Yesterday I co-facilitated a therapy group for former prisoners. When I returned home, I felt quite tired and rested. Today I’m up to date on comments and have my end of the month bookkeeping to do, but I may have some free time.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 4:24. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From AP/Google: House Republicans are trying to use the tax code to curb abortions by limiting tax breaks for insurance policies that cover the procedure.
This amounts to a Republican tax increase on women.
From Bay Area Reporter: In what LGBT advocates described as "a stunning development for the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights," 85 nations signed a pro-gay statement that was read out by Colombia’s representative at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on March 22.
Fortunately the US is one of the 95 signatories. If McConJob had won, the US would be opposed.
From Salon: If you follow conservative blogs at all, or watch Fox with any regularity, you know all about this. The Justice Department dropped voter intimidation charges against the NBPP "poll watchers" because Obama’s politicized Justice Department refuses to pursue cases against black people, because Eric Holder and Barack Obama are racist against white people. That is basically the only explanation conservatives can think of to explain why the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department decided to dismiss claims made against three people who were not accused of intimidation by one single voter (while also seeking an injunction against the fourth guy).
The DOJ’s Office of Professional Responsibility has concluded their investigation and it turns out that everyone acted professionally and there was no bias or political meddling involved in the department’s actions.
In short, the OPR determined that the Republican non issue was a non issue.
Cartoon:
If you believe Republicans are on your side you are either very rich or very foolish.
6 Responses to “Open Thread–3/31/2011”
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4:13 🙂 Now 30 out of 90 (333) I didn’t have to use the calculator for this one. You are still doing twice as good as me.
Wooo Hooo Jerry. No easy pickings today, though.
Too rich not to share: You remember those Teapublicans mendaciously trying to claim that the citizens of Wisconsin created $7,000,000.00 worth of damages to the Capitol during their protests?
Well it seems that “damage estimate turned up only one page of notebook paper listing costs.”
And here’s that one notebook page [PDF] provided by the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel … and you just gotta love that little asterisk saying their $7 million estimate does NOT include carpet replacement:
http://media.journalinteractive.com/documents/stein.pdf
Dang! What can I say in the faith of such thorough documentation! But they underestimated it. They forgot to charge another $7,000,000 for the sheet of notebook paper.
Jebus, they are such idiots.
So – I think we call that a “waAAH -WAAAHH” (as in whining) statement. 🙄
Amen twice, Lisa.