Oct 052011
 

Yesterday I must have been more tired than I thought.  I slept late in the morning and took a long unplanned nap in the afternoon.  I’m current on replies.  Today I have all yesterday’s work to do plus a big pile of paper work.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today it took me 3:58 (average 4:52).  To do it, click here.  How did you so?

Fantasy Football Report:

Here’s the latest from Lefty Blog Friends, out fantasy football league.

Scores:

TomCat Teabag Trashers

ManOnDogSantorum

125.58

146.64

Texans Will Rise Again

hugos renegades

104.34

126.14

Progressive Underdogs

Playing without a helmet

139.80

127.02

Standings:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Points

 

Rank

Team Name

W-L-T

Pct

Streak

Waiver

For

Against

1 (1)

Progressive Underdogs

4-0-0

1.000

W4

6

515.86

425.66

2 (2)

hugos renegades

3-1-0

.750

W2

5

526.40

486.32

3 (3)

ManOnDogSantorum

3-1-0

.750

W3

4

523.82

483.60

4 (4)

TomCat Teabag Trashers

1-3-0

.250

L2

3

503.74

477.14

5 (5)

Playing without a helmet

1-3-0

.250

L3

2

431.90

515.08

6 (6)

Texans Will Rise Again

0-4-0

.000

L4

1

381.64

495.56

The guy I helped for half a day, when the league site trashed his ID,  thanked me by kicking my butt. 🙁

Short Takes:

From Christian Science Monitor: The New Jersey governor has been saying as much for months. He argued he wasn’t ready and his heart wasn’t in it. And as time marched on, many analysts said, it was just too late to mount a credible campaign. But when push came to shove, and ardent supporters and donors got Governor Christie to step back and reconsider, the final decision centered on his home state.

“Now is not my time,” Christie said at a news conference in the New Jersey capital, Trenton. “I have a commitment to New Jersey that I simply will not abandon.”

I strongly suspect that toilet paper use is way up among the ABR (anyone but Romney) crowd in Goperville.

From USA Today: The House has passed a short-term spending bill that keeps the government running for six weeks and buys time for future budget negotiations.

The 352-66 vote sends the measure to President Obama in time to avert a government shutdown at midnight…

…The vote also ends a fight over whether some aid for victims of Hurricane Irene and other natural disasters should have been offset by cuts elsewhere.

Lawmakers decided to drop $1 billion in disaster relief and cuts to a loan guarantee program that helps automakers retool factories to meet new fuel economy standards.

We won one for a change.  The Republican economic terrorism of blackmailing America will be back.

From Politico: The U.S. Supreme Court appears likely rule in favor of a death row inmate in Alabama who missed a deadline for appeal when a court notice sent to his lawyers at a top New York City firm was returned to sender because both lawyers had left the company.

Liberal and conservative justices alike, with the exception of Justice Antonin Scalia, signaled on Tuesday that they would throw out a federal appeals court ruling on Cory Maples that was based on the missed deadline.

It amazes me that even Scalia could be such a bastard, but I bet Teabag Thomas is goose-stepping right behind him.

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  10 Responses to “Open Thread–10/5/2011”

  1. 4:21  So Christie ain’t running?  I bet he does next time, though.  He’ll probably do like Huckabee.  He’ll lose 500 pounds and write a book,  “The Reason You’re Fat Is ‘Cause You’re Mak’n Too Much Money”.    All the Tea Party, T-bagers  will want a copy.

  2. 4:27

    I watched Christie’s news conference on FAUX yesterday and laughed at the “reporters”. They just kept asking him the same question in different words over and over again.

    I guess some people just don’t understand the word “NO”.

  3. I still think that Chtistie has too many skeletons in his closet – of course I could never prove it, but I suspect a little godfather biz in his background –  typical of  so many “Joysey politicos”

  4. Christie — Any short bit that I’ve seen or read has only one question “Will you run?” but asked a dozen different ways.  What part of ‘no’ don’t people get?  Or do they think that if they ask often enough, he’ll cave just to shut them up?  Or is he just so full of his own self importance that the attention fuels his ego and he likes it?

    As for the other candidates, if he comes into the race polling 10% before he’s even started, then I’d say there is concern.  Certainly would seal Bachmann’s fate, which I think is already sealed as her staff leave.  Maybe like rats from a sinking ship!

    Short term Spending Bill — Well, now everyone take a deep breath (or two) and start again with the back and forth, the shenanigans, and the brinkmanship.  There are so many important matters to deal with that surely far too much time is being spent at the expense of other important work.  Get it done!

    SCOTUS — One more reason that the death penalty should be banned.  It would be the kindest cut if the last use of capital punishment was on capital punishment itself.

    Cartoon — So is the mud for a good old fashion mud wrestling session in the Congress over the budget (I’d didn’t think they needed any mud for that fight — they’ve been doing so well with the insults etc) —  or is it for the stepped up smear campaign.  I don’t think the Republicans, especially Cantor, are too enamoured with Mr Obama’s new approach of ‘in your face’ which looks a little like a page taken from their own play book.

    • It’s final that he isn’t.

      Exactly.

      So true!

      The last thing people stuck in the mud need is more mud.  Republicans ideas are the last thing we need.

  5. 3:48  I am 90 out of 278 (324).

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