I’m writing for tomorrow, day 31. Groceries have come and are put away. I should be on bed, but my O2 delivery is late. I think I’m coming down with a winter flu bug, as my COPD is worse than normal, and I’m running a fever, so this will be the only article.
Jug Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:05 (average 4:59). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Republicans, ever on the lookout for ways to express how very outraged they are at President Obama for daring to do something about immigration reform after they refused, hit upon the idea of not inviting the president to deliver the State of the Union address to Congress. The idea seemed crazy when it was first mentioned—probably because it’s crazy—but it seems to be gaining steam:
Late Tuesday, Rep. Paul C. Broun (R-Ga.) called for Boehner to not invite Obama to deliver the State of the Union address next year. […]
On the State of the Union, [Rep. Tim Huelskamp] added: “In the spirit of George Washington, he could send it to us in writing. It’d save some time.”
What petty, vindictive cretins! Call the WAAAAambulance!
From Alternet: House cats often appear aloof and indifferent toward their human companions. But it’s not just an act — they actually don’t care. A recent study of the domestic cat genome reveals why.
Scientists from the Genome Institute at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis sequenced the first house cat reference genome, and discovered that house cats may not be that genetically different from wild cats. This may explain why house cats seem to ignore their human companions and instead behave like they have their own agenda. Maybe they’re acting like wild cats.
Evidently these scientists didn’t include the experience of living with a cat in their studies. We care, but we want humans to know that we own them, not the other way around. Fortunately the cats in the study outsmarted the scientists. It wasn’t too hard. They’re just humans.
From Right Wing Watch: Bryan Fischer was out sick yesterday, so the American Family Association’s news director, Fred Jackson, filled in as guest host on Fischer’s "Focal Point" radio program where he interviewed [AFA delinked] the ACRU’s Robert Knight [hate group delinked] about the protests that have erupted after two separate grand juries failed to indict police officers for killing unarmed black men.
Knight declared that the activists who have protested these decisions are "trying desperately to start a race war" and blamed President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder for fanning the flames by supposedly suggesting that all police officers are racist.
How absurd! Some Republicans actually do appear to be siding with the black victims of police murder, but it’s all show for the mainstream, while the bubble machine plays their true position. If they were concerned at all with minority rights, the3y would not be working overtime to tale away their right to vote. Note how the AFA, an organization concerned with killing LGBT and women’s rights, are happy to goose-step with the racist white “civil rights” group.
Cartoon:
This is ones of the ones Republicans prefer to ignore
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Here's a question for all of you:
If it took FIVE (count ‘em … FIVE) cops to go and recover the tax one Eric Garner wasn’t collecting for selling “loosies” (single cigarettes) to homeless people, how many cops do you think it will take for them to head over to Wall St. to recover the money the bankers et al have taken from “We the People”?
No doubt there was a LOT bigger tax evasion going on somewhere in NYC that day.
Yeah, but the bankers are big contributors to the The Police Benevolent Foundation. They would rather shoot a poor kid on the street than a rich contributor.
It would only take one honest cop.
4:50 average unchanged. Even tropical fish get the blues?
Daily Kos – I don't know. Something like this would not actually hurt Obama, but would make them look very obviously like the idiots they are. I'll bet my Congressman is all over it. Look at the headlines he made last year by not attending. Well, we'll see.
Alternet – I stick by what I said when I first read this. An Abyssinian is the 3rd wildest domesticated breed, after Bengal and Ocicat. I want to hear what results they get from genotyping a nice Persion. I do like your comments though, TC. All ailuropholes know that, of course.
Right Wing Watch – No; a public trial is the opposite of lynching. A public trial is due process, conducted transparently. Lynching … is not. There is actually some evidence that the overwhelming majority of officers are indeed racist. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/04/1349424/-Wait-A-Minute-Let-s-Hear-From-Some-Actual-Police-Officers-Before-We-Rush-To-Judgment?detail=email I didn't even consider going to the source. I was too ill from the snippets.
Cartoon – yes, Repulicans are pretty well controlling personality types, aren't they?
Nameless – Collect tax? I don't believe they collected a cent. Which means they wouldn't be able to collect a cent from Wall Street either. Not that I wouldn't love to see them try. With the same techniques and procedures used on Garner.
TC, I'm so sorry. It's a damn shame you can't use the fever to keep you warm enough to ease up on the COPD, instead of making it worse. Unfortunately it never works that way.
3:34 Now that is one very colourful fish!
Paty and Jerry, come out, come out wherever you are!
3:43 Here I am lurking behind you.
Where have you been all week dude? Missed you.
As you get older, time moves quicker and you move slower. For some reason, this week has been busier than normal and I am behind on everything. I don't know how I accomplished anything when I had to work all day. I could never do it again.
Funny, I've noticed that time speed thing and my lack of speed. Pisses me off because my brain still says I should be able to X number of things, but my body says "hold the phone, I can't do all that".
Today's actual fanning the flames is from UT where the two officers who shot 6 times in the back the black walking with a sword pointed at the sidewalk will not be charged and a second shooting in Phoenix within 72 hours…is that why I feel sick?
I did read of a deadly flu surfacing in the US not included in this year's shot–be careful all.
Of course cats have a nonhuman agenda.
Article II, Sec. 3, of the U.S. Constitution requires that, "The President shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."
Doesn't sound as if Congress is intended to refuse to do so as the President judged necessary and expedient.
Puzzle — 3:34 Now that is one very colourful fish!
Daily Kos — Yet another childish display from the Republicanus/Teabaggers! Any doubt that Republicanus/Teabaggers are NOT as smart as a 5th grader?
Alternet — "We care, but we want humans to know that we own them, not the other way around." — I never claimed to own my cats . . . it is a partnership. We look after each other. Having said that, my cats seem to have an attitude of "what's mine is mine, and what's your's is mine", particularly when it comes to food. But without doubt, my cats do not ignore me. Having said this, I think I will go have some play time when I am finished here.
Right Wing Watch — Police officers are human, and as humans, they have the same foilbles as any other human. Most officers are fine, but a significant minority are not, and let racism come in the way of justice. And those are the ones that public ire should be focused on.
Not surprisingly, I disagree with Knight. If there is a race war, it is the progeny of Knight and his ilk who do not acknowledge a two-tired justice system, and that some officers are racist and demonstrate that racism on the street with their actions. While there may be some racism perpetrated by a comparatively few African Americans, IMO, the racism and race "war" that Knight decries emanating from African Americans is more frustration with being oppressed as a people for centuries, and despite laws and constitutional amendments, are still oppressed today. This is the systemic racism that has to be beaten back.
In one sense, it is too bad that Knight and cohorts could not get a true taste of racism as a member of an oppressed people. I wonder if their song would change then?
Cartoon — The 13th Amendment:
Any doubt that this amendment is still needed today?
Has anyone else experienced difficulty in getting Daily Kos? It seems I can`t open it up whether by hotlink or by entering the url in my browser. I got in yesterday morning, but that was it.
Nope – no problem getting on Kos at all. There are times in a post/article if a lot of people are commenting it'll slow down quite a bit – but never had a problem loading the home page.
Now HuffPo I avoid because it ALWAYS LOADS SO SLOWWWWW. (And hogs a lot of CPU, too.)
My first comments got wiped out when I hit enter, hope I have better luck this time.
I hope you are feeling better and don't have the flu.
Daily Kos: I am embarassed for them, that they are showing what idiots they have become.'
Alternet: If they check our genomes, they might find we are not that different from the Neaderthals, either. I have lived with a cat or cats all my life. My cats have always responded with love and affection. They are not DOGS and should not be expected to act like them. I believe that any time a scientific study is done on cats that they start with the "wild" premise and look for clues to prove it.
Right Wing Watch: "What do they want to change?" They want to change Black lives not being as important as White lives to certain segments of our population. They want racists to stop killing unarmed black people. I am sure many people were listening to this tripe and agreeing, but I hope more refuse either to listen or believe it.
Cartoon: The way our government is heading, they might try to repeal this amendment.
More: My Gracie, who was nearly feral when she showed up at my house seven years ago, is sleeping on my feet while I am online. Her son, Oreo, has been to talk to me four times in the last hour. Wild? I don't think so.
Sounds just like my 3! Little (?) cuddle bunnies!
Lynne, it burns me when people trash talk cats, and don't even know them. Mine have ALL ended up being love bugs, after they get treated the way they deserve to be.
Thanks all. Still ill. CAT is where it's AT!! Please carry on.
Dear TC – please take care of your COPD – 'ware pneumonia! Please if you can at all afford it add Zinc tablets to your grocery list and selenium and other good things too!
Daily Kos – there is nothing they will not do to insult the President is there? Mind you if he sent the address to them in writing, some of them would need it in pictures!
Alternet – what nonsense – cats are very affectionate caring animals – every few years we hear of a woman being attacked by some horrible man – and saved by her loving cat who attacked the nasty man! Cats are adaptable, independent and affectionate – and I love cats as much as dogs (sorry TC!).
Thanks, Pat A. for adding to my diatribe. People who don't like cats, just don't know them and don't want to know them. I love dogs, too, but people think cats should act like dogs, when they don't they decide they don't like them.