I’m writing for tomorrow, and this was to be tomorrow’s only article, but today’s news is too big not to cover, so today I’m working harder than a hooker at a Republican family values convention. Tomorrow is take legal possession and start planning the specifics day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:29 (average 5:33). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: On today’s show Rush Limbaugh got in [Limbarf delinked] a couple of digs at the embattled mayor of Toronto, Rob Ford.
Apparently completely deaf to irony in his own words, Limbaugh made a snide reference to Ford’s drug problem before taking aim at his obesity:
Now, this is the guy who admitted he got drunk and, what, he smoked crack?
Yeah, he smoked it in a "drunken stupor," and he refuses to resign, and they’re trying to strip his powers as mayor away. His brother’s backing him up, but he won’t quit. He’s a big, obese guy. He looks like Goldfinger with about, oh, 50 or 60 extra pounds, maybe a hundred extra pounds or whatever.
Talk about the pot and the kettle! That’s sooooooo Republican!
From NY Times: In an alarming 5-to-4 ruling, the Supreme Court turned away an emergency application to block a new Texas law that is impeding access to safe and legal abortion care in the state. The ruling leaves in place an order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that allowed the law go into effect while it considers an appeal.
This is is a complete sham from the Fascist Five Republican Injustices of SCROTUS, the source of Constitutional VD! Once the clinics are closed, and the employees gone, it will be to late, and all the other services, let alone abortion, those clinics have provided to women will also be gone.
From MSNBC: Two of my favorite ladies discuss what Democrats want.
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For far too long Democrats have been on the defensive from Republican assaults on earned entitlements. Every compromise has moved the center further to the right, so today the center is way to the right of where the left was fifty years ago. It’s time to start going on offense and move the center back toward where it used to be. For those of you who think there is no difference between the parties. This is why you are mistaken.
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"I’m working harder than a hooker at a Republican family values convention." ~ you are so funny, Tom!
Every time I see Ford, I think of Limbaugh, too – very much the same in so many ways.
And YES!!!! Harry Reid, you finally did it! Whine away, Republicans…. we can't hear you….
Arielle, should we serve them some whine and cheese with a side of sour grapes?
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I like Rob Ford. "Talk about the pot and the kettle! That’s sooooooo Republican!" Rush Limbaugh not so much.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) Massachusetts, shares my values and will have my support always. 😀
6:29 – It stonewalled me today.
"I’m working harder than a hooker at a Republican family values convention." First I LOL'ed, and then – I LOL'ed some more. Perfect comparison.
Limbaugh and Ford – hard to tell them apart, especially from those two pix. What are Ford's politics like?
Maybe Scalia will die before the end of 2016. Although he is so full of poison you'd think he would have died of it by now if he was going to. Almost enough to make one seriously consider that there might be people who have signed pacts with the devil..
Yes, isn't it funny that the people who are complaining the loudest about America eroding are the very people who have been eroding it?
I think that Rush would have to have "had it" before he could lose it – the man never had it. Unless one means a foul mouth and being a liar par excellence, now those he has.
Suddenly just requiring the Senate to do their job is the majority ganging up on those poor little guys in the minority. Oh, how quickly they forget.
"Democrats, led by Reid and Sen. Jeff Merkley, have been pushing back into debate the question of amending the Senate rules through a majority vote in order to stop the ability of the minority party to block nominees through a filibuster. This so-called “nuclear option” last was seriously considered in 2005 when Republicans controlled the Senate and President George W. Bush’s nominees were being held up by Democrats.
In that instance, the imposition of the rule-change option was put at bay by the “Gang of 14” senators, equally divided between the parties, who agreed to allow some of 10 stalled nominees through but also agreed to allow the filibuster rule to stand so long as nominees were only filibustered for “extraordinary circumstances” — an undefined phrase that has led to much debate in the eight years since."
http://www.buzzfeed.com/katenocera/harry-reid-prepares-to-go-nuclear
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
—-John F. Kennedy
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I think we have a right to demand that the Senate do their job to, "Advise and Consent" not play games with nominations that do nothing but play for camera time. I don't care who is doing this, and I realize that both parties have played ridiculous games with nominations for various offices, this has gone too far and enough is enough.
Total number of nominations blocked for All other presidents – 86
Total number of nominations blocked against Obama – 82
3:37 I'm running fast, like the water.
4:31 Drip, drip, drip. It's a slow leak.
I think Rob Ford is Limbraugh's twin. They not only look alike, but behave the same also…both buffoons and drug addicts.
It's uncanny. Isn't it? Limbarf looks more like Ford's brother than his real brother does.
http://swampland.time.com/2013/11/21/john-boehner-signs-up-for-obamacare/
This is my favorite news story of the day. John Boehner signs up for ObamaCare, because it's required by law.
Since I don't see a mention of the 50th Anniversary of one of our nation's darkest hours, I'm going to post for posterity "My Moment of Where Were You When" on this day 50 years ago (something I know a lot of you whippersnappers will not even be able to do).
I was a sophomore sitting in my English class, which had just begun. My teacher was a 6' 4" guy who happened to an All-State Basketball player in Illinois from the town next to mine. The announcement came over the PA system that Pres. John F. Kennedy had been shot, and that the school would be dismissed.
I actually don't remember what my immediate reaction was, but I can see plain as day the utter shock on my teacher's face. He simply put down his head on the desk … and openly and inconsolably wept.
There was stunned silence, and then slowly we gathered our things and left the room with tears streaming down our faces..
I've had more than my share of "Where were you when …" moments – from the moon landing to the Challenger tragedy to 9/11 – and the assassination of Pres. Kennedy is certainly one of them.
I think we all have a "where you were when" story about that day. I was typing a term paper that was due the next day. I don't believe I finished it on time. Spent a week glued to the little tv and crying.
Just a small note: What Sen.Reid and our Democrats did was not – repeat, NOT – the "Nuclear Option" … it was the Constitutional Option!
That's right, Nameless. There was nothing "nuclear" about it. It only follows the Constitution.
TC, Nobody should ever have to work THAT hard!
Rush is such a hypocrite! I thought the Flush Rush campaign would get rid of him, but he just keeps haniging on, like a poison ivy rash.
The decision by the Supreme Court is an excellent argument of why we need term limits for these posts.
We need many, many more of Elizabeth Warren.