Another day, more heat and more electrical issues! Today’s forecast high is 89°, and although that’s far better than yesterday’s record smashing 101°, it’s still much too hot to allow the building to cool. The temperature early this morning was in the high 60°, and I opened the window, but had to shut it, because the smoke from all the wildfires burned my eyes. Thank goodness Thursday through Saturday will be high 70°s, and Thursday, we might even have a thunder shower. Last night, the other side of my room lost power. The clerk reset the circuit breaker three times, and I ended up having to eat cold casserole for supper. This morning my toaster, coffee pot, and lamp went out. It turns out there is a short circuit in the GFCI electrical outlet, so maintenance is coming today. Speaking of the devil, maintenance came right then. A brand new GFCI was defective, so he had to replace it twice. That solves that problem. Then Store to Door delivered groceries. I put them away and had lunch. I’m feeling very tired. I slept last night, but need more. I also have Republicosis. ARGH!! Thank goodness Wendy is coming tonight. I stink. This month has been so hectic, between eye care, the heat, and electrical issues, I’ve decided to cancel the Monthly Report for August. I’ve just had to put ten pounds of shit in a one pound bag lately.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:28 (average 5:41). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football Reminder:
Our fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends, starts tomorrow night. Players, please don’t forget to have your starting lineups set by then. May the Holy Ellipsoid Orb bless your team. whenever it isn’t playing mine. 
Short Takes:
From YouTube (GQ Channel): Trump’s DACA Decision is a Grim Turning Point | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
Blacks and Latinos that support this Republican Reich are traitors against your own people. Caucasians and others that support this Republican Reich are just traitors against the human race. RESIST!!
From YouTube (RWW Channel): Mark Taylor: ‘Satan’s Frequency’ Is Changing DNA To Make People Hate Trump
Barf Bag Alert!!
If this idiotic, hate-filled Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian were a little bird, we could throw a net over him, lock him in a clock, and let him pop out every hour on the hourto announce the time. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Barack Obama used the occasion of Donald Trump’s Inauguration to viciously taunt the incoming President by writing him a letter riddled with multisyllabic words, sources revealed on Sunday.
According to those familiar with the letter, Obama packed it with intentionally challenging words such as “reflections,” “adventure,” and “ladders,” in order to bewilder and infuriate Trump.
Sources said Trump attempted to read the first line of the letter but, realizing that he was the victim of Obama’s cruel prank, crumpled and discarded it in a rage.
Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the President, said that the letter episode revealed a “very ugly side of Barack Obama.”
Dang, Andy! The poor widdle Piddle Puppet! RESIST!!
Also from The New Yorker: Eight hundred thousand people with dreams will be deported by one person with delusions, sources confirmed on Tuesday.
According to reports, U.S. residents who have obtained advanced degrees, served in the military, and saved people from Hurricane Harvey will be kicked out of the country by a man who believes that his microwave is spying on him.
“Under this new decision, if you have worked hard, gone to school, and contributed to the country, you face immediate deportation,” one legal expert said. “On the other hand, if you can prove that you have a glaring personality disorder and a flimsy grasp on reality, you can decide the fate of those other people.”
Amen, Andy. You’re back to straight news, I see. RESIST!!
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5:58 Difficult for me and nothing to eat for you. Sigh. And with what you’ve been going through, you could use something to eat. So sorry!
DACA petition from Sojourners
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Keith # 116 – “They don’t care!” Yes. They are worse than the vile racists. Rev. 3:-15-18. God will spit them out of his mouth. A righteous rant, dear Keith.
RWW – PFAW does have a knack for finding the dregs at the bottom of the barrel, don’t they? Did I already say that you don’t even need to believe in demons to know that this guy is one? (And does this story link to the one about Shkreli putting a bounty on Hillary Clinton’s hair, for DNA testing purposes? No, I am not making that up.)
TNY – Given the way Dolt.45 feels about Obama, I’ll bet he interpreted it as a taunt. Especially the end when Obama said he and Michelle stood ready to help him and Melania. TC, how would you feel if you got a note from, say, Mitch McConnell saying he stood ready to help you? I’ll bet you’d be spitting nails. I know I would.
TNY II – Straight news indeed.
Cartoon – And, unfortunately, it got here.
And by the way, you often feature the Reich on the Left, as opposed to the Reich on the Right. There is now emerging a Fox on the Left, as opposed to the Fox on the Right (which is always wrong). Maybe “on the Left” is not exactly the best way to put it – but definitely anti-Trump, and possessing both a conscience and a sense of humor (and he knows when NOT to use it), which has to count for something.
AMEN!!! Vincente Fox is so spot on! Kudos to him.
A Canadian Senator who sits as an independent, has proposed that Canada take up to 30,000 DACA young people as immigrants according to the CBC. Click through for the details but she makes perfect sense.
Kudos to Canada – again.
That’s a Fox we could entrust with the chicken coop.
KO: Word. Absolutely, absolutely horrible, and heartbreaking vile hateful actions taken by this asshat. Horrible!
NYer: Love Andy, nice way to end the post, with a smile.
You’ve been very busy, take a breather, and don’t forget to rest. I’ve gotta run, but do take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
KO: Trump and Sessions are below scum, whatever the hell that might be. Keeping ALONSO GUILLEN’s mother form the funeral is venal, sick, beneath scum!
P.S.: I’m having trouble accessing TC’s stuff on C2. Had trouble posting stories the last couple of days, anybody else?
I am having the same problem as you. I have not been able to access TC’s news articles on C2 since late this afternoon (Wednesday).
Just popping in very quickly, TomCat, because I’m leaving in an hour to return to the North again. Hopefully I’ll have enough stamina left in 36+ hours to revisit this page and have a good look at all the goodies on offer.
Have a safe trip. Don’t fly over us. (A friend in Florida, who wasn’t worried about the last storm (which was a nothingburger) is now just saying “Pray it goes out to sea. Pray for us.” She is in the Tampa Bay Area.)
Have a safe trip, and enjoy being right side up again.
Olbermann: Scum Drumpf the Pig, AG Sessions and Republicans: ATONE!
Mother not allowed to come into USA to bury her hero son, Alonso Guillen.
RWW Channel: Gibberish spoken by a man whose own “frequency” has certainly changed him into ga ga fool. Barf alert indeed.
NewYorker 1: Poor little widdle Piddle Puppet can’t read nor understand high words.
NewYorker 2: Straight news.
Cartoon: And the downfall of the real America began. sigh…
JD’s link to Fox above is a good one. I, for one, enjoy his commentaries on Drumpf.
DACA must be saved from the likes of the Drumpf administration. Drumpf along with Pence, Stephen Miller, and AG Jeff Sessions, (Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton) are guilty of practicing racist eugenics in terminating the DACA program. Drumpf is using his own personal reasons to promote and support for building the Wall. Sessions, on the other hand, would be an excellent candidate and victim of eugenics because he is very short (5’4″) and talks funny.
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 9/5/17In US, anti-immigrant policy has roots in racist eugenicsRachel Maddow looks back at the shameful role of eugenics in U.S. immigration policy in the 1920s and cites Jeff Sessions’ praise for the policies of that time as an example of those racist roots resurgent in the Trump administration. Duration: 16:20http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/us-anti-immigrant-policy-has-roots-in-racist-eugenics-1040171075807?cid=eml_mra_20170906
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Puzzle — 4:44 Well you can’t eat it, but you could live in it . . . more space than your current place, although there would be a hell of a lot of stairs! . . . and unfortunately, more to clean.
YouTube — “Blacks and Latinos that support this Republican Reich are traitors against your own people. Caucasians and others that support this Republican Reich are just traitors against the human race.” — AMEN!!! except I would remove the word ‘just’ to be more forceful and even more correct. This, in my mind, is the best piece from Keith, in a repertoire of excellence. Hillary was correct when she used the word ‘deplorables’ but unfortunately, it is not strong enough anymore.
Alonso Guillen, an American hero!!!
RWW — WTF??? Another diseased mind that hasn’t got a clue of what he speaks. The evil one has taken over his mind (and those of other deplorables), not the radio waves etc. It is past time to unplug this idiot!
The New Yorker #1 — For all his education, Drumpf is the most uneducated person of whom I can think. A trip out behind the woodshed might have done him some good when he was a young lad, but then, the apple does not fall far from the tree.
“Kellyanne Conway, the counselor to the President, said that the letter episode revealed a “very ugly side of Donald Drumf.””
The New Yorker #2 — Indeed, straight reporting!!!
Cartoon — Too bad the first inhabitants did not send the Mayflower back to England!
Well, it is supposed to be cooler today (Thursday) and possibly some rain later this afternoon. The air quality yesterday was worse than it has been all summer, and today is worse still. I can smell the acrid smoke in the house, smoke from wildfires. We are supposed to have rain tomorrow and the temps are expected to cool. On the news yesterday, they announced that temperatures lately have been about 10 degrees C above the seasonal norms. I hope it cools off for you TC and that you get some wind through there to clear the air.
BTW, like Jim and Mitch, I cannot access TCs Care2 posts but it may be a bigger problem — I can’t access any news stories. I keep getting “Care2 is not responding”.
After listening to Vicente Fox’s message yet again, I have a question for Americans.
Do you want to make America great again? Then do your patriotic duty.
Dump Trump
and the Republicans!!!
Thanks all. Hugs.
On Care2 the Glitch Monster seems to be in charge of news. Trying to open an individual C2NN article in Firefox, most of the page whites out. After about a minute, I get a message saying a website is slowing down my browser, and asking me to wait or stop it. After choosing stop it, I can interact with the page without difficulty. Chrome does not work at all, and neither does Edge, so Firefox is the only way to get in.
I cannot access anything on c2 news so finally have time to come here to read 9/6 and 9/7…….can’t see 6 September 1620 being a “good day” to leave for a cross ocean journey…..didn’t they know about autumn weather, winter weather???? seems would have been better to leave in early spring, wouldn’t it have been????