Another month is coming to an end, and here in the CatBox, the morning was cool, but the sum hit the wall, and I had to button up.  I have a very busy weekend with a mug and Tee Shirt to order, a new poll to get out, and a Monthly Report.  Because the 2nd is a WWWendy day, I plan to publish the report on the third.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:58 (average 5:16).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Religious Ecstasy:

As enjoyable as this is, it had little meaning, as none of the starters played.  Next week, the Holy Ellipsoid Orb will shine its light in earnest, and the games will count.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Donald Trump Frantic To Shore Up Base As Scandals Deepen, Insiders Flip

The Republican Party faithful 45 years ago were misled but decent. The Party faithful today are a deplorable slurry of racists, nativists, homophobes, misogynists, anti-environmentalists, KKK, Nazis and stupid sheeple.. Today’s Republican base will goose-step no matter what their Fuhrer says or does. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Politico: Sixty percent of those polled in a new survey disapprove of President Donald Trump’s job performance, a new high for the president in joint polling conducted by The Washington Post and ABC News.

The poll, released Friday and conducted just days after special counsel Robert Mueller delivered a one-two punch to the Trump administration in federal court, found a little more than one-third of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance. The poll was conducted last week, when former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on tax and bank fraud charges and Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to eight counts, including campaign finance violations, in a Manhattan courtroom.

Trump’s approval rating, according to the poll, was 36 percent.

That’s expected, but this is frightening. That 36% not only vote, but even worse, they interbreed reproduce! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Alternet: Hours after he launched yet another "direct attack" on workers by canceling a modest pay raise for around two million federal employees, President Donald Trump told Bloomberg on Thursday that he is considering a regressive and possibly illegal plan to use his executive power to hand the rich another $100 billion in tax cuts by indexing capital gains to inflation.

That is the Republican way. They take from workers to provide another $100 billion in welfare to 0.1% billionaires.  RESIST!!  VOTE BLUE!!

Cartoon:

It’s much cooler here in the CatBox, but with 78% humidity, it’s muggy as hell.  I’m still very tired.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:54 (average 5:45).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): LOSE YOUR HEAD – Inspired by War Pigs – Black Sabbath

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If the US is to effectively oppose war crimes, we must first stop committing them. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Harried Staff Sees Donald Trump Unready For Possible Democratic House

I can’t wait! When the investigations get going, we set a record for sore Republican sphincters in one place. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: Donald Trump started the morning with a string of allegations, including accusing NBC and Lester Holt of “fudging my tape on Russia.” Which would appear to be a claim that Holt had somehow altered or edited the interview that he conducted with Trump on May 11, 2017, just after Trump fired James Comey. In that interview, Trump admitted that the reason for Comey’s firing was that he refused to halt the Russia investigation.

Trump: In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story.

Since that interview, Trump has neither backed away from that statement nor made any public claim that Holt altered the interview. In fact, both Trump and attorney Rudy Giuliani have adopted the “article two powers” defense, arguing that Trump can fire anyone he wants for any reason. Why Trump is now making a claim that Holt “fudged” the interview in some way isn’t clear. It’s even less clear why Trump would believe that Holt already “got caught” fudging the interview or that it “hurt [NBC] badly.”

That lie registered 9.99 out of 10 on my Ka-shit detector! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

Cartoon:

Here in the CatBox today’s high will be in the mid-80°s with over 50% humidity.  I slept very little sleep last night, because it was so muggy.  Pardon my brevity.  WWWendy comes this evening.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:34 (average 4:31).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Donald Trump Intervened In Plan For FBI HQ Near His Hotel: IG Report

That’s a clear violation of the emoluments clause. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (RWW Channel): RWW News: Ann Coulter Blames Opioid Epidemic On Lack Of Border Wall

Barf Bag Alert!!

Pure InsaniTEA! I still think the Coultergeist has an Adam’s apple. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Newsweek: Adult film star Stormy Daniels has taken a dig at president Donald Trump’s sexual performance—suggesting the businessman “maybe” lasted two minutes in bed.

Speaking in an interview with Vogue that was published on Tuesday, Daniels was asked for details about her alleged sexual encounter with Trump.

“How many details can you really give about two minutes?” Daniels responded. Pressed further by interviewer Amy Chozick, who responded “Two minutes?” Daniels quipped, “Maybe. I’m being generous.”

Two minutes? I’m shocked. Who would have imagined such staying power! Stormy must be being infinitely generous! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

Cartoon:

My semi-annual eye torture was a success, as there is no evidence of the cancer.  I’m still a little blurry and quite tired, because the day is an ordeal.  We have a two day heat wave: Low 90°s today and mid 80°s tomorrow.  Hopefully I’ll see normally (for me) by then.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:21 (average 4:53).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): What Happens If Democrats Take The House

If we take the House, everyone in the Trump Reich will have to lawyer-up. In self-defense, nobody new will go to work there. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (RWW CHANNEL): RWW News: Jim Bakker Won’t Wear A Trump Hat For Fear Of ‘Being Murdered In The Street’

Barf Bag Alert!!

He wouldn’t be murdered in the street, but pigeons love the earth sufficiently to target Trump hats from any altitude. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Robert Mueller is renting a massive warehouse facility in suburban Virginia to accommodate the approximately forty cubic tons of evidence against Donald Trump that the independent counsel’s investigation is generating on a daily basis.

Employing over two thousand workers in a warehouse the size of seven football fields, the Mueller investigation has become the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Working twelve-hour shifts, the members of Mueller’s evidence-storage team rarely leave the warehouse, where the punishing task of filing mountains of evidence against Trump proceeds around the clock.

Dang Andy! 40 tons a day? That’s ALL?!!? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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