It’s another crazy day, here in the CatBox. WWWendy is coming a day early tomorrow to de-stink the TomCat and semi-goop, since she can’t come Thursday, her regular day. (Diana comes Thursday morning to change my patch.) I don’t know what time tomorrow WWWendy is coming, so I’m planning a Personal Update day, but that’s still uncertain. It’s Tuesday, so please remember to Flush Your Republicans.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:13 (average 5:04). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Click for interactive maps and charts
US Cases: 8,038,543
US Deaths: 220,027
Plus all the Trump*/GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From Crooks and Liars: Furball Fables calls on all of us to Purrsist and Vote!
CAT is where it’s AT, but all true authentic CATS are DemoCATS! RESIST!!
From Common Dreams (Hat-Tip Mitch [ours, not BBMM]): California’s top election official is investigating reports that the state’s Republican Party has set up unauthorized ballot drop boxes posing as “official” in several major counties, an illegal practice that could deceive voters into depositing their ballots at unsecure locations.
“Operating unofficial ballot drop boxes—especially those misrepresented as official drop boxes—is not just misleading to voters, it’s a violation of state law,” California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a statement responding to reports of unauthorized ballot drop boxes in Fresno, Los Angeles, and Orange counties
As the local Orange County Register reported late Sunday, “In a photo posted to social media last week, a young man wearing a mask with Orange County congressional candidate Michelle Steel’s name on it is holding a mail ballot and giving a thumbs up next to a box about the size of a file cabinet labeled ‘Official ballot drop off box.'”
“The post, from Jordan Tygh, a regional field director for the California Republican Party, encouraged people to message him for ‘convenient locations’ to drop their own ballots,” the Register reported.
That was just one of several instances of potentially illegal election activity by Republican officials that has been reported in recent days. On Saturday night, the Register noted, reports emerged of “a metal box in front of Freedom’s Way Baptist Church in Castaic that had a sign matching the one on the Orange County box.”
Although voter fraud is still extremely rare, Republicans are still working overtime to find a successful way to do so. Why have they not succeeded? Because Sheeple are stupid. And why have Democrats not succeeded? Because they aren’t trying! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Led Zeppelin – Stairway To Heaven (Official Audio)
Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
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OK, this is not earth-shaking news, but the Oxford English Dictionary now recognizes and includes the word “LOL.” (The jury is still out on “LOLcat.”)
How can you not love this? Oregon leads the way.
Cartoon – That’s for sure!
TVU – Denver’s new case count is higher today than it has been since April. Second wave, anyone?
C&L – if you hadn’t, I would have. Great minds! (And turns out I’m really glad you did. What a video day! I didn’t even use all.)
CD – Yes, I was just thinking earlier that by committing voter fraud themselves, they can prove it exists … but they cannot prove we are doing it, because we aren’t.
Blast – Well now, that generated a lot of memes, even before there were memes.
Cartoon: Sad!
TVU: Going to get worse before getting better. ugh!
C&L: Adorable. My Russian Blue approves this message. (of course!)
CD: Boy, they sure will grovel and stoop real low to do this. Promoting this negative criminal behavior could be a felon?? There should be a law with protecting the votes. Leave it to the R’s to stoop this low. Thanks, Mitch/Tom for getting this out here.
BFTP: Great music!! Love this.
Early HI’s to WWWendy! Hope that you have a good day, rest, nap, and rest. Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “We shouldn’t be holding confirmation hearings right now. We should be voting on a Covid-19 Relief bill.” ~ Jeff Merkley ~
2. “The Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat from President Obama, in order to install Gorsuch. They are again corrupting the process in order to install Barrett. Expanding the court to right those wrongs wouldn’t be court packing, it would be justice.” ~ Mary Trump ~
3. “So let me get this straight – wearing a mask to save lives during a pandemic should be a personal choice, but what a woman does with her own body should be mandated by the government?” ~ Robert Reich ~
4. DT – “Lord of the Lies.” Pence – “Lord of the Flies.” ~ O. D. ~
5. “This ‘sucker and loser’ has already voted for Biden-Harris.” *pb*
6. “We are two (2) full Scaramucci’s out for having a new President elect.” ~ Anthony Scaramucci ~
TJI #1 – Amy Klonuchar said the same. Probably others did too.
#2 – It would be UNPACKING.
#3 – Yup. That’s exactly their stand.
#6 – Now, that’s Commedia with Arte.
‘Toon: Of course!
TVU: The Mid-West is cooking!
C & L is wonderful!
CD: When I e-mailed my snowbird (Trumpist) neighbor, still in Wisconsin, about this, he wrote back “Do you believe everything you see on the internet?” What I had sent him was not this CD piece, but later, when there was a report that state officials were looking into it, I sent that, and wrote, “Evidently not fake news.” Has he gotten back to any of you? Oh, I’m hearing “The Sound of Silence.” He can not accept any evidence that runs counter to his (distorted) worldview,” which does, sadly, make sense.
Zeppelin: One great song..For years it was, maybe still is, the #1 song on the modern version “Your Hit Parade,” in new York.
Cartoon: Most definitely.
TVU: Still keeps climbing. Sad to see that over 37 states are really getting out of hand again. Pray we’re not into another full round. tRump’s out rallying like a fool, no mask or social distancing. Saying he could kiss them all. Sick fool.
C&L: Cute video. I’ll be mailing mine in the next couple of days. So many propositions.
CD: Crazy reading and also seeing this on the news today. Stinking rotten R’s. I see that tRump and his rotten son Jr. are pushing people to go out and be poll watchers. They’ll stoop low to try anything.
BFTP: Love Led Zeppelin. Great tune.
Hope you had a nice restful day. That you were able to eat with no problems.
Tell Wendy “hello” tomorrow.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
Good to hear you and others are keeping you occupied in a good way, TomCat.
2:36 Terribly pink.
TVU: Yup, passed the 8 million and 220,000 marks even quicker than I thought. Must be those rallies.
C&L While I think not all Democrats are cat-lovers or Republicans dog-lovers for that matter, it’s nice to see these beautiful specimens urge humans to vote. DemoCat, that is.
CD: Let’s hope Democrats are indeed smart enough to spot the phoney ballot boxes and do not drop their ballot paper in there. If Republicans want to chance theirs, that’s fine, if those boxes are taken away by officials because they are illegal. If they are Democratic officials, they will then drop the ballot papers in an appropriate legal box. If they are Republicans officials…not so much.
BFTP: I never was a Zeppelin fan, Robert Plant’s voice just didn’t agree with me and Jimmy Page’s fantastic guitar solos couldn’t make up for that, but Stairway to Heaven is a definite exception and high on my list of true classics. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks and way late hump day hugs to all!