I’m still not fully recovered from my volunteer work last week, so I’m going to rest one more day. I’m current with replies. Barring unforeseen circumstances, I’ll be all the way back tomorrow.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:21 (average 4:35). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From MoveOn: Robert Reich’s Smart Take On The Kind Of ‘Morality’ That’s Been Bad For America
It seems that Republicans are interested in pubic morality, not public morality, and then, only when it isn’t their own pubic morality.
From Washington Post: Gay students at America’s military service academies are wrapping up the first year when they no longer had to hide their sexual orientation, benefiting from the end of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that used to bar them from seemingly ordinary activities like taking their partners openly to graduation events.
For the first time, gay students at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis were able to take a same-sex date to the academy’s Ring Dance for third-year midshipmen. The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., officially recognized a club for gay students this month. And gay cadets at the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., are relieved they no longer have to worry about revealing their sexuality.
This is a proud accomplishment for the LGBT community, and the Democrats who fought fore them.
From Reuters: After weeks of painting Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney as a job-slashing corporate raider, President Barack Obama and his re-election campaign are broadening their attack to include Romney’s record as Massachusetts governor, arguing his policies hurt the state.
Obama, in an impassioned campaign speech in the battleground state of Iowa on Thursday night, foreshadowed that shift in strategy when he said Romney had made his business experience the centerpiece of his candidacy but "doesn’t really talk about what he did in Massachusetts."
The move, described by campaign officials, marks a change from the campaign’s recent main focus on Romney’s time as a private equity executive at Bain Capital aimed at casting him as more concerned with the wealthy than the middle class.
That’s an understatement! Romney is not more concerned with the wealthy. He is only concerned with the wealthy!
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Another for you!
You’re the champ on this one. Just wait until I’m back in fighting form agai!
MoveOn — Excellent short video. The Republican/Teabaggers, in my estimation, are trying to impose their private morality on the entire nation without regard to individual rights, hence the war on women and the seemingly blurred line between church and state. In addition, they are trying to uphold their public immorality and put laws in place that support that immorality to the detriment of the 99%.
As an aside, I was thinking about the fanatical rightwing evangelical Xtians and their preference for the Hebrew Scriptures. My mind wandered to the ‘begats’ and the Republican/Teabaggers’ immoral attitude of entitlement . Here are the ‘begats’ as applicable to the Republican/Teabaggers — greed begets greed; bigotry begets bigotry; racism begets racism; public immorality begets public immorality; discrimination begets discrimination. I’m sure others can expand the list. From one generation to the next, this immoral attitude of entitlement is passed down, perpetuated ad nauseum.
Washington Post — Kudos to the LGBT community in the American military service academies and in the military for completing the first year of being able to be openly who they were created to be.
Reuters — I heard part of that Iowa speech and Mr Obama was definitely “in the groove” ! When I read this, I immediately thought of this picture of the elephant and donkey wearing boxing gloves which I would personally alter to show the Republican/Teabagger elephant with signifcant bandages and blood!
Cartoon — Not only would the Republican/Teabaggers have cheered back in 1647, but they are guilty in my mind of a 2012 witch hunt — it’s called the war on women. Not really a stretch when you consider that most people found guilty of witchcraft were women.
Exactly!
…and Republicans beget them all.
Exactly!
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to show the elephant breaking the rules?
That is exactly how I hoped people would react to that cartoon.
Well perhaps I could also show a horseshoe in the elephant’s glove, but I was going for the ‘beaten to a pulp’ idea — Democrats whoopin’ Republican/Teabagger ass! How sweet that will be!
But then they’d just blame the donkey got putting the horseshoe there.
HAPPY 75th ANNIVERSARY to GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE!!!
Sunday marked the 75th Anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, and the fireworks were spectacular!
And the story behind how the bridge got its iconic International Orange paint job – rather than the typical metallic gray – is interesting. It was the primer, and when the architect happened upon it, he thought it was perfect!
I considered that for yesterday’s cartoon too. Thanks Nameless.
4:30 Notbad for all the time I took off.t
I was in the hospital for emergency surgery on my ilIac artery and almost lost my left leg. Doing fine now. Recuperating on the back deck with my coffee and computer right now. I won’t be spouting off too much for a while though because I’m just not normal yet I had to do the jigsaw though. I was jonesin’.
YIKES! Hope your recovery is rapid and uneventful.
Oh WOW, Patty. Glad to hear that you are OK now. Thanks for the chance to win a few puzzles. You and TomCat are both just setting me up to be crushed when you are both healthy again. Take care!
What they said, Patty! Welcome back and get well soon! 🙂