I don’t plan to comment on Rachel Maddow’s Peabody Award nominated podcasts. I’m sharing them solely because you deserve to hear them. I plan to share all over the next few days.
Bag Man Podcast – Episode 1: An Unsettling Secret
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Apr 112019
TomCat
Apr 112019
It’s another busy day here in the CatBox. The motor in my refrigerator is going bad, so CCC is swapping it today. WWWendy had hoped they could fix the old one. She had a bunch of stuff stored on top of it. I know it will be smaller than the old one and hope it isn’t too much smaller, as I just put groceries away yesterday.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:41 (average 5:27). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): The Secret Explaining Mitch McConnell’s Endless Enabling Of Trump
Bought Bitch Mitch may appear to be congenial, but that’s all an act. He’s a goose stepping, Koch sucking Republican that bends over and grabs his ankles whenever Putin’s Pervert barks at him. RESIST!!
From YouTube (CNN Channel): Julian Assange has been arrested
Once he was a hero. Then he sold out. I hope that SOB finally gets comeuppance for his services to Trump and Russia in the election theft of 2016. On the other hand The Tangerine Traitor may give him a Cabinet post. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: The shakeup in the Trump Administration continued on Wednesday as Donald Trump named a fellow television personality, Lori Loughlin, to be the new Secretary of Education.
In making the announcement, Trump praised Loughlin for her “disruptive approach” to college admissions and expressed hope that she could bring the same brand of innovative thinking to the Department of Education.
He brushed aside reporters’ questions about the means by which Loughlin obtained college placements for her two daughters. “No one here has a problem with that,” he said. “I know Jared doesn’t.”
Andy, as horrid as Loughlin’s admission scam was, isn’t she an improvement over Barf Bag Betsy? RESIST!!
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Republicans want to destroy it.
Apr 102019
Here is the one hundred fifty-seventh article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is Republican Coverup General, William “Barf Bag” Barr. He is so honored for protecting his beloved Fuhrer from the consequences of his many crimes.
…While refusing to further characterize Mueller’s findings, Barr offered the lawmakers a few additional morsels that were not previously known. He said the process of redacting the report for public consumption is “going along very well” and that he would release it “within a week”—keeping to his mid-April timetable.
Democrats have assailed Barr’s plan for redacting four categories of information, warning that the attorney general could use the excisions to shield damaging findings about Trump from the public. And while lawmakers acknowledge that some information—such as classified intelligence on the Russian government—should be withheld from the public, they have argued that Congress needs the full, unredacted report to exercise its constitutional oversight responsibilities.
On that front, Barr left Democrats disappointed. He suggested that Congress might never see the most sensitive portions of Mueller’s report, much less the evidence the special counsel used to arrive at his conclusions, which Democrats have also demanded to see. Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee have already voted to authorize subpoenas for the full report and its underlying evidence, likely setting up a court battle with Barr.
“I don’t intend at this stage to send the full, unredacted report to the committee,” the attorney general told the appropriations panel. He was responding to a question from Republican Representative Tom Graves of Georgia, who sought to elicit a warning to members of Congress not to leak redacted portions of the report to the public… [emphasis added]
Inserted From <The Atlantic>
Barr may be trying to force House Democrats to open an impeachment investigation as a prerequisite to getting the full report. Rachel Maddow explains in depth.
Republicans could then use that “investigation” to motivate rabid sheeple for their campaigns.
Lawrence O’Donnell reported on the arrogance of Barr’s extreme partisanship.
I’m afraid a parade just isn’t enough for this Republican’s obstruction of justice. We need Barr behind bars.
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Apr 102019
It’s a very busy day here in the CatBox. Providence Home Medical Equipment is coming to exchange a 6-pack of full O2 tanks for my empties. Store to Door is delivering my groceries, and I have to unpack and put them away. This evening WWWendy is coming to destink the rancid TomCat. It’s been very muggy here, so I really need that shower. Happy Hump Day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:28 (average 5:30). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (CNN Channel): Hearing with Trump’s Treasury Secretary goes off the rails
Only a Republican could be such an asshole. He’s picking a fight to distract the hearing from its purpose. RESIST!!
From Vox: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has managed to hold on to power, winning what will be a record fifth term in office despite a bruising reelection fight.
The preliminary results from Israel’s Tuesday election have Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud party getting 35 seats out of a total 120 seats in the Knesset (Israel’s parliament). While Likud didn’t win an outright majority of seats, that’s typical in Israeli elections.
Party leaders generally become prime ministers by cobbling together a parliamentary majority with the help of smaller parties. In this case, a group of smaller right-wing parties expected to back Netanyahu seems to have captured 65 seats, enough to give him a 10-seat majority over the rival center-left bloc (the exact numbers could change as the remaining two percent of votes are tallied).
I can only offer my sincere condolences to the people of Israel and Palestine, who love peace. Even worse for them, Butcher Bibi is now beholden to a Republican monster, who is even more evil than he is. RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: There’s a Huckabee that everyone is talking about today, and surprisingly, it’s not White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. It’s actually her dad.
Remember former Arkansas governor and onetime Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee? He has some serious antics in his past. One thing that’s consistent is that he really, really doesn’t like the LGBTQ community. His feelings are so strong, he’s declared that the queer community is the “greatest threat” to America.
In an interview with The Christian Post [pseudo-Christians delinked], he bemoaned the (still limited) advances in rights and protections the LGBTQ community has gained in recent years. You know, how same-sex marriage is now recognized in every state, but you can still be fired for being openly transgender? That sort of thing.
Upchuckabee, like so many Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians, does not need sex-change surgery. They need race-change surgery… to human. RESIST!!
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Apr 092019
Yesterday I covered the forced resignation of Republican Death Angel Kirstein Nielson as Homeland Security Secretary. I said that her replacement will be worse. I was only half right. I now understand that it does not matter who replaces her. That Republican will be just a figurehead. The real person running the department is an extreme Republican white supremacist, a Bannon protégé, and a pal of neo-Nazi, Richard Spencer. Trump told Stephen Miller that he is in charge of immigration.
As news broke of the abrupt departure of Kirstjen Nielsen, Donald Trump’s second homeland security secretary, reports swiftly followed that the move had been orchestrated by Stephen Miller, one of the administration’s sharpest anti-immigration voices.
Nielsen’s resignation on Sunday, following months of speculation, cast a spotlight on the forces behind the president’s controversial policies on immigration, where Miller has been shown to be squarely at the center of influence.
The senior adviser and speechwriter is the architect of some of the most restrictive components of Trump’s immigration agenda.
Bolstered by Trump’s frustration over promises including building a border wall and slashing legal immigration, Miller is poised to usher more hardliners into the administration, seeking to turn rhetoric into results…
Inserted from <The Guardian>
Here’s video confirmation.
As an added bonus Samantha Bee did a piece on him in January 2018.
God help us all!
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Apr 092019
It’s a tired day here in the CatBox. The remains of the tumor in my retina are still shrinking and still quite dead, so I am a cancer-free puddy tat. My eyes are still irritated, but not enough to keep me from working. I don’t like being out of the loop for two days.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Tofay’s took me 3:22 (average 4:56). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Pete Buttigieg Breaks Through The Political Noise
That has to be one of the best slams of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian (the opposite of authentic Christian) hatred I have ever heard, I am very impressed. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Socialism of the Rich, Capitalism for the Rest
Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right, but I’ve been writing the same thing about the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, since 2009, that I can document. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: The redaction of the Mueller report stalled on Monday after the Attorney General, William Barr, passed out from inhaling fumes from multiple Sharpie markers.
Barr, who had been working around the clock to redact the report before its release, reportedly lost consciousness while trying to black out a seventy-four-page section detailing Donald Trump, Jr.,’s contacts with more than three dozen Russian individuals.
“You cannot use that many Sharpies, for hours on end, without proper ventilation,” a Justice Department staffer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said. “This was a disaster waiting to happen.”
The insentient Barr was rushed to Walter Reed medical center, where a grim-faced hospital spokesperson described his condition as “Ben Carson–like.”
Thanks for the scoop Andy. I’m sure it’s accurate. RESIST!!
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Note to Republican insurgency: wars have consequences.
Apr 082019
My medical expenses were so high last year that I got away from Infernal Revenue for nothing. Today is eye torture day. I have more for you than yesterday, but this is my only article today, with no links messages on Care2. I’ll be back in the saddle tomorrow, if I can see straight. RESIST!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:01 (average 4:45). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (CNN Channel): DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen is leaving, Trump tweets
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Sadly, the replacement rubbish will be even worse. Downhill is the way of the Republican Reich and their beloved Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): WHEN YOU GO AWAY – Parody
Thanks Don. When Putin’s Puppet goes away, it will be the best day ever. RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: I’m sort of surprised I didn’t find this here, but here we go.
Alex Jones, purveyor of stupid conspiracies and making money off even stupider people, thought he could tough guy his way through Lucy’s Fried Chicken in Austin, TX. While Texas is unfortunately red, many places (most cities) are strongly Democratic, with Austin perhaps being the most so. (I’m in the DFW area, and we’re a close second in my opinion.)
For whatever reason, Alex decided this was a good forum to start calling people “libtards” and other creative names while roaming the restaurant like a lost raccoon looking for scraps. You may think this would’ve amounted to a fight or otherwise a strong verbal altercation, but no. The patrons laughed at him, made jokes, videoed it from who knows how many phones, and ultimately watched him get escorted out by management…
LMAO!! I guess I’m not the only one that put that Republican asshole on parade. RESIST!!
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Apr 072019
It’s a very busy day here in the CatBox. It’s tax day. This is my only article today.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:33 (average 4:40). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Take:
From YouTube (SNL Channel): Joe Biden Cold Open
Is Joe THAT oblivious? Not quite. RESIST!!
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