I’m writing for tomorrow, and I’m still 3/4 bleary-eyed after last night, but I have too much work to do to take the day off. Tomorrow I’m trying out a neighborhood barber to see if ugly can be fixed. It’s about 1/4 mile away, so it may interfere with articles for Tuesday. Day 42.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:35 (average 4:22). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: It is pretty good odds that a mass extinction is going on right now as you read this. This ticking time bomb proves that we are like insects, which live just a few days and will never experience changes in a season much less years. You and I will never know from experience the history of this planet. Much of that history is as abstract to us as the dimensions of the universe. Our planet is a complex, dynamic system that we probably will never fully comprehend. The Earth system, like the human body, comprises diverse components that interact in complex ways. The Earth’s atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere is a single connected system.
Extinction is a dire word for an extreme event. There has been five mass extinctions in our planets history due to either asteroid impacts, climate change caused by volcanism and the shifting of tectonic plates. The sixth mass extinction is being fueled by you and me. Mass extinctions are relatively short periods of history during which a significant quantity of species die off beyond the standard background extinction (normal process of a species dying out and is usually a natural occurrence).
If this happens, which Republicans seem bound to guarantee, I hope that intelligent life evolves. Earth needs some, for a change!
From Alternet: NRA’s Chris Cox: Why would we listen to doctors when it comes to the effects of firearms?
The NRA’s chief lobbyist penned some twaddle in the Daily Caller [propaganda delinked] just a few days before the Santa Barbara killings. He was disputing the validity of the pro-gun control group Doctors for America, who have had the nerve to endorse a ban on certain types of semi-automatic firearms and buyback of others. What do they know about firearms, he asked?
Right, what the hell would doctors who treat people with gunshot wounds know about guns and their effects?
The piece: “We Love Our Moms and Trust Our Doctors, But We Don’t Want Gun Control,” was basically a paranoid screed directed at two of the more vocal groups trying to fight the epidemic of gun violence in this country: Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, and, what Cox calls “the dubiously named Doctors for America.” Yeah, wow, that does sound dubious. People with medical training. These two groups, writes Cox, are just rebranding gimmicks for what he calls the “civilian disarmament advocates.”
Nobody gets to disarm civilians, Cox rants, while trying to sound like a reasonable man. Not moms, not doctors, nobody. Only more heavily armed civilians can do that.
We love you Mom, Cox assures. Hope you don’t get shot. If you do, the solution will be obvious. Not a doctor. More guns.
This is just one of eight outrageous Republican statements from last week alone. Click through for the other seven Republican idiots.
From Crooks and Liars: The RNC’s Reince Priebus wasn’t the only one on Fox News Sunday throwing every ounce of poop against the wall to attack former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton over their fake Benghazi "scandal." Faux "news" regular Liz Cheney took right up where Priebus left off with the name calling, and surprise, surprise, she now has a problem with politicians and officials lying to the American people over matters of national security.
Someone needs to tell her to take that up with her daddy Dick. Chris Wallace sure as hell wasn’t going to do it.
The Lizard of Lies sure takes after her daddy, doesn’t she?
Cartoon:
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4:30 Just happy to be below average. BTW ugly is in the eye of the beholder, and I doubt if anyone here (except yourself) would describe you as ugly. And keep those days coming!
Daily Kos – Not "if", we are in the middle of it now. Unfortunately there is no guarantee homo sapiens will be one of the species extincted, if that is even a word. And certainly no guarantee we will get any smarter if we do make it out the other side. At the rate we are going, it may end up just us and mosquitoes. Plants will make it, though not of course all – fo' shizzle nothing bee-pollinated. Maybe a few birds, or maybe not.
Alternet – Facepalm. (BTW, are the two Robertsons kin? I got temporarily lost in the scroll wheel and didn't know which one I was reading about for a while.)
Crooks and Liars – The poop they are throwing may not be sticking to the wall Their hands are a different matter.
Cartoon – It could happen here.
Indeed it could.
So sorry – having to listen to 'The Thyroid Summit' which I have just discovered is online today and for the next few days and we can listen free – but only for 24 hours per tape – and there are a lot of things to listen to in the hope I can find something to help!
I hope all goes well at your training sessions TC – and I hope they learn from you!
2:46 Not fast enough to run with the Big Cats.
3:24 Well, this is embarassing. I am a dog person. In fact, we just got a 6 month old German Shepherd from our local rescue on Saturday. And I can't even beat a cat!
Well, yes, Jerry – but being a dog person, you enjoy being with the dog. Cats don't.
2:59 Not fast enough either!
Jerry, did you know that there is an article about the attributes of cat and dog people? Dog people are loyal and extroverted. Cat people are introverted, open minded, and non conformist. Oh, and I hear cat people are smarter than dog people. Maybe that is why TC keeps winning!
I am more like a cat person even though I am a dog person. Perhaps it is because we always had cats when I was a kid.
Wooo Hooo!! 🙂
4:23 – Puzzle, red hot not so much… 😆
Daily Kos ~ Teapublicons will be screaming that the scientists are nothing but alarmists.
Alternet ~ Idiots all!
Crooks & Liars ~ I think they're angry that Hillary is pretty much ignoring them.
Cartoon ~ Marie Antoinette was the first to fall victim to the Reign of Terror. She should have given them bread instead of telling them to eat cake instead.
Antoinette was in a pretty tough position from day one. I'm sure Louis was not her choice for a husband (not sure he would have been anyone's chice). Mama arranged it and forced her into it. When she arrived in France to marry Louis, they stripped her at the border so she would not come in wearing Austrian clothes. It isn't always easy being Queen.
Today's Marie would say, "Let them eat Koch!"
I hope you are satisfied with your new barber.
Daily Kos: The extinction is happening and the majority don't believe it. We have all ready destroyed our atmosphere, water, and surface earth, now we are going beneath the earth to destroy what is there. I worry about my granddaughter's future. She will be five this month and has not chance of experiencing the world the way I have.
Daily Kos: Joe the Plumber, Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, Pat Robertson, and the birther guy all in one article? This should have had a double barf alert. McCain owes us for injecting Joe and Sarah. I think the others just crawled out from what ever rocks they used to hide themselves. Does anyone understand how these people keep getting paid for what they do? The NRA has gone over the hill on their insanity. Why is it such a big problem for them to have background checks, limits on assault rifles, etc? No one is trying to take away their guns, just trying to restore some sanity to how there is access to them.
Crooks and Liars: I couldn't listen to all of Liz Cheney's piece. She surely is daddy's little girl.
Cartoon: I have always felt sorry for Antoinette. She was a victim.
Puzzle — 2:59 Not fast enough either!
Jerry, did you know that there is an article about the attributes of cat and dog people? Dog people are loyal and extroverted. Cat people are introverted, open minded, and non conformist. Oh, and I hear cat people are smarter than dog people. Maybe that is why TC keeps winning!
Daily Kos — "If this happens, which Republicans seem bound to guarantee, I hope that intelligent life evolves. Earth needs some, for a change!" Amen!!! . . . and to be assured it won't be the genus Republicanus/Teabagger.
Alternet — Nothing new here! They are all a bunch of idiots!!!!! I wonder if Phil Robertson really thinks that a gunman will stop to read the Bible first and then decide not to shoot anyone? Thought not! Seems to me a lot of the shooters are the types of people that like to cosy up to the far right evangelical pseudo Christians.
Crooks and Liars — Damn, the apple sure doesn't fall far from the tree, AND it has worms!
"…surprise, surprise, she now has a problem with politicians and officials lying to the American people over matters of national security."
And just how does she explain daddy's actions with illegal wars and toryure etc ad nauseam? Hypocrisy, thy name is Republicanus/Teabagger!
Cartoon — The Reign of Terror 5 September 1793 – 28 July 1794 — the year that was!
Well cats are certainly smarter than dawgs! 🙂
Thanks all. Overslept again. The new barber did a great job!
Warning, Warning, Warning bull $hit alert…!