I have a second article for you today, but will have no time to distribute links, before I leave for my volunteer work in prison. Today I will meet with over 100 guys for their annual essay contest. I’m current with replies. After two volunteer days this week, I expect to be useless tomorrow, but after that I have several days without an appointment.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:54 (average 4:36). To do it click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: What if 47% of Americans Made A Sign As Awesome As This One?
Seamus must have been one of the 47% too.
From NY Times: In my next life, I want to be an undecided voter in Ohio.
Honest to gosh, can you imagine the love? If the Ohio Undecided Voter had a Twitter account, it would have 10 million followers. Each campaign would have an entire operation dedicated to watching it.
This is the best reason to support a National Popular Vote.
From The New Yorker: G.O.P. Presidential nominee Mitt Romney finally got some good news today as he found himself ahead of President Obama in a poll of N.F.L. replacement referees.
The survey, which immediately lifted the spirits of the Romney campaign, was taken among replacement refs on the field during N.F.L. games that they were supposed to be officiating last Sunday and Monday.
Another bad call!
Cartoon:
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5:09 I told you it wouldn't be long before I was back to my snail's pace. Hopefully, it's only temporary.
3:44 Jump on that stripped pony and ride!
3:53 I couldn't ride that painted pony as well as you Jerry. He sure does have a kick though and has no idea how to follow a straight line.
A win for Jerry, but I think Patty took a dive. 😉
Rmoney will never come anywhere near my town. If he did, I would gladly make a sign just like this and take it to his campaign stop.
I don't understand how anyone can be undecided at this point.
I'm all for eliminating the Electoral College and election winners determined by Popular Vote.
Looks like the "Bad Call" boys are out of a job and the regular refs are back.
A pox on the Warren Commission!
I would make a sign designed to give dogs target practice.
You said it yourself. They don't understand.
Amen.
Yea!
Amen again!
Puzzle — 3:53 That'a a painted pony that doesn't know how to follow a straight line.
MoveOn — Excellent sign! I feel like putting one in my kitchen window! Trouble is, the people who need to see it, wouldn't! I'd also be willing to wear it as a sandwich board and march down Main St somewhere in the south, providing I could get a passport and travel insurance. Too many Americans aren't paying attention and will end up being duped by the GOP if they don't wise up.
BTW TC, I posted some articles on Care2 but my personal messages, among other things are screwed up and I can't send anything out. Most involve Romney of course. Here's the link: http://www.care2.com/news/member/775377582?sort=submitted
New York Times — Good article. I particularly like one comment from Katileigh in upstate NY:
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She really lays waste to the Republican "you didn't build it" war chant. But then, anyone with half a brain knows that the Republicans are blowing smoke on this one.
I'd like to see a national popular vote here too — the Right Honourable (or should I say Dishonouyable?) PM Twit Harper had a 39.6% popular vote, yet he formed a majority government and is now running roughshod over the country.
The New Yorker — Bad call indeed! Only the Rmoney team could get excited about that! I guess when your spirits are lower than a snake's belly in a rut, even 14 more votes brightens your day!
Cartoon — When JFK was assassinated, I was in grade 6. The teacher announced the assassination in class and I remember feeling like I had been punched in the stomach. For me, an age of innocence died that day. I remember all the conjecture about who did it and why, but being Canadian and only 11 1/2 years old, I don't remember a lot of detail. I have always been convinced that the truth never came out.
What do you expect? That horse wasn't awake yet. It was still wearing its pajamas.
Would that more Americans had your activivm!
Good piece. 🙂
Wouldn't that be particularly sticky in a parliamentary system?
LOL!
I cried. I have always believed that his intention to pull out of Vietnam was the reason.
Sorry TC, don't know where that extra "Report Inappropriate Comment" stuff came from — it wasn't there when I hit submit.
No worries. If it came from C2, it's gotta be buggy! 😉
No it didn't. It came directly from the New York Times!
After reading your comment here, I went back to the times article to read some of the comments. Katleigh really gave the Golden Bear and Mittens 'what for'. Too bad they don't read things like this. Maybe they would both learn a thing or two.
Here's another good one ~
gemli from Boston
"It's interesting to watch Republican candidates beg for help. It must go against everything they believe in to admit that they can't do everything on their own. They're desperate and feeling vulnerable, reaching out and pleading, making their case over and over again to the only ones who can help them, but getting little more than tepid applause in return.
Maybe this experience will let them know what it feels like to need the help of people who can't be bothered to care. I can imagine there are lots of people in Ohio who know what it feels like to be sick and not have health insurance, or to have lost their jobs and their homes, or who don't know where their next meal is coming from. Given the similarity of circumstances, it's a little surprising that Ohioans aren't rallying to Romney's side. Surely part-time employees at Wal-Mart must empathize with multi-millionaires and professional golfers and their I-didn't-lean-on-somebody ethos.
Perhaps the Republican message has gotten through. Romney dismissed nearly 50 percent of the country for being too dependent, and now Ohio voters may well dismiss 50 percent of the presidential candidates for the same reason.
Tough love, to be sure, but it's the Republican way."
Paul Ryan should go out and buy himself a camo jacket and take a walk in the woods during hunting season. He really does have rocks in his head if he sends his daughter into the woods like that.
What excellent news!