Yesterday was my day to co-facilitate a therapy group for former prisoners. The down side of that is that the way back to the bus stop is a three block walk up a steep hill: a real challenge for my COPD. I’m glad I can still do it, and I suspect it’s glad it can still do me. There’s not much left afterwards. I am current with replies. Today I’m only putting up one other article. It’s my day to do volunteer work helping prisoners in Oregon State Penitentiary learn healthy thinking and and how to transform that into pro social behavior. The down side of that is that I get home late at night at the time I normally wake up to do my research. Therefore, depending on how I feel, I may post no articles tomorrow, of if I can, they will be later than normal.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:26 (average 4:38). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The Nation: House Speaker John Boehner has a new excuse for the dissent within the ranks of the House Republican Caucus he is supposed to lead.
The caucus, Boehner says, has been infiltrated by a cabal that hopes to take the US economy hostage in order to force political concessions from President Obama and Congressional Democrats.
How about that Agent Orange. The brown-shirt storm troopers have been goose stepping behind him from the beginning, but now that the blackmail has not worked as planned, he’s blaming them. He should have known they were too dumb to stop goose-stepping.
From Bloomberg: Stocks sank, dragging the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index down the most in almost two months, and Treasuries and commodities slid as a stalemate over the debt ceiling pushed the U.S. closer to default.
And so it begins.
From Think Progress: A spokesperson for Planned Parenthood confirmed today that one of their Dallas-area clinics was the target of a violent attack last night. Holly Morgan, director of media relations and communications for Planned Parenthood in Dallas said that at around 11 pm last night, the attacker(s) threw a Molotov cocktail, consisting of diesel fuel in a glass bottle with a lit rag, at the building. “It didn’t penetrate the health center office and none of the staff or patients were there, which is great,” Morgan said.
Thankfully, the responsible Republicans were as incompetent as they are hateful.
Cartoon:
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4:28
I think the Bone-head is getting really scared now. The trainees are out of control. And Wall St. is NOT happy.
Right wing terrorists will not be happy until they close all Planned Parenthood offices.
Right on, Patty!
Great picture. It won’t look like that for long if the idiots in charge of Congress have their way.
My point, exactly.
I have been telling people to get as much of their money out of the market as they could as soon as it re-hit 12000. Hope they listened. I am going to take a pinch but at least it won’t be a hit.
Good advice.
What happened? Did Boner quit drinking? 👿
Did the Pope stop praying?
5:01 ❓
Not bad!
TomCat,
You are a kind and noble man to sacrifice your comfort as you do for the prisoners.I hope medicine soon finds a cure for COPD!
Not likely, Jack. It’s damage I did to myself.
Just in case your time restrictions don’t permit you to come across this gem, it’s just too rich not to share:
TeaBagger Rep. Joe Walsh Sued for $117,000 For Failing to Pay Child Support
http://www.suntimes.com/mobile/6720892-463/tea-party-rep.-joe-walsh-sued-for-100000-in-child-support
I loved it!
3:28 Oh man! Missed you by 2 seconds! I am 68 out of 209 (325).
Close!