It’s a very busy day here in the CatBox.  It’s the last day of the heat wave with 92° and 83% humidity.  As soon as I finished my morning research I opened my email and found a note from Nameless requesting sole squatting privileges on the topic he plans for Friday Fun.  So I deferred and discarded today’s first Short Take, but I did save my comment to use on hid article.  I found an excellent piece to plug in as today’s third Short Take, and you can thank Nameless that I found it.  Nevertheless, I’m running late.  In addition, today is grocery delivery day, and I get to stow the order.  Also today is a High Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  It’s the Day of Blessed Return.  After long months of darkness, the blessed Orb rises once again to shine it’s divine light upon the earth.  The Packers travel to Soldier Field to meditate with the Bears.  The Vegas line favors the Bears by three, if they aren’t too busy doing what Bears do in the woods.  May the Holy Ellipsoid Orb shine its blessed light on you all.  I shall be meditating this evening.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:06 (average 4:46).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From YouTube (CNN Channel): Elizabeth Warren: Where Trump is right now is a nightmare

“Life on earth is at risk!” Amen to that and everything else Liz said. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Americans were shocked on Tuesday by the spectacle of a legislative body appearing to take action.

Across the U.S., television viewers watched with mouths agape at startling images of legislators seemingly intent on performing their constitutional duties.

Adding to Americans’ sense of astonishment, the legislators showed evidence of putting their country before party in an effort to rein in the actions of a reckless leader who had not garnered the majority of his nation’s votes.

Andy, do you think poor Boris might have succeeded , if he had Barrf in his corner? RESIST!!

From Exposed by CMD: Convention of States Action (COS) kicked off its first “Leadership Summit” [Republican fascists delinked] in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia today. COS, a project of Mark Meckler and Eric O’Keefe’s Citizens for Self-Governance, claims that “hundreds” of activists, state directors, and coordinators from all 50 states will attend to get inspired and learn strategies for passing COS resolutions in the states calling for a constitutional convention to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.

Fifteen states have passed the group’s applications so far, with 17 more states considering the resolution this year, according to COS. Wisconsin recently introduced a COS resolution, which would bump the number up to 18.

A constitutional convention has never been held since the Constitution was adopted, and COS will need 34 states to file applications in order for it to occur. If that happens, COS plans to move an array of sweeping amendments to redefine key parts of the Constitution and radically weaken the federal government.

COS has ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), the National Rifle Association, the right-wing militia group Three Percenters, and the Christian nationalist group WallBuilders.

More than 200 civil rights and public interest groups, including the Center for Media and Democracy (CMD), signed a letter last year denouncing such constitutional convention calls as “a threat to every American’s constitutional rights and civil liberties.”

Click through for a speakers list and more. There is nothing the Republican Reich want’s more than to rewrite the Constitution and make the racist Republican Reich a permanent Nazi dictatorship. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

I don’t know why, but something woke me up last night, and I could not get back to sleep.  I feel very tired.  Monday on Tuesday hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:37 (average 4:41).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: The 5 Biggest Corporate Lies About Unions

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. Support labor! The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich and their super-rich corporate enablers, use the Pinocchio Principle to screw YOU for THEIR benefit. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Daily Kos Channel): Making Progress with Sara Nelson

She has some good ideas. Nay they fly high! RESIST!!

From Alternet: Since the FCC shockingly did the right thing last year, preventing Sinclair Broadcasting from taking over Tribune Media and with it control over the local broadcast airwaves reaching 72% of the nation’s households, the broadcaster has sort of flown under the radar. That doesn’t mean it’s not competing with Fox News to be Trump’s favorite propaganda machine, however.

Media Matters has detailed another “must-run” commentary, one of those segments Sinclair requires all of its stations to air. This one came in mid-August in response to ongoing pressure for Congress to do something, anything, about gun violence, after more than 30 people were killed in less than 24 hours in two mass shooting incidents, in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. It was another segment from chief political commentator Boris Epshteyn, coming straight out of the 1990s. In it, Epshteyn argued that children must not be exposed to the “gratuitous violence” of video games and movies, and that the “impact of violent media on the psyche of our youth” has to be a part of preventing mass shootings. Media Matters found that the segment has aired on at least 28 stations in 26 states. One of the cities it aired in: El Paso. There is zero evidence that video games or movies have anything to do with gun massacres. As opposed to, you know, guns.

August was chock-full of Sinclair spewing conservative gun nonsense into viewers’ homes, including another must-run segment from Epshteyn in which he called for “giving heavy consideration to mandating armed guards in schools.” Sebastian Gorka appeared earlier in the month on the weekly Sinclair show America This Week, on which he compared gun regulation to the Holocaust, because of course he did. And a gun violence “researcher” called John Lott appeared on a Sinclair station right after the shootings to lie about the one in El Paso, saying it occurred in a gun-free zone where “the victims weren’t allowed to defend themselves.”

Do you have a Sinclair station locally? Find out here. Boycott their news advertisers, and tell those advertisers why. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

It’s a sleepy day, here at the CatBox. n In fact I overslept.  WWWendy should be here in less than half an hour.  The draft went well for me yesterday.  The site rated me at A-, best in our league.  The first game is Thursday night, so players, set you lineups for week 1.  This is my only article today.  Holy Ellipsoid Orb hugs to all.  WWWendy just left (12:30).  I took the time to help her set her team for Thursday, but have had no time to do mine.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:34 (average 4:55).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From YouTube (a blast from the past): 1963 TV Concert: ‘It’s The Beatles’ Live

From the first minute of the first time I heard the first song, I was hooked. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

It’s a hectic day, here in the shiny new CatBox.  I had a difficult time finding stories to cover.  Most of the media is in holiday-weekend dead time.  Please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread tomorrow and Sunday.  Tomorrow is our fantasy football league draft, and Sunday is a WWWendy day with lots to do.  If you’re traveling, please stay safe, and TGIF hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:07 (average 5:45).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From YouTube (Adam Schiff Channel): Rep Schiff on ABC 7: Congress Will Find Out if Trump is Financially Beholden to Russia

I’m all for “finding out”, since we already know that he is Putin’s Puppet. Then what are you going to do about it? RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Del Shannon – Runaway

This is one of the first songs I learned to play on the guitar. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: There’s a lot that this administration has done that’s gobsmackingly heinous, but this is extreme. A new memo posted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Wednesday declares that children born overseas to U.S. military members and government employees won’t be automatically considered citizens.

Yes, people serving their country overseas, including in the military and in the diplomatic corps and every other foreign posting, will have to apply for citizenship for any of their children born outside of the U.S., starting Oct. 29. The memo says the USCIS is changing the definition of “residing in the United States” to mean being born in the U.S., disqualifying children born to U.S. citizens at overseas military bases or diplomatic facilities. Parents are going to have to prove their citizenship and residency in order to pass it on to their children.

Way to support the troops, Trump.

To Republicans, our troops are just cannon-fodder.  Real support for then comes only from Democrats. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!