Yesterday we set another all time record high for the date. Today is the hottest of the heat wave. Store to Door delivered my groceries, and I put them away. WWWendy has an appointment, so she’s coming to destink the TomCat a couple hours early, so I’m rushing. I hate days, when I will be sweat soaked between leaving the shower and getting to my room. Hot Hump Day Hugs!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:09 (average 5:27). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): Is there a law that requires families to be separated at the border? | Fact Checker
There is no law that requires families to be separated. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From YouTube (Vox Channel): The voices of children separated at the border
Listen to want Republicans call mud children, who Trump says infest our nation. You are hearing the sound of Republican "love" for these children. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From Alternet: In Portland, Oregon, the prison used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement is housed in a nondescript building tucked between a highway and the waterfront south of downtown. The tan three-story structure has darkened windows and no identifying marks. It’s surrounded by an 8-feet high metal fence, guarded by a security checkpoint, and cameras outside cover every angle.
Since Sunday night, dozens of protesters under the banner of #OccupyICEPDX have been maintaining a round-the-clock vigil outside the prison. They are demanding an abolition of ICE and an end to the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separating children from parents fleeing across the U.S. border from violence-ravaged countries.
On Monday ICE personnel showed up as usual to implement Trump’s deportation policies. By the end of the workday, the number of protesters swelled to about 70 and they sprang into action.
Three cars with darkened windows exited a garage and attempted to drive out the entrance. Some twenty protesters formed a line and locked arms. Staring down the drivers, “They blocked them from leaving the facility,” said Jacob Bureros, an organizer with the Direct Action Alliance.
The vehicles went back inside the ICE garage. Two officers with the Department of Homeland Security showed up to negotiate with the protesters. Jenny Nickolaus, another organizer with DAA, said a couple of dozen people engaged with the police in bulletproof vests. The two cops asked for “reasonable accommodation from the protesters.”
When asked what that meant, says Nickolaus, the DHS police pleaded with protesters “to allow nine ICE employees stuck inside to be able to ‘to go home to their families.’”
Kudos to the protestors for showing ICE Republicans the meaning of family separation! Oregon leads the way! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Cartoon:
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5:14 decisions, decisions. Salad or fish?
Fact check – I knew that from reading, but this is nice and clear.
Vox – I’d been avoiding listening to it – my eyes are wet enough and my throat is sore enough just from the facts. I could only listen so long. If I heard that jerk who said “We have an orchestra, all we need is a conductor,” I think I would go ballistic. I made a bunch of graphics with children yesterday, and I pray that I will not be using all of them back to back. But …
Portland – Oregon leads the way here. You must be proud, and rightly so. Can you imagine the chutzpah of cops telling them to let the poor ICE people go home to their families? Grrrrrrr.
Cartoon – I have mixed feelings. Unions are good, and even big unions are good, but the sheer size of the AFL-CIO gave Republicans a wedge to declare unions corrupt, and that hurt. I don’t know what the answer is.
Got a call from Carrie B who is unpacking (and may still be doing so this time next year) but says hi to all and especially to TC and hopes your health is good and getting better.
WPC: This is sickening and heartbreaking. They’re lying, they know it, and we do too.
Vox: I heard a few seconds last night, and I got choked up. Hurts my heart.
AN: Imagine that. Wanted to go home to their families..do they know how THAT feels not to? ugh.
Cartoon: The AFL and the CIO merged after a long estrangement. Membership in the union peaked in 1979, when the AFL-CIO had nearly twenty million members. *wiki
It’s raining again. lol Hi Wendy. Hope that you have a good rest of your day, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
I’m very short on time today, so I’ll skip right to our eight o’clock the news here which said that Drumpf is changing his mind. After blaming everything on the Democrats as he has consistently don these past days, he said he would “soon” sign decree ordering that children would no longer be separated from their parents, because this inhuman Democratic law needed to come to an end, but wouldn’t say what that would look like. Our newsreader immediately remarked that if the children would be incarcerated with their parents, that would be just the next human rights violation.
We’ll have to wait and see; Drumpf has promised al kinds of actions somewhere “in the near future” which never came to be. Perhaps he’s just trying to force Republican’s hand.
Alternet: Asking demonstrators against these cruel policies to let the ICE employees to go home to their families is pathetically naive and shows how large the gap between Drumpf’s reality and that of the majority of Americans has become. The DHS police was absolutely clueless.
Yup. That is exactly the next human rights violation.
Separating children from their parents so suddenly is horrifically traumatic. Many, if not all, of those children are already scarred for life. I read somewhere that some uruk-hai Border Patrol agent referred to their crying as a “symphony.” What a slime! It is a symphony of unbearable pain.
Good for those protesters, not only daring to expose the “black” facility but also behaving themselves.
Yep, definitely a bad day for the GOP. Just about any day that’s bad for the GOP, especially these days, is good for the rest of us.
Alternet: We did it again TC: http://www.care2.com/news/member/565542931/4108399
WP: Simply more lies, just as any dictator worth his/her salt would engage in!
VC: TRAUMA, TRAUMA AND MORE TRAUMA is what we are inflicting on all of these people. They have come here because the U.S.A. USED TO BE great, had a stellar reputation for being humane to the disenfranchised: “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.” Emma Lazarus knew what it meant for America to be great!!!!!!!! I tear up just reading that line, under the present circumstances!
This is why Rachel Maddow broke down on TV. Because Trump is causing trauma, is perpetrating crimes against the most vulnerable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Indeed we did. ?
WaPo — “There is no law that requires families to be separated.” — Of course there isn’t. Separation is just another Drumpf alternate fact aka a big lie . . . a real WHOPPER (not the Burger King kind!) I was watching an segment of TRMS on an MSN feed Tuesday when another video loaded, a video about the reasoning behind the separations. I was gobsmacked when it was announced that the separations were part of an orchestrated plan, a political stunt by the Drumpf régime. This morning, AlterNet has this article which corroborates what I initially saw on the video:
Now who is playing political games??? Not the Democrats as Drumpf says.
LOCK HIM UP!!! LOCK HIM UP!!! LOCK HIM UP!!! LOCK HIM UP!!! LOCK HIM UP!!! LOCK HIM UP!!!
Vox — The voices of innocence being used in political games by Drumpf and Republicans. I’ll say what I’ve been thinking . . . there is a special place in hell for Drumpf and his régime for using the innocent in a political game!
AlterNet — There was video of a protest going on in Ohio at the office of Rob Portman (R) by 3 women, all mothers. A 4th woman was arrested before getting into the building, and the other 3 were arrested shortly after which in the video I saw, they were prepared for and expected.
This act of civil disobedience, which in my view should be called moral obedience, along with the protests in Oregon and elsewhere should be lauded.
So this is how the US nazi (Republican) party acts . . . stifling dissent, condemning innocent children, and on and on. There is no morality for winning at any price! As I said above, there is a special place in hell for Drumpf and his régime for using the innocent in a political game!
LOCK THEM UP!!! LOCK THEM UP!!! LOCK THEM UP!!! LOCK THEM UP!!! LOCK THEM UP!!!
Cartoon — I have never been a union person, however they have been very beneficial for workers and thus consumers.
A long and tiring day yesterday for me. It started just after midnight with my neighbour and her 13 year old daughter screaming at each other. I went over to make sure nobody was dead yet, although the daughter did assault her mother. What a mess!!! It continued after I left. At 2:30 there was a police car in front of my place, I am assuming someone else called police on the mother/daughter. This has been an ongoing battle for several years. Both need counselling and an intervention by professionals. I finally got some sleep about 4:00 but then had to be up for physio. By the time I got home after teaching, to say I was wasted is an understatement. To boot, it was hot and muggy. Today is cloudy so I hope it will be less muggy and not hot. We’ll see.
It seems that care2.com, msn news feed, my email, jigzone and Lord knows what else will not load today . . . on e or on google chrome. I’ll have to try again later to post comments to care2.
Because multiple locations are involved, it sounds like your DNS is messed up again:
https://windowsreport.com/dns-issues-windows-10/
OK, problem fixed, I think. I just unplugged the router for 5 minutes and I am back in operation! One nice thing about Telus, I now have a dedicated tech support person, although I did not consult him this time.
Puzzle — 3:58 No fishies, no salad, no nothing for you Puddy Tat!
It should be much cooler.
Thanks all. Hugs!