Open Thread – 8/10/2020

Posted by TomCat at 11:02 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 102020

It’s a hot, busy day here in the CatBox. I’m waiting for Diana, my palliative care nurse, to come change my patch, hopefully at about 9:30 AM. I’m already running late, because I overslept. Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but it will not affect my publishing as she won’t be back from Eastern Oregon until mid-afternoon tomorrow. I texted WWKristen, who is with her and promised they will both stay safe and naughty. Oh God, it’s Monday! Update: Diana came and changed my patch.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:12 (average 4:49). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Click for interactive map

US Cases: 5,201,873
US Deaths: 165,626

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Georgia teen says school used students as guinea pigs

The school administrators were goose-stepping behind their beloved Nazi leader, criminal Fuhrer Trump*. Now that her suspension has been lifted, nine students have already tested positive for Trump* virus, and this GOP crime has been exposed, threats of physical violence are SOP for the Republican Reich! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Biden Leads In 2020 Battleground Map

May God protect the truth of his projection from the Republican Reich collusion with Trump’s* boss, Putin [R-RU]. Help God with your vote! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): “Nasty Man” by Joan Baez

Joan is seven years older than I am. I’m so glad she’s still with is. Kudos to left-wing protestors! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread–6/19/2020

Posted by TomCat at 11:34 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jun 192020

It’s a muggy day here in the CatBox with a projected temp in the high 80°s. Tomorrow WWWendy will be coming to help de-stink the thoroughly foul TomCat and to help do chores and prepare goop. Therefore please expect no more than a Personal Update or Open Thread from me. JD, would you please cover Bill? TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:05 (average 5:27). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Cases: 2,264,307
Deaths: 120,691
Recovered: 931,150

Short Takes:

From Washington Post: The city of Tulsa announced a last-minute curfew that began Thursday night and will continue Friday and Saturday, restricting people from a large area surrounding the arena where President Trump will hold his first campaign rally in months.

An executive order signed by Mayor G.T. Bynum (R) says the curfew, which begins at 10 p.m. and lifts at 6 a.m. all three nights, is intended to quell potential overnight violence as thousands intend to pour into the city to protest the president’s visit.

It’s unclear whether the Trump supporters who have camped out for days to secure a prime spot to see the president on Saturday will be cleared out as well, but some videos posted on social media appeared to show people leaving the area carrying tents and lawn chairs .

Bynum declared a “civil emergency” after law enforcement informed the mayor that “individuals from organized groups who have been involved in destructive and violent behavior in other states are planning to travel to the City of Tulsa for purposes of causing unrest in and around the rally,” the order reads.

We need to watch this very carefully. I would be very surprised, if there is no continuation of violent Republican racist false flag terrorist attacks designed to appear as the work of Blank Lives Matter and/or the non-existent Antifa. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): For DACA recipients, a sense of relief after the Supreme Court’s decision

Roberts’ decision was not pro-DACA. It was very technical and narrow, almost inviting the Republican Reich to try again without the sloppy contradictions in motive that prompted this decision. Furthermore, he did not even mention the racist intent that should have protected DACA recipients from criminal Fuhrer Trump’s* order. Let us hope that trying to steal the 2020 election will keep criminal Fuhrer Trump* too busy to try again. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Steppenwolf – Magic Carpet Ride (Version 1969)

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread–6/8/2020

Posted by TomCat at 11:02 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jun 082020

It’s another busy day here in the CatBox. After research, I lay dawn for 90 minutes to minimize pain. When I arose, I visited the throne and flushed Republicans. Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update from me. WWWendy is taking me to the hospital for my PET scan. Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:53 (average 5:46). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

Cases: 2,008,791
Deaths: 112,506
Recovered: 761,729

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Vladimir Putin has rejected Donald J. Trump’s request for ten thousand active-duty Russian Army troops to guard the perimeter around the White House, Administration and Kremlin sources have confirmed.

After Trump’s call for U.S. troops was rebuffed by Defense Secretary Mark Esper and General Mark Milley, Trump reportedly snapped, “I’ll call Vlad,” and stormed out of the meeting with the two men.

Much to Trump’s disappointment, however, his request for Russian troops met with a chilly response.

“The optics would be terrible,” Putin reportedly told him. “Worse than that crazy thing you did with the Bible. Really, you need to get a grip.”

Dang, Andy! Poor* widdle criminal Fuhrer Trump! It really hurt his feelings, when his perv-daddy Putin [R-RU] pulled out of Trump’s* pooter and zipped up his fly! RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: The New York Times’ Editorial Page Editor James Bennet has resigned after the publication of an editorial by Sen. Tom Cotton advocating that the military be deployed to end racial injustice protests throughout the United States. Bennet had been the head of the Times’ editorial pages since 2016.

The Times faced immediate and furious backlash for publishing the op-ed, including from within the Times itself. After repeatedly defending the decision to run Cotton’s anti-American screed, it came out that the Times’ editors had themselves solicited for Cotton to make his case—and that Bennet had not even read the piece before publishing it.

It appears to me that the Times has made James Bennet a scapegoat for following the Times editors’ policy, against his own wishes. They should all be fired. However, Bennet should be fired too, for publishing it without reading it. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Animals – The House Of The Rising Sun 1964 (High Quality)

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Racist Attack and Desecrating a Church for a Photo-op

Posted by TomCat at 11:46 am Politics, Religion

Jun 032020

A few days ago cowardly criminal Fuhrer Trump had a case of buk-buk-buk-buk-bone spurs and hid in the White House bunker for fear that they might hurt him. He had expected to cover it up, but someone leaked it to the press, and before he knew it, people all over the country were laughing at him. The last times he felt that humiliated is when the existence of the pee-pee tape, became public and when people learned that Stormy spanked him. He needed to put on a show to appear heroic.

After a weekend of protests that led all the way to his own front yard and forced him to briefly retreat to a bunker beneath the White House, President Trump arrived in the Oval Office on Monday agitated over the television images, annoyed that anyone would think he was hiding and eager for action.

He wanted to send the military into American cities, an idea that provoked a heated, voices-raised fight among his advisers. But by the end of the day, urged on by his daughter Ivanka Trump, he came up with a more personal way of demonstrating toughness — he would march across Lafayette Square to a church damaged by fire the night before.

The only problem: A plan developed earlier in the day to expand the security perimeter around the White House had not been carried out. When Attorney General William P. Barr strode out of the White House gates for a personal inspection early Monday evening, he discovered that protesters were still on the northern edge of the square. For the president to make it to St. John’s Church, they would have to be cleared out. Mr. Barr gave the order to disperse them.

What ensued was a burst of violence unlike any seen in the shadow of the White House in generations. As he prepared for his surprise march to the church, Mr. Trump first went before cameras in the Rose Garden to declare himself “your president of law and order” but also “an ally of all peaceful protesters,” even as peaceful protesters just a block away and clergy members on the church patio were routed by smoke and flash grenades and some form of chemical spray deployed by shield-bearing riot officers and mounted police… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <NY Times>

Reverend describes being pushed out from church for Trump photo-op

Maiming peaceful protestors demonstrating legally? Injuring clergy as they ministered to injured demonstrators? Desecrating’s the church by instigation violence there? There is only one word sufficiently vile to describe such anti-Christian behavior: Republican. And guess who made it happen for his Fuhrer?

Attorney General William Barr is facing demands to step down after the Washington Post reported Tuesday that the nation’s top law enforcement official personally ordered police to beat back peaceful protesters gathered near the White House Monday evening to clear the path for President Donald Trump’s walk to St. John’s Episcopal Church.

Two anonymous federal law enforcement officials told the Post that “the decision had been made late Sunday or early Monday to extend the perimeter around Lafayette Square by one block.” An unnamed Justice Department official said that Barr on Monday afternoon “went to survey the scene and found the perimeter had not been extended.”

“The attorney general conferred with law enforcement officials on the ground, which the official said is captured in a video of the incident,” the Post reported. “He conferred with them to check on the status and basically said: ‘This needs to be done. Get it done,’ the Justice Department official said.”… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Alternet>

That’s right! It was Barrf! To make matters worse, Trump never opened his Bible (as if he ever has). He never prayed. It was all just a photo-op! How disgusting! How vile!

RESIST!!

Open Thread–6/1/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:27 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jun 012020

It’s a busy, stinky day here in the CatBox. By now WWWendy is on her way home, and I’m looking forward to her return, BIG Time. Her cell must be out of range of a tower. I took Nameless’ advice and shot a portal message to my palliative care team, as I’m hurting pretty bad. Oh, God! It’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:46 (average 3:47). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Cases: 1,839,119
Deaths: 106,241
Recovered: 599,875

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Police Join Protesters In Demonstrations Across U.S.

I often get down on police at demonstrations, as I have witnessed far too many instances of harm, up to including death, inflicted on peaceful demonstrators by fascist Republican police, through their vicious use of violence. Kudos to those cops, who did the right thing by joining the demonstrators, including some here in Portland. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Trump briefly taken to underground bunker amid protests

I don’t doubt for a second that criminal Fuhrer Trump* demanded that secret service take him to the bunker, because he suffered a severe attack of bone spurs. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Beatles – Don’t Let Me Down

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread–3/27/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:49 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Mar 272020

It’s another painful day here in the CatBox, but taking a pain pill at bedtime allowed me a good sleep last night. Thank God it’s Friday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:24 (average 4:59). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

Cases: 85,762

Deaths: 1,306

Recovered: 1,868

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: Given the intensity of the conspiracy theories on the radical right that have arisen around the coronavirus pandemic—particularly the number of rightists claiming that government lockdown orders are an initial step in the imposition of a tyrannical order—it was only a matter of time before the U.S. experienced its first coronavirus-related act of domestic terrorism.

On Tuesday, a Missouri man named Timothy Wilson made preparations to set off a car bomb at a local hospital in suburban Belton, which was intended as a revolt against the stay-at-home order issued by Belton’s mayor, but his plan was cut short by an FBI raid. When he apparently resisted with a weapon, he ended up being shot and killed.

One Republican terrorist went down, but there are a pants load more to take his place. Some of them even hold elected office. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): House Scrambles Back To DC To Vote On $2 Trillion Coronavirus Relief Bill

All it takes to screw up anything is just one Republican. That’s why every Republican in office is one Republican too many! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Amboy Dukes – Journey To The Center Of The Mind

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

Open Thread–2/29/2020

Posted by TomCat at 10:31 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Feb 292020

It’s become a busy day here in the CatBox, as two days missed has me way behind in research. I was also sick most of the night, and today, and I have thrown up four times since breakfast. I really think it’s pills blocking the passage. Then food and saliva collect and fill the esophagus. ARGH! Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and normally I would publish only a Personal Update, but I’ll try to add a piece on the SC primary. Have a great weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:57 (average 4:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

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That is the machine I was in yesterday.

Short Takes:

From Alternet: According to a report from the Star-Telegram, a senior member of the rightwing paramilitary group Oath Keepers who moved to Texas in 2015 is actively recruiting local law enforcement employees while telling them a “bloody civil war” against the U.S. government is on the horizon.

The report states that John D. Shirley, the national director of the Las Vegas-based Oath Keepers finagled himself a job as a county constable in Hood County which provided him with access to other police officers and now he is using his position to recruit.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Oath Keepers organization is “one of the largest radical antigovernment groups in the U.S. today” with, reportedly, thousands of members made up of former law enforcement officials and military veterans.

The Oath Keepers are Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian terrorists. Because of the group’s treasonous activities, membership in Oath Keepers ought to be a court martial offence for military personnel and cause for termination for other government employees, especially those in law enforcement. RESIST!!

From NY Times: President Trump announced on Friday that he intended to nominate Representative John Ratcliffe, Republican of Texas, as his director of national intelligence, choosing someone he considered last summer before senior Republicans in Congress deemed him unqualified for the job.

When even Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch’s prime lackeys consider this bozo unqualified,it shows that he’s only sycophant that criminal Fuhrer Trump* can find to be his Barrf in the DNI position. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Moody Blues – Tuesday Afternoon (1970)

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

Republicans on Parade – 12/21/2019

Posted by TomCat at 8:57 am Politics

Dec 212019

Here is the one hundred seventy-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is Republican State Representative [WA] and pseudo-Christian terrorist, Matthew Shea. He is so honored for his Republican hatred, terrorism, and calls for the murder of non-Christians.

The Republican Washington state representative Matthew Shea “participated in an act of domestic terrorism against the United States” and represents a threat of political violence, according to a report produced for the Washington state legislature.

Shea is a far-right figure who holds extremist Christian, nationalist and Islamophobic beliefs. The report said it had made the judgment over terrorism by his actions before and during an armed takeover and standoff at the Malheur national wildlife refuge in 2016 in Oregon.

The report further contends that in a document entitled the Biblical Basis for War, Shea “advocated the replacement of US democracy with a theocracy and the killing of all males who do not agree”…. [emphasis added]

Inserted from <The Guardian>

Here’s more from his local news station.

‘I will not resign’: Rep. Matt Shea responds to investigative report

Shea is a prefect example of the pseudo-Christian Republican Reich! He more than deserves a parade.

RESIST!!

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