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Open Thread – 8/27/2019

Posted by TomCat at 9:26 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 272019

I doubt that I can finish and put this up before the power chair repair tech arrives. If I can I will. The high today is forecast at 97°, a record for this date. This will be my only article today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:06 (average 4:09. To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Fantasy Football Reminder:

The draft for our fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends, is scheduled for this Saturday, Aug 31, at 10 AM PDT, 11 AM MDT, 12 Noon CDT, 1 PM EDT. Please be there, Squatch, Patty Monster, Vivian, Pam, and Wendy! Hugs!!

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Trump An Incoherent Spectacle At G7; W.H. Struggles To Clean Up

The Danish Parliamentarian was far more deferential than the Fart-face Fuhrer deserves. He could not have second thoughts about everything, until he has a first thought about anything. For Republican staffers, a BS in Bullshitology is no longer enough. They need a PhD (Piled Higher and Deeper). RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: The Republican Presidential nominee, Donald Trump, tore into the media on Thursday for what he called its “extremely unfair practice” of reporting the things he says.

“I’ll say something at a rally and I look out and see all these TV cameras taking every word down,” Trump told Fox News’s Sean Hannity. “No one in politics has ever been subjected to this kind of treatment.”

“It’s unbelievable and, frankly, very unethical,” he added.

Dang, Andy! Straight news again! RESIST!!

From Alternet: Bethany Milton spent 11 years working for the U.S. federal government as a consular officer in the Foreign Service. But in an op-ed for the New York Times, Milton explains that this summer, she finally decided to leave the State Department — and the straw that broke the camel’s back was hearing supporters of President Donald Trump chanting, “Send her back, send her back” in reference to Rep. Ilhan Omar during a recent rally.

“When President Trump’s supporters chanted, ‘Send her back!,’ I took that as a charge for me as well,” Milton asserts. “I asked the Trump Administration to send me back from my overseas posting, shipping home the family, foreign language textbooks and various tchotchkes from ‘shithole countries’ that I’ve collected in my years as a United States diplomat. I am joining a growing list of Foreign Service officers who refuse to serve this administration any longer.”

Milton, in her op-ed, explains that she has a long resumé with the federal government. From 2014-2016, for example, she “oversaw immigrant visa processing at the U.S. Consulate General in Mumbai, India” — and she “oversaw immigrant visa operations in Kigali, Rwanda, from 2018 to 2019.”

Milton recalls that when she joined the U.S. State Department in 2008, she sat through some presentations as part of her orientation. And in one of them, she was told, “The day you can no longer publicly support your administration’s policies is the day you need to resign.” And for Milton, she writes in her op-ed, that day came when she found the “Send her back, send her back” chants intolerable.

Kudos to Milton, and to all public servants, who have determined that keeping their career is less important than maintaining their integrity by refusing to be part of a Republican Reich. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

Nuke the Republicane Only

Posted by TomCat at 10:40 am Politics

Aug 262019

Today we have a story so far off the wall that it would not be worth covering, except that it illustrates the sheer incompetence of Resident Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, aka Republicane Anus.

President Donald Trump is receiving some major ribbing for denying an overnight, well-sourced report that revealed he wanted to explode a nuclear bomb in the eye of a hurricane in a misguided attempt to destroy it.

“The story by Axios that President Trump wanted to blow up large hurricanes with nuclear weapons prior to reaching shore is ridiculous. I never said this. Just more FAKE NEWS!” Trump tweeted very early Monday morning.

Axios indeed reported the news, even getting a quote from an administration official praising the president for asking “tough questions” about nuking hurricanes.

“I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” President Trump said during a hurricane briefing at the White House, Axios reports, citing a source who was there. “They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?”…

Inserted from <Raw Story>

The following video id from someone Republicans automatically dismiss: a scientist.

Why Don’t We Just Nuke Hurricanes?

Nuke Republicane Anus in 11/2020!

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 8/26/2019

Posted by TomCat at 10:39 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 262019

It’s a muggy day, here at the shiny new CatBox. We have Heat and Fire Warnings through Wed. Tomorrow I may have only an Open Thread. It depends on how much I get done before the power chair tech arrives and how long it takes him to finish fixing mine. OGIM Hugs!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:42 (average 4:15). To do it. click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Pics from the Shiny New CatBox:

The last one shows the handles on my throne and how hard I have to fight to hold myself down after two days of chili.

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Short Takes:

From YouTube (Elizabeth Warren Channel): Gun violence in America

Liz is spot-on. There are no simple solutions. She will need lots of plans for that. To implement them, we must remove Republican Ammosexuals from power. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Full Frontal Channel): Full Frontal Rewind: Trump’s Henchmen Pt. 1

Barf Bag Bundle Alert!!

Smellyanne, Mad Miller, the pseudo-Pences?… Dang! What’s left for Part 2? I can’t wait! RESIST!!

From NY Times: Joe Arpaio, a former sheriff in Arizona who built a national reputation as an immigration hard-liner, said on Sunday that he would run again for his old office, the latest turn in a long and polarizing career that included a conviction for criminal contempt, a pardon from President Trump and an unsuccessful bid last year for a Senate seat.

Mr. Arpaio, a Republican, was first elected sheriff in 1992 and was defeated by a Democrat in 2016. If elected in 2020, it would be his seventh term in office.

In a word… NOOOOOOOOOO!! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

Open Thread – 8/25/2019

Posted by TomCat at 7:52 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 252019

It’s a busy day here in the shiny new CatBox. WWWendy will be here in about an hour to destink the polluted TomCat, and we have lots of chores to do, so this is my only article today. Hurry Hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:33 (average 4:56). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again

Ah… the memories! In 2016, we got fooled again. RESIST!

From Daily Kos: Dearborn, Michigan has cut ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, declining to renew a contract to jail immigrant detainees for the agency. Mayor Jack O’Reilly Jr. made the decision “following backlash by immigration advocates and religious groups,” The Detroit News reports. “The department has renewed contracts annually with Calhoun County and ICE for more than 10 years. Dearborn police would hold detainees for ICE in Dearborn’s 20-bed facility in an undisclosed location,” though detentions stretched into the thousands over the years.

Michigan Reps. Debbie Dingell, Rashida Talib and Andy Levin were among the leaders that have called for an end to local collaboration with ICE, with demonstrators as recently as last week gathering outside the Dearborn Police Department to protest mass deportation policies.”This country is being divided by fear and hatred, and it’s wrong,” Dingell said. “We stand here today of members of all faiths that are being targeted.”

Kudos to Dearborn. Put ICE on ice! RESIST!!

From Share Blue Media: Oregon law gives tuition assistance to National Guard members

Gov. Kate Brown signed into law a new bill to provide tuition assistance to Oregon National Guard members, KVAL reported.

The law provides up to 90 hours of credits at a community college or 180 hours of credits at a pubic or even qualifying private state universities.

To qualify, student must remain in good standing and maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average.

They deserve it! Oregon leads the way! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

Bill Maher from 8/23

Posted by TomCat at 10:15 am Politics

Aug 242019

It’s that time of week again, so here are four fine video clips from Bill’s show last night. Enjoy!

Monologue: Get On My Lawn

I bet Melania wishes that Denmark has said yes, and her parents, no. I bet Trump wants to buy Epstein’s goat.

Rep. Katie Porter

While it’s true that shaming works, it only works on people that have a conscience. Therefore, it works on very few Republicans and on virtually no Republican politicians, appointees, media propagandists and political staff.

25 Things You Don’t Know About Stephen Miller

He may not have a soul, but he is an ass-soul.

New Rule: Trump, Save Earth!

Trump save the earth? He may save one of his stable of full-bladder hookers for later, but that’s all he’ll save! How did Bill keep from barfing?!!?

Bill was in rare form last night.

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 8/24/2019

Posted by TomCat at 10:10 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Aug 242019

It’s a quiet day here in the shiny new CatBox. I learned that the parts for my power chair will arrive Monday, so the tech is coming back to fix it on Tuesday morning. It will be nice to drive down the hallway without getting dirty looks from the neighbors. Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow. It’s a WWWendy day, and as usual, we have lots to do. Weekend Hugs!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:28 (average 5:41). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Chris Hayes On The Inception Of White Terrorism In America

Although most of those here at PP know, these things, this a part of US history and current events that few people understand. All have a civic duty to do so and to teach those who don’t. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Animals – We Gotta Get Out Of This Place

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: Two thing have to happen in the 2020 election: a Democratic president and the end to Mitch McConnell’s Senate leadership. He makes that clear in an op-ed in The New York Times Thursday. He explains how he destroyed the Senate as an institution and installed “Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and 43 new lifetime circuit judges—the most ever at this point in a presidency,” to own the libs. Literally. This is the follow up to that sentence: “The consequences of taking Senator Reid’s advice will haunt liberals for decades.”

He’s throwing down the gauntlet to all the Democratic presidential and Senate candidates, threatening all-out war if they have the temerity to break his iron grip on the Senate by getting rid of the legislative filibuster. He throws some stuff in about the sanctity of the Senate as an institution, even invoking Madison and Jefferson. But it’s clear that this is about raw power. His raw power.

Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch [R-KY] has made it clear that we need to do four things: keep the House, win the White House, win the Senate, and nuke the filibastards. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

The Madness of the Fuhrer

Posted by TomCat at 10:13 am Politics

Aug 232019

I know I just wrote about this yesterday. Nevertheless, the danger to the nation and to the world occasioned by the sociopathic state of Resident Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Republicans Reich, continues to dominate the news. The following article from Psychoanalyst Justin Frank, and an excellent video from Lawrence O’Donnell shed much more light on the subject.

[D]onald Trump is a living, breathing national emergency. Our president has repeatedly encouraged violence against his perceived enemies — and at least some of his supporters are following his lead. These are not isolated incidents. There are dozens of court cases where Donald Trump has been cited for “inspiring” acts of violence and other crimes. There are also the most odious examples such as the recent white supremacist terror attack in El Paso in which the alleged mass murderer wrote an online “manifesto” that almost verbatim channeled Trump’s threatening rhetoric towards nonwhite people.

In response to the white supremacist terrorist attack in El Paso and another mass shooting that same weekend in Dayton, Ohio, Trump specifically avoided a message of healing in a country reeling from multiple mass murders. Instead, Trump participated in ghoulish, vainglorious photo-ops at hospitals where the dying and injured were cared for after these incidents. Incapable of grace or dignity, Donald Trump lashed out at his political opponents. He even insulted the Republican mayor of El Paso during his visit to that city, calling him a “RINO” because he dared to push back against Trump’s disparaging comments about the city.

Donald Trump has publicly lied more than 12,000 times since becoming president, an average of 13 lies a day. These lies have created a cult-like alternate reality for Trump and his supporters…

…Donald Trump’s father always wanted him to be a killer. So psychologically Donald Trump functions like a killer — but he doesn’t kill directly. Donald Trump has other people that do it. In America there is an epidemic of violence about to happen because of Donald Trump. Donald Trump has to be quarantined to stop it….

Inserted from <Salon.com>

I shared just the very beginning and the end. Please click through for much more.

President Donald Trump’s Actions Create Obstacles For Trump Campaign

Sadly, the reason Republicans chose Trump as their Fuhrer is that he is an exact reflection of who and what they are. Pence is as bad or worse.

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 8/23/2019

Posted by TomCat at 10:13 am Open Thread, Politics

Aug 232019

It’s a lazy day, here in the shiny new CatBox. WWWendy’s work schedule changed, so she’ll be 30 – 45 min. late during the week. As a result, I got to bed late last night, and I’m feeling quite tired today. TGIF hugs!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:38 (average 5:14). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Cartoon:

Fantasy Football Update:

I’ve been so busy that I forgot that the draft for our fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends, was scheduled for tomorrow. To give you warning time, I rescheduled it for next Saturday, Aug 31, at 10 AM PDT, 11 AM MDT, 12 Noon CDT, 1 PM EDT. Please be there, Squatch, Patty Monster, Vivian, Pam, and Wendy!

Short Takes:

From Me: Scalia has company!

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Krispy Koch for Republican Koch Suckers! RESIST!!

From CBS News: A Michigan city council candidate shocked a public forum when she said she wants to keep “Marysville a white community as much as possible.”

Jean Cramer made the comment Thursday in response to a question about diversity in Marysville, a city in St. Clair County, 55 miles northeast of Detroit. The Times Herald in Port Huron says she’s one of five candidates running for three council seats in November.

The candidate further went on to state that she would not like “foreign born” people to settle in Marysville.

Republican to the end, she added that she is not against Blacks. RESIST!!

From Alternet: On Thursday, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) tweeted out a message of unity and promised to work to reduce violence in his state, in the wake of the shooting in El Paso that left 22 dead and dozens more injured…

…But this was decidedly not the attitude Abbott had just one day before the shooting took place, when, according to the Texas Signal, he sent out a letter peppered with racist attacks on Hispanic immigrants — and a menacing, violent suggestion that Texans “take matters into our own hands.” [emphasis added]

That’s a problem with deplorable Republication Sheeple. When their leaders call for hate-inspired violence, Sheeple deliver it. RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

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