Yesterday, health and volunteer issues tied me up in the morning, but in the afternoon, I caught up with replying to comments and returning visits. Today is uncertain. I have to get some extra rest because tonight, I’m leading the CoDA meeting that 7th Step sponsors, and won’t get home until I normally wake up to do research.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:17 (average 3:56). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Think Progress: During a hearing Tuesday, Tennessee state Rep. Curry Todd (R) asked a health official if a state health program that helps pregnant women checks the immigration status of its patients before offering benefits. After he was informed that the federal government doesn’t allow citizenship tests for prenatal care because all children born in the U.S. are automatically American citizens, he warned that without status checks, immigrants will “go out there like rats and multiply.”
And people object to us calling this racist?
From The Portland Examiner: Republican Representative John Shimkus may be the next chair of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee. He also openly claims global warming isn’t something to worry about because God said He wouldn’t destroy the Earth after Noah’s flood.
My Christian perspective is that Noah’s flood is mythical truth, allegory to teach a lesson like Jesus’ parables, not historical truth. And, if Shimkus doesn’t get Energy, it will be BP Barton. 
From MSNBC: If you’d like you can watch the Maddow/Stewart interview uncut.
Cartoon:
TGIF!! 
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Genesis 8:22
New International Version (©1984)
“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
The key word here is endures. We are doing our best to make sure the earth can not endure the strain of our being upon her. It is not the spirit of the creator which will destroy mankind it will be our own murder of the very system that supports our life.
Good point Mark. Even if literal, the problem is that GOD will not destroy the earth with flood. There is no promise to stop MAN from doing so.
3:59
Close, Jerry. The lower the average, the tougher it is to beat.
The Republicans are so funny, when the economy is good you say let’s all celebrate “Cinco de Mayo, my brothers” but when the economy is down “it’s all your fault, you damn immigrant”.
The GOP has went on a nationwide rant in proposing and passing several anti-immigration legislation (that our US Courts continue to strike down) and have continue to blame the immigrant for the flat economy or worse.
Plus the more radical of the GOP are now attacking our Constitution (with all Amendments), and the Declaration of Independence, in their crazy notion of wanting to take away rights that all of us take for granted in their misguided attempt to garner some much needed votes (how is that working, of course I mean the Senate), they really are fools, and leading the GOP towards obscurity because they are no longer a party of ideas, just of empty suits.
When most Americans (of Latin America roots) went to the polls this November we all remembered who stood with us, our children, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters, our parents and grandparents, in one word our families and who stood against us, so trying to make amends now is somewhat funny, but go ahead, you did not change our minds. Your hate made you do it, and you found out that you reap what you have sown. I wonder what Abraham Lincoln would say about todays GOP, he unlike the current GOP was a man of ideas.