Dolly Parton speaks:

@DollyParton:
I do not sit in the seat of judgment... I love people for who they are. We're all God's children!

Loves me some Dolly!

Ted Cruz resembles

Joseph McCarthy.

That is all.

The Duggars aren't just some reality sideshow. They are very much part of the RW through Quiverfull

The Bizarre Christian "Quiverfull" Movement Pushing Women to Procreate for "God's Army"
Leaders of the Quiverfull movement encourage women to have as many as 20 children, regardless of the effects on their health.
<snip>
But a quick look beneath the surface reveals that America's most celebrated Quiverfull couple believe and espouse decidedly unhealthy ideas when it comes to sex and babymaking.

Although Jim Bob makes frequent displays of romantic affection toward his prolific wife, Michelle, which would suggest that the couple might enjoy sex for non-procreative purposes, the "biblical family values" advocates-- whose "literal" interpretations of scripture inspire the Duggars to receive each and every pregnancy as an unmitigated blessing from God--also teach that the primary purpose of woman is to conceive and bear sons, i.e., " arrows" for God's army.

Consider Romans 1:27: "And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet."

Quiverfull movement leader, Mary Pride, in her seminal book, The Way Home: Beyond Feminism and Back to Reality, offers the following interpretation of "the natural use of the woman" ...

Since the word used for female is connected so strongly with the idea of nursing babies, whereas it has no connection at all with the idea of sexual activity, I believe that God is saying here that when women exchange their natural function of childbearing and motherliness for that which is "against nature" (that is, trying to behave sexually like a man), the men tend to abandon the natural sexual use of the women and turn to homosexuality. (pp. 27-28)
<snip>
http://www.alternet.org/bizarre-christian-quiverfull-movement-pushing-women-procreate-gods-army

This is another bunch of people who would love to force their views on everybody. You can mock them and Quiverfull all you want. However, you better keep an eye out and not dismiss them out of hand.

MaaaMaaa 3

Madame DeFarge is no longer knitting.

She is sharpening her needles and lining up the tumbrils.

Dear Boehner, only Batman can get away with this:

HEADS UP NY & DC:Tornado Watch until 5 pm

<snip
The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center has issued a tornado watch for a huge area from the Washington and Baltimore metro region all the way into central New York state including Philadelphia and New York City.
<snip>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/07/tornado-watch-for-washington-d-c-area-through-5-p-m-live-updates/

Do you know the story of Delta Flight 15 on 9/11? You should.

The memories of 9/11, 2001 haunt us all, but there is a positive, encouraging side-story to that date which shall live in infamy. Even before the twin towers of the World Trade Center came tumbling down, America’s airspace was cleared of all aircraft, and flights in-bound from abroad were diverted. Delta Flight 15 landed at Gander, Newfoundland, and after 28-hours, the passengers and crew were sent to nearby Lewisporte.

Shirley Brooks-Jones from Delta Flight-15/Photo Credit: Facebook/Shirley Brooks-Jones
Shirley Brooks Jones was on that flight, and remembers how well the travelers were treated for the next few days. “The care, the love, the consideration, and everything that we received over the period of three or four days that we were cared for, there in Central Newfoundland, we just had to do something,” she shared in a phone call from her home in Ohio this afternoon. The story of the people of Lewisporte, and what the passengers and crew of Delta Flight-15 did to repay their kindness sounds like the stuff of urban legend.

Stranded in a foreign land for days, the population of the small town literally doubled by accidental tourists, the townspeople leapt into action. Newspaper accounts tell of bakeries working overtime to make sure enough fresh bread was available. Schools were closed so that they could converted into dormitories. A very pregnant woman was housed directly across from an urgent care center, ‘just in case.’ Elderly passengers were taken into family homes and cared for.
It’s no urban legend, but it is legendary.

“They’re the kindest, most-gentle, fun and funniest people you’ll ever run into, but they wouldn’t accept any money from us,” Brooks-Jones says. “They simply told each and every one of us, as we tried to leave some money with them, that we would do the same thing for them.”
<snip>
Much more:
http://news92fm.com/382471/9112001-the-true-story-of-delta-flight-15/

Good on them all!

Pandas at The National Zoo in DC are watching Congress:

Some parents were very worried about how their dog would react to the new baby. This happened: