Please pardon my brevity. I’m hurrying to get done before I have to leave for my appointment with a Radiation Oncologist.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:57 (average 5:52). To do it. click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From KP Daily Funnies: FOD News: Besides Getting Rid Of Minorities, How Would You Make America Great Again?
And they will be voting in November! God help us!!
From The New Yorker: Unless the United States builds a wall, Mexicans will swarm across the border, enroll in law school en masse, and eventually become biased judges, Donald J. Trump warned supporters on Monday.
At a rally in San Jose, the presumptive Republican nominee said that “making America great again” meant preventing the nation from becoming “overrun by Mexican judges.”
“We don’t win anymore,” he told the crowd. “We don’t win at judges.”
While Trump offered no specific facts to support his latest allegations, he said that he had heard about the threat of incoming Mexican judges firsthand from border-patrol agents.
LOL Andy!! Hilariously believable!!
From, NY Times:
On the night Barack Obama became the nation’s first black president, Leah Taylor, a fast-food worker and African-American mother of six, stayed up until 2 a.m. watching the election returns. “I knew that was history, and I wanted to be a part of it,” she said. But she did not vote.
Ms. Taylor, 45, has never voted. In 1991, when she was 20, she was stripped of her voting rights after being convicted of selling crack cocaine and sent to jail for a year. So she was stunned when an organizer from a progressive group, New Virginia Majority, showed up one recent afternoon at the church soup kitchen where she eats lunch and said he could register her.
“Your rights have been restored!” the organizer, Assadique Abdul-Rahman, declared with a theatrical flourish, waving an executive order signed in April by Gov. Terry McAuliffe. Ms. Taylor, so moved she nearly cried, promptly signed up.
Thus did Ms. Taylor join a wave of newly eligible voters, all with criminal pasts, signing up in Virginia. But what Mr. McAuliffe granted, the Virginia Supreme Court may now take away.
Top Republicans in the state legislature are seeking to block Mr. McAuliffe’s sweeping order, which re-enfranchised 206,000 Virginians who have completed sentences, probation or parole. Last week, the Supreme Court announced a special session to hear arguments in July — in time to rule before the November election.
The surest way the state can tell former felons to adopt crime as a way of life is to deny them a stake in their communities.
Cartoon:
50 years ago I was soooooooo young!
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6:08 (5:52) I'm sure that whatever it is that the tap turns on is just out of view, but photogtaphed this way it looks oddly stranded, like maybe it isn't a tap at all, but a designer coathanger.
FOD – Please tell me this is snark.
New Yorker – Andy, Andy, Andy. Last I heard all the swarming was from the US to Mexico. But of course Trump wouldn't believe that.
NYTimes – "The surest way the state can tell former felons to adopt crime as a way of life is to deny them a stake in their communities." – Nailed it.
Cartoon – Same year as me, though I don't remember the exact date. For one thing, it was quite a party – for another, I was more excited about going off to Quantico.
Not snark.
I rewmember the date, because it's 6/6/66.
FOD: Hilarious!! Love this. Got sidetracked with "How Much Weed can we score at this Bernie Rally?" LOL.
NYer: Funny, Andy!
NYT: Loved your comment, Tom. Spot on!
Cartoon: Speaking of ….just got back from another graduation here. So nice to see young faces and the excitement in their walk and in their eyes! I am three years behind you, and left for Navy boot camp 3 days, later after graduation. Boy does time fly, or what?
Best to you when you see your Radiation Oncologist. Hope all goes well, I'll say a little prayer. Hope you enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
I hope your trip to the radiation oncologist was quite uneventful, TomCat 😉
KPDF: How many Drumpf horde prejudices can you fit into one minute and still be funny. Funny or Die sure did an excellent job on that.
TNY: Andy's on a wonderful roll again! I had to laugh through my tears of frustration about Drumpf's latest barf-bag-filling antic. Note the " While Trump offered no specific facts to support his latest allegations…" Andy is so spot on.
NYT: Finally Virginia did something right by giving disenfranchised voters the right to vote back and be a part of society again and sure enough the Republicans will take that away from them. Because they know these 206,000 people, if they are to vote, will not vote Republican or Drumpf. So they take it to Virginia's Supreme Court, whose justices by miracle have time to pass judgment right before the November elections. What a surprise.
Cartoon: We all were ;-), but you sure looked cute, TomCat.
I thought Andy was at it AGAIN !!! Had me fooled! But it's so outlandish that Drumpf would do it just to get people fired up AGAIN! They have the ring in their noses and are following blindly! Ugh! Such arses!
Gov. McAuliffe's law that was passed should stand!!! How can ANYONE take someone's right to VOTE??? That should be up to the SCOTUS, not some low-life hack that will gerrymander EVERY district to swing to the RIGHT!!!
Love the cartoon!!! Congrats on your graduation day, 50 years along!!!
Trust your Radiaton Oncologist meeting went well.
You beat my four days – my HS graduation was 6/10/66
And I'm hoping to head back for our 50th (*sigh*) Reunion this September.
(Universal Plaint: If I only knew then what I know now …)
That "Plaint" is exactly what I was thinling when I was making the Cartoon graphic.
TC, you looked so damned cute, didn't you? Bet you were the cat's meow!- No, I didn't say that, did I?
Yes, good luck at the oncologist's!
Andy: I had to take a second look…almost thought it was for real.
NY T: Virginia? Of all places. So, the govrnor is like: "Yes, there is a Santa clus, Virginia! Then, of course, the Republicans will don their Grinch suits (no pun intended/realized until the words were there)!
FOD: Excellent!
Glad you got the go ahead for your surgery.
FOD: They walk amongst us, and they vote! The dumbing down of America has really succeeded.
The New Yorker: Are you positive that Andy isn't reporting facts instead of satire?
NY Times: I hope the Virginia ruling is not overturned, not being allowed to vote after you have paid the price for your misdeed, is a crime in itself.
Cartoon: You are still a youngster, I graduated HS in 1963, still keep in touch with over half of my classmates.
I'm never positive Andy isn't reporting facts.
Puzzle — 4:44 . . . and on my laptop with my new mouse. I thought I was going to be tapped out, but I believe the Puddy Tat is tapped out!
KP Funnies — Didn't find that funny . . . only scary that there are people so feeble minded that will be voting. OMG!!!
The New Yorker — America could be made great again by dumping the xenophobic, narcissistic, megalomaniac named Drumpf and voting in a Democrat government! But Andy sure is funny!
NY Times — What bunkum! I agree with you that the more ex felons are denied the right to participate in their communities, the greater chance of recidivism. This on Canadian voting rights from Wikipedia:
When is the US going to catch up and join the 21st century?
Cartoon — 06/06/1944 — "The Normandy landings (codenamed Operation Neptune) were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (termed D-Day) of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. The largest seaborne invasion in history, the operation began the liberation of German-occupied northwestern Europe from Nazi control, and contributed to the Allied victory on the Western Front."
What a cutie in your younger years. I was 5 years behind you in 1971, although I graduated about 20/05/1971. I never wrote a final exam in my 5 years of high school (had grades 9-13).
Hope all went well with the radiation oncologist.
Thanks all! Hugs!!
The trip to the Radiation Oncologist was to teach me about radiation. Unfortunately, removing my lead lined eye patch in an elevator full of Republicans won't make them glow in the dark!