It’s a muggy, tired day here in the CatBox. I missed most of my nap yesterday, due to grocery delivery, and I’m feeling really pooped. TGIF!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:10 (average 5:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From Daily Kos: Sen. Rand Paul has not been getting enough attention during this impeachment process, so he executed his predictable and promised stunt on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon, submitting a question to Chief Justice John Roberts during the Q&A session that presumably contained the name of the whistleblower. Roberts refused to read the question, so Paul left the floor to have an “impromptu” press conference (and probably hit the send button on a fundraising email).
CNN’s Manu Raju reports, “At press conference, Paul says: ‘I can tell you my question made no reference to any whistleblower.’ Then Paul reads aloud his question which names a Schiff’s staff member and names the individual who has been reported as possible whistleblower—and asks about their contacts.” This was an apparent effort to get the press to publish the name, since he seems intent on getting the whistleblower killed.
It likely won’t work. One reporter asked, “With all due respect, shouldn’t you be at the impeachment hearing right now?” Of course he should have been, and the sergeant-at-arms should be putting him in the Senate jail right now.
Mitch (ours, not BBMMM) suggested a parade. For now, I’ll just remember his title: Idiot (Rand Paul), Son of Idiot (Ron Paul), Named after Idiot (Ayn Rand). Lock him up! RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: The convicted drug lord known as El Chapo said on Thursday that he was “outraged” his 2019 trial had included witnesses. He also revealed that he was demanding a new trial without them.
Speaking from ADX Florence, a maximum-security facility in Colorado, the former drug kingpin complained that his trial would have resulted in a speedy acquittal had it not been for the irritating presence of witnesses.
“If I had to point to one reason why I was convicted of all of those crimes, it would have to be witnesses,” he said. “Once the decision was made to include witnesses, things really went downhill for me.”
Andy, El Chapo does make a valid point. If the worst criminal in US History, since Benedict Arnold, gets a trial with no witnesses or documents, fairness demands that witnesses be excluded from all trials. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Bob Dylan – Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Unplugged)
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue!!
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Cartoon: Yep. Of course!
DK: I’ve known kinder kids who have acted better than this ID did. He acted like a brat, instead of having integrity and principles, but…that’s an R for ya. Kudos Mitch!! for the parade. (you party animal you!)
NYer: Word, Andy.
BFTP: Gawd, I love this song. Love BD.
Hope that you get a chance to rest and relax today/evening. Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “The President’s conduct is a national embarrassment…all he has to do is give us a day of honesty, to come out and say is what happened.” ~ Lemar Alexander speaking re: President Clinton – 1988
2. “And if we don’t win, your farms are going to hell.” ~ dt @rally in Iowa
3. “SOTU by dt = STFU speech ~Elizabeth LG ~
4. “Every person who loses their Medicard coverage under trump is a potential Democratic voter in 2020.”
~ Rob D. ~
5. “Hey! dt!! I’m tearing down this wall !!! ~ Mother Nature ~
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/border-wall-falls-wind-calemexico-california-mexicali-mexico-01-30-2020/
5:52 Well, nothing to eat, but you can certainly clean up after.
Our weather prediction is for a high of 53°F today, 64°F tomorrow, 68°F Sunday, followed by a snow day Monday. I don’t know whether it will actually happen … but it’s very believable.
From Merriam-Webster: Misologist
Definition – one given to misology
Everyone has to hate something. The misanthrope hates humankind, the misogamist hates marriage, and the misologist hates argument, reasoning, or enlightenment.
Who hates science, but does not love wisdom the less on that account, is named a misologist. Misology commonly arises from a want of scientific knowledge, and from a certain sort of vanity therewith conjoined.
— John Richardson, Logic, 1819
Cartoon – Well, pretty much.
DKos – SMDH. On the other hand, Elizabeth Warren got in a question which every Senator SHOULD be asking but probably won’t: QUESTION FROM SENATOR WARREN IS FOR THE HOUSE MANAGERS. AT A TIME WHEN LARGE MAJORITIES OF AMERICANS HAVE LOST FAITH IN GOVERNMENT DOES THE FACT THAT THE CHIEF JUSTICE’S PRESIDING OVER AN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL IN WHICH REPUBLICAN SENATORS HAVE THUS FAR REFUSED TO ALLOW WITNESSES OR EVIDENCE CONTRIBUTE TO THE LOSS OF LEGITIMACY OF THE CHIEF JUSTICE, THE SUPREME COURT AND THE… Sorry about the shouting, I cut and pasted from CSpan. On the other hand, it pretty well deserves to be shouted.
TNY – I’d say Andy should have published this earlier, but it probably doesn’t matter. Trump supporter wouldn’t listen to coastal elites anyway.
Past – Well, no one could possibly miss (now Nobel Laureate) Robert Zimmerman.
‘Toon: Oh, is that what Fred Trump looks like nowadays?
DK: You already know my feelings about Rand-The-Worse-Than-Useless!
NY’er: I the were to have a new trial, without witnesses, and be exonerated, he’d be on Trump’s short list for a cabinet appoinment.
BFTP: Not BBMMM. I do love me some Bob Dylan.
Pat’s #2: So, here is another new word to learn “Paralogisms” ways of distorting reality and truth, as in Iowa speech; and another Paramoralisms: methods of perverting moral values. Tyrants everywhere, and forever, now including tyrant wanna-be dumpster, have used these tactics. I expect they had no idea that the words existed, and Dumpy would contort his frigging spleen trying to use them in one of his patented semi-sentences, but there you are.
4:00 Colourfull utensils for a task I really dislike.
Cartoon: Climate change is a ploy to prevent just that.
DK: Rand Paul must have concocted this stunt together with Mitch McConnell; he’s not smart enough to think up both the question and the backup plan of the “impromptu” press conference. Chief Justice John Roberts played his part “wisely”, refusing the question but giving Paul wide berth to leave the proceedings and talk to the press.
TNY: Thank you, Andy, for making this scathing but excellent point for Escobar.
BFTP: Loved the movie, bought the album then, still have it.
Actually, he was not allowed to leave the chamber by Senate Rule. Roberts could have and should have directed the Sergeant at Arms to lock him up.
That is exactly what I meant with ‘played it “wisely”‘; in the chamber according to the rules, outside – where Democrats couldn’t see what Paul was up to – he let it go. Wouldn’t surprise me if he was in on Paul’s whole charade.
Cartoon: Yep.
DK: pAul must get his tantrum training from tRump. I have no respect for him or any of the r idiots.
TNY: Insane….see what the r’s put into other minds?
BFTP: Great tune by Bob Dylan.
Thanks and sore pooped hugs to all!