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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