I’m writing for tomorrow, day 171. Store to Door is coming with groceries, and I have lots of cleaning to do to prepare.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:44 (average 5:28). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: An Ohio man has become infected with misinformation about the Ebola virus through casual contact with cable news, the Centers for Disease Control has confirmed.
Tracy Klugian, thirty-one, briefly came into contact with alarmist Ebola hearsay during a visit to the Akron-Canton airport, where a CNN report about Ebola was showing on one of the televisions in the airport bar. “Mr. Klugian is believed to have been exposed to cable news for no more than ten minutes, but long enough to become infected,” a spokesman for the C.D.C. said. “Within an hour, he was showing signs of believing that an Ebola outbreak in the United States was inevitable and unstoppable.”
Once Klugian’s condition was apparent, the Ohio man was rushed to a public library and given a seventh-grade biology textbook, at which point he “started to stabilize,” the spokesman said.
Andy has a point. It’s a good thing the man was not exposed to the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise. His brain would not have survived long enough to reach the library emergency room.
From Daily Kos: Ellen Bogan was rolling down U.S. 27 in Union County, Indiana when she was pulled over for a traffic violation. The state trooper let her off with a warning, but not before asking some bizarrely unprofessional questions:
Did she have a home church?
Did she accept Jesus Christ as her savior?
Ellen said she felt helpless to leave the traffic stop, even after the warning had been issued:
"The police officer is representing the government … so that means, as a representative, this person, while on duty, while engaged in official action, is basically overstepping and is trying to establish religion."
Bogan, who lives in Huntington, said Hamilton asked her about her faith multiple times during the traffic stop. Because he was a trooper and his police car was still parked behind hers, she said she felt she could not leave or refuse questioning.
"The whole time, his lights were on," Bogan said. "I had no reason to believe I could just pull away at that point, even though I had my warning."
This Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian abused his authority, violated her Constitutional rights, and should be criminally indicted and blacklisted from service as a police officer everywhere.
From NY Times: Just weeks before elections that will decide control of the Senate and crucial governors’ races, a cascade of court rulings about voting rules, issued by judges with an increasingly partisan edge, are sowing confusion and changing voting procedures with the potential to affect outcomes in some states.
Last week, a day before voting was scheduled to begin in Ohio, the United States Supreme Court split, 5 to 4, to uphold a cut in early voting in the state by one week; the five Republican appointees voted in favor and the four Democratic appointees against. Cases from North Carolina and Wisconsin are also before the court, with decisions expected shortly, while others are proceeding in Texas and Arkansas.
The legal fights are over laws that Republican-led state governments passed in recent years to more tightly regulate voting, in the name of preventing fraud.
Since virtually all actual documented cases of so-called voter fraud have been Republicans getting caught while trying to prove they could get away with it, it is clear that the Republican courts, especially SCROTUS (Republican Constitutional VD) are helping their fellow fascists. Note how the Fascist Five Injustices used the Gay Marriage non-decision to distract us from their efforts to help the Republican Party steal elections. Get Out the VOTE!!
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Oh TC – at last some humour to leaven the Ebola news coverage! I did see in The Guardian this morning an article from a couple of days ago that said that although a man (Patrick Sawyer) had arrived in Nigeria with Ebola and had infected 20 people, 8 of whom had sadly died, they had contained the outbreak by using their excellent programme they have developed to try and wipe out Polio, which was rife there. Now if they can only contain outbreaks in Spain, Texas and possibly in Australia then we can concentrate on helping the poor souls in West Africa!
http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2014/oct/07/nigeria-ebola-experience-teach-world
Sadly I see that the incompetent and cruel Spanish authorities have murdered the Ebola patients' dog – which as far as we know from all recognised sources could not possibly have had Ebola.
Daily Kos – poor Ellen Brogan – it seems a short step from that kind of inappropriate and intrusive behaviour to much worse ones – that trooper sounds as if he should be sacked.
Get out the vote!
5:42 average now 5:30.
New Yorker – Well put. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." We could use FDR today, flawed human being though he in many ways was. (Nor am I suggesting we should use no common sense.)
Daily Kos – This truly creeped me out. I wonder how long he has been pulling this before he was turned in. It's my opinion that, although not prosecutable, anyone who sat through this treatment and failed to turn him in is as guilty as he is. We had a mail carrier once hand my hubby a printed copy of a political chain email. You had better believe I turned him in. And that, while a clear violation of regulations, was not as clearly unConstitutional is this – um – officer's action.
NY Times – I predicted months ago that cheerleading was not going to be enough in this election to get out the vote; we would have to be physically helping people get to the polls. I see Daily Kos is making information available to people now on a state by state basis whether and how it is possible to vote by mail. Colorado now has 100% mail balloting which hopefully will help. However one has to supply one's own postage. Maybe Democrats here should be handing out stamps.
Cartoon – Wouldn't they love that!
When the whites only turn into everyone is welcome the the republian/teaparty you think they will finally get it?
3:30 ~ Don't show this puzzle to TeapublicanTs. They'll think it's a new strain of ebola.
3:28 Can they be THAT stupid? . . . I know, stupid question! Of course they can!
Bigfooted!
New Yorker ~ Sadly, there is no cure for those infected by exposure to FAUX NOISE. It almost always results in brain death.
Daily Kos ~ I don't know how it is with State Public Servants. But, when employed by the Federal Government, you are not allowed to proselytize while working.
NY Times ~ There wil be no end to SCROTUS' terrible rulings until Thomas and Scalia are gone. Until then, your cartoon too close to the truth.
New Yorker – Andy’s piece was FABULOUS!!
Daily Kos – How do these sanctimonious airheads get hired to be in a position of this much authority?? Doesn’t anyone mind these people when they are out and stopping people? This is a job for IAD! They need to do something about these holier-than-thou nutjobs out of this kind of scary positions!!
NY Times – This is SCROTUS’ way of getting what they want, when they want! Un-frikkin-believable!! They give one thing with the right hand and take away two more with the right!
The New Yorker" Funny, but exactly true. The fear mongers are not telling the truth and people need to be educated about the way you actually contract Ebola.
Daily Kos: This guy should be fired. I hope she filed a complaint.
NY Times: Once again, ignorance amongst the populace is letting this go on. The Republicans and Faux news have the general public convinced there is a ton of voter fraud and very few are making an outcry. We all KNOW this Scrotus will always support the Republicans.
Cartoon: And they wish it were still that way.
Puzzle — 3:28 Can they be THAT stupid? . . . I know, stupid question! Of course they can!
The New Yorker — Andy, please see that Elizabeth Hasselbeck gets to the Ebola Detox Centre before she starts saying that talking about ebola will infect people!
Daily Kos — I would have, very politely mind, told the officer that my religion was none of his business. If he persisted, which it appears he did, I would have ignored his questions other than the ones that specifically dealt with the traffic stop. I would also have made notes and filed a formal complaint about his conduct.
"… abused his authority, violated her Constitutional rights, and should be criminally indicted and blacklisted from service as a police officer everywhere." — I so agree.
NY Times — It seems that "last minute decisions" where additional documentation or educating the voting public is required, should not be allowed. Set a time frame . . . say 3 or 6 months before the election . . . for the determination of a change . . . so there is adequate lead time. Enough of this bull shit!
Cartoon — Yeah, wouldn't the Republicanus/Teabaggers just love that! It would would probably say "White men only" if they had their druthers!
Thanks all. Running late. Pit stop. Hugs!