It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. WWWendy is coming an hour early today. Tomorrow is the follow-up Cat Scan for my Oncologist, so please expect only a Personal Update. Ellipsoid Orb Hugs to all.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:31 (average 8:37). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
This is several years old. I should remake it and include Nazi and Russians.
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: In a move that raised eyebrows in the nation’s capital, Donald Trump on Saturday secured a note from a podiatrist exempting him from impeachment.
The note, written by Trump’s personal podiatrist, Dr. Harland Dorrinson, said that the strain of undergoing impeachment could “catastrophically inflame” a foot malady that has bedevilled Trump since the nineteen-sixties.
While the doctor’s note drew howls of protests from congressional Democrats, the Attorney General, William Barr, supported excusing Trump from impeachment on humanitarian grounds.
“Given the seriousness of the President’s ailment, impeachment is cruel and unusual punishment and therefore unconstitutional,” Barr said, adding that the Department of Justice would investigate Representative Adam Schiff and the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, for “crimes against feet.”
Dang Andy! Trump needs real agony of defeat, not fake agony of de feet! RESIST!!
From YouTube (SNL Channel): Elizabeth Warren Town Hall Cold Open
Kate is funny as hell, and she does make good points, but the real Liz is way less evasive than that. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze (Music Video)
Purple Haze was a powerful flavor of LSD that was associated with the song. Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue!!
10 Responses to “Open Thread – 11/3/2019”
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Cartoon: Oh, but of course!
NYer: This in hilarious!!
SNL: She’s fantastic, Kate AND Ms. Warren!
YT: Great song, awesome!
Hi, Wendy! Get your rest, and hope that you have a good day today, and evening. Sending good vibes to you for Monday. Take care, to and fro tomorrow. My Texans are early today, in London, score is Texans 9, Jags 3, halftime. (already).
This just in: “TRE45ON” ~ anon ~
2. “Show me a man that get rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook.” ~ Harry S.Truman ~
3. “The only way I’m watching dt’s ‘Fireside Chat’ is if he’s actually on fire.” ~ Simon C. ~
4. Mr. Obama to dt: “It’s Latin. It basically means ‘Quit. Bro. Go.'” ~ Richard P. ~
8:24 Oh goody /s, another really hard one.
Cartoon – And fetuses. (I realize they hate them too, but they claim not to.)
TNY – It sounds exactly like them. Has Andy been reading their emails?
SNL – Kate is so good I can’t watch her. I did last long enough to comment on Orange Judas moving to Florida. I don’t think it’s taxes. I think it’s asset forfeiture. In Florida, a primary residence is exempt from asset forfeiture. In New York, it isn’t. So New York is going to snag Trump Tower whether he stays or goes. But tn Florida, he can keep Mar-a-Lago out of Florida’s hands.
Past – When Jimi lived in London, he lived RIGHT NEXT DOOR to where George Frederick Handel had lived two hundred years earlier. 22 and 24 Brook Street, the addresses were, IIRC (A little known and less appreciated fact.)
Cartoon:
TNY: Sounds like what tRump would say his doctor wrote.
SNL: Loved watching Kate do her impression of Elizabeth.
BFTP: Jimi was great. Too bad his life ended so early. I enjoy listening to his songs.
Hope you and Wendy get your tasks taken care of. That you have a great Sunday.
Hope your Broncos win.
Good luck with your Cat Scan tomorrow, I pray it comes out well for you.
Take care.
Thanks TomCat
‘Ton: Spot on!
New Yorker: That Dorrinson sure does get around!
SNL: TC, Your comment is perfect!
Love Hendrix!
Kate is always a fantastic performer – but I really didn’t care for the cold opening very much. She was not only too evasive like you noted (Sen. Warren is not), but also way too frenetic.
Democrats are way funnier than republicans (I mean, who do they have beside Dennis Miller and Victoria Jackson?!?). But mocking Democrats’ sincerity and intelligence is much harder to do than mocking the buffoonery and ignorance of republicans.
Your second paragraph is profound.
Your first paragraph is well observed. The little I saw, she was way too frenetic (part of my difficulty). But I see why. Parody exaggerates for effect, and, in this case, what she was exaggerating was Elizabeth’s energy, which is undeniable.
Good luck with the CAT-scan tomorrow,
3:44 New prescriptions for my glasses and enough sleep do wonders.
Cartoon: If you’d find something/someone to symbolise alt-right you’d catch most or Republican love, except for Russia that is.
TNY: Brilliant. But how did you know that Trump and Republicans have actually considered this option, Andy? “Trump needs real agony of defeat, not fake agony of de feet!” Brilliant too!
SNL: Even after Kate’s excellent impression of Liz Warren, I would vote for Liz. Sure she’s got some quirky habits, which is lucky for SNL, but she’s got plans and they are better than most if they exist at all. It was the put-down of others by word of Liz that was funniest.
YT: Never a fan when Hendrix was alive, I came to appreciate his music only after he was long gone. The drug references have always been lost on me, never having tried out anything but alcohol.
Thanks and Exhausted Hugs!
Hugs,Tom Cat
Cartoon: Ain’t that the truth – except you need to include a Nazi.