I’m still feeling quite ill.
J9ig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:48 (average 4:44). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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Jun 272015
Jun 262015
I’m feeling quite horrid, so except for one Short Take, I’m staying down.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 6:19 (average 7:41). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Take:
From NY Times: In a long-sought victory for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in the 5 to 4 decision. He was joined by the court’s four more liberal justices.
The decision, the culmination of decades of litigation and activism, came against the backdrop of fast-moving changes in public opinion, with polls indicating that most Americans now approve of same-sex marriage.
Justice Kennedy said gay and lesbian couples had a fundamental right to marry.
“No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family,” he wrote. “In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.”
“It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage,” Justice Kennedy said of the couples challenging state bans on same-sex marriage. “Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., in a dissent joined by Justice Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, said the Constitution had nothing to say on the subject.
Congrats and kudos to the LGBT community. Needless to say, I had to pass this on. The three key rulings indicate that the Injustices of SCROTUS, Republican Constitutional VD, recognize that this is an election campaign year in which their party was just responsible for the political assassination of black church leaders and the police murder of several black men and children. Can you imagine the public reaction, had they gutted ObamaCare, Fair Housing, and Marriage rights? I trust they made the correct decisions only to keep voters from flocking to the polls in protest in 2016. Were this not an election year, they would have decided differently.
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Jun 252015
On a scale of one to ten, I feel like something the undertaker left out of the box. Except for putting my groceries away and brief activities here, I stayed in bed, but slept little, because of the cleaning noise. I’m going back to bed. Hugs!!
Breaking news in first comment.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:34 (average 4:42). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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One for the good guys!
Jun 242015
I’m afraid it’s a thoroughly crappy day. I have come down with the flu and feel horrid. I’m doing all the necessary things. To make matters worse, it’s a grocery delivery day, with all the extra work that entails. Worse yet, the crew working on the building is making a racket. To top it all off, Portland is under an excessive heat warning through Sunday. ARGH!! Please excuse me, while I go bury myself.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:07 (average 5:06). To do it click here. How did you do?
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Jun 232015
This is Yvonne’s second Big Mouth Award. Her first was in April, 2014. She has commented here intermittently here for over two years, and has done so more frequently in recent months. She hails from Illinois and is a denizen of Care2. She loves freedom, Obama, Women’s Rights, and Animals. She can’t stand InsaniTEA. She supports Hillary. She a;ways has something worth reading to say, so we’re fortunate to have her. Please join me in giving her the praise she deserves.
Jun 232015
I seem to be coming down with a cold. ARGH!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:55 (average 5:42). To do it click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football Recruiting:
We still need two new players for Lefty Blog Friends, our fantasy football league. How about you? For more information, click here.
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: So I was minding my own business last night watching TV when I saw this amazing commercial for Tylenol. I paused the TV and yelled for my husband to come into the room and I rewound and showed it to him. We were both blown away.
Kudos to Tylenol. Somehow I think Republicans will be experiencing a lot more pain, as they refuse to take it to express their hatred of black-white and LGBT marriages.
From Alternet: On last night’s Daily Show, Jon Stewart ran a montage of conservative commentators and Fox hosts berating liberals for bringing up race and gun reform after the shootings in Charleston, S.C.
Barf Bag Alert!!
Jon did a great job of exposing Republican support for all things racist.
From MSNBC: Rachel Maddow reviews the history of white segregationist Citizens’ Councils in the American South and transformation into the Council of Conservative Citizens, a recurring embarrassment for GOP politicians and cited influence of the Charleston shooter.
Just as the White Citizens Councils morphed into the Conservative Citizens Council to hide from their violent past, the latter will escape the consequences they face now by morphing into another equally hateful, equally racist, and equally violent organization. And Republicans will flock to support that group, until it gets tied to another tragic hate crime. Then Republicans will claim they did not know. How many must die, before America realizes that the Republican Party knowingly supports white supremacist policies, hatred, and violence?
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Jun 222015
I don’t know about you, but I’ve absorbed so much bad news in the last week that I feel like the dawg hired to be the scratching post at a cat convention. Recently, the best way to spell “Good News” is B-E-R-N-I-E!! So here he is, including a one hour video.
Breathing a progressive political fire, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders ignited Colorado supporters with a blistering condemnation of billionaires and corporations, drawing a crowd of nearly 5,000 to Denver — the largest of his Democratic presidential campaign since the May kickoff.
The 73-year-old Independent spoke for an hour and hit a nerve on economic issues as he advocated for an end to income inequality as well as a higher minimum wage, pay equity for women and more government spending on infrastructure.
"What we are doing tonight is we are sending a message to the billionaire class and that is: You can’t have it all!" Sanders said, shouting to a crowd that filled a University of Denver gymnasium and spilled onto a nearby lacrosse field. "The unquenchable greed of the billionaire class is destroying this nation and it has got to end."
The size and energy of the crowd — which gave Sanders numerous standing ovations and repeatedly chanted his name — reflected a craving among some in the Democratic Party for an alternative to 2016 front-runner Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and first lady…
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Enjoy!!
Jun 222015
Outside there is a huge racket as the maintenance people are working on my side of the building this week. I’m not complaining, but I do hate being blasted out of a cat nap, after sleeping poorly, and if I want to do any solar basking, I’m likely to get drenched while walking out of range.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:55 (average 4:25). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football Recruiting:
We still need two new players for Lefty Blog Friends, our fantasy football league. How about you? For more information, click here.
Short Takes:
From Robert Reich: #11. WHY MEDICARE ISN’T THE PROBEM; IT’S THE SOLUTION
The Reich on the left pulled a fast one on me and came up with number 11, but true to form, our Reich is right, and the Reich in the right, the Republican Reich, is wrong. I could not find this on MoveOn, so please click through to Robert Reich, and share it from there.
From Daily Kos (classic: 1/2013): A reporter for NPR discovered a strange new light (see circled area above) where there used to be only North Dakota grassland. The light is produced by a massive 15,000 square mile area of fracking natural gas flareoffs produced by over 150 companies who have determined that it’s cheaper to burn-off about 29% of the natural gas that is produced by their oil wells.
The current levels of burning gas from the field inject two million tons of carbon dioxide into the air each year which is the equivalent amount of pollution caused by 2.5 million cars. The flares produce carbon oxides, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide and particulates.
The burnoff is equivalent to 30% of the total U.S. natural gas production. Currently, there is no legislation that requires fracking companies to recapture the natural gas they produce through fracking, although it’s only slightly more expensive to recapture the natural gas. Most of the companies have obtained government permission for the flare-offs with annual renewals. The industry argues that until the wells are completed it’s too expensive to recapture the natural gas.
What a bunch of mother frackers!! Since this is visible from outer space, at least aliens touring the solar system will know that the earth is not a safe place to land, without having to risk being gunned down by a Republican Ammosexuals.
From NY Times: The leader of a white supremacist group that has been linked to Dylann Roof, the suspect in the murder of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last week, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns, including those of 2016 presidential contenders such as Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul, records show.
"Uranus Inspector" said he’ll return the money, and I suspect that "Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot" and "Frothmeister" will both do likewise, although none had any objection to taking money, in the first place, from an organization widely known as White Supremacist and listed as such by SPLC. They will get the money funneled back into their campaigns through white supremacist Republicans that haven’t been caught killing anyone recently. Click through for more Republicans in thrall to murderous white supremacists.
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