Happy Birthday
TomCat!
Hope you feel better soon too.
Mar 132017
Mar 122017
I’m still sick. Wendy is coming. Hugs! RESIST!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:20 (average 4:43). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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Mar 112017
A physician's assistant came yesterday. She prescribed Doxycycline and Benzonatate. I still feel awful. Hugs! RESIST!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today's took me 3:10 (average 4:31). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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Mar 102017
I’m feeling really horrid, so I’m staying down. Hugs!! RESIST!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:50 (average 4:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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And the truck is just around the bend and coming fast.
Mar 092017
I feel like crap. This is today’s only article. Hugs!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:49 (average 7:10). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: At a press conference on Tuesday morning, Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, told reporters that people who are pushed out of windows are “extremely lucky” because they get “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fly through the air.”
“Ever since the dawn of civilization, mankind has been enchanted by the dream of flight,” Carson said. “People who get pushed out of windows get to realize that cherished dream.”
“That’s what makes America a great country,” he continued. “People are pushed out of windows every day here.”
Sorry Andy. I don’t believe you. The link between getting pushed out a window and the brief similarity between falling and flight is far too great an intellectual hurdle for Braindead Ben. RESIST!!
From YouTube (GQ Channel): The Crisis of Trump’s Conspiracy Theories | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
Like I said, the Resident is NOT a President!! RESIST!!
From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): That Was the Week that WTF
Sam still has the Fuhrer down pat! RESIST!!
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Mar 082017
I have come down with the flu, but I still have to go out. This is one meeting I cannot miss. I will post this when I return, so you will know I made it OK. I may or may not be writing tomorrow, depending on how I feel. Hugs!!
I’m back safe. Please pardon me while I go bury myself in my kitty box.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:38 (average 4:46). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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Mar 072017
I'm having a very difficult day. Last night was so muggy and noisy that I ably slept for about ninety minutes. Safeway.com will be delivering groceries in the next hour and forty minutes. When they do, I have to unpack and put them away, without the help I normally get from Store to Door. I already feel exhausted. Please expect no more than a personal update from me tomorrow. I have a meeting.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today's took me 4:52 (average 4:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump’s claim that Barack Obama wiretapped him received a strong denial on Monday from the former President, who said to reporters, “Like I’d want to hear more from that fool?”
Obama said that, when he first saw Trump’s allegations on Twitter, “My first thought was, Only a narcissist on the scale of Donald Trump would think people want to hear more from him than they currently do. If anything, I think we’d all like to hear way, way less.”
He said that his wife, Michelle, agreed that the idea of his wanting to hear more from Donald Trump “was one of the funniest things she’s ever heard.”
LOL Andy! Is that an exact quote? It could be! RESIST!!
From NY Times: President Trump’s executive order barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries experienced nearly universal defeat in the federal courts. On Monday, he issued a revised version of that order, but it still suffers from a fundamental, and fatal, flaw: It constitutes unlawful religious discrimination.
On the surface, this revised order looks different from the first version. It explicitly exempts Iraq from the travel ban, thus reducing the number of affected countries to six, as well as lawful permanent residents (that is, green card holders) and people who have visas. It no longer categorically bars Syrian refugees or includes a religious test to determine which refugees may enter the country. And in a marked departure from the earlier order, it goes into effect in 10 days, so that the chaos that unfolded in airports around the world when the January order became effective presumably won’t happen again.
These changes are, no doubt, intended to address the due process concerns that led the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to affirm a lower-court ruling that put a hold on part of the original order. But while these changes are important, they do not fix the core problem with the executive order: The administration is waging an all-out assault on Islam and Muslims.
That’s because anti-Muslim bias and bigotry that characterized the original travel ban remain in this revised version. The order is still limited to only Muslim-majority countries: namely, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Residents of those countries — and only those countries — will be severely restricted in their ability to travel into the United States for 90 days. Left off are the predominately Christian countries that the State Department lists as “Terrorist Safe Havens” like Colombia, the Philippines and Venezuela.
The Fuhrer's underlying motives for this are still hatred and bigotry. RESIST!!
From YouTube (GQ Channel): The Russian Developments That Matter Most | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
Flushing Trump is not enough. Every Republican must be removed from office. RESIST!!
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Mar 062017
For the next week I may be a bit scarce. I have a grocery delivery tomorrow from Safeway.com, because on Wednesday, I have to go out for an annual meeting, so expect only a Personal Update that day. Next Monday I shall be 39 for the 31st consecutive time, but Wendy works and I have a Urologist appointment, so on Sunday Wendy wants to celebrate with a surprise. In any case, please expect only Personal Updates both days.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:26 (average 8:31). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (LWT Channel): Dalai Lama: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
I have to admire the Dalai Lama’s positivity toward the enemies of his people. I can’t imagine being that positive to the Fuhrer. RESIST!!
From CNN: About two-thirds of Americans say a special prosecutor should investigate contacts between Russians and Trump campaign associates, according to a new CNN/ORC poll, and 55% say they are at least somewhat concerned by reports that some connected to the Trump campaign had contact with suspected Russian operatives.
However, the steady stream of news about investigations into those contacts doesn’t appear to have affected President Donald Trump’s approval rating, which ticked up only one percentage point — 44% to 45% — from January.
Concerns about the reported contacts are closely tied to partisanship, with 71% of Democrats saying they are "very concerned" about it while 54% of Republicans say they have no concerns "at all" about the reports.
It boggles my mind that 29% of Democrats and 54% of Republicans are not concerned that Republican campaign officials were in contact with Russian intelligence operatives at the same time Russian intelligence were conspiring and interfering to influence our election on Trump’s behalf. It means that 29% of Democrats are idiots and 54% of Republicans are idiots, traitors or both. RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: With reports that unpopular orange-tinted President Donald Trump and Republicans plan on obliterating the EPA’s budget this coming year, many of the people who voted for him might be getting a rude awakening. States like Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin enjoy the waters of the Great Lakes, and the EPA is one of those agencies that tries to ensure that those lakes can be enjoyable for generations to come.
The National Association of Clean Air Agencies confirmed for the Free Press late Thursday that an initial proposal from the White House Office of Management and Budget calls for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative to be cut from $300 million a year to about $10 million.
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If the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative is targeted for such a drastic reduction — and it is by far the largest dollar cut on Davis’ partial list from the association’s data — it would decimate a program that has helped pay to restore wetlands and improve water quality across the Upper Midwest.
Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio and Pennsylvania — Great Lakes states that backed Trump in the election last year — have all received funding under the initiative, which many lawmakers of both parties in the region have steadfastly supported even when other Republicans have moved to reduce it.
Once again, it’s time for people, who voted for Trump to take the position to receive his thanks to you. Drop your pants, bend over, and grab your ankles. RESIST!!
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