It’s a chilly day here in CatBox. WWWendy says hi to all, and assurer that the TomCat is de-stunk. This is today’s only article from me.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:38 (average 5:27). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (SNL Channel): Trump Press Conference Cold Open – SNL
Once again, Alec Baldwin does a better Trump impersonation than Trump. RESIST!!
From Raw Story: Wyoming state senator says she supports the death penalty because that’s how Jesus died.
On Thursday, the Wyoming state Senate voted down a proposal to abolish the death penalty 18 to 12 — the sixth straight session in which the legislature rejected this proposal, although the margin was closer than usual as some Republicans decided capital punishment is too expensive. By far the most memorable argument in the debate, however, came from the other side, when GOP Sen. Lynn Hutchings argued Wyoming needs to keep the death penalty because that’s how Jesus died.
“The greatest man who ever lived died via the death penalty for you and me,” said Hutchings. “I’m grateful to him for our future hope because of this. Governments were instituted to execute justice. If it wasn’t for Jesus dying via the death penalty, we would all have no hope.”
As a Republican Pharisee, Hutchings wants to be able to kill Democrats, whose policies reflect the views of the real Jesus. This is the fifth of five Republican outrages last week. Click through for the other four. RESIST!!
From The Palmer Report: During his incoherent and rambling Rose Garden meltdown late last week, Donald Trump gave away a number of things that would have been better kept to himself. For instance, during a particularly deranged rant about President Obama, Trump revealed that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had nominated him for a Nobel Peace Prize. This revelation has quickly led to the whole thing being exposed as a fraud.
Because Prime Minister Abe was suddenly caught in the middle of one of Donald Trump’s international disasters, major Japanese newspaper Asahi has fired back by exposing the real story. It’s true that Abe nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize – but only because the United States government asked Abe to do so. There are almost no words to describe how bad this is for Trump.
There are only two possibilities here. One is that Donald Trump had his people ask Abe to nominate him for the Nobel prize, because Trump was trying to put himself on par with President Obama, who won a Nobel prize while in office. The other possibility is that Trump’s people went behind his back and asked Abe to nominate Trump, in an attempt at making Trump think it happened organically, thus boosting Trump’s flagging spirits.
My money is on Door Number One. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
Only because it stopped!
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6:22 “Car by Pizza” – is that like “Body by Fisher”? (And is anyone else old enough to remember that?)
SNL – Baldwin certainly gets more applause than Trump … and he does a better Trump … because HE is SANE. (Illegal immigrants are certainly committing crimes at a much lower rate than members of the Trump regime.)
RS – OK, I believe she exists, and I believe she said this, and I’m afraid I have to believe Wyoming elected her as a State Senatot /// so thank you, Wyoming, for making the Colorado State l=Legislature look good for a change. TC, where do Republicans FIND these people? She reminds me of Doctor Pangloss in Candide, and the song about the best of all possible worlds:
Maximilian: Objection! What about snakes?
Pangloss: ‘Twas snake that tempted mother Eve
Because of snake we now believe
That though depraved
We can be saved
From hellfire and damnation
(Because of snake’s temptation!)
If snake had not seduced our lot
And primed us for salvation
Jehova could not pardon all
The sins that we call cardinal
Involving bed and bottle!
ALL: Now on to Aristotle!
Palmer – If he hadn’t brought the White House into it, I might have believed that he did it as a joke.
Cartoons –
Body by Fischer was part if the buying decision for my first new car, a ’67 Camaro.
SNL: Brilliant piece, Alex does this so well. Can we make him POTUS instead? lol
RS: Good grief!! I agree with your comment, Tom.
PR: He’s not full of himself is he? You can’t nominate yourself or others for the prize, and you can’t campaign to be chosen the winner, nor would you know if you’d been nominated. My furbabies are more eligible for a Nobel Peace prize than this id. Somebody needs to rein him in…..
https://www.thebalanceeveryday.com/how-are-nobel-peace-prize-winners-chosen-896848
Cartoon: lol
Quiet day here, not much going on, I guess that’s good. Get your rest, relax, and take good care. Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “Republicans don’t want dt meeting privately with Mueller, but they’re okay with him meeting privately wuth Putin?” ~ Yoshiaki M. ~
SNL: I love it when Alec Balwin impersonates Trump.
RS: Wow! Just when you think the Republicans can’t go any lower, they manage to dig a deeper hole.
TPR: Dumpy and his minions are idiots. Good for Prime Minister Abe setting the story straight.
Take care TomCat. Have a good nigh and thank you for the posts.
RS: This is the sort of sh*t nobody can make up. Religious bugnuts really are buggy and nutty!
TPR: More proof that the Tangerine Twitler is completely out of touch with reality. I’d call him a tangerine twat, but he lacks depth and warmth.
3:42 Outdoor Italy, catering to the British
SNL: No show in Oz
RS: You really need a warped state of mind to get your reasoning to get to this conclusion. Even I know that Jesus was executed like a common criminal in between murderers, but to “elevate” all criminals on death row to Jesus’ status just to be able to support the death penalty, must be hard to take for real Christians. I suppose they may be grateful that Lynn Hutchings didn’t argue the execution must also be equally painful and that the executed should rejoice in being executed, like her Lord, to give her hope.
I won’t even start on the other four,they are equally warped.
TPR: My money’s on the first door too, also because there’s a quid pro quo in there. Abe was one of the first world leaders to visit Drumpf after the election and their meetings were not only strange and awkward but beyond accepted policies when Drumpf and his staff started to discuss national security in attendance of Abe at Mar-a-lago when news of a North Korean missile test came in on Feb 12, 2017. Abe kept his mouth shut on what exactly happened there and then much later is asked by Drumpf to nominate him for the Nobel Prize. And Abe did. In return for?
Cartoon: Their 24-hour clock is only right once a day.
I need help w/ a little context to the GIF you used. Is there words to it? I don’t get it.
Although you didn’t ask me, I think she’s saying she’s so sad she can’t watch the SNL clips in Oz that she’s crying like a child. (No, there aren’t words.)
What JD said.
Joanne is right, Nameless. I’ve been putting a cry-baby GIF in since I learned that SNL isn’t available for viewing here in Oz, to express my sorrow. There are now words, just tears, and more to come in the following weeks as long as TomCat puts up the SNL videos.
SNL: Excellent. Alec Baldwin does such a wonderful impersonation of tRump. Agree with Joanne about the immigrants doing way less of criminal actions than that of tRump’s regime is.
RS: Insane the way these fools come up with their reasons.
TPR: I’m happy to read that Prime Minister Abe set everyone on the proper road with this crazy fiasco. No way on this planet should tRump ever be considered for anything except what prison he should be sent to.
Hopefully it will be “solitary confinement” at one of the worst prisons our country has.
Brief update: After a visit to my PCP’s hospital-affiliated Urgent Care Center at noon for my cat-bite cellulitis, whose Nurse Practitioner sent me to the KCMO teaching hospital’s satellite facility ER (it, itself, is a good sized hospital at 5-stories) and waiting SIX-PLUS HOURS to be seen, I finally got my IV antibiotics and Rx for oral meds.
All-in-all, it took me almost NINE HOURS to address a relatively straight forward medical issue in a pretty well-to-do suburban area.
The great news: when I came home Nike (who has been hiding so well it took me 2 hours this morning to find him hiding in my sportscoats on the middle shelf in my clothes closet) greeted me at the door!
AND he’s been drinking while gone, and urinated for the second time today! Not fully back, but enough so that I can get a good night’s sleep & not worry!
*sighs*
Glad to hear that things are looking up! How many days do you have to go for IV anti biotics? I also had oral meds but they weren’t nearly as effective. Glad too that Nike is feeling better. Give him scritches from me. Take care Nameless!
Very glad you and Nike are both improving! I hope that trajectory continues!
I so hate ERs!
I’m glad Nike is on the mend and hope you follow quickly!
Good news!
Wonderful news for the both of you. But I’m sorry it took you so long to get your medication. In nine hours it could have developed into something very nasty! Even outback Australia is faster than that.
Puzzle — 3:14 No pizza, fast cars or loose women for you Puddy Tat!
SNL — Not available in Canada. However, AlterNet had an article about Trump’s tweets after the airing of the episode.
When Trump gets his knickers in such a twist, you just know that Baldwin and cast did an outstanding job. It is also quite apparent that Trump knows absolutely nothing about the constitution that he swore to uphold. The 1st amendment covers this off quite nicely!
BTW, Trump (and the Republican Reich) is the real national emergency AND is a domestic terrorist! Trump is THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!
Raw Story — Stupid is as stupid does! Typical Republican BS!!!
Palmer Report — There is no doubt in my mind that either a WH staffer, or even the head cretin himself, contacted Tokyo directly to make the request for a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Now if there were a Nobel War Prize, Trump would win that hands down.
Photo from AlterNet
Is this the face of a Shinzo Abe that would nominate Diaper Don for a Nobel Peace Prize? I did not think so either! He looks rather embarrassed to be even sitting beside Trump.
Hey Trump, you narcissistic pile of offal, you will never attain the level of respect that Obama enjoys!
Cartoon — Clockwork orange??
It was a great sunny day today but there is more snow on the way! We have Family Day tomorrow while you Yanks have Presidents’ Day. Thank goodness there is no such day as Resident’s Day!!!
BTW, I had a great conversation with a young man at church today who, at the age of about 15, did up a spread sheet that predicted a Trump win in 2016. His spread sheet had a 97% accuracy, better than 538 if I recall. His spread sheet used education levels, race, religion etc to make the predictions. He did not do one for the mid terms but is awaiting the census info to do another spread sheet for 2020. He has been at PP previously but no comments etc. He just graduated high school last January and will be going to the University at Lethbridge, Alberta studying political science and history. I am hoping he might share his work with us at some point.
I can live without pizza and fast cars, but no loose women?!!?
Tell your young friend to speak up.
i can never watch SNL!! ?
It’s totally consuming trump? that President Obama received his Nobel in his 1st year!!
And i have totally lost it for Abe if he did do it!!
Thanks and cold Hugs to all!
SNL: Saw it live, love it! Yes, maybe he could be POTUS!
RS: When you mix rational thinking with religious non-rational belief, you get culturally supported gibberish!
PR: Joanne, your fur babies? How about my dingleberries?
‘Toon: May be, but, if you ask Sen. Hutchings I’m sure he will tell you just why God wants the time to be exactly what it is. Bozo!