Yesterday I felt very tired from Wednesday’s activities and I slept until 11:00 AM. I caught up my past due email, did some volunteer paperwork, and responded to a request from Nameless. I found and installed a plugin that will allow you all to edit your own comments within 30 minutes of posting them. I’ll need your feedback, because I cannot tell how, or even if, it works, As blog administrator, I can edit any comment any time, so I don’t see the modification. I’m current on replies. Today I will be hunkering down, because we are getting another heat wave.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today it took me 3:47 (average 5:06). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Aljazeera: Thousands of women have gathered in Martyrs’ square in the Libyan capital of Tripoli to add their voices to the chorus of celebrations marking an end to the rule of Muammar Gaddafi.
Women have often been publically absent during the revolution, but they used the occasion on Friday evening to take part in what has been called the "million women march".
I hope this is indicative that the new government will respect women’s rights.
From Washington Independent: The first question U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta (R) received at a recent town hall meeting in Greenland, N.H., echoed sentiments freshmen House Republicans, only seven months into their first terms, are hearing across the country from their constituents: “You signed the Grover Norquist tax pledge, but you also took the oath of office. Which one takes precedence?”
Was that a marvelous question, or what?
From Common Dreams: The U.S. economy added a net total of zero jobs for the month of August, prompting new fears about a double-dip recession.
Private-sector firms added 17,000 jobs, while state and local governments continued to shed workers. The unemployment rate held steady at 9.1 percent.
The result was worse than the anemic projections that the economy would add around 75,000 jobs for the month.
Be sure to thank RepubliCorp for these blessings.
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Well, I’m going to give this Editing Tool a tryout …
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Could be me – but I don’t see any intuitive button to click for Editing.
I clicked the Date/Time stamp – but it only takes you back to this post. If someone finds it, I’d appreciate a “Heads Up” on how to do it. TIA
I don’t see it either.
Try Again. I put in a different plugin.
4:47 You’re too good, TomCat. I am 74 out 246 (301).
Big window for you today, Jerry.
This is a test.
I edited it
I will definitely give this a try Keep these coming. THANKS
Welcome, Ann. 🙂
YVW.
4:27
Not,bad, Patty!
The first question U.S. Rep. Frank Guinta (R) received at a recent town hall meeting in Greenland, N.H., echoed sentiments freshmen House Republicans, only seven months into their first terms, are hearing across the country from their constituents: “You signed the Grover Norquist tax pledge, but you also took the oath of office. Which one takes precedence?”
I’ve been asking this for a long time now.
Okay. The editting tool works.
Thanks for testing it!
Can I insert a picture now?
…………must be one of those Republican’s head exploding, that Cheney was talking about.
LOL!
Yes. 🙂
Years ago, I wrote a poem about Lebanon and the useless fighting that was going on. And of course the fighting hasn’t really stopped since. Of course it is from a woman’s perspective and in it I lamented the ‘hills of Lebanon running red with the blood of its children, and of the tears of their mothers’. Mothers and fathers keenly feel the loss of a child, there is no denying that. But women seem to feel it in a different way — that child was a part of her body for 9 months; she suffered pain to give birth; she saw to the child’s very basic needs that only she could give; she nurtured the child as the primary care giver most often (that doesn’t mean that the father didn’t love the child or nurture he child in his own way). And then in the flash of an explosion or the whine of an errant bullet, the child dies. The parents weep, but the mother feels her very flesh torn from her body.
I am glad to see the women of Libya coming out to celebrate Qaddafi’s defeat, if I may presume his defeat since he has yet to be found as far as I know. I hope that this celebration will lead to the healing that must, for the sakes of everyday people, follow war. I hope that Libyan women will lead their country in peace and have the peace that they so richly deserve so that the blood of their children does not stain the earth again.
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The Grover Norquist tax pledge — Of course, the oath of office MUST take precedence. Legislators, no matter what party, are to serve their constituents first and foremost. That Grover Norquist is the enforcer suggests that this is not unlike the Mafia. The question now is, will Republicans hold to the spirit and letter of their oath of office, to which I do not know the words but I feel likely reflect the sentiment of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address when he “. . . also (to) exhort[ed] the listeners to ensure the survival of America’s representative democracy, that the “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”? If not, then the Gettysburg Address should read “. . . government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich, . . .”. What wonderful ideals and Lincoln was a Republican! Today’s Republicans have sure fallen a long way from the tree!
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It is a sad day in any country when the start of the football season takes precedence over a leader’s important public statement.
Still seriously lagging behind the pack, but I enjoy the puzzles and I always finish.
Thanks for this, Lynn.