It’s a comfortable Friday the 13th, here at the CatBox, and I slept well last night. A few more nights like that just might have me feeling fully feline. Tomorrow I may have no more than an Open Thread. I have a meeting tomorrow afternoon, and I’ll just have to see how much time I have.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:44 (average 4:30). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): TIPPY TOP – The Nuclear Posture Review
Barf Bag Alert!!
Fortunately, I don’t have to let Earl Blumenauer know, as I already know how he’ll vote, but I will call to thank him. RESIST!!
From Politico: President Donald Trump went into attack mode against James Comey on Friday morning, calling the former FBI director an “untruthful slime ball” and a “liar & leaker” after Comey suggested in an ABC News interview that it is "possible" that salacious allegations about the president and prostitutes in Moscow are true.
“James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH,” Trump wrote in a statement that stretched across two Twitter posts. “He is a weak and untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst ‘botch jobs’ of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey!”
Rachel Maddow has a great clip on Comey’s book. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: In a fit of pique, David and Charles Koch have unceremoniously listed House Speaker Paul Ryan for sale on the auction site eBay.
The Kochs, who reportedly had purchased Ryan for a sum estimated in the tens of millions, now seem likely to lose their entire investment.
According to Ryan’s listing on the auction site, the Kochs set a five-hundred-dollar asking price for the used congressman, a figure that, in light of the tepid bidding for him, seems optimistic.
Dang Andy, Wouldn’t $1 be too high a price, let alone $50? RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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PPC: Awesome singing and foreboding words!! ‘Without a Trace’,.. Truth!
Politico: If dt’s so innocent, why is he making all this ruckus, and slurring people? who are telling the TRUTH?
NYer: Funny, Andy? I’ve got a day’s worth of a bag of garbage here, is that good?? lol
Cartoon: RESIST!!
I used to have a black cat, and she was the most loving cat…..may she RIP. ;-(
Best to you for your meeting tomorrow. Enjoy your evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
PPC: No wonder the Atomic Scientists moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 11:58 – two minutes to midnight. It hasn’t been that close since the height of the Cold War.
Politico: Looks as though tRump is going through the “second childhood” of advanced age. Whoops, did I say SECOND childhood? I doubt that he ever truly grew up mentally.
TNY: These days, the boundary between farce and reality is unnervingly thin.
Cartoon: Ain’t that the truth.
HF13: So, who’s superstitious? I ain’t – in fact, I’ve had only good luck tod–AIDA, GET AWAY FROM THAT HEIRLOOM CERAMIC PITCHER!!!
PPC: Wonderful choice of music to use! A friend, no longer with us,who was a career army/navy veteran, told me that any one of our nuclear weapons would make “Little Boy,” look just like that!
Politico: tDump doubling down on his idiocy…which is becoming increasingly apparent to more and more people.
New Yorker: I told you it was Charles Koch’s balls he was licking! He did his job, he got his big payday, and it just might turn out to be the last straw before the GOPIGGIES become cooked sausage.
‘Toon: Hey, two of the most important people in my life were born on a 13th of the month. One of those days happened to be a Friday, no less. The other was a Saturday, close, but no cigar.
4:27 I’m not just so sure he is edible.
Here’s something positive
Criticism from Nazis will show up in 3… 2… 1…
I just got home. The 120 mile drive out was smooth, but the drive back was against winds that made my Dodge Grand Caravan feel like a plastic bag. I’m safe, but tired.
PP – Well, I can’t in conscience tell that to Doug Lamborn because enough people in the District are as crazy as he is that there is no way I could make the threat good. Not that he doesn’t have a record of enough terrible votes to sink virtually anyone in a district filled with decent people.
By decent people, I mean people like THESE. (Hanky alert)
Politico – Comey is so tactful. “Possible.” I would say somewhere between “Probable” and “Certain” myself.
TNY – No doubt. But they won’t lose their entire investment. This tax bill aline will pay them back rapidly. Unless, of course, we can do something about it.
Cartoons – So true. And Happy F13 to you too.
BTW, Puerto Rico is suffering from new power failures.
PP: Can’t think of any more new ways to praise these parody songs, they are all so good. Though, sadly we’ll not be gone without a trace when a nuclear war starts, anything left alive (bacteria, where we all started from) must then deal with a most horrid mixture of global warming effects and nuclear winter. Better to have your representatives tell Drumpf and the arms dealers to SHUT UP!
Politico: When you thought a president couldn’t get more pathetic, he does. Rest assured, most people here understand what is going on and see Drumpf for the pathetic Twitterer he is. Unfortunately the same can not yet be said for the US, but you seem to be getting there.
TNY: If the Kochs want to see any of their investment in Paul Ryan back, they better put a picture on e-bay of him working out with his shirt off. Perhaps then some rich old lady will take him off their hands for the $500 they’d like to see, though she must be really rich and old and desperate not to see what a useless a$$ he is in all possible respects.
My Friday 13th was equally uneventful to yours, TomCat, and I didn’t even notice the day and date until you mentioned it. I guess few Americans have noticed it with all that turmoil going on every other day of the week too.
Thanks all. Hugs!