I’m up early to write this before I leave for my CAT-Scan, so I don’t have to do it when I’m queasy from the dye they inject.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:31 (average 4:29). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Take:
From The New Yorker: In a series of early-morning tweets on Sunday, Donald J. Trump demanded that the Russian national anthem be played before every National Football League game and that all N.F.L. players stand during the performance.
Trump asserted that playing the Russian anthem was a “necessary gesture of good will from the USA to our No. 1 ally,” and that “any player who refuses to stand for the Russian antem [sic] hates America!”
Seeming to double down on his demand, Trump tweeted that all N.F.L. players must remain standing while the color guard unfurls the flag of the Russian Federation.
Andy, I can believe that! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Cartoon:
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5:31 They don’t weigh much (3# max) but they’re pretty long and the wingspan is wide. And their talons are really sharp. If you’re going to tackle this one, be careful. Don’t let your belly show for an instant.
You know, I’ve always though I paid attention to important events, at least a little. Where was I when locker rooms acquired a combination of attorney-client privilege and the seal of the confessional?
TNY – It’s definitely moving in that direction. This would be a great time for Evangelical “Christians” to suddenly discover that the same chapter in Leviticus which they think prohibits homosexuality also prohibits touching the skin of a dead pig – and with the same penalty. That would solve a lot of things.
Cartoon – Republicans kill. That is what they do. That is why they exist.
There are some other things in Leviticus, other no-no’s that are regularly ignored! Apparently, what we see there (Leviticus) was entered during an edit 100’s of years after the original was written…with NO taboo on homosexuality!
NYer: Ain’t that the truth?? Traitor Trump.
Cartoon: Amen. cough, cough!!
Now, he’s threatening Iran with his tweets. Don’s playing a tumultuous game here. wth?? imho, dt’s a danger to himself and others (meaning US).!!! Holy Sheet !!!
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/23/politics/trump-iran-intl/index.html
Hope that your scan went well, and that you got home okay too. Stay cool, and relax this evening. Take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Good luck w/ your scan. (I have yet to come across a contrast medium that doesn’t create a profound sense of warmth when injected. Haven’t gotten nauseous from any of them, but a really profound feeling of warmth.)
Puzzle — 3:30 If you want to sun your tummy Puddy Tat go ahead. No danger from the talons!
The New Yorker — Sounds like straight reporting. Drumpf is just treacherous enough to try something like that.
Cartoon — In more ways than one!!!
Don’t laugh at what TNY prints – remember, people used to laugh at Hitler.
The cartoon is totally spot on!
Andy is the only one at the New Yorker doing satire. Other authors are researching and publishing very serious (and damning) articles which are not at all funny. IIRC it was a New yorker author, David Remnick, who first exposed money laundering in Bahrain (through building a useless Trump hotel) in Bahrain … and was on Rachel’s show to discuss it with her. We gotta laugh sometimes.
New Yorker: Nyet, tovarich!! Standing up, you must be…or off to the gulag! I’m willing to bet that if the NFL did not have a preponderance of black players, Dumby would not have focused on it nearly so much, if at all! But, it plays to his sick fans.
YUK, i’ve had those horrid burning dye scans!
Love & Light with you TC ?
Waiting at the airport to depart my home country, I can only comment on Politics Plus, because Schiphol airport doesn’t trust Care2 on its wifi. I’ll be off-line for a while, but hope to get ease back into things when we’ve settled in and had a very long and much needed rest.
Hope the results of your CAT scan are good, i.e. negative on any findings, TomCat, and also hope the temperatures are going down real soon. We haven’t had rain for over a month and have surpassed the 1976 draught record by miles here in Holland and the temperatures have been according. No fun if you’re on your feet for almost two weeks in a row, I can tell you. But the winter temperatures, though mild, will still take some getting used to.
For now I’ll leave Drumpf to stew in his own juices, as we say, and just switch of for a few days. Even Andy’s humour can’t change that.
I won’t wish you a good trip. Anything that long never is. Have one that is as convenient as possible and arrive safe and well! Hugs!
Thanks and hugs. See today’s Open Thread for more about the scan.