I’m writing for tomorrow, day 173. I spent the entire morning researching, and doing paperwork in for my prison volunteer work. I did take a half hour off to bask in the sun, although there was not much. If I play this right, I’ll have time for a nap. If not, I’ll be playing roulette with a keyboard face plant.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:23 (average 5:02). To do it click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Media Matters: Fox News used doctored video of an interview with President Obama to claim his description of briefings he received on the night of the Benghazi attack contrasts with former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta’s. In reality, their accounts are consistent.
Panetta discussed the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi during a September 7 interview [Faux Noise delinked] with Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. The Factor — and subsequently the October 8 edition of Fox & Friends — exploited the interview to revive the debunked claim that Obama didn’t describe the Benghazi attacks as terrorism and conclude "the administration did not want to talk about terror." To make their point, each program featured a clip of the president’s interview with O’Reilly in February in which the Fox host asked the president about the "terror" designation. The clip egregiously omits Obama’s response to the dialogue, in which the president explicitly says, "When somebody is attacking our compound … that’s an act of terror, which is how I characterized it the day after it happened."
Barf Bag Alert!!
Brain-washed sheeple have a warped view of this issue, because what Obama REALLY said landed on the cutting room floor of the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise.
From Daily Kos: There are good cops and then there is an unknown NYPD officer who blatantly robs a man at his birthday party:
Lamard Joye was celebrating his 35th birthday with friends last month near a basketball court in Coney Island, Brooklyn. At some point, the police arrived and stopped a friend of his.
From several feet away, Mr. Joye objected. What happened next is now under investigation by the Brooklyn district attorney’s office, which is in possession of a cellphone video of the ensuing confrontation.
The video of the encounter, on Sept. 16 at around 12:20 a.m., shows a police officer steering Mr. Joye against a chain-link fence to pat him down. “Look,” Mr. Joye says. “Look, you see this? Look.” The police officer reaches into Mr. Joye’s pocket, removes what appears to be a folded stack of bills and steps back.
This is no the video with the article. That could not be embedded, but this video is enhanced. This proves that Brooklyn has at least one Republican.
From The New Yorker: As the mystery surrounding the absence of dictator Kim Jong-un deepens, the North Korean government on Wednesday issued an official statement reassuring its citizens that it had “a deep bench of brutal madmen.”
While it offered no comment about the status of Kim, the statement from the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) emphasized that “making North Korea an authoritarian horror-drome is not the achievement of one man; it has been and will always be a team effort.”
Andy should tell them not to worry. Our Republican Party can lend them dozens of experienced leaders, who are just as brutal, and just as crazy.
Cartoon:
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4:29 (average now 5:05) For a minute I thought that was a skateboard.
Media Matters – I am getting a headache from beating my head against the wall.
Daily Kos – I saw this and read many of the comments. I don't know what to say except heartbreaking.
New Yorker – Andy is straight reporting again. I wish we COULD send over dozens of Republicans, and that they would stay there.
Cartoon – needs a Barf Bag alert.
Sorry!
Not your fault. You just report. You are not reponsible for Republicanausea.
Media Matters – can't they be sued for misrepresenting the truth like that? Well they should be. if they can't! Why don't people put on the airwaves pastiches of their interviews with them saying things that in fact have been pasted together or have bits missed out – "the biter bit"!
Daily Kos – my jaw dropped when I saw this – and another related article estimating how much the police depts make in a similar fashion – which doesn't have to be reported (unbelievable!!) – it is highway robbery, and I mean that quite literally! Honest police officers should be getting together and stopping this – or they will all be tarred with the same brush.
New Yorker – you are quite correct TC – the number of batsh*t crazy Far Right-ers who would love to take Kim Jong Un's place is legion!
No, the fascist five Injustices of SCROTUS (Republican CXonstitutional VD) ruled that forbidding the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, to lie would violate their right to freedom of the press.
Panetta says When asked about an interview with Obama on fox news "aba da do". As much as they tryed to rail Obama in that interview even Panetta could not reply. It makes me wonder how much did his sell his soul for?
I saw that video and it is no wonder the white man scared. As they should be
The cartoon rocks Tom
I think Panetta was uninformed.
3:06 Quite a structure, especially seen at night when the lights are on.
Go to https://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=A211CA685&p=james+joyce+bridge and click on the first picture of "Image Results" to go to a slideshow of the bridge. Some stunning pictures, especially at night. I suspect that the person in the puzzle is riding a scooter on the righthand pedestrian walkway.
It's now the second image.
I can't eat a bridge!
Good thing you don't have to since my time was better than your's.
3:45 It was "a bridge too far" for me.
I did figure out that it wasn't a skateboard, but I wasn't sure whether it was a scooter or a Segway and didn't want to guess.
To me it looks like scooter as the platform is longer, the handles smaller and the wheels appear to be 4 and smaller. The segways I have seen are more compact in the platform, have higher handles, and 2 larger wheels.
Puzzle — 3:06 Quite a structure, especially seen at night when the lights are on.
Go to https://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?fr=mcafee&type=A211CA685&p=james+joyce+bridge and click on the first picture of "Image Results" to go to a slideshow of the bridge. Some stunning pictures, especially at night. I suspect that the person in the puzzle is riding a scooter on the righthand pedestrian walkway.
Media Matters — Lies and deceit . . . that is what the Reich Ministry of Propaganda does so that they can rile up their base and the sheeple. This is exactly why Faux Noise cannot get a broadcast license in Canada . . . lies, deceit, manufacturing content to serve their view with no regard for the truth! To boot, I certainly found O'Lielly to be rude and disrespectful to the POTUS.
Daily Kos — Guilty of being black and having some money in a lower income area of Brooklyn.
The cop (I only use that term when I have no respect for the officer) needs to be tried, convicted and sent to jail like any other criminal. That would also mean that he MUST be fired. Even if he only gets a reprimand and not a criminal conviction, he needs to be fired for his odious behaviour.
The New Yorker — I'd bet that the North Korean Communist elites could be turned into greedy little capitalists with the help of the Republicanus/Teabaggers. They already have the power/control schtick down pat.
Cartoon — The perfect picture for my dart board!
No matter how Joye obtained the money, the cop obrained it illegally.
Media Matters" Of course President Obama's response was edited on Faux news. They only run the things that fit their criteria. He should refuse to talk to them. I didn't watch the video, they always make me grouchy.
Daily Kos: I hope by now they know who the unkown policeman was. He needs to fired and prosecuted.
The New Yorker: Andy is right. And so are you. They could just use the politicians who went to Uganda to help them with their "gays"
Cartoon: Sickening, but true!
If Kim resurfaces, he will probably be drafting legislation for ALEC.