I’m running late, as I overslept and had several chores to complete. Next week will be so busy that I will probably have only a Personal Update Monday though Wednesday. Monday is a WWWendy day, a day late, and we have lots to do. Tuesday I have an Oncologist appointment to interpret my Cat Scan. Wednesday I have a power chair repairman coming. I suspect a bad wheel bearing as my chair screeches whenever I’m on the move. TGIF Hugs!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:02 (average 4:40). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Donald Trump Nominates Advocate Of ‘Ethnonationalism’ For Judgeship
How did Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch know to hold all those judgeships open for Trump, when most thought Hillary would cream Trump. Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch must have already known Putin was stealing the government for the Republican Reich. Can anyone guess which ethnic group that Republican racist Menashi favors? RESIST!!
From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): HALLELUJAH FOR THE NRA!
Don retreaded this, but with Republican Ammosexual terrorists on a killing spree, he could not have picked a more appropriate time to bring it back. RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: Sen. Susan Collins took time out of her busy schedule of being extremely disappointedthat people expect her to do something about gun violence to attend a fundraiser on Friday. A fundraiser on her behalf. Held by Leonard Leo, Donald Trump’s “judge whisperer.”
Remember all that hand-wringing we saw from Collins last fall over her vote for Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court? It was kabuki. The fix had been in for a long time, with Collins reportedly giving Mitch McConnell the green light for her vote on this nomination before it happened. Now that she’s hobnobbing with Federalist Society executive vice president Leonard Leo—and he’s raising buckets of money for her—the quid pro quo is staring us in the face.
She’s already received the maximum contribution from Leo, $2,800. So now he’s opened the doors of his $4 million mansion for Collins and all his rich friends—who got a big tax break thanks to Collins’ vote on that Trump tax scam—to say thanks. Leo has become increasingly high-profile since Trump got installed in the Oval Office, even taking a leave from his job at the Federalist Society to specifically get Kavanaugh on the court. He has unprecedented sway and say over Trump in judicial nominations, ensuring that the courts get packed with young judges who have extreme anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ rights, and anti-voting rights records.
There are two kinds of Republicans in office: open goose-steppers and secret goose-steppers. RESIST!!
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MSNBC: He’s already in the mix…sure can pick ’em, right? ugh
PPC: So sad. Great words, guys!!
DK: I hope that she gets booted out. Go DEMS!!
Cartoon: Gawd, how very sad !!
Thanks for the ‘Heads up’, you’ve got a very busy week coming up, but most importantly, I hope your results from your cat-scan reads well. Enjoy the rest of your day and evening, take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: “President reportedly considering buy Greenland. He should consider buying Alcatraz from the NPS (National Park Service), so he has a place to live after leaving politics. Bonus – it’s an island w/a tower.”
~ Robert M.
2. A protester with sign…these words: “Jews against Trump: “Because we’ve seen this before.”
4:25 Nice blues.
MSNBC – Not hard to guess, is it.
Other PP – I more or less remember the last time there were any liberal Communists in the US. It was the 1940’s, and not even the full decade (thought here were some in the teens, twenties, and thirties as well.) None of them ever lived under Communism. Those who saw it in action in the SSRs were not happy – because in practice, in that place, and pretty much ever since, it has been not left wing, but right wing. And it doesn’t work under right wing conditions. At least they are no longer calling themselves Communists. But that doesn’t make much, if any, difference to the brainwashed.
I guess I need to tell Joan McCarter that she has just hugely insulted Kabuki, which is a legitimate, respectable, honorable art form. Maybe someone already has, though. We’ll see.
Cartoon – Yup. that’s supply-side Republican Jesus, all right. Not my Jesus (or anyone else’s here.)
MSNBC: He continues to pick the real losers.
PPC: Song fits perfectly for what has been happening…scary and sad.
Cartoon: Not my type of Jesus either.
3:24 I hope you like swimming, TomCat.
MSNBC: The Menashi published/worked for the Hoover Institute in 2002. That should tell us enough.
Move along, nothing to see here, no racists here. Not in the White House, not in the GOP, not among judges…Nah.
PP: Sadly Don can revisit most, if not all, of his previous parody songs. All in the knowledge that they are no longer parodies but, like Andy’s columns, descriptions of how (too) many Americans think and behave, Trump having them given them the excuse to do so freely and ‘normally’.
DK: You should have put a barf-bag alert on this one, TomCat. It really ruined my Saturday afternoon hearing about the assumed sell-out of another GOPer being confirmed, in the knowledge that there are so many of them ‘at it’ right now.
Keeping busy is good to keep your mind off things, TomCat, but don’t forget to look after yourself too.
Most of the “chores” I have to complete involve looking after myself.
Puzzle — 5:26 St Tropez?
MSNBC — I was reading about this dingbat yesterday in AlterNet I think and then came across Rachel’s piece. I knew you’d have it for today. What a piece of work he is, and dangerous too! Totally unqualified according to the American Bar Association yet Trump puts his nomination up. He and Trump are both LOSERS!!!
Parody Project — Timeless! Excellent!
Daily Kos — I’ve got the feathers. Who has the tar? It is past time for her exit!
Cartoon — How about we start with you.
That Republican pseudo-Jesus is unfortunately spot-on. The right-wing perversion of Jesus is totally different from the one in the New Testament.
Thanks and Weekend Hugs!