It’s cooler today, but it will take a couple days for the building to lose the heat.  The restrooms and hallways are still in the 80°s, and the CatBox would be too, if I didn’t keep it buttoned up and the AC on.  I’m ready for another shower, but that’s three days away.  My guy in prison, for whom I recently wrote a letter to the Parole Board, received a date and will be released in December.  I feel very proud of him. For our Pagan friends, Blessed be.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:53 (average 4:25).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

TC Controls the Seasons:

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Did President Donald Trump Executive Order Make It Worse?

It’s not news to me that Trump is a coward. Cowardice is what bullies do. Note that 11 million children still cry in misery in GOP Gulags. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: It is World Refugee Day, and President Barack Obama just posted his thoughts on the matter. It is also transcribed below…

…Today is World Refugee Day.

If you’ve been fortunate enough to have been born in America, imagine for a moment if circumstance had placed you somewhere else. Imagine if you’d been born in a country where you grew up fearing for your life, and eventually the lives of your children. A place where you finally found yourself so desperate to flee persecution, violence, and suffering that you’d be willing to travel thousands of miles under cover of darkness, enduring dangerous conditions, propelled forward by that very human impulse to create for our kids a better life.

That’s the reality for so many of the families whose plights we see and heart-rending cries we hear. And to watch those families broken apart in real time puts to us a very simple question: are we a nation that accepts the cruelty of ripping children from their parents’ arms, or are we a nation that values families, and works to keep them together? Do we look away, or do we choose to see something of ourselves and our children?

Our ability to imagine ourselves in the shoes of others, to say “there but for the grace of God go I,” is part of what makes us human. And to find a way to welcome the refugee and the immigrant – to be big enough and wise enough to uphold our laws and honor our values at the same time – is part of what makes us American. After all, almost all of us were strangers once, too. Whether our families crossed the Atlantic, the Pacific, or the Rio Grande, we’re only here because this country welcomed them in, and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, how our last names sound, or the way we worship. To be an American is to have a shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us deserve the chance to become something better.

That’s the legacy our parents and grandparents and generations before created for us, and it’s something we have to protect for the generations to come. But we have to do more than say “this isn’t who we are.” We have to prove it – through our policies, our laws, our actions, and our votes.

Amen and Kudos to Obama! Republicans celebrated World Refugee day by listening to the screams from GOP gulags for refugee children. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Raw Story: [A]n inebriated airline passenger who gave a Nazi salute and tried to strangle his flight’s pilot was jailed and made bail for the physical altercation involving multiple airline employees.

The Belfast Telegraph reported that 51-year-old Paul Anthony Burgoyne became erratic and disorderly when a flight attendant asked him to raise his window blind so the plane could take off at the Belfast International Airport earlier this year.

“All right, mein Fuhrer,” Burgoyne, originally from Northern Ireland, told the attendant before giving a Nazi salute. The captain came down during the altercation, and that’s when the passenger began yelling at the pilot, telling him he was going to punch him.

Burgoyne eventually tried to grab the pilot by the throat and missed, grabbing his collar instead.

After being ejected from the plane, the passenger attempted to commandeer a “tug vehicle” and managed to grab its wheel and joystick before being physically hauled off of it. He then tried to fight another airline employee before being arrested, and police reports indicated he was under the influence of both drugs and alcohol.

Rumor has it that this individual is being rushed through immigration to fill a high level staff position for Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Vintage 2011.  Still fits.

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!!

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The heat wave is continuing, but more recent forecasts show that it might not be quite as severe.  I’m staying hunkered down and moving as little as possible.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:28 (average 4:45).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Trey Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – Space Forcing Families Apart

Trey nailed it. White unborn children are the only ones Republicans care about! They wish they had death rays that don’t work on white people. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): The right-wing reactions to separating families at the border are atrocious

Barf Bag Alert!!

Excuse me, while I go puke! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From NY Times: President Trump said on Monday that he would direct the Pentagon to establish a sixth branch of the armed forces dedicated to protecting American interests in outer space, an idea that has troubled lawmakers and even some members of his administration, who have cautioned that the action could create unnecessary bureaucratic responsibilities for a military already burdened by conflicts.

During a speech at a meeting of the National Space Council, Mr. Trump announced plans to protect American interests in space through monitoring commercial traffic and debris, initiatives he said would be “great not only in terms of jobs and everything else, it’s great for the psyche of our country.”

Minutes later, the president zeroed in on Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and tasked him with the undertaking of creating another branch of the military.

Bend over. The Republican Reich wants to claim Uranus. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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The heat wave is upon us, with an all time record high yesterday.  So far the AC is holding it’s own.  I spent a lot of the morning doing paperwork and scheduling more medical mayhem.  The surgery to straighten my eyes is scheduled for 12/12.  Dang!  Seeing only one WWWendy will be a 50% reduction in gorgeous.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:00 (average 4:53).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Pressure Grows On President Donald Trump To Change Border Policy For Kids

Whether and how the Reich responds will depend on the balance between their hatred of poor Latino children, and their fear that the current exposure of that hatred will cost them their power. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Daily Kos Channel): "Fox & Friends" hosts defend use of cages

Barf Bag Alert!!

What Republican garbage! When families go to the checkpoints, where they are supposed to receive an amnesty interview, they are told to leave and come back when hearings officers are available. Republicans have made sure that none are ever available. After repeated attempts at legal entry, desperate families cross the border illegally.  Republicans separate the families, jail the parents,  and cage the children.  A chain link enclosure you can’t open is still a cage. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Portland Tribune: Love was the treasure at the end of every rainbow during a Sunday spectacle in Portland.

Thousands marched, pranced, danced, jiggled, giggled, swaggered, stomped, sashayed, prayed, hip-hip-hoorayed and — above all — stood tall during the 2018 Portland Pride Parade on Sunday, June 17 in downtown Portland.

I did not attended, and I go for lady cats, not other TomCats, but I’m proud of PRIDE and my LBGT friends. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

Cartoon:

The Republican Reich has abandoned and violated it.