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Yesterday I didn’t even keep up with comments.  My computer tech contacted me of Friday and told me that he had been thinking about my system and that asked if here had been power failures here.  When I told him our building is over 100 years old and that power failures are regular, because we have only 100 watt service, not the standard 450.  He said he thought that a power failure during a backup hadc destroyed both.  So I installed an UPC yesterday morning to isolate my computer and peripherals from the crappy power here.  I figured it would take ten minutes.  It took over two hours.  Then I went to co-facilitate the therapy group and stayed late to talk with the new therapist I’m assisting.  It went well, but by the time I got home I was shot.  At least, I’ll reply to all comments and return visits today, barring unforeseen circumstances.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

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

Short Takes:

From Raw Story: A US District Court judge in southern Mississippi has ordered the Walthall County school board to stop segregating students by allowing white students to transfer to a predominantly-white school outside of their residence area and by "clustering" white students into separate classrooms in predominantly black schools.

And the GOP wants us to believe there is no red state racism.

I’m not the only one with a new tax plan.

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Happy Tax Day!!  I hear A & D Ointment mixed with Preparation H works well as an IRS palliative.

Yesterday, I replied to comments and that’s about all.  I was late to my doctor appointment because bus #1 was 10 minutes late, and bus #2 was over 5 minutes early.  GRRRR!!  I had to wait over an hour for the doc to squeeze me in.  Feeling tired out, I rested.  Don’t expect much today, because I co-facilitate a therapy group for dormer prisoners.  The therapist with whom I have been working retired last week for medical reasons, and this will be my first week working with her replacement.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 4:40.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Newshounds: Fox News would rather interrupt President Obama’s news conference than let its viewers miss a moment of Glenn Beck. After all, he might come up with a new way of calling the president a socialist racist who is destroying our country.

Can you believe that the actually did that?!!?

From Public Policy Polling: Only 28% of voters in the country say they approve of the current direction of the GOP with 51% disapproving. Even among voters who identify with the party just 54% say they like where it’s headed. It’s predictable that Democrats would give it very low marks but even among independents just 18% think the Republicans are headed in the right direction while 49% dissent.

That’s a 28% idiocy rate.

From Daily Kos: According to a recent CBS News/New York Times poll, the vast majority of Americans do not perceive that they have received a tax cut from President Obama. Asked if the President “has already raised taxes this past year,” 53 percent of those polled said that the President has “kept taxes the same,” and 24 percent think that the President has “raised taxes.” A mere 12 percent believe that the President has cut their taxes.

This is an astonishing level of misunderstanding. The truth is that the major tax cuts enacted in the 2009 economic stimulus bill actually reduced federal income taxes for tax year 2009 for 98 percent of all working families and individuals. These tax cuts saved working families and individuals an average of $1,158 on the tax returns they will file by April 15.

The GOP just keeps repeating the lie that Obama increased their taxes, when the exact opposite is true.

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Happy hump day!

Yesterday, I replied to comments, returned visits, and visited the bottom half of our blogroll.  Yesterday is a slow one, so I have only one article for you today, but it’s a good one.  There are no Short Takes today.

Jig Zone Puzzle: Today it took me 3:45.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

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OGIM!!

Yesterday I did catch up on replying to comments and returning visits.  Today I hope to stay up to date and do some additional visiting as well.  Politics Plus now has a Facebook page.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:14.  To do it click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Common Dreams: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has cancelled a planned trip to Washington next week for President Barack Obama’s 47-country nuclear security conference.

He made the decision after learning Egypt and Turkey intended to raise the issue of Israel’s assumed atomic arsenal at the meeting, a senior government official said on Friday.

Israel is believed to be the only nuclear-armed power in the Middle East, but has never confirmed or denied it. It has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Of course the GOP is cheering over this, because they hope Israel will nuke Iran.  Most nations favor a nuclear free Middle East.  Netanyahu does not want to have to defend Israel’s refusal to bring their nuclear weapons program under the supervision of the AEC.

From Raw Story: Polish president’s plane crashes in Russia; reports say 87 dead

Officials say a plane carrying Polish President Lech  and his wife has crashed in western Russia and that at least 87 people have been killed.

Was he Europe’s closest analogue to GW?

From Daily Kos: Hahahaha. The teabagger network giveth more hilarity: a new Fox News poll shows that more Americans have a favorable view of the IRS (49%) than of the tea party movement (36%).

It’s not just that people don’t know what the tea party movement is. The net favorable rating (favorable minus unfavorable) of the IRS is +11% (49%/38%) compared to +2% for the tea party movement (36%/34%).

What a blow to Teabuggery!  They couldn’t even beat Infernal Revenue in an audience of Faux Noise sheeple!

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Have a great weekend!