Yesterday I rested and attended the First Church of the Ellipsoid Orb on TV, meditating on the meeting between My Broncos and the 49ers. The Broncos lost the preseason game, because they took their starters out in the 1st quarter, when they were leading 17-0, and the 49ers kept their starters in most of the game. This is today’s only article, because I’m going to have the podiatrist dig the cyst out of my foot. No worries. It’s a quarterly event. I am not current with replies, but will catch up ASAP. Tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, but I may be able to put up an article or two before I leave.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:45 (average 4:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: This Video MIGHT Stop Romney From Becoming President
This covered all the bases of the Republican scheme to take the White House.
From NY Times: The Republican ticket is flooding the airwaves with commercials that develop two themes designed to turn the presidential contest into a racially freighted resource competition pitting middle class white voters against the minority poor.
This goes right along with the birther meme from the top of the ticket.
From Reuters: Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said on Sunday he is engaged to marry his Argentine girlfriend, Maria Belen Chapur.
Remember him? He’s walking the Appalachian trail for life, or at least for now.
Cartoon:
14 Responses to “Open Thread–8/27/2012”
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Dood, hurricane for GOP? LOL I happen to know, you are not that low. 🙂
Caught up on a few posts. Good to know you're here with good info flow! ghb
Hi Gwen. You know that's comedy.
3:44 Gotcha TomCat by the narrowest of margins. Now, will the girls come by and stick it to us?
3:38 I'm a prickly little bugger! I'm sure Patty will 'stick it to us'!
4:14 I really got stuck with this one. The prickly little pieces kept getting stuck to my fingers.
One for the size 9 Canuck! 😉
Puzzle — 3:38 I'm a prickly little bugger!
MoveOn — Great Video. The problem — getting people to watch it! Perhaps if the signal was hi-jacked from Faux Noise and this spliced in, it would get seen by those that really need to see it. But the guy that did that would definitely get prison time if caught.
NY Times — Of course they are! That is 'divide and conquer' , the favourite tactic of Scott Walker. Seems to me that the Republican/Teabaggers accused Mr Obama of divisiveness once or twice. The pot calling the kettle black?
Reuters — I'm happy for him. Perhaps he'll move to Argentina and go into politics there.
Cartoon — Gotta love it! Poetic justice — the GOP convention interrupted by a hurricane, a product of climate change, at least partly.
Good win!
Great idea!
Exactly.
True!
Excellent video!
Thanks!
The GOP and the Right Wing Media, Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, et al, have been propagating a campaign of irrational fear and hate against President Barak Obama since 2007. These devious and dishonest attacks are designed to delegitimize the Presidency of Barak Obama, and to characterize him as; the other, foreign, un-American, non-Christian, and alien. He has been called socialist, communist, fascist, The New Hitler, Marxist, Stalinist, Muslim, African Anti- Colonialist, Anti-Christ, baby killer, gay lover, uppity, The Food Stamp President, and n!@@&r. The base of the GOP is clearly without any morality, their claim to Jesus and God rings hallow as they practice Anti-Christ in the name of Jesus. This constituency has been duped with fear, into a position of unfounded distrust and hate. In their zealotry, they express a fanatically willingness to vote against their own self interest. The Conservatives have been conquered, their party has been taking over by the Corporatist in a pact with the Theocrats and the Objectivist. Watch this video and tell me how anyone with a modicum of intelligence, or any degree of honesty, could vote for a Republican.
Misinformation, Fear, And Hate In America http://youtu.be/6q6DNm6rrYY
Welcome, Kelly! 🙂
I fully agree, and thanks for the excellent video.
Romney & Ryan: No Mas Pantelones!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/86366321@N04/7909264242/
Welcome Walt. 🙂
Love it!