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!!