It’s a busy, crappy day here in the CatBox.  I’m hurrying to get a partial nap, before Store to Door delivers my groceries this afternoon.  Then WWWendy comes this evening.  I spoke too soon about my Republicosis, because it’s back with a vengeance.  I’d better take extra Immodium for WWWendy’s sake.  Double stinky hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:30 (average 7:09).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): US Department of Agriculture launches pro-Trump propaganda podcast

Barf Bag Alert!!

I counted all the honest statements mixed into the bullshit. There were zero. YOU are paying for this! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Watch: Pence Evades Repeated Questions On Trump’s Ukraine Plot

Barf Bag Alert!!

It’s Pence’s Ukraine plot too.  This is still the problem with removal. Would we be better off or worse off if Pence became Fuhrer? Is there any doubt that her would help Trump get away with it by pardoning him? RESIST!!

From Willamette Week: U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) today urged travelers to boycott Provenance Hotels, the Portland-based chain founded by the Hon. Gordon Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union.

“Anyone who cares about America should not do any business or stay at any of Gordon Sondland’s hotels. Not until he fulfills his duty as a citizen to testify and turn over all relevant documents to the House of Representatives,” Blumenauer said in a statement today. “Nobody is above the law. Mr. Sondland and the entire Trump administration need to be reminded of that.”

Provenance owns or operates 14 hotels, including six in Portland: the Heathman, the Sentinel, the deLuxe, the Lucia, the Dossier and the Woodlark.

Earl is my Rep and I fully support this boycott. Unfortunately, I doubt they’ll lose from us. Rooms at the Sentinel go from $199 to $299 per night. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

It’s a crappy, busy day here at the CatBox.  My Republicosis is back.  I had to prepare my grocery list for this week, send it to Store to Door, prepare the graphics for our Fantasy Football Report, do my normal research for PP and make four five draining trips to the throne.  Now I get to do the actual writing.  Poopy hugs to all.  ARGH!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:56 (average 5:29).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Fantasy Football Report:

Here is the latest from our own Fantasy Football league.

Scores:

Congrats to WWWendy, Patty Monster and me for winning our games.  More congrats to me for the highest score of both the week and the season.

Standings:

Congrats to Vivian and WWWendy for leading the league.

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: After looking at the most recent polls for the Democratic Presidential race, Donald J. Trump has ordered the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Senator Elizabeth Warren.

“What Elizabeth Warren and her crooked kids have been doing in Ukraine is a disgrace,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn. “This is maybe the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”

After Jim Acosta, of CNN, pointed out that there had been no reports of any involvement in Ukraine on the part of either Warren or her children, Trump responded, “You bet there’s been no reporting, because you people are even more crooked than she is.”

Trump brushed aside an official statement by the Ukrainian government indicating that Warren’s children had never set foot in the country. “That is because the Warren kids are basically spies, and everyone knows that spies are invisible,” he said. “You people are so dumb.”

Good one, Andy. I’m confident that statement is on his bucket list. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower On Dangers To Democracy

I just learned that Cambridge Analytica was founded to fight radicalization. They flipped to promoting radicalization, when Mercer bought the company and put Bannon and the Republican Reich in charge. Now that they are gone, many of the fascists on their staff are working for Mark Fuckerberg at Facebook, With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. Flush Facebook! RESIST!!

From Alternet: …“For a long time, however, making that case — pointing out that Republicans were sounding ever more authoritarian and violating more and more democratic norms — got you dismissed as shrill, if not deranged,” Krugman explains. But extremism, Krugman adds, was a feature of the Republican Party long before Trump ran for president.

“It’s important to understand that the GOP hasn’t suddenly changed, that Trump hasn’t somehow managed to corrupt a party that was basically OK until he came along,” Krugman emphasizes. “Anyone startled by Republican embrace of wild conspiracy theories about the deep state must have slept through the Clinton years and wasn’t paying attention when most of the GOP decided that climate change was a hoax perpetrated by a vast global scientific cabal.”

Krugman concludes his column on a somber note, stressing that Trumpism isn’t merely an indictment of Donald Trump, but of the Republican Party in general.

“Trump isn’t an aberration,” Krugman asserts. “He’s unusually blatant and gaudily corrupt, but at a basic level, he’s the culmination of where his party has been going for decades. And U.S. political life won’t begin to recover until centrists face up to that uncomfortable reality.”  [emphasis added]

I’m so pleased that Paul Krugman agrees me. How many times have you seen me state that Trump is the Fuhrer of the Republican Party, because he’s a perfect reflection of who and what they are?  RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

It’s a temperate but muggy day here in the CatBox, and my poor abused butt is swinging back toward Republicosis again.  I looked at our stats at our HSP, and seeing them may well be what caused the Republicosis.  It’s that bad.  Losing Care2 really clobbered us.  It seems active, but hundreds used to read every day without  I’m going to have to start exploring for ways to publicize the site.  OGIM Hugs to all!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:10 (average 6:05).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Religious Ecstasy:

What a wonderful Orb!

Short Takes:

From NY Times: A witness who delivered key testimony in the trial of Amber Guyger — the white former Dallas police officer convicted this past week in the murder of an unarmed black man, Botham Jean — was fatally shot on Friday night, a lawyer for Mr. Jean’s family said.

The witness, Joshua Brown, 28, who had lived in the same apartment complex as Ms. Guyger and Mr. Jean, was shot several times by an unknown assailant, Lee Merritt, the family’s lawyer, said on Twitter Saturday night.

Mr. Brown’s death occurred just two days after a Dallas County jury sentenced Ms. Guyger to 10 years in prison, well short of the maximum 99 years that she could have received in the killing of Mr. Jean, a 26-year-old immigrant from the Caribbean island nation of St. Lucia.

I think I understand what happened. In the 1970’s I observed a Portland Police officer turning on his siren to run a red light and pull into the Dunkin’ Donuts in which was sitting. They almost caused an accident in the intersection. The cops ordered donuts and coffee, sat down, and ate. When I returned home I called the PD and told them what I had seen. At about 2:00 AM the next morning I received a gruff, anonymous phone call, that if I didn’t shut up and mind my own business, I would NOT stay healthy. Mr. Brown did not shut up and mind his own business, and many cops are both Ammosexual and Republican.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): 1 Big Thing: Trump’s real impeachment worry

In that case, we keep hammering on Trump’s legacy as a Nazi Pervert. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a treat for the soul): pharaon

A comment from Mitch inspired me to include this. In my youth I tried to learn to play like this, until arthritis set in in my 30s. Now all I can do is strum. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!