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Well, it IS the weekend, and it’s not like I’ve squandered the entire morning. I have a load of wash under my belt, and new bedding down. But I have to admit, I’m feeling rather lazy.
That’s one good reason to slip over to Infidel753 and save yourself time and trouble. He’s really got a smashingly good list of links that will keep you busy for several hours. I saw a good half-dozen that I need to take a look at.
Like a wack-a-mole, Pat Robertson keeps popping up with more unGodly, mean and hateful rhetoric. Today he tells us that Amerika has turned into Sodom and Gomorrah. No prayer in schools, abortions, homosexuals running rampant, and our Christianist principles all gone amok since they were lovely laid down by our Christian forefathers. It’s just a mess, and Pat just knows there are at least 10 righteous Americans (Abraham bargained God down to 10 righteous in S & G to save it from destruction). What Pat knows about Sodom and Gomorrah would fit on the end of one nugget of brimstone. Shaddup already.
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The President is calling upon Congress to end gas and oil company tax breaks. Given their outrageous profits the last few years, it would seem that the President is on the side of both right and the public here. It shall be interesting to see how the sycophant GOP will respond as it seeks to protect its interests. Expect the usual “drill baby drill” rhetoric along with whining about “too much regulation.”
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I have more beefs against Wal-Mart than you can shake a stick at. The problem for us is that living on a tight budget, their prices cannot be beat. But we have weaned ourselves off to the point where we don’t get our groceries there, except for one or two things that we can’t get elsewhere. Still, it means that we are spending more than $400 a month elsewhere, and that is an accomplishment.
Whether you hate them for their union-hating methods or because they destroy small-town businesses, read this report from AlterNet and you will be confirmed in your determination to shop elsewhere.
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If you are like me, many days, you don’t have much time to read really good but long articles. There is a service that picks the best of the weeks long reads and presents them to you with the length, and if one strikes your fancy, perhaps you can find time for just that one. Anyway, you can sign up for this service here. It’s called “Longreads”.
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Heads up all you old sci-fi nuts. TMC is running the old old old Buck Rogers series. I mean the one from the 40’s. I mean with Buster Crabbe. I mean the worst worst graphics ever known to sci-fi movie-making. Well, excepting perhaps the Attack of the Shrews. That was pretty darn awful. Anyway, look it up in your guides or on-line. We caught the very first episode last week. I’d never seen it. Buck was in dirigibles before he was in space. It was hysterical, and I roared the entire time. Cool people watch really bad sci-fi! (I think they are on Saturday night. We TIVO everything so I’m not exactly sure.)
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GOPer’s have tons of excuses why they can’t tax the rich. Chris Christie came up with the latest: tax the wealthy and they will just up and move to another state. Well, studies show that that just ain’t the case. Political Irony has the story and the facts.
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And that’s all ya need for today. Go out and smell the daffodils.
What’s on the stove: hotdogs, backed beans, cole slaw.
Existential Ennui 
Have you noticed Pat Robertson has made no remarks about why all those southern states were hit by tornadoes? He was quick to jump on Louisiana, and New Orleans in particular, for drawing Katrina to their midst. I wonder what’s different in his mind?
reading the mind of a nut is always hard to do. lol
We can’t expect fundamentalists to operate in the realm of reason. That’s especially true with Pat Robertson.
Cannot dispute that statement…lol
There was a time in America when prayer in school was mandatory, abortion was illegal, and homosexuals were imprisoned. God rewarded us with The Great Depression, World War II, and polio.
After kicking God out of the schools, legalizing abortions, and showing tolerance towards homosexuals, we’ve entered an era of unprecedented peace, health, and prosperity.
Someone should point that out to Pat Robertson.
God does not give us WW II, or Financial Problems: All Evils in the world are by us HUMANS. Pat Robertson said he quit “political Blame’ game, get more Religious, Because his Viewership and especially Donations Received have gone down.
I think that was his point Tony, is that plenty of good came from changes in our tolerance, and plenty of bad. God doesn’t visit these things upon us…You are right, we humans do.
oh but that would spoil all his posturings…the deluded don’t give up their delusions readily.
It is a never-ending pursuit of claiming the media spotlight. Pat feared that Trump had diverted too much attention away from him. The media will oblige, of course.
Dinner sounds wonderful and homey, Sherry. Oh, how I wish you were my neighbor! (for many reasons, dear.)
You could be right, Sarah is sure getting pissy since no one is paying attention to her these days.
Well, move on down to NM when we do! lol…Saturdays are lazy day cooking around here.
I am not religious, but I wouldn’t attribute to god direct reaction to anything we do.
The money the oil companies get from the government is small change compared to the Bush tax break Obama renewed without a good reason.
A Religious “AMEN”, “AMEN”, Middle Seaman: You NAILED it. Secular Amen of agreement Too. Obama is Continuing the Against God’s Teachings, Against Bible REpublican Enrich tjhe Richest, Don’t put Wall Street Criminals on Felonies Trial.
I don’t care for the idea of a micro-managing God either…seems to directly contradict free will …
My husband suggests that we apply the tax breaks on oil to the gas taxes that people pay for cars…that would make a difference that people could at least actually see, even if small.
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It’s not the Written In Law By GOP Tax breaks to the Richest 5% Obama is Contueing, but the Federal Taxpayer Tax SUBSIDIES to Big Oil, Big Drug Manufactureres; Like GE, a Key Defense Contractor: No Tqaxes for Decades, and Tax Dollars To them for ‘research’, although. Ditto Most Profitable Company in WORLD HISTORY: Exxon Mobi Last Year: Over a $Billion PURE Profit, Rewarded with over $200 Million Taxpayer Subsidies, Again. These done by Dick Chaney, 2001.
//I have a load of wash under my belt, //
Well gees, hang ’em up in the closet and they won’t get so wrinkled!!!
&&&& if the only place in the world I can buy something is at Walmart….. I will live without it.
Yep Jimmy…Wal-Mart just sucks on just about every single indice I can think of.