I’m writing for tomorrow, day 70. This will be a brief article. I’m about to leave for prison.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:39 (average 5:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Upworthy: I wonder what would happen if these ads replaced the 500 fake ones that we see every day? Would people still judge women based on their skin tone, size, height, waistline, hair length, shoe size?
These real women are not what we see on the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise.
From The New Yorker: In a possible setback for Mitt Romney’s latest Presidential ambitions, a new poll reveals that a majority of Americans now regard the former Massachusetts governor as a stalker.
The poll results suggest that Romney’s presence in every Presidential campaign in recent memory has taken its toll on the American people, who have expressed disbelief that he would return after being repeatedly told in no uncertain terms that he was not wanted.
Additionally, many of those surveyed said that they previously felt harassed by the Massachusetts governor’s relentless e-mails and phone calls, and favored some form of intervention to keep Romney from contacting them in the future.
In an indication of how much Romney’s serial candidacies have traumatized the American people, more than fifty per cent said that they would support a restraining order to keep the former nominee five hundred feet from the United States until the 2016 election had safely passed.
Does Andy have Little Lord Willard pegged or what?
From Daily Kos: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and would-be president has a new book out, since that’s the thing that presidential candidates do. Politico excerpts 10 key quotes that demonstrate, according to the paper, how Rubio "tries hard to come across as an ‘ideas guy.’" They include his quote on Social Security and Medicare, which demonstrates that he is basing his ideas on total ignorance of actual policy.
"It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling."
Rubio supports raising the retirement age for Social Security as a way to ensure the system’s solvency and to reflect longer life expectancies. It’s perhaps the most politically risky territory he treads in the book. He says acting soon will allow people currently over the age of 55 to be spared. Rubio also advocates reducing the growth of benefits to upper-income seniors as well as eliminating the payroll tax on workers who have already reached retirement age.
On Medicare, he supports a voucher-like system in which seniors would get a set amount of money and can choose between traditional fee-for-service Medicare and private providers.
In other words this lying, Latino-hating Latino is a … Republican.
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TY TC – God protect us from Rmoney! And Rubio is such a horrible hypocrite that words fail me!
3:26 I kept waiting for them to fall down.
3:33 I never could play dominoes very well . . . they were always falling!
4:55 You should have watched me play. I kept knocking them down.
Upworthy ~ The shallow people would not change the way they look at women or me for that matter. It's a good idea though and worth a try.
New Yorker ~ I love it!
Daily Kos ~ He's an "ideas guy"??? He never had an original idea in his life. Retirement age is already 67 for people born after a certain year. The people who do back-breaking work for a living thank you GWB! I wonder who wrote the book for him…
Cartoon ~ Amen!
That was supposed to be men, not me.
6:07 average still 5:54. Dominoes blue, dilly dilly – oh, wait, that was lavender. Never mind.
Upworthy – I am about as insulated from advertising as a person can possibly be. I don't leave the house much, I don't read magazines, I watch only Public Television and listen only to Public radio (mostly an independent classical music station, but sometimes NPR). This makes my life much calmer, but I had forgottn how bad it is. Anyone who is trying to make it better certainly has my support.
New Yorker – Priceless. Unfortunately they are going to have to nominate someone eventually for real. It's bound to be someone ridiculous. Whoever it is, let's remember not to underestimate him (I feel it's bound to be a him). We could get hurt underestimating.
Daily Kos – At his age, I couldn't imagine retiring at 65 either. But in a way I did – my job left town when I was 65. I struggled for 2 years to find employment and couldn't find anything but a 3-month temp job. At least at that point I was 67 so could take Social Security. I would happily have worked another 5 years at the job that left me, but I couldn't move with it. But it wasn't a back-breaking physical job. I don't know how people keep up with those till they are 67.
Cartoon – Alas, I am hearing seditious things from all sorts of people. Granted the most and strongest seditious remarks are from Republicans.
Kudos on 70!
Guess it's going to take another generation or two for the industry to get our message.
Andy is spot-on (and Rubio and others should consider how often their stale ideas that are illogical, ineffective and impractical and shot down repeatedly should resurface–I'd think they'd be embarassed by now.)
Sedition
In law, sedition is overt conduct, such as speech and organization, that is deemed by the legal authority to tend toward insurrection against the established order. Sedition often includes subversion of a constitution and incitement of discontent (or resistance) to lawful authority. Sedition may include any commotion, though not aimed at direct and open violence against the laws.
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedition
I don't have cable TV (just internet), but from YouTube postings on blogs and news sites it always seemed that the Faux news females were all blondes. Turns out that's because they ARE (almost) all blondes.
Someone put together a "Rogues Gallery" of them here:
http://www.stevedennie.com/those-foxnews-blondes/
http://crooksandliars.com/2014/07/we-have-12-non-blondes-fox-news-host
Now do a Google image search on Fox News Cleavage.
Hi TC.Thanks for the star! Seious situation. yesterday, Linsey Graham stated that the rise in terrorism was the fault of Pres. Obama.!?.mainly as he ended the IRAQ war and removed the American presence.
In the opinion of many, myself included, Ar\merican troops shoul NEVER have been in IRAQ<\.The war was promoted by the Cheney/Bush/Rice and many others all members of the LIARS CLUB!.The innvasion had NOTHING to do with WMD,s. and everything to do with OIL!.It was responsible for more than 100,000 dead IRAQI,s,5,000 American service me,and many thousands of seriously disabled others.ALL for nought!.
What a SILLY, FOOLISH and inaccurate statement.toS make Shame on you you foolish little man.
I agree 100% and my main man is the Bush Shoe Thrower…. /s
Furthermore, we left Iraq, because they would not iove us a status of forces agreement that granted our people immunity from Bushy/Cheney war crimes. The withdrawal date was decided before Obama tiik office.
Upworthy:
The ads are changing to reflect a more realistic look at women as opposed to using high profile, glamorous looking women. Obviously, Faux Noise has not gotten the message. They are using attractive "blondes" to lure the "low-information, low-intelligent" males to seduce them with their inane "dumb blonde" demeanor.
The video is a step forward in portraying women as hard working, intelligent women in other roles besides looking as a Hollywood-type bimbo, as a barefoot and pregnant GOP/TP slave who simply wants to fawn over their men, stroking their fragile egos.
New Yorker:
Romney is already a two-faced, flip-flop, political pol as well as a two-time loser from 2008 & 2012. Who can forget the remark Romney said about the 47% comment… He certainly "traumatized" the American people when he said it.
Daily Kos:
Marco Rubio (R-FL) is just parroting the GOP/TP slogans, lines in hopes of getting attention from the big bag-moneyed people to get the nomination. Rubio says he believes in "reform conservatism" which simply means what the GOP is currently do in Congress in gutting the gains the progressives have made over the last many decades. He is simply a pathetic hypocrite and not a viable candidate.
Cartoon:
A good majority of the GOP/TP should be hauled away like garbage for seditious acts and conspiracies.
Puzzle — 3:33 I never could play dominoes very well . . . they were always falling!
Upworthy — I keep being reminded of an article I wrote for PP back at the beginning of 2013, MissRepresentation, about how women are portrayed in the media. It was the summary of a seminar I took at the University of BC after seeing a reference to it on PP. To me, this is a short and interesting summation of that experience. https://www.7thstep.org/blog/2013/01/19/missrepresentation/
The New Yorker — Rmoney has etched his sketch so many times, does anybody, including Rmoney, know if he is thinking of running again? I saw an article where Ann Rmoney supposedly said that if he did run again, he would be the first divorced Mormon to do so. Damned if I can find that bit now. I do like AB's idea of a restraining order though. Wouldn't that be glorious!
Daily Kos — "It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling." — I don't know why it is so difficult for him to bend his brain around retiring at 65 and spending the next 25 years not working. He doesn't work now, just like the rest of the Republicanus/Teabagger choir.
Cartoon — Hang the wanted poster on the Post Office wall while there still is a Post Office!
A blast from the recent past. Enjoyed rereading the article you wrote and our comments. lol. Thank you for the opportunity to revisit.
I hope you had a good day with your guys.
Upworthy: I shared this on Facebook. My five year old granddaughter is all ready worried about getting fat. This is what we are teaching our girls, sadly, that they have to look like the anorexic, air brushed women in ads. The average size for women in the USA is fourteen. Try finding a decent looking size 14 dress, it is impossible.
The New Yorker: Yes, Andy has him pegged! His ego is so huge, he thinks he can win if he keeps trying.
Daily Kos: Yes, let us raise the retirement age so those people who do manual labor well into their seventies, no matter if their bodies will do it or not. Not all of us will have a fat pension from being in Congress. Rubio has been on all the news programs this week, plugging his book, I suppose. I hope some people really listen to what he is saying.
Cartoon: I love this cartoon. That and treason are what they are doing.
Hugs. Just woke up!