Politics Plus

Yesterday I my Podiatrist died his quarterly cutting on my foot.  A plugged gland secretes something that hardens like stone.  Every three months it grows to the size of a pea and makes walking almost unbearable, so it needs to be cut out.  It’s a lot less painful than it used to be the years I had to do it myself.  By the time I returned home, the temperature in the apartment was over 90° again, Ind I was too useless to reply to comments or return visits.  Today will be the same, because of my volunteer work as a co-facilitator for a therapy group of former prisoners.  Because of the heat, I’m still behind non sleep, but I expect to start catching up tomorrow.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 3:11.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Fantasy Football:

To join our fantasy football league, click here.  It’s looking doubtful that we will get to play. 🙁

Short Takes:

From Alternet: Almost two dozen Tea Party-affiliated lawmakers cosponsored a new resolution late last week that expresses their support for Israel “to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the use of military force.”

Don’t these fools realize that we will get sucked into a war between Israel and Iran faster than a Republican leader will steal a baby’s ice cream?

From Right Wing Watch: And so Tea Party activists are planning to protest outside of the Islamic Center’s existing facility and urging participants to bring dogs in order to intimidate worshipers because "Muslims hate dogs".

Don’t these fools realize that the only time Muslims hate dogs is when Republicans use dogs as instruments of torture?

From Political Ticker: As if the repeated trips to Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina weren’t clues enough, former Republican Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania met privately last week with several of his former Capitol Hill staffers to pitch the idea of a presidential bid in 2012.

According to GOP sources familiar with the meeting, which took place last Tuesday in Washington, Santorum conveyed his seriousness about a possible campaign and solicited his former aides for advice.

Bring him on!!  Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum has an established record of hate against which to run.

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

Happy Hump Day

Yesterday my need for sleep won out over the heat and I finally got some.  The heat wave continues here, but in the last hour the temperature in my apartment dipped below 90°.  I have a lot of catching up to do.  I don’t know how much I will accomplish today, because I have my monthly grocery delivery coming today, and putting it all away is a strain even under normal circumstances.

Jig Zone Puzzles:

Today’s took me 4:24.  To do it, click here.

Yesterday’s took me 4:04.  To do it, click here.

Saturday’s took me 4:10.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From NY Times: Sebastián Piñera, Chile’s president, abruptly rejected calls on Sunday from the Roman Catholic Church to pardon dozens of imprisoned military officials convicted of human rights violations during the era known as Chile’s dirty war.

Chile’s dirty war was the GOP inspired coup in which Nixon and Kissinger plotted the overthrow and murder of President Allende.  Many of the military officers imprisoned in Chile now received their training in the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, GA.

From The Colorado Statesman: Predicting that the winner of the Republican gubernatorial contest between candidates Dan Maes and Scott McInnis is doomed to lose to Democratic candidate Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper in the general election, former Congressman Tom Tancredo has pitched a “Catch 22” plan — the GOP candidates either vow to quit the race after the primary or Tancredo will run as the American Constitution Party candidate against the Republican primary winner and Hickenlooper.

Tancredo is a typical Republican in that he plots to get something he has not earned.

From Think Progress: Compensating for damage the Republican National Committee’s unsteadiness may cause Republican candidates this fall, several high-profile GOP operatives — including Karl Rove and two former RNC chairmen — recently founded American Crossroads as a “grassroots,” “shadow RNC.” Salon’s Justin Elliott now reports that the group raised 97 percent of its funding from just four billionaires.

This should be no surprise, since folks like these ate the only ones Republicans truly represent.

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

OGIM!!

For the last couple of days I have overdone it and am feeling under the weather.  I’m sorry, but I need to take the day off.  Hopefully, I’ll be back tomorrow.

Yesterday I kept up with comments and returning visits.  Today is my volunteer day in the prison, so I’m sure I wall fall behind.  Also, expect tomorrow’s content to be quite late, because I will not be getting home tonight until I normally get up to do research.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 4:07.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Fantasy Football:

To join our fantasy football league, click here.  Lisa, you need to use the link I sent you to sign in.  Then we need three more.

Short Takes:

From TPM: Rep. Roy Blunt is trying to use President Obama’s fundraiser for his Senate rival Robin Carnahan against her, putting a new ad on television starring Obama and Carnahan and claiming she would be a "rubber stamp" for the Obama agenda.

That’s far better than being a “rubber stamp” for the GW Bush agenda, which Blunt still is.

From Think Progress: Today reported this week that Catholic churches in Louisiana will still not permit congregants to bring guns to their services.

I’m glad the Church is taking a sane stance on something.

From Alternet: The US military withdrawal from Iraq is on schedule with only 50,000 troops set to remain by August 31, the top US commander in the country said Wednesday.

Cartoon: from Cagle.com

Where can I get Andrew Breitfart toilet paper?