Another month is coming to an end, here in the CatBox. As if I wasn’t already busy enough, tomorrow is April Republicans Day, Easter Sunday, and WWWendy’s de-stink the sweaty TomCat day, all rolled into one. Therefore, both the new poll and the Monthly Report will be delayed a day, to Monday and Tuesday respectively.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:21 (average 5:16). To do it, click here. How did you do? I hope they have dawg burgers and dawg dogs.
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): High Costs For Mocking Parkland Student Survivors
Updating yesterday’s article, kudos to the thirteen companies. Whether or not, Faux Noise fires her, and she becomes the next White House Communications Director, RESIST!!
From NY Post: Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.
Woooo Hoooo!! RESIST!!
From Space: A full Blue Moon rises into the evening sky tonight (March 31). This will be the second and final Blue Moon of 2018, so don’t miss it!
Despite the name, the "Blue Moon" won’t actually be blue. In fact, it will look the same as any other full moon. According to the current definition, the term refers to the second full moon in a given calendar month. The traditional definition of a Blue Moon was reserved for the third full moon in a season that has four full moons, which happens in years that have 13 full moons instead of the usual 12.
Talk about Déjà vu! RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Calling it a “medical mystery of the first order,” scientists are baffled by the ability of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to stand upright without the benefit of spines.
Doctors at the University of Minnesota Medical School, who have been studying the skeletal structures of both Republicans for months, believe that their ability to stand, walk, and even break into a brisk trot when confronted by reporters’ questions is “virtually inexplicable.”
“The fact that they can do these things without the aid of spines makes McConnell and Ryan anomalies in the animal kingdom,” said Dr. Davis Logsdon. “According to everything medical science teaches us, their bodies should be collapsing to the ground in two heaps.”
Dang Andy!! I know God wouldn’t do this, but you sure have proven the existence of the devil!! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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5:32 The description sounds like an advertisement.
Interesting story – it’s also elsewhere, but in pieces – this one compares the separate incidents.
MSNBC – Some of the most arrogant commenters in the blogosphere are calling David “arrogant” and “offensive” – oh, and “vindictive.” I wonder whether it is his courage, or his righteous anger that puts them off the most? Or maybe his youth. They are also saying “Children shouldn’t be telling adults what to do.”
NY Post – The term isn’t used here, but don’t be fooled by any report that she apologized. All Republicans know how to do is “nopologize” – and that’s all she did too.
Space – Oh, you might get it to look blue by wearing blue-tinted lenses to watch it. By either definition, it of course happens because the solar and lunar calendars don’t speak to each other.
TNY – I always figured they had notochords. Fascinating.
Cartoon – If I would still be alive (unlikely to the point of absurdity), I would celebrate the day when humanity woke up from its nightmare of imagined “race” when in fact, for humans, there is only the human race.
Yes, I know it was yesterday, but historically. Day Two also counts, which is not true of Good Friday.
MSNBC: He cares!! So proud of these kids who are stepping up. Their parents can be very, very proud !
NYP: As she should. Leave. And not come back. Nor, go to the WH either.
Space: I love a full moon. I walk outside, and the front lawn is lit up by it’s beauty, and while others sleep, I walk in the stillness of early morning. It’s a beautiful and meaningful part of my routine. Love the song, brings back some good memories for me.
NYer: Gawd, this is hilarious!!! Yea, two piles of sheet there on the floor. LOL
Cartoon: What Joanne said so eloquently. Amen!!
Tell WWWendy I said ‘Happy Easter’!! You have a relaxing evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom. Happy Easter! y’all. xo
YT and NYP: Those reich-wing pundits do not know the meaning of shame. They have the scruples of buzzards, the souls of spiders, and the hearts of lampreys.
Space: “Blue moons” are arbitrary phenomena, depending entirely on how we humans mark time.
TNY: To say nothing of how they and their ilk can reproduce without b*lls.
Cartoon: In your dreams, Rethuglicanazis!
Puzzle — 4:27 Give me a diet Coke but skip the greasy stuff!
MSNBC — Kudos to those companies that are stepping out of Ingraham’s orbit. I hope more take the same action. I heard today on a local radio station that Ingraham is taking a week off as a result of the mêlée she has created. Hopefully it will be permanent!
From Daily Kos: Sign the petition: Fire Laura Ingraham for her offensive bullying
Space — I love the full moon and its pure white light. I refer to the full moon as Luna and can sit and watch it for some time.
The New Yorker — Too funny!!!
Anybody want to sign a petition in support of the dissection?
Cartoon — We will be overjoyed and celebrate the last Republican in office!
I have a sick little boy tonight . . . he is barfing what seems continuously but really isn’t. I am worried because he wasn’t purring (very unusual) and he was growling. I suspect he can’t poo. I gave him some pumpkin which about half an hour later had him barfing some more. That said, he just started purring and did not react when I rubbed his tummy. Depending on how things go, I’ll take him to the vet’s tomorrow. Since he has perked up a bit, I am now going to try to get some sleep.
MSNBC & NYP: There’s definitely been a shift in opinions and it’s all thanks to these young people speaking out, organising themselves and giving opposition to Drumpf’s America a new impetus. Kudos to all of them. And more Kudos to them for being so much more mature than most of their elders by keeping the bigger picture in mind. Because that is the most amazing about these young people: they don’t fight on party lines, they fight for a common good, irrespective of colour, creed or income. They fight for their lives, their future and for a country for all of them. And that is why they scare the ? out of so many politicians (and corporate executives and the 1% for that mater). Those kids are doing the job they are supposed to do and by the looks of it they are doing it better and have a far wider appeal than many on The Hill.
Space: Too late for me, this message, but that hardly matters because it has been heavily overcast and raining a lot for two days now. No full moons of any colour for us here.
TNY: And they haven’t managed to grow one since then, even with a majority in Congress. All of their pictures need to be photoshopped to give them some human resemblance:
Before
After
For those who celebrate it:
and for those who don’t:
Read all about the new discovery
Thanks all. Exhausted.