Mar 152017
I’m still quite sick, but I have to get ready for a grocery delivery. This is today’s only article.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:45 (average 5:38). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes: Catch up on back Keith videos
Trump’s Amazing Speech Sure Didn’t Age Well
Gutting Health Care Will Kill Americans
RESIST!!
Cartoon:
A perennial favorite
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Well, take care of yourself! (But I know you do have to eat)
Unlike most here, I'm not a big petition signer – but this one calls for Congress critters to LOSE their current healthcare coverage – but then have the same "access" to "choose" all the "benefits" they want to "grant" to the rest of us:
https://www.change.org/p/remove-health-care-subsidies-for-members-of-congress-and-their-families
Thanks Nameless! Petition signed.
Done,
Spent much of yesterday looking, then realized the fact it kept going to "share" instead of "sign" was because I had previously signed it and forgotten. D'oh!
Have signed it on e-mail, or DK, or something.
5:03 In Soviet Russia, vegetable eat YOU!
Keith #44 – Of course Keith is right that the Tangerine Traitor's "speech" was a load of horse puckey (no offense intended to horses), or maybe two loads, nevertheless the speech did change him in one way: it made him even more dangerous. If even Van Jones, who used to be smarter than that (Iwish he would get checked for a possible brain tumor) was sucked in the way he was, what do you think the rest of the country thought? I do realize that his actual voters didn't like it. They prefer the ugly, stupid version. But they are not writing the news (except at Breitbart and Stormfront). We need far less adulation and far more truth. Thank heaven for Keith. Hope he has a bullet-proof vest and good locks at his home.
Keith # 45 – How I wish that all the "Christians" who voted for the Mango Mussolini could, no, were REQUIRED to listen to this man preach. AMEN! Sing it, brother!
Keith # 46 – Russia, Russia, Russia. The sad thing is that – even those who voted for the Saffron Stalin have grasped this. How it has affected them is that they have ALL decided that Russia can't be so bad after all, if HE likes it. How many ways can you say, "Too dumb to live"?
This is not a YouTube or Vimeo or whatever, so an embed code was not provided, but I can link to it. It's, not an outtake, but an extra take, a mini-documentary, an add-on, to "Accidental Courtesy" which the Atlantic picked up and posted.
(when you're up to it.)
There is an embed code. Click the embed link for it (<>).
Aw Geez! I must have been too tied up in my shorts looking for the petition.
I've done that!
Your putting a little more in your Open Thread, TomCat, so I hope that's a sign your medication is starting to do its job and you're feeling a little better. I'm also glad that you're not overdoing it and keeping a low profile. Keep that up and you'll be back to full strength soon.
Republicans beware!
Thanks for bringing us up to speed again on Keith Olbermann's RESISTANCE. As a Dutch person I was struck by his revelation in #46 of Flyn's ties with…Turkey; that fact had got lost from my radar somehow. After today's election results start coming in in an hour or so, influenced both Russia and Turkey AND by American sponsoring of our local populists, I might need to go and find me a Dutch Keith Olbermann, but for now the signs are good. The left will not win, but may fare much better than predicted, and Geert Wilders is unlikely to be the largest party. Tell you more about it tomorrow, after a long night of television, when all votes have been counted by hand due to suspected Russian hacking of voting machines. Expats were/are furious, because they couldn't possibly return paper votes on time.
Happy birthday, Edie!
and a very speedy recovery too.
Comment on Raw Story: "The Dutch people just reached across the Atlantic Ocean and slapped Steve King."
YES !!! Thank you, Lona, and all your neighbors!
Well, not hard enough!
Well, from that photo of them together, if they slapped Steve King down much more he'd be a pancake. (Disclaimer: King is 5'8" and bald-ish, Wilders is 6'6" and has big hair)
And the problem with that is …?
(And I'm a pacifist … willing to make exceptions when called for.)
According to The National Post, it looks like Geert Wilders was soundly defeated with 12% of the vote or about 19 seats. Of course not all the votes are counted, but looking good.
Congratulations Netherlands with 82% turn out! WOW!!! I'm envious!
And congratulations again for stopping the Russian bear from interfering with the election by going with paper ballots and hand counting. It has its problems which can be worked on, but the big thing is no Russian interference,
Sorry, Edie – you'll have to supply the ice cream. But I've got the cake …
(Ice cream … THAT'S what the spoons are for.)
Yum!
Thanks to all of you for the birthday wishes!
YVW!! Hugs!!
Don't worry about doing an Open Thread tomorrow Puddy Tat! I've got you covered. I'd rather have you down a few more days than out a lot longer because you over did things. Rest and keep hydrated! Did I mention rest?
Puzzle — 4:06 Lunch anyone?
YouTube — #44 Romney has been supplanted as Mr Flip-flop by none other than Drumpfenfarten. I remember a line from the movie "Clear and Present Danger" that went like this: "He cannot be clear when clarity is not exactly what he wants." White House aide or a Cabinet person talking about the president played by Donald Moffat. Sure seems appropriate to Drumpfenfarten.
Resist and Persist!!!
#45 There is a petition on Care2 that anybody can sign. I urge you to tell Congress: Reject Trump's New Health Care Plan!
Amen Keith!
Resist and Persist!!!
#46 I just love how Keith says "Russia! Russia! Russia!"
Resist and Persist!!!
Cartoon — Happy Birthday Edie! I hope you are continuing to recover and getting some energy back. It has been a very rough few months what with an emergency apendectomy and then quadruple bypass surgery. We sure have missed you!
Too late. But I am limiting myself.
Thanks, Lynn!
Thanks and sick hugs!
Happy Birthday, Edie!
Keith 45- If they get their frigging tax break, may they all come back in the next life as big mouthed DUNG BEETLES!
Keith 46- That prosecutor, I have read, was also investigating Fox News!! Stone has long been known to be an absolute scumbag, and sneakier than Carl Rove, if possible! So, whose got the handcuffs for the TT? And his crew?
Happy Birthday Edie. Glad to see & hear you back on C2 & PP.
My favorite All-Time Birthday Greeting, enjoy.
Funny Happy Birthday Cartoon Animals Band
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2kr7vw
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