It’s a hectic Saturday here in the CatBox. I got up a half an hour early this morning, so I could get a head start and a longer morning map. So much for the best laid plans of mice and men…, and far too often, of Puddy Tats. A hacker must have broken into the Bluehost server and hacked the email PW of the PP admin email account. I know it could not have come from my computer, because I have never sent email from admin. Incoming admin email auto-forwards to my tomcat PP email account. The hacker then set up a SPAM bot to to send Republican propaganda from PP. It quickly started failing due to our 250/hour sent-email limit, so for each failed piece of SPAM, admin forwarded a mailer-daemon notice to my tomcat account. I woke up to find over 4,500 notices in my inbox. I fixed the problem by changing the admin PW, but between figuring that out and cleaning up the mess, it took me over two hours. Instead of a long nap, I got a very short nap, and I’m still quite a bit late. If you sent me email that got lost in the mess, please resend it. Tomorrow is a WWWendy in the morning day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update from me. Please stay safe in holiday traffic. Have a great weekend.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:35 (average 5:41). To so it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 6,392,303
US Deaths: 192,168
Plus thousands of GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From TPM: White supremacists pose the most serious terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.
Three different drafts of the report obtained by Politico characterize the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat in the United States.
All three documents also report that 2019 was the deadliest year for domestic violent extremists since the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.
The documents indicate that “lone offenders” and “small cells of individuals” are increasingly joining up with people who share their ideologies and “will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United States.”
“Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists – who increasingly are networking with likeminded persons abroad – will pose the most persistent and lethal threat,” the report indicates.
Here, we already know that, but far to many don’t. TELL THEM! RESIST!!
From YouTube (Liberal Redneck Channel): Liberal Redneck – QAnonsense
I have to disagree with Trae. Calling Republican QAnon conspiracy believers “dumb shits” is far too insulting to dumb shits. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
Ah… the memories. Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
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Good Lord – what a fiasco! Did you need to notify BlueHost in case you weren’t the only one? Or was that not necessary? Asking for a friend. Best to WWWendy and hope you have a lovely day with her.
Another Cartoon – “Anatomy of a Protest” by David Horsey
Cartoon – Labor is ready … but CoViD is not. I literally have no words … because all the phrases I learned in the military for this kind of situation are wither NSFW, racist, or both.
Map – Yes, I thought the deaths had gone over 190K. I’m not going to snark about the states which are dark red in both senses. There are some human beings living in all of them.
TPM – Yes. And Michael Cohen is putting out warnings about the unlikelihood of a peaceful transition of power which make Michael Moore and Bill Maher look subtle.
Trae – Actually, there are a goodly number of pedophiles running the world who pretty much always have – they are called rich white entitled male capitalists. The same people who are throwing Democrats to the wolves, in a massive exhibit of projection. I actually wouldn’t be surprised if the rich are practicing cannibalism too … with fava beans and a nice glass of Chianti. But there;s no proof of that.
BoP – Oh,, yes. This one may be a little frustrating to people of color.
Cartoon: Amen, that’s for sure!
TVU: No increase. Yet…
TPM: Good article. I believe it. Word to the wise, imho, it will get worse before it gets better, unfortunately.
LLC: So spot on! and tells it like it is.
CCR: Word. Wore the vinyl off of this song.
Holy cannoli ! Sounds like you had your work cut out for you this a.m., but thankfully, you knew how to fix it! Two hours is a long time and hard work too. Thank you for doing that. Hi, WWWendy! Hope that you have a good rest of your day, take good care, get some rest/nap in, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “I believe no member of Congress should serve on corporate boards. It’s a conflict of interest.”
~ Jeff Merkley ~
2. “Lindsey Graham is Susan Collins with a southern accent.” ~ Richard S. ~
3. “When trump feels cornered, he usually does something more horrific. It’s gonna get ugly soon.” ~Terena D.
4. “Trump says he understands military sacrifice. ‘I risked my life on a ramp.'” ~ Andy Borowitz ~
5. “trump doesn’t understand people’s bravery and courage, because he’s never had any of his own.”
~ Tammy Duckworth ~
6. “If you don’t know that voting twice is illegal, you probably should not be the Attorney General.”
~ Robert Reich ~
oops! forgot this lil nugget..
FYI: Michael Cohen will be on Rachel’s show Tuesday night…
TJI #5 She also said she would take her wheelchair and titanium legs over Trump*’s bone spurs any day. I just love her.
TJ5: I praise Tammy Duckworth for her bravery/sacrifices. As for tRump…what a flipping coward.
TJI#5: Tammy speaks truth.
TJI#6: Barr knows, just does not give a half of a rotten rat’s ass about it.
Cartoon: Hope they can get back soon.TVU: Second day of higher cases. Had another 437 so we’re at 40,432, plus up 7 more deaths. The students at SDSU now have been asked to be on a lock down. The beaches are packed due to the high temps.
TPM: Scary information.
LLC: Speaks truth.
BOP: Good one by CCR.
Sorry to hear about all of the chaos you had to face this morning with your website/server. Glad you were able to take care of it.
Hope you had a better rest of your day and a nice evening too.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
With “Overcoming Republican insaniTEA, one day at a time.” in the site’s banner, it is a small miracle the Russians haven’t hacked it every other day by now, TomCat. Thank you for cleaning it up, though. I wouldn’t have known where to start; my administrative knowledge doesn’t extend to WordPress.
Update: Looking bad, even with testing rates diminishing.
TPM: It’s a small wonder these negative reports by the Department of Homeland Security on white supremacists being the deadliest domestic terror threat make it to the public at all, isn’t it. I had expected that Trump would have had the whole department “restructured” by now and his acolytes in all positions that mattered.
LR: Trae’s title this week said it all: QAnonsense. How anyone can believe a word of it is beyond me.
BOP: I’ve absolutely no problem with repeats of CCR.
Thanks and Weekend Hurry Hugs to all!
Missed this, yesterday, the 5th, sorry. What a mess you had to unravel!
‘Toon: Bring it on!
TVU: ALABAMA! Darn that’s where we were last weekend, but stayed close to my step-son’s home.
TPM: Part of Dumpy’s legacy will be the danger theses imbeciles will present .
Trae: This is so much like the old Blood Libel, and “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” that I expect it could be a Putin inspired piece of work, or have I said that previously?
BOP: Great song!