Yesterday I went to prison to work with our CoDA group. As always, I could not have been more proud of my guys. We shared the activities section with the prison’s Native American group, so I also got to discuss Pe’ Sla with a few of them. They had not yet learned that the auction had been cancelled and were touched by the support from so many online activists. I returned late and slept very poorly, because working with my guys always leaves me hyped. This is today’s only article. I caught up on replies yesterday. Tomorrow is my last dad day for blogging. I have an appointment for an ultrasound of my bad leg on the other side of town. After that, I have no appointments until next Wednesday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:15 (average 4:53). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: Why Team Romney-Ryan Will Never Measure Up To Team Obama-Biden
If Romney/Ryan win, there will be two classes in America: the 1% and the servant class.
From NY Times: It was a day late, but the Republicans’ parade of truth-twisting, distortions and plain falsehoods arrived on the podium of their national convention on Tuesday. Following in the footsteps of Mitt Romney’s campaign, rarely have so many convention speeches been based on such shaky foundations.
Only one word is low enough to describe it: Republican.
From Vice.com: Speaking of unwanted pregnancies, Tampa strip clubs and hookers are expecting big business during convention week.
Oh those GOP family values!
Cartoon: (Hat-Tip Lynn Squance)
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Over at DemocraticUnderground they had a post inviting folks to PhotoShop that horrid, vertiginous GOP Convention podium background set.
I grabbed over 40 Screen Captures – that's how hilarious they were! I'll provide one sample below (since I think there's still a two Link limit per posting here).
But be warned – the site's got a TON of photos – so even with cable it loaded slow, and was slow to navigate.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021218111
http://inlinethumb03.webshots.com/49474/2182824200082084340S600x600Q85.jpg
I liked the Hindenburg disaster picture. The perfect backdrop for the lunacy of the Republican/Teabaggers!
And you're right, it loads too slow so I'll try again later. Too bad someone couldn't hijack the signal and substitute something else, like the Hindenburg explosion.
To save everyone the heavy graphics loading agony – I found a YouTube video that pretty much covers all of them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sp9wzDMUvz8
The backdrops some people posted were hilarious. You can go through and see them all. It just takes some time. With Roadrunner it's very fast but there are so many.
Thanks Nameless. Those were great! Like Lynn, I liked the Hindenberg!
Puzzle — 4:04 I've always liked those flowers and the vibrancy of their colours!
MoveOn — Romney/Ryan — petulant children without an once of decency. Obama/Biden — flawed as we all are, but noble.
NY Times — "…truth-twisting, distortions and plain falsehoods…" The Republican/Teabaggers' big SNAFU!
Vice.com — Want to bet there is a mini boom of pregnancies and paternity suits in 9 months! I wonder if those caught with the test results will be 'Larry Craiged' for not upholding family values? Too bad abortions aren't on the party's platform — or will they indulge and say it starts tomorrow?
Cartoon — I didn' know who Larry Craig was when I sent this to you but I do now. LMAO! What a tool!
Beat me!
That's a great way to put it.
Yes!
LOL!
I thought you'd have to look him up and be glad you did. 🙂
4:02 I was dancing through the daisies today.
Jerry?
4:50 Those flowers were stinker!
Oooooo … Jerry! Allergies?
3rd place for me.
Hopefully, Americans are waking up to the fact that Rmoney/Ryan do NOT care about them. They only care about the very wealthy.
Pants on fire was the theme at the RepublicanT National Convention this week.
Stay tuned for more lies to follow at the closing tonight.
I watched Jon Stewart the other night and he couldn't keep a straight face while talking to Marco (Polo) Rubio.
Amen!
Your prediction was correct!
LOL!
Note to TC:
Only because I enjoy your observations, so WRT your claim to be "caught up on replies" you may want to revisit here …
https://www.7thstep.org/blog/2012/08/28/isaac-the-republicane/#comments
… and here …
https://www.7thstep.org/blog/2012/08/28/open-thread8282012/#comments
I was caught up on the articles before those, and now, to those too. Thanks!