Apr 122011
 

Yesterday I did my taxes.  It took hours, digging out papers, hunting through spreadsheets, and entering the data.  In the end, my forecasts at the beginning of the year were pretty accurate, because I owe only $8.00.  I’m up to date with comments, and today I have volunteer work to get done.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 4:41 (average 5:46).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From BBC: The Japanese authorities have raised the measure of severity of their nuclear crisis to the highest level.

They have reassessed the damage at the Fukushima nuclear plant following last month’s massive earthquake and tsunami.

The incident has now been rated level seven, only used previously for the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

We need to completely rethink the safety of all means of providing energy.

From Go Upstate: State Sen. Vincent Sheheen ratcheted up Democratic criticism of Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday, telling a group of Spartanburg Democrats that the then-state Representative lied on her application for a job at Lexington Medical Center.

Sheheen, a Camden Democrat who narrowly lost to Haley last fall in the gubernatorial election, became the first prominent South Carolina elected official to directly accuse Haley of deceit on the controversial application.

But… but… but… how could she have become a tea party queen and successful Republican politician without polishing her lying skills first?

From Think Progress: Several states in the last few weeks — including Michigan, Missouri, and Florida — have moved to cut or restrict unemployment benefits, even as long-term unemployment has failed to drop significantly for months. Joining the list is Utah, where the state senate president believes that denying benefits to jobless workers will force them to go back to work.

This is RepubliCare in action.

Cartoon:

Nick Anderson

Tuesday is Teabuggery day.  To celebrate, destroy your own future.

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  4 Responses to “Open Thread–4/12/2011”

  1. Too good not to share: Hard as it may be to believe, but Faux News actually got it right on a Hannity interview with Sarah Palin when they had a huge scrolling chyron above Palin’s head screaming in all caps:

    “UNIVERSAL NIGHTMARE”

    http://0.tqn.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/S/1/4/sarah-palin-nightmare.jpg
    AND just in case anyone wonders if it was Photoshopped, here’s the video clip of it (but you have to go through a commercial to get to it):
    hxxp://video.foxnews.com/v/4119679

    • Perfect, Nameless. I converted your second link to an hxxp: because we do not provide linkage ratings to the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda. 🙂

  2. 5:21 Yes, it was a tough one. Well done, TomCat. I’m 36 out of 102 (353)

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