I figure I can get this started before leaving to my Oncologist and finish up when I return. This is today’s only article.
I was very pleased with my Oncologist. His preventive strategy is exactly what I wanted and expected. I’ll set up the cat scans and his office will call me the next day with the results. Here he is.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:30 (average 4:46). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NY Times: A large crowd of students walked out of the Notre Dame commencement ceremony on Sunday in protest of the speaker, Vice President Mike Pence, who delivered a speech that mixed platitudes about bright, dream-filled futures with a lengthy rebuke of political correctness on college campuses.
As several dozen students in caps and gowns quietly exited the graduation ceremony, the vice president praised Notre Dame, one of the nation’s most prominent Catholic universities, as “a vanguard of freedom of expression and the free exchange of ideas…
…The protest began as Mr. Pence began his remarks at Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Ind., where degrees were conferred on 2,081 students. Online video of the ceremony showed a large number of young people filing out of the stadium as the vice president began to congratulate the graduates and their families. Around them, the audience erupted into a mixture of boos and applause.
Kudos to the students. Follow their example. RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: 26 Year Old H.S. Teacher Wins Primary Against Democratic PA. Mayor Who Backed Trump.
Click Through for details. Kudos! Wonderful!! This, not voting for Russia’s tools like Jill Stein, is how to RESIST!!
From Washington Post: U.S. Rep. Al Green said the phone calls came in not long after he called for the impeachment of President Trump.
“Hey, Al Green, we got an impeachment for you. It’s going to be yours,” one caller said. “Was actually gonna give you a short trial before we hang your n—– ass.”
“You’re not going to impeach anybody, you f—— n—– … You’ll be hanging from a tree,” another one said. “I didn’t see anybody calling for the impeachment of your n—– Obama when he was born in Kenya. He’s not even an American. So f— you, n—–.”
Aha! Reaching out to minorities, the way Republicans do it. I bet AG KKK Beauregard squealed with hooded glee! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
2017 Pact of Shit between Trump and Putin.
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Dr. Curti has impressive credentials: Georgetown Medical School, then U of Pennsylvania for Internal Medicine residency then back to Georgetown for Oncology fellowship.
And glad to hear that you sound like you're in sync w/ his approach.
Glad you approve.
4:14 Gives me another idea.
Wow! Thank you for sharig this with us! It makes your confidence contagious, as it were.
NYT – I saw one of the videos. I particularly liked the young lady with the rainbow all over the top of her cap who simply stood and turned around to the rainbow would be staring him in the face. She was in the front row, too.
DKos – Thank you for linking to this. There's not enough material here for a "pithy progressive" and I'm short of time to research. The best part is that it's a very blue area, one of those where getting the nomination is a virtually certain win.
WaPo – I here there's a new candy flavor going around: peach-mint. Under the "M" brand. Right.
Cartoon – Ugh. Yeah. They thought the world revolved around them. White supremacists still think so.
And don't forget, there is this from Ben and Jerry.
YUM!
I want a
pint…quart… GALLONS!I do too. But you can have my waffle cone chunks. At least, chocolate covered like that, they won't have cross-contaminated the rest of the ice cream.
(I get emails from Ben now since I joined the Stamp Stampede. Maybe I should ask about getting a batch without.)
I want to pee on it!
So that's what's in his excuse for a brain!
NYT: So proud of those students, and their parents who did this! Kudos!!
DK: Congratulations Matthew, note to self: "Here’s hoping we can take out some more trash in the coming years." Best of luck to you!
WP: Disgraceful, and absolutely horrible. I hope that Rep. Al Green has bodyguards. Absolutely dispicable!
Cartoon: ugh!
Glad your appointment went well. Hope that you have a relaxing evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Puzzle — 3:22 No fricassée of flamingo tonight Puddy Tat! . . . and don't give me that poor starving kitten routine!
NY Times — I've seen several articles both before the event and at the event. Kudos to the young lady who stood with her back to Pence the entire time with a PRIDE cover on her cap. There were others who got up and walked out when he was starting. One fellow wore a PRIDE flag as a cape. They all deserve kudos for taking a stand publicly. I hope there are no repercussions to the students.
Daily Kos — Kudos to this young man for recognising a need and stepping up, especially when dealing with a DINO.
Washington Post — I saw this and was absolutely sick about it. These racist curs are the scum of the earth. Green is calling for impeachment based on the illegalities that Drumpf and his cabal have perpetrated. This is not a racial issue, but a legal issue. Unfortunately, the bone-headed curs don't know, understand or want to understand that all people are created equal. They might want to review the Declaration of Independence where it states:
Cartoon — What JD said! You'd think the human race would have learned long ago, but no, it keeps making the same mistakes!
Question: Every time I see a picture of Sessions, I have a vision of a faerie or imp, a black hearted one to be sure. What do you think? Ears that stick out, a pointy mouth, a roundish face, a bit of evil in his eyes.
Resist and Persist!!!
I am glad that your appointment went so well and that the two of you are on the same page. I trust it has been warm and muggy there today. Yesterday was 28 C (82 F) and quite muggy. Right now, it is 28 C (82 F) with a breeze and 28% humidity. I thought tomorrow was going to be cloudy with some rain, but the forecast does not support that, only cooler than today. I have to take the babes to the vet's tomorrow so I'd just as soon have cool with no rain.
The students asked (and got) permission in advance, provided they were not disruptive. Walking out was not considered to be disruptive. They should be OK. Someone there has a brain.
Whenever I see a photo of Beauregard Sessions I think of either Granny from the "Beverly Hillibies":
Or the Keebler Elf – which is close to your description:
He' being referred to on line as the Keebler Elf so much that I suspect if one googled "Keeble Elf" he would come up. But I love that picture of Granny. The expression is perfect.
Granny was to kiind, and the on ly time an Elf would make Sessions is in the tree with a half moon.
No birdie for poor atarving kitten!
85° and muggy here now.
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MSNBC executives plan to cancel Lawrence O'Donnell highly-rated prime time television show "The Last Word" after his contract expires on June 4th.
This comes at a time when MSNBC has made some dubious personnel changes, hiring Fox News veteran Greta van Susteren and former Bush spokesperson Nicole Wallace—which suggests that the network is hoping to appease the Trump Administrations.
No one would love to see Lawrence O'Donnell gone more than President Trump. In 2011, O'Donnell called on NBC to fire Donald Trump from the Apprentice because of his racist birther campaign against Obama.
Trump even once threatened to sue O'Donnell for defamation, but never followed up on that threat.
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For years, MSNBC has provided a needed voice of sanity against the right-wing lies spewed on Fox News and other conservative media outlets. "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell is one of your most highly rated shows, because his program is both informative and entertaining. Please renew his contract.
Please click on the heading and it will take you to the Daily Kos petition. No fuss, no muss. Some of you may already have signed if you get the same e-mails from Daily Kos as I do. Thanks
Thanks for the petition, Lynn. Lawrence O'Donnell MUST stay!
Previously signed. But keep on posting. They have given in to the point of starting negotiations … but that may be just a ploy to try to mke his leaving "his fault."
Done.
Nice to virtually meet Dr. Curti. He's obviously a cat lover besides a good doctor because you were so well in sync, TomCat. Now let's hope all he has to do is keep a CAT-scan on you and you will never enter into one of his clinical trials.
NYT: Smart students in more than one way. Congratulations on your graduation and Kudos for RESISTING
DK: Congrats, Matthew Shorraw, hope the job is yours soon. Progressives rule!
>WP: I think Al Green was quite prepared for these types of calls from Drumpfians, he must have had some in the past. Things are getting heated though, so I hope phonecalls are all Green's going to get. Stay strong Mr. Green!
Thanks all! Hugs!
Dr. C. comes across like a real human! And, he's got Nameless' approval, cool!
NYT: Definitely kudos!!
WP: The Empyt Orange brought these barely human versions of Piss Poor Pustules out of their cess pool sink holes!
Cartoon: I'd ike to take some steel and shove it…!