Yesterday was a very long day. I went to the prison for the CoDA meeting we have there, and we have a dozen regular attendees. These guys are giving up their recreational time to learn to be the kind of people that will be productive and stop being a threat to the safety of their communities. No words of praise I can use are sufficient to describe my pride in them. I can’t reveal anything anyone else discussed in the meeting, but I talked about the importance of learning to say no, and how that ties into allowing ourselves to be ourselves and not to try to live up to what others want us to be, especially not to ignore our own needs to fulfill the wants of others. I returned home late, and need to rest, so this is today’s only article. Tomorrow, I’m back at the prison for a victims’ impact meeting with around forty of my guys, and will be home late again, so articles tomorrow and Friday will depend on how I feel, but please don’t expect much.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:05 (average 4:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: SHARE THE TRUTH: Don’t Let These Guys Get Away With Lying About Obama
There’s no doubt about it. Rmoney is a Koch sucker.
From TPM: Not to be outdone by the Arizona secretary of state’s recent flirtation with birtherism, Sheriff Joe Arpaio escalated his probe into President Obama’s birth certificate this week by dispatching a deputy from his “threats unit” to Hawaii.
Both the Arizona Republic and the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported deputy Brian Mackiewcz traveled with Arpaio’s volunteer posse member Michael Zullo on Monday to try to get an official confirmation that Hawaii has the president’s birth certificate on file.
InsaniTEA is still alive in the Totalitarian Corporate Plutocracy of Brewerstan.
From MSNBC: Rachel Maddow explores the challengers of overcoming Republican instruction in Bullshitology.
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In my opinion, the biggest challenge is that the MSM parrot GOP lies as fact. If voters are to be educated, we are the ones that will have to do it.
Cartoon:
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The biggest problem as regards Willard is that the Rushpubliscum base of voters don’t really CARE what the truth is. So if we don’t get out in numbers this time, we will be in some serious trouble.
That’s true, JR, but if lefties vote and don’t stupidly flock to third parties, and if centrists vote sensibly, we’ll leave them in the dust. I agree that we need good turnout.
True. They are willing to live in denial or rewrite the truth to serve immediate ends (like getting Obama out of the White House – as if Romney is better!).
Rmoney is a disASSter.
It’s obvious that you are doing remarkable work with prisoners, of which you should be justly proud.
Again, your graphics marking memorable historic moments are much appreciated. (Although having lived through most of them, they make me feel old. Then again I AM old.)
We could provide the birthers with a tape of Don Ho serenading Obama’s Mom while in labor, Jack Lord standing guard outside the delivery room ready to “Book ‘em, Danno” and with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset in the background documenting the entire birth of Barack Obama – and the birthers STILL would NOT believe. Those people are idiots! And let’s not forget that birther Sheriff Arpaio was Rmoney’s Honorary Arizona Chair for his 2008 campaign.
(After all, there’s a rumor that Pres. Obama is black, don’t you know?)
Thank you, Nameless.
I trust that you will not remember today’s cartoon. 😉
He is? Dang! Why didn’t he tell us!??! Who woulda thunk it! 😉
TomCat,
Thanks for displaying that video exposing the lies of Romney and the Koch brothers. All of those bastards deserve life sebtences at very hard labor for spewing out such blatant bullshit.
YVW, Pope Jack!
3:47 I’m on a roll.
Indeed!
“In my opinion, the biggest challenge is that the MSM parrot GOP lies as fact. If voters are to be educated, we are the ones that will have to do it.”
I agree… ☺
Thanks!
MoveOn — The only things that the Republican/Teabaggers know how to do is lie and cheat! I’m glad that Mr Obama is fighting back with these straightforward videos.
As an aside since the video started with big oil and the Koch brothers, Allison Smith, the Premier of Alberta, was commenting recently on the tarsands and the pipelines and the price of gasoline. The pipeline south will not ‘stop’ at any refineries on its way south but will go to the Gulf Coast to be turned into diesel and shipped overseas. She was very clear that this toxic soup will not be available to the gas tanks of American cars because the profit of shipping it overseas is much higher. Likewise, the toxic soup going to the Pacific Coast, assuming the Enbridge pipeline is built, will go to China for refining and will not end up in the Canadian marketplace. A comment was also made that the price of gas in Canada is going up to help support the development of the tarsands. In BC, gas is $1.45 per litre which equates to about $6.61 CAD per gallon and is the most expensive in Canada. Approximately 50% of that is made up of various federal and provincial taxes. Even with gas prices rising in Washington state, is it no wonder that a lot of Canadians in the border regions of BC go across the line to buy gasoline! Apparently, people are filling up numerous gerrycans as well as their cars.
Birtherism — Arpaio and the rest of the birthers need to be locked in a padded cell for the rest of their unnatural lives. What a waste of time, energy and money. I hope the people of Arizona are not having to pay for all this travel and investigation.
Overcoming Republican instruction in Bullshitology — To my mind, the 3 biggest problems are 1) the MSM parroting GOP lies as fact; 2) low-effort thinking and apathy; 3) the disparity in the money base. Certainly the Republican/Teabaggers and their supporters have shown their criminal intent in election fraud and projected that fraud onto the electoral base.
Cartoon — What a day that was — I would imagine a day that changed the way true Americans view themselves and their country.
Well said!
In one way Canada will get product back. The vile pollutants from refining that extra filthy oil will find its way across the Pacific to Canada and the US