Here in the CatBox the heat wave goes on and on and on. Last night, when I went to bed, the temperature was still 90°. Starting Thursday, we may have a few cooler days. I get my CAT-Scan results formally on Thursday, but I saw them posted online. I don’t speak all the medical lingo, but I could tell that I do not have cancer and that I am still a cat.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:37 (average 4:42). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From Willamette Week: U.S. Rep. Greg Walden is hosting a fundraiser with the top Republican leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday.
For between $2,500 and $25,000 a person, donors can attend the dinner event at Wilsonville location that was not named on the invitation. (Larger donations gets you photos.)
House Speaker Paul Ryan and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will attend. The proceeds will go to Walden, National Republican Campaign Committee and the Republican National Committee.
The secrecy of the location, in a suburban town 17 miles south of Portland, suggests Walden is seeking Portland dollars and ease of access—without risking a blue-city backlash.
Well, that explains last night’s crappy air quality. Note how in Portland, Republican leaders are too cowardly to show their faces openly. They sneak into town and skulk away the same day. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Roy Moore Is Sacha Baron Cohen’s Latest Target
ROTF! Somebody needs to arrange for Sacha to sit down with Trump, Putin’s Pervert! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From BBC: Blueprints for 3D-printed guns, published online four days early amid last-minute attempts to ban them, have been downloaded thousands of times.
The designs were not due to be made public until Wednesday, following a ruling from the US Justice Department.
But blueprints for nine types of gun were uploaded to the Defense Distributed website on Friday.
Now that the files are online, I have no doubt that Republican Ammosexuals and terrorists everywhere have created hundreds of online copies. Any ruling against posting those files is now irrelevant. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From Alternet: Columbus business owner Jeff Whitman is whining that his life is "ruined" after video of him hurling racial slurs at a stranger went viral.
Whitman followed Charles Lovett for two miles to his home after an apparent driving incident.
Lovett recorded the conversation, in which Whitman can be seen saying, “I just want to let you know what a n—– you are."…
…The Columbus Dispatch reports: [about people who saw the video Lovett posted]
They shared [Whitman’s] image online, overloaded his voicemail and flooded consumer websites like Yelp with hundreds of negative reviews, complete with images of the Ku Klux Klan and Hitler.
“I’m out of business, I’m completely out, I’m done, I’ll never work in Columbus again,” Whitman whined of the hateful verbal assault he describes as a "mistake."
Isn’t good news about Republicans a pleasure to hear? Woooo Hoooo Karma! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
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5:35 A little early in the year for skeletons, isn’t it? (Very glad you are still a cancer-free cat!)
Is there anyone who reads this blog who uses raw data obtained by the Census? If so, they are soliciting comments on how it is presented.
Willamette – Indeed. If they aren’t crooks, how come they act like crooks? And how come there are ANY people who can’t see that?
SB Cohen – Ah. I HAVE been wondering why they have been falling. That explains it. Of course, that will make it a one-season show, won’t it. Pity.
BBC – If you read Infidel’s comment on Everyday Erinyes #130, you know (I didn’t until I read it) that AR-15-like plans have been available long before now. We are going to have to be smarter … like, maybe, putting restrictions on ammunition instead of guns. Or maybe even smarter than that.
AlterNet – Good. This was a pleasure to read about (not the incident, but the aftermath.) You know, they honestly have no clue how many decent people there are who abhor their racism, do they?
Cartoon – Oh, those poor woozles! Couldn’t you have found a similar picture with skunks or crocodiles?
Dawgs are perfect for the role. ?
No cancer, and still a cat: Keep your claws sharpened, and truck on!
WW: It gladdens my heart to know that these bits of scum know that they are not welcome!
BBC: Sons of bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Y/T-MSNBC: Royal pain in the ass is still out there, somewhere? darn!
Alternet: Another in the parade of vicious victims!! He, apparently, wants the liberty of expressing his imbecilic thoughts with no feedback from the larger society possible. Yeah, it WAS a mistake to give voice to such crap, maybe even to wake up that morning. Hey you might have been eligible for a Darwin award, otherwise!
‘Toon: So much communicated without a single word needed to be spoken!
WW: Living up to their expectations of being ‘sneaky snakes’, of course !!
MSNBC: Moore has been gobsmacked !! lol
BBC: Gawd, I see nothing good coming out of this, (they’ve been around for several years now..) dated from 11/13/13: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/13/3d-guns-atf_n_4269303.html
AN: Oh, yes!! Isn’t Karma divine??
btw…his advertising page on Yelp was replete with backlash also. Yay!!
Cartoon: Good ole Hump day. Boy, the days fly by!
Good news on your C-scan !! Hope that the weather starts cooling off for you, it’s still hot here, and no rain. Yet. Prayers for the folks displaced by the Calli fires that have been raging seems like days now. So sad.
Hope that you have a good evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
WW: There’s a good reason why such an outrageous fundraiser is in an undisclosed location. The 1% fat cats are getting paranoid, and not without reason. Maybe it’s because of all those 3D-printed guns.
Great cartoon! The one in the very back, of course, is a hyper-wealthy conservative reminding those Congress critters just who’s really boss.
Awesome news TC!!! ?
Wonderful news on your CAT-scans!
BBC: Looks like the only way to stop a bad guy with a 3-D printer is a good guy with a 3-D printer.
Congrats on being a cancer-free cat, TomCat. Had you no longer been a cat, what name would you adopt for your transition into dog-hood?
WW: Republican leaders cowardly skulking around Portland in the dark make me wonder how many Republican donors actually were brave enough to show up to have a salad with those chickens? They probably sent their cheques through the mail.
MSNBC: All these Republicans have a sign above their heads saying “Please dupe me”.
BBC: We heard about this this afternoon and concluded that someone truly took the lid off Pandora’s box by publishing this early. Bans are absolutely useless now. Now everyone who buys or uses a 3D printer is automatically under suspicion of being a terrorist.
Alternet: Whining is the standard response of racist Republicans when they’re found out. Let’s hope Whitman (now there’s a clue) is spot on and experiences each and every one of these reasons to whine about. You’ve earned it all, dude.
Cartoon: Takes hump-day to the next level.
Puzzle — 4:06 What floats your boat? In this case, nothing. If this boat sees water, it will sink deeper and faster than the Titanic! I wonder, is this a Republican boat? One can only hope.
Willamette Week — Republicans, just like rats scurrying about in secret! $2,500 – $25,000 for a chopped liver dinner and some scuzzy photos if you spend even more. What a joke!!!
MSNBC — You can see the sign on Moore’s forehead. It says “Space for Rent”. And I’ve seen the same sign on other Republican foreheads.
BBC — In a country where guns outnumber people, what would possess a company to publish such plans? Oh, I forgot . . . greed! Diaper Don’s tweet:
It makes sense to me . . . greed! There’s no going back now!
Cartoon — Something Republicans like doing and they do so well: screwing the people!
I am so glad that you have all your ducks lined up and are cancer free!
TomCat, your cartoon is right on point. The congressional republicans are screwing the pooch!
TomCat, congrats on your clean scans, that is truly a wonderful thing.
Thanks all! Hugs!