It’s a lazy holiday here in the CatBox.  I expect to be in the saddle all week until Sunday.  If you are in Dorian’s path, and if you are not a Republican, please move.  Holiday Hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:33 (average 5:47).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Fantasy Football Report:

Pam informed me that she is unable to play this year, so I went in and emptied her team to make her players available.  Players, when you play End the GOP this year, you will have an automatic win.  Don’t forget to set your starting lineup, in time for the Thursday night game.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Hurricane Dorian Makes Landfall In Bahamas As ‘Catastrophic’ Category 5

The Bahamas should blame Trump. Dorian may have turned north to go after Trump in Camp David. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): Full Frontal Rewind: Climate Change

Republicans are bringing us Republifires, Repulicanes, Republifloods, Republinados, Republidemics, and more. No wonder Sam is scared shitless. We should be too. RESIST!!

From Alternet: The Odessa, Texas mass shooter was accused of threatening his neighbor last month with a rifle.

According to a CNN report, Veronica Alonzo said that the 36-year-old gunman, who killed seven people and injured 22, would frequently shoot out of a structure on top of his house.

The shooter was angry with Alonzo for putting her trash in one of his dumpsters. He threatened her with his rifle, she said.

She explained that he would often shoot at animals in his yard and retrieve them after they were dead.

He must have been a Trump supporter. He was violent nut case, just like his Fuhrer, and he liked to kill animals for fun.  You can be sure that Ammosexual Abbot [R-TX] will not even reprimand the police over their failure to take Seth Ator’s guns, after his first violent offense. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

It’s a busy day here in the shiny new CatBox and the last day of my first month living here.  This is today’s only article, because the PP fantasy football league is drafting today.  Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow, because it’s a busy WWWendy day.  Weekend Hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:31 (Average 5:16).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): What Is Vladimir Putin Up To Now?

Vladimir Putin [R-RU] loves to make extreme bellicose moves, because the more jealous Widdle Donnie Piddle Top is, the more deferential to Daddy Vladdy he becomes. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): WHO’LL STOP THEIR REIGN?

Amen Don! The reign of Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten, Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch, and their Republican Reich must be stopped! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Beatles – A Day In The Life

Ah… The memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

It’s overcast and muggy here at the shiny new CatBox with high forecast in the low 80°s.  Store to Door will be delivering groceries later.  I was up late due to the heat and feel tired.  Hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:46 (average 4:31).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Hayes: Directing Someone Explicitly To Break The Law Is An Impeachable Offense

It appears that Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten will continue to commit more and more egregious crimes until he is removed from power. And Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch is in his pocket. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): Full Frontal Rewind: Trump’s Henchmen Pt. 2

Faux Noise, Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch, and all the rest, What a criminal cavalcade! RESIST!!

From Washington Post: The Environmental Protection Agency is set to announce Thursday that it will loosen federal rules on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas linked to climate change, according to two senior administration officials.

The proposed rule will reverse standards enacted under former president Barack Obama that require oil and gas operations to install controls on their operations to curb the release of methane at the well head and in their transmission equipment, including pipelines, processing and storage facilities.

And here is the greatest source of methane in the US

RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

I doubt that I can finish and put this up before the power chair repair tech arrives.  If I can I will.  The high today is forecast at 97°, a record for this date.  This will be my only article today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:06 (average 4:09. To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Fantasy Football Reminder:

The draft for our fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends, is scheduled for this Saturday, Aug 31, at 10 AM PDT, 11 AM MDT, 12 Noon CDT, 1 PM EDT.  Please be there, Squatch, Patty Monster, Vivian, Pam, and Wendy! Hugs!!

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Trump An Incoherent Spectacle At G7; W.H. Struggles To Clean Up

The Danish Parliamentarian was far more deferential than the Fart-face Fuhrer deserves. He could not have second thoughts about everything, until he has a first thought about anything. For Republican staffers, a BS in Bullshitology is no longer enough. They need a PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper). RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: The Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, tore into the media on Thursday for what he called its “extremely unfair practice” of reporting the things he says.

“I’ll say something at a rally and I look out and see all these TV cameras taking every word down,” Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “No one in politics has ever been subjected to this kind of treatment.”

“It’s unbelievable and, frankly, very unethical,” he added.

Dang, Andy! Straight news again!  RESIST!!

From Alternet: Bethany Milton spent 11 years working for the U.S. federal government as a consular officer in the Foreign Service. But in an op-ed for the New York Times, Milton explains that this summer, she finally decided to leave the State Department — and the straw that broke the camel’s back was hearing supporters of President Donald Trump chanting, “Send her back, send her back” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar during a recent rally.

“When President Trump’s supporters chanted, ‘Send her back!,’ I took that as a charge for me as well,” Milton asserts. “I asked the Trump Administration to send me back from my overseas posting, shipping home the family, foreign language textbooks and various tchotchkes from ‘shithole countries’ that I’ve collected in my years as a United States diplomat. I am joining a growing list of Foreign Service officers who refuse to serve this administration any longer.”

Milton, in her op-ed, explains that she has a long resumé with the federal government. From 2014-2016, for example, she “oversaw immigrant visa processing at the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai, India” — and she “oversaw immigrant visa operations in Kigali, Rwanda, from 2018 to 2019.”

Milton recalls that when she joined the U.S. State Department in 2008, she sat through some presentations as part of her orientation. And in one of them, she was told, “The day you can no longer publicly support your administration’s policies is the day you need to resign.” And for Milton, she writes in her op-ed, that day came when she found the “Send her back, send her back” chants intolerable.

Kudos to Milton, and to all public servants, who have determined that keeping their career is less important than maintaining their integrity by refusing to be part of a Republican Reich. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!