It’s a tired day, here in the CatBox, as yesterday’s activity wore me out. My Oncologist visit went very well. I emailed a copy of my PET Scan results to a doctor, who shall remain Nameless. I trust he can explain it better than I. In short, all my tumors are smaller and considerably less intense than they were before treatment began. They could not find my liver tumors to biopsy, but it turns out that there is enough material from the original biopsy of my esophageal tumor to analyze. I misunderstood the treatment they want to do. They will analyze the mutations of my cancer cells. There are many mutagenic drugs that have been developed for cancer with different mutations, and if one of them matches mine, we can use it. If not, it’s back to the drawing board. My next appointment is on 7/7, and I’ll know then. They also prescribed 12.5 mg Fentanyl patches for pain, which I should have by the weekend. Happy Hump Day to all.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:27 (average 4:53). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Cases: 2,209,231
Deaths: 119,158
Recovered: 903,136
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: One day after it issued decisions on L.G.B.T.Q. rights and the Second Amendment that provoked his ire, Donald J. Trump said that he would overrule the Supreme Court by creating a “Supremer Court.”
“Right now, if the Supreme Court makes a bad decision, quite frankly, you’re screwed,” he said. “The Supremer Court fixes that.”
Trump said that his Supremer Court would be a “beautiful, perfect court” that would make the Supreme Court “look like exactly what it is—a sad bunch of losers.”
Trump said that the Supremer Court would be housed in a “giant, gleaming building” overlooking the Supreme Court, enabling the Supremer Court Justices to “look down at those pathetic little Supreme Court jerks and laugh.”
Dang, Andy! Did you read Criminal Fuhrer Trump’s* mind? We know he would, if he could! RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: Last week, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals denied immunity to Martinsburg, WV police officers who shot a “secured” and “incapacitated” black man 22 times.
From the judicial opinion (which is well worth reading in its entirety).
In 2013, Wayne Jones, a black man experiencing homelessness, was stopped by law enforcement in Martinsburg, West Virginia for walking alongside, rather than on, the sidewalk. By the end of this encounter, Jones would be dead. Armed only with a knife tucked into his sleeve, he was tased four times, hit in the brachial plexus, kicked, and placed in a choke hold. In his final moments, he lay on the ground between a stone wall and a wall of five police officers, who collectively fired 22 bullets.
According to the Police Union and the Republican Reich, that was a sad case of suicide. RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Bob Dylan – Mr. Tambourine Man (Audio)
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
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‘Toon: It turned out, that even FDR vetoed a similar bill, in 1936, which congress then overturned. I don’t get it, but will not go nuts researching it.
TVU: Not looking good. Be aware, that this is not indicative of a 2nd wave…we have not ended the first one.
New Yorker: Funny…and sad, considering that Trump would love to have a court all to himself!
DK: “Denied immunity.” Beautiful 2 words!
BFTP: Absolutely wonderful!!!
This is good news indeed. And we needed some. I look forward to any additional details from Nameless.
Kind of speaks for itself
Not going to embed this because it’s a little over a half hour … but it’s a conversation between Beau and Trae, if anyone is interested.
Lincoln Project “concern trolling”
Cartoon – Shame.
Map – A little confusing – some states never “closed” and some have not “reopened.”
TNY –
DKos – “Trenchant” is the word I’d use to describe the opinion myself. I think that sounds nicer than “snarky.”
Past – If only I could hear it without hearing “Mr. Tangerine Man.”
Lincoln Project: There are videos enough of past years with Trump negotiating stairs or ramps with difficulty and drinking with both hands like a toddler; it may just have gotten worse a bit as his weight seemed to have increased too. There has been something wrong with Trump from the very start of his ‘presidency’ and it’s called dementia.
Cartoon: Of course they (R’s) did. True to form.
TVU: Up, and up, and up! ugh!
NYer: Sure sounds like something dt would say. lol
DK: Awesome!
BFTP: Great song…
Whew!! Great news for you!, and I hope that it continues!! I too, look forward to what Nameless writes. Enjoy your day, get in a nap, take good care, and Thanks, Tom.
This just in: “dt caught playing ‘Marco Polo’ with himself on Twitter again.” (answering his own tweet). ~ Mart Z. ~
2. “No offense, but we got a defective product from Canada. Can we return Ted Cruz for a full refund?” John M.
3. “2 died of Ebola – they said Obama should resign. 4 died in Benghazi – they had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a multi-year probe. 118,741 deaths…thanks to dt’s incompetence. They cheered him at his press conference in the Rose garden.” ~ Andrea T. ~
4. *Susan Collins, ME, showing her polls losing by 9 points. “Get out the butter, she’s toast!!” ~ Natalie F. ~
5. “dt just tripled Mary Trump’s book sales talking about an injunction to stop it. Claiming there is a 2001 NDA that she signed.” ~ Bob M. ~
*Joanne – Beau – Amen.
LP – check. Awesome!
TJI #4 – Or stick a fork in her – she’s done.
Here’s another one:
“Cops got a tummy ache from milkshakes at a Manhattan Shake Shack and accused the restaurant of trying to assassinate them. Cops are in general demonstrate more paranoia that you’d like to see in people with a license to kill. ” – Wonkette newsletter
A pitchfork, or will any fork do?
Cartoon: What’s new?? They’ve always been known for doing evilness.
TVU: Still climbing high numbers. Now the fools in California are being like tRump and fighting that they don’t want to wear their masks. Wish the stinking leader would vanish from our Earth. He sets poor examples.
TNY: tRump likes playing with all of the pieces, doesn’t he?? Glad they’re not bowing down to him, even though that is what he wants.
DK: He should be locked up for life for killing the man.
BFTP: Great tune. Always was a big fan of Bob Dylan.
So happy to finally hear some great news after all of the pain you’ve suffered through. Great reading that the tumors have shrunk. Will keep praying that the results/news you get from the nameless doctor continues to be good too.
Hope you had a nice rest of your day.
Take care. Thanks TomCat
Thanks for your medical feedback, TomCat. It sounds more hopeful this time; tumours shrinking is always good news and the possibility of new treatments to extend your life while keeping the quality at an acceptable level is very good too. Those Fentanyl patches should also assist with that.
2:48 Why would anybody take a picture of such an ugly statue?
Cartoon: This was when the Republicans were the Democrats of their time and the Democrats the Republicans of their time, wasn’t it? The role-reversal came later if I remember correctly. So this cartoon doesn’t make sense to me unless there was something terribly wrong with this bonus bill. Was it for the then-1% only?
Update: Seems to correspond to what I heard yesterday: the number of states with a continuing increase of new cases has risen from 22 to 25 and it is still a first wave phenomenon there.
TNY: That “giant, gleaming building” will, of course, be built by the Trump/Kushner family and rented out at exorbitant prices to his cronies in his Supremer Court.
DK: “Suicide by police” usually entails a desperate person, armed to the teeth and showing they’ll use them, threatening to gun down law enforcement and not someone tased four times, hit in the brachial plexus, kicked, and placed in a chokehold and then when securely down killed with 22 bullets. Kudos to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals for denying immunity to the Martinsburg police officers who murdered Wayne Jones.
BFTP: Great song, great text, though I have few memories going with Dylan’s early work; I was too young to notice or appreciate it.
Lona, back then most Republicans were socially moderate-progressive, but fiscally, they were very conservative, so the parties switched roles on the social side only. The Bonus Bill was an aid for veterans package, so Republicans objected to helping heroes with money they could spend on welfare for millionaires.
Thanks and busy hugs to all!
Good explanation TC of why CA’s governor has now ordered masks be worn…with some of the backdrop being 7 county health officers having resigned, grounds include receiving death threats for reasons including possibility of requiring masks and sheriff(s) publicly announcing they will not enforce (one AZ sheriff doing that, who visited the WH got Covid).