I’m writing for tomorrow, day 69. Tonight Oregon Plays Ohio State in the inaugural BCS championship game. Then tomorrow is a prison volunteer day, so please expect me to be scarce for the next two to three days.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:07 (average 5:00). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Fox News just reported that Obama is going to ban doughnuts!
And not just doughnuts. Watch the report. Obama's jack-booted FDA is coming after (and they list these) popcorn, Christmas cookies (ohhh he hates Christmas!), crackers, frozen pizza, and canned frosting. Fox News host Clayton Morris actually said they would be prohibited!
Cenk is quite hilarious with this Republican lie. I wonder if Republican cops turned their back on de Blasio, because he's a Democrat, and they think he will help Obama take away their donuts. 😉
From YouTube: Elizabeth Warren: Break Up the Banks to Restore Economy for All
She is a glimmer of light in the dark ages.
From UPI: Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has been made the chair for the Senate subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, which oversees NASA.
OMG! Bend over! Republicans want to explore Uranus!! 😈
Cartoon:
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3:25 Not meaty enough for that old TomCat.
3:19 Meaty enough? There isn't even enough for a slim salad!
Daily Kos ~ I've said it before: "They don't need no steenking facts!" Ceng is too funny. I'm waiting for my FB friends to tell me this.
YouTube ~ She is wonderful. She won a victory when Antonio Weiss asked to have his named pulled from consideration as Treasury Secretary. That was a biggie! She will keep fighting for us too.
UPI ~ I would like to send him into space like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove.
Cartoon ~ I wonder if they still eat "Freedom" fries in the Congressional cafeteria or if they renamed them French fries again.
5:24 average up to 5:18. We had lantana when I was growing up, but ours were not quite so MPD. No pinks, no peaches, just bright yellow and tomato red. Of course that was more than 50 years ago.
Daily Kos – And not only that, he's going to disband the Marine Corps. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/01/1355083/-Obama-To-Disband-the-Marine-Corps?detail=email If only Obama had the kind of power they think he does! I can tell you he wouldn't disband the Marine Corps. I particularly enjoyed the irony of the thought of a Kenyan outlawing coffee, thus destroying one of Kenya's biggest cash crops. One country just isn't enough for him to destroy! As to the NYPD, I actually thought of doughnuts when I read that law enforcement is the most obese profession in America. You may well be right.
YouTube – A glimmer of light in the Dark Ages indeed (I'll even capitalize it).
UPI – Very funny – but don't they think it costs way too much to explore anything? I mean, OMG – they might find some – FACTS!
Cartoon – I am continually amazed at how many people just buy right into what the terrorists want them to think and do. Including way too many at Care2 and other more or less progressive sites. A pretty good explanation is here http://www.juancole.com/2015/01/sharpening-contradictions-satirists.html but there are good esplanations all over the internet – being drowned out by the voices of extremists.
TC – Yesterday you had a post about another arrest of George Zimmerman, again for violence. BUT I came across some really good news for old George:
Just SIX MORE Mugshots, and he'll be able to put together his very own calendar!
There's been a media kerfuffle over Pres. Obama for not going to Paris for the "Unity March" (damn that "Librul" media).
While I agree he probably should have sent a high-ranking US dignitary (and apparently Bibi Netanyahu doesn't count, although he does call all the shots on our foreign policy); if he HAD gone himself you know it'd be [1] There Obama goes just grandstanding; [2] Why is Obama wasting MILLIONS on some pointless trip; [3] Obama just wants the photo-op; [4] Why isn't Obama back in the USA working on OUR problems; [5] ETC, ETC, ETC.
… BUT take a look at these photos – they document it was just a "Pseudo Unity March" for JUST the leaders. They were nowhere near the millions of people:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/12/merkel-cameron-hollande-paris_n_6454940.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/paris-march-tv-wide-shots-reveal-a-different-perspective-on-world-leaders-at-largest-demonstration-in-frances-history-9972895.html
Zimmerman calendar: Maybe he'll get lucky and have an outline mug shot with a big X on it. Thus ending a potential full year calendar. Thus ending "woe is me".
I'll stay silent on the junk food–maybe those gullible enough to believe will eat enough of it in protest that we won't see them at the polls in 2016 due to ill health.
Enforcing non-monopoly and competitive markets needs to return to at least the level of attention 35 years ago (approx when Ma Bell got split)–we need it for banks and other industries, too.
Given some GOP hands-on in the minutia of science territories of government, maybe Cruz will insist on a trip to monitor the astronauts and we'll be lucky enough that he becomes "Lost in Space."
Yeah–they're dumb enough to think France had Kenya in colonial times.
Faux Snooze and Republican nut jobs… rolling eyes'
Daily Kos:
Yep, take away the NYPD's doughnuts and then they won't look so much like the porkers that they are.
The real headline should read: Obama to disband the GOP/TP groups. YEA!
YouTube:
Yes, break up the banks and even the brokerage houses. Pass the new Glass-Steagall Act. Strengthen the Dodd-Frank Act.
PETITION:
Help Elizabeth Warren reform Wall Street with a 21st century Glass-Steagall Act. PETITION:
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/warren_glass_steagall
UPI:
Someone needs to "enemas" Ted Cruz and allow the GOP/TP to explore their own anuses to find out why their heads are far up in it and stuck. Oh wait, isn't that deep inner empty space or is it so full of crap they can't tell the difference. lol. Sorry, I just cannot say anything nice about the GOP/TP anymore considering how they came out swinging against USA on the very first day of Congress, so full of hate.
Cartoon:
Kenya has some great coffees, french roast style. Yummy.
Puzzle — 3:19 Meaty enough? There isn't even enough for a slim salad!
Daily Kos — Too funny! "There's a sucker [fool] born every minute!" and they all watch Faux Noise! I checked my dictionary and as a definition for Faux Noise aka Fox News it reads: organisation specialising in mendacious accounts, deceit, and misinformation all to promote right wing conspiracy theories.
YouTube — Lizzie is dyn-O-mite! if I may borrow that word from JJ Walker.
UPI — Trust the Republicanus/Teabaggers to put two foxes incharge of the hen houses! The US is doomed to being a banana republiic with these 2 buffoons and the rest of the Republicanus/Teabaggers ruling the roost!
Cartoon — Inspector Goosestep and his cronies are the real terrorists!
Daily Kos: This is the kind of ridiculous news that Fox viewers love and believe. Wish Fox could be banned.
Youtube: I wish more of our politicians had her integrity.
UPI: How in the world did Cruz get that post? That is turning the fox loose in the hen house. He does not believe in science, look out all you researchers, you are in big trouble.
Cartoon: Yes, I am sure that will be their next accusation.
Back from prison. Great meeting. Hugs. Good noght.
TY TC – God bless and protect Elizabeth Warren and all like her!