This must be very brief. They gave me a laxative this morning. It will force me out of the chair soon.
Broncos’ bye week. 
Hugs!!
It’s gotten much worse.
Oct 252015
TomCat
Oct 242015
I’m being short today, having spent the last 3 hours relying to email and working on computer problems. I feel tired. My breathing catheter is now capped during the day.
I promoted Joanne Dixon and JLA. They are now authors. I promoted Nameless and Lynn. They are now Administrators.
Please congratulate them. Hugs and thanks to all.
Oct 232015
I got the bed. I had to set off 4 smoke alarms and render 2 nurses unconscious to do so. My kitty dingles are finally starting to heal.
I had no time in the chair yesterday. I watched Benghazi BSorama. It was horrid. Hillary and the 5 Dems performed admirably. Republicans wasted $millions of your $$$.
The week after next I may disappear for a few days. It looks like I’ll be going back to surgery to finish repairing my stump, and I’ll need to reorganize.
Fab 4, you can now email me.
Major thanks and huge hugs to all.
Oct 212015
I’m still sick enough that I just deleted 3 Pp, before remembering to save. ARGH!
I paid my bills. All were overdue, because I’ve been out 2 weeks longer than I thought I had. I have no idea where they went.
I’m glad to learn Joe opted not to run. Webb did not surprise me either. As I said before, that snake is a Republican.
Tired and weak,
TC
Oct 202015
I seriously wondered when or if I could write to you, my beloved friends my favorite again. This is the first time I have been up in a chair with internet access, since my near-death experience over two weeks ago. This time has been hilariously painful. My butt and kitty dingles are raw with bed sores. They will finally put me in a larger room with a bari-bed tomorrow.
Thank you to Nameless, Lynn, JD, JLA, and so many more. I know I am alive because Comcast, having been told that I am in the hospital with an amputation, called to sell upgraded service 3 more times.
My phone is working, but I cannot always answer right away.
One of my favorite nurses, Lady Torquemada, greet you.
I’ll be back ASAP.
Sep 032015
After puttering around for a bit, unable to really get into gear, I came to the realization that there’s just no more gas in this tank, and I need to take a day for R & R. Tonight is a minor holy day in the Church of the ellipsoid Orb. It’s the last week of the preseason. My Broncos are having a service with the Cardinals. Unfortunately, it won’t be televised locally. The networks still think Portland is a suburb of Seattle, so all we get is the damn Seachickens game. I can see the replay, but not until Saturday night. Fantasy Football players, our season begins one week from tonight on 9/10. You should have your starting lineup set before then.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:09 (average 5:47). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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Sep 022015
In August, Politics Plus increased in activity slightly from July.
Here is our latest summary:
Data from August 2015:
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Reported period |
Month Aug 2015 |
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First visit |
01 Aug 2015 – 00:00 |
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Last visit |
31 Aug 2015 – 23:59 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
9,612
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32,079 (3.33 visits/visitor) |
91,883 (2.86 Pages/Visit) |
245,973 (7.66 Hits/Visit) |
3.09 GB (100.86 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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339,768 |
390,747 |
5.84 GB |
Data from August 2014:
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Reported period |
Month Aug 2014 |
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First visit |
01 Aug 2014 – 00:00 |
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Last visit |
31 Aug 2014 – 23:59 |
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Unique visitors |
Number of visits |
Pages |
Hits |
Bandwidth |
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Viewed traffic * |
10,783
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33,440 (3.1 visits/visitor) |
89,785 (2.68 Pages/Visit) |
248,922 (7.44 Hits/Visit) |
3.20 GB (100.28 KB/Visit) |
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Not viewed traffic * |
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316,168 |
381,627 |
4.61 GB |
This August was a mixed from last year, but more up.
Here is our latest demographic data from Quantcast:
They miss a ton of raw data, but among those they can identify they are a valuable source of information. We are still mostly older, well educated, poor and middle class, and politically active Democrats.
Here is our latest ClustrMap:
ClustrMap misses a lot of, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location. It shows only the visits from March 3 to August 20, when it was last updated.
Here are our top five articles:
Jane Smiley: Capitalist Pigs 1/17/2010 5,460
Bill Maher–New Rules–8/28 8/29/2015 296
Last Week’s Hilariously Unhinged Republican Moments 8/9/2015 278
Personal Update–8/22/2015 8/22/2015 238
Last Week’s Despicable Republican Moments 209
The count represents only the people who followed an external link to that specific article. I’m quite pleased that four from August made the cut, but I’m surprised one was a Personal Update. Perhaps we’re entering a pattern where our newer content drives more traffic, except for the one from 2010.
Here are our top non-blog/news referrers:
Care2 2,538
Google 1,164
Stumbleupon 268
Baidu 160
All but Google are up.
Here are our top blog/news referrers:
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://oakcreekforum.blogspot.com/
http://progressiveerupts.blogspot.com/
http://zenman1550.tumblr.com/
http://reconstitution.us/rcnew/
http://anaverageamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/
http://ragingprogressive.tumblr.com/
http://mockpaperscissors.com/
I have usually included fifteen here, but these eight are the only ones with two or more referrals. This is the one stat that still disappoints me most, because it means that we are no longer a go-to site for bloggers. However, it seems we’re becoming a go-to site for activists, which is also good.
Here are our top commentators:
jla (237)
Edie (166)
Lynn Squance (155)
Joanne D (144)
SoINeedAName (92)
Jim Phillips (74)
Lona Goudswaard (72)
Patty (54)
Vivian B. (47)
Pat A (46)
Jerry Critter (33)
mamabear (16)
Beth (12)
Avril Lomas (10)
Arielle (6)
Dotti Lydon (6)
There’s one extra because of a tie. As the resident Big Mouth, I don’t count. Those who leave their URLs in their comment headers, also get “linkey-love” here. People who submit articles to Care2 can use their submitted news link from there.
We have 304,347 links on other websites.
As of Midnight on September 1, we have 5,728 articles and 68,274 comments.
Kudos to Lona and Mamabear for posting the 67,000th and 68,000th comments.
I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar. Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use as your avatar. Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.
The political campaign is heating up much earlier than it normally has. Whether you support Bernie, Hillary, Joe (if he runs) or Martin, please base your arguments on the good things about your choice. However, it’s open season (politically) on the Republican candidates. They and the Republican Bubble Machine will be repeating so many lies so often that we’ll be hard pressed to keep repeating the truths. Expect little help from the media. I’ll do my best to assist you, by exposing the lies and presenting the truths clearly.
Thank you for all that you do, here and elsewhere. You make doing this job worth the effort!
Sep 022015
Another day has brought another rush trying to get things done. Today is a grocery delivery day, so I’ve been cleaning. No heat waves are forecast through Labor Day, but it has been very humid. I have a couple relatively light days tomorrow and Friday, so hopefully I can rest up then.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:14 (average 4:55). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Saying that “things just didn’t work out,” the billionaire Koch brothers have decided to put Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker up for sale.
The Kochs, who earlier had purchased Gov. Walker with great fanfare, announced their plan to sell the politician in a terse statement from Koch Industries headquarters in Wichita.
“Scott Walker is a fine individual, and we wish him well,” the Kochs’ statement read. “We are confident that he will be a good fit for some other billionaire industrialists.”
Republican insiders, however, called the Kochs’ plan to sell Walker highly optimistic, and noted that the market for the Wisconsin Governor was, at this point, virtually nonexistent.
The Kochs, who reportedly had been frustrated by Walker’s poor performance in the polls, finally decided to sell the Wisconsinite after last weekend’s odd pronouncement, in which he seemed to support a border wall with Canada.
You’d better wish them luck, Andy. The Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan will be harder to sell than the Brooklyn Bridge!
From Daily Kos: John Oliver is making his presence felt. After only about a year on the air, he’s influenced the FCC on NetNeutrality (causing their comments to overload), formed his own Church to make a point about "Prosperity Gospel" scams and engaged in an internet war with the President of Ecuador.
Now, he’s been cited by a Judge on one of the Courts just below the Supreme Court — the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. On his show on March 8, he mocked the lack of representation in US Territories because of a hundred year old group of Supreme Court cases — The Insular Cases.
I have no doubt that fascist five Injustices of SCROTUS will want to uphold the racism in The Insular Cases. These Americans should get to decide their own status.
From NY Times:
Defying the Supreme Court and saying she was acting “under God’s authority,” a county clerk in Kentucky denied marriage licenses to gay couples on Tuesday, less than a day after the court rejected her request for a delay.
Alex Wagner has the story on The Last Word.
…and more.
Her own marital history is the epitome of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian hypocrisy.
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