets
Thanks Andy! Click through for the other 10 links.
From NY Times: After decades of debate in South Carolina over the Confederate battle flag, it seemed the matter had been settled in July, when state officials stopped flying the flag on State House grounds and relegated it to a museum for “appropriate display.”
Then came the price tag.
This month, consultants for the South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum [Seditious state agency delinked] here introduced a $5.3 million plan to expand the facility and show off the flag, along with an electronic display of the names of the state’s Civil War dead.
That idea proved to be a bust among Democrats who view the flag as an affront to African-Americans, and among members of both parties who balked at the cost.
$5.3 million?!!? Dang!! For 50¢, I’ll commemorate that flag!! Just give me the flag, a big bowl of my five alarm chili, and an outhouse!!
Cartoon:
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Oh, TC! The High Holy Day! My teams are OK. But next year, I'm a gonna get that Squatch! She beat my team to a pulp this year! I gotta get a couple of new players and try it again next year!
Daily Kid had a good one! That would just about make his establishment bare of customers if it was in OK! LOL!
I got the Bills and Dallas for my first game. No big woop! Next is Packers and Cardinals. Maybe that one will be better!
Take good care of yourself, TC! Later!
Squatches can be MOST evil!!
DK: Wonderful! Someone go print that out and stick it on a Hobby Lobby window; how abot Chick Fll-A?
NY Times: South Carolina crazies are amongst the craziest, right behind the crazies of Texas!
Any is just one more National Treasure!
I'm guessing you need to down-size some of your furniture to make room for adaption to George's arrival, TomCat. Hope everything works out.
Daily Kos: If the supply-side pseudo-Christians really lived by the rules they like to set for others, they wouldn't have a customer left to serve and soon be out of business. Perhaps that's the way to go: if they insist on not serving gays, or whatever minority is currently under attack, they are made to adhere strictly to these biblical "serving rules" and some others that haven't been mentioned here too.
The New Yorker: Every one of these fifteen favorite Andy's listed by Nicholas Thompson is a little masterpiece, and it's hard to pick a favorite, but after some deliberation I picked Study: Scalia Better Off in “Less Advanced” Court as my favorite. Perhaps that's only because it's so fresh in my mind.
NY Times: Give Republicans a finger and they'll take your whole hand. The museum has just about any original Confederate flag they could salvage from the war on display, so there's no need to display this fake nylon one at the cost of more than $5 million. South Carolina's Republican's are only using this charade to celebrate the flag and what is stood/stands for all over again. So the Democrats better not give them a finger but rather "the finger".
Cartoon: No the murder of a conservationists like Fossey certainly is no loss in Republican books. They have a few on their list they'd like to get rid off much in the same way, if only they had the guts.
3:58 Looks tasty. I've had prickly pear juice and it is tasty. (Just juice – I'm not brave enougto bite into that.)
Just in case anyone was worried about me, I had no idea the WiFi where I was staying was going to be out for three days (at least). And, as I have said before, it's not the end of the world but you can see it from there, so no way a part was going to be gotten before Monday. I have never been off line for almost 60 hours before, not since I got my first computer (I think it was a windows 3.1). Good thing JL was traveling and didn't notice. She is so kind, she was concerned once when it was only about 9 hours. I hope she either sees this first, or that I am able to go fill in fast in the morning.
DKos – yeah – some classics are also more classic than others. Like this one.
New Yorker – Yes. All priceless.
NY Times – I would think it would be way, WAY harder to find someone who was eager to claim that nylon is a part of his or her heritage than it would be to find a South Carolinian who thinks that the Confederate Flag is a part of his or her heritage. Nylon? Why nylon? Wouldn't hand picked cotton be more appropriate?
Cartoon – I suppose anyone who wants to love and protect animals is a threat to the poor who think they need to survive by selling animal body parts. (As well as to the rich who want to make fortunes doing the same thing.)
Bless you–we both have had connectivity issues but somehow manage to get what needs doing done anyhow–thanks so much my friend!
2:53 That prickly pear is so sweet!
Thanks all! Hugs!! Hurrying!!
If they actually get the funds for this $5.3 MILLION White Elephant "Museum", I hope they include the only Confededrate flag that mattered:
http://images.dailykos.com/images/150913/large/confed2.png
LOL!!
SO TRUE! But they probably won't.