I slept a little better last night.  I’ll be leaving for my appointment with my friend in about 90 min.  It will be mostly social, but it’s mice to get away from the CatBox for a few hours, even if it is shiny and new.  This is my only article today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:57 (average 5:48).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: The Myth of the Rugged Individual

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, sells “pie in the sky” dreams based on lies. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): ‘This Sucking Moral Vacuum At The Top Of The Country’

There’s no vacuum.  The space is packed full of immorality.  It won’t happen, boy wouldn’t you love to see that hatemonger run out of town covered in tar and feathers? RESIST!!

From AlterNet: Progressive activists and groups praised two House Democrats Tuesday for formally requesting that the National Archives and Records Administration release records related to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s service in the George W. Bush White House which were not part of Kavanaugh’s Senate confirmation process last year.

“This is big,” Brian Fallon, executive director of the advocacy group Demand Justice, tweeted Tuesday. In a statement, he added that “this is a critical first step in conducting the real investigation of Brett Kavanaugh that Senate Republicans prevented from happening.”

Despite credible allegations of past sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh and concerns about how the judge’s far-right views on various issues could shape the country’s future laws, he was narrowly confirmed to the high court by the Republican-held Senate in October, following what critics called a “sham confirmation process.”

Good deal! Impeach Injustice Pervert Kava-Nazi. RESIST!!

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It’s another tired day here in the CatBox.  I woke up and could not get back to sleep.  Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2.  I have a meeting with a prison volunteer friend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:10 (average 5:06).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): White Nationalist Domestic Terror Reaches Crisis Point For U.S.

These murders should be called Republican White Nationalist Domestic Terror, because Republicans are the ones who aid and abet the hatred that gives rise to them. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): How Fox pushed the white supremacist “replacement” conspiracy theory

Barf Bag Alert!!

This is pure bullshit, as the path to citizenship is long and hard. But what else could we expect from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise? RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: There is a “significant link” between gun violence and cowardly politicians, a new study from the University of Minnesota asserts.

The study, which is raising eyebrows with its startling conclusions, finds that the most reliable predictor of gun violence is the “prevalence of quiveringly fearful politicians in positions of power.”…

…While the study’s authors paint a bleak picture of nations with “coward-rich” leadership, they offer a recommendation to remedy this dire state of affairs.

“While censoring movies or video games would have no measurable effect on gun violence, major strides can be made by replacing cowards in government with non-cowards,” the study suggests, noting that this theory could be tested as early as 2020.

Dang Andy! Who could have ever guessed? RESIST!!

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It’s a scorcher here in the shiny new CatBox, with 94° forecast.  With the big A/C it’s hard to finds a balance, because the big windows conduct a lot of heat when the PM sun hits.  I have to cover half the vents to keep it blowing on me at the computer (see pic). I should be in the saddle until Wed.  OGIM!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:29 (average 6:44).  To do it, click here). How did you do?

Where I spend most of my time:

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Castro: NRA’s answer is more guns, but think about this

Before they became a front for the gun Industry, I was as NRA Sharpshooter with Nine Bars. I left, but I’m not against guns. I am against Republican Ammosexuals, who commit mass shootings, and the Republican politicians that help them! Support gun licensing! RESIST!!

From CNBC:

U.S. cybersecurity company Cloudflare said on Monday it was terminating services to online message board 8chan after the suspected gunman in the weekend’s El Paso shooting appeared to have used the website before he went on a rampage.

“We just sent notice that we are terminating 8chan as a customer effective at midnight tonight Pacific Time,” Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, wrote in a blog post.

On Saturday, a suspected shooter was said to have posted an anti-immigrant and anti-government screed on the forum before opening fire at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, which left at least 20 people dead and another 26 wounded.

His post was deleted from one of 8chan’s forums after the shooting started, but forum users archived the document, which contained a link to a PDF version, NBC News reported.

The suspect, identified as 21-year-old Patrick Wood Crusius, cited in his note that the gunman who killed 51 people at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March was an inspiration, according to NBC News.

That begs this question: why in hell didn’t Cloudflare refuse to do business with 8chan Republican Nazi terrorists to begin with? RESIST!!

From Alternet: 5. Trump’s 2019 budget cut funds to state background check systems.

Trump has said that he wanted to help improve background checks, but it seems he doesn’t want it bad enough to pay for the cost. In Feb. 2018, the White House released its budget proposal, which called for a $12 million cut to funds given to states to update their background check database. Just two days later, a gunman opened fire on the students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 17 people.

The gun lobby spent more than $55 million to elect Donald Trump and NRA allies in Congress in 2016, Everytown for Gun Safety reported prior to the mid-term election in 2018.

This is the fifth of five things Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten has done to make gun violence worse. Click through for the other four. RESIST!!

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