It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. First, I awakened just after midnight, itchy and sticky. I finally fell asleep again after 3:30 AM and overslept by a full two hours. Then, I overloaded my computer doing research this morning, crashed it. I had several web pages and several applications open at once, and had not rebooted in a couple days. I lost forty five minutes work. Finally, it’s a grocery delivery day, and I do not know when Store to Door is coming. Some days… You have a good one!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:32 (average 8:18). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoons:
Short Takes:
From Willamette Week: Portland-area voters could open their ballots in three months to find a surprise: a request for $250 million to $300 million a year in taxpayer funding for services to get homeless people off the streets.
WW reported Jan. 27 that the regional government Metro may place such a measure on the May 19 ballot. That marks a stark change since last month, when the Metro Council insisted to advocates it would take as long as two years to grind a measure through the bureaucracy.
Instead, local officials now want to construct a measure and present it to voters in 13 weeks.
This is still overdue, even though Oregon leads the way! RESIST!!
From USA Today: Attorney Alan Dershowitz, a member of President Donald Trump’s defense team, alarmed Democrats and many legal scholars with his argument in the first day of questions and answers in the Senate impeachment trial that presidents cannot be removed from office for an action they believe could help get them re-elected.
In response to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, about whether it mattered if Trump engaged in a “quid pro quo,” Dershowitz said that motive was what mattered and that if an act was in the public interest it was not impeachable. And he said it was reasonable for a public official to equate what is in their own political interest with the public good.
“Every public official that I know believes that his election is in the public interest,” he said. “And if a president does something, which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment.”
Dershowitz said a quid pro quo that involved an illegal act, or was done for personal financial gain, would be impeachable, however. [emphasis added]
Dershowitz is so full of shit his eyes are brown. Hitler honestly believed that murdering six million Jews was in the national interest. According to the Republican Reich, that’s fine. Who would Fuhrer Trump want to murder…Jews? …Blacks? …Latinos? …Muslims? …Gays? …Seniors? …Poor People? …Libruls? In any case, Dershowitz missed a key point. Since the re-theft (Trump* was NEVER elected) of the White House would result in more personal profit for Trump* from having his entourage stay at Trump* resorts at considerable taxpayer expense, his campaign is for personal gain, so his campaign related acts are impeachable, even by the twisted, devious standards of the Republican Reich! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from Lona’s past): Shocking Blue – Venus
Ah… Lona’s memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue!!
12 Responses to “Open Thread–1/30/2020”
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Cartoon1: Happy, Happy Birthday, Lona!! Have a wonderful & Happy Day!!
Cartoon2: Heard about this offensive from some Navy SeaBees when they were in Vietnam. The whole platoon had stories, that would make your hair turn white. Sad time in our history.
WW: Wish they would do that here too. Good for you and your state!! Yes, you DO lead the way!
USA Today: Makes stuff up as he goes along. Where on God’s green earth do these guys get their info to answer these questions? Covering & siding for the id in the WH. ugh!
BFTP: Love this one!!
Glad that you got your rest, but a shame that your computer crashed. Hope that you have a good rest of your day, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
This just in: Q: “If you believe Trump that ‘Bolton’s book is a lie’…then how could it be filled w/classified info?? ~ William Y. ~
2. “John Bolton likes the tweet saying Trump should ‘fire the moron who hired John Bolton!” ~ Autarkh ~
3. “The dems certainly are not perfect, BUT, they aren’t close as corrupt as the republicons are. The R’s aren’t even trying to hide their corruption any longer.” ~ Alan C. ~
4. So, so sweet. “A reporter asked Nancy Pelosi how she can go ahead w/impeachment if the public d/not support it. She said she wasn’t worried, and suggested to the reporter to go over to her office to see all the beautiful flowers that were blooming.” ~ Anon ~
Pat, Dershowitz isn’t getting info, he’s making interpretations. I actually have the same talent … but I use mine very rarely and only for good.
Thanks, Joanne for info.
He’s still an As- ! lol
8:15 I haven’t played in decades (and don’t miss it a bit.)
Well, this is interesting.
Cartoon – Lona:
Cartoon – the beginning of the end.
WW – A surprise? Do you have that many people not paying attention? I surely hope it passes … and that will need favorable publicity.
USAT – Because that motivation worked so well for Nixon? /s
Past – I think I remember a song of that name … but it wasn’t this one.
Happy Birthday, Lona!
Tet Offensive: A horrid situation, in a war in which we ought not to have been.
WW: If this goes through, the project will need to be well though out and properly supported, so that it does not become a boondoggle.
USA Today: He’s lost his frigging mind! It was once considered a good mind, and he sure as hell did not give it to DT.
Deep Purple: Cool!
TC: Oversleep can sometimes be a good thing.
TC, here is my unrequested suggestion for the next Parade:
https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/sen-rand-paul-storms-out-of-senate-to-tweet-after-chief-justice-john-roberts-declines-to-read-his-question-a-second-time/
Oh Lord, wasn’t that egregious!
Happy Birthday Lona. Hope you enjoyed you’re special day,
Cartoon 2: Sad that it even had to happen.
WW: Good for Oregon. I too hope it passes throughout the states.
USA: I agree with your comment about the no good creep dershowitz, He’s like all the others who are full of sh*t and lost his wits.
BFTP: Another favorite of mine too.
Sounds like you had a hectic morning. Hope your day got better for you.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
Thank you all for your kind birthday wishes. I really appreciate them very much.
I’m glad my day didn’t go the way your day did, TomCat. 😶
4:10 Childhood memories, playing with my opa (grandfather).
WW: I read the whole article, searching for the reason Metro changed its mind in a month, but couldn’t find it. What has happened in those backrooms? Who got some dirt on who? Not that it matters much now, it’s all for a good cause.
USAT: Aren’t you glad that the defence had its days in the Senate and we don’t have to listen to this 🐂💩 any longer. Apart from the 🐂💩 questions, that is. Prepare for it to start all over in the unlikely event of witnesses being allowed.
BFTP: This was an enormous hit in The Netherlands, but after landing in LA in the late 80s and getting in the rented car, this was the first number we heard on the radio and we were told it had been a top 10 hit in the US too. Venus came on the radio every trip we made to America after that; isn’t that strange?
A belated, but heartfelt, “Happy Birthday!”
At least I did bake you a cake …
Happy belated Birthday Wishes to Lona.🎉🎈💐
Thanks and pooped Hugs to all!