Here in the shiny new CatBox, I’m running late because I slept poorly, overslept, and still feel groggy. I read the results of the Cat Scan. I have a hiatal hernia. I also have two tiny nodes in my left lung (5 mm and 1 mm). I have a routine appt. with my Oncologist to interpret the Cat Scan in 10 days, so I won’t panic until I know I have cause. Tomorrow is a busy WWWendy day, but I’ll try to stay in the saddle, because it’s the last full day of Care2 News.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
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Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Victims Of White Nationalist Terror Fight Back (And Win) In Court
That’s good! Also, Resident Donald Trump, the Tangerine Terrorist, Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch, and many other Republicans should have to pay millions in punitive damages. RESIST!!
From Common Dreams: Disgraced American billionaire and political insider Jeffrey Epstein was reported dead on Saturday morning from an apparent suicide in a New York City jail.
The New York Times reports:
Mr. Epstein hanged himself and his body was found this morning at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan at roughly 7:30.
Manhattan federal prosecutors last month charged Mr. Epstein, 66, with sex trafficking of girls as young as 14, and details of his behavior have been emerging for years.
Mr. Epstein, a financier with opulent homes, a private jet and access to elite circles, had been dogged for decades by accusations that he had paid dozens of girls for sexual acts in Florida.
It makes no sense that Epstein had been removed from suicide watch. I suspect that Epstein’s death may have been a Republicide, not a suicide. He had lots of detailed dirt on a pants-load of super-rich Republican perverts, and he had an incentive to give it up. RESIST!!
From Think Progress: The signature promise of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign was that he would build a massive wall along the nation’s southern border and that not a penny of it would be charged to the American taxpayer. He repeatedly boasted that he would get Mexico to pay for it.
But now that this lie has been all but abandoned, Senate Republicans reportedly plan to divert billions of dollars from health and education to make up the difference.
Roll Call reported on Thursday that Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby (R-AL) has written a Fiscal Year 2020 Labor-HHS-Education spending bill allocation “that is about $5 billion lower than it would have been to provide funding for the wall.” If this proposal gets the 60 votes required for passage in the Senate, it would still need to be negotiated with the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives.
Shelby has to know this will be shit-canned in conference committee. He’s just grandstanding to make the deplorable Republican Sheeple say BAAA-A-A-A-A!! RESIST!!
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4:58 Such a little dog. Hardly a mouthful.
Rachel – Right on! Of course it’s easier to take on people who aren’t the PeeResident or the Senate Majority Leader, but I agree that they should have to pay.
CD – Well, conspiracy theories are iffy at best – but some conspiracies are real. Not speculation, but investigation, is the way to prove it one way or the other. We’ll have to see. At this point, I am wondering what the major serious outlets are waiting for. I subscribe to enough newsletters that when a story like this breaks, my inbox usually lights up like the Capitol Mall on the Fourth of July. So far, nothing but AlterNet. (JUST as I was typing, Politizoom came in with a citation of NBC, so that’s something. Still slow, though.)
TP – I surely am sick of hearing about The Wall. But then, I’m not a white nationalist.
Cartoon – I assume different states have different rules for poll watchers. The ones I have dealt with in Colorado have been courteous and followed the rules (unlike some of the voters). But Colorado isn’t everywhere.
MSNBC: Kudos to the Judge!! Good to see the wheels of Justice being handed out.
Hit them where it hurts! Their pockets $$$ in re: to their violence and hate!
CD: Yeah, we’ll see where this leads us, and also found out that all cases vs. Epstein w/move forward. Thank the Lord. (abc).
TP: The only wall that needs to be built is around him. imho
Cartoon: Oh, so true!!
Sorry to read about your hiatal hernia, it is treatable, or just w/meds? Hope that you get better, get your rest, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “Boycotting Kid Rock (golfing w/dt) is like giving up castor oil for Lent.” ~ Don P. ~
2. “I support everything that dt doesn’t.” ~ Leila S. ~
3. “FL police seized more than 100 firearms, a rocket launcher, pipe bombs, and arrested 30 gang members. Was it MS-13?? Nope, Aryan Brotherhood.” ~ Dennis M. ~
Re TJI – When Florida police arrest even one member of the Aryan Brotherhood, that is news (good news at that.)
Neo-Nazis – I neo-hate those guys! So glad to see that they are getting hit in their pocketbooks, and hard.
I believe that you should say nothing about the recently dead unless it is good. Jeffrey Epstein is dead. Good.
Way to go, Orangeass. Let children go hungry, let them be lunch-shamed, but BUILD THAT F###ING WALL!!!
Yep, that’s a Republican poll watcher, all right.
MSNBC: I read about this earlier…EXCELLENT! As of that reading, the fellow who was found to owe $14M seems to have disappeared. Maybe he’s hiding up Dumpy’s dumper.
CD: All kinds of ideas run through the mind, Republicide is certainly one, Dumpycide is another. He reportedly tried to suicide earlier in the week, or was that a first,failed attempt to kill him? Conspiracy theories are going to flower like weeds, if they have not already done so. Will we trust the official autopsy results, if e ever get to hear them?
RC: That’s not just Dumpy, to cut funding for education, and the like has been a wet dream of the GOPIGGIES for a long time. Now, they just have a clear and present motive!
‘Toon: Don’t you just love that look of determined idiocy on his face?!
You probably didn’t have any symptoms of the hiatal hernia, so that probably isn’t something you need to worry about, just monitor, TomCat. I’m now keeping fingers and toes crossed that the little nodes in your lung are no more that that: little nodes.
2:53 I’m afraid this little pooch is going to be a cat’s breakfast.
MSNBC: It’s a good thing, but incredibly sad at the same time, that victims of neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups are compensated for what was done to them, with the side-effect that these groups are pushed towards bankruptcy. Good because there are judges that are independent enough to rule in their favour, and sad because victims are not helped by a white-supremacy-loving government, but rather hindered. It also makes it clear once again, that Trump and GOP need to be voted out of office before they can appoint even more right-wing judges and justices than the 200 they already have or are in the process of appointing.
CD: Epstein being able to commit suicide after having tried to take his own life before, was mentioned on Australian news too, indicating that most see the fact he wasn’t on suicide watch as something very fishy indeed. What makes it even more fishy, was Barrf’s announcement that he would have Epstein investigated independently of the FBI’s investigation. Here comes another cover-up.
TP: Five billion less for Health and Education to pay for the wall? It’ll probably not pass, but Richard Shelby must be a top-notch sociopathic sub-human to come up with such a suggestion. There aren’t enough barf bags available to express my disgust.
MSNBC: Great news. Appreciate the Judge hitting them where they’ll really suffer.
Common Dream: Have to agree with Lona that it’s awfully strange to see that ePstein was able to commit suicide while being place on a suicide watch. Makes you wonder???
TP: Despicable tRump. Taking money away from our school/education budgets for his flipping wall. May he rot in hel*.
I’ll be praying that the nodes they found aren’t cancerous. Hope that they can help you with the hiatal hernia with either diet or medications.
Hope you have a nice Sunday. Enjoy your time with Wendy.
Thanks and rushed hugs.