It’s a better day here in the CatBox. I’m never pain free, but I’ve recovered sufficiently from my trip that the pain is back to a manageable level. I still have no side-effects from the infusion. Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update from me. It’s a WWWendy day and we did so little on Wednesday, after she got me home from the hospital, that we have more gooping and chores to do than normal, in addition to the routine flea bath and patch change for the TomCat. JD, if Bill Maher puts a show up tonight, would you please cover it tomorrow? TGIF!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:03 (average 8:58)(?!!?). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 5,747,604
US Deaths: 177,457
Plus the many GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us.
Long Take:
Watch: Democratic National Convention: Day 4
Magnificent speech! Elect the first President since Barack Obama! RESIST!!
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: When U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) isn’t conducting raids or offering weapons training to individuals [Republican Ammosexuals] on how to arrest [murder] immigrants, it is treating immigrants in its detention centers wrongfully. In another incident of violating religious rights and plain human indecency, advocates and lawyers are demanding that ICE stop feeding Muslim detainees pork. Last year, agents allegedly fed a man only pork sandwiches while he was in their custody, despite knowing his religion restricted him from eating pork. In a similar case, attorneys representing Muslim detainees at the Krome Service Processing Center in Miami-Dade County are demanding federal agents stop forcing Muslims in custody to choose between eating rotten meals or pork-based options.
In partnership with civil rights organizations Muslim Advocates and Americans for Immigrant Justice, attorneys from King & Spalding LLP sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and ICE with their request Wednesday. According to the letter, ICE officials have allegedly been forcing Muslim detainees to choose between eating rotten halal meat or pork sausage, pork ribs, and other pork-based ingredients. The letter demands that ICE and DHS officials immediately provide non-rotten, edible food that does not violate one’s faith. Advocates noted that the pre-plated expired food has caused detainees to suffer stomach pain, vomiting, and diarrhea amongst other health issues. Despite this ICE continues to ignore their pleas.
You can be sure that this hateful policy comes from the top. RESIST!!
From NY Times: Late last month, as the Texas Republican Party was shifting into campaign mode, it unveiled a new slogan, lifting a rallying cry straight from a once-unthinkable source: the internet-driven conspiracy theory known as QAnon.
The new catchphrase, “We Are the Storm,” is an unsubtle cue to a group that the F.B.I. has labeled a potential domestic terrorist threat. It is instantly recognizable among QAnon adherents, signaling what they claim is a coming conflagration between President Trump and what they allege, falsely, is a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophile Democrats who seek to dominate America and the world.
The slogan can be found all over social media posts by QAnon followers, and now, too, in emails from the Texas Republican Party and on the T-shirts, hats and sweatshirts that it sells. It has even worked its way into the party’s text message system — a recent email from the party urged readers to “Text STORM2020” for updates.
The Texas Republicans are an unusually visible example of the Republican Party’s dalliance with QAnon, but they are hardly unique.
Here is the complete list of Republican officials who are not nut-jobs: [list starts here
list ends here]. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): I Think My Dog’s a Democrat Bryan Lewis Official Video
If the owner is a Republican, than that dawg is a hell of a lot smarter than the owner! Kudos to left wing protestors! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
7 Responses to “Open Thread – 8/21/2020”
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Puzzle – Oh, I remember that one. It’s harder than it looks, but I agree 9 minutes is over the top. Maybe a bunch of new people today pushing it u?
Glad you’re better with manageabe pain tis morning. Best to you and WWWendy for tomorrow. Yes, if I can find Bill, I’ll post him. If they do what they did last week, and don’t put up clips until mid-afternoon, I’ll do something. Not sure what yet.
Meidas Touch
Really American
The Lincoln Project made Kasich’s convention speech into an ad
Vote Vets
Stacy Abrams has a touching and extremely powerful article in Sojourners about voting.
Cartoon – Why sure. Burn it all down.
Map – I feel for California – all the fires, and CoViD too (this week fire hit the state park in which I went to my very first day camp. I was about 8.
Convention – It’ll be a while, but I’ll watch it all. So far I’m reading very good things. Plus, what can Republicans offer. Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Prison for them!
DKos – Sometimes expired food can be safe. But it absolutely must be the choice of the consumer, who is aware what the expiration date is, and who, depending on what kind of food it is, and, if it expired after they bought it, how it has been stored. Serving expired food to people who have no choice but to eat it is clearly murder or, at the very least, attempted murder.
NYT – More evidence that shame, in itself, is not a bad thing. And that growing up, and becomeing a moral human being, depends heavily on learning what is shameful and what is not. And that the same is true for a moral society.
BOP – Aren’t all dogs smarter than any Reublican?
Cartoon: Pretty much says it all, doesn’t it?
TVU: County. Confirmed: 1501 Active 231 Recovered: 1222 Deaths: 21
DNC: All great people and words! An awesome! and powerful speech!! by Joe. I can relate to Joe and Brayden’s club..(stuttering) as I had that myself growing up, (& military), and I know what and how it is, and feels.
DK: How hurtful and spiteful can ICE and others get? This is against all that stands for their religion, and yet, they continue to do so. Sick. Rotten food?? Serve it to the higher ups, and demote/fire them all.
NYT: Dangerous lot. All of them!!
BOP: I know my little Shih Tzu and Russian Blue are. My ‘girls’ would have it no other way either.
Glad to read that you are having a better and good day. You’re important to me. (and I’m sure with others here, too.)
HI, WWWendy! hope you and family are doing well. Get your rest, take a nap, and enjoy the rest of your day, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “Isn’t it amazing that Joe Biden, a self-professed stutterer, made it through the speech of his lifetime, with nary a stumble, yet, Trump cannot make it through one disjointed, butchered sentence without a lie?” ~ Mardi S. ~
2. “Over 70 senior National Security officials who are Republicans just endorsed Biden and called Trump ‘unfit to lead’.” ~ Scott D. ~
3. “A shout-out should go today to Geoffrey Barman for resisting Barr just enough to keep professional leadership atop the SDNY.” ~ Harry L. ~
4. “You can only wear one shirt in prison, Bannon.” ~ The Lincoln Project ~
5. “Donald Trump has gone to great lengths to paint Joe Biden as a a man who simply wasn’t capable of stepping up and delivering a bold national address with the pressure on. OOPS!” ~ Rachel Maddow ~
6. one more, lol. dt – “I STAND FOR LAW AND ORDER!!” Your entire administration is in jail ! ” ~ Tea Pain ~
TJI #6 – It generally is the “law and order” people who are personally most lawless – just as it’s the “family values” people who are the most licentious – and the “pro-life” people who support the most killing. And that actually is not unreasonable, nor is it only projection, though projection is part of it. It’s the “shadow,” as Jung put it. If people do not confront and integrate their shadows, their shadows run them. It’s developed in his The Relation between the Ego and the Unconscious, but enough other people have written whole books about this concept which are mostly easier to read.
Cartoon: Seems to be their motto. huh???
TVU: Low 200’s cases each of the past few days. Hope it continues going in a downward trend here.
Democratic Convention: Watched it last night. Great speakers. Enjoyed Joe’s speech very much. We certainly need someone like him in there.
DK: Wish that iCe members would be the one that was forced to eat the rotten food. They should be prosecuted for making others eat it. Cruel rotten creeps.
NYT: Don’t you just love the way the idiot in office, comments that if they said something nice about him, that there’s no way he can’t call them a friend? What a flipping idiot. When they come and bomb one of his golf sites, I wonder if he’ll just say he didn’t know one thing about them???
I’m getting a kick the way tRump is distancing himself from bAnnon. I will be so happy when they all are locked up behind bars for life.
BOP: Have to agree with you that the dog is wiser than it’s owner. Good one.
Glad you’re doing better today. Plus that the infusion isn’t causing you any issues. Pray that it stays that way too.
Enjoy the rest of your day. Take care. Thanks TomCat
TC, glad to hear things are better, today.
‘Toon: Of course!
TVU: Approaching 6 million. Just this moment heard, on the local news, that a 6 year old girl is now the youngest to die of Trumpvid in Florida!!!
Saw the convention last night, will watch the closing night, tonight. I’m waiting to hear how Dumpy makes fun of that marvelous kid with the stuttering issue. Biden delivered a wonderful acceptance speech, I thought. I was glad to hear him refer to QAnon, although not directly. Those folks REALLY need to go back on their psych meds!
DK: These are tactics similar to those used by those awful, terrible, cruel, mean, ISIS people, demoralizing their captives, whether they later killed them, or not, as I recall.
NYT: As in “Stormtroopers, like Sturmabteilung?” The RNC will probably be celebrating April 20th, now, of as long as the damned thing exists!
Glad you’re feeling a little better and especially so because the infusion has no nasty effects other than on your tumours, we hope.
3:33 Only a little more difficult than usual.
Cartoon: Yup.
Update: Only the black and grey areas are of interest, the green gives a false sense of security.
DK: Really, ICE staff are allowed to unleash their islamophobic hate on immigrants in captivity? And ICE has to be taken to court to put an end to this practice that breaks human-rights laws? Then, of course, this comes from the top.
NYT: The second connotation I have with “We Are the Storm” is Star Wars Stormtroopers defending the Galactic Republic (the Dark Side) against the Confederacy of Independent Systems, but the first is with the Stormtroopers of Imperial Germany, the specialist soldiers of the German Army in World War I and with the Sturmabteilung (SA) or Storm Detachment, a paramilitary organization of the German Nazi Party. And I’m sure that this association is what QAnon is looking for.
The Texan Republican Party now taking this slogan on is showing their true face and how desperate they are.
BOP: Definitely not a left-wing protester, but his dog sure was smart enough, even for a dawg.
Thanks and Hurry Hugs to all!