It’s a cool day here in the CatBox with 77° forecast, and humid as hell. It’s also a busy day, as Store to Door is delivering my groceries. I have to unpack and put them away. I had other things to do, so I have no time for a morning nap. Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update. In the morning WWWendy will be destinking the vile TomCat, changing my patch, doing chores and gooping. Then we go to the hospital, where Evelyn, my Oncologist, will interpret my PET scan. I’ve seen the results, and to me, they look pretty bleak. But I guess I should not be disappointed that I’m dying. That’s what dying people do. In addition, Becky, my palliative care specialist will talk to us, and I expect her to increase my Fentanyl patches from 12.5 mg to 25 mg. Saturday WWWendy and WWKristen are going to the mountains until Tuesday morning. Diana, my home palliative care nurse, changed her schedule to change my patch on Monday. Then WWWendy will come a day late on Tuesday. Crazy enough? Have a great day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:32 (average 5:48). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 4,975,279
US Deaths: 161,660
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Despite how many times you hear “what goes on the internet, stays on the internet” some people just don’t learn. Deleting a photo doesn’t make it go away, yet infamous Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. seems to think otherwise. Again, Falwell has deleted something on social media—but this time not because of its obvious racism, but its bizarre nature.
The photo posted on Falwell’s Instagram was captured and shared to Twitter by Houston Chronicle reporter Robert Downen before it was deleted.
Hat-Tip and kudos to JD for suggesting this subject. When I lived in Phoenix, a close friend (platonic, not carnal or professional) was an exclusive call girl. She told me that when there were conventions of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the polar opposite of real authentic Christians) in town, she and her friends had to import girls from Las Vegas. There weren’t enough hookers in Phoenix to meet the demand for their services. As he parties on his yacht, bought with funds bilked from his victims, Falwell shows that he’s as big a hypocrite as his father was. Of course, that’s a Republican trait. RESIST!!
From ProPublica: A teenage girl carrying her baby arrived at the U.S. border this summer and begged for help. She told federal agents that she feared returning to Guatemala. The man who raped her she said had threatened to make her “disappear.”
Then, advocates say, the child briefly vanished — into the custody of the U.S. government, which held her and her baby for days in a hotel with almost no outside contact before federal officers summarily expelled them from the country.
Similar actions have played out along the border for months under an emergency health order the Trump administration issued in March. Citing the threat of COVID-19, it granted federal agents sweeping powers to almost immediately return anyone at the border, including infants as young as 8 months. Children are typically entitled to special protections under the law, including the right to have their asylum claims adjudicated by a judge.
Under this new policy, the administration is not deporting children — a proceeding based on years of established law that requires a formal hearing in immigration court.
It is instead expelling them — without a judge’s ruling and after only a cursory government screening and no access to social workers or lawyers, sometimes not even their family, while in U.S. custody. The children are not even granted the primary registration number by which the Department of Homeland Security tracks all immigrants in its care, making it “virtually impossible” to find them, Efrén C. Olivares, a lawyer with the Texas Civil Rights Project, wrote in a court declaration arguing that the practice is illegal.
This travesty is criminal and deplorable, typical of both Trump* and the racist Republican Reich! On a related note, I’ve been watching and highly recommend Immigration Nation on Netflix, which Trump* and Barrf tried to ban. It makes me want to scream in anger and cry at the same time. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): Armageddon Days Are Here (Again)
This clip refers to Crawford Caligula’s Republican Fourth Reich. GW ChickenHawk was saint compared to Trump*, Putin’s Pee-Pee Puppet, Fuhrer of the Nazi Republican Fifth Reich! Kudos to the left-wing demonstrators! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
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Well – I really wasn’t expecting a thundering herd of quarter-sized hail yesterday afternoon. But I got it anyway. Oh, well – Colorado. Hope your weather is better. Wendy tomorrow? Give her greetings! (If you can keep your schedule straight, that’s what matters.) Don’t sprain anything putting away groceries. I hope everything yu ordered comes.
Robert Reich –
Quite a crop of ads.
Don Winslow Films
Meidas Touch
Really American
Republican Voters (in this case Vets) Against Trump
Sound and Fury republished Republicans for the Rule of Law from yesterday
Cartoon – No kidding. With my allergies, I’d be afraid of cat food.
Map – Ah – one day more.
DKos – Speaks for itself, doesn’t it. This was picked up on multiple outlets, and, on those I’ve looked at, the comments are well worth looking at. We have many very witty people in the progressive movement.
ProPublica – It most certainly is illegal. Also morally repugnant. When has that ever stopped Republicans? (Stopping them is our job.)
Past – No CC, but lyrics here.
#Snark:
‘Toon: Rid us of ridiculous Republicans, which omits none of them.
TVU: Looks like a lot of Red states are getting redder, here.
DK: Oh, is this Mr. Christianity himself? Betty Bowers ought to take him across her knees!
Pro-Publica: Can you be serious? Can they be serious? The party of “Family Values,” and “Law and Order,” is acting in such a despicable manner? “Hey that baby might have grown up to vote Democratic in 18 years, get rid of him!” “Shit, she don’t look like she’s from Norway, get rid of her!”
Watching “Immigration Nation,” is, obviously not good for your B/P, or sanity. I urge you to let it go.
BOP: Our troops are still dying because of GWB, and Dickey Boy’s bull shit! But, of course, Dumpy’s in first place, in terms of total numbers, as I’m sure he’ll point out to the other putz, when they argue the point in hell.
Cartoon: My Russian Blue will see to it that I get fed. She’d vote Repugs OUT too, with claws extended!
TVU: We’re the same as we were yesterday.
DK: Must be the water, eh, Jerry? I’m with you, Mitch, and I wholeheartedly agree. Mrs. Betty Bowers rocks, and spares no-one!
PP: How horribly sad, and repugnant to do this. And not one of the R’s stand up to say NO! either.
YT: Sad it’s still going on.
Hi Wendy! You’ve got a very busy day tomorrow…and I hope that you stay safe to and fro. Take good, good care and get your rest too. Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: re: Criminal investigations on finances/banking statements: “Trump hasn’t been concerned about Covid19, unemployment, the possibility of wide spread evictions, or an other problems he’s caused, but he’ll worry about this..because it affects him.
2. “How is dt going to dominate the debate with Joe? He can’t even pronounce ‘Yosemite’. ~ Karen W. ~
3. “I’m not sure I would question Biden’s cognition if I were someone who spelled cognition ‘covfefe’. ~ Andy B~
4. “If you call dt out on his lies, he will fumble or double down on it. Sure, it will will rattle him, but keep it up.” ~ Jimmeny S. ~
5. “I don’t know why trump supporters hate masks. It’s never bothered them before.” ~ Fern W. ~
(re: their robes & hoods).
*Thanks, Joanne for videos, all excellent!
I’m so sorry the Scan results were disappointing, TomCat. It sounds like you’ve come to accept them for what they are and aren’t building your hopes on what Oncologist Evelyn is going to say about them. It also sounds like Diana, the palliative care nurse could do with some help so she can get on top of her agenda.
3:56 It’s nowhere near Valentine’s Day, is it?
Cartoon: Stay vigilant and watch your bowl, the foodbanks are running out of cat food for granny.
DK: Falwell’s followers/donors probably think he works so hard that he deserves a holiday with all the trimmings. Just like Trump’s base thinks their hardworking president deserves a day of golfing now and again.
ProPublica: America must make sure that these illegal, secret, fascist actions by Trump’s brown-shirt federal agents never become normalized and common practice. VOTE BLUE!
BOP: Put a new video to it and it has a new lease on life.
Lona, Diana changed her schedule to Monday at my request, so she can change my patch when WWWendy isn’t here.
I’m fighting with the WiFi here. Keep’s dropping out so this is my forth time.
Cartoon: Can’t you read??? No Repugs allowed, Keep out.
TVU: Still climbing here.
DK: We seem to have these rotten jerks who take advantage of the people and get away with evilness.
PP: Sad… proves we’re right that all of the repugs are heartless.
YT: Awful to be reminded what bUsh started and to see it’s gotten worse.
Hope you had a decent afternoon. Tell Wendy hello tomorrow and that I hope she has a nice time with Kristen when they go to the mountain. That they have a safe trip too.
Good luck tomorrow. Praying Evelyn has some positive news for you. Keep us posted.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
Thanks for the update TC. I give you kudos for choosing to respond to progression pragmatically with acceptance of reality. Glad Wendy and your nurse coordinate around your needs so well.
School is about to start here with the full range of choices across the districts (county still not on watch list so they have that freedom). We have more children in our caseload than adults over age 65 so it is concerning.
At least one unaccompanied child expelled was 8 months old…curious about how they claim to have screened that child and found ineligible…………
Crimes against humanity potential charges in the ICC possibilities keep surfacing in the news–just hope someone actually files them.
Thanks and TGIF Hurry Hugs to all!