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.

I'm posting this for dixiegrrrrl - who has some computer issues at the moment - but she wanted us to get to see it nevertheless.

Make that 10 001 - I'm singing with them

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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.

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.

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

Morning After Tea Party Win, House G.O.P. Proposes End to Social Security, Return to Child Labor, Gun Rights for Pets






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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.”



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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.

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.”





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