Lawrence discusses the CNN story you covered, Squatch, on the connection between experimental drugs and abortion.
Meidas Touch – new episode of Quaranteenies
RVAT
Sound and Fury Messaging – Two – both for the Democratic Coalition
The Lincoln Project – Yes, we can see through it, but it’s not aimed at us. It’s aimed at giving ideologues an excuse to leave.
Keith promised us a new vlog every weekday, so we must be in withdrawal till Monday.
Petition in support of Gov. Whitmer
It’s a very tired day, here in the CatBox. WWWendy and I got home safely last night, after my infusion. We are scheduling another infusion, which we may cancel. In around three weeks I’ll have a CAT-Scan or a PET-Scan to judge whether the immunotherapy is working and go from there. I did research early this morning and took a long nap. I’m ready to go back to bed. Tomorrow is a grocery delivery day. This evening I plan to try to stay up to watch the slaughter. You guys had better do so too, in case I don’t make it. Happy Hump Day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:31 (average 5:29). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Click for interactive maps and charts
US Cases: 7,726,635
US Deaths: 215,915
Plus all the Trump*/GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Mike Pence said that he was “extremely grateful” that the organizers of Wednesday night’s Vice-Presidential debate would be providing a plexiglass shield to protect him from a woman.
Speaking to reporters, Pence said that the Commission on Presidential Debates had taken “appropriate measures” to shield him from exposure to a female during the Salt Lake City face-off.
“I’ve read all the relevant literature, and from what I’ve learned a plexiglass shield provides adequate protection from a woman,” he said. “Knowing that this barrier exists between me and a member of the opposite sex, I feel comfortable about moving forward with the debate.”
Dang, Andy! Nothing can protect that lying Nazi pseudo-Christian! Kamala is going to tear Mr. Karen a new sphincter! RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): List Of Positive Covid Cases At White House Grows At Alarming Rate
I know I don’t need to ask, but who is the super-spreader? RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Pink Floyd – Another Brick In The Wall (HQ)
Ah… the memories! We want schools to teach kids HOW to think! Republicans want schools to teach kids WHAT to think! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!
It’s a busy day, here in the CatBox, and I feel very tired. I overslept. The goop experiment I suggested to WWWendy Saturday was a total failure, and the resulting tumor-clog irritated the hell out of my esophagus, so the last two days have been painful. I thoroughly enjoyed my zoom meeting with my volunteer friends and some of my guys that have been released. I had a hard time recognizing them in street clothes, as I’ve never seen then in anything but prison blue and orange. My meeting with Diana was routine. The heat wave is over, and I have 10 days in the 70s and some 60s. Tonight my Broncos meditate on the Holy Ellipsoid Orb on Monday Night Football. I shall be in fervent prayer. Oh God! It’s Monday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:42 (average 5:33). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Click for several interactive maps
US Cases: 6,715,194
US Deaths: 198,614
Plus thousands of Trump’s* plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Questions arose after the P.A. system at a Trump rally in Nevada accidentally blasted excerpts from Bob Woodward’s interviews with the President.
As supporters streamed into the rally, the customary sounds of such classic rock songs as “Fortunate Son” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” were supplanted by audio of Trump acknowledging that the coronavirus was far deadlier than a flu.
After Trump was heard revealing the details of a previously secret weapons program, campaign aides frantically disconnected the P.A. system and started scrambling for an explanation.
LOL, Andy! Obviously this didn’t really happen, but just the thought of it happening is sufficient to provoke wet dreams! RESIST!!
From Crooks and Liars: Fresh on the heels of spreading hoax rumors about “antifa buses” coming to rural towns to create mayhem, right-wing conspiracists eager to spread the narrative about the supposed existential threat posed by black-clad antifascist activists have a hot new fraud for their armies of gullible social-media followers: The forest fires raging along the West Coast from California to Washington are an antifa plot!
The rumors—spread first by far-right activists, then parroted by followers living in areas where the fires are raging—claim that a handful of arrests for arson in unrelated fires are proof that the fires are being coordinated by leftists intending harm to befall rural Trump-supporting regions. “It’s the antifa burning EVERYTHING down!” shrieked one QAnon believer who chimed in on Twitter.
Among the leading spreaders of the false rumors is a right-wing online publication catering to police officers, Law Enforcement Today, which posted an article claiming that the “wildfires on the West Coast may be a ‘coordinated and planned’ attack.”
“Law enforcement throughout the west coast is reportedly being put on alert to look out for ‘opportunists’ and those who may have more sinister motives,” the article claimed. It then went on to list six arson incidents either related to the fires or in their general vicinity, but offered no evidence that they were coordinated in any fashion.
Of course there is no evidence that this is true and ample evidence that lightning strikes ignited the fires. The biggest danger to spreading garbage like this is that it will inspire a few QPoop wing-nuts to light fires and blame them on the left. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast for JD): Luciano Pavarotti sings “Nessun dorma” from Turandot (The Three Tenors in Concert 1994)
There is a voice as beautiful as Trump’s* is ugly! Protest like Pavarotti sings! RESIST!!
It’s a hectic Saturday here in the CatBox. I got up a half an hour early this morning, so I could get a head start and a longer morning map. So much for the best laid plans of mice and men…, and far too often, of Puddy Tats. A hacker must have broken into the Bluehost server and hacked the email PW of the PP admin email account. I know it could not have come from my computer, because I have never sent email from admin. Incoming admin email auto-forwards to my tomcat PP email account. The hacker then set up a SPAM bot to to send Republican propaganda from PP. It quickly started failing due to our 250/hour sent-email limit, so for each failed piece of SPAM, admin forwarded a mailer-daemon notice to my tomcat account. I woke up to find over 4,500 notices in my inbox. I fixed the problem by changing the admin PW, but between figuring that out and cleaning up the mess, it took me over two hours. Instead of a long nap, I got a very short nap, and I’m still quite a bit late. If you sent me email that got lost in the mess, please resend it. Tomorrow is a WWWendy in the morning day, so please expect no more than a Personal Update from me. Please stay safe in holiday traffic. Have a great weekend.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:35 (average 5:41). To so it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 6,392,303
US Deaths: 192,168
Plus thousands of GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us
Short Takes:
From TPM: White supremacists pose the most serious terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.
Three different drafts of the report obtained by Politico characterize the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat in the United States.
All three documents also report that 2019 was the deadliest year for domestic violent extremists since the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.
The documents indicate that “lone offenders” and “small cells of individuals” are increasingly joining up with people who share their ideologies and “will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United States.”
“Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists – who increasingly are networking with likeminded persons abroad – will pose the most persistent and lethal threat,” the report indicates.
Here, we already know that, but far to many don’t. TELL THEM! RESIST!!
From YouTube (Liberal Redneck Channel): Liberal Redneck – QAnonsense
I have to disagree with Trae. Calling Republican QAnon conspiracy believers “dumb shits” is far too insulting to dumb shits. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
Ah… the memories. Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!
It’s that time of week again, so here are three good video clips, from Bill’s show last night. Enjoy!
Three fact checkers taken into concussion protocols? I’m amazed they weren’t taken into funeral homes! Bill painted the convention hypocrisy perfectly. The last time Kimberly had an orgasm, folks thought the fire department was on the way.
Wynton Marsalis: The Ever Fonky Lowdown
While some people on both sides think like Wynton and Bill say they do, I tend to disagree. Many on the left are open minded. While far fewer on the right are, because of their identification with authoritarianism, I do know right wing people with whom I can hold respectful conversations in which we agree to disagree. However I have to admit they are not thrilled with Trump*
New Rule: Think Like a True QAnon
I heard on the news this morning that Republicans are exporting QAnon to other countries. That makes the Republican Party an international terrorist organization. I bet a buck that Jo Rae Perkins will NOT defeat Jeff Merkley [D-OR]!
And for once JD gets her dose of culture this weekend, without me bugging her to post this! 😉
It’s another tired day here in the CatBox. I overslept again. Yesterday I had a rough afternoon. My pulled pork BBQ goop still had chucks that were too big, and it plugged my tumor. That kept me awake all afternoon. WWWendy regooped it when she made a pit stop to change my pain patch. At least its cooler. We have three days in the 70°s before a week in the 90°s. Have a fine weekend.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:59 (average 5:45). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Remember Larry?
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 6,103,398
US Deaths: 186,167
Plus the thousands of GOP plague victims Republicans are hiding from us.
Short Takes:
From NY Times: It started with an unexpected call last week from Lynne Patton, a longtime Trump associate who oversees federal housing programs in New York.
Ms. Patton told a leader of a tenants’ group at the New York City Housing Authority, the nation’s largest, that she was interested in speaking with residents about conditions in the authority’s buildings, which have long been in poor repair.
Four tenants soon assembled in front of a video camera and were interviewed for more than four hours by Ms. Patton herself. Three of the tenants were never told that their interviews would be edited into a two-minute video clip that would air prominently on Thursday night at the Republican National Convention and be used to bash Mayor Bill de Blasio, the three tenants said in interviews on Friday.
“I am not a Trump supporter,” said one of the tenants, Claudia Perez. “I am not a supporter of his racist policies on immigration. I am a first-generation Honduran. It was my people he was sending back.”
The episode represents another stark example of how President Trump has deployed government resources to further his political ambitions.
My response can be condensed into one word: typical! RESIST!!
From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – This Week in Hell
Dang, Trae! That’s the best RNC analysis I’ve heard! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a long blast of protest!): Live From the Left Coast
28 fantastic minutes against the Republican Reich! Kudos to left wing protestors! RESIST!!
It’s that time of week again, and here are five fine video clips from Sam’s show last night. Enjoy!!
The Republican Party’s Fall Look: Fringe!
Barf Bag Alert!!
Dang Sam! That first Republican made me have to clean my screen! YUCK! The Republican Reich, not Islam, is a cancer on society!
Amen Sam!
What It Means To Be Progressive With Pramila Jayapal
I’m well known for saying, “Oregon leads the way!” But so does Washington, and all the other blue states. But Jayapal is wrong about thing. She said that Trump* won’t deliver on anything you care about. If you care about bringing more hate, more greed, and more violence to the US, Trump* will do it for you!
Full Frontal’s The Amazing Disgrace: Our Country’s Racist Symbols Pt. 1
Full Frontal’s The Amazing Disgrace: Our Country’s Racist Symbols Pt. 2
The biggest racist symbol in America has not been removed and needs to be completely obliterated. It is the Republican Party!
And for a change of pace, JD gets to enjoy the show without having to do the work! 😉
It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. Store to Door will be delivering groceries in the next three hours, and I have to unpack and put them away. WWWendy is coming late this evening to destink the stinky TomCat, goop, and help with chores. Tomorrow is her regular day, but tomorrow she has to go straight from school to her night job bartending at the Elks Lodge. Then tomorrow she’ll come by in a lunch-hour pit stop to change my pain patch. The down side is that I’ll be extra stinky when she returns Monday. If you’re anywhere near Republicane Laura, please take care.
Jog Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:57 (average 4:53). To do it, click here. How did you do>
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
US Cases: 6,002,176
US Deaths: 183,687
Plus all the many GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us.
RNC Deplorables Take:
Day three was more of the same show featuring the worship of criminal Fuhrer Trump*. They created a complete alternate reality, based on 100% lies.
It was a super-spreader event with virtually no masks and no social distancing.
I happened to notice an old Parade recipient, Joni Pig Nuts [R-IA]. She said that Biden would ban fossil fuels and ban farm animals. Both statements and all her other statements were lies.
The following is a complete analysis of the effect Trump* and the Republican Reich have had on America:
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: An outbreak hit the 2020 Republican National Convention this week as hundreds of attendees tested positive for delusion.
While public-health experts have yet to determine the extent of the outbreak, the episodes of attendees exhibiting magical thinking bordering on the hallucinatory appear to be widespread.
Davis Logsdon, who studies delusional epidemics at the University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine, said that multiple R.N.C. participants professed to see things “that are not actually there,” such as a strong economy, a successful coronavirus response, and an immigration policy brimming with kindness.
In another worrying symptom, Logsdon said that attendees who tested positive were unable to see things that were clearly in their line of vision. “One participant on Monday was shouting for more than six minutes despite the presence of a microphone inches away from her,” he said.
Dang, Andy! There’s no satire here. All the stupid, rabid GOP Sheeple who attended the Nazi Republican super-spreader event are deluded by definition! RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Kenosha Protest Shooting Suspect Attended A Trump Rally In January
Should we be surprised? Trump rallies and other Republican events are the easiest places for Ammosexual Republican terrorists to learn hate, racism and violence! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast of protest): A SPOONFUL OF CLOROX – A Randy Rainbow Song Parody
Hilarious! I think JD has shared this one before, but it’s worth another go. Randy really nailed the sponsor of the RNC. Support left wing protesters! RESIST!!