I’m still quite I’ll and could manage only this and the holiday greeting.
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Mar 312012
I’m still quite ill. Will keep you posted.
Mar 302012
Last night my COPD was bad, and my coughing so severe that neighbors came to the door to see if I was OK. I needed to stay down today.
Mar 292012
Yesterday I got the blog up and that’s about all. I’m feeling slightly better today. I’m current with replies. Tomorrow I have lots of volunteer paperwork to do.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:58 (average 5:33). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Colbert Nation: Barack Obama-Gun Control Conspiracy
The fear of not being able to buy guns during a second Obama term leads to Americans buying so many guns that now they can’t buy any guns, just like they feared.
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Loved it! Hat-Tip: CaityJ
From MoveOn: Rep. Bobby Rush Silenced And Kicked Off House Floor When He Raises Hoodie For Trayvon
Republicans break their own House Rules with high-fiber regularity. This comes down to love of violence and racism.
From National Post: An Oklahoma judge has rejected as unconstitutional a state law that would have required women seeking an abortion to first view an ultrasound image and listen to a doctor’s description of the fetus.
The Ultrasound Act was approved in 2010 when the Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate overrode a veto issued by then-Gov. Brad Henry, a Democrat. The law was immediately blocked by a temporary injunction and never was enforced.
Let’s hear it for the judge!
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Mar 282012
Yesterday I had a COPD flare-up so severe, that I had to cancel my work in prison and return to bed. Spring is usually the worst time of year for this. Today I’m trying to get the blog up, and it looks like I’ve made it. I’m current with replies, albeit tersely. Tomorrow is yet to be determined.
Jig Zone Puzzles:
Yesterday’s took me 3:08 (average 4:44). To do it click here. Today’s took me 3:43 (average 4:40). To do it click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From You Tube: We cannot allow Republicans to destroy this.
Stunningly Beautiful!
From MoveOn:
I could not have said it better!
From NY Times: After a series of violent episodes and setbacks, support for the war in Afghanistan has dropped sharply among both Republicans and Democrats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
The survey found that more than two-thirds of those polled — 69 percent — thought that the United States should not be at war in Afghanistan. Just four months ago, 53 percent said that Americans should no longer be fighting in the conflict, more than a decade old.
It’s time to begin to withdraw troops and keep it up until none remain.
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Mar 262012
I got up a couple hours early this morning to get a head start, because I have a month’s groceries being delivered today, and I’ll be pooped when I get them unpacked and put away. I’m current with replies. Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, so There may be no articles. It will depend on how the day goes.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:59 (average 4:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The Guardian: The US and China have agreed to co-ordinate their response if North Korea goes through with a planned rocket launch next month, a day after Barack Obama urged Beijing to use its influence to rein in its unpredictable ally.
Speaking at the start of a two-day summit on nuclear security in the South Korean capital, Seoul, the US president said China and the US had a shared interest in preventing nuclear proliferation.
I consider this a far more sensible approach that the Republican method: threats followed by invasion.
From CNN: Taking advantage of relaxed campaign finance laws, a cadre of deep-pocketed donors are spending gobs of money to bankroll super PACs, a phenomenon that is reshaping the modern election cycle.
It is a select group. The top 100 individual super PAC donors make up just 3.7% of those who have contributed to the new money vehicles, but account for more than 80% of the total money raised, according to data from the Center for Responsive Politics.
And just the top 46 donors have given a total of $67 million, or two-thirds of the $112 million in individual gifts to super PACs this cycle. Membership in this select group requires a $500,000 minimum donation.
According to SCROTUS, rich people deserve FAR more “freedom of speech” than we do.
From Raw Story: When the Supreme Court put its stamp of approval on the creation of super PACs, they could never have seen this one coming.
Former Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has launched a new advertisement showing a man catapaulting a bunny rabbit and blasting it into bloody chunks, as a little girl compares the animal to “small business” in the current U.S. economic climate.
Leave it to Republicans to murder innocent animals to stimulate Republican blood-lust, just to promote a lie.
Cartoon: (Hat Tip Lynn Squance)
Mar 252012
Yesterday catching up the blog took my entire day, as it has so far today. I’m current with replies. Tomorrow I have a grocery delivery coming, and it will take hours to unpack and store it.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:04 (average 5:06). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NY Times: Former Vice President Dick Cheney had a heart transplant on Saturday after 20 months on a waiting list, and was recovering in a Virginia hospital, a statement from his office said.
I can think of nobody who deserves it less.
From LA Times: White House senior adviser David Plouffe stepped up the administration’s public embrace of its healthcare law, saying he would “guarantee” that by the end of the decade “we’re going to be glad the Republicans called it Obamacare.”
I think Plouffe is right.
From Common Dreams: Shaima Alawadi, 32 and a mother of five, has died after being taken off life support Saturday at a hospital in San Diego County, various media report today. She had be discovered severely beaten in her home by her daughter, 17 year old …, on Wednesday. A note was discovered nearby that said “go back to your country”.
Shaima Alawadi, 32 and a mother of five, has died after being taken off life support Saturday at a hospital in San Diego County. Alawadi was an Iraqi who had emigrated to the United States in the mid-nineties, but only recently relocated to the town of El Cajon in the San Diego area.
I consider this crime a direct result of efforts by the Republican Party to foment hatred against Muslims.
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Mar 242012
Yesterday I had some rest, and although I still feel tired, I was able to dive into catching-up today. I’m current with replies. Tomorrow I have prep work for Tuesday’s volunteer work in prison.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it tool me 4:10 (average 4:55). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Washington Post: On the second anniversary of President Barack Obama’s signing of the health-care law, Mitt Romney set out to achieve two goals: renew his vow to repeal it and diminish assertions that his Massachusetts law was a model for it.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Multiple Mitt!
From MoveOn: EXPOSED: The Billionaire Koch Brothers Who Are Buying American Democracy
It looks like that movie will be worth watching. They want $20.
From USA Today: Gerald Rivera has added to the outrage over Trayvon Martin’s death. He’s blaming the hoodie.
"I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly not to let their children go out wearing hoodies. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as much as George Zimmerman was," the Fox News host said Friday on Fox and Friends. [emphasis added]
Today’s cartoon is my comment.
Cartoon:
