Politics Plus

Yesterday I spent the day in bed.  I’m feeling a little better this morning, so I’ll try to catch up on comments.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 4:45.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From TPM: The group Stop Too Big To Fail, which is employing a liberal-sounding message to fight the Wall Street reform legislation, is working with an advertising agency whose past clients include the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth and myriad GOP campaigns.

The GOP rewards companies whose integrity matches their own.

From Think Progress: According to KOLD Channel 5 News in Arizona, local militiaman Bill Davis is recruiting “combat veterans, with kill records, to camp out and patrol” along the U.S.-Mexico border.

I wonder if McConJob supports the killing of Mexicans enough to join up.

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Have a great weekend.

Except for my morning posts, I spend the day in bed yesterday.  Today looks like more of the same.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

I didn’t even try.  To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From TPM: Sen. John Ensign’s re-election campaign took in just $50 in contributions, from one contributor, during the first quarter of 2010, according to FEC reports. The paltry take comes as more bad news for the scandal-tarred Nevada Republican, who would run for re-election in 2012.

It would be criminal to allow Ensign to stay in office until 2012.

From Think Progress: DEMINT: I really think a lot of the motivation behind these Tea Party crowds is a spiritual component. I think it’s very akin to the Great Awakening before the American Revolution. A lot of our founders believed the American Revolution was won before we ever got into a fight with the British. It was a spiritual renewal.

Dang!  Spiking the tea with Kool-Aid is Teabuggery!

Cartoon:

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Have a good one.

Yesterday I felt like something the cat forgot to bury.  Today, so far, is the same.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

I tried, but could not focus enough to finish.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Take:

From Times Online: GOLDMAN SACHS, the world’s biggest investment bank that is now assailed by accusations of fraud, is poised to reignite controversy over bankers’ bonuses by paying its staff more than £3.5 billion for just three months’ work.

Does the image of a runaway locomotive speeding toward a train wreck come to mind?

Cartoon:

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Have a good one.

Yesterday I kept up with comments and return visits.  I visited a few blogs, but groceries arrived.  Putting them away tired me out.  I do have things to get done today, so we’ll see how the day goes.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 4:03.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Common Dreams: Millions of people faced worsening travel chaos on Saturday as a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland, which risks lingering over Europe for up to five more days, forced countries to extend flight bans.

I understand this will keep Obama from flying to Poland.

From Alternet: The Tea Party movement’s dirty little secret is that its chief financial backers owe their family fortune to the granddaddy of all their hatred: Stalin’s godless empire of the USSR. The secretive oil billionaires of the Koch family, the main supporters of the right-wing groups that orchestrated the Tea Party movement, would not have the means to bankroll their favorite causes had it not been for the pile of money the family made working for the Bolsheviks in the late 1920s and early 1930s, building refineries, training Communist engineers and laying down the foundation of Soviet oil infrastructure.

How ironic!  Stalin a hero of Teabuggery?

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What’s doing on Sunday?