I must have been more tired than I realized, because I overslept big-time this morning. Instead of my normal 4:45 AM, my eyes opened at 6:30. I must have tired myself trying to boost green clouds on their way north. We’re about to enter a heat wave with 80° highs on Tuesday through Thursday, so I’ll be buttoning up and running the AC. Otherwise, I don’t have much on tap this week.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:44 (average 5:50). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Vox Channel): Why Atlantic fish are invading the Arctic
What the Republican Reich fails to see is that protecting the arctic is necessary to protect us. RESIST!!
From Washington Post: Senior White House officials on Monday urged Democrats and a key Republican to reconsider their positions on Mike Pompeo’s nomination as secretary of state ahead of what could be an unfavorable committee vote later in the day.
“We certainly hope that some members will change their minds,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said during a morning interview on Fox News, in which she accused Democrats of playing “political games” with Trump’s nomination of Pompeo, the current CIA director.
The more Democrats reconsider him, the more opposed they become. State is a soft-spoken diplomatic post. Pompeo is a blithering absolutist hatemonger. That is NOT a match! RESIST!!
From TPM: The man who allegedly shot and killed four young people of color in a Nashville Waffle House early Sunday identified himself as a “sovereign citizen” last year, multiple outlets reported Monday.
The outlets cited an arrest report covering the alleged gunman’s confrontation with Secret Service officers outside the White House in July of last year.
CNN and USA Today reported that the alleged gunman, Travis Reinking, told Secret Service officers that he had to get onto White House grounds to speak to President Donald Trump. The reports also said he identified himself to Secret Service as a “sovereign citizen” and that he therefore had a right to access the White House grounds.
What we have here is another Republican Ammosexual terrorist. RESIST!!
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4:58 Republican brains.
Vox – The Republican Reich fails to see ALL the natural features and phenomena which must be pretected in order to protect us. Every unnecessay dead animal, every piece of plastic that goes into the ocean, every chemical that goes into the air, every poison that goes into drinking water, threatens the survival of the entire human race. And they don’t get it.
WaPo – Isn’t that the truth. I think I’ve signed everything by now. Does anyone besides me think he kind of resembles Alex Jones?
TPM – And then there’s this:
“…authorities said he may be armed with one of the guns seized from him last year after he tried to enter the White House…” Now how would he be in possession of a previously seized weapon? Well, the Sheriff gave them to his daddy on condition that he never be allowed acces to them. Daddy gave them back to him.
Several people are talking about how Greek tragedy may help us cope with what we are going through. The Resistance, OTOH, sent and email with a quote from a Greek COMEDY.
Cartoon – Well, Well.
Update on Travis: he’s out on bail. I am not making this up
SORRY! My bad! I didn’t get the whole story. Bail was granted but it was $2M and apparently he couldn’t make it … so he’s locked up, thank God. Sure glad to be wrong on this one.
Vox: Let’s see the global warming deniers explain this.
TPM: So, what exactly is a “sovereign citizen”? Sounds like a weasel phrase to justify anything that anybody wants.
Sovereign citizens are anti-government extremists who believe that even though they physically reside in this country, they are separate or “sovereign” from the United States. Apr 13, 2010 from Google. So, yeah, you nailed it. It does have the status of a “movement,” though. You might want to look it up.
Adding to what JD said, they are exclusively right wing. ?
Vox: We’re going to hell in a hand basket. So very, very depressing!!
WP: Gawd…say NO, and RESIST!!!
TPM: James Shaw told how he was grazed with a bullet and suffered bumps and bruises when he tackled the shooter, who was wearing only a green jacket when he opened fire at a branch of the Waffle House chain. He’s been hailed as a hero. The Guardian has an article saying that authorities have captured the gunman suspected of killing four during an attack on a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville on Sunday. The man was apprehended in a wooded area.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/apr/23/nashville-man-a-hero-after-late-night-meal-becomes-a-scuffle-with-a-shooter
*Freya, sounds like royalty, doesn’t it? It’s not. I guess that the shooter had rights, as he was naked, with a jacket on while murdering people. Here’s a link from the SPLC defining the term. btw…you described them perfectly.
*Joanne, I read your comment about the Greek Tragedy. I thought of you, and the Furies!
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/sovereign-citizens-movement
Hope that you get a chance to relax. Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
oops, Greek Tragedy!
I gotta quit!
Meant Greek Comedy, NOT Tragedy.
Hey, I did mention both. Don’t worry about it.
So do I laugh or cry?
Yes.
Puzzle — 4:13 A Drumpf wall for the southern border? It even has a window so the border patrol can see to the other side!
Vox — “What the Republican Reich fails to see is that protecting the arctic is necessary to protect us.” — I agree, but let’s not forget that the Republicans can’t think that far ahead. They eschew critical thinking and science.
Washington Post — And how would Huckabee categorise the failure of Republicans to hold a vote for Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to SCOTUS, let alone approve him. You can’t have it both ways hypocrite!
TPM — So how much play time will this white male Republican ammosexual terrorist get in the media compared to any other terrorist, let’s say like someone of the Islamic faith? I dare say very little and Republicans if asked, will change the subject. If you ask me, the most prolific terrorists in the US are the home grown white Republican males. A mass murderer to be sure. When Drumpf sought cover from his Secret Service protectors during the campaign, perhaps it was this guy just wanting to talk to Drumpf about a few ideas.
It is supposed to be hot here this week too. At least if you are buttoned up for the air con, there won’t be any green clouds coming north. That last one literally made me ill!!!
I run a tube out the window at supper time.
Well, we all hope it’s not plugged in at the other “end” – if you get my drift.
It is not your drift I worry about. It’s the Puddy Tat’s! That’s the trouble . . . it is plugged into the south end of a Puddy Tat going north!
Ahhhhhh!
YT/VOX: Why expect the Rethuglicans to recognize the damage they do, when all they look at are their bank accounts?
WP: The only political game players are tDump and the GOPIGS that support him. To block Pompeo is the patriotic thing to do.
Travis is a sick puppy! His father ought to be indictable.
Vox: If Republican are so simple minded that they rather deny Global Warming than think trough on its consequences, how are they supposed to understand how a complex ecological system can be damaged by “some seawater going up one degree in temperature”? What irks me most is not that they’re stupid, which they’re not, i.e. no more than others, but that they’re wilfully ignorant: too lazy to think about it and accept some responsibility for what’s happening.
WP: A year ago, we could have thought, or at least hoped for some sense among those who vet the likes of Pompeo and other Drumpf nominees, but considering what they’ve let pass since then and how often ‘Key Republicans’ fell over after a little pressure, I wonder how many still think that, or get their hopes up. Pompeio is just about the most disqualified person for the job, but that won’t stop them.
CNN/USAT: According to the news here, alleged gunman Travis Reinking, has a long history of psychoses for one so young, and should be categorized as “as mad as a lead door”, as we call it, rather than a terrorist, who in my opinion has some sense of what he’s doing. The real question again is: how did such an extremely unstable mind get his hands on a whole arsenal of guns and how did they get in his possession again after they were taken away from him by authorities? After earlier incident it apparently had occurred to them Reinkin was as mad as a hatter. Reinkin’s father apparently was given the whole arsenal on (legal) demand, but is not available for comment right now. Fill in the blanks yourself, please. If anyone is a terrorist, it’s his father.
Lona, I’m pretty sure that almost all of the people who strap on a bomb and blow themselves to smithereens so Republican Supply-side Allah will give them 72 virgins are fifteen cans short of a six pack. Nevertheless, they are still considered terrorists.
I agree that the father is worse.
Thanks all. Hot as hell hugs!