I’m writing late to be sure to be up for my grocery delivery from Store to Door. Depending on which driver comes, it could be any time between Noon and 3:30 PM. Wendy landed in Denver last night and is driving to Pueblo today. Her sister, Carrie, will come on Saturday to fill in for her, and I’ll get her back a week from today. I run out of meds today so tomorrow we’ll find out how much healing and how much symptom masking has taken place.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:47 (average 4:18). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (GQ Channel): Here’s How This Will End for Trump | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
I pray for all his ends but the last, In March 2015, had you told me that Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten would occupy the White House, albeit intermittently, I would have said that your shit level had turned your eyes brown. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: In a fiercely defiant statement on Tuesday, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, denied that any member of the White House staff has ever worked “in any way, shape, or form” for the benefit of the United States.
Angrily addressing the press corps, Spicer said that any allegations that members of the Trump Administration have ever acted in concert or collusion with the United States are “unequivocally false.”
“At no time during the transition or afterward did any member of the Trump team have meetings, conversations, or any other contacts that furthered the interests of the United States of America,” Spicer said. “In the thousands of communications that took place, the United States never came up even once.”
Dang, Andy!! We already knew that!! RESIST!!
From NY Times: On Tuesday afternoon, while most people were focused on the latest news from the House Intelligence Committee, the House quietly voted to undo rules that keep internet service providers — the companies like Comcast, Verizon and Charter that you pay for online access — from selling your personal information.
The Senate already approved the bill, on a party-line vote, last week, which means that in the coming days President Trump will be able to sign legislation that will strike a significant blow against online privacy protection.
The bill not only gives cable companies and wireless providers free rein to do what they like with your browsing history, shopping habits, your location and other information gleaned from your online activity, but it would also prevent the Federal Communications Commission from ever again establishing similar consumer privacy protections.
That is an intolerable violation of our First and Fourth Amendment rights. I recommend using anonymous Domain Name Servers (DNS), instead of the ones provided by your ISP. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
And I thought progressives had finally won.
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3:59 Beautiful, but isn't it kind of big for an aching puddy tat to be rassling?
There are a lot worse drives than Denver-Pueblo and back, though the interchanges in Denver can be – interesting. Exit 135 is the closest to me along the way – I'm waving in that general direction, and she can, if she wishes, wave back virtually once you can tell her that. I know I'm not the only one who appreciates the care she takes of you.
The Conquer Cancer Foundation is soliciting submissions for their 2018 "Expressions of Hope" calendar. You can see past artwork here – for 2016 and 2017 – this will only be the third year of the calendar. http://www.conquer.org/ways-to-help/get-involved/expressions-of-hope They accept submissions from survivors, family, caregivers, and friends – which makes it pretty wide open – who doesn't have a friend who is a survivor? [No one here. TC just survived.] They run to drawing, painting, and photography, but I don't know why a sculpture, or needlework, couldn't be photographed and entered too.
A fellow named Timothy Weston posted over on Sojourners about someone who broke a bunch of glass at a mosque and then threw Bible verses in. Timothy coined the word "evandalism" to decribe the crime – I thought it clever. He said we may "steal" it.
Keith #52 – "The one-car funeral ended in a fiery, fatal collision." GREAT metaphor. Also true that there's (at least) a 5% chance of pretty much anything you can think of. He really didn't mention that they Republicans – and se – still have to reckon with that body of Trump supporters, yes, a minority of Americans, but a minority definitely big enough that it can't be dismissed, which loves him more and more every time he does or says something awful
TNY – A lot of fun was being had over Spicer's claim that Dolt.45 would be condemned in the media if he had Russian dressing on his salad. (How would it go with his word salads, ya think?
NYT – Am I the only one who finds it ironic that so many of the people who vored for this are the same people scrubbing their phones for fear of subpoenas? The mind boggles!
Cartoon – We did, but the victory was brief. Way too brief. In '75, I helped a teeny bit with Operation Eagle Pull, which evacuated Americans, many of them civilians, from Phnom Penh.
KO: dt has to go. He's costing our taxpayers millions. To play golf, for example. He can't do anything, except lie, or make something up, to the American people. That goes for his cronies too. Is 'buh bye' too soon yet?
NYer: Sadly, so true, Andy. So true.
NYT: Pretty scary!!! stuff.
Hope that you will be all right and get to feeling better, I hope that all that pain is behind you now. Try and rest, enjoy your evening, take care, and thanks, Tom.
*Joanne, BZ for your helping with the evacuation!
KO: It would be nice toi see Rumpy KOlapse the entire GOPig house of cards, bringing some of them with him to the pennitentiary!
Andy: Now, he really is doing "real news!"
NYT: Awful! And then some! Dirtbags!!!!!!
Very proud of our Joanne!!
Puzzle — 3:15 I agree JD! Too big for a sick Puddy Tat to rassle!
YouTube — The idea of following the Russians down the rabbit hole is downright scary, but in my opinion, that is exactly what is happening in those states that are enacting anti protest laws. Being able to protest is the hallmark of democracy. It is a very slippery slope — like almost vertical — that these states are on. I have to agree that I would never have believed that Drumpfenfarten would actually be POTUS, nor did I believe that impeachment was possible. But with the spectre of re-election on the horizon in 2018 for House Republicans, and some in the Senate, and with the scandals and failures of Drumpfenfarten's administration so far, it would not surprise me if Republicans ate their own. They made Drumpfenfarten, they own him.
The New Yorker — Straight reporting again of something we've known for a while now — the US has a do nothing Congress courtesy of the bloody Republicans!
NY Times — Well here I come to the "In Private" window! It used to be called the Incognito mode in Win 7. As it is, I get little messages like "May we note your location?" and I always say no. I imagine the notes may stop. I suspect that next we'll see that Republicans vote to allow carriers to have fast lanes and slow lanes,
Cartoon — They never have been there in the first place! Indo China was chewed up by foreign militaries for years and what did it get them except death and destruction.
Resist and Persist!!!
I sure hope that you are experiencing a whole lot of healing! As I said earlier, it took me 3 weeks to be pain free, but the pain diminished after a week or so. I know only too well that excruciating pain.
All the "private window" does is prevents internet content (cookies, temporary Internet files) fro9m being stored on your computer. Every time you go to a page, youre computer looks up it's location on the DNS server. If you use yoor ISP's DNS server, that is how they have a record of where you go.
Keeping my fingers crossed your healing has progressed well and there was little or no symptom masking, TomCat. Take care of yourself and give your body enough time to the rest of the healing of its own, no matter how much all of the Drumpfian, Republican, and Care2 sabotage you encounter. RESIST & PERSIST on this front too.
Keith Olbermann: All three scenarios are likely to be played out. And possibly a fourth, completely different one that will only become apparent as things shift rappidly again through a leak, a tweet, a vote, a threat…That is the scariest thing of all: the fact that anything could happen and nobody knows what's coming, only that it's not going to get better for a long while. The only people who'll be happy for a while will be the pharmaceutical CEOs and the people who have invested heavily in their anti-depressants and anxiety medication.
TNY: Funny that you do not have to repeat that Spicer said this a couple of times for it to become true, Andy.
NYT: Rachel Maddow has warned to focus on what is really happening in the White House and in Congress instead of being distracted by so called press conferences and tweets, and this blow against online privacy is one of those things. Republicans really, really do not know what they are doing. They are not governing, but just doing what they're told by their corporate masters.
And using your browser' private browsing option will shield off some of your privacy, but definitely not everything because it only works for that browser, your internet service provider can still see what pages you've opened. DNS does give you that, but it also may prevent you from going everywhere you like.
Some privacy wonks like Adguard offer free DNS servers that are complete, but do not store the records.
Thanks all! Hugs!!