Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and the Denver congregation’s meditation with Houston is on TV here. :-) I’m current with replies. Tomorrow I have an all day appointment, so I may post nothing at all. Tuesday and Thursday are prison volunteer days, and Wednesday and Friday, I should be close to useless recovering from them. color me scarce all week.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:07 (average 5:24). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: SHOCKING: The Truth About How Walmart Treats The Employees You Don’t See
If Willard gets to change America’s work environment, making it more like the Chinese factory he so admires, the one where the workers sleep triple bunked, I don’t have to wonder what company will be leading the way to help him. I have been boycotting Wal-fart for over 10 years because of how they treat their employees. There are plenty of other reasons from which to choose, too.
From NY Times: At the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., he [Ralph Reed] was sought after by party luminaries and afforded the ultimate status accommodation, a room in the same hotel as Mitt Romney. And soon he plans to unleash a sophisticated, microtargeted get-out-the-evangelical-vote operation that he believes could nudge open a margin of victory if Mr. Romney can keep the race close.
This is the same Ralph Reed that convinced evangelicals to donate to a campaign to deny the workers un the Marianas a minimum wage. He told them that the Chinese women were being converted to Christianity. However the women really worked in slave labor camps enduring forced prostitution to enrich Reed’s clients. This is the man Willard has chosen for his get-out-the-vote effort.
From Lebanon Daily Record: Republican Rep. Todd Akin’s comments about rape are evidence of his extremism on several issues, Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill said Friday at the first debate between the Missouri Senate candidates. Akin painted his opponent as a big-spender who votes 90 percent of the time with President Barack Obama.
Republicans have long looked at Missouri as a winnable state in the effort to gain control of the Senate. Akin, 65, a six-term congressman from suburban St. Louis, won a hotly contested three-way race for the GOP Senate nomination on Aug. 7.
But just weeks later, Akin set off a furor in a televised interview by saying that women’s bodies have a natural defense against pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape."
Clair McCaskill is, in part, a DINO, but considering her opponent, I’ll take the DINO.
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A Thomas Jefferson quote a came across while reading that I think is appropriate for these times:
"The end of democracy and defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."
Puzzle — 4:10 Bow wow!
MoveOn — I have not been in a Wal Mart for years, and even then, it was very infrequent. I stopped when I heard about union busting and other work practices in Canada. Wal Mart is part of the TPP debacle (surprise! surprise!) and I believe, but am not sure, likely a member of ALEC. Moneyed interests — Jefferson had it right!
NY Times — Romney (and his tag alongs like Ryan, Reed, Adelson, Koch, Norquist, Rove etc), thy name is CORRUPTION, GREED, DEMONIC POWER! Any vote for Romney is a vote for CORRUPTION, GREED, DEMONIC POWER!
Lebanon Daily Record — How anybody could vote for this misogynist idiot is beyond me. Talk about old angry white men in the GOP! I think these guys are almost as afraid of the female vote as they are of the minority vote. And they should be. Any woman who casts a vote for Atkin is in serious need of psychiatric help.
Cartoon — 133 years later, I think it is past time for Americans to adopt this statement in fighting for democracy — if Romney/Ryan and the Republican/Teabaggers win the election, democracy is dead and the US will be relegated to 3rd world status, not just economically, but politically too.
Get out the vote!!!!!
Vote Democratic 2012!!!!! Vote Obama/Biden 2012!!!!!
Good time!
Good!
Amen!
Really!
I wish I'd thought of that!
4:33 I can't run with the big dogs.
3:20 This old dog still has some legs.
Throw the man a bone! Good one Jerry!
Throw him a Boehner! 😉
I'm with you on the boycotting of Wally World. The Waltons have more than their share of the wealth and don't share with their employees too well.
Well, bless his greedy, corrupt little un-Christian heart. He wants to help the Mormon (isn't that the same as a heathen to Evangelicals?) get elected. They change their minds as often as most people change underwear.
I agree, Tom. A DINO is better than a RpublicanT any day of the week.
And fight, we shall!
Obama/Biden in November 2012. Four more years!!!!
Good!
It is. Hypocrites!
Thanks!
Amen!