The only news is that, except for the necessities of feeding myself, I’m staying down.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:47 (average 5:21). To do it click here. How did you do?
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To the chagrin of certain Republicans who want to own more that one.
Spring sprang, and I didn’t notice. Since it’s been a little over a week, I exchanged messages with my doctor yesterday. The seasonal grunge has a life-span of about three weeks. Because of the severity of my COPD, I tend to get double the norm. She says that I’m doing the right things and wants to see me in April, unless I get worse in the interim. To you, I may seem worse than I have in the past, because I used to keep going instead of taking care of myself.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:09 (average 5:00). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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I’m feeling about the same, so this is just a brief note to let you know that I’m alive, that I’m taking care of myself, that I care about you, and that the Republican Party is still… Republican.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:47 (average 4:58). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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Yesterday’s grocery duties added to some emergency volunteer work I had to to today consumed all my available energy, so it’s back to bed for me.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:05 (average 6:03). To do it click here. How did you do?
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I’m still feeling quite ill, so I’m staying down, except that today is a grocery delivery day. I’m figuring that putting them way, when they arrive, will max out my available effort for the day. Does anyone know what happened to Mamabear at Care2? She and the Polotics Plus group she ran there disappeared.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today's took me 2:51 (average 4:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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For those that didn't understand yesterday.
Under no circumstances do I feel well enough to be writing articles, but I need to let folks know that I’m alive and celebrate the holiday. By using old Andy items as Short Takes, I get to duck doing research.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:54 (average 5:10). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un said on Tuesday that he feels “snubbed” by the decision of forty-seven Republican senators to write a letter to Iran but not to him, the official North Korean news agency reported.
In an unusually forthcoming interview with the Korean Central News Agency (K.C.N.A.), Kim said it was “hurtful” that the Republicans would send a letter to one of the United States’ most longstanding enemies while “totally snubbing” another.
“Let’s just call it what it is: they’re playing favorites with enemies,” Kim said. “I try not to take things personally, but it’s hard to see them sending letters to Iran without feeling a little bit hurt.”
Andy missed the boat on this one. Kim (R-NK) continues to set an example for his fellow Republicans, so they have no reason to threaten him.
From The New Yorker: Hoping to quell the controversy over e-mails missing from her private account, the former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday released twenty thousand spam e-mails she received from Old Navy.
“In an effort to be transparent, I have gone above and beyond what is required of me by law and released every last e-mail I received from this retailer,” she told reporters. “Now I think we can all consider this case closed.”
The e-mails reveal an extensive one-way correspondence between Clinton and Old Navy, as the retailer sometimes contacted her up to a dozen times in a single day to inform her of sales and other offers.
“This is one of the main reasons I set up a private e-mail account,” she said. “I did not want spam from Old Navy clogging up the State Department servers.”
Dang Andy! All she got from Old Navy was a dozen a day? That’s well under their norm for SPAMMING, and they’re nowhere near as bad as the DCCC!
From The New Yorker: After a challenging week for the legislative body, the approval rating of the United States Congress has shrunk to a point where it is no longer detectable by the technology currently available, a leading pollster said on Friday.
Davis Logsdon, who heads the highly regarded Opinion Research Institute at the University of Minnesota, said that his polling unit has developed highly sensitive measurement technology in recent years to gauge Congress’s popularity as it fell into the single digits, but added that “as of this week, Congress is basically flatlining.”
“At the beginning of the week, you could still see a slight flicker of approval for Congress,” he said. “Then—bam!—the lights went out.”
Logsdon said, however, that people should resist drawing the conclusion that Congress’s approval rating now stands at zero. “They may have support in the range of .0001 per cent or, say, .0000001 per cent,” he said. “Our equipment just isn’t advanced enough to measure it.”
Andy, the technology to measure Republican approval does exist. It’s called a KASHIT detector.
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I’m feeling about the same, and I’m still doing all the things I need to do to care for myself.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:24 (average 5:38), To do it, click here. How did you do?
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