Yesterday I enjoyed watching football, even though the Ellipsoid Orb does not shine on my team until tonight. I’m current with replies. Tomorrow is up in the air, because I’m helping a computer-phobic friend set up computer bookkeeping.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:02 (average 4:50). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: A Truth About Unemployment So Simple It Will Really P*ss You Off
When Republicans say JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, they must be talking about the ones they export.
From NY Times: Around the country, Republican operatives have been making moves to keep Mr. Johnson from becoming their version of Ralph Nader, the Green Party candidate whose relatively modest support cut into Al Gore’s 2000 vote arguably enough to help hand the decisive states of Ohio and Florida to George W. Bush.
As hard as they are working to move Gary Johnson from ballots, they are also working to keep Jill Stein included on them. They are also working to include Rocky Anderson, because he is on the ballot in only sixteen states.
From CNN: Former U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, who embodied a vanishing breed of liberal Republicanism before switching to the Democratic Party at the twilight of his political career, died Sunday after a long battle with cancer, his family announced.
Specter died of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at his home in Philadelphia, his family said. He was 82.
He was the last of what the Republican Party used to be, a man with whom I often disagreed, but who deserved respect.
Cartoon:
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Puzzle — 3:37 Anyone play knuckle busters with horsechestnuts when they were a kid? We used to put holes in the chestnuts then take one of our shoe laces out and thread it through the hole. Once ready, it was take a swing and hit the other guy's chestnut trying to break it before your's was broken. More often than naught, knuckles were broken, or at least bruised, long before the chestnut had had enough. I think we were the ones that spawned the whole slip on shoe industry because there weren't enough shoe laces in the world to keep up to our fall sporting activities! Oh, those were the days!
MoveOn — Amen! And if there don't seem to be the right skill sets at home, then be part of the solution by working with schools and people to build the right skill sets. This is one export that no country should find acceptable. Greed . . . the root of most evil. Power is the other root of evil.
NY Times — "…Around the country, Republican operatives have been making moves to keep Mr. Johnson from becoming their version of Ralph Nader…" — Isn't it funny how Republican/Teabaggers find their own dirty tricks acceptable, but if anyone else tries anything, hmmmm… no, no! They haven't contested Stein or Anderson because they are hoping that they will cut into the Democratic vote. But Anderson would cut into Republican/Teabagger votes.
"…and if they want to change the trajectory of this country, they’ll vote for Romney.” — A vote for Romney will sure change the trajectory of the US — right into the toilet! Talk about obstructed plumbing!
Cartoon — The beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis — "… was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other; the crisis occurred in October 1962, during the Cold War." As I remember some of my history lessons, the US did not want Soviet missiles sitting on the US doorstep in Cuba. But that wasn't the whole story. The US was already at odds with Cuba over the nationalisation of American firms in Cuba following the revolution, and the CIA is purported to have lead multiple attempts to assassinate Castro. And to think that the embargo against Cuba that was started on 1961 is still going strong 50 years later.
4:04 You beat this old chestnut.
No we never played that but we had a swing hanging from the chestnut tree and we used chestnuts as ammo for our slingshots.
We weren't allowed to have slingshots or elastic bands for fear we take someone's eye out. But either way, those chestnuts hurt like hell when they connected! Who would have thought that such a pretty thing could be so devastating when it came to bruises etc?!
3:47 You beat this old Aesculus hippocastanum also. Nuts!
Nope. I don't think I knew what a horse chestnut was. Clobbered me again, and won the day.
Agree. The Republican solution to educating for needed skill sets is to cut education.
Shit doesn't stink when they dump it.
LOL!
That's right.
MoveOn ~ There has never been a problem with our skill set. It has had to do with greed ever since it became more profitable to ship jobs overseas.
NY Times ~ They will do anything to see that Pres. Barrack Obama is not re-elected. Here in Oneida County, NY (RepublicanT majority) the election commissioners put Barrak Obama on the ballots in the voting machines which would have nullified the votes. It was found in time to fix it.
CNN ~ Arlen Specter was a good man. He knew what the RepublicanT party had become and left it.
Cartoon ~ This was a very scary 13 days. We had a bomb drill in school every day with the air raid sirens blaring.
Patty, I think it's that Republicans opt to offshore jobs rather that train Americans to do them.
Why am I not surprised?
As all self-respecting, decent Republicans should.
However, it was not really as scary as we were led to believe.
Arlen Specter was that rare Republican who realized the party left him – and not the other way around.
When it lurched so dangerously far to the right he could no longer countenance its hate-mongering agenda, he did the only decent thing he could … and became a Democrat.
As all decent Republicans now should.
I have been receiving mail with a name I did not know and the term we have all seen at one time or the other…or current residence.
A Obama volunteer came to my home Sunday and ask to speak not only too me but also this person who's name I have been getting in the mail. I informed the volunteer that no such person lived at my address with me and today I called the campaign office in my city.
I spoke to someone from the campaign office today and informed him about what had occurred on Sunday and he told me to send him an email with what we spoke about. so it could be turned over to a Lawyer and looked into.
I also called the Supervisor of Elections for my county and verified that I was still registered to vote in the election. I also brought up the issue of a unknown person whom the campaign office told me they had gotten through the voter registration list from the state and local elections offices.
The person at the election office looked up the name I gave that was according to the campaign listed at my address and confirmed that there was a registration for that person for my address. I informed them that no such person resided at my residency and it had to be a fraudulent registration and should be removed from the roll.
I emailed the campaign person all this information and now it is in their Lawyers hands.
It appears that there was more than one county that the RNC group hired by the Florida Republican Party turned in fraudulent voter registration forms. This is a Felony and there is an active investigation into jt now. The group that was hired has opened up in ten more states under another name and is actively committing Voter Registration Fraud in an attempt to steal this election for Bishop Romney and Congressman Paul Ryan.
We must continue to be aware that they will try to steal this election by any means. That includes tampered voting machines as well as absentee ballots which is more than likely the reason for fraudulent voter registrations throughout the states on a national level.
Have a great evening.
With elections mere weeks away, how can an investigation be completed in time to ensure that election fraud of this sort is not happening? How many people will get the same notice and not do anything about it?
Thanks AP for bringing this up. Although I have no vote, no official stake in the US election because I am Canadian, I do see a fledgling campaign here in Canada to distort the vote. The Conservative Party with a majority hold on the Commons is being investigated for robocalls and is standing in the way by not providing requested documentation to the courts. Our Conservatives are Republican/Teabagger wannabes.
It's a good thing you are on your toes. Think of the thousands of individuals who pay no attention. That's how the criminal get away with their fraud.
Good catch AP! I confirmed my own registration a few days ago. Everyone should.