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Monthly Report for January 2019

Posted by TomCat at 12:12 pm Blog News, Politics

Feb 022019

Due to being hospitalized and relocated, this is my first Monthly Report since October, but I was able to get some of last month’s stats. Compared to December, January results were down in every category. I’m not surprised, as I had to miss several days.

Stats1-2019

Reported period	Month Jan 2019
First visit	01 Jan 2019 – 00:01
Last visit	31 Jan 2019 – 23:59
	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	4,694	35,228 (7.5 visits/visitor)	130,320 (3.69 Pages/Visit)	299,038 (8.48 Hits/Visit)	16.64 GB (495.32 KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic *			466,171	558,908	13.67 GB

Reported period	Month Jan 2018
First visit	01 Jan 2018 – 00:00
Last visit	31 Jan 2018 – 23:59
	Unique visitors	Number of visits	Pages	Hits	Bandwidth
Viewed traffic *	7,214	29,484 (4.08 visits/visitor)	117,962 (4 Pages/Visit)	246,365 (8.35 Hits/Visit)	9.61 GB (341.7 KB/Visit)
Not viewed traffic *			560,849	634,221	14.90 GB

Compared with last January, we are down in Uniques and up in every other category. I’ll take it!

Here is our ClustrMap for 2019 YTD. This is one months of traffic.

ClustrMap misses a lot of visits, because many visits can’t be easily traced to a location. Do you see the widget on the left column of our pages? What browser are you using? I’m using Chrome, and I can’t see it.

Here are our top five articles:

Squatch’s Open Thread 16 January 2019 – 1/16/2019 708
Samantha Bee from 10/17 – 10/18/2018 – 704
Hate on Our Media? – 1/8/2019 – 615
Christmas 2018 – 12/25/2018 – 544
Fleecing the Sheeple – 1/9/2019 – 520

The count represents only the people who opened the page for that specific article. Three were from January. I wrote four. I would have been happier to see more of our other authors’ work represented here. JD and Nameless have written fine articles. Lona is still adjusting to living upside down in a heat wave. Congrats to Squatch for the month’s most popular article!

Here are our top non-blog/news referrers (100 referral minimum):

Care2 2,777
Google 2,621
Baidu 132

Here are our top blog/news referrers:

http://infidel753.blogspot.com/
http://alterx.blogspot.com/
http://bildungblog.blogspot.com/
http://www.davedubya.com/

We had 4 sites with 2 or more referrals. Putting blogs’ links here increases the ratings of their sites, so this “linkey love” is our thank you for their referral support. We still need to improve this.

As of midnight January 1, we had 8,774 articles and 105,184 comments.

JD won a another Big Mouth Award for the 103,000th comment on November 9. Animae won 2 in a row for the 104,000th and 105,000th comments on December 18 and January 25. We think she’s taking it over. More kudos for both, please. Big Mouth winners at 10,000 levels will have their choice of a PP mug or a PP T Shirt. Staff will remain eligible to be winners at the 1,000 levels. Winners at prize winning levels will be the first non-staff commenter at or above. If any staff member wants a mug or a T Shirt, let me know.

I recommend using your own avatar. Go to Gravatar. Sign up using the email address you use to post comments here and upload the image you want to use as your avatar. Whenever you comment under that email address here or on any WordPress blog (several others too), that image will become your avatar.

Your Administrators are Lynn Squance, aka Sasquatch or Squatch, SoINeedAName, aka Nameless, and I, aka TomCat, the Founder. Your Editors are Joanne Dixon, aka JD the Erynator and Lona Goudswaard, aka Lona the Napster. I promoted them from Author in August 2017 to give them the ability to add graphics to comments and the ability to correct my innumerable typos.

This is our policy on links. We do not embed links to extreme Republican websites, like Faux Noise, Breitfart or World Nut Daily. However I leave notes in square brackets when I delete such links, (example: [faux noise delinked]) so readers, who wish to follow them can click through to the source article. I also remove topical links. Finally, I blank the target on all links, so they open in a new tab or window.

I’m so glad Democrats won the House. You and people like you are responsible for that.

Thank you for your support here, and kudos for all the good you do, everywhere you do it.

RESIST!!

Bill Maher from 2/1

Posted by TomCat at 12:12 pm Politics

Feb 022019

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

Mayor Bill de Blasio

He has some bold progressive ideas. I wasn’t really familiar with him, but I like what I see. Marijuana should not be corporatized.

Congressman Will Hurd

I’m sure I will disagree with Hurd on other issues, but based on what he said, he’s going to get kicked out of the Republican Reich!

New Rule: Climate Emergency

Spot-on! Climate change, not Mexicans, is the national emergency.

It’s a shame they did not release his opening monologue.

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 2/2/2019

Posted by TomCat at 12:11 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Feb 022019

It’s a very busy day here in the CatBox, because it’s January Report day. The groundhog saw a Republican. He reacted normally and retreated to his burrow to clean the feces from his fur. He muttered something about hell freezing over. Tomorrow is the highest holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. May the blessed Orb deflate Brady’s balls. Go Rams! Therefore please expect no more than a Personal Update from me, and I won’t be sending links messages on Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:55 (average 5:11). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Trump Hands Vladimir Putin Gift In Missile Treaty Withdrawal

Quid pro quo. By withdrawing, the Republican Reich gives Trump’s boss free reign to deploy nuclear weapons. It also gives 0.1% so-called defense contractors an arms race. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Virginia governor Ralph Northam’s yearbook has people in blackface, KKK robe

This wasn’t high school. "Coon man" was an adult. I appreciate that he has now apologized and acknowledged the harm he did, but unless he steps down as part of taking responsibility, he is no different from a Republican. Now, even after apologizing, the damn DINO is denying it. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Partially confirming Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s theory of divine intervention in the 2016 election, Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos, discord, and strife, revealed on Friday that she had wanted Donald J. Trump to be President.

Speaking from her temple on Mt. Olympus, the usually reclusive deity said that Trump was “far and away” her first choice to be President in 2016.

“I’d been following his career for years,” the goddess of disorder and ruin said. “The bankruptcies, the business failures. There was a lot for me to love.”

Dang Andy! If that’s the case, we need to get the Erinyes to Erinyate on Trump! RESIST!!

Cartoon:

Poll Results – 2/1/2019

Posted by TomCat at 12:42 pm Blog News, Politics

Feb 012019

Here are the results of our “What should Democrats do?” Poll. Politics Plus Polls are not scientific, because those who respond are not balanced according to demographic categories. Therefore, we do not accurately reflect the makeup of the US population. Nevertheless, our polls are usually factually accurate, and more often than not, they reflect thinking of the majority of those who actually do think.

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And here are your comments.

Showing comments 1–9 of 9.

Posted by dave c January 12, 2019 at 9:37 am. From: MN (US)

I would say if they pass progressive bills they will cover many of the other options

Posted by SoINeedAName January 6, 2019 at 4:04 am. From: MO (US)

Since HR1 has already passed, I’ll say I think we all liked it.

It was a sweeping anti-corruption package covering voting rights, campaign finance reform & stronger regulations WRT lobbying.

A common sense Bill from a common sense Speaker.

GO NANCY!

Posted by Lona Goudswaard January 2, 2019 at 6:02 pm. From: (AU)

This time I had to let my foreign heart speak for the world. The clock is ticking, and there’s no time to lose, so Climate Change needs to come first, for ALL our sakes.

But I fear that as soon as Mueller comes out with a report, all common sense goes overboard and Drumpf-mania will overtake the country. We’ll then pas 1.5 degrees, and even 2.0 degrees temperature increase without having done anything significant to combat it.

Posted by Animae January 2, 2019 at 3:05 pm. From: (AU)

ALL of the above!!!

Seeing as i couldn’t do that, i voted stay in power!

Posted by Colleen L. January 2, 2019 at 2:01 pm. From: CA (US)

I have positive feeling that the Democrats will stay in power. I care about lots of the others, but I want them to investigate tRump ever inch that they can and hopefully get him out of office.

Posted by Nita L January 2, 2019 at 1:32 pm. From: TX (US)

I read the long list and was trying to decide what to pick because all of these are important. Then I saw stay in power. We can’t accomplish any of this unless we stay in power.

Posted by Mitch D. January 2, 2019 at 10:44 am. From: FL (US)

Staying in power will enable all the previous items!

Posted by P Bowen January 2, 2019 at 9:56 am. From: TX (US)

As I was reading through the long list of things that we, as concerned citizens are worried about,…I was reading down the list…thinking yes, we need that, we need that, until the very last line, and yes, I am all for that. Absolutely and 100%, ‘stay in power’. We must address all these issues head on too.

Posted by Joanne D January 2, 2019 at 9:48 am. From: CO (US)

Ordinarily I would go with Climate Change … because if we don’t but the brakes on that, we won’t have any human race to worry about voting rights or income inequality or anything else. But in this opposite world we are now living in, we have to confront a now deeply Republican establishment before we can effectively deal with even Climate Change – and some of those other things have to come first. So I am going to go, this time, with "Stay in Power" – with the caveat that we must address most of those other things in order to stay in power – and also that we need to not just STAY in power, but also to EXPAND our power in order to get this stuff done. (BTW, are health care and income inequality included under human rights, or was that an oversight?)

I intended this poll to teach a lesson. Many politicians take the attitude that they can do so much good, that they are justified in doing whatever it takes to stay in power. So I gave you a list of things that were so necessary that choosing between them was excessively difficult. And many of you chose to stay in power, without considering what you had to do to accomplish that. It’s an easy error. What if it’s doing corporate favors? What if it’s minor corruption? Eventually those things grow and overcome the good that politicians think they can do. So what’s the solution? Hidden in the list is ‘Pass Progressive Bills’. That’s how Democrats can accomplish everything else and stay in power too. That’s how I voted.

Please vote in the new poll.

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 2/1/2019

Posted by TomCat at 12:41 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Feb 012019

It’s a very busy day here in the CatBox. I swapped out the poll and made that graphic. I collected all the data and made all the graphics for tomorrow’s report for January. I worked on SSL to make the site more secure. I tried to fix Cluster Map Again. Needless to say, I’m way behind.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:20 (average 5:50). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Trump Says He Summoned Intel Chiefs After Hearing They Contradicted Him

Either Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten is intentionally lying to cause confusion, or he’s stoned out of his mind. Are his Russian hookers taking THC before his showers? RESIST!!

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Fox News claims that the left supports "infanticide"

Barf Bag Alert!!

The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, is fomenting violence from Republican terrorists. Of course, I would never support this idea, except as humor, but "aborting" Faux Noise talking heads years after birth is sphinctercide. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Sen. Cory Booker announces 2020 presidential run

Booker is not my favorite for President. He has a history of corporatism. RESIST!!

Cartoon:

Samantha Bee from 1/30

Posted by TomCat at 9:57 am Politics

Jan 312019

It’s that time of week again, and here are three excellent video clips from Sam’s show last night. Enjoy!

Roger Stone: America’s Athlete’s Foot

Stone’s Nixon tattoo is for prison protection. What prison rapist wants to look at THAT during sex?

Military Spending

We need to spend more on the needs of military personnel and none on the greed of the military-industrial complex.

Stop Doing That! With Nyle DiMarco

I learned a lot that I did not know. Kudos to Sam!

I’m REALLY glad she’s back!

RESIST!!

Open Thread – 1/31/2019

Posted by TomCat at 9:57 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Jan 312019

It’s another busy day here in the CatBox, as I prepare for monthly transition both at home and on the blog. I slept well last night, but was so wiped out that I’ll need a day or too to catch up.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:26 (average 5:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): In Opposing Voting Access, Mitch McConnell Shows His Hand

Bought Bitch Barf Bag Alert!!

The last thing the Republican Reich wants to see is increasing access to the ballot box for poor and middle class Americans. Is Bought Bitch Mitch the Republican soul, or just another Republican ass-soul? RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Using some of his harshest rhetoric in recent memory, President Donald J. Trump came out strongly against intelligence on Wednesday morning.

“I’ve listened to these people with so-called intelligence go on and on, and, quite frankly, it’s a waste of time,” he said. “I know a lot more than people with intelligence do.”

Trump added that he has stopped receiving intelligence briefings at the White House, arguing, “I can do my job without any intelligence whatsoever.”

Dang, Andy! He’s right! He has no intelligence whatsoever!! RESIST!!

From Alternet: On Wednesday, the right-wing Daily Caller sat down with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office for yet another interview packed with leading questions and incoherent answers.

Here are some of the highlights of that interview:

He said he would “think about” reviewing FBI policies surrounding arrest of his former campaign adviser.

For the past few days, the right-wing media and Trump’s allies in Congress have tried to paint the FBI’s arrest of former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone on obstruction, false statements, and witness tampering as a case of excessive force. In reality, the agents summoned to Stone’s home in Florida used a typical amount of force for a suspect deemed a flight risk.

But prompted by the Daily Caller’s questions, Trump said he would “think about” looking into the matter and that he was “speaking for a lot of people that were very disappointed to see that go down that way.”

“To see it happen where it was on camera, on top of it,” Trump added. “That was a very, very disappointing scene.”

The proper amount of force for Roger Stone is the amount needed for rectal insertion of a Saguaro cactus. I shared the first of five. Click through for the other four. RESIST!!

Cartoon:

Analysis or BS?

Posted by TomCat at 10:53 am Politics

Jan 302019

The nation’s Intel chiefs are tasked with assessing and reporting threats to our national security, so the President and executive branch can align our policies to meet and defeat those threats. That’s how the system is supposed to work. But what happens, if the so-called President is really only a Resident, who completely ignores their analysis in favor of what he wants to believe? The DNI’s Worldwide Threat Assessment shows Trump is just that Resident, and that bases our national security on BS.

Did you know that “Russia’s social media efforts will continue to focus on aggravating social and racial tensions, undermining trust in authorities, and criticizing perceived anti-Russia politicians” as part of a broader effort “to influence US policy, actions, and elections”?

Or that North Korea “is unlikely to give up all of its WMD stockpiles, delivery systems, and production capabilities,” because “North Korean leaders view nuclear arms as critical to regime survival”?

Or that Iran is abiding by its nuclear deal, even though the United States pulled out, and that it “is not currently undertaking the key nuclear weapons-development activities”?

Or that the Islamic State “still commands thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria” and around the world, and that it “will exploit any reduction in CT [counterterrorism] pressure to strengthen its clandestine presence and accelerate rebuilding key capabilities”?

Or that global warming is contributing to intensifying “climate hazards such as extreme weather, higher temperatures, droughts, floods, wildfires, storms, sea level rise, soil degradation, and acidifying oceans”?

If you are a regular reader of The Post — or, dare I say it, the New York Times — none of this will come as a surprise to you. If this is all news to you, congratulations. You’re the president of the United States…

Inserted from <Washington Post>

I encourage you to read the Worldwide Threat Assessment.

Here are two short video clips. The first compares Trump to the truth.

The second provides a European perspective.

If you’d like to watch the complete hearing on this report before the Senate Intelligence Committee, click here. (2 hrs. 40 min.)

Because of this, our nation’s foreign policies are based on bullshit. In addition, we are ignoring the domestic terrorism perpetrated by Republicans. Therefore, the greatest threats our nation faces are Trump and the people that know better and enable him anyway, while they pillage the nation’s wealth for the rich. They are the Republican Reich.

RESIST!!

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