It’s a comparatively warm day here in the CatBox as we enter a week of above average temps here. Please expect no more than Personal Updates with no links messages on Care2 tomorrow and Monday. Tomorrow is a very busy TomCat de-stink day with WWWendy. Monday is dentist day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
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Short Takes:
From Huffington Post: Australian Senator Fraser Anning blames Muslims for the shootings at two mosques in New Zealand that left at least 49 dead in their places of worship.
The politician drew immediate criticism after he released a statement on Friday declaring that the shooter ― an avowed white supremacist ― was motivated not by bigotry but by the “increasing Muslim presence” in Australia and New Zealand.
“Whilst this kind of violent vigilantism can never be justified, what it highlights is the growing fear within our community, both in Australia and New Zealand, of the increasing Muslim presence,” he wrote. “Let us be clear, while Muslims may have been the victims today, usually they are the perpetrators.”
This bigoted and dangerous point of view is one that Anning has been peddling for some time. In August, he called for a “final solution” to the Muslim “immigration problem,” evoking a reference to the Nazis’ “final solution” terminology used to target Jews during the Holocaust.
This proves that excrement need not be American to be Republican. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): FACADE OF PLASTIC PIETY
Amazing, Don! The problem is not from Christianity. It’s from Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christianity, the opposite of authentic Christianity. RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: In an interview with Breitbart, Donald Trump had a not-at-all-subtle message for his opponents. “I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump,” he claimed. “I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough—until they go to a certain point and then it would be very bad, very bad.”
Trump doesn’t make it clear who “they” are, or exactly what would have to happen before his collection of soldiers, officers, and bikers would be released to make things “very bad.” Not that details are required. Trump is making it clear he thinks he has the muscle on his side to get his way by brute force, no democracy required.
Brute force was the way of the extreme right even before the Republican Party became the Republican Reich by putting the extreme right in charge. RESIST!!
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Blaming Muslims for the Christchurch bloodbath is like blaming African-Americans for lynchings, or Jews for the Holocaust. HATE is to blame. Stupid, blind hate.
The real reason for all this foreign intervention is not protecting democracy or human rights, but satisfying the greed of the defense contractors. The beast that we call the Military-Industrial Complex MUST be fed!
The Tangerine Trog probably thinks that all the “tough people” will remain loyal to him. What a maroon.
6:00 Maybe Squatch or Lona can save him.
HuffPo – Bullies and abusers all think alike. Beat or killed his wife? she shouldn’t have “made him angry.” Muslims shot in the mosque? They shouldn’t have come here (or in this case to the neighbor nation. And they also always terrorize or brainwash people into believing them, if their upbringing hasn’t brainwashed them first (saving the bully time and effort.) This dude got elected, didn’t he? Someone, or many someones, voted for him. Not badmouthing Australia. We have the same problem in spades.
Other PP – I can’t find it in my heart to demonize people who have come to the point of believing that all faiths are inherently bad, and should be abolished (as if that were possible, even if desirable.) They are only reacting, or responding, to the hypocrisy of those who use their faith to justify horrors. I do try to point out that, just because throughout history religion has been USED by some to control others does not mean that religions was INVENTED by some to control others. Religion – faith – is a normal human impulse to answering questions that are unanswerable (strange syntax, but I hope it communicates.) Furthermore, it’s an impulse that has survival value. OK, rant over (for now.)
DK – Yes. How old is the saying “Might makes right”? Probably as old as the human race. There have always been those who subscribed to it, and there have always been those who emphatically did not. I’ll grant he has the support of “Bikers for Trump” by definition, but if he thinks he has the support of the entire military or even the entire police force (i.e. every person in every police force in the nation, he may very well be in for a surprise – and I hope it’s a big one.
Cartoon – One of the good things he did. (Not, of course, perfect.) People tend to remember either all the good things he did, or all the bad things he did, and not the others. He was more complicated than that.
HP: Horrible !!! Coming out of the woodwork, like the cockroach and coward that he is. A total disgrace. (sound like someone else we know?)
PP: Very.Well.Done.!!! Truth!
DK: The walls are caving in, and imho, his negative behavior is ascending a notch every day, in his words and deeds. He’s throwing out anything that will grab a line, too. btw….someone needs to take his media, and twitter feed away.
Cartoon: Brought the Job Corps into the light, Medicare, Adult Ed for adults, and other needs to help the people to name a few….
Hi, WWWendy! Hope that you have a good day/evening, and take good care, Thanks, Tom. Fingers crossed when you see your dentist too.
This just in: dt: “Did you order wiretaps on the phones in my house?” Obama: “No, I ordered a baby monitor.” ~ James G. ~
HP: If this jackass “…has been peddling” this crap “for some time,” it is a sad reflection, again, on deplorables who elected him.
PPC: 500,00 children’s death, and she can say “We (notice how she spread the responsibility, can’t say “I”) think i’s worth it.” Batshit crazy!!!!!!!!!!!
DK: Drumph never cites specifics, he avers to some unidentifiable “other.” He did this in his campaigning, it is part of how how he manipulates, as in”You know who you are.” THIS is the damned Anti-Christ, for those who believe in such.
‘Toon: No, the GOPIGGIES would say, “We love our poverty stricken!”
3:21 TomCat didn’t get distracted by its fake eye, but I sure did.
HP By now there are 50 dead to mourn and I’ve had may say on that disgusting piece in my comment on A Not So Fun Friday posted by Nameless yesterday. The voting system in Australia isn’t perfect either with its districts, otherwise Anning would never have made it to senator. As the ABC noted:
I’m sure Australian voters will now take care of this aberration as he can’t be dispelled from the Senate, or fined, just slapped on the wrist.
PP: This is what I commented on Parody Project yesterday: Such a beautiful song, but so hard to listen to now with its new truth and the images accompanying it. The truth is always hard to hear, isn’t it, no matter how beautifully wrapped. Thanks, Don, for making us listen to the truth.” Sorry for quoting myself again, but I can’t think of anything else to add right now.
DK: Congrats, America, your mobster boss is now openly threatening the country when things don’t go his way. He’s already has declared a State of Emergency; what will be his next step if push comes to shove, do you think?
Cartoon: After all these years, my mind still has trouble linking LBJ’s face to a decent man who tried to do the right thing for his country and not to the anti-Vietnam-war posters and slogans I first knew him from.
WRT Sen. Anning getting egged, I particularly liked this YouTube because it shows the HERO listening to what Anning said before he acted. Not that he wasn’t prepared, but he didn’t fire until he saw the “White Supremacist in his eyes.”
(OK – the video has CC so I know it wasn’t until he actually HEARD the White Supremacist remark. But Col. Prescott at Bunker Hill didn’t say that. To paraphrase Sec. Rumsfeld, you go to press w/ the quotes you have.)
And this YouTube video shows how the boy was pretty roughed up:
HP: Despicable what Australian Senator Fraser Anning was saying, putting blame on the Muslims. Where the heck is he coming from??? Speaking pure trash.
PPC: Good honest truth.
DK: Sounds to me like his disgusting way of bullying. Hate to tell him that doesn’t work.
Cartoon: He did some good things for the people.
Hope you have a good Sunday with your visit with Wendy. Plus that your visit at the dentist on Monday goes well too.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to all!
Thanks. Rushing Hugs.
Even our PM Scomo backs #EggBoy & says racist Senator Anning should face the full force of the law over his actions!
Will Connolly aka #EggBoy is suddenly a global internet star!