Wendy is already on her way here, and I want to get as much as I can written, before she arrives. Other than dusting and polishing the TomCat, we’ll be cleaning, cooking, changing printer toner, tightening nuts and bolts on my wheelchair, and doing the dreaded task.
That’s as far as I got. Wendy has come and gone, having accomplished all of the above. I’m quite tired, so please pardon my brevity.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:34 (average 4:53). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: One day after an audio popped up incriminating Maine’s Republican governor for saying 90% of drug dealers are black and Hispanic, a second video was posted on Friday exposing even more extreme racist and dangerous hate speech. Here is the text is the short 34-second video along with the text where Gov. LePage is basically saying to shoot the enemy — and the enemies are blacks and Hispanics.
“That guy’s a bad guy. I don’t care what color he is. When you go to war. If you know the enemy, the enemy dressed in red and you dress in blue, you shoot at red — don’ t shoot! Kem, you’ve been in uniform. You shoot at the enemy. You try to identify the enemy. And the enemy right now, the overwhelming majority of people coming here (to the United States) are people of color, or people of hispanic origin.”
Barf Bag Alert!
The only reason this Republican racist keeps winning is that opposing votes are split between a Democratic candidate and a third party candidate.
From Alternet: Sarah Palin, still feeling the Trump love from afar, but a teeny bit worried.
Like Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin loves her some Trump, even if his campaign has done its darndest to keep her at arm’s length after she made some truly incoherent speeches on his behalf. But like Coulter, Palin is a little worried that Trump might be going soft on all those rapists Mexico is sending here.
On Thursday, Palin decided to phone it in to Fox’s Eric Bolling, who was sitting in for Bill O’Reilly. Her main point: Donald is still going to build that wall. “Donald Trump understands that enforcing the laws and building that wall are paramount to what the will of the people is, and thank God, he’s still preachin’ that!” she reassured the worried Fox audience.
Hallelujah!
Apart from the wall, Palin also had some carefully considered, reality-based plans to discourage people who are here illegally. “Well, we have to quit incentivizing those who are here illegally, keeping them here, by not employing them, not giving them free health care, free college, free phones, free Happy Meals, free anything!” she said.
WTF is she talking about!
Perhaps Katrina Pierson summed up the whole Trump campaign words-to-reality-relationship best this week when she explained that contrary to appearances, Donald Trump was still the same old bigot he always was. “He hasn’t changed his position (on immigration),” she said. “He has changed the words he is saying.”
Well, that certainly clears everything up!
Maybe Bloody Bullseye Barbie will try labeling minority areas with gun sights. It worked when she did it to Gabby Giffords. This is just the fifth of five listed dumb Republican assertions from last week alone. Click through for the other four.
From Crooks and Liars:
Meet Jessica Jin. Texas Tribune:The Cocks Not Glocks movement was created by UT alumna Jessica Jin last October after she learned that sex toys, but not firearms, would still be banned in classrooms.
“As long as you have a dick on your backpack, people will be thinking about the guns inside of other people backpacks” Jin said Tuesday, dildo strapped to her backpack.
On the Cocks Not Glocks Facebook event, Jin wrote: “The State of Texas has decided that it is not at all obnoxious to allow deadly concealed weapons in classrooms, however it does have strict rules about free sexual expression, to protect your innocence. You would receive a citation for taking a dildo to class before you would get in trouble for taking a gun to class.
Kudos to the protestors, but they better not point their dildos at TX cops!! They’d be gunned down.
Cartoon:
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4:51 (4:53) More DYC's.
You have accomplished a lot more than I have – or will – today. Rest is in order, I think.
DKos – Paul LePage – a real pimple. I feel so sorry for the people of Maine. I could believe that Maine elections are rigged, seeing him. If course the spoilers go a long way towards explaining him. God forbid that happens to the country in November!
AlterNet – 1. I agree, the image of Drumpf reading a newspaper is difficult to imagine. Could his tiny hands even hold it high enough to read?
2. Paul LePage – Covered above.
3. I supppose in the Drumpf Dictionary the definition of "bigot" is "anyone who doesn't see that Donald is the best, the greatest, etc."
4. Thank God, Ceiling Cat, Dog, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster that she has no children. I suggest not even trying to imagine how f**ked up they would be.
5. Dear Sister Sarah, the only people who get anything for free in this country are the obscenely rich. But I do have to give you credit for not suggesting that we outlaw "Mexican food," as Michelle Bachmann once did ("because they won't have anything to eat so they'll have to go home.") I guess. (Does she really believe that ALL the undocumented are from Mexico? Well, she probably does.)
C&L – Good luck with that. I know there are many wonderful people in Texas (I'm looking at you, Pat B), but even they seem to be discouraged by the multiplicity of the not-so-wonderful ones.
Cartoon – See next post. BTW Dr Barber is in Washington today. (He was in utero in 1953. Mom started labor the day of the march, but the birth didn't happen for over 24 hours. She told him he most have known about the march and wanted to see how it went down before coming out.)
Hey, LePage –
I've heard you bloviate a number of times about your "Three Binders" claiming to show that 90% of all arrested drug dealers in Maine are black or Hispanic.
Given that 95% of the population in Maine is WHITE – just who the HELL do you think is buying all those drugs?
Busted!
DK: wow. What a jerk. Anyone else would be fired for saying this kind of garbage. Unbelievable!
AN: Gawd, it's getting awful every week that passes by, doesn't it? As the disc jockeys used to say on the radio, "And the Hits keep on comin'!"
C&L: Yea, we got some crazies here, that's for sure. If I was younger, and had been living in this deep hot red state, I could see myself going to this. I think that Jessica conveys great thoughts with her protest about the Open carry that is being allowed in the UT classrooms. Texas legislators: 'Heads Up', and quit being such 'dORkS' *Thanks, Joanne 😉
Cartoon: Please!!! and for the Native American Nation too!
I get tired just reading of what your chores consist of. Glad it's all done, and you can relax now. Enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Do you think I could borrow Wendy? I need someone like her.
Daily Kos: I am afraid this will happen in our election, too many will vote for the third party, knowing they have no chance to win, and give Trump the White House. His supporters will turn out.
Alternet: excuse me while I take my Pepto Bismol, this one really made my stomach hurt. Trump's sons reflect who brought them up, they are as insensitive as he is. I wish Coulter and Palin would move to a deserted island and take Kim Davis with them. NOne of them can open their mouths without spewing hatred. Someone, please tell Maine's governor to shut up, he isn't fooling anyone, he is a racist.
Crooks and Liars. I am surprised they have not all ready found a way to arrest Jin, we know they think sex is far worse than murder.
Cartoon: I wish we had.
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That makes two of us Edie. Wendy is a gem . . . a real keeper.
She just texted me that she'll mop your floors, if you pay for her transportation,
Depending where she is in WV, I might be able to afford her.
OOPS! I forgot it is Julie in WV, not Wendy. Senior moment.
Ticking off all the chores on the to-do list and getting washed and preened in the process, certainly isn't bad for a day's work, TomCat. Except for the tiring, that is. I hope you enjoy a good night's sleep because of it too.
DK: One of the reasons LaPage can get away with it increasingly hateful racist remarks, and still get voted in as governor, may be that people do not vote for a candidate who is the most competent and suits their state best, but out of loyalty to the party in a two party system. Those that want to get away from this system will vote for a third party or independent candidate, again irrespective of that candidate's qualities or suitability. If people would vote with knowledge and in their own best interests, La Page may well lose, but it might also mean that the Democratic candidate is not necessarily his successor and the third party candidate is the one who wins. But that's in a more ideal world and something for the future; for now the people in Main would do themselves a favor byall voting for a Democrat and then starting to work towards being able to choose the best out of ant candidate.
Alternet: Ah, dear old Sarah Palin: trying to get back in Drumpf's good graces. So sorry, Sarah, but that won't happen any time soon. Drumpf has a spokeswoman who is even loonier and more divorced from reality than you are, but who doesn't need Dutch Courage before she speaks to an audience and therefore is slightly more coherent in her demented babbling than you are.
C&L: Nice initiative, but I'm afraid that Texan ammosexuals will appreciate neither the humor of it nor the reference to the shape of their heads.
Cartoon: Seems like Drumpf and the GOP are hell bent to destroy them once and for all.
Had anyone but you referred to "Dutch courage," I would have jumped on them
Puzzle — 3:33 I wonder if gerberas are edible. Their colour would sure ignite a salad!
Daily Kos — LePage is another vile Republican cretin.
Alternet — 1) The apple doesn't fall far from the tree does it!
2) Are you sure LePage isn't related to Drumpf. He sounds like Drumpf — vile cretin!!
3) Drumpf just loves projection because then he doesn't have to have policies of his own — he just launches invectives.
4) Coulter, another vile Republican pundit that knows nothing and is worth even less.
5) Sister Sarah and Pierson — both obsolete and empty headed. The day can't come fast enough when we no longer have to suffer with their unintelligible chatter!
Crooks and Liars — "Kudos to the protestors, but they better not point their dildos at TX cops!! They’d be gunned down." — Truer words were never said. Hmmmm . . . guns versus dildos!
Cartoon — AMEN! Make the US a Republican free zone!
Thank's all! Tired hugs!!