It’s a very busy day, here in the CatBox. I got to bed late last night. I slept poorly, because it was muggy. WWWendy gooped me a cheese omelet. The new recipe worked. It tasted wonderful! It was the first time I could eat an egg in months. This morning I took another YUGE dump. How did the entire Republican Reich get up there? I took a double dose of pain med and am barely hanging on.That was four hours ago. I’m about to add another single. I can’t lay down to rest my back, because I expect a delivery of portable O2 tanks anytime between now and 1:00 PM. WWWendy and I are changing our schedule for a bit. Instead of our normal Wed/Sun routine, we’re changing to Tues/Sat at least through 6/19, due to medical mayhem. Happy Hump Day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:07 (average 4:24). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Cases: 1,883,497
Deaths: 108,159
Recovered: 646,414
WWWendy’s Return:
I sure missed her!
Short Takes:
From Alternet: Rep. Steve King, widely known as the most overtly racist member of Congress, was defeated Tuesday in the Republican primary battle for Iowa’s 4th District.
Challenger Randy Feenstra, a state senator, officially beat King by a margin of 36,797 votes to 28,977 with 100% of precincts reporting, according to The New York Times. Feenstra, who won by a margin of just under 10 points, will go on to face Democrat J.D. Scholten in November.
King, who was stripped of his committee assignments after expressing sympathy for white nationalists and white supremacists, later denounced the ideologies. But King already had a long and established history of racist comments under his belt.
It could not have happened to a more Republican Republican. RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Joe Biden Hits Trump, Vows Not To ‘Fan The Flames’ Of Racial Division
Biden may not be the most astute Democrat available, but he is authentic, and he has empathy. Those two qualities make him infinitely superior to criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the entire Republican Reich. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Beatles – Hey Jude
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
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Thanks to WWWendy for the delightful vid!
Beau has a powerful analogy to share.
Posse Comitatus abd /insurrections Acts
Cartoon – That was a bittersweet moment for me. It made it so clear who was really at the bottom of the bigotry totem pole. We keep forgetting that, to our cost.
Map – Still going up. Not unexpected.
AlterNet – Woohoo! Of course we are stuck with him until the forst day of the last recess before the next Congress. But, as a lame duck with no committee assignments, he’s pretty well been defanged.
Biden – He doesn’t have to be the most astute. He needs to appoint the most astute. We shall – I hope we shall – see whether that happens. I don’t see why it wouldn’t. He does know how to listen.
Past – A lovely song. Sad situation, IIRC.
Thanks for the Beau video. Excellent analogy. Like the way he speaks So much truth.
Thanks for Beau’s analogy, Joanne. Powerful indeed.
Cartoon: How I miss this man as POTUS.
TVU: Here I read there are 5 new cases…187, county wise. ugh!
AN: Great, fantastic news. Buh, Bye!!!
MSNBC: Glad he is there, and speaking to and for the people. Joe is listening, and has empathy in what’s going on.
BFTP: Wonderful song!!
WWWendy & TC Video: Fantastic!! Aww….you have a good day/evening too, and Thank YOU for taking care of TC !! Glad you had a good time, and got home safely. Hope your meds are taking care of your pain…get your rest too. Have a good evening, take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: dt – “Agolf Twitler” ~ Mack T. ~
2. dt & the bunker – “Lots of angry people outside…maylbe I’ll just mosey on down to the bunker and make sure we have enough gummy bears and diet coke for the apocalypse.” ~ C. A. ~
3. re: photo op @church – “Is Esper saying it’s normal to go the bathroom with Trump???” ~ Bev H. ~
4. “Hate just hides. It does not go away and when you have someone in power who breathes oxygen into the hate under the rocks, it comes out from under the rocks.” ~ Joe Biden ~
5. re: dt – “Go back to your bunker, loser,” ~ George Takei ~ Star Trek actor/activist
**Thanks, Joanne for Beau and his analogy. Word.
‘Toon: THAT was an historic day for the country!
TVU: Is that the middle of the country I see beginning to blow up?
Hi Wendy! Wow, trapped in a car with a21 year old! Glad you are back.
Alternet: Bye now, pig!
MSNBC: Of course we have not heard that kind of thing from Trump, he is incapable of it. It is sad that empathy even has to be an issue in the coming election. Look at how Trump responded when he was asked “Is that your Bible?”: With a cold, flat declaration: “It’s a Bible.” THIS time he did not even think to dissemble, and say anything softer, kinder, gentler. Yes, I’m paraphrasing G.H.W.Bush. Trump is writing the Democrat’s advertisements for them.
Hey Jude! I just read, in the wonderful Janis Joplin bio. “Janis Joplin-Her Life and Music,” that at Woodstock, in the dedicated area reserved for performers to relax, that that is what they had playing, repeatedly, as I understood it.
Hi Joanne. Thanks for Beau, and his different way of speaking truth. Folks might utilize the link regarding Posse Comitatus. I looked into it earlier, very interesting.
Hi Pat. Your #4 is good, your #5 is beautiful!
Joanne: Thanks!
Mitch: Thanks!
TC & Wendy: Just Because!
Aaaaw. Amen!
Great video with Wendy. Happy she made it back safely. Tell her hi and thanks.
Cartoon: Sure wish we could turn the clocks back to that time. Sure do miss him.
TVU: Still climbing here, both with new claims and deaths.
Alternet: Yeppie…the wicked one out. Praying that many more of them will be voted out too.
MSNBC: Biden is one who’s for the people. I’m glad he’s doing so well.
BFTP: Great song. So much meaning to it.
Glad your doing a little better today. Hope you gradually keep getting to felling better each day.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
Having Wendy back home safe and sound is certainly an anodyne treat!
Ypu are right – there are people who just by walking into a room can make one’s pain go away. I’m furtunate to have a couple of friends like that – though uunfortunate that I seo seldom get to see them any more.
Good to see Wendy’s back and cleaning up the yucky cat and also to see you use your pain medication diligently to suit your needs, TomCat. By the way, are you going back to zap te tumours in your back/esophagus any time soon?
Cartoon: As powerless as the Republicans have managed to made Obama, both thinking America and the thinking world is missing him terribly.
Update: Far too many red spots,
Alternet: Of course this is good news; apparently even Iowa’s GOP sees that a candidate who is too racist is a liability. But Republican winner Randy Feenstra might be able to hide his just a little better but still have enough appeal to keep Democrat J.D. Scholten from winning the election.
MSNBC: Any Democrat would be infinitely better than Trump, but Biden isn’t making too bad a job of it and comes across genuine enough. Trump is leaving the stage wide open for him; with every blunder showing how devoid of humanity he is, Trump gives Biden to score points for the election.
BFTP: My little brother bought the single with his pocket money. I can still see and hear it turning on the little pick-up we shared.
Thanks, tired Hugs, and Amen to all!
Was glad to hear Steve King lost, but there are no longer any good Republicans in office at this time, so vote them all out …..