It’s a tired day here in the CatBox. I had to spend so much time trying to arrange medical mayhem for when WWWendy is out of town later this month that I missed my morning nap. ARGH!! TGIF!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:09 (average 6:11). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Map Reference Thanks, Nameless!
US Cases: 2,837,726
US Deaths: 131,504
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Oregonian Channel): Oregon State Police don’t comply with indoor mask order by Gov. Kate Brown
If Oregon State cops consider themselves above the law, arrest them, fire them, defund them, or all of the above! RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Epstein’s Confidant Ghislaine Maxwell Charged In Sex Abuse Probe
I’m sure we can expect interference from AG Barrf to undermine this case. If Maxwell is convicted and imprisoned, criminal Fuhrer Trump* will have a more difficult time finding underage girls to assault, when he’s not in Russia. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Audio)
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
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No wonder you’re tired – it’s a miracle you’re still awake. Hope you can get a nap later. I’m having tiredness issues myself. I am also having a flareup of my auto-immune condition, and one of its symptoms is supposed to be fatigue, so I suspect the two are related. If so, getting my electrolytes balanced should help, but I am not running out to the store for that just yet. And it’s not like I have any particular schedule to meet. But it’s on my list.
Lincoln Project – “Rushmore”
Liberal Redneck
This cartoon has actually a pretty good idea. I’d definitely support a Trump* statue like this statue.
Cartoon – Yeah. No kidding.
Map – My county is still yellow.
Oregonian – Corvallis, that was. Not, I suppose, thatit matters. I see two things here – non-compliance and disrespect. Both are bad. combined, they are disqualifying, as you say.
MSNBC – Yes. And, surprise, surprise – the charges were filed by SDNY. The site of the monst recent (so far) Friday Night Massacre. So there has already been Barr-intervention.
Past – Such a lovely piece, and so well presented.
Great minds fall in the same ditch.
Oooops. Sorry.
Cartoon: Yes, it has, and then some. ugh!
TVU: There are now 291 active cases of COVID-19 in my county.
OC: Good grief!
MSNBC: Wow! It took awhile to find her, but here she is…in custody. Glad they found her. She deserves what she gets, imho. The attorney taking the case is Audrey Strauss, the newly appointed acting U.S. attorney who took US attorney Bergman’s place @SDNY.
BFTP: Love this one.
Glad that you got your chores done, and now you can nap! Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
This just in: “If trump’s looking for a hoax, the mirror is a good place to start.” ~ Nancy Pelosi ~
2. “Arizona is preparing to compliment scorecards to determine eligibility for receiving care in a Covid world with limited supplies. The elderly and people with pre-existing conditions immediately fall into a lower category of priority due to life expectancy. ~ Stephen S. ~
3. “Those that deny their history are doomed to repeat it!!! -donald trump-
Reply – “Like when the first 5 casinos went bankrupt and you opened the 6th??” ~ Jeff A. ~
4. “Dear Trump. There are now 11 million Asian Americans eligible to vote in November. We will be the margin of differences in your default in several battleground states. So keep up with the ‘Kung Flu’. Your words aren’t as powerful as our votes.” ~ George Takei ~
5. “Have you noticed that we didn’t have ‘Fake news and Hoax viruses’ until we got a ‘Hoax’ President? ~VB~
TJI #2 – Typical Republican. The ones who need the most, get the least.
The Oregonian — There is no audio on the video as it is surveillance tape. However, I did find this piece of reporting which gives some more detail.
Cartoon: Sorry to say it has.
TVU: Not looking good here at all. Everyone is coming down to our beaches since they’re the only ones open.
O C: Agree with you TC, lock them up for not going by the rules.
MSNBC: Sure took them long enough. She should of been arrested a long time ago.
BFTP: Good tune.
You’ve been busy. Hopefully you can catch up on some rest.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
I hope you got back to bed after finishing the articles to catch up on some sleep, TomCat. You didn’t do so well the night before either.
4:09 No clear winner, but nothing much to goop either; those needles are worse than fishbones to take out.
Cartoon: And now it’s been around for far too long.
Update: 50,000 new cases in a day and Trump is going to celebrate the 4th of July with costly fireworks…
Oregonian: From the videos we’ve been seeing here, the Oregonian police department is a Republican bastion in a Democratic state. Your government and governor would do well to take an axe to the PD and start restructuring it from the ground up.
MSNBC: Barrf is sure to intervene as soon as Trump either needs another diversion from his current woes under scrutiny or the attention needs to be diverted away from Trump if Gislaine is willing to talk about his involvement with Epstein’s girls. If Gislaine has anything on Trump she surely is going to use that in a plea-bargain and get herself the easy-peasy deal that Bernstein got from Alex Costa.
BFTP: Far from being an ‘original’, I always liked S&G rendering of this ballad. Garfunkel did a wonderful rendition of it too after they split and went solo.
Lona, the problem here is that Oregon is very big in supporting unions. Police here have a very powerful union that defends them from the consequences of their misconduct. You can be sure that the next time the restaurant that reported them needs police protection, they won’t get it.
Thanks and Holiday Hugs to all!