I’m writing for tomorrow and am feeling quite tired having done three weeks of laundry, folded it, and put it away. Therefore, I shall be brief. Day 15.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:21 (average 5:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NY Times: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who had been invited to give the commencement address at Rutgers University in New Jersey this month, said on Saturday that she would no longer give the speech. Her announcement came after weeks of protests by some students and faculty members over the university’s decision to invite her.
Protesters had argued that Ms. Rice should not have been selected as the speaker because of her involvement in the Iraq war during the Bush administration. Students staged a sit-in last week outside the office of the university’s president, Robert L. Barchi, to protest the speech, scheduled for May 18th.
On Saturday, Ms. Rice released a statement saying that she did not want to detract from the day’s festivities.
Condi Rice (R-Chevron) should be giving her speech at The Hague. Kudos to the students at Rutgers for rejecting a Republican war criminal.
From Roll Call (H/T Daily Kos): Rep. Janice Hahn just wanted to hear evangelist Billy Graham’s daughter speak at Thursday’s National Day of Prayer gathering on Capitol Hill, but she ended up storming out of the room before that portion of the program could get underway.
The California Democrat said she was appalled by the remarks of Dr. James Dobson, saying she felt he went against the event’s stated nonpartisan and apolitical intent by bashing Barack Obama and calling him the “abortion president.”
“We have this annual, national day of prayer, which is supposed to bring the whole country together to pray for our nation, and typically you put politics aside and you come together,” Hahn told CQ Roll Call. “James Dobson just absolutely violated that, and I really think he did damage to what we try to do up here in Washington, D.C.”
Dobson, the founder of the conservative group Focus on the Family and host of the radio talk show “Family Talk,” told those assembled in the Cannon Caucus Room that Obama’s promotion of policies forcing taxpayers to fund abortion services was “offensive to [his] very conscience.”
For Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, if it isn’t hate-based, it isn’t prayer.
From Alternet: Glenn Beck: Hillary Clinton will have lesbian sex in White House.
Radio host Glenn Beck makes no secret of his distaste for Hillary Clinton. Another thing he dislikes: gay marriage.
Beck is not sure that Hillary is a lesbian, but he is sure she would be willing to say she is a lesbian if it helps her get elected. Of course, she would. This is a woman who had her daughter knocked up in order to be a grandmother while she is running for president. Hillary stops at nothing. Having shoes thrown at her. Doing whatever it is she is supposed to have done in Benghazi. Faking an aneurysm.
But the target here was gay marriage and all the politicians who opportunistically jumped on board to support it, all because of what Beck and his sidekicks scoffingly called “the arc of history.”
One of Beck’s sidekicks gave him an opening he just had to drive through when he mentioned that Hillary Clinton came out in favor of gay marriage last year.
“Did you just say, came out?” Beck asked with a little glint in his eye.
"I’m telling you," Beck said, "Hillary Clinton will be having sex with a woman on the White House desk if it becomes popular."
They all laughed and laughed, imagining that very scene.
This is just one of the seven vilest Republicans of last week. Click through for the other six.
Cartoon:
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Let me be the first to wish everyone a "Happy Cinco de Mayo Day" …
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(OK … now we got another oldie-but-goodie out of the way)
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Hmmm … I'll try the actual page, than just the picture:
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Starting to crossover from "Determined" to "Obsessed" …
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YIPPEE! It works! (And the sad thing is it's predictable, and not even that funny)
3rd times a charm nameless… 😆
May I have some ham and cheese with mustard with that on rye?
I had made the holiday graphic, but I forgot to post it until I saw this.
3:47 I've got to stop wasting so much time smelling the flowers.
5:56 – Puzzle
4:43 I got stung.
Won again! That was a surprise.
3:44 I wish I had been a flea on that bee's knee. Then I might have had better luck. That was a toughie! I notice the average is up to 9:18.
Pravda = Truth – we should be so lucky!
God bless the students at Rutgers University – hooray, they are willing to stand up for their principles!!
What IS Glenn Beck taking to make him so unspeakably unpleasant? Or does he just have an intravenous supply of hatred, malice and sleeze piped into his blood supply to rot his brain?
NY Times ~ Kudos to the students who protested! They were very effective. Condi will remain silent. You're right. The Hague should send her an invitation, or maybe a University in Spain?
Roll Call (Kos) ~ Dobson should be ashamed of himself. The National Day of Prayer is supposed to be non-partisan. Does he know what that means?
Alternet ~ His imagination is running on overtime again. I wish it would just carry him away, far, far away. I'm sure you didn't pick him as the worst of the week because I have a few that would beat him hands down. Please, everyone, click through and read them all for an education on how they think.
Cartoon ~ Unfair & Unbalanced properly defines them.
5:08 Yes, that certainly is purple.
NY Times – Of course the students did that right thing but it would have been even more fun had they not protested but instead chartered a plane and sent her off to the Hague when she set foot on the campus. I know, they are honest so don't do things like that.
Roll Call – I love this lady! Dobson is so smarmy – he will only spill the acid when he thinks he is surrounded by his own – which I guess he almost was. I have a small list I call my "progressive radar" where I make a note of the names and offices of politicians who are hardly known if at all but who do something progressive that is noteworthy. I have added Januce Hahn (D-CA dist 44) to it.
Alternet – Yeah, like they say, if gays get equal rights, everyone will want to be gay. Look at all the people who went out and became black when the Civil Rights Act passed. Right.
Cartoon – it's about as accurate a name as "Fair and balanced" is an accurate slogan.
Time 3:50 – that was just the bees knees, TC.
Why is Glenn Beck is unpleasant? Everyone has to be something and by Glenn Beck being, well Glenn Beck the rest of us are safe. He has that lot cornered, a sick, twisted mind that homophobic, racist and so filled with hate and distrust that his life must be filled with misery. But wait….he is also paid very well for every word he sputters, and that probably makes him very happy. Which is why I don't believe he is crazy, rather coldly calculating with each vile word.
Good for the students at Rutgers, I wonder if she was paid any way?
James Dobson on the other hand, is probably a mad hatter. Put politics aside? Oh Hahn you expect too much. Given a public forum, Dobson has to speak and his speech is always and dependably a concoction of lies and vitriol.
Pravda, Fox News, yep! I see a clear comparison.
Thanks TC, here is hoping you stay well.
How did you manage going for three weeks without doing laundry? Just asking because I would like to try that myself.
The New Yorker: I am happy to hear that college students are once again paying attention to what is happening in our country. This gives me hope.
Roll call: I have a friend who emails me articles from Dobson, and she believes everything he says. As you said, TC, he is a pseudo, supply side Christian.
Alternet: I clicked through all their vileness. I find it amazing that so many people believe this junk. Glen Beck is either out of his mind or a really good imitator of an idiot. He must be aspiring to outdo Rush.
Cartoon: Just like Fox News.
Puzzle — 3:44 I wish I had been a flea on that bee's knee. Then I might have had better luck. That was a toughie! I notice the average is up to 9:18.
NY Times — From http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/05/13/george-w-bush-dick-cheney-convicted-of-war-crimes/
"Former President Bush, Former Vice-President Dick Cheney, Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and the legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo that crafted the legal ‘justification’ for torture that basically said, ‘we can if we want to even if it’s illegal’ were the defendants. "
Too bad Condoleeza Rice was not included in that motley crew! Why anyone would ask her to speak given her history is beyond me. The students were correct to challenge the university's administration. After all, the graduation ceremony is THEIR fete.
Roll Call — Well there goes the neighbourhood! Dobson is an ass! I think we need a good temple clearing and he will be one of the first to go.
Alternet — "All racists are atheists"? How did that jack-ass come up with that. He's calling a whole lot of his fellow Republicanus/Teabaggers atheists. But don't they think that they are good God fearing Christians? HA!!! Pseudo Christians, haters . . . add to the list. I don't know who is the vilest, but they all are wacka-doodle!
Cartoon — If as Pat says "Pravda = Truth", then Fox News must mean there is an animal in the news room? Would it be a cancerous elephant?
I overslept again. Thanks and amen to all!