I’m writing for tomorrow, day 189. I’ve just been so dang busy that I’m half dazed. When I received my ballot, it took me four days to allocate enough time to vote. If you’re guessing I voter for Democrats across the board, you guessed right. I predict Monica will have to go back to full time stalking and plagiarizing. I voted against an open primary, for GMO labeling, for legalization of marijuana and against an Oregon Constitutional amendment outlawing discrimination based on sex. The Oregon Constitution already outlaws all discrimination (“No law shall be passed granting to any citizen or class of citizens privileges, or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens.”) If that one fails, the sheep in eastern Oregon, where Republicans dominate, can come out of hiding. 😉
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:55 (average 5:06). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Raw Story (Hat-Tip [Shoe-Tip?] Lynn Squance): [O]n Friday night, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow took Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly to task for a deeply inaccurate story Kelly ran on Tuesday alleging that Democrats in Colorado are stealing the 2014 election by allowing people to print their ballots at home and hand them over to political operatives.
Mediaite reported that on Tuesday, Kelly breathlessly reported on “a new law” in Colorado that would allow Democrats to sway “a critical Senate race” because it “literally allows residents to print ballots from their home computers, then encourages them to turn ballots over to collectors.”
According to Maddow, the only people who can print their ballots on home computers and mail them in are active duty military personnel who are stationed abroad. This option is available to service personnel from all 50 states.
What else would one expects from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise? I’m glad Rachel keeps going when I can’t!!
From The New Yorker: Amid concerns that the spreading fear of Ebola has become a greater threat than the virus itself, a new poll shows that a majority of Americans favor a quarantine of the CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer.
While poll respondents supported quarantining more than a dozen cable-news personalities, including the entire cast of “Fox & Friends,” a full seventy-two per cent gave the nod to a quarantine of Blitzer.
Great idea, Andy! Can we quarantine Limbarf too?
From Daily Kos: Bobby McKenzie, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 11th District is up with his first ad this cycle and it’s a doozy. It is a hard-hitting ad that shows what it looks like when Republican David Trott evicts people, in this case an elderly woman, from their home.
David Trott is known as Michigan’s "Foreclosure King". I prefer "Parasitic leech on the jugular vein of society". This man has built an entire vertically-integrated empire that profitizes the misery of down-on-their-luck Michiganders. You can read more about that HERE.
McKenzie’s new ad, which the Washington Post calls "one of the most brutal attack ads you’ll ever see"
Chick through to learn how this Republican bastard had her left in the rain in mid winter and had her meds thrown in the trash. Then Get Out the VOTE!!!
Cartoon:
This figure has since increased to 2.4 million.
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3:18 Are you hungry enough to eat a horse today, TC?
2:50 There is still a little speed in this old stallion.
2:42 Nobody is eating that horse, hungry or not! I'm going riding in the grassy mountain meadows just up behind my house.
Dang! Cat starver!!
It looks like you've already Rocked the Vote in your state. Good for you!
Raw Story ~ Meagan Kelly reported falsely??? My, my! What is this world coming to? I will never understand how these FAUX anchors can call themselves journalists. For the most part they broads=cast made up stories.
New Yorker ~ Quarantine all of FAUX and throw in Morning Joefro MSNBC for kicks.
Daily Kos ~ I'm hoping that people in Michigan pay attention to that ad when they're glued to the boob tube watching their favorite reality show. Folks, that ad is reality! Wake up! VOTE!
Cartoon ~ That is not a bragging right fact. It is shameful! Now it is even worse.
Your "NO" vote on Oregon's ERA Amendment had me scratching my head – and sending me to Google.
As you stated, Oregon already has solid protection – and it's been upheld by the Oregon Supreme Court. In addition, the Oregon ACLU is against it (but not actively campaigning against it) because their/our goal is for a uniform FEDERAL ERA, and they're worried a piecemeal approach will muddy the waters.
http://www.aclu-or.org/content/no-measure-89-era-2014
But I REALLY want to know is if you attended the "World Beard & Mustache Competition" this past Saturday at the Keller Auditorium in Portland?
http://beardteamusa.org/world/
5:00 average down to 5:00. I don't know, Patty, he's been working hard enough maybe he could eat a horse.
I have always received (in every state I have lived in) a booklet from the League of Women Voters that analyzes propositions, with arguments for and against, quotes, and the full text of the prop. In Colorado we vote on whether to retain judges, and it addresses them too. It comes long enough before the ballot that it can speed up marking the ballot itself. That's a very well worded amendment that you have there. Kudos.
Raw Story – If you get a mail ballot automatically just by being a registered voter, why print another one? If you spoil the first one? (There are other provisions for that.) You have to sign it so you can't double vote. But I'll bet everyone in Colorado, who know better, who watches Fox News will believe it anyway. Gag.
New Yorker – Great idea! Why stop with newsfolk? There are some Congressfolk who should be in quarantine too! No more cocktail parties for Rand Paul! (BTW when was the last time you or someone you knew gave a "cocktail party"? The 1970's?)
Daily Kos – I did see this there. Comments full of people who cannot understand why anyone would ever vote for this guy (who will probably win BTW.) We had better learn why people vote for Republicans if we want to make a dent in it. Hint – it's not because all many people hear is "We'll lower your taxes." Nor is it because so many people are so bloody stupid. There is some truth in the less people have … the more they desperately cling to any vestiges of "I'm better than THEM." (incidentally a reason why the ad may not be as effective as hoped – since Texana Hollis committed the crime of being 101 while black.) Mostly it's fear. Against all evidence (not they they are allowed to see the evidence since by the time any rumor gets to them it is so distorted) they fear that "democrats will turn the country over to the UN, that Obama is importing ebola to kill everyone, and that the only good government is a dead government." Also Socialism, Also Gay Marriage. Most of those are direct quotes from the comments.
Cartoon – Oh yeah. Prison slave labor is still outsourcing – it still takes away jobs from Americans who need them and gives them to people who are not "in the economy."
Raw Story – I am glad to see that that falsehood seems to be all over the web at the moment – but of course Faux Noise will do nothing about it – if they started admitting lies where would they stop?
New Yorker – brilliant idea – can we make up a list of people to volunteer?
Daily Kos – Mr Trott seems to fail to qualify on the qualifications for basic humanity – what a vile man! If anything they have said about this man is true (and I have no reason to assume any isn't) then this advert is utterly justified – argh!!
Joanne is right – we must work out why people vote for these unpleasant people – the Repugs general hysteria does seem to indicate that thought doesn't come into it – just visceral and primal fears which are played on by their politicians.
Puzzle — 2:42 Nobody is eating that horse, hungry or not! I'm going riding in the grassy mountain meadows just up behind my house.
FF — Well I had a look at the score boards and there is tonight's game. But right now I am 166.68 to 126.04 over Hugo and the boys. FF is definitely more fun this year.
Raw Story — If Kelly were in Canada, her "reporting", and I use that term extremely loosely, would not stand up . . . she'd be a liability to any organisation here. There would be big fines, and maybe even more. The Reich Ministry of Propaganda must be so proud.
The New Yorker — Because I don't have cable, I don't get to watch CNN etc, but I remember Blitzer from the 2012 presidential debates. He was a fool then and I expect that hasn't changed so yes, please, quarantine him! But while we're at it, how about quarantining the Reich Ministry of Propaganda starting with Megyn Kelly, Limbarf and a few others. But definitely, NOT Rachel, Lawrence, Ed and one or two others.
Daily Kos — "Parasitic leech on the jugular vein of society" is way too nice for this POS. He is so Republicanus/Teabagger . . . a total dirt bag! There are 279 Congress Critters that need to be shown the congressional exit directly to the unemployment line, so GET OUT THE VOTE! BTW, 279 is the number of Republicanus/Teabaggers in Congress just incase you thought I pulled that number out of my toque!
Cartoon — Sad, very sad. And as I understand things, a disproportionate number are African Americans, Latinos, and other minorities. Time to lock up the Republicanus/Teabaggers . . . much more cost effective.
Perhaps I lacked wisdom introducing a sasquatch to a game called FOOTball. 😉
I think you did. I have to play against her this week and I think she's going to Mash my Monsters.
May or may not be around tomorrow. I developed a bad chest cold with a racking cough, sneezes, watery eyes etc. I also did too much exercise on Friday and spent the entire weekend on a steady diet of migraine strength advil because my left knee was so painful. No exercise today at physio.
Glad to hear you're taking it easy. One of the WORST myths we pediatricians confronted from our adolescent patients was that of "No Pain – No Gain". That could NOT be further from the truth.
http://www.clubs.psu.edu/FitnessPrograms/myths.htm
But I doubt it's better than my own brother's favorite mantras of "Exercise? I inhale and I exhale" or "The Good Lord only gave me so many heartbeats – and it's just silly to waste them on exercise."
Those are his favorites that he would share with me … during his cigarette breaks. ARRGHH!
(Sorry TC – but what else could you expect from me? AND keep on adding those "Days" to your stellar efforts – it's going well!)
Well this body doesn`t belong to a kid so it doesn`t recover so fast. Fortunately, my physio agrees with me. One piece of advice: Don`t fall and end up with multiple avulsion fractures. That part is bad enough, but the crutches and over compensation on an older body is murder!
I cherainly hope you feel better.
Welcome back Nameless!
I still don't know how you find the time and energy to do all that you do.
Raw Story: Good for Rachel, she calls them out! Megyn Kelly, seldom speaks truth, nor do any others on Faux news that I am aware of.
The New Yorker: A quarantine of CNN, or Fox light, works for me.
Daily Kos: I clicked through, and shared on Facebook with my Michigan friends. How horrible a person do you have to be to evict a one hundred year old woman?
Cartoon: And that was just the beginning. As the private prisons have escalated, so have the number of people being sentenced.
Thanks all. Pit stop. Slept At keyboard.
WRT the Raw Story article, Daily Kos has a follow up: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/10/25/1339237/-Colorado-Station-Busts-Megyn-Kelly-for-Outright-Lying-FoxNews-Offers-No-Correction?detail=email
We all know that Megyn Kelly is a rabid liar and hasn't got an ounce of integrity nor ethics. After her totally untrue report about Colorado voters being able to print their own ballots, she was exposed by Rachel Maddow. But since then, neither she nor Faux Noise has apologised nor corrected the lies . . . I'd call it misinformation but that to me implies there was no intent to deceive which is clearly not the case here.