Ho! Ho!! Ho!!! Tell SantaCat whether you were naughty or nice! I have friends visiting today, if they show up. So for me, today will be a learning experience on how much I can do. Merry Christmas or whatever greeting you prefer for lefties, centrists, and sane conservatives. Happy Holidays for insane conservatives, aka Republicans.
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos (classic: 12/1014): Did Ayn Rand send Christmas cards?
According to Scott McConnell’s 100 Voices: An Oral History of Ayn Rand she did indeed. Unfortunately, none are included in McConnell’s 656 page book.
Fortunately, with a little help from the Ayn Rand Archives*, we’re able to present to you this exclusive, never-before-seen collection of Ayn Rand favorites.
Click through for 20 more examples of Republican Christmas love.
From Media Matters: On The Bill Press Show, Media Matters’ Katie Sullivan Runs Down The Worst Of Fox News Sexism In 2015
Of course Faux Noise is sexist!
From Common Dreams: Capitulating to the demands of the infamous Kim Davis is not all the newly-anointed Kentucky governor is up to these days.
Less than one month after taking office, Republican Governor Matt Bevin late Tuesday issued a series of executive orders that rolled back the minimum wage, stripped tens of thousands of their right to vote, and sent the state spiraling into regressive new territory.
After his election, Bevin—known as a Tea Party "darling"—vowed that he would pass a measure "right away" that would remove county clerk’s names from marriage licenses to appease those, like Davis, who object to issuing licenses to same-sex couples.
That promise was fulfilled on Tuesday—along with many other gifts to the conservative base.
Among them was a directive to reverse an order issued by his predecessor, Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear, which restored voting rights to felons. Bevin’s order strips the new rights from roughly 140,000 former felons who are "overwhelmingly African American and lower income," according to reports.
Merry Christmas, Kentucky, from your Republican Reich!!
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Ho, Ho, HO to you also!
Thanks for the selection of three hos(ho, ho, ho)!
Bevins' move to take the newly restored voting rights from the 140,000 felons ia all about the real push behind the "War on drugs!"
Ayn Rand was one anal retentive proto-person!
All I want for christmas is the certificate revoking the Fox Network's permission to exist!
Get two!
Bevins' move to take the newly restored voting rights from the 140,000 felons is all about the real push behind the "War on drugs!"
Ayn Rand was one anal retentive proto-person!
All I want for christmas is the certificate revoking the Fox Network's permission to exist!
Amen again!
I am all Christmas'd out. I left a comment on one of the earlier posts. If you can, I left you a message or two. One about how I can't see you cards because my phone won't take FLASH. I try to get it and it just says that my system won't support it. I guess I need a new phone, ha, ha, ha! Like that is gonna happen soon.
Anyway, I was wondering why I am still in the playoffs. I know I'm in the losers game, but what do I do besides keep my normal team in there? I know, just play your team. It will all come out in the wash.
As far as these numb-nuts nominated today for stupidest crap this side of the Mississippi, I have no answer. They are hopeless!!! That includes Faux Spews!
Merry Ho, Ho, Ho, buddy! I hope you as George have a FANTASTIC Christmas and GLORIOUS New Years!!!
What you need is a computer!
Just plazy yout yeam is right. I'm in the losers' bracket too.
I hope your friends showed up, TomCat, and if the did you didn't exert yourself too much, having learned where your new boundaries lie by walking smack into them ;-P Whatever you do, stay safe.
Daily Kos: I know Ayn Rand only through what I read about her here, and frankly that is as far as I want to take it. What a mean-spirited, miserly egotist. Scrooge would have tipped his hat to her.
Media Matters: Can't see the video, but I'm sure the list of examples of Faux News sexism in 2015 is endless and ugly. As was the list of 2014 and as will be the longer version of 2016.
Common Dreams: Don't you love those last minute reprieves from Tea Party governors? Republicans in Kentucky can rest assured, Matt Bevin is taking their state back another century when the clock strikes midnight on December 31.
They did, and I didn't. Thanks!
Thanks all!! Hugs!!
Thanks – all good wishes back at ya!.