Play Fantasy Football with Lefties!

 Posted by at 11:50 pm  Blog News, Personal
Aug 212011
 

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Being a devout adherent of the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, I intend to manage another fantasy football league this year. The league is Lefty Blog Friends and will be at NFL.com. Two spots are full, so there are eight openings.  It’s a keeper league, so those who choose to stay in it next year will be able to hang onto a key player.  There will be a live draft on Saturday, September 3, at 11 AM Pacific Daylight time  (2 PM EDT).  There is no charge to play.  Ladies are welcome.  In fact a woman won three years ago.  Republicans, Teabaggers, etc., are NOT welcome.  This is a place for lefties to relax.

One of the sites where I intend to share this has an infestation of insaniTEA, so I won’t be sharing the league ID and password here.  If you want to play, email me: tomcat@politicsplus.org. Let me know your ID at the site where you saw the notice where you saw the notice or the name you use here at PP, and I’ll email you the league ID and password, and send you an invitation from there.

This is a repost, and we still only have two spots filled, Rob and me.  Unless we get at least six more, I’ll have to close the league.

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SoINeedAName Has a BIG Mouth ;-)

 Posted by at 1:11 am  Blog News
Aug 182011
 

 

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This is Nameless Fourth Big Mouth Award, having won last September, last May and last month. He isn’t a blogger, so you can’t follow him home, but he comments almost daily here.  His ability to come up with links to increase our understanding on virtually any subject is still a gift for which I am very grateful.  I’m running out of good things to say about him, so I’ll clip a comment from one of our readers, AnnH.

Always read your comments because they are interesting and at times hilarious (“Let’s see your papers” to Corporate people). Thanks for the link(s).

Congrats, Nameless!

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Poll Results–8/16/2011

 Posted by at 12:53 am  Blog News
Aug 162011
 

Here are result of our responsibility for the credit downgrade poll:

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And here are your comments.

From Mary S. on August 11, 2011 at 6:12 am. 

 

If we had a press that told the truth and kept people informed things might have been different.

 

From andy p on August 10, 2011 at 9:16 pm. 

 

True, the president has no balls (shriveled raisins perhaps, if not total castration). But the rethuglicans have no scruples. The kidnapper is 100% responsible for taking a hostage.

 

From Chris M. on August 8, 2011 at 7:48 am. 

 

Difficult to give 100% of the blame to Republicans when the Democrats don’t have the balls to stand up and fight for what a majority of America wants and needs.

 

From Lisa G. on August 6, 2011 at 8:10 pm. 

 

I think we should make "Deficits don’t matter" Cheney pay off the deficit portion amassed during his administration.

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Most thought Republicans are 100% responsible.  I disagreed.  I voted 90%, because Republicans might not have believed they could get away with economic terrorism had Obama not caved-in on extending tax cuts for the rich.

Enjoy and vote in the new poll.

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Open Thread–8/14/2011

 Posted by at 12:08 am  Blog News, Open Thread, Personal
Aug 142011
 

Yesterday there was little improvement in my Republicanitis.  I’m so full of Republicans that Imodium AD has not worked and trips to the throne have been too frequent to allow much sleep, let alone research.  I am not current on replies and will catch up when I can.

Jig Zone Puzzles:

Yesterday it took me 2:56 (average 4:24).  To do it click here.

Today it took me 3:07 (average 4:47).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

I had a lot of motivation to hurry. 🙁

Short Takes:

From SoINeedAName:  Left in a comment

Timely and appropriate.

From ABC: A federal appeals court in Atlanta on Friday struck down a key provision of the Obama administration’s health care reform law, ruling that Congress exceeded its authority in mandating that most Americans buy health insurance by 2014 or face a penalty.

At the Federal Appeals Court level that’s one for and one against.  Bring on Medicare for all!

From Common Dreams: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will submit an application for full U.N. membership at the General Assembly next month, his foreign minister said on Saturday, without specifying exactly when the request would be made.

I support recognition, and oppose the US opposition to it.

From Me: The Looney Toons Follies in Iowa

Iowa Straw Poll

 

Michele Bachmann

4,823

Ron Paul

4,671

Tim Pawlenty

2,293

Rick Santorum

1,657

Herman Cain

1,456

Rick Perry

718

Mitt Romney

567

Newt Gingrich

385

Jon Huntsman

69

Thaddeus McCotter

35

Guess who provided the most free busses and paid for the most $30 tickets?

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Open Thread–8/11/2011

 Posted by at 1:11 am  Blog News, Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Aug 112011
 

Yesterday I slept most of the day, after being up all night with Wisconsin.  I contacted the people at SendLove.to and notified them about the conflict their plugin had with the nesting indentation structure of our comments.  They had been unaware of it, but they had the problem fixed by the end of the day.  I’m impressed.  Have you tried it and what do you think?  I’m current on replies.  Today I have chores and expect heat to beat.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 3:45 (average 5:38).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Seattle Times: The Republican senators Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., named to the panel are Jon Kyl, of Arizona, Pat Toomey, of Pennsylvania, and Rob Portman, of Ohio. Toomey and Portman are serving their first terms in the Senate.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, chose three experienced legislators for the panel: Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling, of Texas; Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, of Michigan; and Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, of Michigan.

Reid said Tuesday that Sens. John Kerry, of Massachusetts, Max Baucus, of Montana, and Patty Murray, of Washington state, were his super-committee choices.

All six Republicans worship at the altar of Saint Grover.

From AP/Google: Republican presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann says she’s not a politician but a real person.

Does this remind you of “I am not a witch?”

From NY Times: Is the Obama White House planning an October surprise for next year to give the president’s re-election campaign a boost?

That’s the suspicion of Representative Peter T. King, the New York Republican who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. Mr. King has asked the inspectors general of the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency to investigate the administration’s cooperation with filmmakers planning a movie based on the Navy Seal raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Scheduled release date: Oct. 12, 2012 –- weeks before the Nov. 6 presidential election.

They took a different approach when they went to court to televise an anti-Democrat movie on right before an election.  In fact that was the only issue Citizens United was supposed to decide, before SCROTUS ran away with it.

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Open Thread–8/10/2011

 Posted by at 2:39 am  Blog News, Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Aug 102011
 

Yesterday I did my housework chores and installed a new plugin here called sendlove.to.  It recognizes famous people in my articles and gives you an opportunity to vote them up or down on a national network and to make comments about them in addition to the comments here.  To see it in action open the comments in any article.  I found a bug early this morning.  It interfered with our nested indents.  I’ll report it.  I am current on replies, but exhausted from missing sleep to track Wisconsin.  Tomorrow, I’m hiding.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 3:18 (average 4:54).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From TPM: An offshoot of the South Florida Tea Party called "Tea Party In Space" is looking to break apart the government’s socialist takeover of the final frontier.

Andrew L. Gasser launched Tea Party In Space [InsaniTEA delinked] in June as a way to "bring fiscal responsibility" into the space program, he told TPM Tuesday. He called the group, which was formed in conjunction with the South Florida Tea Party, the first "issue-specific" tea party in the country.

In matters pertaining to outer space and space cadets, Teabaggers may have a natural advantage.

From Think Progress: Tom Delay Wants a Government Shut Down Next Month

 

Doing too much harm is never enough for them.

From Reuters: A U.S. regulator sued Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), accusing the bank of violating federal and state law by selling risky mortgage-backed securities to two credit unions that later failed.

The National Credit Union Administration is seeking more than $491 million of damages related to the sale of about $1.18 billion of securities, according to the agency and its lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. district court in Los Angeles.

Keep those lawsuits coming!

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Poll Results–8/7/2011

 Posted by at 1:46 am  Blog News
Aug 072011
 

Here are the results of the Republican criminal blackmail poll.

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And here are your comments

From Lisa G. on July 31, 2011 at 3:37 pm. 

I had a hard time between Constitutional option and economic nightmare. I really think it’s going to be both. We’ll have to see if Obama has the balls to use the 14th amendment.

I had to pull this one early, because the issue became moot.  There turned out to be two correct answers: a compromise that gives Republican criminals too much and an economic nightmare.

I was half right.

I have put up a new poll for the first half of August.

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