Jul 032020
 

It’s a tired day here in the CatBox.  I had to spend so much time trying to arrange medical mayhem for when WWWendy is out of town later this month that I missed my morning nap.  ARGH!!  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:09 (average 6:11).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Map Reference  Thanks, Nameless!

US Cases: 2,837,726
US Deaths: 131,504

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Oregonian Channel): Oregon State Police don’t comply with indoor mask order by Gov. Kate Brown

If Oregon State cops consider themselves above the law, arrest them, fire them, defund them, or all of the above!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Epstein’s Confidant Ghislaine Maxwell Charged In Sex Abuse Probe

I’m sure we can expect interference from AG Barrf to undermine this case. If Maxwell is convicted and imprisoned, criminal Fuhrer Trump* will have a more difficult time finding underage girls to assault, when he’s not in Russia.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Simon & Garfunkel – Scarborough Fair/Canticle (Audio)


Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jul 022020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  A fire alarm made me get up at 1:00 AM, and I could not get back to sleep.  WWWendy is coming soon, so this is my only article today.  JD, would you please publish Sam?  Have a great day!  Joke: Why did God create Republicans?  She wanted to make Satanist cannibals look good!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:57 (average 5:39).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 2,781,085
US Deaths: 130,813

Short Takes:

From  The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump may not have read a Presidential Daily Brief on the Russian bounty scheme because he holds reading material upside down, experts suggested on Wednesday.

After studying photographic evidence of Trump holding a book in that difficult-to-read position, Davis Logsdon, who studies literacy at the University of Minnesota, said that such a practice could have impeded the President’s ability to process information on his desk.

“If Trump is holding all of his Presidential Daily Briefs upside down, what is intended to be important intelligence requiring his urgent attention might, to him, appear to be little more than meaningless marks on a piece of paper,” Logsdon said.

Dang, Andy! Did he learn that technique from the way Crawford Caligula, aka GW ChickenHawk, read My Pet Goat on 9/11?  RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: President Donald Trump makes very clear his allegiance to the almighty dollar, so it should hardly be shocking that he’s willing to throw Black people under the bus when it comes to his beloved Trump Tower. The president made his position even clearer Wednesday when he vehemently opposed New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to have a Black Lives Matter sign painted on Fifth Avenue in front of Trump Tower. The building’s namesake called the planned sign a “symbol of hate” and berated the mayor for supporting a plan to reallocate $1 billion of the police department’s $6 billion operating budget—a drop in the bucket for protesters pushing for a wholesale overhaul to policing.

Kudos to Mayor de Blasio! I can’t wait to see the look on criminal Fuhrer Trump’s* face the first time le looks down from his liars lair and sees Black Lives Matter!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the the past): Get Back (Remastered 2009)

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jul 012020
 

It’s a crazy day.  I’m waiting for Safeway.com to arrive, and hoped they would be here, before I publish this, but their tracking app shoes them over one hour late.  They have emailed me my receipt.  They are out of stock for $100 out of $190, including toilet paper.  I can do without a lot of the items, but it may be a shitty week, here in the CatBox.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than Personal Update.  WWWendy will be here in the morning.  Hump Day Hugs!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:59 (average 5:08).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 2,730,803

US Deaths: 130,134

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Oregonian Channel): Portland Police declare a riot on June 30, 2020

It was a riot… a police riot. They attacked demonstrators, because they were in front of the police union office protesting police violence. Sadly, policing is one of the few areas in which Oregon does NOT lead the way.  RESIST!!

From NY Times: American officials intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfers from a bank account controlled by Russia’s military intelligence agency to a Taliban-linked account, evidence that supported their conclusion that Russia covertly offered bounties for killing U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, according to three officials familiar with the intelligence.

Though the United States has accused Russia of providing general support to the Taliban before, analysts concluded from other intelligence that the transfers were most likely part of a bounty program that detainees described during interrogations.

Investigators also identified by name numerous Afghans in a network linked to the suspected Russian operation, the officials said — including, two of them added, a man believed to have served as an intermediary for distributing some of the funds and who is now thought to be in Russia.

The intercepts bolstered the findings gleaned from the interrogations, helping reduce an earlier disagreement among intelligence analysts and agencies over the reliability of the detainees. The disclosures further undercut White House officials’ claim that the intelligence was too uncertain to brief President Trump. In fact, the information was provided to him in his daily written brief in late February, two officials have said.

Now we have undeniable proof, both that Russia paid for the murder of US troops, and criminal Fuhrer Trump* knew about it since February, 2019. He rewarded Russia in spite of it.  Criminal Fuhrer Trump* has now fallen back to his defense of last resort. He’s calling it “fake news”.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): he Hollies – He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother


Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jun 302020
 

It’s a crazy day here in the CatBox.  I’ve been having trouble changing my Fentanyl patches.  They are tiny, transparent and sticky.  Because my previous surgery to knock out eye cancer damaged my eyes, everything I see  is blurry, and I have double vision.  Also, my hands shake when I try to do delicate work.  So far, I have destroyed two patches trying to change them, and with a copay of $10 per patch, that has to change.  To solve the problem WWWendy will come every three days, instead of twice per week, so she can change my patch, when she’s here.  Therefore, my WWWendy days will change every week, and my schedule here will be variable.  I may be a bit scarce for the next two days.  Store to Door is closed for the Fourth, so I ordered my groceries from Safeway.com.  They will be delivering a huge order between 8:00 and 10:00 AM, and it will take me a long time to unbag them and put them away.  Then WWWendy will be coming Thursday morning to destink the rancid TomCat, change my patch, goop, and help with chores.  Don’t forget to remind everyone to flush the Republican Reich!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:33 (average 5:25).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 2,683,301
Deaths: 128,819

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: In an act of retaliation against the Russians for sponsoring Taliban attacks on U.S. troops in Afghanistan, Donald J. Trump is sending Jared Kushner to the Kremlin to offer advice on its coronavirus response, the White House confirmed on Monday.

“To all those who thought that this President was not taking the Russians’ actions seriously, this response should speak for itself,” the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, said. “The President had an array of responses to choose from, and the one he selected is by far the most punishing.”

According to White House insiders, Trump and his advisers debated the response to the Russians for hours before finally settling on the Kushner option late Sunday night.

“Jared Kushner is the most brutal weapon in our arsenal, and deploying him is a decision that no one should ever take lightly,” one adviser said.

Awww, come on, Andy. Criminal Fuhrer Trump* would never do such a horrible thing to his favorite butt plug, Vladimir Putin [R-RU]. Furthermore, that would be a clear casus belliRESIST!!

From Daily Kos: At least one House Democrat has had enough with Republicans ignoring mask requirements during House committee hearings. Rep. Jim Clyburn, head of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, has written a letter to ranking Republican Steve Scalise warning him that if committee Republicans continue to show up at hearings without masks, those Republicans will not be recognized to speak during subcommittee meetings. At all.

Clyburn was not particularly polite about it, either. In his letter, Clyburn reminds Scalise that it was Scalise who “repeatedly” has wanted in-person hearings and “you assured me that this could be done safely.” But when “every single Republican Member of the Subcommittee refused to comply” with congressional mask rules, Clyburn was fed up.

Kudos to Jim Clyburn. I hope that the other Democratic heads of committees and subcommittees, both women and men, grow a pair too!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Doors – Break On Through HQ (1967)

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jun 292020
 

Yesterday was a busy day, here in the CatBox.  WWWendy and I did lots of gooping and chores.  As a result, I missed a lot of nap time and feel quite tired.  Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:15 (average 5:34).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 2,637,892
Deaths: 128,45

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: Every member of the Scrap Yard Fast Pitch softball team resigned after GM Connie May used them a photo of them standing for the anthem to tweet an anti-BLM message to Trump.

The Texas-based team is predominantly white, with only two Black players, but they have had run-ins with their GM before over her racist “All Lives Matter” BS. This move, wherein they say they felt used by her as political props to send a message they explicitly reject, was the final straw. They conferred for an hour, confronted May, and left their jerseys on the locker room floor.

Kudos to the Scrap Yard Fast Pitch softball team. They should reorganize under a Democratic GM!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (The Conversation Channel): A field guide to Trump’s dangerous rhetoric

Jennifer seems to have an excellent handle on how criminal Fuhrer Trump* uses his PhD (piled higher and deeper) in Bullshitology!  Some of the Ad… fallacies are also called criminal thinking errors.  RESIST!!

From YouTube ( a blast from the past): Del Shannon – Runaway

This is one of the first songs I learned to sing and play on the guitar. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Bill Maher from 6/26

 Posted by at 11:43 am  Politics
Jun 272020
 

It’s that time of week again, so here are four excellent video clips, from Bill’s show last night. Enjoy!

Monologue: Live Free or Die Hard


Bill is spot on! As time goes on, criminal Fuhrer Trump* piles more bullshit on his own head. It the penis enlargement people had been there, Trump* would have spent taxpayer dollars on all their products.  Just ask Stormy!

John Bolton: An Empty Chair in the Oval Office


In this case, I believe Bolton, because his descriptions are so authentically like Trump*. Nevertheless, Bolton’s reputation for credibility leaves much to be desired.

Wes Moore and James Carville


I agree with Carville that we need no win to such an extent that the Republican Reich, as we know it, is destroyed.

New Rule: The Guardians of Gotcha


I agree to a great extent. I’m White. I have been fighting against racism since the mid-1960s, and my blood has stained the streets of several US cities, while I was doing so. I have also had many Black friends and acquaintances, who could not have been more apathetic about racism. In fighting racism, I agree that it’s up to Black people to lead the way.  Also, White people can never truly know what it is to be Black.  However, to say white people can’t hate racism is absurd.

This was a fine show!

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Jun 272020
 

It’s a very tired day, here in the CatBox.  This building can be very difficult to find, and yesterday, the Providence Elder at Home doctor was 90 minutes late for our appointment.  First, her GPS system kept sending her in circles that missed the turn to get to the building.  When she finally found it and got to the street parking area on the other side of the building, she called me, and I came down to the lobby to let her into the building.  However, the city’s street parking pay system was out of order.  She had to download the mobile street parking app, register, and use it to pay for parking.  I had to wait in the lobby for over half an hour, before she finally got to the door.  Things went uphill from there.  I gave her the records i keep on medications, pain management and blood sugar.  I familiarized her with my condition.  She checked me out, and we agreed that I’m doing pretty well for a guy with one foot in the grave.  She will return monthly to check on my condition and help with any immediate needs.  If I have a need sooner, I can call for an appointment.  She told me that she will need to come more often as my condition progresses to help me with pain management.  I’m feeling very worn out.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update.  It’s a WWWendy day, and we have lots to do.  Have a fine weekend!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:11 (average 4:53).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Considering his replacement, his resignation was tragic.

Trump Virus* Update:

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Except for CA, you can see where Republicans are strongest.

Cases: 2,554,470
Deaths: 127,673

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump on Friday threatened to ban a coronavirus vaccine if it turns out that it was invented by former President Barack Obama.

Trump’s threat took members of the White House press corps aback, since there are no reports to date of Obama attempting to invent a vaccine or any other pharmaceutical.

Trump acknowledged that he was not aware of any such activities on Obama’s part, but warned that, if the former President succeeded in inventing a coronavirus vaccine, “I’m not going to let that happen.”

“If Obama came up with a vaccine, it would only be to make me look bad,” he said. “Well, guess what? I’m not going to let him get away with something cute like that. We’re going to move quite powerfully on anything Obama does in terms of a vaccine.”…

Consider this, Andy. Criminal Fuhrer Trump* is just using Obama as a smoke screen. The Republican Reich wants to block any vaccine. Since the Trump* virus death rate for minorities is disproportionately high, and since most minority voters vote for Democrats, Republicans want to kill as many as they can before the 2020 election.  RESIST!!

From NY Times: American intelligence officials have concluded that a Russian military intelligence unit secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing coalition forces in Afghanistan — including targeting American troops — amid the peace talks to end the long-running war there, according to officials briefed on the matter.

The United States concluded months ago that the Russian unit, which has been linked to assassination attempts and other covert operations in Europe intended to destabilize the West or take revenge on turncoats, had covertly offered rewards for successful attacks last year.

Islamist militants, or armed criminal elements closely associated with them, are believed to have collected some bounty money, the officials said. Twenty Americans were killed in combat in Afghanistan in 2019, but it was not clear which killings were under suspicion.

The intelligence finding was briefed to President Trump, and the White House’s National Security Council discussed the problem at an interagency meeting in late March, the officials said. Officials developed a menu of potential options — starting with making a diplomatic complaint to Moscow and a demand that it stop, along with an escalating series of sanctions and other possible responses, but the White House has yet to authorize any step, the officials said…

Actually, the Times is incorrect on one point. Trump* did respond to Russia paying for the murder of US troops. According to the BBC, he postponed the G7 Summit from June to September, because other nations rejected his plan to allow Russia to join the G7 (G8, if they did) and Putin [R-RU] to attend the summit. That’s how much the Republican Reich cares about the murder of US troops!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Audio)

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jun 262020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  This is today’s only article, because a Providence doctor will be visiting soon.  I don’t know whether or not I’ll have tome to finish and publish this, before she arrives, but I’ll do so ASAP.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:01 (average 4:34).  To do it, click here.  Hoe did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Cases: 2,505,909
Deaths: 126,823

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: In an unexpected turn of events for the former New York mayor, a poll of legal experts has determined that Rudolph Giuliani is no longer the worst lawyer in America.

According to the law professor who supervised the poll, Davis Logsdon, of the University of Minnesota Law School, Giuliani’s dethronement from the worst-lawyer championship was all the more shocking because his claim to that title had remained unchallenged for so long.

“Giuliani had faced worthy competition from the likes of Michael D. Cohen and Michael Avenatti and dispatched them with ease,” Logsdon said. “But this new challenger left Rudy in the dust.”

Thanks, Andy! It doesn’t take a picture to know that the worst Lawyer in the country is Barrf!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (John Pavlovitz Channel): YES, PEOPLE WHO WEAR MASKS ARE AFRAID. (We Wish You Were Afraid, Too.)

Amen! All John’s arguments are valid, but will Republicans listen? I doubt it! As JD at out site said, I wear it, because I’m exercising my right to wear what I want. Republican Sheeple have no answer for that one.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Santana – Black Magic Woman 1971

Love that guitar! Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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