TomCat

A Shiny New CatBox

Posted by TomCat at 9:35 am Personal, Politics

Jul 102019

I’m 99.44% sure that my upcoming move to the Madrona Studios is legit. I can’t take possession this week, because they need to finish cleaning and painting, so I have an appointment to sign the lease and get the keys a week from today. Unfortunately, due to Wendy’s schedule (out of town guests) I cannot move until 8/1, but as long as I know I’m moving, that’ll do. Here are some pictures.

First, this is where I’ll be making my infamous green-cloud chili.

0710Kitch

This will be my view.

0710View

This will give you an idea how big it is.

0710WindMe

Finally, when I get infested with Republicans, this is where I’ll go to get rid of them.

0710Bath

And my main task in the shiny new CatBox will be this:

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 7/10/2019

Posted by TomCat at 9:34 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 102019

It’s another busy day here in the tiny old CatBox. Store to Door is delivering groceries later. It’s also muggy as hell: 98% humidity. Thank God it’s Wendy day. I’m sticky!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:31 (average 6:12), To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Migrant Children Describe Sex Assault, Retaliation By Border Agents

The Republican Reich sure does love to torture Latino children, I would not be surprised to learn that Putin’s Pervert has hired Epstein to train that DHS employee and Acosta to represent him. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Mitch McConnell’s 2020 challenger speaks out

If she gets the nomination, I will give her money. It will be a small amount, because I’m a poor man, but if this Oregonian can help America be rid of Bought Bitch Mitch, it’s worth it. RESIST!!

From TPM: Last week, the high court announced it would hear arguments in the infamous ‘Bridgegate’ case, where officials in former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s office were convicted of fraud and abuse of office for engineering a traffic jam as a form of political payback.

The court’s decision to hear the case follows two decisions over the past 10 years that have tamped down laws traditionally used to bring corruption cases against public officials.

Bridgegate could be a third notch in what legal experts described to TPM as a trend in the Supreme Court’s thinking on the topic, moving to limit the scope of statutes traditionally used to hold public officials accountable for corruption. This has stoked concern that the court may be poised to define public corruption so narrowly as to extinguish future prosecutions.

Actually, that makes perfect sense. Were it not for Republican corruption 5/9 of SCOTUS and 100%of SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) would not have their jobs. RESIST!!

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Personal Update – 7/9/2019

Posted by TomCat at 7:24 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 092019

I’m hurrying to go to the Madrona Studios. This is my only article today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s tool me 2:49 (average 4:22). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: The British Ambassador to the United States, Kim Darroch, explained on Monday that he had tried to conceal insulting remarks from Donald Trump by writing his cables in English.

“I believed that, by writing these messages in English, that would serve the same purpose as encryption,” Darroch said. “The fact that Trump was somehow able to decode them remains deeply mysterious to me.”

Darroch said that, “out of an abundance of caution,” he took further steps to make the cables indecipherable to Trump, deploying multisyllabic words such as “dysfunctional.”

“Clearly, I did not take into account the possibility that one of his aides might read these cables aloud to him and explain what all of the long words meant,” he said. “I was not aware that there was anyone at the White House capable of performing such duties.”

That explains it, Andy. I wonder if it was Barrf. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Jeffrey Epstein, Called ‘Terrific’ By Trump, Charged With Sex Trafficking

How about that? Being a pervert must run in the Barrf family too. Now the Fuhrer’s pervert party can include Barrf, Judge Roy more, Injustice Teabag Thomas, Injustice Kava-Nazi, Epstein and many more. RESIST!!

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Kudos to US Women Soccer

Posted by TomCat at 9:34 am Plus, Politics

Jul 082019

Kudos to the US Women’s Soccer team. They won another World Cup yesterday, playing against an excellent team, except that they dressed in the color of the vile orange Fuhrer. I’ll leave the discussion of excessive pro athletes’ pay for another day. Excessive or not, women deserve pay equity with men. FIFA and the US Soccer Federation claim that men get more, because their games bring in more money. That is not true.

After the U.S. women’s national soccer team defeated the Netherlands on Sunday to claim its fourth World Cup title, chants of “Equal pay!” rang out in the crowd as fans expressed support for the athletes in their fight for equity with their male counterparts, who consistently earn far more money more despite performance….

…Aware of this yawning disparity, the crowd gathered inside Lyon Olympic Stadium in France backed the women’s fight for basic equality:

As Buzzfeed reported Sunday, “women’s soccer games have generated more revenue than the men’s over the past three years.”

“From 2016 to 2018, women’s games generated $50.8 million in revenue,” according to Buzzfeed, “compared with $49.9 million for the men’s matches.”

Speaking to the Associated Press May, star forward Megan Rapinoe—who made headlines recently by calling President Donald Trump “a man that warrants no respect” and vowing to turn down an invitation to the White House—criticized the “incremental” changes that have been put forth by FIFA and the U.S. Soccer Federation….

Inserted from <Common Dreams>

Her statement that the Fuhrer deserves no respect makes Megan a hero. Here’s a report on the game.

And here is the pay equity complaint.

Women deserve pay-equity!

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 7/8/2019

Posted by TomCat at 9:33 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 082019

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. WWWendy and I had Subway yesterday. Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2. Anne from CCC and I are going to the Madrona Studios for a look-see at what I hope will be the new CatBox.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:33 (average 5:01). To do it it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Jesse Dollemore Channel): WATCH Emma Vigeland From The Young Turks Try Her Best to Reason With Off-The-Rails MAGA Lady!

I have to agree with Jesse. Most Republican Sheeple are so far gone that their political IQ is lower than their weekly intercourse count. And Sheeple sex life is BAAAA-A-A-A-A-AAD! RESIST!!

From Reuters: U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials knew in 2016 about a private Facebook group where border agents posted racist and misogynistic comments, acting DHS Secretary Kevin McAleenan said on Sunday.

McAleenan said on ABC’s “This Week” that he had been told about an allegation in 2016 “that was investigated, followed up on, and that discipline was meted out on an agent that made an offensive post on that website.”

The Customs and Border Protection (CBP) service came under fire over the issue last Monday, when the nonprofit news site ProPublica reported that offensive content had been posted on a private Facebook group for current and former CPB officers.

Posts included jokes about the deaths of migrants and sexually explicit comments referring to U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the news outlet said.

Clearly the CBP racism problem existed before this Republican Reich, but now that racism is the avowed administration policy, it has become epidemic. RESIST!!

From NY Times: The death threats started in 2015, when Walter Lübcke defended the refugee policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel. A regional politician for her conservative party, he would go to small towns in his district and explain that welcoming those in need was a matter of German and Christian values.

Hateful emails started pouring in. His name appeared on an online neo-Nazi hit list. His private address was published on a far-right blog. A video of him was shared hundreds of thousands of times, along with emojis of guns and gallows and sometimes explicit calls to murder him: “Shoot him now, this bastard.”

And then someone did.

On June 2, Mr. Lübcke was fatally shot in the head on his front porch, in what appears to be Germany’s first far-right political assassination since the Nazi era. The suspect — who made a detailed confession last month, only to retract it this past week under a new legal team — has a violent neo-Nazi past and police record, renewing criticism that Germany’s security apparatus, with its long track record of neglecting far-right extremism, is still failing to take the threat seriously enough.

The German Nazi Party inspired today’s Republican Reich. Now today’s Republican Reich inspires the resurgence of Nazism in Germany. RESIST!!

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Personal Update – 7/7/2019

Posted by TomCat at 8:03 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 072019

It’s a mud slow day for news and a busy day in the CatBox with WWWendy coming soon. Therefore this is my only article today with no links messages on Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:10 (average 4:44). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Take:

From YouTube (a blast from the past): DONOVAN – The Universal Soldier

When Republicans tell them to kill us, I hope they say no. Ah! The memories! RESIST!!

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Barrf Barking for His Fuhrer

Posted by TomCat at 9:59 am Politics

Jul 062019

Once upon a time Resident Donald Trump, aka Diaper Don, acted out in Twitter tantrums over and over again, because there were people in the Out House (formerly White House), who wouldn’t commit his crimes. They committed the crimes that involved their own power, profit, and perversion, but not crimes to take the blame for him. For example, when told to kill the Russia investigation, even KKK Beauregard refused and recused himself. But that was before Barrf started barking on command.

From his very first day in office, President Trump has had a strange and, at times, strained relationship with the U.S. intelligence community. The president and his political aides have often challenged the honesty and integrity of the community, damaging morale, undercutting its mission and making the already difficult challenge of uncovering threats to our nation even harder.

But, by putting the CIA’s analytic judgment (that one of Russia’s objectives in interfering in the 2016 election was to help then-candidate Trump) into the crosshairs of the Justice Department, as reported by several news organizations , the president and Attorney General William P. Barr are crossing another line.

I see no problem with a Justice Department review of whether the CIA and other intelligence agencies lived up to their legal and regulatory responsibilities as to how they handled any information related to U.S. persons — U.S. citizens and U.S. nationals. There are strict rules in this regard — the most important promulgated by multiple attorneys general over time — and, in our divisive political environment, it would be beneficial to our democracy for the country to know whether the rules were followed or not.

Nor am I arguing that CIA analytic judgments should be beyond review, but that has already happened in this case. Both the Senate and the House intelligence committees have done reviews of the analysis, with the bipartisan Senate committee calling the overall analysis a “sound intelligence product.” The partisan House committee split on the question of the specific judgment about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s intent to help Trump.

What I am arguing is that the Justice Department has no standing to review the CIA’s analytic judgment. The whole idea is inappropriate and dangerous. It is certainly unprecedented, and there are good reasons it has never been done before….

Inserted from <Washington Post>

Rachel Maddow explained how Barrf is acting as Trump’s attack dog in detail.

Barrf will commit ANY crime for his Fuhrer!

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 7/6/2018

Posted by TomCat at 9:58 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jul 062019

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. I will be scarce next week, because I’m going to Madrona Studios with Anne from CCC for a look-see on Tuesday and going back to sign the lease on Thursday. My fingers, toes, and even my kitty dingles are all crossed. Tomorrow is a WWWendy Day. I’ll stay in the saddle, if I can. If not, I’ll post a Personal Update.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:18 (average 5:19). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Jesse Dollemore Channel): The Key to Defeating Donald Trump in 2020 Can be Found in These THREE STATES!

I agree, Jesse, with the caveat that all 50 states are critically important. Because SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) mandated Gerrymandering, whoever wins the state legislatures, controls most of the nation for the next decade. RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Country Joe McDonald – I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag

I was there. I was singing. Ah! The Memories! RESIST!!

From Alternet: …Calling the administration’s court filing “an act of political chutzpah,” elections law expert Rick Hasen perfectly encapsulates what just happened:

In a new filing, the Department of Justice has told the federal district court in Maryland considering whether the addition of the citizenship question on the census was done for reasons of racial animus that the government may still come forward with a reason for including the question. Further, the government argues that any new reason would have to be judged by its own terms, as the courts did in the travel ban case. It wants to stop all discovery of bad motives for the original decision as no longer relevant.

Hasen adds, “more importantly, DOJ is arguing for what Joshua Matz has termed “animus cleansing.” Forget if we had discriminatory racial intent before in adding a question, DOJ argues, because any new decision would be fresh and pure. And because of this purity, there’s no need to look whether the government had discriminatory intent to start with.

This judge won’t buy it, but will Roberts? RESIST!!

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