Jul 222020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  I fought for an hour over sluggish response while typing, before I finally figured out the batteries in my keyboard were bad and changed them.  I scheduled another Pet Scan for early next month.  And I had to spend 45 minutes on the throne to vacate all the Republicans infesting me.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.  WWWendy will be here.  Woooo Hoooo!!  We have lots to do.  In addition, it’s a grocery delivery day.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:17 (average 4:29). To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0722TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 4,030,200
US Deaths: 144,983
World Cases: 15,136,436
World Deaths: 620,502
Trump* Death Share: 23.4%

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Late Show Channel): Greta Thunberg: Humanity Is “Setting Fire To The Boat” Instead Of Facing The Climate Crisis

The first time I saw Greta, I called her an international hero. Each subsequent time, I become more convinced of that truth.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): SPREADIN’ THROUGH THE AIR

Amen Don! Here in the US, criminal Fuhrer Trump* murdered over 1,000 yesterday with his plague, Trump* virus.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from labor): Tom Morello. A Union Song


Except for unmuzzled Nazi police unions, support labor!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Good vs Evil

 Posted by at 9:56 am  Politics
Jan 222020
 

Since I summarized it in today’s Open Thread, I’m going to take a break from the impeachment trial of Putin’s Pollution Pervert, Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, Resident Donald Trump.  Instead, I’d like to give you an extreme example of good, followed by an extreme example of evil.  Then I’ll contrast the two.

The Good:

0122Greta

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg inveighed against the sowers of “climate chaos” Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, offering a view of the world that stood in stark contrast to President Trump’s.

In two speeches at the conference, the 17-year-old Thunberg renewed the call to “start listening to the science” on climate change. The world, she said, needs to “treat this crisis with the importance it deserves.”

Thunberg’s remarks echoed her warning in Davos last year, when she told world leaders: “I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.”

The Swedish teenager’s activism helped inspire a global climate action movement, which earned her Time magazine’s Person of the Year title in December.

Inserted from <Washington Post>

Greta Thunberg Tells Davos: You’ve Done Nothing On Climate Change [Full Speech]

The Evil:

0122TrumpDavos

President Donald Trump’s speech in Davos was not what many attendees wanted to hear.

At a conference dedicated to multilateralism and earnest discussion of the world’s most pressing problems, the American president used his keynote address to reel off a laundry list of his domestic accomplishments, promote the US economy and dismiss climate activists as “prophets of doom.”

He didn’t take questions from his host, World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, or the elite audience of leading executives, bankers and politicians.

This year’s Davos meeting is focusing heavily on how business and the economy must change to save the planet. But taking the stage just hours after Greta Thunberg admonished world leaders for doing “basically nothing” to reduce carbon emissions, Trump touted America’s role as the world’s biggest oil and gas producer and dismissed climate activists as prophets of doom…

Inserted from <CNN>

The Contrast:

Trump and Greta Thunberg clash at Davos over climate change

Could anything be more obvious?

RESIST!!

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