Wendy just left. After de-stinking the TomCat, we changed George’s rubber sleeve that rolls onto Stumpy. Then we played with it to get the correct angle for the pin to lock. Then we took a walk in the hallway. This was the first time I’ve done that, since before my eye cancer surgery, so I walked only 100 feet, with Wendy pushing my chair behind. Then we swept and mopped the floors, reorganized the freezer and shelves and cleaned the counters and sills. We made a several day container of spaghetti with sauce, meat, sausage and veggies. Finally we made eggs and hash browns for lunch. She was amused that, when I went to see Megan and was weighed, I had successfully transferred two pounds of fat from my butt to hers. I call that The Southern Exposure Project. While writing, I am also meditating on the holy Ellipsoid Orb.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:46 (average 4:24). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Montreal Gazette (Hat-Tip Squatch): …It turns out some Canadians, after watching months of bombastic campaigning south of the border, are mobilizing to do something — anything — to stop Trump.
“Donald Trump poses a serious threat to our world,” said Glyn Lewis, co-founder of a group called Canadians Rallying Against Trump (CRAT) that was officially launched Tuesday.
“As good neighbours, and global citizens, we can’t sit idle. Not when the election is this close.”
Click through for a great read. That’s CRAT against CRAP, eh?
From KP Daily Funnies: SNL: 1st Clnton-Trump Debate
Alec is a good actor, but nobody is good enough to convey evil in that magnitude.
From Daily Kos:
Amazing. Republican Rep. Darrell Issa spent years wasting millions of dollars in taxpayer money to conduct bogus “investigations” of the Obama administration that never went anywhere. But just like a classic bully—just like his idol, Donald Trump, in fact—he can dish it out but can’t take a punch.
Issa, who represents California’s 49th Congressional District in suburban San Diego, faces his toughest re-election campaign in forever, thanks to Daily Kos-endorsed Democrat Doug Applegate, a retired Marine colonel who, unlike his opponent, isn’t afraid of the rough and tumble. Applegate recently started airing his first TV ad of the race, a hard-hitting spot in which he directly links Issa to Trump. After playing a clip of Trump declaring “I’m really rich. Nobody knows the system better than me,” a narrator explains that Issa likewise “gamed the system to line his own pockets steering millions in taxpayer money to help properties he owned," relying on a very negative 2011 New York Times piece about Issa’s self-dealing for factual support.
So how did Issa react? Like the cowardly whiner that he is, he’s threatening to file a lawsuit alleging that Applegate has defamed him! Seriously, no one in politics ever does this. It’s insane. But Issa’s serious: He even sent the Applegate campaign a draft of his complaint that he’s ready to file in court at a moment’s notice if Applegate doesn’t cower before him.
Here’s the ad.
CA 49th has too long been in thrall to that deplorable Republican, Issa the Assa. We endorse Doug Applegate!
From TPM: In a totally unexpected development, we learn today that back in the early 90s Donald Trump pressured his then-girlfriend, future wife and futurer ex-wife to pose nude in Playboy. Trump even negotiated a mega payday for the nude photo shoot.
Trump personifies the Republican view of women. They are chattel to be exploited for pleasure and profit.
Cartoon:
Flashing back to 2013, when Republicans celebrated shutting down the US government.
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To all our Jewish friends, Shanah Tovah Umetukah. May your new year be as sweet as apples dipped in honey.
And my calendar reflects that it was today a year ago that TC was transferred from Legacy Emanuel Burn to Vibra Rehab.
Is that correct?
That's exactly correct. It's not on my calendar, but I still have most of the emails (I have culled a few if a later reply has incorporated them.) Not only is this the date, but it was a surprise – as late as the morning of 10/2 we knew it would happen, but not when, and had been told that it would be unlikely it would happen that day – but it did!
I found out about an hour before the move.
That sounds about right, Nameless, although I wasn't fully lucid at the time.
4:27 Clearly their bridge-building skills were far superior to their naming skills (Hint: it hasn't been "new" for a long time now.)
So glad the combination of medical mayhem and poitical mayhem (not to mention weather mayhem) has not destroyed your sense of humor.
MG: Many thanks to our Canadian neighbors for any help they can provide. I freely admit we seem to be having some difficulties self-managing.
KPDF – Haven't finished yet – but, oh , my.
DKos – Just to share a case of life imitating art imitating life, or something, there is a casual games villain (mean, smarmy, treacherous villain) who appears in a six-plus-game series whose name is Isa, and who actually looks like Issa. All images of him are copyrighted, but I can share a link I found on google to one of them https://i.ytimg.com/vi/POVTLFkqTgw/maxresdefault.jpg (one of the more flattering ones, sorry). Trust me, you do not want anything to do with either of them. Doug Applegate, however, I adore. Semper Fi, Doug!
TPM – Unexpected? By whom?
Cartoon – I take it that is the ship of state.
As an experiment, I will try to post an image – a billboard put up by the California Courage Campaign. (They are trying to raise additional funds to KEEP it up until February, hence the email, and hence I'm sure they won't mind sharing.)
MG: YAY to our Northern neighbors!!!!
KPDF: Awesome! Alec rocked the house with his impersonation of DT. WTG!!
DK: Issa bilking millions out of the taxpayers pockets, and trying to bully Applegate?? Ummm…I don't think so! WTG, Sir!! I hope you win!
TPM: Oh, ick!
Sounds like you have had a very busy day! Glad to read you got a chance to re-connect, and walk in the hallway too. My prayers were answered, my guys won. Relax this evening, get some rest, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
KOS: Michael, Rep. Darrell Issa is trying to cut 100,000 jobs from the United States Postal Service (USPS) and cripple postal workers’ right to collective bargaining.
But here’s the real kicker: USPS doesn’t need to cut jobs or eliminate services. What it needs is an end to a disastrous pre-funding mandate, which requires the postal service to guarantee retiree health care and pension benefits for 75 years—a Bush-era mandate that no other government agency or private company is forced to do.
What Issa really wants to do is to kill the USPS so that his buddy, head of FedEx, Frederick W. Smith, can take over and privatize the mail delivery system and charge big bucks for mail delivery.
Cartoon: Ted Cruz still owes and wasted 24 billion dollars for a Teabaggers hissy fit and the government shut down. Make him pay!
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JIm, what you say about Issa and Fed Ex, reminds me of that other wonderful Californian, King Richard, who is on tape (his own) telling Erlichman, or Haldeman that if approving Managed Care would benefit his buddy, Kaiser, or Permanente, I forget which, he will sign.
ST: Like I said yesterday, "Canada rocks!"
KPDF: It is beginning to appear that the Orange Empty One is on the way out! Can we vote today?
DK: Issa is a loosa, as I have said long ago…whether he wins the damned seat, again or not.. but perhaps the Ca. voters can send him packing.
TPM: There is little of a smarmy nature that I would put past this POS!
Montreal Gazette: I had to share this one on Facebook. Canada is looking better and better. I see so many Trump signs in the yards in my subdivision that I worry about my neighbors, of course it is because the coal industry is down and there is so much job insecurity,but still, Trump?
Daily Kos: So glad Issa is not my Rep, it is bad enough having McConnell and Paul, cannot imagine the three together. It is ridiculous that he has been able to waste so much of our money on these sham investigations.
TPM: Trump forces wife to pose nude for Playboy, so much for his so called "Christian values". Shared this one. He has NO respect for women. By the way, I have read nor heard anything about his mother, did he have one?
Cartoon: I sincerely hope this cartoon is prophetic.
Puzzle — 3:08 I am still on Pont Dix!
Montréal Gazette — In Squatch’s Open Thread 09/08/2016 I posted a CBC article which in part stated:
That sentiment has not changed. Many Canadians are fiercely anti Drumpf, and you can count me amongst them. I run into them daily. And yes there are some that are crossing the border to help in local campaigns, especially along the 49th. I expect that will continue as long as Drumpf is a threat.
KP Daily Funnies — Unfortunately, the video is not available for showing in Canada. Interesting that Alec Baldwin's younger brother, William Baldwin, is a Drumpf supporter. Since this skit was lampooning Drumpf, I'm going out on a limb stating that Alec is a Democrat.
Daily Kos — Issa, another thin skinned, hypocritical Republican that needs to go into permanent retirement. I hope Applegate roasts Issa's chestnuts in a very hot fire.
TPM — Ah, Republican family values, eh!
Cartoon — Everything goes down faster with Republicans!
I don't know what his politics are, but he is the official voice of the New York Philharmonic on their radio broadcasts (for a couple of years now) and he surely sounds different there. Of course, as a former boss of mine, a theatre director, used to say, "That's why they call it acting."
Did Wendy give you a quick de-stink after all that hard work you both put in. TomCat? Sounds like you can have a bit more lesure time this week now; but not too much or those two pounds will shift butt again.
MG: It's not just Canada that can't sit idle. Not that it'll have much direct effect, it's the American voter who determines the outcome after all, but it sure is a good way to let America know what the rest of the world thinks about Drumpf and it keeps anxiety at bay a little.
KPDF: So funny, but too true, especially Clinton's question: "Can we vote now". Wish you had and all would have been over now. And then all the comedians can take a break, I hope, because Drumpf has been working their socks off.
DK: The proof is in the pudding, and Issa just ate the whole thing. I hope Applegate not just wins on points, but with a real knockout. Applegate-Issa 1:~
TPM: " "I'm thankful for my body, but I didn't want to exploit it," Marla offers. "How would I ever be taken seriously." Awwww, Marla, don't tell us that you were ever taken seriously by Drumpf. You were a trophy wife from the start and Drumpf considers women to be little more than "stupid cows": to be bought and sold after they've served their purpose.
Cartoon: As captains the Republicans were the first to leave the ship.
I always have more to do than hours to do it.
Issa is an ass.
Those Canadians are really good friends as good friends never let friends vote Trump.
Loved SNL – thought they were both great. My surprise is that Trump hasn't commented yet – but then, what could he say?
To me, all of Trump's "women" look as if they star in B movies. But nothing like pimping out your girlfriend/wife.
Despite a sometimes dark, depressing world, you most always make me laugh, TC… thank you!
Thanks all! Hugs!!
Just a thought. The Obama,s are a couple with "CLASS"
Trump and Ivanca. with :" Trash".:.or as we say in the North of England.
"After the Lord Mayors Show. comes The "MUCK CART" nuff said. (Ho Ho Ho!!)