Writing for tomorrow, day 59, it is now 86° at my desk and may actually get cooler as the day progresses. Then the heat is forecast to return for the week.
Update: Sunday is a minor holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. It is worship that dies not count because it is for the testing of acolytes’ and veterans’ skill. It has zero effect on our fantasy league, which begins next month.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:41 (average 4:44). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From Daily Kos: In Wisconsin, the Department of Administration has now released a statement that observers of the Solidarity Sing Along will no longer be arrested or threatened with arrest. Videos of tourists being threatened with arrest, and complaints from legislators who were threatened with arrest for merely observing the Sing Along, have proven an embarrassment to Walker.
Prior to today, not only were non-participants at the Capitol warned of possible arrest, but in some cases they were actually arrested.
Any time anyone, especially labor, backs down Scott Walker, the Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan, they get kudos from me!
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I wonder is Injustices SS Scalia and Teabag Thomas attended the Koch Sucking festival AGAIN. Of course Lyin’ Ryan will stand with the Koch Brothers. They have owned him for a long time.
From Alternet: The Right-wing crazies may have truly outdone themselves this week. With Congress taking its summer break, Tea Partiers and other kooks were suddenly uncorked (that word will come up again in another context, so look for it), taking to the airwaves, appealing to their bases, and saying some of the nuttiest things we have ever heard. With straight faces! Things like, “tanning beds are racist," "Wendy Davis is an ‘Abortion Barbie,’" "climate change is a religion" — you cannot make this stuff up. And if you did, no one would believe you.
1. Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL): Obama’s tax on tanning beds is racist
The InsaniTEA never ends. Perhaps it’s an Agent Orange Tax. ;-) Click through for the rest of this and the other five insane statements from Republicans last week.
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3:26 Relaxing! Looks inviting.
3:37 Looks relaxing but I want the shade thank you! I tarried too long looking for the shade. I would burn to a crisp in 2 seconds flat in that sun! (and suffer from heat rash to boot!)
3:06 Nothing like a nice dip!
Critter's been into the catbox crunchies again!
I saw reports of reporters being arrested merely for reporting on the protest – and they had been recorded as not doing a thing to protest, merely being there for a few minutes! God bless them all – and may the charges be dropped!
Good for Canotia Wisconsin (not sure of the spelling) who voted overwhelmingly to get big money out of politics – but of course Paul Ryan won't listen to them, he will listen to his masters – the Koch brothers.
The Alternet list of recent InsaniTea remarks will make you laugh and cry – very probably at the same time, they are scary in their Self Righteous Lunacy!
Amen Pat!
It's Kenosha. Amen again!
Well said!
Daily Kos ~ Walker is beyond crazy.
MSNBC ~ Did I misplace my invitation to the Festival AGAIN this year? Or did they leave me off the list?
AlterNet ~ LOL Somebody put the cork back in!
Cartoon ~ Putin probably does admire Lyin' Ryan.
Ab insult to beyond crazy people. 😉
I think your seat is between SS and Teabag.
To late. The shit storm already hit.
My point, exactly. They are birds of a feather.
Puzzle — 3:37 Looks relaxing but I want the shade thank you! I tarried too long looking for the shade. I would burn to a crisp in 2 seconds flat in that sun! (and suffer from heat rash to boot!)
Daily Kos — It is apparent that the US Constitution has been suspended in Fitzwalkerstan!
1st amendment – Protects freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press, as well as the right to assemble and petition the government;
I would certainly call this a peaceful assembly involved in petitioning the government, albeit a state government, for redress of grievances. During this peaceful assembly, participants are exercising their right to freedom of speech. And with the arrest of Dominic Salvia, freedom of the press is being coöpted.
An old football cheer comes to mind when thinking of Scott Walker — "Push 'em back! Push 'em back! Way back!" Push Walker and his cronies way back to the primordial ooze from whence they came!
MSNBC — Love the development in Kenosha WI — overturn Citizens United. I doubt that will happen with the current SCOTUS makeup, but it also suggests interesting developments for Ryan's base of support. Is it shrinking? Sure do hope so! Would be nice to see him gone, although that can't happen until 2016.
Alternet — The inmates at the asylum are loose again!
Cartoon — Of course 'Mad Vlad' loves Lyin' Ryan — they are both acolytes of Ayn Rand, the Russian come American.
… all while being Crunched!
and Brewerstan, and McCrorystan, etc. The ooze wazs before they devolved.
You would fweel this fat man doing a happy dance from there.
Bad analogy. A therapist I know tested both inmates and prison staff, and found that the inmates had higher IQs, and staff had a greater incidence of criminal thinking.
Bingo!
I am so happy the people in Wisconsin are fighting back against Walker. He and his ilk are truly the destroyers of democracy.
I amnot at all surprised the evil twins from the House met with the evil Twins of the economy. Most of our citizens do not even know who the Koch brothers are, and they are dancing to their tunes every day.
Good for Kenosha, now if they would ban together and vote his butt out of office!
Amen Edie!
Koch sucking is the cause of financial AIDS,
Amen again!
How did you do? 6:30
I am the 99%.
Not bad!
Me too!
One million dollars… 🙂
Koch Suckers….
Really!