After the stresses of the last few days, I am feeling quite tired. Tomorrow is a grocery delivery day, and I have some extra cleaning to do for that.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today's took me 3:21 (average 4:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: They don’t pay taxes. They circumvent our laws. They get free stuff from the government. They are America’s billionaires, and many would like to see them gone.
According to a new survey by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, the American people hold the nation’s billionaires in lower esteem than ever before, and a majority would like to see new laws enacted to deport them.
“They come here, take thousands of our jobs, and export them overseas,” one respondent said, in an opinion echoed by many others in the survey.
“They are part of a shadow economy that sucks billions of dollars out of the United States every year and puts it in Switzerland and the Caymans,” another said.
Images of hedge-fund managers arriving via helicopter in the Hamptons this summer have only reinforced the impression that authorities have turned a blind eye to their movements.
“Many of these people should be in prison, and the government is looking the other way,” one respondent said.
Stirring even more controversy is the billionaires’ practice of having babies in the United States and using the nation’s porous estate-tax laws to pass down untold wealth to the next generation.
“They should leave and take their children with them,” one respondent said.
At times, Andy makes a brilliant suggestion. This is one of those times. Lets start with the nevermind brothers.
From Daily Kos: "Ted Cruz Criticizes Carter Day After Wrenching Talk on Cancer," says the Bloomberg headline, and so we are obliged to take another rubbernecking glance at the most repellent man in politics.
A day after Jimmy Carter appeared on national television to talk about the cancer that's ravaging his body, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz criticized the former president's administration in a speech in Iowa.
"I think where we are today is very, very much like the late 1970s," the senator from Texas said on the Des Moines Register's political soapbox stage at the Iowa State Fair.
"I think the parallels between this administration and the Carter administration are uncanny: same failed domestic policies, same misery, stagnation and malaise, same feckless and naïve foreign policy," Cruz said. "In fact, the exact same countries—Russia and Iran—openly laughing and mocking at the president of the United States."
Uranus Inspector could not be further from the truth. The real similarities are that Carter and Obama both are decent men, doing their best, and were sabotaged by Republicans. Republicans even made a secret deal with Iran, giving them better terms on the hostage release, in return for KEEPING OUR HOSTAGE CITIZENS CAPTIVE, so they could win the election. I think that covering up proof of which individuals committed this treason is one of the reasons that Republicans oppose the Iran deal now.
From MoveOn: If you have friends who’ve been tricked, duped, or bamboozled by the war lobby into opposing the Iran nuclear deal, share this new ad with them from our friends at Americans United for Change:
Please click through to share this wherever you can.
Cartoon:
…then buy my bridge from me!
31 Responses to “Open Thread–8/25/2015”
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AB is still speaking truth to power.
Can someone get out the duct tape for Cruz whenever a tragedy strikes a Democrat?
A good ad worth sharing.
Yup…I've also got a 1950 Studebaker only driven to church by a grandma of merchandise appropriate for those consumers.
Promising news: An email from Just Foreign Policy says we just need 5 more Senators to commit to support of the Iran deal. If you have a Senator on the undecided list, it is time to email and/or call them again to support the deal.
One link to do so is:
http://peacenow.org/entry.php?id=13727#.Vd3pWZf9z-s
Have emailed mine.
Great!
5:29 Doesn't look tasty, but I suppose if one is hungry enough…
New Yorker – Straight reporting. The Caymans would be a good place to deport them to. Of course their assets should be confiscated. That would resolve the deficit for decades.
Daily Kos – Does anyone still say "feckless"? Is Ted trying, consciously, unconsciously, or egged on by staff, to appropriate some whiteness by using an archaic term that comes from the borderer ancestors of modern rednecks? Ted gives a new depth to the expression POS.
MoveOn – Well and succinctly put. Doesn't even need to bring up the hostage treason.
Cartoon – So the Brooklyn Bridge is in Portland now? Gee, what do I have that I could sell? How about Mount Rushmore? Oh, I know, Pikes Peak.
BTW, has anyone pointed out yet that President Carter's brain works better with four melanomas than any Republican "leader"'s brain works cancer-free?
lol
ROTFLMAO!!! Do Republicanus/Teabaggerum even have brains?
You are so correct JD!
The Squatch beat me to it!
3:18 Something's bugging me about this puzzle.
3:38 Me too Jerry! My inability to hold the mouse properly due to arthritis in my hand. Makes beating Puddy Tat much harder! Glad you're here to prevent him from going all buggy on us!
Ted Cruz' days as a senator have only served to distinguish him as an utter disgrace to that chamber. His entire tenure has been solely marked by outrageous, inflammatory statements, without producing any substantive policy or legislation. His claim-to-fame has been his trademark bilge of bile and bombast spiced without outright character assassination.
As someone from Missouri via Illinois, I can say his only saving grace is that he represents Texas.
Can you tell us how you really feel Nameless? It seems you were going a little light on him!
Ted Cruz & Scott Walker are PURE E-V-I-L!!!!!
The other Rethuglicans are just mind-boggling HORRIBLE!
Don't forget "Jebby"… lol.
In a run! Great cartoon! I also have some nice land in Florida! You can see the ocean from the bog!
You better take it easy for a couple of days, TomCat. Stress has the nasty habit of creeping up on you when you least expect it and you had a lot of stress lately.
The New Yorker: Love the way Andy turns the tables on the 1% and uses all their (too) frequently arguments to stop illegal immigrants from coming in to build a case for the 1% to be thrown out of the country themselves. Kudos to Andy. It's a no-brainer which of the two groups deserve to stay and which one should be "exported" to the country where they've taken the American jobs.
Daily Kos: Ted Cruz hasn't got a shred af decency in his body and thinks nothing of attacking a 90-year old man whose body is riddled with cancer with lies and innuendo because he thinks this is what his equally hateful voters want to hear. There's not a word of truth in his allegations and his spitefulness will come back to bite him.
MoveOn: I could watch this video as I'm working on my husband's laptop for a while, because my own seems to have excused itself and gone to computer heaven because of old age, and this video is excellent! Short and to the point and leaving no room to maneuver; they all should be like this.
Since today is Women's Day, claim the laptop through eminent domain!!
MoveOn: An excellent ad. Only 30 seconds long. Straight to the point.
Well worth watching and forwarding it to Friends and to those of the GOP ilk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=P0UZz3QCCWg
Jim, did yoiu have a reason for posting a link to the video in the article, when clicking the video's logo takes them to the video on YouTube?
Some people may or may not know how to get a link to the video if they want to inform their Friends of it via their emails. This is an important ad and Congress must pass this agreement.
Then would you blank the target?
I hope you get lots of rest.
The New Yorker: I know this is satire, but it also Truth. Too bad a real non fiction reporter won't or can't say the same thing.
Daily Kos: Ted Cruz is despicable, and I think you are right. The Republicans are opposing the deal to protect their own.
Move On: I shared this on Facebook. Too many of my "friends" on there get their news from Fox. I live in a red state, remember that.
Cartoon: Doesn't it surprise you how many otherwise intelligent people fall for this?
Glad to hear that Phillip is progressing. Thoughts and prayers haven't stopped.
Otherwise intelligent people don't fall for this. Republicans do,
Puzzle — 3:38 Me too Jerry! My inability to hold the mouse properly due to arthritis in my hand. Makes beating Puddy Tat much harder! Glad you're here to prevent him from going all buggy on us!
The New Yorker — Given their ages, the nevermind brothers could easily have been conceived in Germany while Papa Koch was dancing with the Fuhrer. Deport them to Germany where they'd like fit in with Frau Merkel. Seems to me that Andy is back to straight reporting again.
Daily Kos — "…In fact, the exact same countries—Russia and Iran—openly laughing and mocking at the president of the United States."" One part of me, a very very small part, wants to tell Cruz to demonstrate how he could do better. The bigger part of me, like all of the rest, realises that in so doing he would destroy over 320,000,000 people, and I have too much sympathy for them to do that! Cruz is the most feckless and repellent Republicanus/Teabaggerum of all time, even more so than Ted Nugent.
MoveOn — Love it! Let's hope that the right people see it and make a left turn at the voting booths!
Cartoon — I might retitle it to "If you buy what Conservatives say" . . . then buy my lake from me! (It is the Mount Polley Lake where a tailings pond overflowed and did a lot of damage)
Forgot to mention, my little girl will be 7 years old tomorrow. So, we will celebrate with a chicken breast dinner! There will definitely be happy kitties in my house tomorrow!
Congrats to your cat, and I wish all the best from the one that you starve to the one that you feed.
Thanks all! Hugs!