I can get this today and maybe tomorrow, but I’ll definitely need the Squatch to do it Saturday and possibly Sunday. I’m still hurting. Second surgery is tomorrow. Hugs to all!! This is my only article today:
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:44 (average 5:06). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Julie will kill me for this:
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: When Pastor Roger Jimenez’s hateful rant against the LGBT community went viral, there was (and continues to be) a well-deserved backlash from people such as myself who don’t worry too much about what people love what people, as long as they love one another. Pastor Roger Jimenez has a pastor buddy down in Texas whose name is Donnie Romero. Pastor Donnie Romero spends his waking hours thinking about men kissing men and touching their penises together and it drives him mad. This “madness” makes him think and say terrible terrible things and like most narcissists, he must blame everybody else for making him think and feel these terrible things. After opening with how his son loves the lion in the Bible (and we all love Narnia!), he goes into saying that he agrees with Pastor Jimenez’s homophobia “100 percent.”
These 50 sodomites are all perverts and pedophiles, and they are the scum of the earth, and the earth is a little bit better place now," Romero said in his sermon. "And I’ll take it a step further, because I heard on the news today, that there are still several dozen of these queers in ICU and intensive care. And I will pray to God like I did this morning, I will do it tonight, I’ll pray that God will finish the job that that man started, and he will end their life, and by tomorrow morning they will all be burning in hell
Yet another view of how Republican Supply pseudo-Christians express "love".
From The New Yorker: In what some are calling a sign of its desperation to raise cash, the Presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump is auctioning off New Jersey Governor Chris Christie on the popular e-commerce site eBay, campaign officials have confirmed.
Christie, who is described on the site as being in lightly used but good condition, is believed to be the first sitting governor ever to be auctioned on the Internet.
Andy, he might get a better deal selling PIGnocchio by the pound.
From Alternet: On Foreign Policy
“It all started with her bad judgment in supporting the war in Iraq in the first place. Though I was not in government service, I was among the earliest to criticize the rush to war, and yes, even before the war ever started. But Hillary Clinton learned nothing from Iraq, because when she got into power, she couldn’t wait to rush us off to war in Libya.”
This claim has been debunked time and time again. While Clinton certainly voted to authorize the war in Iraq, there is no evidence that Trump criticized it “before the war ever started.” In 2002, Trump offered tepid support for the war in an interview with radio host Howard Stern. Immediately after the invasion again, Trump told Fox’s Neil Cavuto the war “looks like a tremendous success” from a military standpoint.
Trump did speak out against the war in July 2004—a full 16 months after the war began. Pressed on these facts by CNN’s Jake Tapper, Trump promised to provide evidence of opposition to the war, saying:
“No, no, but I was against it from before it started. And if you go back and look at that interview, and I’ll get it for you if you want, but that interview was substantially before the war started. It was the first time I was ever asked the question. And even that, it wasn’t like, oh yeah, we should go in. It was a very, like yeah, maybe.”
Tapper told Trump he’d “love” to see evidence of Trump’s vocal opposition to the war. So far, that wish seems to remain unfulfilled.
1st of 5 Biggest Lies in Trump’s Hillary-Attack Speech. Click through for the other four.
Cartoon:
Factory is in China
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Julie is going to strangle you, TC!!!
But that photo made me smile which so far today is the only thing that does….The Supreme Court on immigration, the shooting in Germany, Trump's call for racial profiling, etc. etc. etc.
I think it was Einstein who said, "There's not much difference between stupidity and genius except that genius has its limits".
Julie: Yep, Julie is going to tear you a new one. lol.
KOS: If Pastor Donnie Romero thinks so much about men kissing men is, maybe, because he is a closet homosexual person who does not want to come out and admit it. He is just too much of a self-narcissist to consider what he really is. lol.
New Yorker: Christie's weight, at one time, was about 400+ lbs. Now, he appears to be at 285 lbs. Looks like the value of weight and money would no longer be a factor in getting top dollar for Christie in an auction.
Alter: Drumpf continues to lie about his stance on the Iraq war. His continued credibility is naught!
Cartoon: Yep, coat hangers are in great demand these days especially for women who use them to self-abort courtesy of the GOP/TP.
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4:28 Looks like you won't have to clean it before cooking – that could save some time. All of the Peruvian food I have had has been very good indeed.
Nice pic. Oh well – you only live once.
DKos – They don't have a clue, do they? If straight, he is orders of magnitude more likely to be a pedophile than any gay person is. And I would think any sane person would say he certainly sounds like one. Too bad so many out there are not sane, and so many of those have guns.
New Yorker – I KNEW it was a hostage situation from the get-go! I never thought I would feel sorry for Christie. But not only is he now trapped for life, but he's going to find out in cold, hard cash exactly how little he is worth.
AlterNet – I tried, I really did, but I just couldn't slog through all the details of all the lies which are so old and tiren – sorry.
Cartoon – Of course the factory is in China. The coat hangers are probably covered with toxic chemicals like the pet food.
I do still wear a grim smile from the sit-in, although since I haven't read all the emails yet, that may change.
New stat hidden in a long, multi-topic article over on Kos:
http://images.dailykos.com/images/266185/large/KFJune20-2.PNG?1466622369
Not cause to relax, certainly, but somewhat hopeful.
Good to see people realizing – at a minimum – what an utter disaster a Trump presidency would be for America and the world!
A simple but a very informative graph. Thx Joanne.
DK: I agree w/Jim. I think he's a closet queen. Nothing wrong with that, love who you are, but being a preacher spewing hate…is not the word of his God or mine. imo.
NYer: Christie: Good god, man, quit being a patsy for Drumpf. Get some respect for yourself.
AN: Drumpf=Bleck!!!
Cartoon: Sad. Just sad.
Shhhhhh….don't tell her, she's sleeping. LOL. I promise I won't say anything.
Rest, and Rest, and REST!! Hope that you have a good REST of your day, take good care, and Thanks, Tom
Is this your revenge for Julie leaving, TomCat 😉 Just look at it, no wonder she's leaving; you're working her far to hard 😉
All the best with the operation tomorrow. I hope Julie is accompanying you again. Besides waiting for taxis, the procedure may take a llittle shorter as taking something out sometimes is easier and quicker than putting something in. My thoughts are with you.
DK: Sorry, I find the hatred of these people who claim to be Christian appaling and I'm just too disgusted to comment in a calm and rational manner.
TNY: The two great minds of PP met in a ditch somewhere on the American-Canadian border again. LOL Andy was too funny to pass over, so it's quite understandable.
Alternet: I'm sick and tired of this man who, like a bad vaudeville hypnotist, tries and fails in making us believe the beam in his own eye is a splinter in that of someone else.
Quit while you're ahead, Drumpf, that is while 30% of the people polled do not think unfavorably of you. This is a s good as it'll ever get for you.
Puzzle — 3:06 I wouldn't be chowing down on this dawg infront of Killer Dawg! This might be Killer's cousin, or worse still, his BFF!
Daily Kos — Jimenez and Romero are disgusting and a waste of good air! There was a short 2 minute video on Huffington Post made at an Islamic school in New Jersey. One youngster, maybe 8 or 9 years old, commented that he is trying to love people, even those that don't like him because he is Muslim. Jimenez and Romero could learn a thing or two from this young man.
The New Yorker — I think Drumpf is in for a surprise — Christie is damaged goods and not likely to bring in much even from the staunchest Republicans! There's that ditch!
Alternet — I read this yesterdray and was going to use it in today's OT. That ditch again! This is a fine kettle of fish . . . rotting herring in 35 C heat! The pot calling the kettle black! There is a reason that Huff Post uses the following Editor's Note:
Cartoon — Perfect comment Jim!
I somehow think that Julie will forgive you. After all, she looks the part of an angel, just like you have described her!
On the Editor's note in Lynn's box above, I linked in each of them and came away with a splitting headache from reading the articles. Drumpf really is just plain bad and is definitely unfit to be POTUS!! Wish I hadn't read them.
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3:15 Well, I haven't improved any.
Welcome back Jerry! You've been absent for too long! I've missed you and your wit!
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I like the forethought of the puppy pad I see.
Read today what a disaster the regime change effort in Syria continues to be (like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Honduras…the list goes on). Even the IMF calls that kind of neocon policy a failure to stop doing.
May the surgery go smooth and reduce pain.
Good luck tomorrow!