Open Thread – 2/8/2021

 Posted by at 11:27 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 082021
 

It’s another painful day here in the CatBox.  I spent another 90 minutes this morning on the throne with Republicitis.  I had a lengthily exchange of message with Becky, my pain specialist.  I’ll be there for an infusion on Friday, and while there, I’ll pick up new patches that will be 100 mg, up from the present 75.  Yesterday I found the Super Bowl very disappointing.  Both teams played very well, but the officiating was so poor and so one sided that they caused a blow-out instead of what should have been a very close game.  It’s a shame that the Chiefs were not allowed to play.  I trust Nameless will agree.  All kidding aside, they are his team, but I was privileged to borrow them.  WWWendy is coming tomorrow, but she won’t be here until late afternoon, so I hope to be in the saddle.  Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:46 (average 5:55).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From Crooks and Liars: Canada’s New COVID Test Is Not So Nice

 

In my opinion, the big swab ought to be mandatory for Republicans.  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube: Our Sasquatch is a major advertiser!

 

Dang! She has a hot boy friend to sell her stuff for her! We love our Squatch!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Somebody to Love

 

Ah… the memories!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

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Open Thread – 2/7/2021

 Posted by at 11:27 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 072021
 

It’s another painful day here in the CatBox.  My recent gastrointestinal issues set off a severe bout of Republicitis, and I just had to spend over 90 minutes on the throne trying to… pardon my literal rendition… shit a brick.  It also my last Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  I stole my Portland Chiefs because they are too good to be Nazi Republican Josh Hawley’s team.  However, turn about is fair play.  Tom Brady is a notorious cheat, and is infamous for playing with his balls in the locker room.  In addition, he is an outspoken Trump** lover.  That seems a perfect match for Nazi Republican Josh Hawley, so we could give Josh the Bucs: the Kansas City Buccaneers.  Can you imagine anyone objecting to that? Winking smile  Have a great day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:22 (average 4:31).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From Daily Kos: For many Republican voters across the country, the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol inspired by Donald Trump and carried out by his rabid supporters was the last straw. Literally tens of thousands of Republican voters have changed their party registration since the November election, with defections noticeably spiking after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol complex.

Many of those conservative voters switched to “unaffiliated” while others either went third-party or chose to affiliate with the Democratic Party. Lyle Darrah, who lives north of Denver in Weld County, was one voter who made the leap from Republican to Democrat, according to NPR. Darrah, a 49-year-old Coloradan who voted Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020, said he was “completely shocked and ashamed” as he watched the events unfold on Jan. 6. “It’s something I felt I could no longer be in support of,” he added, and he hopes the switch sends “a signal” to the Republican Party.

And he’s clearly not alone. In the week from Jan. 6 through Jan. 12, Colorado Public Radio found that about 4,600 Republicans changed their party status in the state. “All told, the Colorado GOP lost about a half a percent of its registered voters in the week after the riot,” writes NPR. The same trend is occurring nationwide, according to a variety of news outlets that have documented the changes since the November election. Here’s a brief rundown:

I certainly disagree with conservative voters most of the time, but being conservative and supporting the Nazis that control the Republican Reich are two completely different things. I can respect a conservative, but not a Nazi Republican.  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (SNL Channel): Super Bowl Pre-game Show Cold Open

 

FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO!!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon (Official Music VIdeo)

 

Ah… the memories!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

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Personal Update – 2/6/2021

 Posted by at 6:44 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 062021
 

It’s a sick day here in the CatBox.  I ate some chicken tonight that was delicious.  However, I can never eat it again, because it plugged my stent.  I was in severe pain most of the night, but I finally got it unplugged this morning.  WWWendy is coming.  Have a great day, and Lona sent me my Australian cousin to help with the site.

0206CousinPuterCat

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:07 (average 4:63).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From YouTube (a blast from the past): Heart of Gold (2009 Remaster)

 

Ah… The memories!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

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Open Thread – 2/5/2021

 Posted by at 11:35 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 052021
 

It’s a painful day here in the CatBox.  Stowing the groceries yesterday was difficult.  Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update.  WWWendy is coming in the morning.  Have a great day, and TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:20 (average 6:51).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From The New Yorker: Calling it “the best news I’ve had in months,” Donald J. Trump has excitedly accepted congressional Democrats’ offer to star in a new, nationally broadcast television show.

Trump boasted to reporters about his new TV opportunity, which was presented to him, on Thursday, by Representative Jamie Raskin.

“It’s going to be similar to ‘The Apprentice,’ because I’ll be sitting behind a table, but it will also be a little different,” Trump explained. “Instead of me asking a lot of questions, people will be asking me the questions. That should spice things up.”

The former President said that the “most amazing” aspect of his new show would be the number of networks broadcasting it.

Dang, Andy!!  Hopefully the follow up will a show about the Orange Pervert** broadcast from prison cell.  It will be called: Orange** is the New Red!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From Daily Kos: On Tuesday, the body of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed by pro-Trump insurrectionists during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, was laid in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden arrived that evening to pay their respects. Americans were able to watch the ceremony on multiple news channels—but not on Fox News. On Fox News, Sicknick’s ceremony was barely mentioned.

Instead, Fox News’ ever-frothing opinion hosts did what they do best: stoke audience panic over all number of bizarre side issues, from a barrage of far-right conspiracy theories promoted by the fascist Laura Ingraham to Sean Hannity’s important report that somebody got ejected from a Lakers game “FOR HECKLING LEBRON.”

Fox’s attempt to mostly pretend Sicknick’s ceremony was not happening did not go without notice. In fact, it seems pretty much everybody noticed it, to the point that both blasting and mocking Fox for their silence became the evening’s hot Twitter pastime.

Most of the criticism noted that Fox News had long pretended that “Blue Lives Matter,” only to have it not matter at all when it came to an officer murdered by a Trump-devoted mob. The Washington Post even put some numbers to it with an analysis of how often the network even bothered to mention Sicknick compared to competing networks, even after the network ran “thousands” of segments about other police deaths during the previous four years.

Accusing Fox News of hypocrisy over the death of police officers, however, is giving them far too much credit. Fox News is not minimizing the death of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick because they wish to downplay the violence of Trump supporters toward police. Fox News is minimizing Sicknick’s death because they are accessories to his death.  [emphasis added]

Click through!  This author (Hunter) could not be more spot on!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): No Apology From Greene As House Removes Her From Committees

 

Thanks to the 11 Republican Representatives that voted for America and against the Nazi Republican Reich. But the sad fact that there were so few of them  is ample evidence to show which side the Republican Party is on.  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Dust in the Wind

 

For me, this seems particularly appropriate at the moment.  Ah… the memories!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

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Open Thread – 2/4/2021

 Posted by at 11:40 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 042021
 

It’s a gruesome day here in the CatBox.  Last night I slept poorly, and when I finally did sleep, I missed doses of Oxycodone.  I am in enough pain, that I would lay down and tell you guys I’ll be here tomorrow if I could, but I can’t.  It’s a grocery delivery day from Store to Door and I have to be up to receive, unpack, and store my order.  on a scale of one to ten my day rating is ARGH! 

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:32 (average 4:26).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From The New Yorker: In her most explosive claim to date, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene accused former President Barack Obama of converting to Judaism in order to obtain lasers.

According to Greene, Obama’s obsession with lasers was a result of working in the entertainment business, “where he is constantly surrounded by laser-owning Jews.”

“Obama would go to Netflix meetings and be seething with envy of all these Jewish TV executives who had lasers,” she said. “That’s why he converted to Judaism and, according to something I read on the Internet, got bar-mitzvahed.”

Dang, Andy! Obama??? Space Lasers, even?!!? How could he DO such a thing?!!? Oy Gevalt!!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Big Oil’s Grip On Power Weakens; Democrats Focus On Climate Change With New Majority

 

I don’t see climate change legislation fitting into a reconciliation package. In order to save our planet, we may need to Nuke the Filibastards!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Rolling Stones – She’s A Rainbow

 

Ah… the memories!   RESIST the Republican Reich!!

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Personal Update – 2/3/2021

 Posted by at 11:40 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 032021
 

It’s a rushed day here in the CatBox.  I am de-stunk, and WWWendy is cooking.  I should be in the saddle tomorrow.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:32 (average 5:54).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From YouTube (a blast from the past): Ventura Highway

 

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Open Thread – 2/2/2021

 Posted by at 11:18 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Feb 022021
 

It’s another painful/tired day here in the CatBox.  I’ve had several trips to the throne room, and while it’s not Republicosis per se, the twisting, pushing and straining is really hard on my back.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.  WWWendy is coming in the morning and we have lots of chores to do.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:15 (average 4:48).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From Daily Kos: Republicans who want to distinguish themselves from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene or the insurrectionists who attacked the U.S. Capitol should understand something: They’re going to need to distinguish themselves from the Republican Party itself. Because in the wake of Donald Trump’s time in the White House, Republicans had a decision to make. They could have tried to revert to being the party they were in 2015 and 2016—far right, ragingly hypocritical, and ruthlessly committed to partisan power, but with some basic allegiance to reality—and instead they have chosen to stay on the Trumpy road with the conspiracy theorists and the flagrant racists.

In recent weeks, Republicans have provided a long list of examples of how extremist the party is going to be going forward. Oregon Republicans passed a resolution saying that the attack on the Capitol was a “false flag” by leftists trying to make Trump supporters look bad. Arizona Republicans censured Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Jeff Flake, and Cindy McCain for insufficient loyalty to Trump and for defending the integrity of the state’s election. Rep. Matt Gaetz went to Wyoming to rally support against Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, for having voted to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection. Don Jr. is also engaged in the attacks on Cheney.

The party’s treatment of Greene is another key example. It’s not hard to find a Republican who will say they oppose Greene’s conspiracy theories about the Sandy Hook or Parkland school shootings, or her repeated expressions of interest in assassinating Democratic political leaders. But far from being marginalized over it, she is on the House Education and Labor Committee, which House Republican leadership would have had to agree to. In other words, it’s a repeat of “responsible” Republican responses when Trump would say or do something especially outrageous—they’d claim to be appalled, but go right on embracing him in every way that mattered. And Greene won her primary in Georgia with the backing of Rep. Jim Jordan and Debbie Meadows, the wife of former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

At this point, as never-Trump Republican Bill Kristol put it, House Minority Leader “Kevin McCarthy has been more critical of Liz Cheney than he has been of Marjorie Taylor Greene.” Kristol claims to be astonished by that, but he shouldn’t be. This is the Republican Party right now.

I hoped the party might split between old style Republicans and the Trump** party. It looks like that won’t happen.  It appears the KKK, Nazi, TEABuggery branch has won the day.  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From The New Yorker: In what is being hailed as an amazing act of canine heroism, President Joe Biden’s two German shepherds have dug up Donald J. Trump’s tax returns on the South Lawn of the White House.

According to sources, shortly after the President let Champ and Major out to play in the snow, they started sniffing one small patch of the lawn and digging intently.

Within minutes, the two White House pooches had unearthed twenty years’ worth of Trump’s federal tax returns, which they eagerly deposited on the Oval Office carpet for their master’s perusal.

Dang Andy, those dawgs need to take a vacation to Mar-a Lago, where they can pee on Trump**!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Democrats Nurse Fresh Memories Of Bad Faith Republican ‘Bipartisanship’

 

The Republican Reich has not changed. Rachel is saying the same things I said yesterday. She knows what Republicans mean when they say bipartisanship.

RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River (Official Lyric Video)

 

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Open Thread – 2/1/2021

 Posted by at 11:30 am  Open Thread, Politics
Feb 012021
 

It’s a tired/painful day here in the CatBox.  Yesterday, WWWendy and I got all our chores done.  I feel very tired.  Tomorrow, I expect to be be back in the saddle again.  Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:13 (average 5:11).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump will act as his own defense attorney at his impeachment trial after receiving a law degree from Trump University.

Trump bestowed the degree upon himself in his capacity as the dean of the Trump University School of Law, where he graduated first in his class.

In his first official statement as the lead attorney of his defense team, Trump vowed not to quit the team “like those other losers.”

Andy, what a wonderful idea! Trump** will get the quality of representation he deserves!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From Crooks and Liars: Tucker Carlson rants about anyone in the media that has dared to call out Fox for it’s dangerous rhetoric egging on white supremacists, and attacks AOC as a “tool of corporate power” for saying there are white supremacist sympathizers in Congress.

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

AOC is a tool of corporate power. The Pope is Jewish. And bears never, ever shit in the woods!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From Daily Kos: A counterproposal by ten supposedly “moderate” Republican senators that would reduce COVID-19 pandemic emergency funding to a fraction of what’s being proposed by Democrats is landing with a wet thud today, despite the ten Republicans framing their effort around alleged “bipartisan” cooperation. That’s not a surprise; it’s difficult to believe the proposal, led by the perpetually concerned Sen. Susan Collins and including Sens. Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, Bill Cassidy, Thom Tillis, and Rob Portman, was meant as genuine proposal. And Democrats, to their credit, seem appropriately skeptical about its earnestness.

The proposal sketched out by the ten Republicans in a letter to President Joe Biden on Sunday is most notable for its slashing of proposed pandemic funding. Biden and Democrats are moving towards a $1.9 trillion plan; the Republican senators are instead proposing just $600 billion, less than a third of that amount. It would reduce proposed survival checks from $1400 to $1000, and cut them off for Americans earning over $50,000 a year or families earning $100,000.

It also cuts school pandemic funding, with Bill Cassidy telling Fox News Sunday that the “real problem” is not ongoing pandemic dangers but “teachers’ unions telling their teachers not to go to work.”

The ten Republicans are attempting to sell the fractional measure as bipartisanship, and major news outlets are predictably gobbling those claims, with The Washington Post musing that “the GOP offer presents a challenge for Biden, who campaigned on promises to unify Congress and the country” and Reuters framing the measure and its supporters with the much-cherished “moderate” label. (It should go without saying that the nine of ten Republican senators who voted to nullify consequences for Trump attempting to extort a foreign leader for personal gain cannot be sensibly called “moderate.”) Of special note, the Republicans are framing their proposal as a way to dodge the partisanship of Democrats passing the Biden-backed proposal using reconciliation rules, rather than caving to Republican filibuster.

Well, you know what Republicans mean when they say “bipartisan”.

RESIST the Republican Reich!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): New Kid in Town (2013 Remaster)

 

Ah… the memories.  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

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