Sep 292020
 

It’s a tired day, here in the CatBox.  I’m hoping to feel up to an Open Thread tomorrow.  Tuesday is Flush your Republicans Day.  Put them on the first floor of a two floor outhouse, or make like the dawg (see below).

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:08 (average 5:51).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 7,365,427
US Deaths: 209,922
Plus all the GOP murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Trump Tax Returns: 10 Things You Need to Know

 

Of course the Reich on the Left, Robert Reich, is right. All ten are spot-on! The Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, could not have picked a Fuhrer more representative of who they are!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Could Trump go to jail over his taxes? Watergate prosecutor weighs in

 

This is why Trump* is so desperate to steal the White House again. It’s his only chance avoid spending the rest of his life in prison.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered)

 

Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

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Sep 272020
 

It’s a very busy WWWendy day here in the CatBox.  This is my only article today.  Tomorrow I have my Trump* virus test, and Diana should be here slightly after I get home, so please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow.  This Sunday, may the Lord keep Resident Donald Trump*… from destroying the country before we can put him in a cell.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:10 (average 4:35).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 7,290,347
US Deaths: 209,208
Plus all the Trump* virus murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: A hair-raising article in Bellingcat details what has been learned from chat logs of the Patriot Coalition of Oregon, thanks to an Antifa infiltrator. Journalists Robert Evans and Jason Wilson describe the group as part of a growing network “increasingly organizing around direct physical confrontations with leftist protesters in Portland and other American cities.”

The leaked chat logs appear to reveal that some members of the Patriot Coalition have taken part in multiple violent rallies throughout the summer, and that they claim to have operated a series of vigilante patrols and checkpoints during the Oregon wildfires. While the chats appear to show they work and fight alongside members of extremist groups like the Proud Boys, American Wolf and 1776 2.0, the Patriot Coalition seems to have no coherent ideology beyond a desire to violently confront leftists in the name of the police and President Trump. A user identified as Paige summed up the general feelings of the group in a post made ahead of a what turned out to be a bloody ‘Back the Blue’ rally on August 22nd in Portland when she wrote: “I’m waiting for the presidential go to start open firing.”

Patriot Coalition members regularly declare Democratic politicians to be “Antifa” and thus fair targets for violence.

Discussions of violence in the Patriot Coalition group chat are not hypothetical. While some individuals are likely grandstanding, the chat logs show members gearing up for a number of events where very real violence occurred.

On August 22nd more than 300 heavily armed right-wing demonstrators rallied in downtown Portland for what was, nominally, a rally supporting the police. Yet the situation quickly degenerated into a mass brawl, with numerous injuries (including to one of the authors of this article).

Those events reflected the plans that Patriot Coalition had made. In the lead up, members discussed acquiring paintball guns and freezing their ammunition for maximum damage.

One of the many, many horrifying comments obtained from the group reads, “The only real way to end it is start shooting everyone of them. Fists and pepper spray are fun but don’t get the job done. I think sooner or later it’s coming. Our governor and the coward mayor of Portland will let it go on till November. If we don’t take care of it ourselves. Then there’s the whole prison thing I don’t quite like. So your damned if do damned if you don’t.”

Click through. The rest is too important to miss. What these Republican terrorists are doing in my town today, they shall do in your town tomorrow.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Elizabeth Warren Channel): Elizabeth Warren Responds to Donald Trump’s Supreme Court Pick

Liz could not be more spot-on. Every Republican in power is one Republican too many!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama

Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!

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Sep 262020
 

It’s another tired day here in the CatBox, but at least I have a complete Open Thread, today.  The esophageal problems I’m having interfere with my sleep, so I might have to change my name to Ulysses, so you can call me useless for short. Winking smile  Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update because it’s a morning WWWendy day.  It’s also a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  The Buccaneers are visiting my Broncos, but the game will not be televised here.  This Wednesday would one of you please cover Tuesday night, when Biden debates, and Trump* masdebates? Have a great weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:07 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 7,247,550
US Deaths: 208,502
Plus thousands of Trump* GOP murders Republicans are hiding from us

SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional Venereal Disease) Update:

If she promises to recuse and gets confirmed, she will not recuse. Otherwise, she would not be a Republican.

This is what she offers!

 

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: As Donald J. Trump refuses to commit to a peaceful transfer of power in January, former President Barack Obama suggested that cancelling the White House’s cable-TV account could induce the President to leave.

“This is a man who enjoys watching television,” Obama told reporters. “What if, on Inauguration Day, he picks up the remote and nothing comes on?”

“This seems like the most peaceful way to get him to go,” Obama said.

Obama also said that, in order to avoid a constitutional crisis, the White House’s supply of Diet Coke could also be cut off, but added, “I don’t think it will come to that.”

“Once it dawns on him that there’s no cable, his days will stretch out before him in a vista of emptiness,” Obama said. “No ‘Fox & Friends.’ No Tucker Carlson. And no Shark Week.”

Dang, Andy! This is Obama’s best idea yet! It’s even better than Obamacare!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): How Far Is Trump Willing To Go To Stay In Office?

For Trump* staying in power is a life or death issue. He will ruin as many of OUR lives and cause as many of OUR deaths as it takes. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Draft Register [should be Resister]

Ah the memories!… Protest like the 60s! RESIST!!

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Sep 222020
 

It’s become a hectic week here in the CatBox.  Diana was late yesterday, but when she got here, she built a fire under my Oncologist’s office and the Stent surgeon’s office.  Becky met WWWendy when she arrived at the hospital to pick up my patches, and changed me from 25 mg Fentanyl patches to 50 mg.  My pain level is much lower.  The stent surgeon’s office called and scheduled me for a video conference with the doctor at 7:30 AM tomorrow.  They will determine whether they want to to do a dilation or a stent and schedule the procedure ASAP.  If that isn’t crazy enough, WWWendy and I forgot that she scheduled an appointment to go to DMV to renew my Oregon ID at 4:30 on Thursday.  We won’t even start the shower and gooping until we get back.  On top of everything else, my AC is acting up again.  This is my only article today, and I’ll have to play the rest of the week by ear.  Tuesday is flush your Republicans day.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:04  (average 4:38).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 7,047,643
US Deaths: 204,577
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): LAZIN’ ON A COVID AFTERNOON

 

Wonderful piece, Don! The one thing even more deadly than Trump* virus is Trump’s* Republican Reich!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Democrats Make SCOTUS A National Issue Beyond Republicans Gaming Senate Rule

 

Listen to Liz! She is spot on! If the Reich confirm another to SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional Venereal Disease), America will become a permanent National Socialist, theocratic, plutocratic dictatorship.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

 

Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s! To update, make it “We Gotta Get Out Of This Reich”!  RESIST!!

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Sep 212020
 

It’s another tired painful day here in the CatBox.  I still have no news on getting my stent.  I wanted to do more today, but I overslept, and I’m just not feeling up to it.  I’m afraid you guys may be carrying the ball until I get my stent and recover more of my strength.  Tonight is a WWWendy night.  Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:53 (average 4:21).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 7,011,463
US Deaths: 204,167
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: MAGA Nutjobs Block Entrance To Voting Site In Fairfax, Virginia

These Trumpanzee idiots are protesting IN-PERSON voting, now. Blocking entry to polling places is a felony, by the way.

Am I the only one not surprised? Nevertheless, ‘Trumpanzee’ is an insult to the apes!  RESIST!!

From Alternet:

Aprominent [sic] psychiatrist who spent years studying Nazi Germany has called for mental health professionals to speak out about President Trump’s “falsification of reality” ahead of the election, warning that his attacks on the truth echo those of the Nazis.

Dr. Robert Jay Lifton, distinguished professor emeritus at John Jay College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and a leading psychohistorian who has written extensively about doctors who aided Nazi war crimes, has long called for mental health experts to defy warnings from the American Psychiatric Association (APA) and speak out about Trump’s mental health. Lifton recently published a book entitled “Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry” and was one of the 27 mental health experts featured in “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump,” the bestseller edited by Yale psychiatrist Dr. Bandy X. Lee in which mental health professionals assessed the president.

Lifton told Salon that the book and a Yale conference on the topic began the movement of “psychologists and psychiatrists speaking out against Trump.”

“I spoke about what I called malignant normality that was being imposed on us, and the need to be witnessing professionals who told the truth and oppose the malignant normality,” he said in an interview last week.

Lifton said that Trump’s supporters and enablers exhibit the same “cult-like behavior” that he has studied, adding that the current administration has “Trumpified” every part of the federal government, in much the same way that the German government was “Nazified” under Adolf Hitler.

What other pattern would Republicans follow? I called GW Bush, aka Nincompoop Nazi, the Fuhrer of the 4th Reich. Republicans planned to make him permanent, but when their policies caused the economy to collapse, they abandoned Bush to let Obama inherit their damage and blame him for it. Now they have chosen Trump* as Fuhrer. That he’s a Nazi goes without saying. Being a Nazi a prerequisite to become Fuhrer of the Republican Reich!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Crosby Stills Nash – Carry On / Questions

 

Love that guitar in Questions! Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

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Sep 202020
 

It’s another sick painful day, here in the CatBox.  I slept most of yesterday afternoon and last night.  Nevertheless, I overslept this morning.  WWWendy retuned greetings.  This is my only article today, but I think it’s a good one.  I hope to publish an article on SCOTUS/SCROTUS (Supreme Court/Republican anti-Constitutional VD) tomorrow, which will be busy, because Diana is coming to check in on me.  Today is a Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb, and I shall meditate as my Broncos travel to Pittsburg where the Stealers will try to steal their victory.  I love you guys so much that I’m giving up part of my worship to finish this.  May the Holy Ellipsoid Orb bless you all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:48 (average 6:17).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 6,971,365
US Deaths: 203,880
Plus thousands of Trump’s* GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From NY Times: Letters sent in recent days to the White House and to local law enforcement agencies in Texas contained the lethal substance ricin, and investigators are trying to determine whether other envelopes with the toxin were sent through the postal system, a law enforcement official briefed on the matter said on Saturday.

Investigators believe that the letters were sent from Canada and have identified a woman as a suspect, the official said.

The letter to the White House, which was addressed to President Trump, was intercepted, as were the letters to a detention facility and a sheriff’s office in Texas.

The envelope to the White House was caught at the final off-site processing facility where mail is screened before being sent to the White House mail room, according to a second law enforcement official. The Postal Service irradiates mail that is addressed to the White House and other federal agencies in the Washington area, and the mail is sorted in a facility that samples the air for suspicious substances.

I say with confidence that the woman in Canada who did this was NOT our Sasquatch! As much as knowing that Trump* was playing sizzle-checkers with his perv-pal Jeff Epstein, accomplishing his physical demise is God’s job. Ours is limited to accomplishing his political demise. I suspect this may be a false-flag, perpetrated by Republicane to paint Democrats as violent criminals or to give Resident Bone Spurs* an excuse to declare war on Canada. However, I condemn all who approve, support, and take part in such acts. It wrong, no matter who does it.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Who is Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s Front-Runner For Ginsburg’s Seat?

 

I think Republicans are most likely to go for confirmation in the “lame duck” Senate. If they make it appear that the left are winning this battle prior to the election, it could make Democrats feel overconfident. At the same time, this would send millions of desperate Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the exact opposite of real authentic Christians) scurrying to the polls in an attempt to kill Roe v. Wade. These pro-death hypocrites think the right to life begins at conception and ends at birth.  After the election, GOP Senators can goose-step with their Fuhrer* and BBMMM with nothing left to lose.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Lucky Man

 

Ah… the memories! Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

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Sep 182020
 

Monologue – The level of crazy has really gotten to the point where there is not much a satirist can do. He did the best he could with what he had.

Passing of RBG – Bill and Panel – Of course they are in shock, as I was and am. But there are people seriously working on what to do.

Michael Cohen – There was a moment – before he went into court the first time as a person of interest rather than as an attorney – cameras (video) caught him on the street outside, there were some tables, and there were some people, and, I don’t know, does anyone else remember this picture? – that I felt from his face and body language that he knew it was over, and that he really understood the enormity of what he had done, and hated it, and was ready to not lie. Interestingly, I have not seen anything since which caused me to rethink that impression. I almost feel sorry for him.

New Rule – You can be liberal and still be blinded by privilege. IMO Hollywood is all of that. Of course, I also happen to know what black people thought of “The Green Book.” I don’t think those rules are too stringent at all. Fact: Good intentions are never enough. You have to have vision. (BTW, this is less like being told what to put in paintings and more like being told what paints to use. How much toxic paint is acceptable?)

I did look for CC and enabled it where I found it – sadly, that was only on the Cohen one.

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Sep 182020
 

It’s another sick painful day here in the CatBox.  Since I have to be up for Diana’s visit, I might as well put the time to good use with this article, but this is my only article today.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.  WWWendy is coming a day late, because she works her bartending job tonight, and Diana can change my patch when she’s here.  I’ll finish after Diana comes.  Diana thinks I should call in.  She does not think they’ll send me to the hospital.  She thinks they’ll just set me up with the stent surgeon.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:14 (average 4:43).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoons:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 6,880,914
US Deaths: 202,307
Plus thousands of Trump’s GOP plague murders Republicans are hiding from us.

These stats come from worldometer, an international organization.  The NY Times also uses their data.  they are more accurate than US (Trump*-muzzled) stats.

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: A Michigan pastor has been hearing a whole lot from the public recently after sending an email to journalist Sarah Jeong—which was then posted by Jeong on her Twitter account. In the email, the christian (with a little “c”) David Muns threatens Jeong with genital mutilation, calling her a “bitter Asian woman.” The entirety of his statement will be discussed below, and includes graphic language, but those are the broad strokes.

Muns was supposedly responding to a meme that attributed a fake quote to Jeong, from her time on The New York Times editorial board. Someone (or someones) spent a good amount of time coming up with some wildly awful things to say about white folks and white children, and then attributed them all to Jeong. These quotes were debunked back in 2018, but Muns, not much for reading deeply into things, clearly missed the memo.

The nasty email that Muns sent reads: “How about if we took all the little bitter Asian women and had a lottery and cut their clits like the Muslims do. Not a very classy position is it, neither is your trashy little bitter personality towards white men. Only in a world where journalism is controlled by brain dead Liberals do you people even have jobs.” 

If I were not feeling so bad, this typical Republican pseudo-Christian (the exact opposite of a real Christian) POS would get a parade! What a jerk!  RESIST!!

From NY Times: When Donald J. Trump first ran for the White House, he promised to “come up with a great health plan,” one that would repeal the Affordable Care Act but replace it with something better while maintaining its biggest selling point: protecting people with pre-existing medical conditions.

Once elected, he swore he had a “wonderful plan” and would be “putting it in fairly soon.”

On Tuesday night, President Trump was at it again, during a town-hall-style meeting broadcast on ABC, where he was schooled by Ellesia Blaque, an assistant professor of Africana and ethnic literatures at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. She told him she had a congenital illness, demanded to know what he would do to keep “people like me who work hard” insured — and cut him off when he tried to interrupt her.

“We’re going to be doing a health care plan very strongly, and protect people with pre-existing conditions,” Mr. Trump told her, adding, “I have it all ready, and it’s a much better plan for you.”

Amen. This lie is old bullshit. The only “health care” plan we’ll ever see from Trump* and/or the Republican Reich is RepubliCare. Those who can pay get overpriced care. Those who can’t pay get the RepubliCare Death Benefit. They get to die.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of past protest): People Got To Be Free – The Rascals

 

Ah… the memories!  Protest like the 60s!  RESIST!!

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