Yesterday was no fun. The first tooth the dentist pulled had a root embedded in and fused with the bone. Digging that tooth out took over 20 minutes and five extra shots of Novocain. The rest came out in less than five minutes total. After the Novocain wore off, the vocodin has been able to kill the pain from all the extraction sites, save the one. That one hurts like hell. I am behind on comments and will catch up later today, if I can. Other that this, the article on Coburn will be it for today.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 4:09 (average 4:32). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The Guardian: A tape recorded by Osama bin Laden before his death in an American special forces raid earlier this month has been posthumously released onto Islamic militant websites.
The message, recorded some time in the ten weeks before the 54-year-old al-Qaida leader was killed in Pakistan on May 2, praises the "Arab Spring" protest movements across the Middle East and predicts that revolutions will spread.
Al Qaeda has not been welcome in Arab Spring. Their hope may be that endorsing it might provoke opposition to Arab Spring by Al Dubya and with it, their special brand of hatred that makes such a great recruiting tool for AQ.
From LA Times: The Senate will conduct a procedural vote Thursday on the long-stalled nomination of UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
The motion to cut off debate needs 60 votes to pass, which means at least seven Republicans would have to cross party lines in order for Liu to receive a simple up-or-down vote on the floor. Otherwise, the GOP will filibuster an Obama judicial nominee for the first time, though other nominees have dropped out or have not been put up to a vote.
Liu is well qualified and honest. For those reasons, I expect Republicans to block him.
Cartoon:
Republicans are truthful. That was not intended to be an accurate statement.
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Vicodan in the bottle and whiskey in the jar…I think that is an old Celtic tune. Don’t worry old man the pain will go away and you still will NOT be a toothless tiger.
Thanks Mark. I’ll make it.
Glad the worst part of the tooth troubles are over. Maybe some levity will be just the anodyne you need:
A Dozen Reasons Why Sarah Palin Is Too Dumb To Ever Be President
1. Palin doesn’t know who is buried in Grant’s Tomb.
2. Palin couldn’t tell you when the War of 1812 was fought.
3. Palin has no clue about the color of George Washington’s white horse.
4. Palin wonders on what day Latinos celebrate Cinco de Mayo.
5. Palin isn’t sure what weighs more, a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers.
6. Palin has no idea in what month the October Revolution took place.
7. Palin is baffled by the question of who came up with the Monroe Doctrine.
8. Palin would very much like to know who fought in the French and Indian War.
9. Palin is puzzled as to who wrote “The Autobiography of Malcolm X.”
10. Palin is at a loss regarding what were JFK’s initials.
11. Palin would never figure out how to get to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
12. Palin’s would still be thinking about her orange juice … because it said “Concentrate”
Paraphrased from an honest-to-God Rep. Alan Grayson Diary, posted here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/18/977239/-10-Reasons-Why-Sarah-Palin-Will-Never-Be-President?via=siderec
Thanks Nameless. I hope she doesn’t try to write all that on her hand.
4:14 Close but not close enough. I am 45 out of 139 (324).
Hang in there. The worst of it is over, and I still can’t beat you.
Thanks Jerry. I really thought you’d get that one.
I hope he gave you LOTS of vicoden. It doesn’t really kill the pain, it just makes you not care. And drink of choice, starting at 8 am is recommended. Ice, Ice, Ice. Keep it on your face 24/7. That will kill the swelling and the pain. 🙁
When I told Otis about the massive amount of porn on Osama’s computer, he laughed so hard, I thought he was going to have a heart attack. He’s telling ALL of his friends, including the imaginary ones he plays with on his computer games. 😉
Why couldn’t the dickless Reid change the Senate rules so that everything doesn’t need 60 votes? It’s always 51 when the Repubs are in charge. Let them actually filibuster once. I wanna see it. 🙄
That cartoon is dead on. So is the comment – they would lie to their own mothers and then sell them down the road to the highest bidder. 😈
Trust me, Lisa. I do care.
I bet he like camel toes. 😉
God knows, Lisa, thousands of us emailed, wrote and called him to tell him not to believe the Republicans when they promised not to do this.
Thanks Lisa.