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Jul 132020
 

It’s another muggy day, here in the CatBox, as we’re moving into a heat wave.  Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread.  It’s WWWendy’s last day, before her trip.  She will be bringing her friend with her to teach her how to destink a vulgar TomCat.  Her friend will come to help me shower on Saturday or Sunday.  She made me promise to be on my best behavior.  Of course, even my best is misbehaving!  Oh God, it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:07 (average 4:51).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 3,414,582
US Deaths: 137,795

Short Takes:

From ESPN: The Washington Redskins will officially announce Monday morning that they will be changing their nickname, though no new name will be revealed just yet, a source confirmed Sunday night.

It had been widely expected that Washington would change its name, and one source said Saturday night that an announcement of a new name would come soon.

Sports Business Daily, which first reported Monday’s official announcement, reported that the new name would not be announced yet because trademark issues are pending.

I think the racist Republican Redskins should move the team to Israel and rename it the Netanyahu Foreskins, since Butcher Bibi is such a schmuck.  RESIST!!

From Alternet: The leader of one of the largest teachers’ unions in the U.S. accused President Donald Trump over the weekend of “trying to bury” federal guidelines warning that fully reopening schools and universities in the fall poses a high risk of spreading Covid-19 and endangering the health of students, faculty, and parents.

A 69-page packet (pdf) of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention materials obtained by the New York Times and labeled “For Internal Use Only” cautions that the “more people a student or staff member interacts with, and the longer that interaction, the higher the risk of Covid-19 spread.”

Criminal Fuhrer Trump* doesn’t care if every school in the US is a super-spreader event, as long as he thinks reopening them will make him look better.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast played at Woodstock): Joan Baez Live @ Woodstock 1969 Joe Hill.mpg

Dedicated to all who were or wanted to be at Woodstock with me.  Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jul 122020
 

Here is the one hundred seventy-ninth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winners are rabid, racist Republican Ammosexuals, Mark and Patricia McCloskey. They are so honored for pointing loaded weapons at peaceful BLM demonstrators, who weren’t even on their property!

0712Mark-and-Patricia-McCloskey-Personal-injury attorneys Mark and Patricia McCloskey entered the national spotlight like the ultimate expression of white privilege, waving their weapons toward peaceful protesters whose crime was walking down a sidewalk. Republicans immediately tried to make the pair heroes of the Second Amendment, valiantly defending their home by pointing the weapons in the face of Americans who had the audacity to not be rich and white.

So it will probably come as a relief to everyone that they turn out to be jackasses of the first water. Mark McCloskey isn’t just the kind of raging a-hole who is hated by all of his neighbors, he’s not just a guy who has sued his own sister and his own father, he’s also a guy who did this: He destroyed bee hives on a neighbor’s property and left behind a note not only admitting that he did it, but threatening to sue if they didn’t clean up the mess promptly. That neighbor was a Jewish synagogue which had planned to use the honey for Rosh Hashanah.  “The children were crying in school,” said Rabbi Susan Talve. “It was part of our curriculum.”

Congratulations, Republicans. These are your new heroes. And they’re perfect.

As the St. Louis Post-Dispatch outlines, the McCloskeys have a “long history of not backing down.” Which in this case means they are unbelievably—unbelievably—awful. If their moment in the national spotlight made them seem like a postcard advertising the very worst America has to offer, prepare to be amazed. They’re worse than you think…  [emphasis added]

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I bet they would have left the bee hives alone had the honey not been for Jewish children.  Click through for even more reasons these vile Republicans deserve a parade.

Like all rabid Republican Ammosexuals, they also lie like hell!

Couple aims firearms at Black Lives Matter protesters

Nothing that racist Republican said was true.  Not one of the BLM protestors did anything to threaten him, his wife, or his property in any way.  In typical Republican fashion, they acted out of hate, not out of the grievance they falsely claim.

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Jul 122020
 

It’s a muggy day here in the CatBox.  WWWendy and I finished our chores yesterday, but Tuesday will be our big day.  I’ll find out today whether or not her friend can come give me a shower while she’s gone.  I hope you’re enjoying your weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:37 (average 4:07).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Map Reference (click through for more info and detail)

US Cases: 3,357,206
US Deaths: 137,418

Short Takes:

From Alternet: According to WOAI, a patient in San Antonio, Texas in their 30s has died after going to a “COVID party” — a gathering of people who intentionally expose themselves to coronavirus to see for themselves whether the virus is real.

Per Methodist Healthcare Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jane Appleby, the patient’s final words to the nurse were, “I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.”

That surprised me. It would have been more appropriate, if the last word of that idiot Republican Sheeple had been BAA-A-A-A-A-A!  RESIST!!

From YouTube: “Black Lives Matter” mural painted in front of Trump Tower in New York City

I LOVE it! FOMCPIMPROTFLMAO!! RESIST!!

From YouTube (A blast played at Woodstock): Melanie at Woodstock


This was unique to the concert, and I remember it (and the rain) well. Dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jul 112020
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  WWWendy is coming this morning, and we have lots to do.  Have a great weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:53 (average 4:26).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Barf Bag Alert!!

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 3,293,532
US Deaths: 136,720

Short Takes:

From CNN: The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content, CNN Business learned this week.

Just this week, the writer, Blake Neff, responded to a thread started by another user in 2018 with the subject line, “Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?” Neff wrote, “I wouldn’t get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no.” (The subject line was not censored on the forum.) On June 5, Neff wrote, “Black doods staying inside playing Call of Duty is probably one of the biggest factors keeping crime down.” On June 24, Neff commented, “Honestly given how tired black people always claim to be, maybe the real crisis is their lack of sleep.” On June 26, Neff wrote that the only people who care about changing the name of the NFL’s Washington Redskins are “white libs and their university-‘educated’ pets.”

And over the course of five years, Neff has maintained a lengthy thread in which he has derided a woman and posted information about her dating life that has invited other users to mock her and invade her privacy. There has at times also been overlap between some material he posted or saw on the forum and Carlson’s show.

The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda , Faux Noise, is so rabid that I’m surprised that Fucker Carlson didn’t use more of his Nazi Republican writer’s screeds on the air.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Trae Crowder and Mark Agee discuss whether Joe Biden is too boring to win

Amen Trae! I’ll readily admit that criminal Fuhrer Trump* is more “exciting” that Joe Biden. However, given the heinous behavior of Trump* and the Republican Reich, haven’t we had enough of this so-called excitement for one lifetime?  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Goldman On Roger Stone: Trump Basically Commuted A Co-Conspirator

Stone to Trump*: “If I go to prison, so will you.” That’s the bottom line.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast played at Woodstock): the Who Woodstock (Director’s Cut)

Dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be. Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

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Biden: Build Back Better!

 Posted by at 11:10 am  Politics
Jul 102020
 

We already know the economic plan offered by criminal Fuhrer Trump and the Republican Reich.  First provide massive welfare payments to the 0.1% and corporate criminals by fleecing everyone else.  Second, destroy the economy by causing a plague of Trump* virus.  On a brighter note, Joe Biden also has an economic plan called Build Back Better.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, laid out a key plank of his economic agenda for the country — dubbed “Build Back Better” — in a half-hour speech Thursday, offering a competing vision of economic nationalism that President Trump has trumpeted in recent years.

“The truth is throughout this [coronavirus] crisis, Donald Trump has been almost singularly focused on the stock market — the Dow and Nasdaq — not you, not your families,” Biden said during his remarks Thursday afternoon in Dunmore, Pa., near his hometown of Scranton. “If I’m fortunate enough to be elected president, I’ll be laser-focused on working families, the middle-class families that I came from.”

Biden’s economic plans to date have focused on immediate relief for families, small businesses and communities struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. But the proposal he detailed Thursday centered around manufacturing and innovation.

He outlined an agenda to “Buy American,” which includes a $700 billion investment in procurement and research and development for new technologies such as biotech, clean energy and artificial intelligence.

“This will be a mobilization of R&D and procurement investments in ways not seen since World War II,” Biden said.

His campaign posits the new plan will help create 5 million new jobs… [emphasis added]

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Graphic credit: Newsbreak

For more detail, go to Joe Biden’s website.

Here is the complete half hour speech.

Biden unveils economic plan to spur American manufacturing

Although Biden couches his plan in progressive terms, it’s actually more center-left. Nevertheless, compared to the rabid, reactionary, racist Republican policies, including massive transfer of our wealth to billionaires, foisted on America by criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the Republican Reich, Biden’s plan is a welcome breath of fresh air!

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Jul 102020
 

It’s a busy day, here in the CatBox.  We’ve arranged to have a palliative care nurse to come change my pain patch when WWWendy is away.  We’re still searching for a shower aide.  Wish me luck.  Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update or Open Thread.  It’s a WWWendy stink, patch, and shower day.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:11 (average 5:30).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Map Reference  (click through for interactive map).

US Cases: 3,221,938
US Deaths: 135,869

Short Takes:

From Crooks and Liars: Ohio state Rep. Nino Vitale (R) on Tuesday encouraged his constituents to “stop getting tested” for COVID-19.

In a Facebook post, Vitale suggested that the government is using COVID-19 tests to create a “dictatorship.”

“Are you tired of living in a dictatorship yet?” Vitale asked. “This is what happens when people go crazy and get tested. STOP GETTING TESTED!”

“It is giving the government an excuse to claim something is happening that is not happening at the magnitude they say it is happening,” he continued. “Have you noticed they never talk about deaths anymore, just cases? And they never talk about recoveries. They just keep adding to numbers they have been feeding us from over 3 months ago!”

Is that typically Republican or what? And the rabid Nazi Republican Sheeple said BAA-A-A-A-A-A!!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Adam Schiff Channel): Rep. Schiff on MSNBC: With Trump, Justice Delayed is National Security Denied

With criminal Fuhrer Trump* Justice is ALWAYS delayed, and national security is ALWAYS denied.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast played at Woodstock): Santana:SOUL SACRIFICE:Woodstock Music Festival, August, 1969


Dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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Jul 092020
 

Many nations are sending their children back to school this fall.  They can do so, because they took the necessary steps (social distancing, wearing masks, extensive testing, and contact tracing tracing, etc.) to get the COVID-19 pandemic under control.  Therefore, it’s safe for them to open their schools.  Here in the US, Criminal Fuhrer Trump* claimed that the pandemic is a hoax fostered by Democrats.  He took none of the necessity steps early and is discontinuing the few steps he took too late.  As a result, we have a raging plague of Trump* virus running wild.  It is not safe to open our schools.  Nevertheless, Trump* is demanding that schools reopen to hide his own and Republican incompetence in controlling their plague.  American school children will pay for this with their lives and those of their families.

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Determined to reopen America’s schools despite coronavirus worries, President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to hold back federal money if school districts don’t bring their students back in the fall. He complained that his own public health officials’ safety guidelines are impractical and too expensive.

Shortly afterward, Vice President Mike Pence announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would be issuing new guidance next week “that will give all new tools to our schools.” The recommendations will keep students safe, he said, but “the president said today we just don’t want the guidance to be too tough. ”

Despite Trump’s increased pressure on state and local officials, New York City announced that most of its students would return to classrooms only two or three days a week and would learn online in between. “Most schools will not be able to have all their kids in school at the same time,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio.

For a nation that prides itself on its public school system, it’s an extraordinary situation in this pandemic year.

With millions of the nation’s parents anxious about their children’s safety in the fall — and their own work interruptions if they must stay home — Trump continued to inject politics into public health… [emphasis added]

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Trump Admin. Pushes For Schools To Fully Reopen This Fall, But How?

Democrats know that reopening schools would good for us politically, but we don’t want the political benefit derived from the murder of hundreds, if not thousands, of school children and their families infected with Trump* virus.

Educator rips Trump’s push to reopen schools amid pandemic

This is what will happen if criminal Fuhrer Trump* gets to sacrifice the lives of children and their families on the altar of his reelection campaign.

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Jul 092020
 

It’s a busy day, here in the CatBox.  Store to Door is delivering a very large grocery order late this morning or early this afternoon.  It’s big, because WWWendy’s last day is Tuesday, before she is out of town for nine days visiting relatives.  So, I’ll need a nine day supply of goop.  Thursday is flush your Republicans day.  I hope my laxative works. 

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:59 (average 6:12).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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US Cases: 3,160,284
US Deaths: 134,920

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: In a scandal that threatens to upend Donald Trump’s Presidency, a new book accuses Trump of paying Vice-President Mike Pence to take his coronavirus tests for him.

According to the book, “Swapping Swabs: Trump’s Pandemic of Lies,” when the subject of being tested for the virus first came up, in March, Trump started casting about for a “good test-taker” to substitute for him.

Trump considered several candidates for the ruse, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and the Attorney General, William Barr, but ultimately settled on Pence, who agreed to take the tests for the fee of twenty-five dollars per result.

Dang, Andy! That should not be worded as an accusation. It should be worded as a fact!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): ‘Bullying, Intimidation, And Retaliation:’ Key Impeachment Witness Vindman Retires

Lt. Colonel Vindman is a hero and a patriot. Criminal Fuhrer Bone Spurs* is a bully and a coward!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast that was played at Woodstock): Jefferson Airplane – Volunteers (with Lyric)


Dedicated to all who were at Woodstock or wanted to be. Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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