Politics Plus

Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and the Denver congregation’s meditation with Houston is on TV here. :-)  I’m current with replies.  Tomorrow I have an all day appointment, so I may post nothing at all.  Tuesday and Thursday are prison volunteer days, and Wednesday and Friday, I should be close to useless recovering from them.  color me scarce all week.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:07 (average 5:24).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From MoveOn: SHOCKING: The Truth About How Walmart Treats The Employees You Don’t See

If Willard gets to change America’s work environment, making it more like the Chinese factory he so admires, the one where the workers sleep triple bunked, I don’t have to wonder what company will be leading the way to help him. I have been boycotting Wal-fart for over 10 years because of how they treat their employees. There are plenty of other reasons from which to choose, too.

From NY Times: At the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., he [Ralph Reed] was sought after by party luminaries and afforded the ultimate status accommodation, a room in the same hotel as Mitt Romney. And soon he plans to unleash a sophisticated, microtargeted get-out-the-evangelical-vote operation that he believes could nudge open a margin of victory if Mr. Romney can keep the race close.

This is the same Ralph Reed that convinced evangelicals to donate to a campaign to deny the workers un the Marianas a minimum wage. He told them that the Chinese women were being converted to Christianity. However the women really worked in slave labor camps enduring forced prostitution to enrich Reed’s clients. This is the man Willard has chosen for his get-out-the-vote effort.

From Lebanon Daily Record: Republican Rep. Todd Akin’s comments about rape are evidence of his extremism on several issues, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Friday at the first debate between the Missouri Senate candidates. Akin painted his opponent as a big-spender who votes 90 percent of the time with President Barack Obama.

Republicans have long looked at Missouri as a winnable state in the effort to gain control of the Senate. Akin, 65, a six-term congressman from suburban St. Louis, won a hotly contested three-way race for the GOP Senate nomination on Aug. 7.

But just weeks later, Akin set off a furor in a televised interview by saying that women’s bodies have a natural defense against pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."

Clair McCaskill is, in part, a DINO, but considering her opponent, I’ll take the DINO.

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Yesterday I ran errands after blogging, and last night was chilly enough that I had to put a blanket on my bed.  I thoroughly enjoyed feeling warm without sweating.  I’m current with replies, and tomorrow appears routine.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:14 (average 4:56).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: One Simple Graphic About Jobs That Will Make You Very Angry

Nevertheless, Republicans are hard at work on their jobs program: moving OUR jobs overseas.

From NY Times: Mitt Romney entered the final months of the presidential campaign with a cash balance of just $35 million, racing to find new large donors and rally low-dollar contributors in August even while he raised tens of millions of dollars for the Republican Party.

Lord Willard? Short of money?!!? What poetic justice!

From YouTube: Sarah Silverman | Election 2012 – Voter Fraud

Warning: do not play in places or in front of people if extreme profanity is inappropriate.

She could have been more delicate, but not more hilarious or more accurate!

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Yesterday I must have been really pooped.  I posted late, because I fell asleep at my desk, and when I finished blogging, I ate and slept from 4:00 PM until 3:45 AM with a couple short breaks.  I’m current with replies.  Tomorrow appears routine.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:43 (average 4:35).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: Why Didn’t We Listen To Teddy Roosevelt Over 100 Years Ago?

I can abide unlimited individual contributions, IF AND ONLY IF fully disclosed, but I still favor 100% publically financed campaigns. Taking the money out of politics puts the will of the voters back into politics.

From The Colbert Report: Mitt Romney’s secret video.

Hilarious, but spot-on!

From The New Yorker: In what his campaign described today as a bold strategy to insure victory in the Presidential contest, Republican nominee Mitt Romney will undergo a procedure to have his mouth wired shut until Tuesday, November 6th.

The decision reportedly was made in response to the release earlier in the day of rare video footage showing Mr. Romney saying what he really thinks.

They better make sure his butt stays open. Otherwise, he’ll explode!

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Yesterday I finished blogging late and meditated upon the Ellipsoid Orb.  I’ll be leaving for an ultrasound on my bad leg shortly.  I am not current with replies, and doubt that I can catch up before tomorrow.  This is forecast to be the hottest day of the current (and hopefully final) heat wave, and I expect temperatures in my closed-up apartment to be near 100°, when I return.  Tomorrow appears hot, but routine.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 6:14 (average 6:34).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?  I stunk!!

Short Takes:

From MoveOn: Bernie Sanders Slays The GOP ”Debt” Monster With 5 Minutes Of Pure Common Sense

Willard and the 1% have $32 trillion rat holed in offshore tax shelters. That is the money that Republicans promised would trickle down. So Bernie is spot on. Balance the budget on the plutocratic beneficiaries of Supply-side wealth theft: Offshore Willard and his 1% cronies.

From Mediaite: “Everyone keeps talking about this ‘apology tour’ and ‘apologies’ from the President,” said O’Brien. “And I’m trying to find the words “I’m sorry, I apologize’ in any of those speeches — which I have the text of all those speeches in front of me. None of those speeches at all. And if you go to factcheck.org, which we check in a lot, they all say the same thing. They fact check this.”

“I don’t care what Fact Check says,” said King [Peter King (R-NY)].

Peter King is committing sedition and is not concerned with facts.

From Huffington Post: The polling bump produced by the Democratic National Convention appears to have helped more than just President Barack Obama, as two new polls in Massachusetts also show a parallel rise in the standings of Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren.

The two new polls, both released on Sunday, show Warren with slim leads over Republican Senator Scott Brown. The first, conducted by Western New England University’s Polling Institute (WNEU) in partnership with the website MassLive.com, shows Warren leading by 6 percentage points (50 percent to 44 percent). A previous WNEU poll fielded in June had shown Warren with a narrower 2-point edge over Brown (45 percent to 43 percent).

That is wonderful news!!

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