Yesterday afternoon and last night, one of my neighbors repeatedly overloaded the electrical system, tripping the circuit breaker. This kept me from sleeping, because every time the power goes out, it sets off an alarm in my O2 converter, so this Open Thread is all I have for today.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:23 (average 5;10). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Boston Globe: Independent Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee (CHAY’-fee) is joining the Democratic Party ahead of his bid for a second term.
The former Republican U.S. senator left the GOP in 2007 and was elected as the nation’s only independent governor in 2010.
Two Democratic sources say Chafee plans to change his party registration to join the party.
Chafee has been saying for months that he was thinking about the switch, noting that he shares many positions with Democrats and that joining the party will help with fundraising.
He is a supporter of President Barack Obama and spoke at last year’s Democratic National Convention…
That is the only reasonable course for any Republican, who has not given up on common decency and rational thought.
From Think Progress: Thousands of people signed up to attend an armed march on Washington over the course of the last month. But now, the leader of the march is setting his sights much higher than a single demonstration — he wants his armed followers to help overthrow the American government.
About a month ago, a gun activist named Adam Kokesh called for thousands of people to join him in an armed march on Washington, D.C. to “put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny.” As of this writing, nearly 5,200 people have RSVPed for Kokesh’s armed march.
Late last week, however, Kokesh decided to abandon this march in favor of a much larger effort to bring down the entire federal government. In a statement written from a jail cell in Philadelphia (Kokesh faced charges for allegedly resisting arrest during a pro-marijuana rally. He now says he’s been released), the gun activist called for his supporters to form a secessionist “army”…
It goes without saying that Kokesh is a Republican. He founded Veterans for Ron Paul. He also ran for the Republican nomination for Congress in New Mexico’s 3rd congressional district. He received endorsements from Ron Paul and the Republican Liberty Caucus. He should be charged with sedition.
From Raw Story: Fox Business personalities had a collective freak out on Wednesday night after learning that mothers were now the primary source of income in 40 percent of U.S. households.
Fox Business host Lou Dobbs asserted women earning more than their husbands was an indication of the dissolution of American society. Fox News political analyst Juan Williams agreed, describing it as a sign of the disintegration of marriage that would have negative consequences for generations to come.
Fox News contributor Erick Erickson went one step further, saying nature itself commanded that women be subservient to men.
“I’m so used to liberals telling conservatives that they’re anti-science,” Erickson explained. “But liberals who defend this and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology, when you look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complimentary role.”
I’m not surprised to see that the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, is carrying out the Republican Party’s plan to make themselves more appealing to women. LOL!
Cartoon:
This prompted the immediate invention of the match by 19th century feminists. 😉
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3:47 Who let the dogs out? Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!
4:11 You let the dogs out. I think they were size 9's.
3:20 Time for the doggy to play.
No, they were Critter Crunched! . . . as were we all!
Critter Crunched indeed!
Puzzle — 3:47 Who let the dogs out? Woof! Woof! Woof! Woof!
Boston Globe — Let's hope that the people of Rhode Island have as much sense as Chafee and vote him back into office as a Democrat.
Think Progress — What this idiot is proposing is sedition!
He is openly advocating the over throw of the US government, initially by 'peaceful means', but if that is not successful, then by violence. So since when do 5,200 people constitute speaking for 315 million people? No government is perfect because the government is made up of people who are not perfect. But this idiot belongs in an insane asylum.
Raw Story — This is the most asinine thing I've heard from Faux Noise. And of that 40%, how many have the woman as the sole bread winner because the spouse is out of work, or because the woman is a single mother for whatever reason? That a woman needs a man to define who she is, to have worth, is the height of stupidity and totally unacceptable! I am sorry, but you guys south of the border have a lot of nut cases that need to be locked up. Start with the seditionist above, and Faux Noise morons, and build from there.
Cartoon — Well there has always been controversy around the wretched bra. I always thought that a man invented it so I thought I would find out. This from Wikipedia:(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassiere)
Sadly, I couldn't find your date of 30/05/1889, but I did find a fact sheet: http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventions/a/brassiere_2.htm
One thing is for certain, there are pros and cons to the damn things. When I was about 14, my stepfather told me that the Germans called them "dezensvilstopinzdemflopenz" and I believed him . . . for a while. Then I understood what he said and had a good laugh.
Oh, and LOL, matches were by men before the brassiere was invented!
Forget 6 months in jail. Sedition and attempted murder of elected officials = 20 years to life! A decade ago we were being imprisoned for hanging anti-W posters on our private walls.
Bill, if memory serves the penalty for sedition us up to 10 yrars and $10,000.
Critter did.
Amen!
An asylum would work!
Faux Noise exists to insure that sheeple stay morons!
For me the con was the difficulty learning to unsnap one with either hand. I figured that the existence of the bra necessitated the means to burn them 😉
"Fox News contributor Erick Erickson went one step further, saying nature itself commanded that women be subservient to men." I know one thing about those men who agree with this (please forgive me gentlepersons) but those who want women to be subservient to them are not well endowed and are trying to compensate for it!
As for the seditionists – arrest them all and lock them up!
LOL, Pat!!
Amen!
How's the search for a new place coming — one with an electrical system that is up to code?
Still looking. Most have long waiting lists.
– 7:54 – 🙄
Getting better Richard! Keep doing them!
Hear, hear!
I have one of those O2 machines, so I can understand better than others. I bet the culprit is an air conditioner. Do you have public housing out there? I pay rent, a third of my income, and that includes power. Usually seniors and the disabled (us) are housed together. Only sex offenders are excluded in Massachusetts.
I have the only A/C in the building and it's a 150 W model. Anything bigger would blow the circuit instantly. Here you jave to ne Medicaid eligible for public housing. I have some income from investments, so I make about $1,500 more than what it would take to qualify. The demand for affordable housing for people not on Medicaid exceeds the need far and away, so almost all have long waiting lists.
In MA a note from a doctor does it, but then you are at the end of the waiting list. I want to get back to Amherst and the lists there are long for both of the affordable housing complexes; meanwhile I'm glad I've got it where I am. More affordable housing is needed throughout the nation.
Because of our mild climate, we get lots of inflyx of homeless from colder places.
Of course we all know that Otto Titzling invented the brassiere.
And to celebrate it's anniversary, a dyslexic man walks into a bra and orders a drink.
Nameless, if he walked into a bra and ordered a drink, I hope he ordered a double. 😉
You boys are shameful. I like that!
I represent that remark!
And something with milk in it.
Meow!