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
This first one is five days old, so it may have been from last week but posted extra late.
Sam Joins Aly & AJ As Third Sister
Meet The White Women Empowering QAnon Parts 1 and 2
It’s a difficult day here in the CatBox. I slept well last night, but I’m ready to sleep all day too. I’m still balancing the methadone and oxycodone. Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update as it’d both a grocery delivery day and a WWWendy day. Happy Hump Day!!
Update: I planned to post this about 90 minutes ago, but I dozed off and just woke up.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:24 (average 5:10). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Shortly after the sentencing of Nicolas Sarkozy, Donald J. Trump issued a statement claiming that prison time for the ex-President of France sets a “horrible precedent.”
In the statement, Trump called the corruption case against Sarkozy a “rigged hoax” and claimed that the former French leader was being treated “very unfairly.”
“This should never be allowed to happen in that country,” he said.
Dang Andy! I just can’t imagine why Trump** would feel that way! Can anyone guess? RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From Daily Kos: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a critical challenge to what’s left of the Voting Rights Act after the Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority decision in 2013 carved out the core of the law. At issue Tuesday are two Arizona laws, one requiring election officials to toss ballots that are cast in the wrong precincts and another that would restrict the delivery of mail-in ballots, allowing for just the voter, a family member, or caregiver could collect and deliver a voted ballot. That would prevent campaign workers, community activists, or members like church groups from delivering group ballots. With 43 states considering more than 250 voter suppression bills in the past month, the case has even greater import for the future of voting rights.
It puts into jeopardy Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which “prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the language minority groups” identified as protected by the law. It bans any voting procedure that “results in a denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race,” a denial or abridgment that occurs when “based on the totality of circumstances,” racial minorities “have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.”
This is one we need to watch, but since the Supreme Court is comprised of three SCOTUS vs six SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) my hopes are not high. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Senator Warren: Filibuster Gives McConnell A Veto Over Democratic Majority
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times are more. NUKE the FILIBASTARDS! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Nights Are Forever Without You – England Dan & John Ford Coley
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
American Bridge
Meidas Touch – Yes, that’s Eric Swalwell. We’re not used to seeing him with facial hair.
Really American – Q Virus
Robert Reich on CoViD Relief
Corey (“The Buttercream Dream”) mocks CPAC
Beau on CPAC Part I (expect Part II tomorrow)
Now This News – I needed a hanky, but to me this is personal, so you may not.
Meidas Touch – Ted Cruz
Alt-Right Handbook – Endnote #3
Parody Project – Marge Greene
SNL Cold Open
Beau on the stimulus bill – I guess we now know Beau follows VoteVets on Twitter.
It’s a painful and exhausted day, here in the CatBox. The intake meeting with Providence Home Hospice was excellent, but it was long. I was sitting up and putting pressure on my spine from around 10:30 AM when Wendy arrived until about 5:30 PM when the intake nurse left. My meds will be delivered today. They are putting me on 5 mg methadone pills every eight hours plus up to 10 – 15 mg Oxycodone every 3 – 6 hours as needed for pain. No more patches. They will give me a shower a week and I’ll get 1 – 2 from WWWendy. I’ll receive a pants load of other services. I really like the way they are handling it, but recovering from that appointment will take a few days. Have a wonderful Sunday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:36 (average 4:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump will use his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference this weekend to announce that he has won the 2024 Presidential election.
According to leaked text from his cpac speech, Trump will claim that he won the 2024 election in a landslide and “everybody knows it.”
Trump will further state that any attempt to allege that the year 2024 has not arrived yet and is, in fact, not scheduled to occur until three years from now is “a rigged hoax.”
Dang, Andy! We all knew Trump** would say that. Furthermore, we knew that every damn one of those idiotic CPUKE Sheeple would believe it. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From Alternet: Though House Democrats in the end had the votes to assure final passage of a sweeping Covid-19 relief package overnight—securing approval with a final 219-212 tally—it was the Republican Party membership in total lockstep, joined by two lonely members of the majority party, that voted to deny struggling American families, frontline workers, state governments, local communities, small businesses, and the nation’s schools and public health system nearly $2 trillion in urgent assistance to stabilize the economy, beat back the pandemic, and ensure solid footing for a robust recovery.
The two Democrats who sided with the GOP were Rep. Jared Golden, who represents Maine’s 2nd District, and Rep. Kurt Shrader, who represents Oregon’s 5th District.
That one of these is an Oregon Congressional makes me want to scream. In 2020, I donated money to Shrader’s campaign in the general. He was running against Amy Ryan Courser, the epitome of everything about the Republican Reich that makes it evil. Amy is a Koch sucker. So I would support him again in the same circumstances, but before it comes to that, we need to primary his DINO ass out of there! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Simon & Garfunkel – El Condor Pasa (If I Could) (Audio)
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
I’m still exhausted, but things are moving ahead. I have my formal intake interview with Providence Home Hospice tomorrow. They will come here to meet with Wendy and I, evaluate my needs, and set up a plan to meet them. So I’ll know more soon, but in the meantime, I have a lot of records to collect.
Yesterday Nameless suggested that I should learn about deep breathing for stress management. Rather than leave that in comments, I want to move that up to front street. Not only am I familiar with deep breathing for stress management, I’ve been teaching it to my my guys as part of my prison volunteer work for over twenty years. I am especially thankful to Nameless for bringing it up, because the stress came on me so fast that I completely forgot to use the technique myself. Now I am using it and it is helping. Thank you, good friend!
Now, I need a nap. TGIF!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:07 (average 5:02). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
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From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): THE SNAKE – A Parody
Dang, Don! You’re spot-on about Trump**, but isn’t that unfair to snakes? RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): John Denver – Take Me Home, Country Roads (Audio)
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
Meidas Touch – Hawley
Now This News – Interracial Marriage – hanky alert
Really American – on Tucker Carlson
ARPB End note 2:
Puppet Regime – Laugh? Or cry?
Cole and Marmalade – Cat Logic
Beau on Republican math