Oct 152020
 

It’s a busy day, here in the CatBox.  Diana should be here in a short time change my patch.  Then, it’s a grocery delivery day.  Store to Door should be here at around Noon.  I scheduled an appointment on the morning of Friday 10/23 for a CAT Scan to get an idea of how bad my tumors are and to what extent, if any, the immunotherapy infusions are helping me.  May all your Republicans be unemployed.  However, those who are where they deserve to be may have prison jobs.  (Diana just left.)

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:06 (average 5:13).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 8,156,124
US Deaths: 221,895
Plus all the Trump*/GOP Plague murders Republicans are hiding from us

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: Every Republican Supreme Court nomination follows the same pattern:

  1. Nominee builds up a record of statements showing their allegiance to the most extreme positions on a set of topics dear to the far right.
  2. Federalist Society vets the nominee against strict ultraconservative checklist on the same list of topics.
  3. Republican senators pretend that 1. and 2. never happened, as nominee protests they couldn’t possibly speak to any of those topics. Or to anything else.

It’s become commonplace for a candidate who has spent their career signing their name to statements calling the Roe v. Wade decision barbaric to suddenly discover that they have nothing to say on the subject while in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Nothing, that is, except for meaningless hand-waving about “precedent.” But sometimes a non-answer can speak more loudly than a scream. That’s the case when a nominee is confronted by a question that should generate a response as automatic as breathing. That was certainly the case on Tuesday morning, as Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett weasel-worded her way through an answer that left absolutely no doubt: She intends to be there if Trump needs her to overturn the results of the election.

Earlier in the session, Barrett had been asked if she would recuse herself on a series of cases in which she had a personal or political position. Barrett’s response on all of these was the same—she would follow the rules of the Supreme Court.

This answer has a simpler meaning. It means “no.” That’s because, unlike lower courts, there are no actual rules requiring a Supreme Court justice to step back from any case. Since there are no spare justices to substitute for a recused justice, each is given absolute personal latitude to determine if they feel they need to recuse themselves on a particular topic. No one can make a Supreme Court justice recuse themselves from a case, even if that case is ruling on something in which they have a deep personal involvement or even a fiscal interest.

That also means that every appeal to Supreme Court guidelines is nothing but a dodge. Because there’s essentially nothing to those guidelines but “whatever you think best.” Barrett repeating that she would follow these guidelines is simply a refusal to answer, nothing more.  [emphasis added]

Lets be real for a minute. Nobody in their right mind could think Barrett would have been nominated had she not made it cleat that the will overturn the election on behalf of her Fuhrer, if he needs it!  While SCOTUS may use conscience as a guideline, Republican Injustices in SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional Venereal Disease) have no conscience.  RESIST!!

From NY Times: On the afternoon of Feb. 24, President Trump declared on Twitter that the coronavirus was “very much under control” in the United States, one of numerous rosy statements that he and his advisers made at the time about the worsening epidemic. He even added an observation for investors: “Stock market starting to look very good to me!”

But hours earlier, senior members of the president’s economic team, privately addressing board members of the conservative Hoover Institution, were less confident. Tomas J. Philipson, a senior economic adviser to the president, told the group he could not yet estimate the effects of the virus on the American economy. To some in the group, the implication was that an outbreak could prove worse than Mr. Philipson and other Trump administration advisers were signaling in public at the time.

The next day, board members — many of them Republican donors — got another taste of government uncertainty from Larry Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council. Hours after he had boasted on CNBC that the virus was contained in the United States and “it’s pretty close to airtight,” Mr. Kudlow delivered a more ambiguous private message. He asserted that the virus was “contained in the U.S., to date, but now we just don’t know,” according to a document describing the sessions obtained by The New York Times.

The document, written by a hedge fund consultant who attended the three-day gathering of Hoover’s board, was stark. “What struck me,” the consultant wrote, was that nearly every official he heard from raised the virus “as a point of concern, totally unprovoked.”

The consultant’s assessment quickly spread through parts of the investment world.

No matter what fallout effects the economy, some investors will make money and other investors will lose money. The Republican Reich made sure the 0.1%, the super-rich, had the insider information to protect themselves financially, while Trump* lied to the rest of us.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Billy Joel – Piano Man (Video)

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

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Aug 172020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  Diana, my palliative care nurse will be here shortly for my routine weekly visit.  The same stories still dominate the news, so my research took an extra long time.  It’s a relatively cool day: only 95° Angry smile.  Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:48 (average 4:24).  To do it, click here.  Hoe did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 5,569,520
US Deaths: 173,143
Plus all the many GOP plague murder victims Republicans are hiding from us.

Short Takes:

From Euro-News (Hat-Tip Lona): CLIMATE JUSTICE

This is where Kamala Harris comes into her own. While she was district attorney of San Francisco, 15 years ago, Harris created an environmental justice unit, which specifically existed to deal with cases of environmental crime.

Harris identified that “crimes against the environment are crimes against communities, people who are often poor and disenfranchised,” as she said to the San Francisco Chronicle in 2005.

The nexus between socio-economic disadvantage and environmental damage is something Harris has sought to address consistently – long before terms like ‘intersectional environmentalism’ even existed.

More recently, Harris has sued major oil companies after they violated environmental legislation, and after the devastating Refugio oil spill in 2015, the company responsible (Plains All American Pipeline) were indicted on 46 criminal charges.

The following year, after Volkswagen was found to have cheated on its diesel emissions, Harris secured a €73m settlement from the car manufacturer for the state of California.

Although many so called progressives, aka regressives, have whined incessantly that Harris is a “corporate Democrat”, her track record on the environment is quite good.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Raw Story Channel): Trump claims ‘dogs’ are getting mail-in ballots

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

If criminal Fuhrer Trump gets any more full of shit, we’ll have to paint a crescent moon on his forehead. Obviously it is my feline proclivity to be biased against dawgs, but if they could vote, they would be far more responsible than Republican Sheeple.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): ANTI-REPUBLICAN FUNNY SONG

 

This song is ten years old. It was spot-on then, and the Republican Reich is so much worse now! Kudos to left-wing protestors!  RESIST!!

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Jul 302020
 

It’s another busy day here in the CatBox.  Store to Door will be delivering my grocery order, and I have to unpack and store them.  I’m still feeling quite tired after yesterday.  May the Lord bless and keep you free of Trump’s* Republican plague!  Update: I’m running late, because groceries are done.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:54 (average 4:32).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 4,571,065
US Deaths: 153,898
World Cases: 17,242,728
World Deaths: 671,262
Trump’s Share of World Deaths: 22.9%
US Share of World Population: 4.3%

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): 5 Key Demands for the New Coronavirus Bill

 

Of course the Reich on the Left, Robert Reich is right. Demands 1 – 5 are spot on. But the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, want to keep the money flowing from the poor to the rich, and Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch will never allow this a vote in the Senate.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Rep. Louie Gohmert tests positive for Covid-19

 

This is exactly what I’d expect from Go-Go Goose-step Gomerde. It can only happen to a bigger asshole of he gives criminal Fuhrer Trump* a big sloppy French kiss!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): Edwin Starr – War (Original Video – 1969)

 

Kudos to left-wing protestors!  RESIST!!

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Jul 152020
 

It’s a muggy day here in the CatBox.  Kristin seemed quite nice, and she’ll do a fine job filling in for WWWendy.  She’ll be coming once, while WWWendy is away.  WWWendy returns your greetings and appreciates your good wishes.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:52 (average 4:42).  To do it, click here.  How dis you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 3,548,546
US Deaths: 139,189

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: The Trump supporters who defaced a Black Lives Matter mural last week may not have to worry about rent for the next year, as they may gain jail accommodations courtesy of the county. The DA issued this press release:


Click through for more.  A year is not enough jail time for those racist Republican pigs!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Corporate Hypocrisy on Racism


Of Course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, was racist long before criminal Fuhrer Trump* arrived, and will still be racist long after we drag him, kicking and screaming, from the house he stole. These corporate $billionaires actually own the Republican Reich and have kept it in power, so they must also be the authors of Republican racism.   Remember, even anti-Trump* Republicans are just as Republican.  Unlike Trump*, they hide their hate and greed.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from Labor): Joan Baez- Bread and roses


Support Labor! RESIST!!

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Biden: Build Back Better!

 Posted by at 11:10 am  Politics
Jul 102020
 

We already know the economic plan offered by criminal Fuhrer Trump and the Republican Reich.  First provide massive welfare payments to the 0.1% and corporate criminals by fleecing everyone else.  Second, destroy the economy by causing a plague of Trump* virus.  On a brighter note, Joe Biden also has an economic plan called Build Back Better.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, laid out a key plank of his economic agenda for the country — dubbed “Build Back Better” — in a half-hour speech Thursday, offering a competing vision of economic nationalism that President Trump has trumpeted in recent years.

“The truth is throughout this [coronavirus] crisis, Donald Trump has been almost singularly focused on the stock market — the Dow and Nasdaq — not you, not your families,” Biden said during his remarks Thursday afternoon in Dunmore, Pa., near his hometown of Scranton. “If I’m fortunate enough to be elected president, I’ll be laser-focused on working families, the middle-class families that I came from.”

Biden’s economic plans to date have focused on immediate relief for families, small businesses and communities struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. But the proposal he detailed Thursday centered around manufacturing and innovation.

He outlined an agenda to “Buy American,” which includes a $700 billion investment in procurement and research and development for new technologies such as biotech, clean energy and artificial intelligence.

“This will be a mobilization of R&D and procurement investments in ways not seen since World War II,” Biden said.

His campaign posits the new plan will help create 5 million new jobs… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <NPR>
Graphic credit: Newsbreak

For more detail, go to Joe Biden’s website.

Here is the complete half hour speech.

Biden unveils economic plan to spur American manufacturing

Although Biden couches his plan in progressive terms, it’s actually more center-left. Nevertheless, compared to the rabid, reactionary, racist Republican policies, including massive transfer of our wealth to billionaires, foisted on America by criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the Republican Reich, Biden’s plan is a welcome breath of fresh air!

RESIST!!

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May 012020
 

It’s a tired day, here in the CatBox, and my back is in a lot of pain.  I’m ready for an Oxycodone, lunch and a nap, when I finish here.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:01 (average 4:39).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Coronavirus Cases: 1,099,275
Deaths: 63,972
Recovered: 156,089

Our Poll:

I owe you all an apology.  What with all the medical mayhem and personal mayhem surrounding my impending demise, I neglected our poll for months, without updating it.  If you would like to read the results and comments, click here.  I have put up a new poll.  Please vote now and in November.

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: The concept of a living wage is apparently still unfathomable for South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who on Wednesday promised he would do everything in his power to fight an extension of federal coronavirus relief that would give those who are unemployed an extra $600 a week, according to The Post and Courier. “I promise you over our dead bodies will this get reauthorized,” Graham said of himself and Republican Sen. Tim Scott. “We’ve got to stop this.”… [emphasis added]

Hmmm… reauthorizing an extra $600 per worker in Trump* virus relief over the dead bodies of Lindsey Graham [R-SC] and Tim Scott [R-SC] is the best idea Lindsey Poo has had this year!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Vox Channel): How to vote during a pandemic

How to vote during a pandemic of Trump* virus? Vote no matter what! Vote by mail, if possible! If not, vote VERY carefully! Finally, vote Blue, no matter who, top to bottom! Every Republican in office is one Republican too many.  Flush them all!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind

Ah… the memories… RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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