Starting with some stuff from last week that wasn’t posted until days after
Not Down with PPP
Black History Month
Superbowl Halftime Poem
Now, from this week
The Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage
If they continue putting u segments any old day they feel like it, future Sam Bee posts may continue to look like this.
Sorry I’m so late. I was on hold for about 2 hours and could only do a few things – posting a thread was not one of them.
A very brief excerpt from the new video footage showed today. TC will probably have more tomorrow.
The Lincoln Project
Really American with Glenn Kirschner
Norway responds to the Will Ferrell superbowl ad (which if you missied it is here) https://youtu.be/y4U5nit_WkY
John Fugelsang “Insurrection Dysfunction”
Orange Acres – a new YouTube venture by John Di Domenico – Episode ! (yes, brace yourself, there are more)
Beau – Speaking as a veteran, I’m not sure recruiting needs to change all that much. My experience with enlisted people is that the ones who enlist for the GI Bill, to get an education, already have the curiosity and the attitude which leads to critical thinking. More so, in fact, than many young officers straight from college who never experienced impediments to going through that track (the naïvete of second lieutenants is proverbial in fact, and I assume that’s also true of ensigns.) Many enlisted people who joined for college are actually brilliant. Of course a program where they could turn it into a retention tool – get the education after a 3 or 4 year enlistment, then return for an additional 4 or six year commitment – that couldn’t hurt.
It’s a better day here in the CatBox. I need to get as much rest as possible, because Friday is my infusion day at the hospital, so I’m not sure what I’ll do tomorrow. I will definitely have just a short Personal Update on Friday. Happy Hump Day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:36 (average 5:20). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump’s defense lawyers stunned the United States Senate on Tuesday by acknowledging that their client had incited the Capitol riot, but only because his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, made him do it.
The Senate listened in astonished silence as Trump’s lawyers coldly and methodically hurled Kushner under the bus.
Bruce Castor, one of Trump’s lead attorneys, claimed that the ex-President had been reluctant to speak to the angry mob of supporters on January 6th, and did so only after Kushner assured him, “What could possibly go wrong?”
Dang, Andy! Maybe Jared really did make him do it. That’s credible if you believe that Bears never, ever shit in the woods. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (NBC News Channel): Watch: Day 1 of Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial In Senate
This video is 7.5 hours long, and I put it here so you can move around within it and see parts you want. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (Daily Kos Channel): Democrats present damning video to begin Trump’s impeachment trial for Jan. 6, 2021
I understand that most Senate Republicans evaded watching the video. The American people need to see this again, and again, and again, and again! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Wild Horses – Rolling Stones
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
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!!
Meidas Touch – That “click” you hear when everything suddenly fits together and it all makes sense now.
Vox – Of course the time to think about this was in 2018 (and 2020). But anyone who missed that boat can learn from this. Almost 8 minutes, but what’s that as compared with the next ten years?
I just stumbled on this, so I have probably already missed some, and, not being on Twitter, will probably miss more. But I can at least share what a good thing this is!
Congresswoman @LaurenUnderwood is a registered nurse & health care policy expert who co-founded the Black Maternal Health Caucus in her 1st term to end outcome disparities.
She helped strengthen the ACA & is fighting for better health care for #IL14 & America. #BlackHistoryMonth pic.twitter.com/iEZjze1tqv
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) February 7, 2021
The Standing Rock Tribal Council talks DAPL. Yes, there’s a petition. Wopila tanka.
Dr Jill – PSA for the Puppy Bowl XVII
I knew John Fugelsang was clever and witty – but I did not know he did puppets. Now I need to go see what else he does on video.
Beau – Canada and our First Amendment
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? 
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!!
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!!
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!!