Yesterday I had errands to run and volunteer work to do, although I was tired from preparing the review of Obama’s deficit proposal. I’m current on replies. Today I need to rest as much as I can, because Thursday is a prison day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:43 (average 4:17). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football Report:
Here’s the latest in our league, Lefty Blog Friends.
Scores:
TomCat Teabag Trashers
Playing without a helmet
152.92
93.72
hugos renegades
Progressive Underdogs
138.50
140.46
ManOnDogSantorum
Texans Will Rise Again
134.62
123.38
Standings:
Points
Rank
Team Name
W-L-T
Pct
Streak
Waiver
For
Against
1 (1)
Progressive Underdogs
2-0-0
1.000
W2
6
246.44
241.70
2 (2)
hugos renegades
1-1-0
.500
L1
5
269.46
257.64
3 (3)
TomCat Teabag Trashers
1-1-0
.500
W1
4
256.12
199.70
4 (4)
ManOnDogSantorum
1-1-0
.500
W1
3
251.80
254.34
5 (5)
Playing without a helmet
1-1-0
.500
L1
2
201.20
249.90
6 (6)
Texans Will Rise Again
0-2-0
.000
L2
1
220.36
242.10
Wooo Hooo! I had the top score this week.
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Elizabeth Warren has clearly had an extremely successful launch of her campaign. Her favorability rating in Massachusetts has risen from 21 percent favorable/17 percent unfavorable in June to 40 percent favorable/22 percent unfavorable now. Further, she is way, way ahead in the Democratic primary.
Warren is also getting a boost from changing views of Scott Brown among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents. In June, his favorability rating among Obama voters was 35 percent favorable/48 percent unfavorable. Now, it has dropped to just 27 percent favorable/62 percent unfavorable.
Great news!
From USA Today: Georgia’s board of pardons rejected a last-ditch clemency bid from Troy Davis on Tuesday, one day before his scheduled execution, despite support from figures including an ex-president and a former FBI director for the claim that he was wrongly convicted of killing a police officer in 1989.
The outlook is bleak, because Republican bloodlust is up.
From Mediaite: In an interview with Salon, Ralph Nader praised Sarah Palin‘s iconoclastic Labor Day speech in which she railed against the “permanent political class” that was cut off from the concerns of regular people. “I think she’s a lot smarter than most people credit her,” said Nader. “Judging by her comments, she is squarely in the camp of conservative populism, opposed to corporatism and its corporate state.”
I can’t imagine why so many consider this man a progressive. He was a populist in his youth, but he grew fat on Republican money, when he helped allow Bush to steal the 2000 election, and now he is lying, saying that Drill Baby Barbie is opposed to Corporatism.
Cartoon:
10 Responses to “Open Thread–9/21/2011”
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Elizabeth Warren — All you have to do is look at her picture in the Daily Kos. She is listening, really listening to the woman with her. Her eyes tell you that she is interested, engaged, and focused. Her mouth tells you she is listening (it’s not moving!). She speaks from the heart with the people as her prime focus. If I were an American and living in Massachsettes, I’d be voting for her. She is the right person to take up where Teddy Kennedy left off.
Troy Anthony Davis — I prayed last night that justice would win out for Troy Anthony Davis. With less than 2 hours now until his scheduled execution, it appears that justice will not be done. There is no doubting the pain of loss for the MacPhails. That has never been in question as far as I am concerned. But what was and is in question is the lack of substantive evidence and the recanting of witnesses. What is in question is the admission of one of the witnesses to another witness that he was the one that pulled the trigger. What is in question is why the Board of Pardons and Paroles would not allow a polygraph test and revisit the ballistics report. This is a GOP state, supposedly a pro-life state. Well I don’t see a pro-life stance here. What I see is state sponsored murder. What I see is an abortion of human rights, an abortion of justice. Once the execution is completed, there is no turning back. There is no ‘Sorry, we made a mistake.’ if new evidence comes to light. Nothing will be the same anymore for anyone. There is no turning back the clock.
Ralph Nader — I thought he was dead. I certainly never hear a peep about him anymore here above the 49th. Perhaps he’s just trying to dilute the GOP candidate pool. There certainly isn’t much of a gene pool there to dilute.
TC, I love the cartoon. Right, infastructure isn’t at risk. I wonder, if another bridge collapses like this one (God forbid that that should happen!), will the families of those killed by able to sue the obstructionist GOP who would not authorise infastructure spending? Hmmmmmmmm
Don’t understand the premise of this fantasy football although I hear the term often enough. The cartoon was good, but I’m still not even getting down to an average time.
And just have to comment on this ‘birther’ issue! Now we have Pat Boone weighing in on the issue and saying he has talked to Mr Obama’s grandmother. If the damn idiot GOP and their supporters would stick to important issues, and learn to play nicely in the sandbox, maybe the American people could get on with a life of hope. I used to want white buck shoes so badly. Not any more. They’d remind me of this kind of drivel.
Wait till you see the vid going up.
What a travesty!
Lynn, Nader has been taking Republican money for years.
It will be Obama’s fault, of course.
There are six of us. We each have teams of real pro players, Our fantasy scores are based on how those players perform.
Teabuggery most foul!
Ralph Nader. Wasn’t he the one that wrote “Unsafe On Any Steed?” About Ron Paul’s deadly horse driving back in 1900?
My bad! It was “Unsafe At Any Speed” About the Chevy Corvair’s scary tendancy to turn upside down and hurt people, kinda like the Republican party.
He was great when young, Johnny, before he became addicted to RepubliCash.
3:33 WOW! I beat you. I can’t believe it!
Good job on the Ellipsoid Orb TomCat!
I watched Ralph Nader during an interview last night and was sadly disappointed in him.
Good one, Patty. You made TomCat number 3 today!
Waaaaaaa!! 🙁
Congrats to you both.
Another open door.
3:29 The door may have been open, but I still had to turn sideways to get through. I am 82 out of 264 (311).
You can again.