I doubt that I can finish and put this up before the power chair repair tech arrives. If I can I will. The high today is forecast at 97°, a record for this date. This will be my only article today.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:06 (average 4:09. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Fantasy Football Reminder:
The draft for our fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends, is scheduled for this Saturday, Aug 31, at 10 AM PDT, 11 AM MDT, 12 Noon CDT, 1 PM EDT. Please be there, Squatch, Patty Monster, Vivian, Pam, and Wendy! Hugs!!
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Trump An Incoherent Spectacle At G7; W.H. Struggles To Clean Up
The Danish Parliamentarian was far more deferential than the Fart-face Fuhrer deserves. He could not have second thoughts about everything, until he has a first thought about anything. For Republican staffers, a BS in Bullshitology is no longer enough. They need a PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper). RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: The Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, tore into the media on Thursday for what he called its “extremely unfair practice” of reporting the things he says.
“I’ll say something at a rally and I look out and see all these TV cameras taking every word down,” Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “No one in politics has ever been subjected to this kind of treatment.”
“It’s unbelievable and, frankly, very unethical,” he added.
Dang, Andy! Straight news again! RESIST!!
From Alternet: Bethany Milton spent 11 years working for the U.S. federal government as a consular officer in the Foreign Service. But in an op-ed for the New York Times, Milton explains that this summer, she finally decided to leave the State Department — and the straw that broke the camel’s back was hearing supporters of President Donald Trump chanting, “Send her back, send her back” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar during a recent rally.
“When President Trump’s supporters chanted, ‘Send her back!,’ I took that as a charge for me as well,” Milton asserts. “I asked the Trump Administration to send me back from my overseas posting, shipping home the family, foreign language textbooks and various tchotchkes from ‘shithole countries’ that I’ve collected in my years as a United States diplomat. I am joining a growing list of Foreign Service officers who refuse to serve this administration any longer.”
Milton, in her op-ed, explains that she has a long resumé with the federal government. From 2014-2016, for example, she “oversaw immigrant visa processing at the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai, India” — and she “oversaw immigrant visa operations in Kigali, Rwanda, from 2018 to 2019.”
Milton recalls that when she joined the U.S. State Department in 2008, she sat through some presentations as part of her orientation. And in one of them, she was told, “The day you can no longer publicly support your administration’s policies is the day you need to resign.” And for Milton, she writes in her op-ed, that day came when she found the “Send her back, send her back” chants intolerable.
Kudos to Milton, and to all public servants, who have determined that keeping their career is less important than maintaining their integrity by refusing to be part of a Republican Reich. RESIST!!
Vote Blue!!
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4:42 Hardly a mouthful – and all those indigestible feathers!
Cartoon – Straight news.
Good luck to everyone in the football league.
MSNBC – They are laughing at us because a) they know it is the reaction which will get through to him most effectively, b) they are sorry for the sane people among us, and hope creative humor will help cheer us up, c) they are so worried about the climate they need to cheer themselves up. If we can manage to elect a sane President, particularly if we can also keep (expand) the house and take the Senate, the sigh of relief will be world wide. And big enough to keep numerous wind farms running. (Hubby – three years older than Traitor Tot – also has dreams that he thinks really happened.)
TNY – More straight news indeed.
AlterNet –
Am I the only one who has noticed that this gives him a perfect opportunity to blame Obama for all the departures? Not, of course, that he needs one, but Sheesh!
Cartoon: omg. Hilarious!!
MSNBC: imnad….someone needs to intervene…because when the WH and others are covering up his tracks and comments/statements as potus… like that, well….it’s time for a family conference.
NYer: Yep, Andy!! Word.
AN: How wonderful ! for her to make the right I wish and hope Ms. Milton the very Best. She is standing for her views, and I know that she will be able to sleep better at night, and know that she’s made a good choice and a good decision, for herself, and Country.
I hope that you have a good afternoon, and that your wheelchair gets fixed. Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “Can you imagine if Obama advertised a property he owned on the world stage like that?? The R’s would have self combusted.” ~
2. fyi: “The Fed Election Commission is to be partially shut down.” ~mj~
3. Re: “dt’s comment on G7 meeting @Doral – “Florida authorities reported 524 health-code violations at the Doral from 2013 to 2018, including live cockroaches and other insects in the kitchen food prep area.” ~nbc~
Thank you for sharing, Tom Cat.😸😺
I would like to thank Bethany Milton for her years of service and being a true professional.
I keep extending the time period it will take for our country to repair all the damage that Trump et al have done.
(Hoping that it’s possible – he’s got over a year to FUBAR.)
4:28 Am I ever out of practice!
Cartoon ~ Love it!
I will be there for the Draft on Saturday! Monster Mashers all the way!
YouTube ~ It was the same old BS spewing from his piehole again. He should have been removed from office long ago. He has gotten progressively worse. Tedious and repetitive!
New Yorker ~ Love Andy but I wish he would go back to satire instead of real news.
Alternet~ God bless Bethany Milton!
I hope your power chair gets fixed today.
HUGS!
No doubt there are lots of Bethany Miltons out there. Her story could not possibly be an isolated case – it would come as no surprise if at least a couple busloads of tRump chumps abandon that sinking ship every day. Let us hope enough people desert the Tangerine Twit(ter) before November of 2020.
2:34 Sorry, no budgie snack for you, TomCat.
Cartoon: I expect its front wheels to come off the ground any moment now. The perfect example of competent Republican planning.
MSNBC: One word: demented. Prognosis: getting worse ending in vegetive state and death. White House staff: enablers so they can keep their job.
TNY: Too true, Andy. Too true.
Altermet: Kudos to Bethany Milton, one of the last honorable public servants.
Cartoon: Yep….has it all.
MSNBC: Agree that he’s a flipping laughing stock. He speaks half a*s backwards, then his cronies try to correct it and make it even worse. We’ve suffered enough of this horrid dream.
AN: I also thank and Bless Ms. Milton for all that she has done.
Hope your power chair got taken care of.
It has been hot and humid here too. Crazy weather.
Take care, TC
Tour Bus — Look at those clever Teabaggers! They have a rental unit connected behind their blue living quarters.
Thanks, Amen, and Hump Day Hugs to all!
Welcome Home Patty Monster. and Jerry Critter!
Puzzle — 4:04 I wonder if this budgie can parrot the line “It’s meatless Tuesday and Wednesday!” Good on Lona for snatching the birdie from the Puddy Tat’s rapacious maw!
MSNBC — Trump “Our country is in serious trouble.” — His first truthful statement and HE is the serious trouble. Trump is quite obviously mentally impaired aka totally demented. Talk about alternative realities.
The New Yorker — Straight news again! It must be getting harder to do satire when Trump supplies so much fodder that is unbelievably actually happening.
AlterNet — Kudos to Milton! Trump and his administration have f****d the US in so many ways, some previously thought unimaginable. When Rachel said the world was laughing at the US, she was very spot on. One of my French friends wrote: “Trump représente tout ce que je déteste dans l’humanité. J’ai été la première française à mettre un bandeau de deuil quand il a été élu.” (translation: Trump represents all that I detest in humanity. I was the first French woman to wear a mourning banner when he was elected.) How many more are there in the world?
Cartoon — Is this Joe Walsh’s home now?