Jul 182020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox, and I’m running behind after thirty minutes of filling my throne with recalcitrant Republicans.  Tomorrow please expert no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.  WWKristin is filling in for WWWendy.  Have a great weekend, and flush your Republicans!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:49 (average 4:19).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Map:

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US Cases: 3,771,101
US Deaths: 142,080

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Alleging that it “has treated me very unfairly,” Donald J. Trump announced on Friday that he is suing the coronavirus.

“This is a very nasty virus, and by that I mean it has been nasty to me personally,” Trump told reporters. “I never thought that there could be anything more terrible than Jim Acosta, but the coronavirus is like an invisible Jim Acosta.”

Offering a preview of his lawsuit, Trump said that he was accusing the coronavirus of meddling in the 2020 election.

“You look at the numbers and, every time the virus’s numbers go up, my numbers go down,” he said. “This virus is trying to rig the election for Sleepy Joe.”

Dang, Andy! If criminal Fuhrer Trump* is so afraid for his political future, why didn’t he take the needed steps to control Trump* virus in the beginning? That it’s making him even more distasteful to voters is the only good thing about his Republican plague!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Ruth Bader Ginsburg announces cancer recurrence

Please remember RBG in your thoughts, wishes, prayers, or however you address the infinite. She a bastion of freedom, and we need her. Furthermore, God forbid that criminal Fuhrer Trump* should get to appoint another Fascist Republican Injustice to SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD)!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from labor): I’m Sticking With the Union

Except for Republican police unions, support labor!  RESIST!!

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Jul 162020
 

It’s a busy muggy day here in the CatBox.  My back is painful today.  Store to Door should come with my groceries between 11 AM and 1 PM.  By now WWWendy is on a plane.  Her plans changed, and she’s going to CO instead of CA.  JD, you ought to give her a call.  She’ll land around 1 PM your time.  Everyone, please keep her in your thoughts and and prayers.  If you find yourself in an elevator with a Republican, please fart.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:51 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Map Reference: click through for interactive map

US Cases: 3,618,739
US Deaths: 140,185

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Trying out a new line of attack against the former Vice-President, Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Joe Biden could never have a pandemic as big as his.

“Biden was Vice-President for eight years and had all the time in the world to have a pandemic,” Trump said. “Where was his pandemic?”

By contrast, Trump asserted, “In just a few months, I’ve built the biggest pandemic this country has seen in a hundred years.”

“People are going to be talking about my pandemic for generations to come,” Trump said. “What did Biden ever have? Swine flu? What a joke.”

Dang, Andy! Don’t do that! Portraying criminal Fuhrer Trump* telling the truth about the severity of his plague is enough to make someone throw up!  RESIST!!

From Alternet: …In the context of what we’ve been hearing from the Trump administration—or rather what we’ve not been hearing—I have to think that Donald Trump and his billionaire sycophant, Betsy DeVos, our current Secretary of Education, have absolutely no clue about what is metastasizing in the fevered swamps of American parents of school-age children right now in this country, or its potential to explode in a wave of electoral anger that could dwarf what occurred to the Republican Party in 2018.

I’m talking about a thermonuclear, cataclysmic, event of raw, unbridled voter fury. I’m talking about an existential, political wipe-out of Biblical proportions. A tsunami, if you will.

The most generous characterization of the Trump administration’s approach towards the situation facing our public schools in less than two months—six weeks or less, in fact, for many schools, including ones in Texas– is one of willful blindness, suggestive of an astonishing degree of deliberate, magical thinking– that imagines an idyllic sequence of cause and effect, where these schools will miraculously reopen, filled with rows of smiling teens, pre-teens,  elementary schoolers and their teachers, happy to share and mingle in their wondrous educational experience in the face of this horrific and unprecedented health crisis…

I wish Trump* and DeVos would back down for the sake of the families they are about to murder, but they won’t back down. Let that tsunami wipe the Republican Party out of existence!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from Labor): Union Maid

Except for police unions, support labor!  RESIST!!

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Jul 092020
 

It’s a busy day, here in the CatBox.  Store to Door is delivering a very large grocery order late this morning or early this afternoon.  It’s big, because WWWendy’s last day is Tuesday, before she is out of town for nine days visiting relatives.  So, I’ll need a nine day supply of goop.  Thursday is flush your Republicans day.  I hope my laxative works. 

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:59 (average 6:12).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 3,160,284
US Deaths: 134,920

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: In a scandal that threatens to upend Donald Trump’s Presidency, a new book accuses Trump of paying Vice-President Mike Pence to take his coronavirus tests for him.

According to the book, “Swapping Swabs: Trump’s Pandemic of Lies,” when the subject of being tested for the virus first came up, in March, Trump started casting about for a “good test-taker” to substitute for him.

Trump considered several candidates for the ruse, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the Attorney General, William Barr, but ultimately settled on Pence, who agreed to take the tests for the fee of twenty-five dollars per result.

Dang, Andy! That should not be worded as an accusation. It should be worded as a fact!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): ‘Bullying, Intimidation, And Retaliation:’ Key Impeachment Witness Vindman Retires

Lt. Colonel Vindman is a hero and a patriot. Criminal Fuhrer Bone Spurs* is a bully and a coward!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast that was played at Woodstock): Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers (with Lyric)


Dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jul 082020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  Both WWWendy and the Palliative Care nurse are coming this morning.  In addition, my tumor is acting up again.  This is my only article today.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:57.  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 3,097,602
US Deaths: 133,994

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: The firestorm of controversy swirling around the upcoming tell-all book by the President’s niece exploded on Tuesday, after Vladimir Putin revealed that he took the SATs for Donald J. Trump.

Putin said that he had hoped to keep his role in Trump’s college admission a secret, but, with the impending publication of Mary Trump’s book, “it was only a matter of time before the truth came out.”

The Russian President said that, when young Donald Trump was applying to college, in the nineteen-sixties, Putin was making “a few extra rubles” by offering his services as a test-taker to wealthy but academically hopeless American high-school students.

Dang, Andy! And Putin [R-RU] wasn’t the only one.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): ‘Lying, Cheating Failure’: New Book By Trump’s Niece Casts Trump As Traumatized Narcissist

We certainly couldn’t find a better source on the Republican insanity of criminal Fuhrer Trump*. Of course, have known the broad strokes for years, but the details sure are juicy!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from Woodstock): Country Joe McDonald live at Woodstock

Dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jul 022020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  A fire alarm made me get up at 1:00 AM, and I could not get back to sleep.  WWWendy is coming soon, so this is my only article today.  JD, would you please publish Sam?  Have a great day!  Joke: Why did God create Republicans?  She wanted to make Satanist cannibals look good!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:57 (average 5:39).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 2,781,085
US Deaths: 130,813

Short Takes:

From  The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump may not have read a Presidential Daily Brief on the Russian bounty scheme because he holds reading material upside down, experts suggested on Wednesday.

After studying photographic evidence of Trump holding a book in that difficult-to-read position, Davis Logsdon, who studies literacy at the University of Minnesota, said that such a practice could have impeded the President’s ability to process information on his desk.

“If Trump is holding all of his Presidential Daily Briefs upside down, what is intended to be important intelligence requiring his urgent attention might, to him, appear to be little more than meaningless marks on a piece of paper,” Logsdon said.

Dang, Andy! Did he learn that technique from the way Crawford Caligula, aka GW ChickenHawk, read My Pet Goat on 9/11?  RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: President Donald Trump makes very clear his allegiance to the almighty dollar, so it should hardly be shocking that he’s willing to throw Black people under the bus when it comes to his beloved Trump Tower. The president made his position even clearer Wednesday when he vehemently opposed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to have a Black Lives Matter sign painted on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. The building’s namesake called the planned sign a “symbol of hate” and berated the mayor for supporting a plan to reallocate $1 billion of the police department’s $6 billion operating budget—a drop in the bucket for protesters pushing for a wholesale overhaul to policing.

Kudos to Mayor de Blasio! I can’t wait to see the look on criminal Fuhrer Trump’s* face the first time le looks down from his liars lair and sees Black Lives Matter!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the the past): Get Back (Remastered 2009)

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jun 302020
 

It’s a crazy day here in the CatBox.  I’ve been having trouble changing my Fentanyl patches.  They are tiny, transparent and sticky.  Because my previous surgery to knock out eye cancer damaged my eyes, everything I see  is blurry, and I have double vision.  Also, my hands shake when I try to do delicate work.  So far, I have destroyed two patches trying to change them, and with a copay of $10 per patch, that has to change.  To solve the problem WWWendy will come every three days, instead of twice per week, so she can change my patch, when she’s here.  Therefore, my WWWendy days will change every week, and my schedule here will be variable.  I may be a bit scarce for the next two days.  Store to Door is closed for the Fourth, so I ordered my groceries from Safeway.com.  They will be delivering a huge order between 8:00 and 10:00 AM, and it will take me a long time to unbag them and put them away.  Then WWWendy will be coming Thursday morning to destink the rancid TomCat, change my patch, goop, and help with chores.  Don’t forget to remind everyone to flush the Republican Reich!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:33 (average 5:25).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 2,683,301
Deaths: 128,819

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: In an act of retaliation against the Russians for sponsoring Taliban attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Donald J. Trump is sending Jared Kushner to the Kremlin to offer advice on its coronavirus response, the White House confirmed on Monday.

“To all those who thought that this President was not taking the Russians’ actions seriously, this response should speak for itself,” the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said. “The President had an array of responses to choose from, and the one he selected is by far the most punishing.”

According to White House insiders, Trump and his advisers debated the response to the Russians for hours before finally settling on the Kushner option late Sunday night.

“Jared Kushner is the most brutal weapon in our arsenal, and deploying him is a decision that no one should ever take lightly,” one adviser said.

Awww, come on, Andy. Criminal Fuhrer Trump* would never do such a horrible thing to his favorite butt plug, Vladimir Putin [R-RU]. Furthermore, that would be a clear casus belliRESIST!!

From Daily Kos: At least one House Democrat has had enough with Republicans ignoring mask requirements during House committee hearings. Rep. Jim Clyburn, head of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, has written a letter to ranking Republican Steve Scalise warning him that if committee Republicans continue to show up at hearings without masks, those Republicans will not be recognized to speak during subcommittee meetings. At all.

Clyburn was not particularly polite about it, either. In his letter, Clyburn reminds Scalise that it was Scalise who “repeatedly” has wanted in-person hearings and “you assured me that this could be done safely.” But when “every single Republican Member of the Subcommittee refused to comply” with congressional mask rules, Clyburn was fed up.

Kudos to Jim Clyburn. I hope that the other Democratic heads of committees and subcommittees, both women and men, grow a pair too!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Doors – Break On Through HQ (1967)

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jun 272020
 

It’s a very tired day, here in the CatBox.  This building can be very difficult to find, and yesterday, the Providence Elder at Home doctor was 90 minutes late for our appointment.  First, her GPS system kept sending her in circles that missed the turn to get to the building.  When she finally found it and got to the street parking area on the other side of the building, she called me, and I came down to the lobby to let her into the building.  However, the city’s street parking pay system was out of order.  She had to download the mobile street parking app, register, and use it to pay for parking.  I had to wait in the lobby for over half an hour, before she finally got to the door.  Things went uphill from there.  I gave her the records i keep on medications, pain management and blood sugar.  I familiarized her with my condition.  She checked me out, and we agreed that I’m doing pretty well for a guy with one foot in the grave.  She will return monthly to check on my condition and help with any immediate needs.  If I have a need sooner, I can call for an appointment.  She told me that she will need to come more often as my condition progresses to help me with pain management.  I’m feeling very worn out.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.  It’s a WWWendy day, and we have lots to do.  Have a fine weekend!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:11 (average 4:53).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Considering his replacement, his resignation was tragic.

Trump Virus* Update:

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Except for CA, you can see where Republicans are strongest.

Cases: 2,554,470
Deaths: 127,673

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump on Friday threatened to ban a coronavirus vaccine if it turns out that it was invented by former President Barack Obama.

Trump’s threat took members of the White House press corps aback, since there are no reports to date of Obama attempting to invent a vaccine or any other pharmaceutical.

Trump acknowledged that he was not aware of any such activities on Obama’s part, but warned that, if the former President succeeded in inventing a coronavirus vaccine, “I’m not going to let that happen.”

“If Obama came up with a vaccine, it would only be to make me look bad,” he said. “Well, guess what? I’m not going to let him get away with something cute like that. We’re going to move quite powerfully on anything Obama does in terms of a vaccine.”…

Consider this, Andy. Criminal Fuhrer Trump* is just using Obama as a smoke screen. The Republican Reich wants to block any vaccine. Since the Trump* virus death rate for minorities is disproportionately high, and since most minority voters vote for Democrats, Republicans want to kill as many as they can before the 2020 election.  RESIST!!

From NY Times: American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.

The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year.

Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are believed to have collected some bounty money, the officials said. Twenty Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2019, but it was not clear which killings were under suspicion.

The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said…

Actually, the Times is incorrect on one point. Trump* did respond to Russia paying for the murder of US troops. According to the BBC, he postponed the G7 Summit from June to September, because other nations rejected his plan to allow Russia to join the G7 (G8, if they did) and Putin [R-RU] to attend the summit. That’s how much the Republican Reich cares about the murder of US troops!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Audio)

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jun 262020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  This is today’s only article, because a Providence doctor will be visiting soon.  I don’t know whether or not I’ll have tome to finish and publish this, before she arrives, but I’ll do so ASAP.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:01 (average 4:34).  To do it, click here.  Hoe did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Cases: 2,505,909
Deaths: 126,823

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: In an unexpected turn of events for the former New York mayor, a poll of legal experts has determined that Rudolph Giuliani is no longer the worst lawyer in America.

According to the law professor who supervised the poll, Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota Law School, Giuliani’s dethronement from the worst-lawyer championship was all the more shocking because his claim to that title had remained unchallenged for so long.

“Giuliani had faced worthy competition from the likes of Michael D. Cohen and Michael Avenatti and dispatched them with ease,” Logsdon said. “But this new challenger left Rudy in the dust.”

Thanks, Andy! It doesn’t take a picture to know that the worst Lawyer in the country is Barrf!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (John Pavlovitz Channel): YES, PEOPLE WHO WEAR MASKS ARE AFRAID. (We Wish You Were Afraid, Too.)

Amen! All John’s arguments are valid, but will Republicans listen? I doubt it! As JD at out site said, I wear it, because I’m exercising my right to wear what I want. Republican Sheeple have no answer for that one.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Santana – Black Magic Woman 1971

Love that guitar! Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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