My AC is off. My window is open. I feel comfortable! Wooo Hooo!! Wendy is due momentarily, so I’ll be brief, as I have a lot to get done, before I meditate on the holy Ellipsoid Orb.
Later: Wendy just left, we got everything done, and my AC is still off!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:37 (average 6:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MoveOn Chapter): Under Attack
Don’t let the Republican Reich steal their future. RESIST!!
From Business Insider: FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly obtained a search warrant for records of the "inauthentic" accounts Facebook shut down earlier this month and the targeted ads these accounts purchased during the 2016 election.
The warrant was first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal on Friday night and the news was later confirmed by CNN.
Legal experts say the revelation has enormous implications for the trajectory of Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s election interference, and whether Moscow had any help from President Donald Trump’s campaign team.
"This is big news — and potentially bad news for the Russian election interference ‘deniers,’" said Asha Rangappa, a former FBI counterintelligence agent.
Rangappa, now an associate dean at Yale Law School, explained that to obtain a search warrant a prosecutor needs to prove to a judge that there is reason to believe a crime has been committed. The prosecutor then has to show that the information being sought will provide evidence of that crime.
Tick… tick… tick… RESIST!!
From Daily Kos:
This will not shock you. House Republicans are advancing legislation, H.R. 620, the so-called ADA Education and Reform Act of 201, that would gut the landmark law that has allowed millions of Americans to participate in public life. The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law more than a quarter of a century ago, and has revolutionized life for many disabled Americans.
However, the job isn’t done and many more still face insurmountable barriers when it comes to accessing private businesses. Now Republicans are trying to push a change in favor of those businesses, putting the onus on their would-be customers to force them to comply with the law.
H.R. 620 would completely change the way in which a business is required to comply with the ADA. Instead of requiring that a business comply proactively, the bill would place the burden on the individual who is being denied access. This bill proposes that after an individual with a disability is denied access she must first notify the business owner, with exacting specificity, that her civil rights were violated, and then wait for six months to see if the business will make “substantial progress” toward access, before going to a court to order compliance.
As one confined to a wheelchair, I often have difficulty getting through doors, navigating aisles that are too narrow, using restrooms without rails, encountering crosswalks without curb ramps, etc. If I had to wait for six months, just to see if I had access to a business, I’d be inclined to bitch, go elsewhere, and not go through all the hassle of following up. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
I made this cartoon in 9/2011. Was I prophetic or what?
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MOC: Yes, we need a Dream Act by Congress, and let’s keep these folks here!!
BI: I read about this!! last night. WOW! Mueller is doing such a good job, isn’t he?
DK: Dreadful, and shamefull!! This will effect many folks. Greg Abbott, are YOU listening?!?!!!?
Cartoon: Word.
Hope that your good weather continues. Enjoy your game, and have a relaxing evening. Thanks, Tom.
4:03 Hooray for Scotland! The Scots know a Cheeto-faced ferret-wearing shitgibbon when they see one!
Broncos looking good at halftime. Hope they hold!
YT/MO I’m surely glad MoveOn is on this. There are, I believe , multiple petitions on passing a clean Dream Act. “Clean” is important.
BI – Bad news for traitors. Good news for pattriots. (I assume everyone knew Mueller would be all over this as soon as the first hints broke.)
DKos – Yeah, I use a wheelchair too (mine is manual, and also wider than the reguar adult size). I don’t always use it – where there is a motorized cart available at a store, I use that – but when I do, I often encounter skinny doors. I wouldn’t hang around for six months waiting either.
Cartoon – You were indeed prophetic. They were around then, mostly at clinics IIRC – but they have certainly come out of the woodwork now!
YT/MO: Under Attack: More heartless, compassion lacking GOPig legislators pushing their ignorance, idiocy, and not realizing that to kick these people out, or their parents, is a way to develop future haters of the U.S.!
BI: C’mon Bobby, nail these bastards!
DK: More, maybe the same, heartless, compassion lacking GOPig legislators pushing their idiocy. Once again, this is the kind of thing that makes me wish that the concept of Karma were real!
‘Toon: The bible thumpers will not need guns, if Rumpy continues to be able to help them ensconce themselves within the judicial and legislative branches, to say nothing about heads of federal departments! The Evangelicals will replace the Confederate statues with ones honoring Thomas de Torquemada!
The news about HR 620 got me so pissed that I made this petition:
Oppose HR 620, Which Guts the ADA
Thanks for the petition, Freya. I signed.
Me too. Thanks.
Me Three! Thanks!
Me four! . . . last night.
MO: How are people ever going to trust their government again if the information they provided in good faith is now going to be used against them, the dreamers, and their parents? No wonder people are turning away from government, politics and any information gathering such as a census. RESIST.
BI: Mueller has progressed to search warrants validated by a judge. That is good news. It seems to indicate that the net is closing, but at the same time Mueller’s ever broadening field of inquiry makes the net grow bigger and bigger, and the case more complicated. Muller is obviously leaving no stone unturned, but if he’s turning every stone in the Rockies he’ll never finish and some stones may get lost or covered again. Hurry up, Mueller.
DK: I’m afraid business owners are looking ahead, TomCat, and have noted that the disabled are targeted for a lot of cuts in healthcare by this Republican government and will soon have no money left to spend. So the disabled are a group of customers not worthwhile investing in, especially not in silly things like ADA, aren’t they. So get rid of it. And then you can count on it that polling stations and post offices and the like soon not need to comply with ADA either. You can see where this is going, can’t you…
Cartoon: too true.
I don’t think I’ve ever hear of anyone that happy with an AC turned off, TomCat, but I’m very happy for you too. I hope you can get al the rest you need now.
Get used to a cool kitty!
Puzzle — 5:50 I ken I am not a bairn of Scotland.
Move On — Keep the Dreamers! Deport Drumpf and the Republicans! I sign every petition I find.
Business Insider — I hear the stirrings of a KABOOM aimed at Drumpf, his campaign and his administration. Music to my ears!
Daily Kos — This is absolutely disgusting! Rights for people with disabilities are human rights. When it comes to human rights, the US, for all its protestations to the contrary, is not as strong on human rights as it professes. In this piece from the Carter Center, Jimmy Carter lays out the timeline for the ratification for the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It took the US more than 20 years! So to hear that the Drumpf administration and the Congress are trying to gut the ADA does not surprise me.
Cartoon — Prophetic indeed! Did you imagine in 2011 it would be as bad as it is these days?
Resist, Persist and Remove!!!
No. Today’s Republicans are more deplorable than my wildest fantasies.
Freya’s Petition above signed!
MoveOn petition per video signed:Pass a clean Dream Act nowPetition statement to be delivered to The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/pass-the-dream-act-now?source=mo.vl
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Been there. Signed that. Thanks!
Done Jim! Thanks
Unbelievable and unbearable is all I can say on the ADA law they are proposing! And these guys are SUPPOSED to be the party of Jesus and all that kinda stuff! I don’t see how ANY of the proposed changes have ANYTHING to do with “do unto others”!
And the Mueller is getting closer to the bone! Pretty soon, we will be gnawing on the bones of the gop! I can’t wait!
Had an ok day with the Ellipsoid Orb! We’ll see what I gotta trade next! Hope your game went FANTASTIC!
Thanks all! Hugs!