It’s a difficult day here in the CatBox. I slept well last night, but I’m ready to sleep all day too. I’m still balancing the methadone and oxycodone. Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update as it’d both a grocery delivery day and a WWWendy day. Happy Hump Day!!
Update: I planned to post this about 90 minutes ago, but I dozed off and just woke up.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:24 (average 5:10). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Shortly after the sentencing of Nicolas Sarkozy, Donald J. Trump issued a statement claiming that prison time for the ex-President of France sets a “horrible precedent.”
In the statement, Trump called the corruption case against Sarkozy a “rigged hoax” and claimed that the former French leader was being treated “very unfairly.”
“This should never be allowed to happen in that country,” he said.
Dang Andy! I just can’t imagine why Trump** would feel that way! Can anyone guess? RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From Daily Kos: The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a critical challenge to what’s left of the Voting Rights Act after the Chief Justice John Roberts’ majority decision in 2013 carved out the core of the law. At issue Tuesday are two Arizona laws, one requiring election officials to toss ballots that are cast in the wrong precincts and another that would restrict the delivery of mail-in ballots, allowing for just the voter, a family member, or caregiver could collect and deliver a voted ballot. That would prevent campaign workers, community activists, or members like church groups from delivering group ballots. With 43 states considering more than 250 voter suppression bills in the past month, the case has even greater import for the future of voting rights.
It puts into jeopardy Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which “prohibits voting practices or procedures that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or membership in one of the language minority groups” identified as protected by the law. It bans any voting procedure that “results in a denial or abridgment of the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race,” a denial or abridgment that occurs when “based on the totality of circumstances,” racial minorities “have less opportunity than other members of the electorate to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice.”
This is one we need to watch, but since the Supreme Court is comprised of three SCOTUS vs six SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) my hopes are not high. RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Senator Warren: Filibuster Gives McConnell A Veto Over Democratic Majority
If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times are more. NUKE the FILIBASTARDS! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Nights Are Forever Without You – England Dan & John Ford Coley
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
Don’t Let Republicans Steal YOUR Future!!
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Along with all else that you are going through, your body is adjusting to the new medication regimen, and you obviously needed the extra sleep.
‘Toon: that’s why they love them some trump!
New Yorker: Andy going strong!
DK: Low hopes here, as well.
MSNBC: All of those things that Liz referred to are wonderful, but anathema to the GOPIGGIES! When Ted (Barf) cruz was screaming, on the CPAC stage about freedom, he meant their “…freedom” to “…exploit people into economic ruin; the freedom to assassinate unions; the freedom to prey on unprotected consumers, workers, and environments ; the freedom to value quarterly profits over climate change; the freedom to undermine small businesses and cushion corporations; the freedom from competition; the freedom not to pay taxes; the freedom to heave the tax burden onto the middle and lower classes; the freedom to co modify everything and everyone; the freedom to keep poor people poor and middle-income people struggling to stay middle-income, and make rich people richer.” From “How To Be An antiracist,” by Ibam X. Kendi
BFP”: My turn to say that I’m not familiar with this one.
Cartoon: Boy, was it that long ago?? I remember it like yesterday. We were living in the Santa Maria area at the time.. Oh! The violence, the hate, the police brutality! Oh, it was horrible! Yeah, still goes on today, so very sad.
NYer: Shame it wasn’t ‘broken record’ over and over, and over loser. What a great day that will be!
MSNBC: Love Ms. Warren. What she said. Get rid of the filabuster..!! and go with the majority rule.
YT: Great song!
Get your rest, and early HI’s to Wendy! Hope that your day goes by good, and that you get a nap in. Take good, good care, and Thanks, Tom.
*This just in: 1. The Senate Hearings on the January 6th Insurrection, FBI Christopher Wray: Makes you wonder what T***p holds over Wray — the whole thing stinks. Bravo, Senator Whitehouse — make ’em all accountable! ~ Laura B ~
2. “The influx of tens of thousands of college students and others for spring break into Texas (S.Padre Island, etc.) will create a new super spreader event like the Sturgis rally in S.Dakota which will re-ignite infections all over the south and elsewhere.” ~ Paul G. ~
3. “Looks like Gym Jordon is going to have his time in the barrel. Not only is the documentary being made about the sexual abuse at Ohio University, but he is now being investigated for campaign finance irregularities. ~ Bev H. ~
4. “What an unbelievable turnaround! America under good leadership is impressive. Keep up the good work, President Biden!” ~ Norm M. ~
5. “President Biden told Abbott that the US taxpayer would not be bailing out the state or the utilities, and the state would have to fix the problem.” From the crippling snowstorm. ~ Vicki M. ~
TJI #3 – Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.
TJI #5 – Sorry that will affect you, Pat, but it’s the right thing to do. Texas made it happen, Texas need to make it not happen again.
Joanne and Mitch: re: #5
Word.
How’s this for “Dumb and Dumber?” https://truthout.org/articles/with-just-7-of-texans-vaccinated-gov-greg-abbott-declares-state-open-100/
TJI#2: May explain abbott’s imbecilic move; just like DeSantis’ similar one.
TJI#3: Jordan deserves all the airing out he will get.
TJI#5: Is Abbott going to blame Perry’s loud, stupid, mouth for this? Of course, I agree with Joanne’s comment in this regard.
TJI #1 – I thought FBI Director Wray did a pretty solid job. He certainly made Josh Hawley sweat bullets (and probably soil himself) while trying to find out what the FBI knew WRT his own phone calls on 1/6!
TJI #4 & #5 – AMEN!
Rest – and more rest. Here, I must change the battery in my thermostat. I don’t know how, but I have the manuals.
Tweet Voting Rights Repub admission
“The Five Fascists You Meet at CPAC”
A Cephalopod Has Passed a Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children
Unless I misunderstand the term “cognition.” there is a little more than cognition involved here. I believe the ability to translate knowledge into action is more than knowledge alone.
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Cartoon – Good grief – it shows a Republican telling the truth!
TNY – Indeed he would, if he were aware enough to know of it and smart enough to think of it. I think Andy gives him too much credit.
DK – See Tweet abover.
MSNBC – Warren is right, of course. But I can see why the nervousness. I’m with Beau – make it talking only and make them stay on tpic. No Republican can talk for more than w few minutes without saying some quiet part out loud.
Blast – not familiar with it.
Update – I got the batteries changed, and I did it fast enough that I didn’t need to reset the time.
Sooooo, the cuttlefish has more brains than cruz?
Sleep is good – glad you’re catching up!
I had to go back and refamiliarize myself with Mr. King’s life after his beating. In a civil lawsuit he brought against Los Angeles in 1994, was awarded $3.8 million ($6.7 million in today’s dollars). The court also made the city pay his legal fees of $1.7 million.
But he continued to have major problem with drugs and alcohol, despite several rehab efforts.
On Father’s Day, 2012 he drowned in his swimming pool – 28 years to the day that his own father was found dead in his bathtub.
Sen. Warren is absolutely correct. And I appreciate her pointing out that doing away with the filibuster will have huge benefits for getting legislation addressing voting rights, environmental issues, gun safety, etc., etc.!
Cartoon: Horrible…police brutality, when will it ever end?
TNY: Sound exactly the way tRump would respond to it. Wish it would of been tRump being sentenced.
MSNBC: Senator Warren is spot on…we need to get rid of the filibuster.
BFTP: Never heard of this song. Nice tune.
Happy to hear that you finally got some sleep. Balancing your meds can be challenging.
Hope you’re still eating and drinking your fluids with no issues.
Tell Wendy “Hello” tomorrow. Do be careful when your groceries are delivered.
Take care, TC
Don’t apologize, TomCat. All of us here have experienced dozing off behind the keyboard and doing that without the help of strong painkillers. Granted, it is annoying but with this level of painkiller in your system to get used to it was to be expected to happen. Personally, I prefer you apologizing for falling asleep rather than for being kept from posting because of terrible back pain.
4:42 You’ll have to take the hairs off before you can eat it, TomCat.
Cartoon: First time this got a lot of media attention. Since then, people habituated to scenes like that because there were so many of them while nothing changed.
TNY: Sarcozy’s sentencing must have rattled Trump’s cage a bit. Compared to Trump’s crimes Sarcozy’s were almost misdemeanours, so I hope our golden boy loses a lot of sleep over this.
DK: With this SCOTUS it seems almost inevitable that the Voting Rights Act will be completely shredded after it had it in its caws, finishing the job it started in 2013. Democrats and Biden need to start on a new Act as soon as possible.
MSNBC: You can leave it to Liz to reiterate why you should get rid of filibustering sooner than later. I liked her “Americans didn’t send us here to be some kind of debating society…” best.
BFTP: Never heard this one before.
Thanks and way pooped hugs to all!
Wow, great comments all. Can’t add much except small correction re: “Gym” Jordan—–he was at Ohio STATE Univ., not my alma mater of Ohio Univ.! Hope he gets LOCKED UP & clown puppet,too. I have a dream. Take care,everyone. Glad you can sleep, TC and have good wimmen to care for & help you. Also, QAnon, etc. did NOT wreak havoc at the Capitol today, whew!
thank you….