Yesterday I took my friend with cancer to dinner. All things considered, she has a positive attitude. The food was excellent, and I am still a danger zone. If only there was a Republican available. 😈
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:38 (average 6:13). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: President Obama says he’ll veto the latest attempt by Congress to push through the Keystone XL pipeline, but he hasn’t yet committed to rejecting this dangerous proposal outright.
As always, the Reich on left, Robert Reich, is right, while the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, is wrong. They are bought and paid for by corporate criminals, who don’t care how much they harm YOU! Click through for the MoveOn petition.
From Media Matters: The American Thinker – "one of my most favorite and thoughtful blogs," according to Rush Limbaugh – reports that President Obama flashed a "Muslim gang sign" at an event last year by pointing his index finger upwards.
F.W. Burleigh, "author of It’s All About Muhammad, a Biography of the World’s Most Notorious Prophet," wrote [bigot delinked] for the conservative website that an "astonishing photo" of Obama during a summit with African leaders shows him "flashing the one-finger affirmation of Islamic faith to dozens of African delegates." According to Burleigh, "the one-finger display is the distinctive Muslim gang sign" and "With his forefinger in the air, Obama affirmed his membership in this tribe." He also postulates that Muslim African leaders present at the event were "all smiles" because "They knew what Obama’s upright forefinger meant."
Dang!! You can fertilize your veggies with that load!
From Daily Kos: Why Minnesota is Doing Better than Wisconsin
We in Minnesota have a Democratic Governor. Our Mark Dayton is a rich Democrat — the heir of the family who started the Dayton’s Department Stores and B. Dalton Bookstores and Target — and he was educated at Yale, so he’s actually pretty smart for a guy who inherited money. Citizens of Wisconsin have a Republican Governor (Scott Walker, who brags about dropping out of college). In Minnesota we have a balanced budget, partly because we raised taxes on the top earners. In Wisconsin, they cut taxes on rich people and are now scrambling to cut spending (including major cuts for the once proud University of Wisconsin (which breaks my heart)).
The difference should surprise nobody.
Cartoon:
Republicans don’t want to know this.
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The last XL petition I signed requested Obama to deny the permit for it–does more than veto of the legislation would to stop it.
Time Magazine has a piece on how Rush is in trouble and may soon no longer have a public show. I guess Rush never learned to count with his fingers.
And Dayton made education his policy centerpiece–keeping MN in the top of states on most good measures of education.
Is that case why the GOP keeps seeking multiple states for their suits against health care and immigration reform?
Keeping thise issues out fron aslows them to evade issles disenfranchizing voters, welfare for billionaires, destroying the planet, etc.
4:13 The lanterns were not bright enough for me to see where I was going.
3:14 Kong Hai Fat Choi!
4:09 The lanterns were dimming.
That expired on 2/5.
6:47 average unchanged. Laptop is recalcitrant.
MoveOn – Still signing everything I can.
Media Matters – I wouldn't fertilize anything with that myself. It's too toxic – I don't like burning my plants. A little mellowing (OK, a LOT of mellowing) might help.
Daily Kos – Well, apparently he finally lost one: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/19/1365561/-Scott-Walker-Loses-Education-Control-Fight-in-Court
Cartoon – And they are doing their best to make it go away.
Fartfuhrer down!! Woooo Hoooo!!
If there was an award for the most BS spread by one radio personality, Limpballs would win it, hands down!
Petition signed and shared, voiciferously!
Puzzle — 3:14 Kong Hai Fat Choi!
MoveOn — In the past couple of months, I have been astounded by people ready to hogtie Obama until he signs the Keystone XL approval bill. They are listening, I am very sure, to Republicanus/Teabaggerum talking points and absolutely nothing else. "There will be thousands of jobs" they say and there doesn't seem to be any way of breaking that mindset. Occasionally one will say "for the construction" but no thought as to what happens then. Robert Reich is correct. In the early days, TransCanada admitted it lied about job numbers and the real numbers were about 60 jobs in the US and 600 in Canada. Of course that was before this most recent downturn in the oilpatch. Investment in infrastructure would employ thousands more people for a longer time period and in every state but people seem to be so myopic that they cannot comprehend this. And as ROTL states, investment in clean energy could provide more jobs and cut pollution. I really have difficulty knowing there are so many people out there that can't see the forest for the trees.
Media Matters — Limbarf and Burleigh are both elephants' asses for their stupidity!
There is no such thing except in their pea-brains. Obama, with a sly grin on his face, is wagging his finger at a few participants who appear to be having a little chuckle, perhaps at something Obama said. As JL says, Time has an article about Limbarf as does Daily Kos (includes quotes of Time's article) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/02/19/1365415/-Time-Magazine-Joins-WSJ-To-Claim-Social-Media-Groups-Are-Pushing-Rush-Limbaugh-Off-Public-Radio?detail=email
Daily Kos — Nationally, I think all the Democrats need to all swim in the same direction, and then the party leadership needs to expound on Minnesota's success. Success is contagious!
Cartoon — To quote a song I know "Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere" so that the Republicanus/Teabaggerum can't help but hear!
MoveOn – I do love and respect Robert Reich – and I (and many millions of others) have been saying all this (though not as well) for years.
Media Matters – "the one-finger display is the distinctive Muslim gang sign" – you WHAT?!! On what planet?! I'm sorry TC, but patently the psychiatric profession in America is being very lax and slack with this amount of lunacy running wild! Where are the men in white coats to help this poor soul? The world needs them to give Mr Burleigh some meds!
Daily Kos – hooray for Minnesota (sorry for Wisconsin).
PS – TC your friend is on my prayer list and I am (and have been) praying for her daily – so glad you had a nice meal.
Thanks Pat!
MoveOn ~ Signed and shared on FB earlier this week, along with a few others.
Media Matters ~ The mind is a terrible thing to waste. Some don't think before they speak.
Daily Kos ~ No surprise that Minnesota is doing better.
Cartoon ~ The TeapublicanTs hate this and try to circumvet it at every corner.
MoveOn: Petition signed. http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/president-obama-its-time-4
Love Robert Reich's presentations on many of the current issues he presents with simple, easy to understand, straightforward language and quickly drawn graphics in under 3 minutes. Robert is very concise and eloquent. Listen and well worth your 3 minutes. lol.
Media Matters: Burleigh's argument is pure NONSENSE. World leaders including our own Presidents have used their index fingers in an upward manner. To suggest that Obama was using a "gang sign" is ludicrous. Can't hardly wait for Limpdick's hate radio show to disappear from the airwaves permanently as it continues to lose more and more of his sponsors. PETITION: https://www.change.org/p/sign-here-tell-40-limbaugh-sponsors-clear-channel-cumulus-we-will-not-buy-support-misogyny-racism-or-hate-speech?utm_campaign=url_share_after_sign&utm_medium=url_share&utm_source=share_petition
Daily Kos: No surprise in which state University will survive and which one will not in terms of money and the quality of higher education.
Illinois Governor Seeking To Raid Higher Education Budget A Month After Being Sworn In
Same thing is also happening in the state of Illinois where Governor Rauner (R) plans to slash nearly $209 million from the University of Illinois. Another wannabe Scott Walker in the newly elected Republican Governor Bruce Rauner
http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/02/20/3624858/illinois-governor-seeking-raid-higher-education-budget-month-sworn/
Cartoon:
Republicans in state governments plan juggernaut of conservative legislation
Legislators in the 24 states where Republicans now hold total control plan to push a series of aggressive policy initiatives in the coming year aimed at limiting the power of the federal government and rekindling the culture wars.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-in-state-governments-plan-juggernaut-of-conservative-legislation/2015/01/02/6a0a82be-92bd-11e4-a900-9960214d4cd7_story.html
I remember the fist bump that had the right up in arms.
Michelle Obama: The “Fist Bump” That Rocked The World …
http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1812102,00.html
And now this. They will never be able to accecpt Obama
Thanks all. I'm running out of gas.
Move-On: I signed the petition and shared this on Facebook. Anything we can do to prevent this frmo happening is worthwhile.
Media Matters: Good grief, will they never give up this nonsense?
DailyKos: That is the best argument yet for electing Democrats instead of Republicans!
Cartoon: And the Republicans have still not gotten over it.
Koch Suckers = Right, Right is wrong go left.