It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. Store to Door delivered my groceries and I put them away. WWWendy is coming this evening to destink the TomCat. I’m tired, so I’ll be brief.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:00 (average 5:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NPR: The head of Russia’s foreign spy service reportedly traveled to the U.S. earlier this month and met with top Trump administration intelligence officials, despite being on a U.S. sanctions blacklist.
Is anyone surprised that Trump and the Republican Party are ignoring the sanctions against their electoral benefactors? RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: The White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is proofreading the text of tonight’s State of the Union address one last time to remove any remaining facts, Sanders confirmed on Tuesday.
While a team of wordsmiths led by the senior adviser Stephen Miller has attempted to craft an entirely fact-free address, “It’s good to have a fresh set of eyes to root out any stray accuracies that might have crept in,” Sanders said.
The press secretary said that, for example, while purging the speech of truths, she noticed a reference to the African-American unemployment rate standing at 6.8 per cent, a statistic that she deemed “unacceptably correct.”
“I read that and my Sanders sense started tingling,” she said.
Taking her blue pencil to the text, Sanders changed the number to a “better-sounding” 2.3 per cent. “That may seem like a tiny detail, but it’s stuff like that that separates the professional liars from the mere amateurs,” she said.
Dang Andy! She sure did a good job! RESIST!!
From TPM: The adult film star, who reportedly was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about a 2006 extramarital affair with Donald Trump, was interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel after Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday evening and appeared to cast doubt on her previous denials of the affair.
Here’s the video. It’s hilarious!
The state of Trump’s union was wet and golden! It was the carrot on the right. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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6:07 Is it even possible to buy those any more?
New (copyrighed) cartoons
NPR – And Republicans don’t see it as treason, or aid and comfort, or working for a foreign power, or illegal in any way. They only see something that makes “liberal snowflakes” weep. So they love it.
TNY – SMH.
TPM – Don’t overdose on Schadenfreude, now.
Cartoon – Well, according to Dante … it is already frozen for traitors. The Circle of Traitors is the Circle of Ice. It makes even Satan weep, but his tears freeze instantly. And the traitors there are exactly the kind we have now: traitors to their feudal lords, the nearest modern equivalent being their country: the entity to which they owe sworn fealty. But that doesn’t mean I’m expecting a Republican path to citizenship any time soon.
Your dish brushes.
She doesn’t seem that unhappy, and has a great sense of humor.
I didn’t mean any shade on her, but the shade being cast on The Great Kumquat.
Aha! That’s certainly valid!
NPR: Well now, come on in!!! Sheet! I wonder if they dusted off the ‘Welcome Mat’ before they got there! If I or anyone in my family did this, we’d be in prison. For years.
NYer: Word.
TPM: Carrots anyone??
Cartoon: So so sad. !!!!
*Like your comment, Joanne. I read Dante’s Divine Comedy years ago. Maybe I should re-read it again, since we seem to hell now with dt and his minions. Thanks!
Hi, WWWendy! Hope all is well with you! Hope that you get your rest, take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
Hell could freeze solid and Rethuglicans STILL wouldn’t do squat!
NPR: Not the least bit surprised! You see we are interested in the kinds of things that Joe Kennedy referred to, things that involve caring for and about our fellow human beings. Championing things like that do not cause one to act like a mobster. The GOP gives not a damn for people, only for the power to have MORE, at anyone’s expense. Thus, having those most of us would think of as “The enemy,” “Waltz into the front door,” is, to them, a minor detail! These scum in business suits are not interested in being good citizens, they are interested in whatever will achieve their slimy, odious, agenda. PERIOD! THEY WILL NOT PLAY FAIR. THEY HAVE NO SCRUPLES, and see those with them as weaklings!
The New Yorker: Sanders makes her (happily forgotten the name) predecessor look like Mickey Mouse. It is like she is channeling the evil that lives with her father, has refined it, polished it, exudes it.
Stormy: Thank you Jimmy, for taking whatever risk you and your producers took, for having that “talk” with her! I thought she handled the carrot situation quite well. But, it does not really matter what size his package is, what matters is that he is the personification thereof!
NPR: What the …? How come this hardly warrants any attention in the media? Unbelievable.
TNY: Kudos, Andy. You had Ms. Sanders do an excellent job. Just what the master ordered and what his base needed to hear: his approval rates went up again.
Jimmy Kimmel: Stormy may be upset about what they’re putting out there about her, but she’ll make herself a lot of money from keeping the intrigue going, and she’s smart enough to milk it all the way. She certainly seems to have more brains than her alleged president…oops, alleged admirer. Even her doll has more brains.
Cartoon: You might have nailed one of the reasons Republicans deny Global Warming. They’re not taking any chances that we lower temperatures again and his place does freeze over.
Folks might be interested in this petition at moveon.org:
https://petitions.moveon.org/sign/devin-nunes-must-be-removed?source=homepage
Devin Nunes is obviously not working for the good of our country.
Thanks Richard, I signed it.
Thanks Richard. I’ve already signed it.
Pretty sure I already signed it also, but I hope once more won’t hurt.
Puzzle — 4:22 Well I got the brush off, literally! To answer your question JD, I have not seen this type with bristles recently but I have seen silicone ones in the neon colours.
NPR — And the Drumpf beat goes on! Is it any wonder that Drumpf made no mention of the Russia investigation in the SOTU address? Drumpf, it does not go away just because you wish it would or because you don’t mention it. I think Pompeo is correct but what is he, a dyed in the wool Republican, going to do about it. After all, the Russians helped the Republicans.
The New Yorker — Andy, you portrayed Huckabee so accurately. After all, her predecessor, Sean Spicer, confirmed that his job was to parrot what the Liar-in-Chief said, so that is her job too! The American people “don’t need no stinkin’ facts” according to both of them.
TPM — To quote Bernie Sanders, “It’s what [s]he did not say!” Hilarious, yes. And it was most definitely the carrot on the right!
Cartoon — Drumpf has a “wonderful deal” for Dreamers! Just ask him. I do not trust the Liar-in-Chief with any of his pronouncements, but then you know that. The cartoon is very accurate in my opinion.
I am growing moss on my north side courtesy of all the rain in January, which is the highest in a number of years. I was teaching yesterday up the mountain where it snowed, literally covering my car, but as I came down the mountain, it turned to rain. So far this morning, it is dry but only 2 C (35 F). I am trying to put together another OT.
I don’t know if I will around much on Sunday and perhaps Monday. Sunday, 04 February 2018 is the first anniversary of my mother’s death and it is already creeping into my thoughts at the weirdest times and with the strangest provocations.
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Thanks all. Pooped hugs!