WWWendy should be here in less than a half hour to de-stink the TomCat and help with chores, so I’ll have to finish after she leaves. In the meantime, I’m hurrying.
WWWendy just left. I fed her BBQ ribs. They were messy, but 
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Jig Zone Puzzle:
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Short Takes:
From The Verge: Facebook has been collecting call records and SMS data from Android devices for years. Several Twitter users have reported finding months or years of call history data in their downloadable Facebook data file. A number of Facebook users have been spooked by the recent Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, prompting them to download all the data that Facebook stores on their account. The results have been alarming for some.
“Oh wow my deleted Facebook Zip file contains info on every single phone cellphone call and text I made for about a year,” says Twitter user Mat Johnson. Another, Dylan McKay, says “somehow it has my entire call history with my partner’s mum.” Others have found a similar pattern where it appears close contacts, like family members, are the only ones tracked in Facebook’s call records.
With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. UNPLUG!! RESIST!!
From Nation of Change: According to a new study, the large accumulation of ocean trash in the Pacific Ocean known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch has rapidly grown to twice the size of Texas. Composed of garbage, abandoned fishing gear, and nearly 80,000 metric tons of plastic, the floating isle of trash has expanded up to 16 times larger than expected. [emphasis added]
Let’s relocate the entire Republican Party there. RESIST!!
From Huffington Post: President Donald Trump announced Friday that he’s sticking to his ban on transgender people in the military, even though the Pentagon showed little enthusiasm for the proposal.
In a memo released Friday night, the White House said that transgender individuals are “disqualified from military service except under limited circumstances.” The full ban was set to officially take effect Friday, though a pair of federal courts in December ordered the U.S. military to allow the recruitment of transgender citizens into the armed forces despite Trump’s declaration.
“Transgender persons with a history or diagnosis of gender dysphoria ― individuals who the policies state may require substantial medical treatment, including medications and surgery ― are disqualified from military service except under certain limited circumstances,” the memo says.
They should be allowed to serve. It would be different if they had imaginary bone spurs. RESIST!!
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5:03 Maybe Squatch can save him.
Love to WWWendy with wings.
Verge – Not new, but bears repeating – if the product is free, you are the product. I do realize some of us can’t afford to pay much if anything for apps; I’m in that group myself. But Facebook – or Twitter – no. Never.
NoC – Relocating the entire Republican Party there would be satisfying … but maybe not as constructive as continuing to work on microbes which will eat plastic. (Can you imagine the smell of all those decomposing Republican bodies? Yeccch!)
HuffPo – Psychotic people (a proup which does NOT as a rule include transgendered people) should probably not be allowed to serve in the military. I would be more inclined to listen to a Pentagon that wants to be MORE inclusive than a regime that wants to be LESS inclusive myself.
Cartoon – Oh, is THAT why they are so terrified of PoC with hoodies! Bless their hearts!
How about bio-engineering microbes that eat both plastic and Republicans?
Verge: I don’t have FB on my phone, and am private on FB, but I know this is ‘bigly’ news. My kindle has my games on it, but that’s it. I don’t download anything anymore, as my computer crashed a couple years ago.
NoC: Isn’t this just downright depressing?? Gawd, this is so sad! Yea, I’m w/you, let’s send them ALL there!!
HP: Yea,…. ‘Cadet Bone Spurs’ dictating what the military should do or not do. He can’t ‘handle the Truth’!! This is a slap to all of our trans members of the Armed Services. I believe most branches are accepting our guys and gals, as they should! “The “DOD will continue to access and retain transgender individuals in compliance with the court orders.”
Cartoon: If there was a ‘vomit’ button I’d push it, over and over…..
Hi Wendy! Sounds like a delicious lunch too! Enjoy the rest of your day/evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom
Oh, I forgot to write this in my comment above. This morning while I perusing the online news, I read of a woman who was diagnosed with TAD, which I believe,….I also have. It’s ‘Trump Anxiety Disorder’, besides my CRS. lol.
I hope TAD isn’t lethal!
WRT “The Verge”: This is EXACTLY the reason why I never joined Facebook in the first place.
… OR
Not that I don’t think “Big Brother” has a thick file on each one of us – but at least I’m not monetizing Zuckerberg.
I really don’t like anyone who refers to their clients as “Dumb fucks.”
That Business Insider material is simultaneously shocking and unsurprising.
I have never had a Facebook account, and I never will have one. Period.
Verge: ‘Nuff said! I never did go on FB.
NOC: It used to be called the Pacific Gyre, back i the good old day. Now, maybe we can relocate Mar-a-Largo to it.
HP: The only things this clown sticks to are things that might stick it to someone else!
Verge: So glad I never went on FB.
NoC: Given the shocking enormous amount of it, you’d think it should be viable soon to haul it al in and recycle it.
Recycle, recycle, recycle.
HP: It’s pathological the way Drumpf needs to discriminate at least one group of people each week. Every week, just before he’s off to Mar-a-Largo to play some more golf, he checks his list of crumbs he can throw his base and ticks another one off. And if he runs out of crumbs he just starts at the top of his list again. This isn’t the first time Drumpf has tried to ban transgender people from the military. The federal courts decided otherwise, but that doesn’t stop him from just ordering it again…and again…and again.
Did Wendy help you clean up again after the both of you consuming those messy BBQ ribs, TomCat? A Wonder Woman’s work is never done either, it seems.
I removed my shirt and used a paper napkin in my lap.
Thanks all. Pooped hugs!