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Poll Results – 12/1/2016

Posted by TomCat at 10:32 am Blog News, Politics

Dec 012016

Here are the results of our “Voter Punishment” 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 or will of the national majority.

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Since our polling site no longer enables us to copy and paste your poll comments, you may read them here.

I ranked the penalties in order of severity. A bath in boiling oil is more severe than a cattle prod up the butt Eternity in hypothetical hell fire is more severe than the boiling oil. The Trump Reich is more severe than hell fire. All of the above is most severe at all, but still falls well short of being severe enough.

The New Poll is up, and you had better vote, because SantaCat is watching you.

Open Thread – 12/1/2016

Posted by TomCat at 10:31 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Dec 012016

The beginning of the last full month of even partial sanity in the US has been an incredibly busy day. In addition to my normal first of month record keeping tasks, I have changed the poll and collected all the data for and made all the graphics for tomorrow’s Monthly Report, so I’m getting a late start here.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:58 (average 5:31). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (GQ Channel): Government-Backed Attackers” May Have Hacked My Account | The Closer with Keith Olbermann

Shit!! What else is there to say?

From Daily Kos: Trying hard not to roll my eyes too much.

People in poverty-stricken Clay County [Kentucky] worry about what will happen to their health care if Gov. Matt Bevin’s and President-elect Trump’s ambitions to overhaul Medicaid proceed.

In Clay County, 60 percent of residents are covered by Medicaid. They voted for Republican Matt Bevin 71-27, and for Donald Trump 86-11. Neither Bevin, nor Trump, made their opposition to Obamacare secret.

As much as I hate to say it, I’m not sympathetic to the plight of people who did not oppose Trump and will suffer because of his evil Republican policies. At least they will be suffering the consequences of their own idiocy, unlike the plurality of Americans, who knew better, voted responsibly, and will still share equally in those sufferings. Responsible deserve relief first.

From The New Yorker: President-elect Donald J. Trump will no longer have day-to-day responsibility for driving his businesses into bankruptcy and will instead focus on bankrupting the country, one of his leading surrogates said on Wednesday.

Appearing on Fox News, Kellyanne Conway said that while Trump no doubt could “plunge both his businesses and the country into bankruptcy at the same time,” he feels that he “owes it to the American people to put them first.”

Acknowledging that Trump has no government experience, Conway said that his years of bankrupting a variety of companies would prove “invaluable” as he does the same to the United States.

Dang Andy! You’ve hit on a skill at which Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten will surely excel.

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Bernie Blasts Fuhrer to Conan

Posted by TomCat at 2:06 pm Politics

Nov 302016

From the beginning of the primary process to the present there had been no greater clarion of truth than Bernie Sanders. In a discussion with Late Night's Conan O'Brien, Bernie blasted the tweeting twit, Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten of the Republican Reich.

Conan O'Brien is also aware that President-elect Donald Trump has a Twitter account, and on Tuesday's Conan he asked guest Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for his reaction to Trump's latest "conspiracy tweets," about how millions of illegal voters robbed him of a popular-vote victory and his assertion that people who burn the American flag should face prison or a revocation of citizenship.

Sanders tackled them one at a time, starting with the tweet about illegal voters…

From <This Week>

Bernie didn't miss much, calling Trump delusional and totally insane. predicting that Trump will suppress voting rights and outlaw dissent, and worrying for the future of our country.

I worry too. If only the protest voters and those who stayed home in protest against Hillary Clinton had listened to Bernie, held their noses and protected us against this catastrophe. They didn't believe this could happen. How foolish, since the Bridiots didn't believe it either.

Open Thread – 11/30/2016

Posted by TomCat at 2:05 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Nov 302016

I’m waiting for my grocery delivery from Store to Door to arrive. My shoulder, which is still quite painful, will make putting them away more difficult and unpleasant. Later Wendy is coming to sanitize the stinky TomCat. I think I’ll feed her cheese dawgs.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:40 (average 5:13). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Short Takes:

From KP Daily Funnies: Donald Trump sings "White Christmas"

Donald Trump Sings "White Christmas" from Funny Or Die

That has long been the favorite song of the racist Republican Reich.

From Daily Kos: The AP’s standards blog just posted a piece about how to use the term ‘alt-right’ when writing articles. Considering the Associated Press provides the style guidelines for newspapers and magazines nationwide, this clarification is a big deal. Here’s the sweet and succinct “usage” section.

“Alt-right” (quotation marks, hyphen and lower case) may be used in quotes or modified as in the “self-described” or “so-called alt-right” in stories discussing what the movement says about itself.

Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience. In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist.

I would edit Nazi or white supremacist to read, Nazi, white supremacist or Republican.

From YouTube (GQ Channel): Can Donald Trump Possibly Believe What He’s Saying? | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann

Barf Bag Alert!!

Everything Keith said was true. I wish I were wrong about that.

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It failed that time, but it can be done.

Carter Defends His Legacy

Posted by TomCat at 12:38 pm Politics

Nov 292016

Sixty-nine years ago today, the UN partitioned Palestine between Palestinians and Jews. Since that time, no single individual had done more to promote peace between Arabs and Jews than President Jimmy Carter, who negotiated the Camp David Accords between Sadat and Begin in September, 1978. That was the beginning of a two state solution under which Palestinian Arabs and Jews can share the land in peace. Now that the coming Fuhrer has promised to side with Butcher Bibi Netanyahu to support a single state of Israel, Carter is trying to defend his legacy, before Obama leaves office.

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter, who brokered peace between Egypt and Israel at Camp David, has called on Barack Obama to recognize the State of Palestine (as the United Nations refers to the non-member observer state) before he leaves office in January.

Of the U.N.’s 193 members, 136—more than 70 percent—recognize the State of Palestine and the Palestinian push for an independent state. But the U.S., Israel and dozens of other nations do not, with many arguing that the recognition of a Palestinian entity can only come about through direct talks and agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

The current U.S. government supports a two-state solution but Israeli ministers have suggested that the election of Donald Trump as the next president has dealt a huge blow to hopes of a Palestinian state. On the campaign trail, Trump pledged to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and called for continued Israeli settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Carter has now stepped into the debate with an op-ed for the New York Times on Monday…

From <Newsweek>

I fully support the recognition of the nation of Palestine. That said, I am neither anti-Israel, nor anti-Jew. I’m part Hebrew myself. I do oppose the present government of Israel’s abandonment of the two-state solution in violation of treaties in favor of creating a single state by military attrition, leaving Palestinians second-class residents. Obama should grant Carter’s request.

I urge you to read Carter’s op-ed.

Open Thread – 11/29/2016

Posted by TomCat at 12:37 pm Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Nov 292016

Due to taking it as easy as possible, ice packs, Icy Hot, and pain killers (non-narcotic), my shoulder is starting to improve. However, I want to keep resting as much as possible to avoid exacerbating the problem.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:32 (average 4:26). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Fantasy football Report:

Here’s the latest from our own fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends.

Scores:

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The tear in the space-time continuum must have been repaired, because I lost. Had I won two in a row, it would have destroyed the universe.

Standings:

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Congrats to Rob for leading the league. I’m so deep in the cellar, I can’t even see the bottoms of Squatch’s feet from here.

Short Tales:

From YouTube (MoveOn Channel): Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Call to Action

Spines would be a fantastic addition to the Democrats’ playbook. I hope they grow a few.

From YouTube (GQ Channel): Why Donald Trump is Not Fit to Be President | The Resistance with Keith Olbermann

While I see a Pence Reich as little improvement, if any, over Fuhrer Drumphenfarten, Keith does have a point about the Fuhrer’s mental instability. No sane person proclaims Republican positions and policies openly.

From The New Yorker: Just days after picking Betsy DeVos to run the Department of Education, President-elect Donald Trump has tapped another wealthy outsider by naming Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán to head the Drug Enforcement Administration.

In an official statement, Trump said that El Chapo’s “tremendous success in the private sector” showed that he has what it takes to “shake things up” at the D.E.A.

Dang Andy!! Do you think the Fuehrer is making a deal for a piece of the action from the Mexican drug cartel?

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Robert Reich on Fuhrer Controlling the Media

Posted by TomCat at 8:52 am Politics

Nov 282016

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is always right, while the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich is wrong. However, most Americans never get to learn that, because the Republican Reich controls the media though the vile tactics of Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten.

Democracy depends on a free and independent press, which is why all tyrants try to squelch it. They use seven techniques that, worryingly, President-elect Donald Trump already employs.

1. Berate the media.

Last week, Trump summoned two-dozen TV news anchors and executives to the twenty-fifth floor of Trump Tower to berate them for their reporting about him during the election. For twenty minutes he railed at what he called their “outrageous” and “dishonest” coverage. According to an attendee, “Trump kept saying, ‘we’re in a room of liars, the deceitful dishonest media who got it all wrong,’” and he called CNN a “network of liars.” He accused NBC of using unflattering pictures of him, demanding to know why they didn’t use “nicer” pictures.

Another person who attended the meeting said Trump “truly doesn’t seem to understand the First Amendment. He thinks we are supposed to say what he says and that’s it.”

2. Blacklist critical media.

During the campaign, Trump blacklisted news outlets whose coverage he didn’t approve of. In June he pulled The Washington Post’s credentials. “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post,” read a post on Trump’s Facebook page…

From <Robert Reich>

I’ve shared two of the seven techniques listed. Click through for the other five.

Open Thread – 11/28/2016

Posted by TomCat at 8:50 am Open Thread, Personal, Politics

Nov 282016

My shoulder interfered with my sleep last night, so please pardon my brevity.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:28 (average 4:07). To do it, click here. How did you do?

Religious Agony:

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Short Takes:

From Politico: President-elect Donald Trump on Monday threatened to unravel President Barack Obama’s progress with Cuba unless the communist nation accedes to his terms.

“If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal,” Trump tweeted Monday morning.

Translation: Better Deal for the Cuban People = Cuban government subsidies for Trump Towers Havana.

From TPM: At least three mosques in California have received a letter warning that Muslims will be physically endangered now that Donald Trump has won the White House.

The Orange County Register reported Saturday that Islamic centers in Long Beach, Claremont and San Jose received photocopies of the same handwritten letter calling Muslims “vile,” “evil,” and “the children of Satan.” Signed “Americans for a Better Way,” the letter warns that with Trump’s election, a “day of reckoning has arrived” for American Muslims.

“He’s going to cleanse America and make it shine again,” it reads. “And he’s going to start with you Muslims. He’s going to do to you Muslims what Hitler did to the Jews.”

Behold the love of Republican Supply-side Jesus, the opposite of the real Jesus. This is the Fuhrer’s interpretation of the First Amendment.

From NY Times: President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Sunday that he had fallen short in the popular vote in the general election only because millions of people had voted illegally, leveling the baseless claim as part of a daylong storm of Twitter posts [Fuhrer delinked] voicing anger about a three-state recount push.

“In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally,” Mr. Trump wrote Sunday afternoon.

Bullshit!!

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