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Bill Maher from 4/27

Posted by TomCat at 1:19 pm Politics

Apr 282018

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

Dang! The Fuhrer could get a hand job from Emmanuel, but not Melania. Perhaps she thought that tiny finger poking her hand was something else.

Ronan Farrow: War on Peace

I think he made a few good points. Trump has replaced diplomacy with loudmouth bullying. The for diplomacy with North Korea belongs to Moon, not Trump. War on Peace is a standard Republican policy.

New Rule: Dear Roseanne

Bill does raise a valid question. How does a solid lefty become a rectum worshiper?

Thanks Bill!

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!

Open Thread – 4/28/2018

Posted by TomCat at 1:18 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Apr 282018

I’m mostly recovered from Thursday evening’s ordeal, and am looking forward to a week of seasonal weather. Somehow I have a feeling that one of the hottest summers in history is just around the corner. I am watching my Broncos doings in the NFL draft and I want to remind you that we need two more players in our fantasy football league. Please reply here.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:53 (average 4:16). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Is Arizona Special Election The GOP’s Canary In The Coal Mine?

I too think we have a blue wave coming, unless idiots think it’s OK to vote third party, because Democrats will win anyway, like they did in 2016. RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: A Fox News poll [Faux Noise delinked] released this week found that most Americans believe the Russia probe will yield impeachable offenses and a solid two-thirds of the public think completing the probe is important to some extent. The Hill writes:

Fifty-six [percent] of respondents in the poll said they believed Mueller’s probe will find that Trump committed the offenses. And 67 percent say they believe it’s at least somewhat important that Mueller’s investigation continues.

However, 71 percent said they think that Trump will fire Mueller before the probe is over. […]

Sixty-four percent of respondents in the poll overall also said they believe Mueller is treating the White House fairly.

I’m amazed that Faux Noise, the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, didn’t cover this up. RESIST!!

From NY Times: The Trump administration has drafted a new set of regulations on planet-warming emissions from cars and light trucks that would dramatically weaken Obama-era standards. The proposal, if implemented, would also set up a legal clash between the federal government and California by challenging the state’s authority to set its own, stricter, air pollution rules.

Details of the proposal, which is being jointly drafted by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department and is expected to be sent to the White House for approval in coming days, were described to The New York Times by a federal official who had seen them but was not authorized to discuss the matter.

The proposal follows an announcement this month by the E.P.A. administrator, Scott Pruitt, that the Trump administration intended to weaken the stringent vehicle fuel economy standards set by the Obama administration that aimed to roughly double the average fuel economy of new cars, S.U.V.s and light trucks by 2025.

With Trump’s appointed criminals, the only thing worse than what they steal from taxpayers is that they institute Republican policies. RESIST!!

Cartoon:

In the foolishness of youth I thought we (progressives) had won, but back then, we called ourselves radicals.

Open Thread – 4/27/2018

Posted by TomCat at 12:21 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics, Religion

Apr 272018

This is today’s only article. Late yesterday afternoon a drainage plug on my AC vibrated loose, and I got up for supper to find my floor flooded. It’s easy enough to fix, except that I cannot get access to it in my chair. I had to turn off the AC. I tried to get help from staff here, but they answered neither the desk phone or the cell phone for over an hour. So I called WWWendy. It took her around an hour to get here. In the interim, my superheated wall had radiated the inside temperature rose to over 100°. She mopped up the water and put the plug back in. She’s such a sweetheart that I had to fight her to accept $20 extra for her extra work. It took the AC until later last night before the room was comfortable again, so I’m just too wrung out for more that this article. I expect to be back in the saddle tomorrow.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:16 (average 4:28). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Trump Stomps On Own Legal Strategy With Blurting Rant On Fox News

Even Faux Noise was trying to escape the implosion! RESIST!!

From Huffington Post: House Chaplain Patrick Conroy was suddenly forced out of his job last week by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and while it’s not clear why, Democratic lawmakers and Hill sources say it was driven by Ryan’s distaste for one of Conroy’s prayers about the GOP’s tax bill.

As first reported by The Hill, Conroy was clear in his resignation announcement that it wasn’t his choice to go. It was Ryan’s.

Click through to read the prayer. It appears that the problem Lyin’ Ryan had with the Chaplain is that he is a Christian, not a Republican. The two are opposites. RESIST!!

From NY Times: Thousands of teachers in Arizona and Colorado walked out of their classrooms on Thursday to demand more funding for public schools, the latest surge of a teacher protest movement that has already swept through three states and is spreading quickly to others.

Hundreds of public schools were shut down in Arizona because of the walkouts, which turned the streets of Downtown Phoenix into seas of crimson as educators and their supporters marched to the State Capitol wearing red T-shirts and chanting “Red for Ed,” as the movement is known here.

Widespread teacher protests have in recent months upended daily routines in the conservative-leaning states West Virginia, Oklahoma and Kentucky. But the sight of public workers protesting en masse in the Arizona capital, one of the largest Republican strongholds in the country, and demanding tax increases for more school funding, spoke to the enduring strength of the movement and signaled shifts in political winds ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

Kudos to the teachers. RESIST!!

Cartoon:

Bad as he was, he would be better than what we have!

Samantha Bee from 4/25

Posted by TomCat at 12:49 pm Politics

Apr 262018

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

Meet Mike Pompeo

The common decency of the Senate can be fully attained only with a supermajority of Democrats.

Where in the World is Steve Bannon?

Europe, can we work out a deal in which you keep him?

Bunker Talk: Preet Bharara

What we already knew. Trump and his Republican Reich are in trouble.

Thanks Sam!

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!

Open Thread – 4/26/2018

Posted by TomCat at 12:49 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Apr 262018

It’s much to hot here for this time of year, before I’ve had a chance to get used to it. I’m doing as little as possible.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:18 (average 5:49). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): EVERYBODY KNOWS – Parody of Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen

Thoroughly depressing and spot-on. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Donald Trump Said "The Mob Takes The Fifth"- And So Did His Lawyer

Unfortunately, most folks are blowing the importance Cohen taking the Fifth. It is a common practice for defendants in both civil and criminal cases to take the fifth in the civil case until the criminal case is resolved. RESIST!!

From NY Post: A Manhattan judge ruled Wednesday that there’s nothing “outrageous” about throwing the president’s supporters out of bars — because the law doesn’t protect against political discrimination.

Philadelphia accountant Greg Piatek, 31, was bounced from a West Village watering hole in January 2017, just after Trump took the oath of office, for wearing a “Make America Great Again” cap, according to his lawsuit over the incident.

FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO!! RESIST!!

Cartoon:

A Very Strange Kind of Republican

Posted by TomCat at 12:52 pm Politics

Apr 252018

When I first heard about the terrorist who killed ten Canadians and injured more in Toronto, the news was blaring that it was a standard tactic of ISEL. How soon they forgot that Nazi Republican James Alex Fields did the same thing in Charlottesville. A Republican is anyone who acts like a Republican, so they need not even be from the US. It turns out that Alek Minassian, the Toronto terrorist, is a very strange kind of Republican.

Before allegedly killing 10 people with a van in Toronto, Alek Minassian appeared to have posted a message on Facebook that linked him to a toxic online community of misogynists that has become the source of a growing pattern of violence.

The Facebook post, which authorities who spoke with NBC News believe came from Minassian, links Minassian to an online community known as “incels,” short for involuntary celibates. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation also reported that Facebook confirmed the authenticity of the post.

Self-described incels congregate mostly online, meeting in forums and message boards like Reddit and 4chan, and its offshoot site 8chan, to discuss their hopelessness with women in posts that are peppered with racist and misogynistic rants. “Chads” are incel-speak for good-looking men, who incels believe can’t be one of them. “Stacys” are the women who find “Chads” attractive.

The Facebook message also refers admiringly to Elliot Rodger, who killed six people in Isla Vista, California, in 2014, and left behind a manifesto and videos detailing his sexual frustration as the motivation for his violence….

Inserted from <NBC News>

Note the ties between Alt-Right Republicans and incels.

I have to admit that Republicans, who hate women and commit terrorist acts, because they are horny boggles my mind. Men, who are too foul to get sex normally, don’t have to be celibate. They can do what Trump does: buy sexual services from women.

I hope that Canada puts this Republican away for a long, long time!

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!

Open Thread – 4/25/2018

Posted by TomCat at 12:51 pm Open Thread, Politics

Apr 252018

It’s a heat have here in the CatBox. This morning I tried to keep the room cool with an Open Window, but the building had not bled off yesterday’s heat and, when the sun hit the brickwork, the inside temperature reached 80°, before the outside temperature reached 60°. Today’s high is forecast at 86°, as is tomorrow’s. My medical waste disposal company just left after swapping my full sharps container for an empty one. I’m waiting for Store to Door to arrive with my grocery order, and I need to unpack and stow it. Wendy comes this evening to destink the TomCat, who is VERY stinky, due to the heat.

Groceries are done.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:03 (average 4:04). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MoveOn Channel): This is MoveOn

Considering all the good MoveOn does, I’m most happy to share their plug for themselves. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Firing Mueller Won’t End President Trump Investigation, Mueller Made Sure

That is excellent planning, but it needs one more step. Investigations need to proceed and indictments need to be issued on the State level also, so Trump or his successor cannot defeat them with federal pardons. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, announced on Tuesday that when the purported “pee tape” becomes available it will be offered free to all Amazon Prime members.

Speaking to reporters in Seattle, Bezos said that the pee-tape offer was “consistent with Amazon’s mandate to offer the highest-quality content to our customers.”

Bezos acknowledged that the tape had not surfaced yet, but said that Amazon was “working around the clock to make that happen.”

Woooo Hoooo Andy!! I’ll email Prime customer service and reserve my copy today!! RESIST!!

Cartoon:

Poor Macron!

Posted by TomCat at 1:11 pm Politics

Apr 242018

French President Emmanuel Macron is here on an official state visit yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Unfortunately for him, he has to spend much of that time in close contact with the Fuhrer of the Republican Reich, Pipi Pervers, Donald Trump. And if that isn’t bad enough, he might even have to meet Trump’s National Security Adviser, Jon Bolton. Poor Macron!

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser, chaired a nonprofit that has promoted misleading and false anti-Muslim news, some of which was amplified by a Russian troll factory, an NBC News review found.

The group’s authors also appeared on Russian media, including Sputnik and RT News, criticizing mainstream European leaders like French President Emmanuel Macron.

From 2013 until last month, Bolton was chairman of the Gatestone Institute, a New York-based advocacy group that warns of a looming “jihadist takeover” [hate speech delinked] of Europe leading to a “Great White Death. [hate speech delinked]”

The group has published numerous stories and headlines on its website with similar themes. “Germany Confiscating Homes to Use for Migrants, [hate speech delinked]” warned one from May 2017, about a single apartment rental property in Hamburg that had gone into temporary trusteeship. Another from February 2015 claimed the immigrants, for instance Somalis, in Sweden were turning that country into the “Rape Capital of the West. [hate speech delinked]”

Inserted from <NBC News>

This article is bad enough, but it does not cover what Bolton has to say about France and about Macron personally. Leave it to Rachel Maddow to fill in all the gaps.

Kudos to Emmanuel Macron for the courage to abide three days of Trump, let alone Nazis like Bolton.

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!

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