Oct 202021
 

Glenn Kirschner – The Late Colin Powell: From WMD’s to Secretary of State to Announcing “Trump is a Liar”. (Glenn and I believe much the same about him; I’m just a trifle more outspoken because I’m not a public figure.)

MSNBC – Trump Goes Under Oath For First Time Since His Presidency

Thom Hartmann – He Refused Vaccine Only For COVID Complications To Ruin His Life

Ring of Fire – Big Trouble For Matt Gaetz As Judge Postpones His ‘Wingman’s’ Sentencing

Armageddon Update – Layer upon Layer –

Really American – Lauren Boebert: Dangerously Dumb

Beau – Let’s talk about a crashed tractor and unskilled labor…..

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Jul 222021
 

Glenn Kirschner – Will Trump AssociateTom Barrack Cooperate w/Prosecutors Now That He’s Facing 50 Years in Prison

Political Voices Network (Glenn is a guest) – “He Constantly Surrounds Himself With Criminals.”

Meidas Touch – Rep. Swalwell: Fox News LAUGHS at Their “Dumb” Viewers

Now This News – Fox News Loses It Over ‘Secret List’

Robert Reich – Imagine a World Where Workers Have Power

VoteVets – Abdulla

Keith Olbermann – second video – slightly longer than the first one which went up yesterday.

Beau on the January 6 committee – One to save and share, Very, very clear.

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Jun 222021
 

Yesterday a friend’s young adult son came by to mow the weeds in my front yard. I guess I should say “use a weedwhacker) rather than “mow” because they are were just that tall. At any rate, that should keep the county off my back for a while. I also received news of the death of someone who was a close friend in high school. There were four of us … now there are only three. I need to realize that this will continue to happen from time to time. I am hanging in.

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Short Takes

The Hill – Supreme Court rules against NCAA in dispute over student-athlete compensation
Quote – Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed with the judgment but wrote a separate concurring opinion that contained a blistering critique of the NCAA’s business model, which generates considerable revenue, particularly from Division I football and basketball. “Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate,” Kavanaugh wrote. “And under ordinary principles of antitrust law, it is not evident why college sports should be any different. The NCAA is not above the law.”
Click through for story. I had to pick my jaw up off the floor. On the principle of “never trust a Republican,” there;s probably some ulterior motive, possibly a setup to do future harm to colleges and universities(?). But it’s still amazing.

So, Al Franken is going on tour. It’s called “The Only Former U.S. Senator Currently on Tour Tour”.
Quote from email: Tickets for The Only Former U.S. Senator Currently on Tour Tour go on presale Wednesday at 10am in every time zone with the code word SENATOR. Just click HERE to find out when I’ll be in a city near you. I hope to see you there. My promise is that you’ll laugh, you’ll think, and you’ll leave hopeful about our future. Unless I’m in a bad mood that night.
Click through for full dates and venues, and don’t forget to use the code word if interested.

The NM Political Report – The Great disconnect
Quote – On May 18, a judge overseeing the historic Yazzie-Martinez case ordered the New Mexico Public Education Department to take stock of the massive digital divide in the state and finally identify the roughly 76,000 students who lacked Internet connections they desperately needed for school. One of PED’s responses was to create a Google survey for students and staff to fill out online, an action that left advocates and school leaders mystified.
Click through for the details. I really thought people in New Mexico were smarter than that … after they fired Susanna Martinez and elected Deb Haaland …

Food for Thought

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Mar 122021
 

Now This News – The “For The People” Act

Justice Matters – Glenn Kirschner’s take on the Garland confirmation.

Ring of Fire – Michael Cohen has just had his seventh “visit” with Cy Vance (and counting.)

MSNBC – Senator Schumer on Lawrence O’Donnell

Robert Reich – Amazon v. Union

Cole and Marmalade – 10 Ways Cats say “I Love You”

Beau on a strategy not in the Alt-Right playbook

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Mar 112021
 

Meidas Touch (from podcast)

Really American

Adam Schiff on Lawrence O’Donnell from 3/9

Stacey Plaskett loses it (goodly and beautufully) And this is why I want USVI statehood so badly.

Not every Ryan in politics is a dud. Paul and timothy may have been close in the Book of Acts … but in the House, they are poles apart.

Puppet Regime

Beau on the PRO Act

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Sep 162020
 

It’s a crappy day here in the CatBox.  I managed to eat this morning, but breakfast took over two hours.  I’m feeling tired, pained, and down.  I’m going back to bed.  This is my only article today.  I’ll be back in the saddle tomorrow, if I feel better.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:57 (average 6:47).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

A sad day for America!

Trump* Virus Update:

0916TrumpVirusMap

Click for several interactive maps

US Cases: 6,789,877
US Deaths: 200,280
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP Plague murders Republicans are hiding from us
Republicans reached another milestone. Next Republican goal? 250,000 by 11/3

Short Take:

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): JOAN BAEZ ~ Joe Hill ~

 

Joe Hill was a Union organizer, who was falsely accused of murder, convicted, and executed buy Utah Republicans. Tolerating Republican injustice anywhere guarantees it everywhere! Electing Republicans guarantees Republican injustice.  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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May Next Labor Day Be Blue!

 Posted by at 11:05 am  Holiday, Politics
Sep 072020
 

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For most of my early life I considered Labor Day little more than a day off at the end of summer.  That’s because I am not a union man.  I have never belonged to a union, nor has anyone in my family.  So what has the labor movement done for me?  I have learned what organized labor has done to improve the lot of all American workers, and I have come to understand that Labor Day is a celebration of Union labor, and one that is well deserved. This is a another variation on last year’s article.

laborThinkProgress has assembled just five of the many things that Americans can thank the nation’s unions for giving us all: 1. Unions Gave Us The Weekend: Even the ultra-conservative Mises Institute notes that the relatively labor-free 1870, the average workweek for most Americans was 61 hours — almost double what most Americans work now… 2. Unions Gave Us Fair Wages And Relative Income Equality: As ThinkProgress reported earlier in the week, the relative decline of unions over the past 35 years has mirrored a decline in the middle class’s share of national income… 3. Unions Helped End Child Labor: “Union organizing and child labor reform were often intertwined” in U.S. history, with organization’s like the “National Consumers’ League” and the National Child Labor Committee” working together in the early 20th century to ban child labor… 4. Unions Won Widespread Employer-Based Health Coverage: “The rise of unions in the 1930′s and 1940′s led to the first great expansion of health care” for all Americans, as labor unions banded workers together to negotiate for health coverage plans from employers… 5. Unions Spearheaded The Fight For The Family And Medical Leave Act: Labor unions like the AFL-CIO federation led the fight for this 1993 law, which “requires state agencies and private employers with more than 50 employees to provide up to 12 weeks of job-protected unpaid leave annually for workers to care for a newborn, newly adopted child, seriously ill family member or for the worker’s own illness.” … [emphasis original]

Inserted from <Think Progress> It’s well worth the time to click through for the rest of this article. Furthermore, here is an excellent video on what labor has done for America.

Therefore, to begin my celebration of Labor Day in the best possible way, I wish to thank all of you who are or have been union workers.  My life is better because of you.  And to you and everyone else, have as Happy a Labor Day as is possible during a Republican plague and under a Republican Reich! Sadly, because of ongoing, predatory Republican impingement on workers’ rights, this article is even less true than it was  last year.  It’s up to YOU to change that trend.  Unless we remove Trump* and the Republican Reich from power, they will outlaw workers’ right to organize, and the US will become a permanent Republican Fifth Reich!  Unless you want to be forced to say Heil Trump*…

Support Labor!

Dump Trump!!

RESIST!!!

VOTE BLUE!!!!

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Jul 232020
 

It;s a busy day here in the CatBox.  WWWendy is coming, and it’s a grocery delivery day.  JD, would you please cover Samantha Bee?  Tomorrow, I have a visit from the Providence home doctor, so how much I’ll do is still up in the air.  Please have a great day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:02 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0723TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 4,102,002
US Deaths: 146,198
World Cases: 15,415,731
World Deaths: 631,164
Trump’s* share of World Deaths: 23.2%

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Trump Tries To Link COVID-19 Surge To Black Lives Matter Protest

Trump* is spreading bullshit, as usual. The BLM protestors wear mask. The reasons for the surge are Republican incompetence, neglect, lies, and super-spreader events.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Comment): No, this reporter didn’t call Kayleigh McEnany a ‘lying b**ch’


The reporter clearly said, “you don’t want to engage”. However, by not calling Kayleigh Lie-a-lot a “lying bitch”, that reporter really screwed up! She should have!   RESIST!!

From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – Trump’s Secret Police


I agree, Trae. I live in Portland, and I’ve been calling these Republican stormtroopers Trump’s* Nazi Gestapo since they got here.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from labor): Billy Bragg – There is Power in a Union


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

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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