I’m writing for tomorrow and feeling quite tired, since my midnight nap was a royal flop. I can’t sleep right now, because Store to Door will be calling for my grocery order. Tomorrow is grocery day and Thursday is prison-volunteer day, so I’ll be busy. Day 30.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:00 (average 5:23). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Last night [Friday], Bill Maher dared the Republicans to just do it and impeach Obama over Benghazi.
I love the way he nailed PIGnochio on the way to nailing Republicans on Benghazi!! Plus you got New Rules! 🙂
From Think Progress: Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) released the report he commissioned from the consulting firm Alexander Group that analyzed the state’s welfare system and offered recommendations last week.
The group received $925,000 in a no-bid contract and has been paid more than $500,000 despite missing several deadlines included in the contract. These funds are at least coming partially from money meant to go the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) cash assistance program — as of February, $185,040 of these funds were paid to the Alexander Group.
The big irony here is that the report claimed LePage is doing a great job at preventing fraud, waste and abuse when the report itself is complete fraud, waste and abuse. There’s another tern for that: TEAbuggery!
From Raw Story: Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Monday blasted President Barack Obama’s administration’s efforts at comprehensive immigration reform, saying that the president was “complicit” in sex trafficking by “luring” children into the United States who couldn’t even afford to pay their own taxes.
What lame-brained excuse for his hatred will Go-Go Goose-step Gohmert (R-TX) think of next?
Cartoon:
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3:41 Positivly prehistoric!
4:07 I'm flying at the back of the line.
5:44 – Puzzle 😆
3:24 This is fishy, 3 days in a row being "top gun" at the puzzles. Oh well, pelicans love fish!
Bigfooted and almost last! 🙁
Daily Kos ~ The video isn't available here but you can click on the link in the black screen and it sends you to Youtube. Great episode. I do like Bill's new name for FAUX – the Alternative History Channel. Yes, Pignocchio would rival Godzilla in term of destruction.
Think Progress ~ Not very conservative. More like a con game.
Raw Story ~ Louis has really gone off the deep end.
TY TC – would love to try the jigsaw but my cursor is behaving like a caffeine overdosed flea!
ThinkProgress – that makes me so angry – a no-bid contract (money to cronies) on a money for old rope contract – all to keep money away from needy families!
Good luck with the groceries and the prison volunteer day!
Hope you get it working right!
You're going to have to explain the Cartoon to me, 'cause I don't get it.
Bikini Island H Bombed that date.
Well, I knew that. But why do you refer to it as "Republican Bikini"?
6:00 Wonderful birds. Fishermen don't like them and have been known to mutilate them. But in the Middle Ages they symbolized Christ.
Daily Kos – There are many, many Republican utterances where I don't see the spiders. One is in the third article today; more on that below the fold. I love "dereliction of happiness," and I also wish they would impeach Obama because it really would hurt them, for all the reasons he gives. But I fear they are not quite that stupid – yet.
Think Progress – Yes, there are reasons why, when CREW nmed the 18 worst Governors of 2013, LePage was in the top six. http://www.citizensforethics.org/worst-governors-in-america/entry/paul-lepage-maine But the others are well worth a look too. http://www.citizensforethics.org/worst-governors-in-america/entry/read-the-report
Raw Story – This appears to me to have been conceived in an atmosphere of how can we make Obama look bad to Liberals without smearing our own masters? Well, Liberals are bleeding hearts and they really, really don't like child sex abuse. How can we spin this? OK, the most obviou situation where children travel in large numbers is across the border. Well alrighty then. Lrt's grab some spiders and run with it. But Gohmert is so incoherent, he blew the case. It remains to be seen whether another Republican whose speechwriters can string two sentences together will try again.
Cartoon – I wouldn't wear one myself. Either one.
You'd look crappy dressed in nothing but an H-Bomb. 😈
RAW STORY: Gohmert – He actually said that…
"Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Monday blasted President Barack Obama’s administration’s efforts at comprehensive immigration reform, saying that the
president was “complicit” in sex trafficking by “luring” children into the United States who couldn’t even afford to pay their own taxes."
Unbelievable!!
Gohmert needs to be chastised for saying what he said… and booted out of office!
Has be forgotten that the senate has already passed the immigration reform bill
but the house of representatives, under John Boehner, has yet to vote on it.
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Last week, following one of Gohmert, ridiculous utterings,I compared his IQ,to something less than that of a parameceum.. I am writing to express my apologies to paramecea worldlwide.. They are vastly underated on the IQ scale when compared to dumb Louis..
What I DO find disturbing is, Just how many brain dead people live in Texas and vote for this idiot?
Poor insulted parameceum!!
Bill Maher, my favorite new rules… 😆
Daily Kos: I love his dare! They have no grounds to impeach and they know it. It just sounds manly to them to keepthreatening it. If the ACA had failed, we would not be hearing Benghazi again.
Think Progress: Can if be fraud if a Republican does it? Is that kind of like, if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, did it make a noise? Republicans have found more ways to waste taxpayers money in the last twenty years than all the rest of the years combined.
Raw Story: So sad for Texans, they have to listen to that fruit cake. He is worse than Rand Paul. Never thought I would say that!
Cartoon: They blew up Bikini Island, did not do anything for them.
Hope you get some sleep soon.
Puzzle — 3:24 This is fishy, 3 days in a row being "top gun" at the puzzles. Oh well, pelicans love fish!
Daily Kos — Bill really nailed the Republicanus/Teabaggers! He kicked them so hard that they have turned inside out! I loved his reference to Faux Noise as the Alternative History Channel.
Think Progress — LePage doing what Republican/Teabaggers do so well . . . keeping it all in the family and nothing useful for hie state.
Raw Story — Goh-merde has shit for brains! If his IQ is higher than 1, I`d be very surprised. But then, he is a Republicanus/Teabagger and from Texas. Texans must be really embarrassed by this nincompoop!
Cartoon — From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikini_Atoll#Compensation_claims_and_reparations
I suppose that is one way to get the World Heritage Site designation.
I posted this at Care2 but I want to share it with you too.
I heard about this in church last Sunday . . . a wonderful random act of kindness!
A simple random act of kindness that challenges the commonly held perceptions of Muslims.
On Care2, I hear so much negative, downright nasty talk about Muslims. People tend to paint all Muslims with the same brush as extremists. And that is not right. Just as it is not right to paint all Christians with the same brush as the WBC or the evangelical right wing nuts.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/good-samaritan-gives-his-shoes-to-barefoot-bus-passenger-1.2620011
That's why I always point out that there is a big differfence between Christians and Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians.
Thanks all. Rushing!