I’m writing for tomorrow, and I just returned from the building where I expect to move. I saw the unit, and although not as large as I hoped, it’s bigger than where I am now. It has three big windows, facing East and an elevator. I can’t wait! I’m coming down with a bronchial bug and feeling like something I forgot to bury in my kitty box, so this is tomorrow’s only article. Fantasy football players, be sure you’re ready for Thursday night’s game.
Update: I’m feeling really crappy, so I need to skip replying to yesterday’s comments, at least for now.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
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Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: What the 1 percent thinks about you
It’s all so easy if you’re part of the one percent.
(Reuters) – I asked a financial services executive recently how our retirement saving system can be considered a success, considering that all but the highest-income households are approaching retirement with next to nothing saved.
His reply: "They don’t have any money while they’re working, so why would they have any money in retirement?"
It’s just that simple…
This is the super-rich reality upon which Republicans base their War on the 99%.
From NY Times: Terry McAuliffe, a longtime Democratic fund-raiser and ally of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton, was elected governor of Virginia on Tuesday, narrowly defeating the state’s conservative attorney general, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, and confirming Virginia’s evolution as a state increasingly dominated politically by the Democratic-leaning Washington suburbs.
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The Cooch screwed the pooch!!
From Truthdig: By trumpeting economic and civil rights issues, New York Public Advocate Bill De Blasio got himself elected Tuesday night to the highest office in the biggest city in America.
The New York Times reports that De Blasio’s win “cut across all of New York’s traditional divides. He won support from voters regardless of race, gender, age, education, religion or income, according to the exit poll.”
The triumphant candidate, who easily defeated his Republican rival, will be the first Democrat to run the city in nearly 20 years. He ran against the heavy-handed police tactics and pro-business policies put in place by his predecessors, Rudolph Giuliani and billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
Great for NY,NY!!
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4:13 Will I be left hangin' with the plants?
3:34 So this is why I am sneezing so much this morning! Flowers in the house!
3:15 I hung up the flower baskets and skedaddled.
Daily Kos ~ I wish we could all live to eat that cake they think we have.
NY Times and Rachel ~ Demographics are changing down South as the Liberal Northerners escape the cold weather. The Republicans won't change their agenda because they are insane. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting difeerent results. Duh!
TruthDig and NY Times ~ I'm glad they voted in another Democrat as mayor in NY, NY. It's been a long time coming. He and his family dancing in the streets is priceless! Everbody loves the Smackdown.
Puzzle — 3:34 So this is why I am sneezing so much this morning! Flowers in the house!
Fantasy Football — Well still maintaining my almost perfect record! I am ready to rumble!
Daily Kos — And what I think of the 1% . . . @!#%$^%&^*&(*#%)^!@ . . .
NY Times — Ca ching! Cooch screwed the pooch! How is unemployment looking now Cuccinelli?
Truthdig — The people have spoken! People matter more than profits.
Cartoon — For the high crime of Teabuggery, you were Dembuggered!
~ 6:11
Bankers in jail – 0
So glad the new apartment is moving forward TC – but very sad you are coming down with a bronchial bug! Please, please take care of yourself, we don't want it to go into pneumonia again – rest please!
Very glad Virginia has a Democratic Governor – hooray – and many thanks for the Rachel Maddow clip – I hope they do prosecute the outgoing governor!
Hooray for NY!
5:21 – I must have been too busy thinking what I would LIKE to hang from the lamppost.
Too bad the Cooch's proposed anti-sodomy law wouldn't apply to Teabuggery. Do you think he'd be smart enough to realize he were guilty if it did? I hae me doots.
Rachel says someone ought to tell the Republicans they lost. But would they believe it?
Sorry you are sick, hope you get better soon.