It’s a busy day here at the CatBox. Another unit is about to open at the Madrona Studios, and federal screeners are about to get my paperwork to get me approved for it. Thoughts and prayers please. If it works, I’ll be moving in a month or less. Needless to say, I’m busier than a long=tail TomCat in a rocking chair showroom.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:44 (average 5:39). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Rep. Duncan Hunter’s lawyers are asking a judge to keep the jury in Hunter’s campaign finance violations trial from hearing that he spent campaign money on his affairs with five different women. And the lawyers, saying that Hunter was “a married man mixing business with pleasure,” have come up with a line of argument that’s … creative.
Hunter is on trial for having spent campaign money for personal reasons, including not just affairs but vacations, clothes, and video games. His expenditures on affairs, then, are entirely relevant to the charges he faces. But! Hunter carried on these affairs with three lobbyists, a staffer in his own office, and a Republican National Committee official. So his lawyers are arguing that the money he spent in the course of having affairs with them should count as a legitimate political expenditure.
On a scale of 1 to 10… Bullshit over the top. RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Donald Trump Angrily Tweets After He Surrenders On Census
What a wonderful spelunking expedition for the cowardly bully. The Republican Reich must figure that Court-mandated Gerrymandering is enough. RESIST!!
From Raw Story: ‘Cage Trump, not kids’: New York rally demands Trump close child asylum centres [sic]
Cage him in a GOP Gulag! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
O-ring: a gasket in the form of a ring with a circular cross section, typically made of pliable material, used to seal connections in pipes, tubes, etc.
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6:36 The longer I looked, the more orange it appeared, and I loathe orange.
Thoughts and prayers on the way!
Well, I watched the program on Nero, and apparently the major thing he and 45 have/had in common is that both like(d) gold. Both were CEOs of a large state one was qualified but not interested, the other is interested but not qualified) and both – I’ll say wanted to be – show biz stars. Nero took that a lot more seriously than 45, doing a lot of vocal and breathing exercises used by actors, some of which were fairly strenuous, whereas 45 just wings it (or phones it in). A couple of the things Nero is supposed to have done were literally impossible – like attempting to kill his mother by means of a trapdoor in a trireme (it would have sunk the ship but that ship didn’t sink), and watching the fire from the roof of his palace (by the time he got to the city there was no longer a palace roof to stand on.) Yes, he went along with blaming Christians for the fire, but apparently the Christians of the day embraced that blame like today’s “Christians” embrace 45’s destruction, and for essentially the same reasons. The thing that interested mt the most was that, after the fire, he put in place new construction codes calling for wider streets, non-flammable building materials, and other precautions, and even personally paid visits to people who had sustained losses. That doesn’t sound like 45 or even 43. It sounds more like 44.
DK – I was just thinking, in a different context, of the kinds of things defense attorneys will say, and this is certainly another one. I hope it doesn’t work Remember the “Twinkie defense”?
Lawrence – Gerrymandering may or may not be enough, but with the assistance of Russian trolls and bots …
RS – Cage hin in a Zoo somewhere. Just be sure the cage is escape-proof.
Cartoon – I use cords on my glasses to keep them from falling if I need to remove them for something, and I use 7mm-9mm O-rings to keep those cords from slipping off. I get them from jewelry suppliers. They have many uses.
Madrona Studios for TC!!!!!
DK: “…legitimate political expenditures,” my ass, and up his! But, I guess you have to hand it to him for outright hutzpah, blinking idiot!
MSNBC: What else can one expect from this bag of barf, statesmanship?
Raw Story: Cage the Empty Orange one, and put an orange “O” ring around his neck (at least), with a banner unfurling from it that says “Dunce of Forever!”
DK: The republicons take it to the next level…don’t they? Who in their right mind thinks like this?? BS x’s 20!!!
MSNBC: Man’s loco. He’s full of hot air, just like the BabyTrump Balloon. lol
RS: Lock him up!!! in a cage!!! Now!
Best to you on getting your new pad ! That’s awesome news! Hope it goes through w/o a hitch too. Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “I’m not sure what Trump’s Spirit Animal is, but I’m sure it has rabies.” ~ Haze D. ~
2. The Hollywood CoC has passed a proposal to remove the Trump Star from the Walk of Fame. ~pb~
Oh, Pat, you SERIOUS:Y made me laugh. Is your source, Haze D., someone you can get back to and share this with? (I have nothing against bats – I like them much better than I do the insects they eat – it was just perfectly proportioned.)
Fingers cross for your Madrona move!
WRT Duncan Hunter – you got to admit that his lawyers were very, VERY creative.
Fingers crossed this approach is laughed out of court by a competent judge.
DK: How sneaky are they going to be??? What gives them the right to even ask for his sins to be hidden from the jurors? Must be because we have a so-called leader who has sinned so much and still remains in his position that they feel they all can do the same. The rules need to be put back the way they should and these fools must be punished for their sins.
MSNBC: He’s insane.
RS: I really wish they would put tRump behind bars and throw away the keys. He’s a heartless bas*ard.
Prayers being sent your way for you to get the Madrona studio, TC.
Thanks and Hugs to all.