Sep 062020
It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. WWWendy will be here in about an hour. I’ll be back in the saddle and laboring here tomorrow. Please stay safe!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:18 (average 4:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 6,432,209
US Deaths: 192,864
Plus thousands of GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us
Short Take:
From YouTube (a blast of protest): Jefferson Airplane -White Rabbit
Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
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Cartoon: Absolutely!!!
TVU: Still the same, though with colleges opening, we’ll start seeing numbers, Unfortunately.
BOP: Grace S. sure could sing, couldn’t she? Love this song too!
Hi, WWWendy! Hope that you have a good, and safe Labor Day. Take good, good care, and Thanks, Tom. It’s quiet here, and we got a small rain shower last night, I’ll take anything. YAY. Our burn ban is till September 14, so I’m crossing off the days, of no fires.
I read today, that San Diego fires have spread over 15,000 acres of vegetation. Sad.
*This just in: “Veterans Day twice this year. On November 11th, we observe it and November 3rd we honor it, by voting out Donald Trump.” ~ The Lincoln Project ~
*pb* re: the sinking of several Trump boats at the Austin Lake Travis yesterday.
2. “Thankfully…I did not serve under this command, nor participate in this campaign, ‘The Great Battle of Lake Travis’. As I stood on the shores, I worried at the sight of the sunken boats…and the chaos. It brought back visions of Dumbkirk all over again.”
3. “In his upcoming book, Michael Cohen writes donald trump’s disdain for Obama was so extreme he hired a ‘Faux Bama’ to participate in a video in which he ritualistically belittled the first black president and then fired him.” ~ Parvaiz Shallwani ~
4. “Wistfully remembering the good old days of Richard Nixon, when disgraced presidents had the decency to resign.” ~ Barb McQuade ~
5. “Osama Bin Laden’s niece, Noor Bin Laden, endorses donald trump for a second term.”
TJI#2: 🍻I’ll drink to that!
TJI#3: No surprise. In viewing video of Trump’s calling global warming a hoax, in one of the new Biden ads, we see Trump do a partial sentence mentioning Obama just as he goes into his rant about global warming being a hoax. I see this as a “tell” that his whole response to the warming is nothing other than his tiny minded way of trying to erase any legacy Obama left; nothing else.
TJI #2:
And – yet another take – this one a parody on “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” It’s from Daily Kos, and I’ve been asking about their reprint policy, and apparently, anyone can do it, so here it is in full:
The legend lives on from Bowling Green on down
Of the big lake they called Sinky Trumpy
Lake Travis, it’s said, never gives up her dead
When the lakes of September turn bumpy
With a load of full bores, twenty six thousand tons more
Than the ‘SS Full MAGA’ weighed empty
That good ship and true painted red white and blue
When the waves of November came early
The ship was the pride of the north Dallas burbs
Sailing back from a rally in Irving
As motorboats go, it was bigger than most
With a captain and crew – more than twenty
Their MAGA hats on, but of masks, they had none
When they left fully loaded for Austin
And later that night when the ship’s bell rang
Could it be the blue wave they’d been lost in?
With covfefe strong, all the boats sailed along
Flying Trump flags from every railing
The waves rose up high but they zoomed right on by
All the libtards alongshore, a-wailing
And every man knew, as the captain did too,
Twas the witch of November come stealing!
Kamala’s her name and they see her dark flame
Lighting up the skies o’er Sinky Trumpy
The boats were too close – two or three feet at most
And the big waves began now a buildin-
The little boats sank, people fell in and drank
The dark waters of gloomy Lake Travis
When suppertime came the old man came on deck sayin
Magas, it’s too rough to feed ya
But at 7 pm when the hatchway caved in, he said
Magas, it’s been good to know ya!
The captain, he cried out to call 9-1-1
But his iphone could not get a signal
He sent off a text and he tried WhatsApp next
But the good ship and crew were in peril
And later that night when his lights went outta sight
Came the wreck of the SS Full MAGA
Does anyone know where a Trumper can go
To find someone to hear his sad saga?
The searchers all say they’d have made it that day
If they hadn’t drunk so much Sam Adams
Of twenty white men, none that knew how to swim
We searched for ‘em deep in the fathoms
They might have split up or they might have got swamped
It might have been sharks that have got ‘em
Now all that remains is the faces and the names
And the Trump flags stretched out on the bottom
The legend lives on from Bowling Green on down
Of the big lake they called Sinky Trumpy
Lake Travis, they said, never gives up her dead
When the waves of November come early!
Love it!
Cartoon: You bet ya, i’m holding it up!
TVU: We had another 453 new cases. They put the college students on lock down for the Labor day weekend due to their numbers raising up over 180 since they opened last week.
BOP: Remember that song very well. Great one.
Enjoy your visit with Wendy. Tell her “hello” for me.
I hope that you have a nice Labor Day too. ‘Same goes for Wendy.
It’s nice and toasty here. We’re at 105 and it’s not even noon.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
I overslept, after not sleeping well, because my noise generator, which has been with e since before I was married, gave up the ghost. Well, it was a good run for it. I’ll need to set up the one I use for travel before tonight, though.
Cartoon – Yup!
Map – I may be misremembering, but I’m thinking the last time we saw this version the dividing line was more doen the Mississippi. Now the dividing line is considerably west of that.
BOP – I very much liked many of the Airplane’s (and the Starship’s) covers. Good thing al our airports were not destroyed in the Revolutionary War, or Jefferson would not have been able to give the band itd name
‘Toon: You bet…repeatedly!
TVU: Moving right along!
BOP: THE ANTHEM!!!!!
P.S.: Having come to yesterday’s party late,let me insert the,probably widely known news, that a lady clown who is a QAnon believer, or poses as one (you never know), has won a primary in Georgia. she is in a very red district, and will almost certainly be in congress ext year; unless Freya can, somehow kick her ass!
TJI#2
Clearly the Antifa submarine attack on Lake Travis was a spectacular success!
But the Trumpkins might be on to us …
Frankly, I think they sank, because God took aim and filled the boats with pee! Kudos to Her hor having such good aim standing up!
I hope you had a good Sunday, TomCat.
3:09 I have good memories kayaking on rivers and streams in Europe.
Cartoon: And show some claw too.
Update: This map is vague, lacking background detail and now it looks like America is slowly dissolving. Well, democratic America anyway.
BOP: Great timeless song. Someone forgot to feed Trumps head.
Lona, if you click the link provided, the interactive version will give you four different views.
I know, TomCat, I was commenting on this map in particular.
Thanks and TGIM Hugs to all!