Jan 132021
 

It’s a tired day here in the CatBox, and my back pain is acting up.  WWWendy is coming late this afternoon.   Tomorrow will be touch and go, as I want to get as much rest as I can.  Friday is my hospital day all day.  Saturday is a WWWendy day.  It will tale some time to recover.  Happy Dump Trump** Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:22 (average 5:28).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoons:

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Short Takes:

From NY Times (Hat-Tip Lona): The Trump administration early Wednesday morning executed Lisa M. Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row, whose death marked the first federal execution of a woman in nearly 70 years.

Ms. Montgomery, 52, was sentenced to death for murdering a pregnant woman in 2004 and abducting the unborn child, whom she claimed as her own. In pleas to spare her life, Ms. Montgomery’s supporters argued that a history of trauma and sexual abuse that marred her life contributed to the circumstances that led to the crime. Her case, unusual in part because so few women are sentenced to death, ignited debate over the role of offenders’ past trauma in criminal sentencing.

Despite a series of court orders that briefly blocked her execution, she was pronounced dead at 1:31 a.m. at the federal prison complex in Terre Haute, Ind., the Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. Her death, by lethal injection, is the 11th execution since the Trump administration resumed use of federal capital punishment in July after a 17-year hiatus.

If Montgomery had written a letter claiming that Trump** won the election, he would have given her a pardon. May Trump** receive mercy commensurate to the mercy he has shown.  RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): WATCH LIVE | House votes on articles of impeachment against Trump

 

You can watch Trump* become Trump** in real time.  RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Maddow To Trump: “What Did You Think Was Going To Happen?”

 

Tell it like it is, Rachel!  RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (a blast from the the past): DONOVAN – The Universal Soldier

 

Ah… the memories!  RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!

6 Days Until the Big FLUSH!!

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Jan 122021
 

It’s a tired/busy day here in the CatBox.  First, although I feel queasy, I have not Republicated in over 24 hours.  Yesterday, Deborah confirmed what I had suspected is the reason for my Republicosis.  When the Oncologist increased my pain medication that made me more prone to Republicitis.  I found a stool softener that I can take with my stent.  That made me more prone to Republicosis.  I kept taking it and a laxative at max dose, so when the shit hit the fan, the shit really hit the fan.  It took four days of Imodium to finally have a better day.  Now it’s a matter of getting my condition stabilized on the right balance of medications.  It will stake some time.  Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, but she won’t come until the evening, so I should be in the saddle tomorrow.  Tuesday is a flush your Republicans day.  I sure hope I have no more to flush.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:22 (average 6:36).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Driven over the edge by his expulsion from Twitter, a deranged Donald J. Trump ordered his two adult sons to hand out flyers with his tweets on them.

The incident occurred at three o’clock Sunday morning, when Trump, wide awake and in a state of extreme agitation, had an idea for a tweet but no platform on which to broadcast it.

Wearing his bathrobe, he summoned his adult sons to the Oval Office and scrawled his tweet on a piece of paper with one of the Sharpies that had served him well in the past.

Reportedly, Trump then commanded Eric and Don, Jr., to go to the nearest copy shop and order ten thousand flyers containing his tweet to hand out on street corners.

According to Trump’s plan, supporters desiring to retweet his tweet would also go to copy shops and hand out flyers, a system he claimed was “better than Twitter.”

Dang Andy! I suspect that the twit* will get writers’ cramp so fast that he’ll stop abusing tweets and go back to abusing twats!  RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!

From Crooks and Liars: If only Rep. Devin Nunes had somewhere like a television station to run to so he could communicate with other conservatives. After the news that Amazon is booting the far right social media site Parler off of its web hosting service, Nunes ran to Fox “news” to gripe to host Maria Bartiromo about how terrible it is that they will no longer have the platform to spread their lies and hatred unabated.

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

Let’s call this what it is. Treason is not included as a right included in the First Amendment. Can you count Nunes’ lies?  RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!

From OPB (Hat-Tip Daily Kos Elections Digest): U.S. Rep. Kurt Schrader, considered the most moderate Democrat in Oregon’s Congressional delegation, reportedly told House Democratic colleagues on Friday that he was against impeaching President Donald Trump for inciting the mob that broke into the U.S. Capitol.

Then Schrader likened the attempt to remove Trump to a “lynching,” according to reports from ABC News.

The comment on a caucus call drew immediate criticism from some of Schrader’s allies.

Mark Wiener, a powerful Portland political consultant who has worked for Schrader for years dating back to when the congressman served in the Oregon Legislature, quickly tweeted out that his company, Winning Mark, would be severing ties with the legislator.

“Comparing the impeachment of a treasonous President who encouraged white supremacists to violently storm the Capitol to a “lynching” is shameful and indefensible,” Wiener tweeted.

I supported Schrader, even though he’s a “moderate democrat”, but this goes way too far. He needs to be primary challenged in 2022.  RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Without Accountability, the Next Coup Will Succeed

 

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is guilty. All must be punished. As long as the Republican Reich exists, America will not be safe!  RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): JOAN BAEZ ~ Joe Hill ~

 

Ah… the memories! Wherever people are trying to defend human rights, Republicans will be trying to murder them!  RESIST and REMOVE the Republican Reich!!

7 Days (1 Week) Until the Big FLUSH!!

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Jan 082021
 

The Lincoln Project

Vote Vets – hanky alert, for me anyway.

RVAT

Now This News

Meidas Touch

Don Winslow debunks Josh Hawley

Beau on What Happened

Keith from very early Thursday

Keith from Thursday Part 2

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Jan 052021
 

It’s a tired day here in the CatBox.  Yesterday, WWWendy and I had lots to do.  We set refills for pain meds and scheduled my next infusion for Friday the 15th.  WWWendy picked up Subway sandwiches.  I’m enjoying them, but I trust Mitch (ours, not BBBMMM) will confirm that any NJ denizen knows what comes from Subway isn’t a sub. I’m listening to election day in GA.  I look forward to good news.  Tomorrow I may have no more than a Personal Update, depending on how much time I need to spend watching  Hawley’s Hookers trying to steal the White House AGAIN.  Tuesday is Flush Your Republicans Day.  If they smell like shit, there’s a reason for that.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:24 (average 5:25).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: The polling says the runoff races for the two Senate seats in Georgia are tied, and if the polls don’t say that, they’re likely wrong. We don’t need a poll to tell us what we just saw weeks ago in the November general election: Georgia is balanced on a razor’s edge, and the victor will be the party that best gets its voters to the polls. How’s that for a hot take?

But of course Georgia has been voting for weeks, and as such, we have some hints as to what’s coming when the votes are counted. 

This article is superior analysis. Click through for much more.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): ‘It’s Unconstitutional’: House Member On Challenges To Biden’s Win

 

I agree that it’s a bad time to impeach Trump*, as much as I would like to do so. Let’s make Biden the center of attention, not Trump!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Animals – House of the Rising Sun (1964) High Quality [HQ].flv

 

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

14 Days (2 Weeks) Until the Big FLUSH!!

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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!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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May 062020
 

Do you remember the “anonymous whistleblower that helped expose the high crimes and misdemeanors for which criminal Fuhrer Trump* escaped responsibility?  Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch and the Senate Republicans violated their oath.  Well, it’s whistleblower time again.  This one is not anonymous, and the high crimes and misdemeanors are even worse.

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[H]e was pressured to invest in drugs and vaccines that lacked scientific merit, because the people selling them had friends in the Trump administration, up to and including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He was forced to transfer funds to acquire drugs for the Strategic National Stockpile, America’s most important reserve of lifesaving medications, based not on health needs but on “political connections and cronyism.” He was instructed to use his department’s budget to purchase flu medications of questionable efficacy. And when the COVID-19 crisis erupted, he was pressured to approve a plan that would “flood” cities with unproven and untested doses of chloroquine drugs, from uninspected manufacturing plants in Asia. When his efforts to work through the system failed, he decided he had a “moral obligation to the American public” to ring the alarm about the plan, “which he believed constituted a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety.” In retaliation, he was “smeared,” with officials unfairly accusing him of dropping the ball on vaccine development and PPE preparation.

These are just some of the allegations contained in a blistering, 63-page complaint that Dr. Rick Bright, former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), filed today with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. According to his lawyers, Bright will testify before Congress next week.

Vanity Fair has submitted requests for comment to the White House and the Food and Drug Administration, and will update this article with any responses. In a statement, Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Caitlin Oakley said: “Dr. Bright was transferred to NIH to work on diagnostics testing—critical to combatting COVID-19—where he has been entrusted to spend upwards of $1 billion to advance that effort. We are deeply disappointed that he has not shown up to work on behalf of the American people and lead on this critical endeavor.”

Bright has become the first high-level federal whistleblower to publicly allege that the Trump administration has responded to the COVID-19 crisis by unduly pressuring health officials, and putting politics and profit ahead of science. Bright, the government’s top coronavirus vaccine developer, had spent a decade at BARDA, a small but powerful agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), whose mandate is to partner with private companies to help accelerate the development of vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. According to Bright’s complaint, BARDA manages almost $50 billion worth of contracts and acquisitions, on an annual budget of just over $1.5 billion. He was named director in 2016…  [emphasis added]

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I strongly encourage you to click the link in the second paragraph and read the shocking complaint in it’s entirety.

Here’s some coverage from CNN.

Ousted vaccine director says pandemic warnings were ignored

In the criminal Fuhrer’s White House, as in the entire Republican Reich, truth telling is a capital offense.

White House coronavirus task force to be ‘phased down’ around Memorial Day


There are few things that the Republican Reich, especially criminal Fuhrer Trump* hate more than oversight. They fear that the next whistle blower will publicly expose it, when Republicans murder more and more Americans to reopen the economy for Trump’s* political ends.

MSNBC did a better job covering the actual corruption.

Coronavirus Whistleblower Complaint Suggests Trump Admin. Putting Politics Above Science


How many thousands of Americans have died and will die, because criminal Fuhrer Trump* is diverting the resources desperately needed by sick families no serve his, his relatives’, and his Republican cronies’ greed?

The last time there was a whistleblower complaint, we impeached Criminal Fuhrer Trump*. Since these high crimes and misdemeanors are even worse, it’s time to give that dirty son of a bitch (apologies to all female dawgs) a second asterisk.

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Mar 282020
 

This is my only article today, because I’m running so late.  Three software items needed to update.  My research took much longer than usual.  There was a SNAFU converting my meds to liquid, and I spent two hours on the phone cleaning up the mess, and then, my computer ate this entire article, so you’re reading a rewrite from scratch.  Please expect no more than Open Threads or Personal Updates tomorrow and Monday.  Tomorrow, WWWendy plans to lower my ears, before de-stinking the rancid TomCat.  We also have a lot of gooping to do, so it will be a very busy day.  Monday I have a consultation with Evelyn and pick up a big bottle of pain meds.  I hope you all have a great weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:07 (average 4:18).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

It’s that GOP glow!

Trump* Virus Update:

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Cases: 104,429
Deaths: 1,708
Recovered: 2,530

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I hove no doubt that US cases/capita are artificially very low, because criminal Fuhrer Trump* has made getting a test virtually impossible.

Short Takes:

From Vox: President Donald Trump said on Friday that he will not adhere to a portion of the $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill that would authorize an inspector general to oversee how $500 billion in business loans will be spent.

In a statement released early Friday evening, Trump announced that he had signed into law the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security or CARES Act, a relief package aimed at mitigating some of the economic fallout caused by efforts to allay the spread of Covid-19.

That bill also establishes a Special Inspector General for Pandemic Recovery (SIGPR) within the Treasury Department to audit and investigate half a trillion dollars in loans for large businesses. In his signing statement, Trump said that this provision raises “constitutional concerns,” adding that his administration would not comply with such an official’s request for documents.

Congress also has oversight, and if criminal Fuhrer Trump* stonewalls again, it’s time for Congress to make him criminal Fuhrer Trump**.  Nobody else will have ever been impeached twice.  RESIST!!

From TPM: President Donald Trump reportedly wants his own personal touch on the assistance checks from the $2.2 trillion relief package.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump is pushing for his signature on the $1,200 checks that many individual Americans will soon receive now that the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act has been signed into law.

Don Hammond, a former official at the Treasury Department, told the Wall Street Journal that a disbursing officer’s signature would ordinarily be on the checks.

Under the new law, single American adults making $75,000 or less will receive $1,200, while married couples will receive $2,400 if they earn a combined total of $150,000 or less. The amount gradually decreases for those making over those two income figures.

There is no way that criminal Fuhrer Trump* should be allowed to take credit for the aid to common people, that he fought tooth and nail against, as an election SCAM.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Blues Magoos- ‘We Ain’t Got Nothing Yet’

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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Kudos to One Republican

 Posted by at 8:59 am  Politics
Feb 062020
 

This is a rare opportunity for me.  Republicans and kudos are normally akin to Republicans on oxygen… oxymoronic.  However, on those so rare occasions that Republicans do what is right for the American people, instead of goose-stepping in blind lock-step behind some billionaire or their criminal Fuhrer, Trump*, fairness demands that I give them credit for it.

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Showing clear emotion in his voice, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah revealed on the Senate floor Wednesday that he will vote to convict President Donald Trump in the impeachment trial.

With the announcement, Romney became the only member of the president’s party expected to vote against Trump. He will approve the article of impeachment charging Trump with “abuse of power” in his effort to induce Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a political opponent while voting against the “obstruction of Congress” charge.

He said the president is “guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust.”

Early in the speech, he became choked up when talking about his personal faith and paused to gather himself. He called the choice “the most difficult decision I have ever faced.”

“The grave question the Constitution tasks senators to answer is whether the president committed an act so extreme and egregious that it rises to the level of a ‘high crime and misdemeanor,’” Romney said. “Yes, he did.”…

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Here is his complete speech announcing his intent.

Senator Mitt Romney to vote to convict President Trump on Abuse of Power

Thank you, Senator Romney.  Kudos!

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