It’s a busy, exhausted day here in the CatBox. Yesterday’s test infusion went as exspected. However, I did get some news that may be good. I had thought that my difficulty eating was a sign that my esophageal cancer is getting worse. That may be true. However, if my immune system is attacking the tumor, which is how this drug is supposed to work, it could cause the tumor to swell, just as any wound swells when one’s immune system is healing it. So my trouble eating could also be a sign that the drug is working. Time will tell. Either way, if if the tumor closes to the extent that I cannot eat, I’ll have to get a stent quickly. Tomorrow Deborah is coming for my routine doctor visit. What I do tomorrow will depend on how long that takes and how I feel. This is my only article today. Have a fine day. JD, would you please cover Sam?
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:06 (average 6:31). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 6,550,984
US Deaths: 195,259
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP murder victims Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Oregonian Channel): Oregon wildfire evacuees describe devastation from state’s largest wildfire
Last night on the way home from my cancer treatment my eyes stung, and the sky was orange-brown. I could look directly at the sun, and it was red. WWWendy was worried that she might have to evacuate. She had been notified that her house is in a Level 1 area. Thank God she didn’t have to go! I can see from my window that we still have heavy smoke, but the wind has abated, so that will help the firefighters. The extreme severity of the wildfires this year is a result of how the Republican Reich ignores climate change and opposes green energy. RESIST!!
From YouTube (CNN Channel): Trump says he knew Covid-19 was deadly even though he downplayed it
All Trump* cared about was getting reelected. Because he was running on the economy, he gambled on keeping the stock market high. We lost. Every American that Trump* virus has killed is Donald Trump’s* personal murder victim. And what does criminal Fuhrer Trump* have to say about these statements recorded in his own words? “It’s a political hit job!” May that dirty lying bastard rot in hell, since we are all rotting in the hell he has made! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers (with Lyric)
Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
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Wow. That makes sense – and I hope it is the case. I hope you won’t need a stent, but if you need one because the chemo is working, that would certainly better then the other possibility. I’ll cover Sam, certainly. I stayed up late for an opera last night, so I’m just now up; otherwise I might have had it started by now.
Cartoon – Isn’t that the truth!
Map – At least most schools here are on line still – which (and I’m furious about this) didn’t prevent a local teacher from suspending a black student for having a toy gun in his own home. (Yes, the lad is from a military family, as are a whole lot in this school district with its proximity to Fort Carson.) Sorry, I’m still spitting nails about it.
Oregon – I am so sorry. In San Francisco yesterday, they never saw the sun – the fog came in under the smoke and completely blocked it out. The Kossack who wrote about it knew something was different when the cats didn’t wake him/her up at the normal time. Oh, but there’s no such thing as climate change. It’s a hoax!
CNN – Faust went to hell in the opera last night. He was a far better human being than Trump*. I echo your sentiments.
BOPP – We thought that was a tough time – and it was – but little did we know the tough times of today would come.
TC, your medical situation with regard to that tumor is, shall we say, rather fluid. It could be this, it could be that. I vote for attack!
There are wildfires in colorado, as well, with smoke threatening cousins on either side of our family.
‘Toon: They only tell us what they want us to know.
TVU: Gee, what’s all that purple doing in the Republican breadbasket?
Y/T-)C: Global warming is not a distant, vague, debatable subject for these poor folks, whether, they know it or not. One does not get Covid, or loose a house to fire from a hoax, but the Hoax-Meister could not care a whit.
Y/T-CNN: I have seen cartoon, in which Nixon’s ghost tells Trump, something like “You knew about Watergate, yet you let Woodward tape you? Are you stupid, or something?” And, we’ve lost over 195,000 people, and counting!
BOP: Wonderful!
Cartoon: One side, and down the other.
TVU: The count is going up, Stugis, SD may have caused 250K more cases when they drove/rode home. (last month). sad.
OC: How scary and downright frightening. I still remember the evacuation from 9 years ago, here. PTL that Wendy and you, do not have to leave. I have kin that lives out in the San Diego area, but they are okay. PTL !!
CNN: He should be charged with crimes against humanity. He’s lower than a sneaky snake, and deserves to resign, and get prison time in a cell by his lonesome. That way he can lie to himself all he wants. I can’t believe the repugs defend this as-. They are just as culpable. imho.
BOP: Awesome!!
Oh, I sure hope that your tumor is healing, that is wonderful to read, and that your in infusion is done till next time. Tell Deborah hi for me. Hope that you have a good relaxing afternoon and evening. Take good care, get a nap in, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “If Trump is willing to suck up to Bob Woodward, what did he say (or has said) to Putin?”
~ Anderson Cooper ~
2. “I just love the smell of Republicans turning on each other….in the evening.” ~ Sharman G. ~
3. “Woodward tapes – Trump lied and Americans died.” ~ Eagle M. ~
4. “Trump will resign if he loses (re-election) so Pence can pardon him.” ~ Michael Cohen ~
5. “Simply put, Trump is insecure and jealous of Obama. He’s black, he went to Harvard Law, top of his class, he’s incredibly articulate, he’s all the things donald trump wants to be.” ~ Michael Cohen ~
6. “I can’t believe people are comparing trump to Satan. Yes, he’s evil, but certainly not as evil as trump.”
~ Scott M. ~
TJI #4 – I don;t agree. I don’t think Cohen quite grasps how much dementia has hit Trump*, even though he (Cohen) admits that he (Trump*) is not the same person he (Cohen once knew. I don’t think Trump* is any longer capable of grasping that he might not win, by one means or another.
TJI #6 – I saw, not Satan, but Mephistopheles, in the opera last night. He certainly does a far better job than Trump* of providing housing for low-ethics people. That I can tell you.
Cartoon: Yep, they’re certainly out to screw us royally.
TVU: Still climbing. Another school has shut down. Hate to think that the direction we’re going is going to be worse, than better.
Y/T: Oregon: Scary to hear that Oregon is suffering with these awful fires, that people are facing evacuations. What makes it even scarier is that they are saying this is only the beginning of the fire season. Down here in San Diego last Monday the sky was overcast, where the sun was peaking thru glowing Red. We’re getting the smoke from Northern CA. The fires east are blowing south. I’m praying that they get these fires under control. Sad that the flipping leader calls the “Climate change” fake news.
Y/T: tRump should be prosecuted for the multiple deaths that would of been saved if he would of been honest with the country about the Covid-19 virus being so deadly in February when he first knew about it.
BOP: Great tune and video. I’m happy to hear that there’s a positive reason your “difficulty eating”, that it”s your immune system is attacking the tumor. Hopefully with it doing that it will get better as you continue to get more infusions.
Hope your day went well.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
That reason isn’t a done deal. It could be either healing inflammation or tumor growth.
No, but we’re all hoping so hard that it is healing inflammation.
I’m rooting for the second option, TomCat, and hope with you that your immune system is vigorously attacking your esophageal cancer. By the way, is it expected to attack any of your other tumours too?
4:19 Old-fashioned, aren’t they?
Cartoon: A big screw like that would suit their purpose well.
Update: No slowing down in sight.
Oregonian: You sadly are experiencing exactly the same combination of conditions as a result of climate change which Australia endured during its past fire season: extremely high fuel load through droughts, extremely high temperatures and extremely strong winds; resulting in the worst bushfires ever. And we’re going to face that again unless la Niña sets through in which case we’ll have extreme rainfall, floods and tornados. We all better get used to it as we seemed to have passed the point of no return.
CNN: It’s fracking unbelievable; tapes forced Nixon to resign and for Trump, they’re just another day in the Oval Office.
BOP: It looks like America needs more than a few ‘volunteers’ to put an end to Trump’s reign.
It it works, it could, but may not necessarily work on all the tumors.
Thanks and TGIF Hugs to all!