Today I have a very busy day. I have RN and PT coming. Then I have a bath aide coming finally!!! Three showers in twenty seven days has left TC a tad ripe! Store to door is calling for my grocery order. And, if the weather allows, my helper friend is coming later.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:35 (average 5:11). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: A majority of Oregonians favor building a twenty-foot wall along the border of their state to prevent angry white men from getting in, a poll released on Monday shows.
The survey indicates that Oregonians are fed up with irate male Caucasians pouring into their state and bringing with them guns, violence, and terrorism.
“This used to be such a nice state,” said Oregon State Senator Carol Foyler, a pro-wall lawmaker. “Since the angry white men came here, parts of it are unrecognizable.”
Dang, Andy!! Why didn’t I think of that? 
From Daily Kos: In 91 seconds, watch Tea Party Kool-Aid drinkers ‘thank’ Obama—for EVERYTHING
Bark Bag Alert!!
Some thanks! Uranus Inspector Cruz has two more anuses to inspect.
From PC World: The web is full of cryptic status codes that your browser shows when it can’t connect to a website, such as 403 Forbidden or 404 Not Found. Now the Internet Engineering Steering Group is adding one more error code for your browser—but this time it will make it all too clear why you can’t see something.
The IESG recently approved status code 451 that tells visitors they can’t see the requested content due to “legal obstacles,” which usually means government censorship. Former Google engineer Tim Bray suggested code 451, inspired by Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, back in 2012.
Now we need a code for blocking due to “economic obstacles”, that is, ISP violations of Net Neutrality for profit.
Cartoon:
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3:39 Apparently its "common" name is "Jerusalem sage," although that name is also applied to a different plant.
New Yorker – Props to me, I suggested it in my comment yesterday. But I expect Andy thought of it independenty. It didn't require rocket science, or even brain surgery (which is apparently overrated).
DKos – they make a very good case for "Take our contry back? Let's take it FORWARD!" don't they. But please clarify for me, are they drinking Kool-Aid that is tea flavored, or are they drinking tea that is flavored like KoolAid? I don't get it.
PC World – If the code needs to be 3 numeric digits starting with 4, I can't help Otherwise, how about something like d$₤ ? (Yes, I realize ₤ is more or less obsolete and it should be a Euro, but without it we lose the acronym.)
Cartoon – I suppose, if one is so unattractive one is not able to scatter one's DNA by scoring, then reducing the effect of other people's genes by using a Republican penis might be an alternative. But it still seems to me they are missing the point that a penis is for rePROduction, not for reduction.
One more thing on the Bundies, the Daily Kos, and the creative vocabulary there – "Yeehawdists" may be my favorite too, but I do love "Cowliphate" and wow, how about some "#VanillaISIS"?
But seriously, https://www.splcenter.org/news/2016/01/04/antigovernment-militia-groups-grew-more-one-third-last-year
I've already gotten 451s……………
NYer: LOL, Andy! LOL.
DK: Nice to see folks talking in church about the state of our Country. I lost her when she started talking about Cruz…"scared little children', 'and Santa not in schools', though.
You do have a very, very busy day! Thankfully, you can get a nice long hot shower too. Hope your day goes by great for you. I'm going to take a long nap. Sometime. I have to take down Christmas decorations, and clean up around here. Enjoy your day, TC, and Thanks!!
2:49 Whatever its name, I like the almost iridescent green in its makeup.
3:59 Looks like I am bringing up the bottom today.
Bigfooted as usual!
Cartoon: Let's hope that it only shoots blanks.
Amen Jerry!
Good one, Jerry!!!
Andy is on target. May the GOPig penis shoot the GOPigs where the sun does not shine…no, not there, silly, in the brain!
My goodness, you nailed it!
Too small a target to hit.
Oh, Mitch! That is a wonderful description of the right-wing extremists that are calling for SNACKS!!
A busy day, indeed! I hope you are smelling pretty now.
The New Yorker: Andy really understands the people of Oregon!
Daily Kos: If those two are typical Cruz supporters, the Dems should win hands down. They will probably never realize how ridiculous they sound.
PC World: With all the computer problems I have had in the last month, one more code won't matter.
Cartoon: YEP!
Hope your putrer putters perfect, now.
Puzzle — 2:49 Whatever its name, I like the almost iridescent green in its makeup.
The New Yorker — "…forcibly removing the angry white men through mass deportations and resettling them elsewhere, possibly in Texas." I like this idea too, but that would be fair to all the progressive Texans. Perhaps do a swap and then let Texas secede?
Daily Kos — Oh my! They sound like demented fools! Oh wait, they're Republicans. 'Nough said!
PC World — I haven't seen it yet but I'm sure I will.
Cartoon — I hope it only fires blanks so we're not overrun by Republicans!
Good one, Squatch!
Getting things organized is often a case of two steps forward, one step back, TC. I hope today was a day of two steps forward again and all the thing you expected to happen worked out, especially a good soak and scrub after all this time. And perhaps a little laundry?
I just checked in to keep your statistics up after a very long day indeed, most of it behind the wheel (that's Aussie distances for you), so I leave commenting to tomorrow's Open Thread or other articles.
It was. Thanks.
Thanks all! Big hugs!
Love the cartoon. A day late as usual.
That cartoon is priceless! It describes them to a T!
Glad you are finally getting the help you have been needing for so LONG! I have been trying to get myself situated since the doctor that I go to went bonkers on me and my old man. He is flustered from the new "guidelines" that the DEA or AMA or whatever are coming down on doctors.
Andy is and was, SPOT ON with his description of the ARMED DOMESTIC TERRORISTS in Oregon. Sorry it's in your state, TC!