It’s a slow news day, here in the CatBox, and most of what is happening is just more of the SOS. In addition, I’m feeling tired and sluggish, so I’m taking a partial day off, and this is today’s only article.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:27 (average 3:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
I was one of them.
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Vox Channel): The problem with the endangered species list
With Republicans in charge, all species are endangered, including us. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Arlo Guthrie – City of New Orleans
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
From NY Times: Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants more than control over a wide swath of Syria along his country’s border. He says he wants the Bomb.
In the weeks leading up to his order to launch the military across the border to clear Kurdish areas, Mr. Erdogan made no secret of his larger ambition. “Some countries have missiles with nuclear warheads,” he told a meeting of his governing party in September. But the West insists “we can’t have them,” he said. “This, I cannot accept.”
With Turkey now in open confrontation with its NATO allies, having gambled and won a bet that it could conduct a military incursion into Syria and get away with it, Mr. Erdogan’s threat takes on new meaning. If the United States could not prevent the Turkish leader from routing its Kurdish allies, how can it stop him from building a nuclear weapon or following Iran in gathering the technology to do so?
The US has 50 nuclear weapons in Turkey. The USAF should remove them from Incirlik Air Base in Turkey and not notify Trump of their intent to do so, Otherwise Erdogan [R-TU] might go to Putin [R-RU] and ask him to order Trump to hand them over. RESIST!!
Vote Blue!!
