It’s another hot, sticky day here at the CatBox, and it will get worse as the week goes on. I’ll be scarce this weekend, as I have an annual cat scan with contrast for my Oncologist on Saturday and a routine appointment my PCP with fasting labs on Monday. I’ll be out and about in high 90°s. Not fun. I hoped you are enjoying your vacation.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:48 (average 4:44). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (NY Times Channel): Trump’s Top Supreme Court Contenders on Abortion
Look how evasive they were. If they did not rabidly oppose women’s rights, they would not be on Trump’s list. One thing they all have in common is this: during their confirmation hearing, they would lie. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From YouTube (MoveOn Channel): How a Multiracial Populism Can Build a 21st Century Economy
Republicans want us prejudiced against black, brown, red and yellow, when the true enemy of all, except the 1%, including white, is green. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
From The Palmer Report: Article III, Section I of the Constitution states that “The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” While the Constitution established the Supreme Court, it left it up to Congress to decide how to fill the court. The Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number at one chief justice and five associate justices.
While the intended purpose of the Supreme Court is to determine the constitutionality of laws, there have been several instances where the court was used for partisan political moves. When the Federalists lost power in 1800 the lame-duck Congress made a play to prevent President Thomas Jefferson from being able to make an appointment by reducing the number of justices to five. However, the incoming Congress repealed this to put the number back at six. In 1807, Congress increased it to seven.
Then in 1837, President Andrew Jackson was able to appoint two justices after Congress increased the number of justices to nine. Following the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, a Republican majority in Congress voted to reduce the number of justices to prevent Democrat President Andrew Johnson from appointing any new justices. When Ulysses S. Grant won the presidency in 1868, Congress increased it back to nine to allow him two appointments. The number of Supreme Court justices has remained at nine since the Judiciary Act of 1869.
As I have said before, when Democrats have enough power, we can overturn the Judiciary Act and change SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD) back to SCOTUS!! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!
Cartoon:
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5:30 I hope that was photographed from a special angle to exaggerate it. I didn’t think it was quite that pronounced.
SCROTUS – “Look how evasive they were.” Look how YOUNG they are! If he would appoint an 87-year-old who was the youngest of six and the other five are dead, I wouldn’t be quite so worried.
Justice – “You can’t have economic justice without racial justice” – Heather McGhee – And she knows what she is talking about. She’s been the President of Demos for I forget how many years till just last month, and she then became a Senior Fellow for Demos, so she’s not going to be out of touch.
Palmer – Based on previous changes, we have an excellent case IMNSHO. Previous changes were made to steal seats. Our changes would be made to reclaim seats already stolen.
Cartoon – Ummm – What IS that under there? On second thought, don’t tell me. I’d rather not know.
NYTC: Not good. At. All.
MO: Spot on vid. Passing this on.
PR: I hope that this will work for us.
Cartoon: Cray cray. imho
Best to you with your appts., and safe travel to & from. Hope that you have a good evening, take care, and Thanks, Tom.
NYT: Yes, anyone Dumpy might even mildly consider nominating, at suggestion, it turns out, from the Heritage Foundation (aka:Koch Brothers) is going to be a POS! If he had the capacity to find other sources of suggestions, could actually read,and do some research on his own, anyone he considered would still be a POS!
MoveOn: We need social justice, racial justice, economic justice! We need a focus on having a just culture, period!
PR: Interesting, but I doubt that the Dems, even with both houses (Oh, Please!), and the presidency in their pockets, will be able to to increase the size of the court. We need to focus on keeping the Grifter-in-Cheif from being able to fill the court with a**holes! What about the bit that a president under investigation can not appoint a judge to SCOTUS?
P.S.: Has anyone noticed the blurb from North Korea, about the U.S. negotiating process being like that of a Mobster’s? Oh, yeah, dumpy really put them out of the game, right!
Yeah, I saw those pesky North Koreans say that negotiating with Twitler was “regrettable” AND his man-on-the-scene, Pompeo, was negotiating “gangster-like”.
What the hell are they talking about? Our “Dear Leader” told us (and I quote):
And that Americans – as well as the rest of the world – can
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/13/politics/trump-north-korea-nuclear-threat/index.html
(PS: Love using a CNN source whenever possible, knowing it would piss-off Twitler)
And does this mean Twitler will NOT be awarded that Nobel Peace Prize he was bragging about?
[I think the “Snark” tag is self-evident]
PS: Who had “25 Days” in the betting pool on how long the Twitler – Kim Jong Un “honeymoon” would last?
Resist, persist, insist – and remember that losers don’t get to make policy. VOTE!!!
Puzzle — 4:23 Too bad for you Puddy Tat that this is Pisa and not Pizza!
NY Times — Puppets on strings, each and every one! I don’t know if I would have an abortion because I have never been in the position to have to make that decision. But I sure as hell know that I have and will give others the latitude to make that decision for themselves. Further, whatever their decision, I will support them.
What a contemptuous asshole! And what does ‘the right to life’ mean? Affordable healthcare? Nourishing food? Affordable housing? All these things are denied by Drumpf and Republicans once a child is born.
MoveOn — AMEN!!!
Palmer Report — The Dems need to reclaim the Congress in order to over turn the Judiciary Act so get out the vote and vote blue!!!
Cartoon — Oh look . . . it’s a bag lady . . . blinded by insaniTEA indeed!!! I can only hope that it poured buckets of rain on her and that she had tea running down her face and clothes.
You had heat and we had rain most of today. Tomorrow is supposed to be cloudy which means the humidity will be up, even if it doesn’t rain. Back east in southern Ontario and Québec, the heat is so bad that there have been at least 20 deaths in greater Montréal alone. Good luck with the medical appointments in the heat. I have my fasting quarterlies in about 8 days. Such is life.
NYT: Show me a candidate for SCOTUS with the true integrity needed for the job and he or she will not be on Drumpf’s list because she or he isn’t a Republican.
MO: Spot on, but I hope the “green” in your comment refers to the color of money and not to people with durable, ecological world-view ?
PR: A Democratic Congress changing the numbers again for a more balanced SCOTUS would mean bringing it up to eleven, as bringing the number down can only happen when justices resign or die, I suppose. Chances are that would be our beloved RBG and reducing numbers then would give Republicans a free hand. But increasing the number to eleven would give a very impractical SCOTUS because of its cumbersome size, and America might end up with very few or very unexpected rulings. I’m afraid that short-sheeting Obama out of his rightful appointee was the “best thing” Mitch McConnell has ever done.
Cartoon: Whenever I see pictures of true teabaggers wearing those teabags on their head, I imagine them being caught out in a really big rainstorm with nowhere to shelter. Then they’d look even more ridiculous with all these soaked (i.e. used) teabags, dripping brown slush, on their head. Yours nearly got to that stage, TomCat. ?
I don’t envy you all your medical inconveniences in all that terrible heat, TomCat. Take care and stay safe.
Thanks all. Very Tired hugs.