Here in the CatBox, the sun has hit the wall, so I buttoned-up and turned on the A/C. I decided that it’s inappropriate for me to work my ass off on Labor Day, so I decided to put off the Monthly Report until tomorrow and have an easier day today. I hope that US readers are enjoying your holiday and the rest of you are surviving Monday.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:02 (average 4:41). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (A Protest for Labor Day): Woodie Guthrie – All You Fascists are Bound to Lose
If it still fits, sing it! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From Nation of Change: A legal precedent has paved the way for Vietnam to demand Monsanto pay compensation to the many victims of Agent Orange, a chemical herbicide and defoliant used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. While previous claims said herbicides produced by Monsanto – and other companies – and used during the war were harmless, the recent guilty verdict in Monsanto vs. Dewayne Johnson refutes those claims, a spokesman for Vietnam’s foreign ministry said.
The company, now part of Bayer AG after an acquisition went through, was ordered to pay $289 million in restitution to Johnson, a former pest control manager for a California country school system, after a jury at San Francisco’s Superior Court in California ruled that Monsanto failed to warn users of it’s product about the cancer risks. Vietnam is now using this as grounds for Agent Orange victims.
I sure hope they win. It’s WAY past due. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From NY Times: Brian Kemp, the Republican running for Georgia governor, won his party’s nomination with the help of a TV ad that explicitly argued that he is not a moderate guy. Titled “So Conservative,” it portrayed Mr. Kemp as a gun-toting, “politically incorrect conservative” who would personally round up “criminal illegals” in his pickup truck.
But that was then. In his latest TV ad, playing now in the Atlanta Metro market for the November general election, Mr. Kemp, in a check-print, button-down shirt, speaks to the camera in a kindly, drawly baritone about “growing jobs, not government,” investing in education (of the locally controlled variety), and “rewarding legal — not illegal — behavior.”
Stacey should keep rubbing his nose in this! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Barf Bag Alert!!
Cartoon:
And the blessed light burst forth from the Holy Ellipsoid Orb!
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6:18 Maybe Squatch can save them.
There is a very, very funny video here, but it’s a Twitter video, so I don’t know how to embed it. Besides, the tweet that explains it adds to the humor.
Fascists – My goodness, Hannity’s hair has turned, hasn’t it! But that may not be as shocking as how some of them now appear to be rational because so many have turned up that are so much worse.
NoC – Oh please oh please oh please! Good luck to Vietnam!
NYT – Good luck to Stacey too! Which is the same as saying good luck to Georgia.
Cartoon – Ah, yes.
Brian Kemp’s ad is enough to make you vote for his opponent. Go Stacey Abrams!
YT: A good video, and song!
NoC: I too, hope that Vietnam wins this lawsuit, they certainly deserve it.
NYT: The very best to Ms. Abrams!!
Cartoon: NC TarHeels 6 – GA Bulldogs 0 *wiki
It rained this morning, yay!! Hope that you have a good relaxing evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “Man accused of threatening the Boston Globe staffers, praised Trump after making bail. G.H. imho…unreal !!
*Joanne, Thanks for the link to Randy. He’s the clear choice, and fellow Badger family members, I know, will approve this message.
YouTube: Sorry, not familiar with this song, nor with a number of faces shown, but I do get the drift. Sure hope those fascists are losing soon.
NaC: Karma has a very long memory and infinite patience.
NYT: Good to see the NYT isn’t letting Kemp get away with this ‘transformation’ either. If I were Ms. Abrams, I’d make it very clear to Kemp’s voters how little he thinks of them by assuming they will forget the first ad he made and completely accept the “new Kemp”. But I suppose most Republicans in Georgia don’t care what kind of governor they get as long as it’s a he and a Republican. Good luck to Afro-American, female, and Democrat Ms. Abrams.
Y/T: I like the music, and the message, but, damn, now I’m going to have nightmares, with those faces coming after me. Has I watched hours ago, I might’ve had indigestion.
Nation of Change: Go get those lying bastards!
NYT: May Abrams beat his ass within an inch of the Mason-Dixson Line. In Florida, the ads I saw not long ago before their primary, were about each candidate claiming to be the REAL, MOST BAD-ASS conservative. “Now, don’t you go wasting your vote on some sissy-poo conservative wanna-be, vote for me, and I’ll send all those librul, commie clowns down to Mexico, and keep ’em from gettin’ back into OUR country!”
Puzzle — 3:58 Maybe you should have laboured a little longer to get your ducks . . . er . . . should I say horsies, lined up in a row, Puddy Tat!
YouTube — Written in 1942, this song is for a different time. But it is equally applicable today! Did the human race learn nothing these past 80 years? Never mind, apparently not! Here are the words to that song for those like me who do have a bit of a hearing problem, especially with music.
I’m gonna tell all you fascists, you may be surprised
People all over this world are getting organized
You’re bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
Race hatred cannot stop us, this one thing I know
Poll tax and Jim Crow and greed have got to go
You’re bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
All you fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You’re bound to lose, you fascists
Are bound to lose
People of every color marching side by side
Marching across these fields where a million fascists died
You’re bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
All you fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You’re bound to lose, you fascists
Are bound to lose
I’m going into this battle, take my union gun
Gonna end this world of slavery before this war is won
You’re bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
All you fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You’re bound to lose, you fascists
Are bound to lose
I said, all you fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You fascists are bound to lose
You’re bound to lose, you fascists
Are bound to lose
Songwriters: BILLY BRAGG,WOODY GUTHRIE
© Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC,BMG Rights Management
For non-commercial use only.
Data From: LyricFind
Nation of Change — I remember mention of US troops on the ground and in the air complaining years ago that agent orange made them ill, but at that time, their claims were dismissed as unfounded. I hope US troops that were affected can also get their day in court now . . . if there are any still living. I wish the Vietnamese claimants well in their legal suit. Reparations are long overdue! I wonder if agent orange would be classified today as a weapon of mass destruction? It can kill . . . slowly, but it also is a defoliant and renders crop land unusable as I understand.
NY Times — Wouldn’t it be great if Stacey Abrams won in Georgia and Andrew Gillum in Florida! The red South would state to turn blue! Brian Kemp in Georgia is a load of manure!
Cartoon — Good thing for you!
Thanks all. Hugs!
You really must be hot and tired! No remark about me taking three horsies off your dinner plate!
You were right and still are.
Thanx TC ?