At long last we have a cool day. It might even rain, whatever rain is. I was obviously still exhausted yesterday, because I had forgotten my helper friend was coming over to do heavy cleaning. On the down side, I worked my butt off for most of the afternoon. On the up side, the dreaded task is past, and I didn’t have to do it!! Not that’s a “Wooo Hooo!” event. For another “Wooo Hooo!” event, I have to admit I was wrong about the Ellipsoid Orb. In preseason Wee1 1, there were only six services last night. The holy Orb blessed the Packers, Lions, Ravens, Bears, Foreskins, and Chargers, but not the Patriots, Jets, Saints, Dolphins, Browns, and Cowboys. The rest of the services are tonight and my Broncos service with the evil Seachickens is televised. After yesterday, I’m still quite pooped.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:43 (average 5:15). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From The New Yorker: Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is gaining legions of new admirers by shamelessly pandering to voters who want to hear the truth, critics of the Vermont senator say.
According to those critics, Sanders has cynically targeted so-called “truth-based voters” to build support for his Presidential bid.
“People come to Sanders’s rallies expecting to hear the truth, and he serves it up to them on a silver platter,” the political strategist Harland Dorrinson said. “It’s a very calculated gimmick.”
But while Sanders’s practice of relentlessly telling the truth might play well in states that are rich in truth-based voters, like the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, critics say that his campaign could stall in states where the truth has historically been less important, like Florida.
“At some point in this campaign, voters are going to get truth fatigue,” Dorrinson said. “Right now, the novelty of a politician who doesn’t constantly spew lies is grabbing headlines. But after months of Bernie Sanders telling the truth, voters are going to start wondering, Is that all he’s got?”
Dang! It’s a good thing Andy tipped us off! Otherwise Bernie might have gotten away with all that damn truthfulness!!
From The Daily Mail: California will be hit by the biggest El Niño on record this winter, according to the latest forecast.
Dubbed the ‘Godzilla El Niño’ or ‘Bruce Lee El Niño’, the weather event looks set to bring more rain and tropical cyclones to the Pacific Southwest since records began in 1950.
But analysts warn it still won’t be enough to atone for four years of record-breaking droughts.
In fact, the dry and cracked land will be hard-pushed to withstand the three-month storm, meaning there will likely be an onslaught of mudslides and floods.
Here’s some related video.
Here in Oregon this is likely to mean a winter much warmer and dryer than normal, with inte3nse storms, when and if we do have them. It will be followed by severe summer drought. We’ll have it bad enough, but it looks like our neighbors to the south are about to get Californicated.
From Media Matters: A RedState post claimed that Hillary Clinton proves "even a homely woman can sleep her way into power." RedState’s editor-in-chief Erick Erickson recently disinvited Donald Trump from the RedState Gathering event for Trump’s sexist attacks on Fox’s Megyn Kelly.
The attack on Clinton comes in a RedState post [GOP Hate Site delinked] from one of its front page contributors, who goes by "streiff," who wrote:
If Hillary Clinton possesses any unique selling propostion [sic] beyond proving even a homely woman can sleep her way into power, it is her tenure as Barack Obama’s secretary of state. That seems to be a slender enough reed when polls show the electorate could give a flying rat’s patootie about experience and favor a change agent above all.
The post is featured at the top of the RedState home page.
As long as misogynist hatred is directed at a Democrat and not at a blonde, notorious for décolletage, from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, Republican hypocrites just love it.
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