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June 26, 2014
Thank you all, my dear photographer friends
It is (almost was) my birthday today and it looks like I may have won a very coveted spot in the June contest. I'm saying thank you now because in three hours I am heading out of here into an area where I may not have Internet.
So, dear friends, don't miss me too much – because I will be back in a couple of weeks or so.
I am taking my camera.
June 20, 2014
A fascinating map - about our individual States and the largest sources of Revenue in them
I'm posting this for dixiegrrrrl - who has some computer issues at the moment - but she wanted us to get to see it nevertheless.
June 15, 2014
I did some googling and discovered that the 10,000 people chorus is of amateurs, part of a concert to honor those lost in the tsunami.
To all who are full of JOY on Father's day - 10 000 singing "Ode to Joy" Beethoven.
Make that 10 001 - I'm singing with them
I did some googling and discovered that the 10,000 people chorus is of amateurs, part of a concert to honor those lost in the tsunami.
June 13, 2014
Gina McCarthy is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator. Earlier this month, the EPA took a page from Bill Maher’s book and issued a set of new rules governing carbon emissions from power plants.
Twitter: @GinaEPA
The Panel:
Krystal Ball co-hosts MSNBC’s “The Cycle.” In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant, Ball owns an educational software business. This week she took a closer look at Justice Antonin Scalia’s career in an interview on Krystal Continued.
Twitter: @KrystalBall
Richard Clarke is a former White House National Security official and the chairman of Good Harbor Security Risk Management. His latest book is Sting of the Drone.
Tom Rogan is a columnist for National Review Online, The Daily Telegraph, and a blogger and writer for TomRoganThinks.com. One of his latest articles is “Trading with Terrorists.”
Twitter: @TomRTweets
Mid-Show:
Carol Leifer is the co-executive producer of “Devious Maids” on Lifetime. She has written for Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, Modern Family, and Will & Grace. Her latest book is How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying: Lessons From a Life in Comedy.
Bill Maher lineup: 10 pm/HBO - repeat after the show Vice at 10:30 - tonight
The Interview:Gina McCarthy is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator. Earlier this month, the EPA took a page from Bill Maher’s book and issued a set of new rules governing carbon emissions from power plants.
Twitter: @GinaEPA
The Panel:
Krystal Ball co-hosts MSNBC’s “The Cycle.” In addition to being a Certified Public Accountant, Ball owns an educational software business. This week she took a closer look at Justice Antonin Scalia’s career in an interview on Krystal Continued.
Twitter: @KrystalBall
Richard Clarke is a former White House National Security official and the chairman of Good Harbor Security Risk Management. His latest book is Sting of the Drone.
Tom Rogan is a columnist for National Review Online, The Daily Telegraph, and a blogger and writer for TomRoganThinks.com. One of his latest articles is “Trading with Terrorists.”
Twitter: @TomRTweets
Mid-Show:
Carol Leifer is the co-executive producer of “Devious Maids” on Lifetime. She has written for Seinfeld, Saturday Night Live, Modern Family, and Will & Grace. Her latest book is How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying: Lessons From a Life in Comedy.
June 12, 2014
Sour sour nasty and evil ----I just caught the tail end of Boehner's Press conference
Graceless
Asshole
I cannot believe the lack of courtesy, leadership, and the disgusting projecting of his own inability to govern straight onto our President.
I. AM. DISGUSTED.
to my core
June 11, 2014
Morning After Tea Party Win, House G.O.P. Proposes End to Social Security, Return to Child Labor, Gun Rights for Pets
www.borowitzreport.com
Morning After Tea Party Win, House G.O.P. Proposes End to Social Security and more….listed by Andy B
Morning After Tea Party Win, House G.O.P. Proposes End to Social Security, Return to Child Labor, Gun Rights for Pets
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The morning after Tuesday’s stunning Tea Party victory in Virginia, House Republicans unveiled a sweeping new legislative agenda, proposing an end to Social Security, a return to child labor, and unprecedented gun rights for pets.
“The Republican Party is the party of common sense,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). “And such common-sense proposals as electronic ankle bracelets for immigrant babies and a barbed-wire fence with Canada are long overdue.”
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) echoed Speaker Boehner’s sentiments as he touted his signature legislation, “to put Americans under the age of twelve back to work.”
“Instead of spending all day playing with Xboxes, our kids should be in factories assembling them,” he said.
As for what is perhaps the most controversial G.O.P. proposal, guaranteeing gun rights for pets, Boehner said, “It’s clear that the authors of the Second Amendment meant it to apply to all mammals. All our new law says is, if you have four legs and a tail, you get a gun.”
When asked about future relations between House Republicans and President Obama, Boehner did not mince words. “If the President thinks he’s going to get the kind of cooperation and flexibility he’s gotten out of us for the past six years, he’s kidding himself,” he said. “The honeymoon is over.”
“The Republican Party is the party of common sense,” said House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). “And such common-sense proposals as electronic ankle bracelets for immigrant babies and a barbed-wire fence with Canada are long overdue.”
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) echoed Speaker Boehner’s sentiments as he touted his signature legislation, “to put Americans under the age of twelve back to work.”
“Instead of spending all day playing with Xboxes, our kids should be in factories assembling them,” he said.
As for what is perhaps the most controversial G.O.P. proposal, guaranteeing gun rights for pets, Boehner said, “It’s clear that the authors of the Second Amendment meant it to apply to all mammals. All our new law says is, if you have four legs and a tail, you get a gun.”
When asked about future relations between House Republicans and President Obama, Boehner did not mince words. “If the President thinks he’s going to get the kind of cooperation and flexibility he’s gotten out of us for the past six years, he’s kidding himself,” he said. “The honeymoon is over.”
www.borowitzreport.com
June 11, 2014
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In a development that few had thought possible, Republicans in the Seventh District of Virginia on Tuesday night found an even bigger tool than Rep. Eric Cantor to represent them in the United States Congress.
Apparently deciding that Cantor was insufficiently heartless to represent their district, Republicans turned out to the polls to elect David Brat, a man whose political views “border on sociopathy,” according to exit-poll responses from voters who supported him.
During his concession speech, Rep. Cantor reflected on the mistakes that might have led to his defeat: “Should I have cut more school-lunch programs for poor children? Perhaps. Should I have cast more votes to screw over disaster victims? Definitely. Should I have not said the thing about treating children of immigrants like human beings? Man, do I wish I could take that one back. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, but at the end of the day I was just too damn empathic for this district.”
But Rep. Cantor was gracious in defeat, offering words of congratulation to the victorious Mr. Brat. “The people of the Seventh District have spoken,” he said. “The time has come to pass the torch to a new generation of asshats.”
When asked about the defeat of his longtime colleague in the House, Speaker John Boehner said, “I will give a formal statement as soon as I can stop laughing.”
www.borowitzreport.com
Virginians Choose Even Bigger Tool —Andy Borowitz is on top of it
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In a development that few had thought possible, Republicans in the Seventh District of Virginia on Tuesday night found an even bigger tool than Rep. Eric Cantor to represent them in the United States Congress.
Apparently deciding that Cantor was insufficiently heartless to represent their district, Republicans turned out to the polls to elect David Brat, a man whose political views “border on sociopathy,” according to exit-poll responses from voters who supported him.
During his concession speech, Rep. Cantor reflected on the mistakes that might have led to his defeat: “Should I have cut more school-lunch programs for poor children? Perhaps. Should I have cast more votes to screw over disaster victims? Definitely. Should I have not said the thing about treating children of immigrants like human beings? Man, do I wish I could take that one back. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, but at the end of the day I was just too damn empathic for this district.”
But Rep. Cantor was gracious in defeat, offering words of congratulation to the victorious Mr. Brat. “The people of the Seventh District have spoken,” he said. “The time has come to pass the torch to a new generation of asshats.”
When asked about the defeat of his longtime colleague in the House, Speaker John Boehner said, “I will give a formal statement as soon as I can stop laughing.”
www.borowitzreport.com
June 10, 2014
What to do? Could we discuss the Hosting of Threads?
I don't yet even have a photo picked for the Wide Open Space, but I do know entering implies the outside chance of a win and I know I can't host in July.
What to do of course is to not enter, even though I don't like that idea.
Or ask someone to do it for me, just in case.
Yet, and here is the subject for discussion, we could somehow have a few folks in abeyance who are willing to step in, or swap in anticipation of a future win.
Thoughts? I can't quite figure out how to do this equitably. Maybe together we could.
I'm probably not the only one who has this dilemma at times, and I am surely willing to be on a list one can call on to help out.
June 9, 2014
WASHINGTON
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) ripped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s new book, “Hard Choices,” today, telling reporters, “I read it, and honestly, I didn’t find anything in it worth plagiarizing.”
Calling the new book “disappointing,” Sen. Paul said, “I read a lot of books, and it’s rare that I don’t find a passage or two to lift here or there. I just read the second Harry Potter book and I thought there was some dialogue of Voldemort’s that could work well in my stump speech. But this Hillary book? Nada.”
Asked whether he would read future books by Secretary Clinton, Sen. Paul said that it was “unlikely.”
“Look, if you write six hundred and fifty-six pages and give me nothing to steal, you are just wasting my time,” said Sen. Paul, who added that he was currently finding “some great stuff” in the novel “The Fault in Our Stars.”
www.borowitzreport.com
Rand Paul Calls Hillary’s Book Not Worth Plagiarizing --claims Andy Borowitz
WASHINGTON
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) ripped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s new book, “Hard Choices,” today, telling reporters, “I read it, and honestly, I didn’t find anything in it worth plagiarizing.”
Calling the new book “disappointing,” Sen. Paul said, “I read a lot of books, and it’s rare that I don’t find a passage or two to lift here or there. I just read the second Harry Potter book and I thought there was some dialogue of Voldemort’s that could work well in my stump speech. But this Hillary book? Nada.”
Asked whether he would read future books by Secretary Clinton, Sen. Paul said that it was “unlikely.”
“Look, if you write six hundred and fifty-six pages and give me nothing to steal, you are just wasting my time,” said Sen. Paul, who added that he was currently finding “some great stuff” in the novel “The Fault in Our Stars.”
www.borowitzreport.com
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