I’m writing for tomorrow, and it looks like it will stay cool enough that I will even be wearing clothes from now on. Being the nekked blogger is overrated anyway. ;-) Fantasy players be sure your lineups are set for Sunday’s games.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:47 (average 5:13). To do it, click here, how did you do?

Short Takes:

From CNN: …House Speaker John Boehner told a group of fellow GOP legislators that he won’t let the nation default on its debt, according to a House Republican.

Boehner said that he’d set aside the "Hastert Rule" — that Republicans would only bring measures up for a vote if they are backed by a majority of their caucus — and rely on Democrats to pass a measure to raise the nation’s debt limit, said the House member. This legislator attended a meeting Wednesday involving Boehner, but requested anonymity because that gathering was private…

The media seem to be reporting this as gospel, and I’m not saying it isn’t true, but I’m sure not ready to take it to the bank. Boehner said two months ago that Republicans would not shut down the government, so he has no credibility in such matters (or any other matters). In addition, this is just hearsay from an anonymous Republican (and therefore unreliable) source, not even from Agent Orange himself. Color me from Missouri on this one.

From NY Times: It is outrageous that millions of the poorest people in the country will be denied health insurance because of decisions made mostly by Republican governors and legislators. These people will neither qualify for their state’s Medicaid program for the poor nor for subsidized coverage on new insurance exchanges that are being established in every state by the health care reform law.

Their plight is a result of the Supreme Court’s decision last year that struck down the reform law’s mandatory expansion of Medicaid and made expansion optional. Every state in the Deep South except Arkansas has rejected expansion, as have Republican-led states elsewhere. These 26 states would rather turn down incredibly generous federal funds that would finance 100 percent of the expansion costs for three years and at least 90 percent thereafter than offer a helping hand to their most vulnerable residents… [emphasis added]

Isn’t it the height of hypocrisy for Republicans to cackle about how ObamaCare leaves so many poor without coverage, when in fact, they are the ones keeping those people uncovered by refusing to accept the federal funds to pay for it all?

From MSNBC: Wooo Hooo Wendy!!

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That pink sneakers lady with the big mouth is my favorite Texan politician!