It’s a very busy day here in the CatBox. Providence Home Medical Equipment is coming to exchange a 6-pack of full O2 tanks for my empties. Store to Door is delivering my groceries, and I have to unpack and put them away. This evening WWWendy is coming to destink the rancid TomCat. It’s been very muggy here, so I really need that shower. Happy Hump Day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:28 (average 5:30). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (CNN Channel): Hearing with Trump’s Treasury Secretary goes off the rails
Only a Republican could be such an asshole. He’s picking a fight to distract the hearing from its purpose. RESIST!!
From Vox: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to hold on to power, winning what will be a record fifth term in office despite a bruising reelection fight.
The preliminary results from Israel’s Tuesday election have Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party getting 35 seats out of a total 120 seats in the Knesset (Israel’s parliament). While Likud didn’t win an outright majority of seats, that’s typical in Israeli elections.
Party leaders generally become prime ministers by cobbling together a parliamentary majority with the help of smaller parties. In this case, a group of smaller right-wing parties expected to back Netanyahu seems to have captured 65 seats, enough to give him a 10-seat majority over the rival center-left bloc (the exact numbers could change as the remaining two percent of votes are tallied).
I can only offer my sincere condolences to the people of Israel and Palestine, who love peace. Even worse for them, Butcher Bibi is now beholden to a Republican monster, who is even more evil than he is. RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: There’s a Huckabee that everyone is talking about today, and surprisingly, it’s not White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It’s actually her dad.
Remember former Arkansas governor and onetime Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee? He has some serious antics in his past. One thing that’s consistent is that he really, really doesn’t like the LGBTQ community. His feelings are so strong, he’s declared that the queer community is the “greatest threat” to America.
In an interview with The Christian Post [pseudo-Christians delinked], he bemoaned the (still limited) advances in rights and protections the LGBTQ community has gained in recent years. You know, how same-sex marriage is now recognized in every state, but you can still be fired for being openly transgender? That sort of thing.
Upchuckabee, like so many Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, does not need sex-change surgery. They need race-change surgery… to human. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
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6:36 They only weigh about a pound, more or less, but their wingspan is about a yard, more or less. They have excellent hearing.
Mnuchin – “He’s picking a fight to distract the hearing from its purpose.” That won’t work with Auntie Maxine. (Side note: HE should be out pounding gravel. Or don’t they have prisoners doing that any more?)
Vox – Yes. Condolences for sure. Bad news for Israel, Palestine, and the world.
DKos – Oh, man, don’t you wish race change surgery (to human) had been perfected! OT sort of, I was trying to figure out why and how these people (and specifically white supremacists, which he also is) creep me out so much, and I remembered and looked up this:
In this story, the pleasure in question was ripping live frogs to pieces bare handed. But that attitude of being absolutely sure of oneself is creepy. at least to me, whatever the evil in question.
Cartoon – Well, and Republicans are opposed to that too. To them, animals are objects, and any feelings they may have are inconsequential to the point of non-existence.
CNN: A most beloved, powerful woman who commands and deserves respect. Our Honorable Maxine Waters, she’ll call it like it is!, and don’t tell Auntie Maxine to ‘bang the ‘gravel’. She owns her time.
Vox: Ugh! Not good news. At.All.
DK: If Huckabee is so Christian, why, indeed, is he so hateful towards the LGBTQ community? He is a disgusting mean man, who speaks ill of everyone… not like himself.
Cartoon: I didn’t realize this organization was founded way back then.
Hi, WWWendy! You sound awfully busy today. Hope you get all your chores done, and then be able to relax. Take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “The only thing easier to buy a gun is a Republican senator.” ~ Karla M.~
When are Republicans going to stop screwing the pooch – and when is the general public going to see the light and stop supporting these f–kwads that don’t give an atom from a rat’s arse about the 99%?
And when are the people of Israel finally going to vote Nazi-Yahoo out of power? That slime has transformed Israel into a violent rogue nation. It may be too late to undo even a third of the damage.
Upchuckabee – great name for that living proof orcs exist!
The founding of the ASPCA should be a major holiday for all who love (non-human) animals.
CNN: Mnuchin should know better than to mess with Auntie Maxine.
Vox: I was very sad to hear that Netanyahu managed to win yet again.
DK: Mike Huckabee is a pustulant cyst on the rear end of mankind.
It sounds as if you have a busy day. Take care, rest up and tell WWWendy hello.
CNN: Good questions, Freya, but, I’m afraid, the general public, at least the Republican voting members thereof, lost caring about anything butter greed and bigotry some time ago. Mnuchin is not a person of substance, but a puffed up Trumpist!
Vox: There is a concept that some of the biggest events in history have their roots in little, almost unnoticeable circumstances. So, here we have Butcher Bibi retaining his toxic power because of third party candidates, back in 2016!
DK: So sad that these asses have a willing flock to pull around and flock up! Sarah did not become the Sarah we all know, and love, by growing up in a different family, with a different father.
‘Toon: How about an American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Humans? Their motto could be “Resist, Resist, Jail for Cruel People!”
bArr fits perfectly being chosen this week.
Watching him today on the news when they were showing him during the senate testimony/meeting was a joke. He was stuttering away, unable to speak a full sentence, just like his evil leader does when it comes to answering question.
bArr needs to stop playing his cover-up games. Been playing them ever since January 2017. We are sick of them.
The truth must come out. We have a right to see the Mueller report.
Oops…I see that I accidentally posted my comment for the Repug on parade here Political Plus site. I never did that before, so I was wondering if there’s a way to still add another comment? Because when I went to put what I wanted to say, it stated I already responded. I waited another 5 minutes and came back to see if I could paste what I wanted here. Sorry about that, I’m still learning.
CNN: What a fool Mnuchin is getting to be so off the wall with Auntie Maxine. You can tell he has been trained well by tRump when it comes to showing respect to women.
VOX: Agree with Joanne and Pat/
DK: hUckabee is a despicable creep.
Hope you had a good hump day.
4:05 I hope Lynn can save those beautiful owls from your claws, TomCat.
CNN: Telling Maxine Waters she’s not doing her job right, is about the stupidest thing you can do, Mr. Mnuchin It makes you look like a little schoolboy, trying every angle to get out of the detention he deserves.
Vox: A sad day for many Israeli and for all Palestinians. Peace has never been further away with Netanyahu beholden to extreme right/religious groups which will hold him to his promise to annex the West Bank. And with Drumpf’s support he’ll gladly do it.
DK: I’ll think a lobotomy will suffice to shut Pa Huckabee up, since anything that could turn him into a human being is bound to fail or hasn’t been invented yet. So best to resort to more old fashioned methods like disconnecting his brain from the world altogether.
Cartoon: Very apt as today (11/4) here is National Pet Day
I know you don’t like dawgs, TomCat, but it goes for you too. 😁
Don’t like dawgs? Moi?!!? I LOVE dawgs!
Thanks and hugs to all.
Thanx TC 🐱