I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Why people like this CAN'T win elections.   First off, they can't even do basic math.  Would you want that quality in your President.  Hopefully he won't be placed in the running if he can't do better than this:

Jackie

Alexandria, I agree.

adding my cheer to Alexandria - I know just how you feel about never using that comparison, but this feels like an earthly suicide.

Rethugs refusal to own up to or admit these facts do not change them one iota. 

Just saying.

Jackie

Alexandria - I'm so glad you expressed this.  How many alarm bells have to go off before some will wake up?  Inside we go deeper into the rabbit hole of denying science - whether Creationism over Evolution or denying man caused Climate Change.  As long as Fox News and the Koch brothers use their power to spread lies and propoganda (could we compare the lot to Joseph Goebbels?) our House of Representatives will be ruled by their minions.  The lie being that science is not to be believed (because it would hurt "their" bottomline).

Karl Rove:

"We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.  And while you're studying that reality - judiciously, - we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out.  We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

Joseph Goebbels:

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."

Adolf Hitler:

"Let me control the textbooks and I will control the state..."

Yesterday, the Republicans in the Senate voted against a very non-controversial energy bill sponsered by Shaheen-Portman, that would create energy savings, purely to deny Jean Shaheen a success before her Senate election in New Hampshire.  Portmann is a Republican and 7 Republicans co-sponsered the bill they voted against.  All they do is play politics rather than take what's going on in this world seriously.  

GG - I don't get tongue-tied. I get angry. Tongue-tied would probably be better. 

I too feel rather in-capable of "presenting for arguments".  No matter how GOOD I know they are.  Due to my stroke many years ago, I tend to talk very haltingly at times.  If I go too fast I just slur words and sometime reverse them in the sentence.  So, most anyone ( and my family are always top-notch at it ) can jump in while I'm still formulating my words and loudly proclaim their way WHICH to them is the ONLY way anyway.  I have managed to out talk them a time or two but then they cry FOUL saying, well you were in my face.  Well, yeah !!!!  It was the only way I could actually say something and get the whole idea out there.  It lets them off the hook though if they assign a "foul" on me.....so  ( envision very huge sigh here )  I've pretty much given up on them.

Let then wallow in their "studied" stupidity.....and lose time after time, after time.  Part of why they don't wish to change is they don't care to help their fellow man......forgetting like so many ( and I know where some of this will go ) all the help they so often had on the way to getting where they are.  They could not and did not do it on their own and I care very little what the Rethugs and idjuts from the far right would say.  All the derision and bad mouthing seldom changes anything.  If you can get the Koch's to keep regurtating huge excessive funds you may at some point buy your way into a win.....but that old saying about 'ill' gotten gains would have me keeping any eye out for the dissipation of gains gotten that way....probably not much of a lasting quality. 

Sunny and pretty here today.....about time.  All the gray and rain bringing much cooler temps --- not bad but the rain made it all damp which never feels good on bones that are my age.  We kept the I-heater on enough to chase away the dampness.  Hooray....summer is starting back here...maybe as soon as tomorrow.

Jackie

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/05/17/impeach-obama/  Really needs no explanation.  Laughed till I had wet cheeks.

Jackie

It has been in the 80's here this week. Glorious weather which is now cooling down. Today is a 70's kinda day and Sunday and Monday will be in the low 60's with showers.  I planted a few more succulents for my front yard as well as a small azalea and a Ceanothus - which will be fairly large in time, but is small for now.  Since the ceanothus is still small I decided to make things a little brighter with a couple pots full of annuals, so did that as well.

There is a horrendously old and dilapidated garden bench in our yard that I have decided to make my summer project.  Today we bought the wood I will replace the existing rotted stuff with.  

Hubby made a table about 35 years ago that we've decided will be our deck table.  He varnished it yesterday and it looks pretty good.  I'm going garage sale shopping over the next few months to see if I can come up with some funky wood chairs to paint and have our own style patio/deck furniture.

this afternoon we're going to watch the Preakness from the comfort of our living room and then I'm making gluten-free pizza.  If I have any energy left I'll finish the silk pants I started.

Hubby is busily trying to get his boat and fishing supplies ready for the opening day of salmon season. 

Have I mentioned that I really LOVE being retired???

RR -- very moving.  And something to be learned -- about the person that goes around the world with our First Lady.  We don't know what we are destined to do, but if you can do ALL you are able, you could end up sitting in the White House. 

Also on the same note, I would say, it isn't always what you do, but the fact that you do it with love and care in your heart.  It seems a hard concept for so many  but we are all mankind.  No one is special -- no one has an exalted race, or place, or color or anything else.  Remove the outer layers and no one could tell us apart. 

Just the few thoughts swirling in my mind as our First Lady spoke with a voice full of love and care. 

Jackie

In a nutshell, the problems will come when those who get into the primaries have to defend why they are going to take away our ACA.   http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/15/1299624/-Chamber-runs-Obamacare-horror-story-for-McConnell-and-it-s-another-nbsp-fail

Hi Everyone,

Hope you're enjoying your Sunday.  Tim is getting ready to BBQ some pork ribs ... my favorite, with some corn on the cob, beans and biscuits!  Yay!

My computer has been in the shop for a few days, so I wasn't able to log on.  Thankfully, it was only a $40 fix.  Something got messed up and my .exe files disappeared when Microsoft did an update.  Apparently, I'm not the first person the repairman has seen this happen to.

Hugs,

Bren

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/05/18/gop-candidate-outrageously-claims-dems-pull-trigger-in-mass-shootings-99-percent-of-the-time/

I'm still convinced that people who say such stupid things simply don't actually hear what they are saying.  They are pandering and seem to be so enthused with the goal they are trying to reach that they lose the ability to  censor themselves and no one seems to bother pointing out how irrational these statements are. 

Jackie