Jan 102020
 

It’s a lazy day, here in the CatBox.  Store to Door called mid-nap to deliver groceries, yesterday. I woke up last night because of the high humidity, and could not get back to sleep.  Tomorrow and Sunday are High Holy Days in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, the Festival of Divisional Resolution.  May the Orb shine its Holy light on your team.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:49 (average 6:57).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From Alternet: The New York City Bar Association has taken the extraordinary step of asking Congress to investigate Attorney General Bill Barr for being too politically biased to faithfully execute his duties as America’s top law enforcement official.

Bloomberg reports that the Bar Association is claiming that Barr’s recent statements and actions indicate that he may be enabling and encouraging “political partisans willing to use the levers of government to empower certain groups over others.”

The association also accuses Barr of disregarding “fundamental obligations in several public statements during the past few months,” including his duty to “act impartially, to avoid even the appearance of partiality and impropriety, and to avoid manifesting bias, prejudice or partisanship in the exercise of official responsibilities.”

Nothing like this has ever happened before. However, there has never been an AG as worthy of disbarrfment as Barrf!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Business Genius Donald Trump Thinks Your 409K Could Be Up 90%

 

Awww… you can’t blame poor impeached Fuhrer Trump*. He’s confused, because he uses Formula 409 to clean the Russian hooker pee stains from his face.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Redbone – Come And Get Your Love – LIVE 1974 The Midnight Special (Guardians Of The Galaxy)

 

I remember the music, but never saw it performed before. Fantastic!!  RESIST!!

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Bullshit*

 Posted by at 8:44 am  Politics
Dec 302019
 

Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten, aka Bone Spurs, aka Putin’s Pet Pervert will now be known throughout eternity as Trump*.  Therefore is it not appropriate to identify the lame attempts by Barrf, Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch, Faux Noise, and the rest of the criminal Republican Reich to justify those crimes as Bullshit”?

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The New York Times has a comprehensive look this morning at the timeline and actions surrounding the withholding of aid to Ukraine, and I strongly suggest you read it all. But this was the ultimate in political appointees (most with personal and professional ties to Mick Mulvaney) creating rationales to justify whatever Trump wanted: Just ignore the law! Like the political operatives they are, they had little interest in whether there was a valid legal basis for their arguments, they just wanted something that sounded good enough to sell, and came up with something that cemented Trump’s vision of himself as a monarch, unaccountable to anyone:

By late summer, top lawyers at the budget office were developing a proposed legal justification for the hold, based in part on conversations with White House lawyers as well as the Justice Department.

Their argument was that lifting the hold would undermine Mr. Trump’s negotiating position in his efforts to fight corruption in Ukraine.

The president, the lawyers believed, could ignore the requirements of the Impoundment Control Act and continue to hold the aid by asserting constitutional commander in chief powers that give him authority over diplomacy. He could do so, they believed, if he determined that, based on existing circumstances, releasing the money would undermine military or diplomatic efforts.

 

 

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That certainly illustrated the need for more witnesses.  The more we discover, the more pleased I an that Speaker Pelosi [D-CA] is standing up to Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch’s bullshit*!

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Dec 102019
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  I had to complete and send my week’s grocery order to Store to Door.  I had to schedule my ride to the Hospital next Tuesday with TriMet Lift.  I prepared the Fantasy Football Alert.  I made a BIG pot of chili to use against that Sdang sasquatch as revenge.  I’m kind of pooped!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:54 (average 5:51).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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Fantasy Football Report:

Here’s the latest from our own fantasy football league.

Scores:

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Congrats to the Sasquatch, Patty Monster and WWWendy for winning their games.  Kudos to Squatch for the week’s high score.

Standings:

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Kudos to WWWendy, our regular season Champion, to Vivian, our regular season scoring champion, and to Squatch for finishing two places ahead of me. Crying face

Playoffs Bracket:

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WWWendy and Vivian have a bye week this weekend.  See the left column for the other pairings.  Good luck to all!

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Trump Campaign Was Not Spied On: DOJ IG; Barr Reverts To Deceit

Barrf Bag Alert!!

 

Barrf has his head so far up his beloved Fuhrer’s ass that he can have meetings with Pence up there.  RESIST!!

From Vox: The United Kingdom will vote on December 12, and the country’s unfinalized divorce with the European Union looms over it all.

These are the Brexit elections. Even if many wish they weren’t.

Whoever wins the election will ultimately determine whether the United Kingdom leaves the European Union early next year — and, if it does, they’ll likely be determining what that future relationship might look like.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Conservative Party have vowed that if they reclaim their majority in Parliament, they will “get Brexit done” by quickly passing the prime minister’s Brexit deal and moving to negotiate a free-trade agreement with the EU by the end of 2020.

Labour, the opposition party led by Jeremy Corbyn, is instead proposing to renegotiate the Brexit deal, and then put it back to the British people for a final vote on whether they want to leave the EU on those terms — or just remain in the EU after all…

From what I understand Corbyn and Labour have almost as good a chance as there is for Trump to last a day without lying. Nevertheless, I hope they win, so the UK no longer challenges the US world record for electoral idiocy. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Thunderclap Newman – Something In The Air

 

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Dec 032019
 

In case you’re wondering why I’m not out getting skewered, you won’t believe this story.  Last Friday I went to the Providence website to confirm my biopsy.  While I was there I noticed an unknown surgery at the hospital scheduled for Wednesday.  So I called the hospital.  The scheduler figured out that my anesthesiologist was scheduled for Wednesday.  I suggested scheduling the anesthesiologist on Tuesday with the biopsy, since I wouldn’t be there Wednesday.  She told me that she has corrected the schedule, and that they would see me Tuesday.  However, she had moved the biopsy to Wednesday by mistake.  On Monday the hospital called for some last minute clarification for my Wednesday biopsy.  I told them it was Tuesday.  They realized the scheduler’s mistake, but could not change it back.  I told them I have no ride home Wednesday, so I have to reschedule the whole thing.  I called to cancel my TriMet Lift bus and learned that they had scheduled me to go to the wrong place.  Is Republican Incompetence spreading or what?!!?  ARGH! hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:40 (6:02 average).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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Fantasy Football Report:

Here’s the news from our own fantasy football league.

Scores:

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Congrats to WWWendy, Patty Monster, and Squatch for winning their games.  Had I only started Jackson and benched Mahomas, I would have won.  Kudos to WWWendy for the week’s high score.

Standings:

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Kudos to WWWendy for leading the league.

This coming weekend is the last in our regular season.  After that, we have three weeks of playoffs.  Stay tuned.  I’ll post the brackets with next week’s report.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Schiff: Intel Cmte. To Release Impeachment Report To Public

 

The reason the Fuhrer’s lawyers have no defense is simple. They have no defense. The miserable thing, however, is that with Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch and the Republican Reich controlling the Senate, the Fuhrer needs no defense.  RESIST!!

From Washington Post: Attorney General William P. Barr has told associates he disagrees with the Justice Department’s inspector general on one of the key findings in an upcoming report — that the FBI had enough information in July 2016 to justify launching an investigation into members of the Trump campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Justice Department’s inspector general, Michael Horo­witz, is due to release his long-awaited findings in a week, but behind the scenes at the Justice Department, disagreement has surfaced about one of Horowitz’s central conclusions on the origins of the Russia investigation. The discord could be the prelude to a major fissure within federal law enforcement on the controversial question of investigating a presidential campaign.

Barr has not been swayed by Horowitz’s rationale for concluding that the FBI had sufficient basis to open an investigation on July 31, 2016, these people said.

This is exactly what we expect from Barrf!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): somebody to love-jefferson airplane

 

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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