The sun hit the wall early today, so the CatBox is already buttoned up for the A/C. I’m busy and very tired.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:07 (average 4:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): How did the 1994 deal with North Korea fall apart?
The point is this. Every time North Korea has received denuclearization benefits, they have cheated. Only one thing would be more stupid than trusting Kim: Trusting Trump. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From The New Yorker: One day before his summit with Donald J. Trump, the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, has offered to host peace talks between the United States and Canada.
Speaking to reporters at his hotel in Singapore, Kim said that the rising tensions between the North American neighbors were posing an “intolerable threat to world peace.”
In addition to offering to host U.S.-Canada talks in Pyongyang, Kim urged the immediate creation of a demilitarized zone along the border separating the two hostile nations.
“In exchange for Canadian Mounties agreeing to stand down on their side of the border, the United States, in turn, would dismantle its nuclear weapons,” Kim said.
Dang, Andy! Is that why Trump grabbed his ankles in Singapore? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From NY Times: Larry Kudlow, President Trump’s top economic adviser, suffered a heart attack on Monday evening and was at Walter Reed Medical Center, Mr. Trump said in a tweet [sphincter delinked].
Mr. Kudlow, 70, who has referred to himself as a “happy warrior” in counseling Mr. Trump on trade and economic policy, joined Mr. Trump’s team in March as the director of the National Economic Council.
“Our Great Larry Kudlow, who has been working so hard on trade and the economy, has just suffered a heart attack. He is now in Walter Reed Medical Center,” Mr. Trump tweeted, just before a meeting in Singapore with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un.
Considering that Kudlow announced that Trudeau belongs in hell, this is karma. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Cartoon:
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4:47 You’re going to make a lot of people unhappy if you eat Wishbone, you know.
WaPo – Some right wing idiot (I know, I know, tautology) was blithering that libruls WANT a thermonuclear war. Doesn’t he know all the libruls live in cities that would be the first to be taken out? Suicide bombers are in the right wing only. Liberals are smarter than that.
TNY – He’d be better qualified than, say, Bolton. Or Nigel Farage.
NYT – It was a “very mild” attack,” so he won’t be visiting his very own special place in hell
soon enoughany time soon.Cartoon – That’s not an interracial marriage. Both the bride and the groom belong to the Human Race. An interracial marriage would be, say, if you married an insect. Or possibly a lamppost.
Based on your definition of interracial, Melania, Marla Maples, and Ivana Trump all had interracial marriages with Drumpf! I find that funny given Drumpf’s propensity for bigotry.
I assume you are seeing him as an insect because he is too toxic to be a lamppost?
A cockroach!!!
VERY appropriate. Since the words Dickroach and Prickroach don’t exist. Yet.
WP: I do not trust either of them. Kim nor dt. “And..generally countries do not give up nuclear weapons that they have developed themselves.”
NYer: Don’t forget to call dt ahead of time, though. Can this be done in one hour increments? You know how tired dt gets after working SO hard every day. LOL, Andy.
NYT: Karma indeed.
Cartoon: What Joanne said. Word !
Hope you have a relaxing evening, take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
I’m not sure which creep I trust less – Kim or Trump.
I might be able to help you out in that regard.
One of them is an evil, fat, immature, petulant childish fascist who inherited his position in life from his equally brutally vile father, and who is more than willing to lie and cheat solely to advance his own interests …
And the other one is Kim Jong Un
Did anyone else have to re-enter their name and email address today in order to comment?
Or just me?
That has happened to me on several occasions. I see my information as it should be some I write my comment. Each time I lost my comment. It really pissed me off!
Not today, and not often, but it has happened. I have the “keep me logged in” box checked of course. but there may be some time limit in my computer’s settings that I don’t know about (or in WordPress’s settings.)
I do notice that if I log into PP on my laptop, that when I come back to the desktop it generally makes me log in on it also. I think that’s a good thing.
If staff members log in before commenting, that should never happen.
WaPoCh: Failed because NK had no interest in de-nuclearizing. What we had in Singapore was Dumpy spending much taxpayer money to get a photo op!
New Yorker: Kim would have to do some serious magic, because once Dumpy gets a grudge, it lasts forever!
NYT: I believe it was Justin Navarro who made that imbecilic comment about Trudeau.
‘Toon: 1967 was one hell of a great year!
Sorry, that should be Peter Navarro.
Mitch, you are correct — it was Peter Navarro who said “there was a special place in hell for Justin Trudeau”. Kudlow said, as reported in Business Insider “Trudeau “stabbed us in the back” and “did a great disservice to the whole G7” with his “amateur political stunt”.”
Puzzle — 3:46 Just remember Puddy Tat, karma is a bitch!
WaPo — I’ll bet that Drumpf will have crowd envy if he sees that picture. He’s likely to think that that is his inauguration crowd. He wishes! Drumpf nor Kim can be trusted. Drumpf has said several times that he wants to increase weapons. Perhaps he should agree to reduce the US supply of nuclear weapons as a show of good faith so Kim would sign on. I know! I know! There’s not a chance that will ever happen.
The New Yorker — LMAO!!! We (Canada) don’t have nuclear weapons (Metro Vancouver has been a nuclear weapons free zone for years) but we are damn good at shooting frozen hockey pucks! Just don’t take our hockey sticks away!
NY Times — I don’t wish ill on anyone, but I think karma proved to be a bitch for Kudlow. Actually, Mitch is correct — it was Peter Navarro who said “there was a special place in hell for Justin Trudeau”. Kudlow said, as reported in Business Insider “Trudeau “stabbed us in the back” and “did a great disservice to the whole G7” with his “amateur political stunt”.”
I love Trudeau’s response:
Drumpf for his part called Trudeau “dishonest and weak”. Projection? I think so.
Trudeau has not commented publicly on the comments made by Navarro, Kudlow and Drumpf nor has he accepted Navarro’s apology, such that it was. Some would love him to go to the attack but he has stated that he is focused on the trade issues.
So, how many children were in attendance at the G7 Sommet???
Cartoon — 1967 was a very good year — Expo 67 which I did not get to see because I came west for the first time on a DC-8 (first plane ride!) to visit my grandparents and see the Pacific Ocean. That was a time when SCOTUS was actually SCOTUS and did not suffer with SCROTUS like today.
The real reason he went to N.K.; ?
OMG! I trust you don’t mind my changing it from a link to an embed, it’s way too good to miss (facepalms and all.)
WP: I’ve got to admit it’s a historic feat: the two most untrustworthy people in the world trying to con the world into believing they’ve clinched the deal of the century.
TNY: Great parody, Andy. Translated to from US-NK to US-Canada it becomes brilliantly clear how empty the deal is.
NYT: What goes around comes around?
Hope you manage to stay cool, TomCat.
Thanks all. Tired Hugs!