Writing for tomorrow, a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, I don’t even know when or with who my Broncos are worshiping. I have to go back to bed, while continuing to duck short takers, comments, and messages.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:31 (average 4:46). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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To all.
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I’m actually writing for today. Yesterday was a mess. When I got to the move-in interview, they had the paperwork wrong,m and when I showed them their mistake, they told me that I do not qualify for the unit after all. After arguing for half an hour trying to explain why I do qualify, they finally put me with the Financial Services Director, who at least knew enough to realize that I am right, but needed more documentation to prove it. I ended up having to take two more trips between their office and where I live now and their office for additional documentation. Finally the move-in meeting was concluded, and I got the keys late in the afternoon. From there I went to the building and measured. All in all, I walked about two miles, had to climb this building’s horrid stairs three times, and and took four cab rides. If the woman who helps me clean had not been with me all day to help, I would not have made it. I returned home exhausted, but only slept a couple hours because Guitar Man went on a binge.
I have not even looked at comments, let alone answered them, so thank you to all who commented. Today, there are no short takes. For the next few days, we’ll just see what the days bring.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:00 (average 4:51). To do it click here. How did you do?
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Sorry this is a day late.
I’m writing for tomorrow, and this was to be tomorrow’s only article, but today’s news is too big not to cover, so today I’m working harder than a hooker at a Republican family values convention. Tomorrow is take legal possession and start planning the specifics day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:29 (average 5:33). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: On today’s show Rush Limbaugh got in [Limbarf delinked] a couple of digs at the embattled mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
Apparently completely deaf to irony in his own words, Limbaugh made a snide reference to Ford’s drug problem before taking aim at his obesity:
Now, this is the guy who admitted he got drunk and, what, he smoked crack?
Yeah, he smoked it in a "drunken stupor," and he refuses to resign, and they’re trying to strip his powers as mayor away. His brother’s backing him up, but he won’t quit. He’s a big, obese guy. He looks like Goldfinger with about, oh, 50 or 60 extra pounds, maybe a hundred extra pounds or whatever.
Talk about the pot and the kettle! That’s sooooooo Republican!
From NY Times: In an alarming 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court turned away an emergency application to block a new Texas law that is impeding access to safe and legal abortion care in the state. The ruling leaves in place an order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that allowed the law go into effect while it considers an appeal.
This is is a complete sham from the Fascist Five Republican Injustices of SCROTUS, the source of Constitutional VD! Once the clinics are closed, and the employees gone, it will be to late, and all the other services, let alone abortion, those clinics have provided to women will also be gone.
From MSNBC: Two of my favorite ladies discuss what Democrats want.
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For far too long Democrats have been on the defensive from Republican assaults on earned entitlements. Every compromise has moved the center further to the right, so today the center is way to the right of where the left was fifty years ago. It’s time to start going on offense and move the center back toward where it used to be. For those of you who think there is no difference between the parties. This is why you are mistaken.
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I’m writing for tomorrow and hurrying to get this, tomorrow’s only article, done before going for my eligibility interview for point-to-point disability transit. Unless things change, moving day is 12/11, and the movers I’m hiring will do most of the work. Financially I won’t be hit overly hard by this, because I have been delaying gratification on things I wanted, and at times needed, for a couple of years to bury money in my kitty box to make this happen. Fantasy football players, don’t forget to be set for the Thursday night game.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:53 (average 4:58). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Upworthy: What’s It Really Like To Be Transgender? Raw Answers To The Questions You’ve Been Too Nervous To Ask
Kudos to Johnnyboyxo. Sie has a more authentic sense of self than any Republican hatemonger.
From MSNBC: Republicans abandon the facts to bash Obama.
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Rachel can call it Obama Derangement Syndrome, but I’ll call it the hypocrisy of TEAbuggery. Obama may have omitted God, but it must have been edited into the Gettysburg address, because the earliest versions also omit it. Republicans, however, omit God from Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity.
From NY Times: Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, is prepared to move forward with a vote that could severely limit the minority party’s ability to filibuster presidential nominees, possibly as early as this week, Democrats said Tuesday.
Exasperated with the refusal of Senate Republicans to confirm many of President Obama’s nominees, Mr. Reid has been speaking individually with members of his caucus to gauge whether there is enough support to change filibuster rules.
On at least three previous occasions the Senate votes to Nuke the Republican Filibastards have been there. The last time Republicans withdrew the filibuster on several nominees, including the head of the CFPB. The two times before that, Leg Hound Harry made a gentlemen’s agreement with Republicans that lasted less than a month, before Republicans broke their promise. Senate Republicans are happy to promise on their honor, because most have none.
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I’m writing for tomorrow, and as I trust you gathered from the lead article, it finally came together on my new place. As a result, my schedule will be quite erratic over the next month, and I may or may not be blogging on any given day, with or without notice. Tomorrow I will be going for my disabled transit interview. Friday I will be getting the key and undergoing the whole rental process at the building owner’s office. From there I will go to the building, measure, and check out a few more details. Saturday and Sunday I will be planning what to buy and what will go where. Next week I will be making like a Republican: spend, spend, spend! For the next two weeks, I shall be there during the day on and off to get deliveries and arrange things. Shortly after the 1st, I’ll be moving the most difficult thing: me and my kitty box. Then I will have a load of things to do like get new checks change my ID, update my voter registration, and change my address with a boatload of people with whom I do business. then there are the hundreds of things I haven’t thought of yet. If I got this busy digging in my kitty box, I’d hit China!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:07 (average 4:34). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football Report:
Here’s the latest from our own fantast football league, Lefty Blog Friends.
Scores:
Denver played a very conservative offensive game to protect Manning from the Chiefs’ powerful defense. Winning the game and keeping him healthy was worth the fantasy loss.
Standings:
I’m two games out again.
Short Takes:
From Upworthy: A Famous Columnist Has Trouble Defining Racism. Colbert Eats Him For Dinner.
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Richard Cohen is not a GOP racist, the Pope is not Catholic, and bears never, ever shit in the woods!
From YouTube: Sarah Silverman To Chris Hayes: I Think Vaginas Really, Really Scare People.
I’ll say one thing for certain! The one on Wendy Davis sure scares the Republican Party!!
From MSNBC: TEAbuggering ObamaCare at the state level
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Don’t be a vicious Koch Sucker Support ObamaCare, dump Republicans, and then, support Medicare for all.
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Version 2 is long past due!!
I’m writing for tomorrow, several hours later than I normally do. I’m running a little short on sleep as Guitar Man went off on a drug binge, so I’m feeling pooped. Hopefully I can catch a few Zs before I post this after midnight.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:54 (average 4:24). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Faced with a barrage of new questions about the Affordable Care Act, President Obama cut short a White House press conference today, telling the stunned press corps, “You know what? Everybody can keep their damn insurance.”
Glaring at the reporters, the President continued, “You heard me. If your insurance is crappy, then you just go ahead and keep it—the crappier, the better. Let’s pretend this whole thing never happened.”
A vein in his forehead visibly throbbing, the President added, “You know, I really wish I hadn’t spent the last three years of my life on this thing. I should’ve just gone around invading countries for no reason. That would’ve made everybody happy. Well, live and learn.”…
Of course he didn’t really say that, but he damn well should have!
From TPM: The Senate is expected to hold a procedural vote late Monday afternoon on the nomination of Robert Wilkins to the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals…
…Democrats have threatened to change the rules and scrap the filibuster for judges if the GOP sustains its blockade, but Republicans say they don’t take their threats seriously.
Harry, it’s time to get out the BIG ones and shine them!
From Washington Post: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says he doesn’t want to run for president, but will consider it if the race is without a strong liberal voice.
In an interview with the Burlington Free Press, Sanders said he would entertain the idea of running if there’s no viable option speaking to the issues he cares about…
…Were Sanders to run as an independent, it would certainly be cause for concern among Democrats. The self-described democratic socialist, who caucuses with Senate Democrats, doesn’t have a huge nationwide following but could pull real votes from the political left if there is unhappiness with the Democratic nominee.
If Bernie runs for the Democratic nomination, I’ll support him from second one. If he runs as an Independent, it will tear my heart out, because I envision Sanders 35%, Clinton 29%, and Cruz (or an squally bad Republican) 36%. Welcome to the Fifth Reich. I suspect that what he’s really doing is trying to coax Elizabeth Warren into running as a Democrat..
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Even then Republicans were not able to function as members of the world community, and through their isolationism. and in some cases, direct support for the German Reich later on, helped bring about WWII.
I’m writing for tomorrow and meditating lightly to the game in the background. Of course, I’m really waiting for the Broncos worship, may the holy light of the Ellipsoid Orb bless them. When this posts, the results will be posted below. The natives were quiet late last night, and I actually got some sleep.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:06 (average 5:26). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Religious Ecstasy:
The so-called ‘best defense in the league’ never knocked Manning down!
Short Takes:
From NY Times: …Economists see it the same way, concerned that joblessness lasting more than six months is a major factor preventing people from getting rehired, with potentially grave consequences for tens of millions of Americans.
The long-term jobless, after all, tend to be in poorer health, and to have higher rates of suicide and strained family relations. Even the children of the long-term unemployed see lower earnings down the road.
The consequences are grave for the country, too: lost production, increased social spending, decreased tax revenue and slower growth. Policy makers and academics are now asking whether an improving economy might absorb those workers in time to prevent long-term economic damage.
This underlines why we need government to do what business can’t or won’t. A big public works project, like FDR’s CCC, would not only rebuild our crumbling infrastructure, so desperately in need of repair, but also, put people back to work in a way that removes the stigma of long term unemployment.
From Alternet: “Historian” David Barton: True Christian soldiers wouldn’t have PTSD.
Atheism is apparently a problem in the military, too. Because if soldiers were true Christians, they would not feel bad about killing enemies and sometimes non-combatants. They would not come home traumatized and have all these psychological problems.
Christian “historian” David Barton, the one who blamed Typhoon Haiyan on women having legal abortions, celebrated Veteran’s Day by criticizing veterans who feel at all guilty for what they do on the battlefield. If they read their Bible, he and televangelist Kenneth Copeland agreed on Believer’s Voice of Victory, they’d read in Numbers 32 that soldiers “shall return and be guiltless before the Lord” and that means that they wouldn’t have PTSD.
“You don’t take drugs to get rid of it, it doesn’t take psychology; that promise right there will get rid of it,” Copeland said.
When you go to war God’s way, Barton chimed in, “not only are you guiltless for having done that, you’re esteemed.”
So, get it together veterans!
Aside from being typical of how Republicans support veterans, this InsaniTEA From Fartin’ Barton is just one of ten deranged dispatches by the Republican wackosphere, from just last week. Click through for the other nine.
From Crooks and Liars: CNN on Saturday filled nearly ten minutes of airtime by discussing how President Barack Obama was like crack-smoking Toronto Rob Ford.
"The Most Trusted Name in News" began the segment with a split-screen image of Obama and Ford. The network then likened Obama’s recent admission that he was "not a perfect man" because of the health care reform roll-out to Ford’s insistence that he did not have oral sex with a staffer.
Republicans will spread that ridiculous screenshot far and wide. Comparing Obama to Ford (R-Canada) is patently absurd. I say again, CNN needs to be renamed Faux Noise, Jr.
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I’m writing for tomorrow, a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. My Broncos receive the honor of the Sunday Night Worship with the only undefeated congregation, and the Bronco’s long time division rival, the Chiefs. I guess I don’t have to tell you I’ll be meditating.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Tomorrow’s took me 4:35 (average 4:29). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From MSNBC: Rachel Maddow brings of the latest on the doings in the Totalitarian Fascist Plutocracy of Fitzwalkerstan.
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It could not be more clear that blatant election theft is the intent of Fartfuhrer Walker and his Koch sucking cronies.
From AP: Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who played a central role in the government’s response to the financial crisis of 2008-2009, is joining private equity firm Warburg Pincus LLC.
The firm announced Saturday that Geithner will serve as its president and managing director starting March 1.
Am I the only one not surprised that Timmy the Tool moved right in to a position as a vulture capitalist, running a hedge fund? I say again, Obama should have kept his own advisors instead of hiring Hillary’s people.
From Raw Story: Friday night, during his weekly “New Rules” segment, Bill Maher slammed the U.S. Supreme Court — and in particular Chief Justice John Roberts — for pretending that decisions like the Citizens United ruling and gutting the Voting Rights Act (VRA) won’t have any consequences.
Bill was less funny than usual, and it’s not just the South, but he sure has the five Injustices of SCROTUS pegged!!
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That was when NBC blocked the blessed holy light from the Ellipsoid Orb.