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Feb 142017
TomCat
Feb 142017
Stumpy is being more cooperative today, and barely squeezed into George this morning, after spending most of yesterday elevated above chest height. I think he was retaining fluids, because I am mildly dehydrated from spending so much time at my desk and out and about that I paid too little attention hydrating myself. Some guzzle water naturally, but I have to force myself. I have my urologist appointment rescheduled for next month.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:22 (average 4:55). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (GQ Channel): Michael Flynn Must Now Be Arrested | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
Last Night Michael Flynn resigned to downplay and try to evade prosecution for his treason and to protect his equally guilty Fuhrer. Both Flynn and Trump must be investigated, indicted, tried, convicted and incarcerated! RESIST!!
From The Rachel Maddow Show: Spousal abuse testimony on Oprah a factor in Puzder confirmation
Rachel Maddow reports that video of a 1990 episode of the Oprah Winfrey Show in which the ex-wife of Donald Trump labor secretary nominee Andrew Puzder talks about being the victim of his abuse has been submitted to Senators considering his confirmation.
The Dems, with one exception, put up as good a fight as possible against Beauregard and Know Nothing. It would be nice to block Putzser. That exception is Joe Manchin [DINO-WV]. He actually voted FOR both Sessions and DeVos!! Why don’t you give him a call? – WV 304-342-5855 or DC 202-224-3954. Tell him he’s a waste of skin and a good for nothing DINO turd! If you wish, be even less complimentary. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: An exuberant Betsy DeVos said on Monday that Donald J. Trump’s forty-per-cent approval rating is a “clear indication” that more than half the country agrees with the job he is doing.
“I was so excited to see the President’s approval rating hit forty,” DeVos, the Secretary of Education, told reporters. “Just knowing that well more than half the country is with him gives us a great sense of confidence moving forward.”
She also criticized the media for failing to report “our powerful forty-per-cent mandate.”
“If you believed news reports, you would think that the people supporting the President are in the minority, when in fact they’re forty per cent,” she said.
Dang Andy! Is it any wonder that I just labeled her Know Nothing? RESIST!!
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Feb 132017
I had to cancel my Urologist appointment, because Stumpy swelled and I could not get George on. I have to go back to bed and elevate the leg, until I can again. I’ll keep you posted. Hugs.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:37 (average 4:53). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Feb 122017
Putin’s Butt Boy, the Tangerine Traitor, and his lackeys have been doing a lot of whining lately. They think that everyone who does not follow them, goose-stepping in lock-step into a fascist Republican Reich has no respect for the office of the President. I have more to say about that later, but first, the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, has demonstrated that the Reich on the right is wrong.
Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway charges that media coverage of Donald Trump lacks “respect for and recognition of the dignity for the office of the president.”
No, Kellyanne, it’s Donald Trump who lacks respect for and recognition of the dignity of the office of the president.
A small sampling of Trump’s words and actions from recent days:
1. After being told of a Texas state senator who wants to require convictions before the state can forfeit property, Trump asks for the senator’s name and says “we’ll destroy his career.”
2. In response to criticism by Senator John McCain that his Yemen operation wasn’t successful, Trump says McCain “only emboldens the enemy! He’s been losing so long he doesn’t know how to win anymore.”
3. After Senator Richard Blumenthal relates that his Supreme Court nominee finds Trump’s criticisms of the courts “demoralizing,” Trump blasts Blumenthal “who never fought in Vietnam when he said for years he had (major lie), now misrepresents what Judge Gorsuch told him.”
4. Trump tells the press that “daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom,” after Nordstrom dropped her line due to declining sales… [emphasis added]
From <Robert Reich>
I’ve only included four examples that show how Trumps abuse of power proves lack of respect for the presidency. Robert gave nine more. Please click through for them.
I admit that I have no respect for the Office of the President. Why? I see no point in respecting an empty office. This usurper is a resident, and NOT a President. If the US is ever fortunate enough to have a President again, I’ll reexamine the issue.
Feb 122017
Wendy just left and I'm just beginning my writing for the day. Please expect no more than a Personal Update from me tomorrow, because I have a routine appointment with my Urologist. I feel sorry for Fuhrer Tiny Hands. His Urologist is no longer available, having died laughing.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today's took me 5:27 (average 7:14). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From NY Times: When Republicans in Kentucky seized total control of the state government last year, Damon Thayer, the majority leader in the State Senate, began asking around for advice from counterparts in other capitals where the party already dominated both the legislative and executive branches.
How should we handle all this power? he wanted to know.
One answer impressed him, Mr. Thayer said, from a senior Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin: “Move quickly.”
Kentucky Republicans have done just that, swiftly passing laws to roll back the powers of labor unions and restrict access to abortion. But they are only getting started, Mr. Thayer said in an interview: They also plan to make sweeping changes to the education and public pension systems this year.
And they have plenty of company.
While Republicans in Washington appear flummoxed by the complexities of one-party rule, struggling with issues from repealing the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, to paying for President Trump’s promised wall on the Mexican border, rising party leaders in the states seem far more at ease and assertive. Republicans have top-to-bottom control in 25 states now, holding both the governorship and the entire legislature, and Republican lawmakers are acting with lightning speed to enact longstanding conservative priorities.
Democratic leaders, to their shame, have ignored building our state and local parties. That must change.
From YouTube (SNL Channel): Sean Spicer Press Conference Cold Open
She's good! In the real world, I like Baby Spice, Posh Spice, and even Scary Spice better than Shitty Spice.
From Think Progress: The Trump administration has elected not to contest a Texas federal judge’s injunction barring the federal government from implementing Obama administration guidelines that protect transgender kids in schools.
Oral arguments for the Obama Justice Department’s appeal of the judge’s decision were scheduled for Tuesday. The DOJ cancelled them in a legal brief submitted Friday.
“Defendants-appellants hereby withdraw their pending November 23, 2016 motion for partial stay pending appeal,” the brief says. “The parties jointly move to remove from the Court’s calendar the February 14, 2017 oral argument currently scheduled for that motion. The parties are currently considering how best to proceed.”
That brief was filed the day after Jeff Sessions was sworn in as Attorney General.
As ThinkProgress reported last August, the Obama administration’s guidance “stated that Title IX’s nondiscrimination protections on the basis of ‘sex’ protect transgender students in accordance with their gender identity, such that they must be allowed to use the bathrooms and play on sports teams that match their gender.” But the brief filed Friday signals that the Trump administration no longer wants to implement that guidance.
It took Beauregard only a day to translate GOP hate into disobeying the law to empower discrimination.
Cartoon:
Feb 112017
We can almost always count on Bill Maher to remind us of highly necessary truths at the same time that he provokes the kind of laughter that is a balm to a Trump-weary soul. Bill wasn’t as funny last night as he normally is. Of course there were ma few good laughs. After all, he IS Bill Maher, but this may be the most serious I’ve seen him, especially during his New Rules. Here are three clips for your elucidation and enjoyment.
That’s a good analysis of Loony Toons from the Fuhrer and the Fascists: whiney little bitches!!
Al is the person who invented the Republican character, "Supply Side Jesus." If you thought I did, I stole it from him, and do respect him. However, I think he’s being too collegial in some of the things he says.
New Rule: Make America Learn Again
When I was young, I got to learn how to think and how to learn, Today, with Republicans controlling most school boards, text books and curricula, students are learning what to think, what to memorize, and not to learn instead. Would that we could change that! School Board Member is far too important a job to give to a Republican!
RESIST!!
Feb 112017
I got more sleep last night, and that's good, because I have a couple busy day's coming up. Tomorrow is a Wendy day, and on Monday, I have an appointment with Greg Cost, my Urologist. No Worries. It's just to pee in the cup, shred the toilet paper, and discuss the high Cost of urination. I hope you're having a great weekend, or as good a weekend as is possible if you live in a Republican Reich.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today's took me 3:46 (average 5:20)_. To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (GQ Channel): Is This How Trump Will Deport Millions? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann
Protect them! RESIST!!
From The Rachel Maddow Show: Magnitude of Trump adviser Flynn's Russia scandal gains clarity
Rachel Maddow reports on the still-developing scandal that Donald Trump national security adviser, Mike Flynn, reportedly discussed U.S. sanctions with Russia before Trump was in office, and that communication existed during the campaign.
Trump worked with the Russian government to coordinate Russian interference in our election, and the Republican Party conspired with them to cover it up. I don't know what the remedy is. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Hinting darkly that “there’s something going on,” Donald J. Trump complained on Friday that he has been treated “very unfairly” by the people who wrote the United States Constitution.
“If the Constitution prevented me from doing one or two things, I’d chalk that up to bad luck,” he said. “But when literally everything I want to do is magically a violation of the Constitution, that’s very unfair and bad treatment.”
Lashing out at the document’s authors, Trump said that “America is a great country, but we have maybe the worst constitution writers in the world.”
“Russia has much better constitution writers than we do,” he said. “I talked to Putin, and he said their constitution never gives him problems.”
“The situation is very unfair!” he added.
I trust Andy accurately reflects the Fuhrer's thinking, but only in part. The rest is to get his top, Vladimir (R-RU) to help implement Russia's constitution here. RESIST!!
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Feb 102017
In what I consider to be the best win for decent people, since a walking, talking rectum infested 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Fuhrer’s hateful Muslim ban. Remarkably, the vote was 3-0, even though one of the judges is a conservative GW Bush appointee. But will Trump obey the Court?
A federal appeals panel on Thursday unanimously rejected President Trump’s bid to reinstate his ban on travel into the United States from seven largely Muslim nations, a sweeping rebuke of the administration’s claim that the courts have no role as a check on the president.
The three-judge panel, suggesting that the ban did not advance national security, said the administration had shown “no evidence” that anyone from the seven nations — Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — had committed terrorist acts in the United States.
The ruling also rejected Mr. Trump’s claim that courts are powerless to review a president’s national security assessments. Judges have a crucial role to play in a constitutional democracy, the court said.
“It is beyond question,” the decision said, “that the federal judiciary retains the authority to adjudicate constitutional challenges to executive action.”… [emphasis added]
From <NY Times>
Rachel Maddow did a far better job of covering the ruling than any of the several accounts I read.
In all my years of studying politics, I have never seen such extreme incompetence at any level of government anywhere. Here’s the segment on the PPP poll.
The Fuhrer has a habit of going overboard when spurred on by the deplorable bigots in the Republican base.
If the Fuhrer were to defy the Court, it is likely that Republicans in the House and Senate will keep goose-stepping in lock step, and even if some didn’t, the Fuhrer could defy them too. Where would that leave us?
RESIST!!