Today I’m on a very light schedule, but I do have one additional article for you. I’m current with replies. Tomorrow I have a month’s grocery delivery coming, and I’ll be hard presses to just get it put away. It’s also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. My Broncos’ meditation with the Browns will not be televised here.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:20 (average 6:03). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Media Matters: Misinformer Of The Year: Rush Limbaugh
"Slut." "Prostitute."
These words defined Rush Limbaugh in 2012 after he smeared Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student who testified before Congress about women’s health care. Limbaugh’s misogynistic attack, which spanned three days of his radio show, did incalculable, long-term damage not only to Limbaugh’s brand, but also to the right-wing talk-radio format he helped to build and the conservative movement he has shaped for decades.
Limbaugh’s attacks on Fluke led to a paradigm shift in talk radio, as advertisers reassessed their support for inflammatory hosts. Limbaugh’s toxic rhetoric helped shine a glaring spotlight on the broader conservative movement’s policies toward women, focusing public attention on the radical right-wing effort to dismantle reproductive rights and the social safety net.
They could not have picked a more deserving recipient than Limbarf, the de facto head of the Republican Party.
From MSNBC: Wreckage of the GOP
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Bought Bitch Mitch could not be more wrong. It’s Congress’ job to legislate, not the President’s. In my opinion, Obama has offered the Republicans far more than they have a right to expect. America’s problem is strictly a Republican problem.
From Think Progress: House Republicans let the five-year farm bill expire at the end of September without a new law to replace the massive measure covering billions of dollars in programs, including food stamps and agriculture subsidies. The Senate passed its own bipartisan, 10-year farm bill in June, and House Democrats and farm state Republicans attempted to force the House to consider a bill to replace it. But the GOP leadership steadfastly refused to vote on it.
As a result, milk prices could jump as high as $6 to $8 per gallon after Jan. 1, when the government will revert to following antiquated 1949 regulations without a farm bill in place.
Because they have declared war on America, may congressional Republicans find a lump of coal in their stockings, and may those stockings be in boots, and may those boots be buried deep between their nether cheeks.
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5:16 My numbers are just a tad under yours, Tom.
4:41 Lynn's my name, numbers are my game!
It's up to the Critter, now.
I did the puzzle yesterday, but my comment must have fallen into a black hole. I don't remember my exact time but it was over 5 minutes so I was not the winner.
Media Matters ~ A more deserving individual would be hard to find. Limbarf is the perfect recipient!
MSNBC ~ Neither Bought Bitch McConnell nor Agent Orange did very well with bills brought on the floor. They both withdrew them before a vote was taken. They're falling apart.
Interesting read from Red State ~ hxxp://www.redstate.com/2012/12/21/plan-b-aborted/
Think Progree ~ There is no progress in regression. The RepublicanTs are taking us back in time one step at a time. Let's hope we can limit the damage they do because there is no way we can stop them all together.
I would rather they be wearing those boots and they be placed in cement and dropped off an ocean liner somewhere over the Marianas Trench.
Cartoon ~ Wayne LaPierre (Lunatic of the Year) said a number of years ago that Bill Clinton had blood on his hand for signing the assault weapons ban when he was President. That is the thinking in "Wayne's World."
Who has blood on their hands, Wayne?
Thanks.
Patty, we don't link to Republican propaganda sites here, because they derive rating and revenue benefits from links on other sites. Therefore, I edited your link. Anyone wjho wants to read that revealing article can copy and paste the link, changing hxxp: back to http: Don't feel bad, because you did nothing wrong.
That works too.
How sick!
Thanks TC – I do hope Limbaugh has done himself and the other hate-mongers out of a job at last, I really do!
Me too, Pat. Me too!
Puzzle — 4:41 Lynn's my name, numbers are my game!
Media Matters — Excellent piece. Limbaugh is such a piece of work! He is like the pot of beans my step-father mad from scratch (normally he was a good cook) — so bad that when he buried it in the backyard, pot and all, even the bear that dug it up wouldn't eat it!
"It is for these reasons that Media Matters recognizes Rush Limbaugh as the 2012 Misinformer of the Year. Past recipients include: Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. (2011); Sarah Palin (2010); Glenn Beck (2009); and Sean Hannity (2008)."
Such illustriouscompany — the dregs of hell!
MSNBC — As I said yesterday, telling the president to "get it done" is so ridiculous. Mr Obama has presented a his position. It is Boehner that can't 'get it done'. And then for Turtle McConnell to say "It's the presidents job, his job to find a solution that can pass the Congress. He's the only one that can do it." Talk about abdicating responsibility! Even I know that the House and the Senate have to get legislation passed so that the president can sign it. Boehner, McConnell and Cantor can't line the ducks up in their own party, so now they expect Mr Obama to do their work for them. What a bunch of chicken shits! I hope the American people see clearly what the Republican/Teabaggers are doing to the country.
Think Progress — Just bloody unbelieveable! May congressional Republican/Teabaggers find the entire coal bin in a boot firmly planted so far up their collective asses that it will take a surgeon to remove it.
Cartoon — Wayne LaPierre and the NRA have so much blood on their hands that not even the strongest bleach will remove it! Make room for LaPierre in an asylum for the criminally insane where he should exist for the rest of his life.
Ahead so far!
I understand. My dog refused to eat my ex-wife's cooking.
Amen to that!
…or better yet, declare it inoperable.
Amen!
Note to NRA:
When you've lost the support of Rupert Murdoch's "New York Post" tabloid, you've LOST THE GAME!
Following LaPierre's demonic rant yesterday, the NY Post full-page headline read:
And add to that the "New York Daily News" full-page headline:
The graphics of those headlines alone are worth a look-see:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/new-york-post-daily-news-blast-nra-speech?ref=fpblg
He only lost half or Murdoch. Faux Noise is still singing his praises, partially at least.