May 082012
 

Yesterday, installing my new UPS went smoothly.  It has a desktop widget that displays power information in real time.  I watched it for 20 minutes, and input voltage ranged from 93 to 122 volts.  In less than 24 hours it had to intervene 3 times.  Today my groceries for May are being delivered.  I hope to get the blog up and lings distributed first, but that’s very unlikely.  I’m current with replies.  Tomorrow is a R&R day.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:46 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: Reason Number 203 That The GOP War On Women Is Very Real

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That’s right. Almost all voted to trap women as second class workers.

From NY Times: Rick Santorum told [Frothmeister delinked] his supporters in an e-mail Monday night that he was endorsing Mitt Romney as the Republican presidential candidate and that “all hands on deck” would be needed to defeat President Obama in the fall.

This makes RMoney the Frothmeister designee.

From CBS: Democrats in Wisconsin today will nominate the candidate to face off against the contentious Republican Gov. Scott Walker in the June 5 recall election.

The most recent poll shows Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett in the lead — and with just four weeks left before the recall, Barrett and Walker are already taking swings at each other.

If a mangy, flatulent chimp, with BO and halitosis, who masturbates in public and throws feces at voters during campaign events, wins this primary… SUPPORT THE APE!

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May 072012
 

Today my UPS is out on the truck for delivery by UPS, so I will get it and have a lot of work to do setting it up and configuring it.  I’m current on replies.  Tomorrow I have a month’s grocery delivery coming.  Unpacking it and putting it away always tales several hours, so my articles could be late.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:53 (average 5:12).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: One Powerful Message From Hillary Clinton Regarding The War On Women

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She makes a completely valid point.

From AlterNet: That’s the heart, and what passes for the soul of Mitt Romney, who somehow extracted an interpretation of the president’s words which led to this absurd criticism: “This is a president more intent on punishing people than he is on building our economy.”

Even a cursory examination of the facts makes it clear that it is Romney who is The Punisher. His policies, if enacted, will punish a broad spectrum of Americans from almost every possible constituent group.

Click through for an excellent list of constituent groups that Rmoney will screw, if elected.

From Palm Beach Post: New Obama ad reminds voters of economic woes ‘before THIS president took the oath’.

 

It differs from Republican ads in that it’s a lie-free zone.

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May 062012
 

We’re getting close to the time to start tracking the Presidential race on a state by state basis, so here’s a suggestion regarding some key states to watch.  So far, Obama appears to be ahead in all of them, but that is no excuse for overconfidence.  How many of us thought that there was no way America could be so stupid as to let Bush close enough to steal the election in 2004?

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Map credit: electoral-vote.com

With just over six months until Election Day, an analysis of the emerging electoral map by The New York Times found that the outcome would most likely be determined by how well President Obama and Mitt Romney perform in nine tossup states.

All nine voted for Mr. Obama in 2008, only to see Republicans make big gains since then.

Now, with many of those states transformed economically and politically by the recession, they are perhaps even less predictable than they were in past close elections. The disparity in their circumstances highlights the challenges that both the Obama and the Romney campaigns face in framing arguments that will resonate across the country.

The nine — Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin — offer both parties reasons for hope, and concern. It is no coincidence that Mr. Obama chose two of them, Ohio and Virginia, to hold his first official re-election rallies on Saturday…

Inserted from <Truth-Out>

I encourage you to click through, because the article has much more detailed information.

Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!

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May 062012
 

I managed to get all my errands run yesterday, so today, I get some rest time.  I’m current with replies.  Tomorrow my new UPS should be delivered, so I’ll have to install it and reconfigure my computer corner.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:54 (average 4:33).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From MoveOn:The Truth About Poverty That You’ll NEVER Hear On Fox News

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That sure bursts the bubble, doesn’t it?

From Washington Post: With Congress returning from a weeklong spring recess, the Senate plans to vote Tuesday on whether to start debating a Democratic plan to keep college loan interest rates for 7.4 million students from doubling on July 1. The $6 billion measure would be paid for by collecting more Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes from high-earning owners of some privately held corporations.

Republicans want a vote on their own bill, which like the Democrats’ would freeze today’s 3.4 percent interest rates on subsidized Stafford loans for one more year. It would be financed by eliminating a preventive health program established by President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

It remains clear that Democrats care for the needy, while Republicans care for the greedy.

From BarackObama.com: In case you missed it, here’s Barack Obama at his first campaign rally.

I found the message compelling.

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May 042012
 

If you’re planning to protest at the Republican National Convention in Tampa from 8/27 to 8/30, please take extreme care to avoid conflict with the local minions of InsaniTEA there.  It will not be a safe place to be, because, for the Republican Party, extreme ideology trumps public safety.

4GunsTampaMayor Bob Buckhorn of Tampa, Fla., proudly packs a .38-caliber revolver as one of the 900,000 Floridians holding concealed-weapon permits these days. But even Mayor Buckhorn thinks it is a bad idea to allow the people who will be thronging outside the Republican National Convention in the city this August to carry concealed weapons.

He asked Gov. Rick Scott this week to issue an executive order banning guns in all of downtown Tampa, not just in the convention hall and the immediately surrounding zone controlled by the Secret Service. “In the potentially contentious environment surrounding the R.N.C., a firearm unnecessarily increases the threat of imminent harm and injury to the residents and visitors of the city,” he wrote to the governor. The request was rejected by Governor Scott, a Republican, who contended that the temporary ban would “surely violate” the Second Amendment right to bear arms. In fact, said the governor, “it is at just such times” that self-defense is “most precious.”

A distorted notion of self-defense, of course, underpins Florida’s notorious Stand Your Ground law at issue in the shooting death of an unarmed teenager, Trayvon Martin, by a self-appointed neighborhood watchman… [emphasis added]

inserted from <NY Times>

Rachel Maddow covered this story in the second segment of Wednesday’s Debunction Junction.  I did not remove the first segment, because it is interesting, albeit unrelated.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

In addition top Trayvon, we also have a recent reminder from the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Brewerstan of what can happen when hate-filled Republican extremists pack heat in public places.

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May 032012
 

So far today has been a zoo, because during the night, my UPS died, so this morning I got to completely reconfigure my computer corner to find places to plug everything in.  I ordered a replacement, because this building’s wiring is over 100 years old, and we have frequent interruptions.  I’m current with new replies.  Tomorrow I have online grocery shopping to do for the month.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:05 (average 4:14).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From MoveOn: One Shocking Fact That The Banks Don’t Want You To Know

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Such extreme waste of this resource certainly is shocking.

From LA Times: While seeking the Republican nomination for president for much of last year, Michele Bachmann urged voters in her party to support her as the true conservative in the race — a plea that was an implicit dig at front-runner Mitt Romney.

But four months after dropping out of the race, the Minnesota congresswoman will endorse the presumed Republican nominee at an event Thursday in Portsmouth, Va., according to campaign officials.

From AlterNet: Jon Stewart: Romney Won’t Pursue Racist Policies Because He’s a Mormon — He’ll Do So Because He’s a Republican

 

He missed on one point. They hate Obama more than they love Republican Supply-side Jesus.

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May 022012
 

Well I survived into another day and have a little more.  I’m current with new replies.  Tomorrow I have lots of volunteer paperwork to do.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:51 (average 5:03).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From MoveOn: FDR Saw This Coming And Tried To Warn Us

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And in his day, Republicans were nowhere near as bad as today.

From NY Times: Richard Grenell, an openly gay and longtime Republican foreign policy spokesman hired last month by Mitt Romney’s campaign, abruptly resigned on Tuesday after antigay elements in the party criticized his appointment and some Republican advisers said Mr. Grenell had been sidelined by the campaign during a busy foreign policy week.

Of course Switch Hit Mitt claims that being gay had nothing to do wit it.  Put a load of that on your garden!

From Daily Kos: New Obama ad salutes Mitt Romney’s foreign policy experience: Swiss bank accounts and outsourcing

 

They clearly understand what Rmoney is about.

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