You know, there's something to this:

Friday cat blogging!

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Shocking Tea Party racism and other nastiness:

I just thought this was funny:

Maybe it has to do with the way all these tea-baggers carry on. I kind of want to ask this question of many of them! :-)
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Today's headline

Yeah, this one REALLY caught my attention:

Why the Politicians with the Most Dangerous, Wrong Ideas Are Probably Going to Win the Congress

It's depressing. It really is. The situation, I mean. The article is illuminating so do click through and read it. It's not very long.
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Update on the gulf

It's from an email Sojourners sent out today:

We're seeing the ripple effects of the oil spill and the cessation of fishing activities right through the economy. I think we’re still on the ascending end of this. I wish I could report things are abating. On so many levels, it’s actually more of a struggle now.

- Iray Nabatoff, director of the Community Center of St. Bernard, a Second Harvest partner, said requests for food, clothing, assistance information, and computer laboratory sessions continue to rise. (Source: RNS/The Times-Picayune)
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That church-state issue

Here's something I just found:

Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

— Sandra Day O'Connor

I don't know when she said it. It does rather prompt me to ask her why, then, did she vote to hand the presidency to George W. Bush.
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Definitely the quote of the day

This one:

This is a real important election. It's more important than the one that got Barack and me elected, it literally is.

-- Joe Biden, Vice President, speaking at a fundraiser in New York City, on the Nov. 2 midterm elections

Don't stay home from the polls, folks. Even if you're discouraged and disappointed. Please remember that it will be so much worse if the Republicans get a majority in one or both houses of Congress.

(The quotation is from Time Magazine.)
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Could be...

Heartbreaking

This:

Can't this country get a break?

-- Imogen Wall, U.N. spokeswoman, at a clinic in L'Estère, Haiti, as a cholera outbreak hits the country; the disease has killed 259 people, and more than 3,000 have been infected

(From Time Magazine Quotes of the Day)
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The headline of the day

Here it is:

A Perjurer on the US Supreme Court

Yes, you know who it is.

Just click on through.
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Sunday art blogging

Artist: Odilon Redon
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A headline that caught my eye

Here it is:

For Your Doorknocking: Eight False Things The Public “Knows”

Just some fact clarifications that are worth reading about as the election nears.

Here's a sample:

7) [False belief:] Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, is "going broke," people live longer, fewer workers per retiree, etc.

Reality: Social Security has run a surplus since it began, has a trust fund in the trillions, is completely sound for at least 25 more years and cannot legally borrow so cannot contribute to the deficit (compare that to the military budget!) Life expectancy is only longer because fewer babies die; people who reach 65 live about the same number of years as they used to.

There are more.
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I guess I can still be shocked:

I've always known, of course, that Fox News has a strong right-wing take on things and that it shills for the Republican Party. I had no idea, however, that they would stoop to such blatant and quite sickening bigotry. And I guess I didn't realize that our society has lost even the veneer that the public expression of such blatant bigotry is unacceptable.
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Here's a headline for you

It's a brief open letter by Michael Moore:

If Only NPR Had Fired Juan Williams for the Right Reasons

In case you're not familiar with the story, Williams (who's a conservative African-American) said he gets nervous when he sees Muslims at the airport. Here's a point Michael Moore made about that:

Here's something else that I'd sincerely love to talk about with you: what do you think when you see rich middle-aged white men talking on TV about how they get nervous around African Americans on the street? And then they explain that we can't let political correctness stop us from talking about black-on-white crime?

Let's do give this some thought.
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Friday cat blogging!

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