Day 94. I’m feeling quite tired, so I’ll try to be brief, so I can rest.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:26 (average 6:51). To do it. click here. Hoe did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: The Guardian has posted an article about FOX New’s embedding ISIS’s latest snuff film, unedited on their webpage:
Fox News has chosen to embed on its website the video of Islamic State burning a hostage to death, a move which makes them the only US media organisation to broadcast the video in full.
The extremely graphic 22-minute video shows Muadh al-Kasasbeh, a Jordanian pilot, being set on fire and burned to death in a cage. Fox News did not post the videos of the killings of previous Isis hostages, and no other media company has hosted this video.Rick Nelson, a senior associate in homeland security and terrorism at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said that posting the video actually empowers Isis.
… “These groups need a platform, and this gives them a platform,” he added.
Malcolm Nance, the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideology thinktank and an expert on counter-terrorism and radical extremism told the Guardian that by posting the video Fox News was propagating “exactly what Isis wants to propagate”.
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“[Fox News] are literally – literally – working for al-Qaida and Isis’s media arm,” he added.
“They might as well start sending them royalty checks.”
Considering the extent to which both ISIL and the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, hate Obama, they are natural allies.
From The New Yorker: The reanimated corpse of Dr. Jonas Salk, the medical researcher who developed the first polio vaccine, rose from the grave Friday morning on what authorities believe is a mission to hunt down idiots.
The zombie version of Salk, wearing a tattered white lab coat and looking “incredibly angry” according to one eyewitness, was seen advancing on the U.S. Capitol building at approximately 11 A.M.
While Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, hid in the Senate cloakroom, armed security forces repelled the zombie virologist, who, seemingly unharmed, moved on in search of new prey.
According to law enforcement, the reanimated Salk then stole a car and headed off in the direction of Trenton, New Jersey.
Dang Andy!! He should have persisted until he got Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot. Rand Paul is the idiot trifecta!!
From Crooks and Liars: On March 4th, the United States Supreme Court will hear a case that they should never have agreed to take, brought by an organization funded by the Kochtopus and raising issues which are completely bogus. If Chief Justice John Roberts has his way, they will rule on this bogus case and gut the Affordable Care Act.
Here’s the kicker: Three of the four plaintiffs in the case aren’t even eligible to participate on the exchanges, rendering this case even more bogus than it was when they started it.
As much as I hope the author is wrong about this, I fear she is spot-on.
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Locally we have a doctor serving in Congress who made a measles statement:
http://bera.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/bera-urges-vaccination-in-wake-of-measles-outbreak
And I got a petition he started to address the dangers of Rand's vaccination statement…
Sad that it takes a solid European paper to explain why Fox was at least out of line if not traiterous.
Clearly, you got a good guy representing you! (Wish I could say the same. Sadly I got a Teabagger. And thanks to Gerrymandering, he's pretty much cemented for as long as he likes.)
Please trade me one Bera for a Paul or McConnell.
Clone him.
3:36 I think the cactus is getting stoned!
5:30 Man! You beat me by more than 2 minutes. I must have been stoned.
Realy!! The Sasquatch is kinky with cacti.!! 😉
5:00 I didn't think I'd ever finish this one.
Puzzle — 3:36 I think the cactus is getting stoned!
Daily Kos — By posting the ISIL video, Fox is guilty of pandering to voyeurs and psychopaths. It is not a news organisation but an organisation supporting Republicanus/Teabaggerum jihad and right wing evangelical pseudo Christian jihad.
I wonder if they would post the video if it showed James Foley, the American journalist, being burned alive? Or is it that the Jordanian pilot, Lt Muadh al-Kasasbeh, may he rest in peace, is a Sunni Muslim and therefore in Fox's view, less of a person? Fox has certainly shown repeatedly that they are Islamaphobes and nothing more than a right wing propaganda machine that spews deceit and lies.
The New Yorker — A zombie Dr Jonas Salk! Too rich! . . . and don't leave out Michele Bachmann for her HPV vaccine-retardation connection! For me, the vaccine issue is a very personal one. My maternal grandfather contracted polio at the age of 3, about 1905, as the result of an open sewer ditch running across the corner of the property where he lived in Tonawanda, NY. Eight kids in the neighbourhood came down with polio. For my grandfather, it meant a life with a badly twisted body and getting around on crutches in a time when rights for the disabled did not exist. Too bad Salk could not have been born earlier and made his discovery earlier.
Crooks and Liars — Ben Nelson "I always believed that tax credits should be available in all 50 states regardless of who built the exchange, and the final law also reflects that belief as well." I hope that the SCOTUS rules in favour of the government and not in favour of the "Competitive Enterprise Institute, the libertarian think tank that initiated and bankrolled the case", aka the Kochroaches. May justice be served, and not rendered unrecognisable by the 5 activist Injustices of SCROTUS.
Cartoon — Can I give this guy a swirly and accidentlly on purpose let go of his feet?
I fear that if you gave Rand a swirly all you'd be doing is drowning that poor muskrat that lives on top of his head.
(I know, I know … he insists that his hair is genuine – even if he isn't.)
But Nameless, I'd accidentally on purpose let go of his feet so he'd go down the sewer. muskrat or no muskrat!
A redeeming point. (Guess I'm just a softy when it come to muskrats.)
Sewer pollution!
Daily Kos:
Yes, ISIS Burned a Man Alive: White Americans Did the Same Thing to Thousands of Black People
The United States practiced a unique cultural ritual that was as least as gruesome as the "medieval" punishments meted out by ISIS against its foes.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/yes-isis-burned-man-alive-white-americans-did-same-thing-thousands-black-people
Faux Noise should not have shown the video, not at all! Just when one thinks Faux Noise couldn't stoop nor sink any lower with its lies, GOP/TP/Koch Party propaganda, they do this video showing of an execution burning on national TV.
The New Yorker:
"Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot. Rand Paul is the idiot trifecta!!" Jonas might have better luck and feasting if he went straight forwards to Trenton, New Jersey. After, the easy and edible target keeps falling down all the time.
Crooks and Liars:
SCOTUS has been hearing a lot of "bogus" cases the last few years. This one should be kicked under the bus. Congress has tried 57 times to repeal the ACA at a million dollars each time. Now, the GOP/TP/Koch Party are flexing their muscles onto the Supreme Court to do its bidding.
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Why does "Idiot, Son of Idiot, Named after Idiot. Rand Paul keep floating in the toilet bowl like a really bad BM. Flush it, flush it really hard and away and out of sight.
FGaux Noise is so… Republican!
Daily Kos: Faux noise will do anything, anything it can to disparage Obama. They aired this video to back their claims that he is doing nothing while people die. Any and all who were involved in making the decision to air this should be prosecuted for wanton endangerment of the USA.
The New Yorker: From what I have read, this latest antic by Paul has done him more harm than good. I hope so. I hang my head in shame that he represents my state.
Crooks and Liars: I like her last statement that if they destroy the ACA they will have to answer to history. They all want to leave a legacy, being a pawn of the Koch Brothers doesn't reflect to well on them. Still, I expect them to do all they can to obey their masters.
Cartoon: Oh, if only it were that easy to be rid of him!
What if he and Bought Bitch Mitch could mate? 😈
Are you trying to give me nightmares?
6:00 average still 6:51. Nothing to eat, and prickles too.
Daily Kos – Sure glad it was the Brits who said it. Can you imagine the heads exploding if someone in the US had told that much truth?
New Yorker – Oh, this is a good one. I would, however, be surprised if Salk is the only one. This may be the zombie apocalypse. JL, I did think of Ami Bera as a contrast even before I read your comment. Is there a link to that petition?
Crooks and Liars – Yes, there is no redeeming lightness in this one. The closest i can come is to mention I just learned Hightower calls them Koch-o-nuts. Might be a handy euphemism some time. I will note it might be a good time to send a Valentine to Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Anyone can do so electronically at http://action.allaboveall.org/page/cards/send/RBG-makes-us-swoon?
Cartoon – Early Alzheimer's? I know, he's always been an idiot, but isn't it getting worse?
I prefer Koch-roaches.
TY TC.
Can't believe it – puzzle cactus took me 4.06.
YVW, and you beat me!
Cartoon: Flush…