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May 092020
 

It’s a very painful day, here in the CatBox.  The Radiation Oncologist told me to expect increased pain for a few days and a week before relief.  Tomorrow and Monday please expect no more than a personal Update or an Open Thread.  Tomorrow is a WWWendy Day, and Monday is my chemo infusion.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:54 (average 5:26).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

This is another oldie!

Trump* Virus Update:

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Cases: 1,325,521
Deaths: 78,762
Recovered: 223,937

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: In a test result that he called “a tremendous relief,” the Attorney General, Bill Barr, has tested negative for integrity, Barr confirmed on Friday.

Barr submitted to the test after learning that he had come into contact with career Justice Department prosecutors who were found to be integrity carriers.

“When I learned that there were still people at the Justice Department with integrity, I was understandably furious,” Barr told reporters. “I told them to go home at once.”

Barr said that he was putting into place new protocols that would require Justice Department employees to be tested for integrity before entering the building.

But Andy… Barrf need not worry about catching integrity. He’s immune.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): U.S. Logs Record High Unemployment Numbers – What Comes Next?

This is the other half of the Republican Reich crisis. The first half is Trump* virus. The second is the Republican depression of 2020. The solution? Flush the Republican Reich!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Matthew’s Southern Comfort – Woodstock


Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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May 082020
 

It’s a very busy day, here in the CatBox.  First, a high of 84° is forecast, so I may be cooked before my dinner is.  I’m getting ready to go to the hospital to get ZAPPED.  I expect to glow in the dark tonight.  Depending on how bad I feel, I’ll try to put up an I’m OK reply, when I return.  TGIF to all!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:33 (average 4:59).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump Virus* Update:

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Cases: 1,295,058
Deaths: 77,058
Recovered: 217,292

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: Despite an increasingly grim employment picture, an unskilled American man remains gainfully employed, labor experts confirmed.

With millions applying for unemployment benefits each week, experts expressed bafflement and outright astonishment that a man with no identifiable skills, talents, or competence appears to be secure in his job.

“This unskilled individual’s continued employment defies any kind of economic logic,” Davis Logsdon, who studies employment trends at the University of Minnesota, said. “Of the 33.5 million Americans who have applied for unemployment benefits over the past seven weeks, approximately 33.5 million are more qualified than he is.”

Even more perplexing, experts said, is the unskilled man’s persistent employment after failing at a series of other jobs during the past three years.

Andy, that certainly is a wonder. There is nobody more unskilled than Jared Kushner, except perhaps, criminal Fuhrer Trump, himself!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Trump Sidelines CDC Reopening Advice In Favor Of Vague Happy Talk


I think there is a method to the madness of criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the Republican Reich. Because they are reopening too soon to serve their own political ends, they know they will kill thousands of people in the process. If states /businesses have no guidelines to follow, the Fuhrer and the Reich can blame the state/local level reopening failures and their lethal effects on the state and local officials.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Teach Your Children


Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

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Samantha Bee from 5/6

 Posted by at 10:47 am  Politics
May 072020
 

It’s that time of week again, and here are four fine video clips from Sam’s show last night.  Enjoy!!

The Things We Should Have Been Doing All Along! Brought to You By Coronavirus

Excellent points! The system that we use to redistribute recourses in the US was developed a couple centuries ago, are way out of date, and have been taken over by greedy billionaires and giant criminal corporations. We need to redesign the entire system to provide equitable treatment for the poor and middle classes.

How to Homeschool During a Pandemic


I don’t know how to best teach our children, but I can tell you who don’t know, and who do know. The Republican Reich don’t, and our wonderful teachers do!

Sam’s Coronavirus Time Capsule


Ditching the bras is fine, but PLEASE keep the contents!

Live From Sam’s Shed… It’s Vanessa Carlton!


I LIKE it!

Thanks Sam!

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May 072020
 

It’s a busy day, here in the CatBox.  Store to Door is delivering groceries this afternoon, and I have to put them away.  Tomorrow please expect no more than an Open Thread or Personal Update.  It’s my day to get zapped with Radiation.  WWWendy is taking me.  When I return, I plan to have some chili con goop, so the green cloud I send north to Squatch will be radioactive.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:11 (average 5:48).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Cases: 1,266,785
Deaths: 74,962
Recovered: 213,138

Short Takes:

From Alternet: A new report from Vanity Fair’s Diana Falzone published Wednesday recounts a series of stories in which the federal government has allegedly seized personal protective equipment — desperately needed during the coronavirus crisis — from private hands.

One businessman who owns a medical equipment supply firm said the FBI contacted him on the suspicion he was price-gouging, which he said his profit margins disproved. But his future shipments of N95 masks, which he planned to sell to “fire departments, nursing homes, and EMT departments,” were seized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, he said. Vanity fair reported that the document officials used to seize his orders cited President Donald Trump’s executive order claiming authority to determine the allocation of COVID-19 resources.

In the Republican Reich, every billionaire that wants PPE can get it. That’s why Republicans steal PPE supplies from heroes.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Parallels Between Gun Rights Debate And Virus Debate


The NRA and Republican billionaires have one thing in common. Both don’t give a damn how many Americans their policies murder, as long as their money and power increase!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Brian Hyland – Sealed with a Kiss with Lyrics


Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

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May 062020
 

Do you remember the “anonymous whistleblower that helped expose the high crimes and misdemeanors for which criminal Fuhrer Trump* escaped responsibility?  Bought Bitch Midnight Moscow Mitch and the Senate Republicans violated their oath.  Well, it’s whistleblower time again.  This one is not anonymous, and the high crimes and misdemeanors are even worse.

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[H]e was pressured to invest in drugs and vaccines that lacked scientific merit, because the people selling them had friends in the Trump administration, up to and including the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He was forced to transfer funds to acquire drugs for the Strategic National Stockpile, America’s most important reserve of lifesaving medications, based not on health needs but on “political connections and cronyism.” He was instructed to use his department’s budget to purchase flu medications of questionable efficacy. And when the COVID-19 crisis erupted, he was pressured to approve a plan that would “flood” cities with unproven and untested doses of chloroquine drugs, from uninspected manufacturing plants in Asia. When his efforts to work through the system failed, he decided he had a “moral obligation to the American public” to ring the alarm about the plan, “which he believed constituted a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety.” In retaliation, he was “smeared,” with officials unfairly accusing him of dropping the ball on vaccine development and PPE preparation.

These are just some of the allegations contained in a blistering, 63-page complaint that Dr. Rick Bright, former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), filed today with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. According to his lawyers, Bright will testify before Congress next week.

Vanity Fair has submitted requests for comment to the White House and the Food and Drug Administration, and will update this article with any responses. In a statement, Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Caitlin Oakley said: “Dr. Bright was transferred to NIH to work on diagnostics testing—critical to combatting COVID-19—where he has been entrusted to spend upwards of $1 billion to advance that effort. We are deeply disappointed that he has not shown up to work on behalf of the American people and lead on this critical endeavor.”

Bright has become the first high-level federal whistleblower to publicly allege that the Trump administration has responded to the COVID-19 crisis by unduly pressuring health officials, and putting politics and profit ahead of science. Bright, the government’s top coronavirus vaccine developer, had spent a decade at BARDA, a small but powerful agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), whose mandate is to partner with private companies to help accelerate the development of vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics. According to Bright’s complaint, BARDA manages almost $50 billion worth of contracts and acquisitions, on an annual budget of just over $1.5 billion. He was named director in 2016…  [emphasis added]

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I strongly encourage you to click the link in the second paragraph and read the shocking complaint in it’s entirety.

Here’s some coverage from CNN.

Ousted vaccine director says pandemic warnings were ignored

In the criminal Fuhrer’s White House, as in the entire Republican Reich, truth telling is a capital offense.

White House coronavirus task force to be ‘phased down’ around Memorial Day


There are few things that the Republican Reich, especially criminal Fuhrer Trump* hate more than oversight. They fear that the next whistle blower will publicly expose it, when Republicans murder more and more Americans to reopen the economy for Trump’s* political ends.

MSNBC did a better job covering the actual corruption.

Coronavirus Whistleblower Complaint Suggests Trump Admin. Putting Politics Above Science


How many thousands of Americans have died and will die, because criminal Fuhrer Trump* is diverting the resources desperately needed by sick families no serve his, his relatives’, and his Republican cronies’ greed?

The last time there was a whistleblower complaint, we impeached Criminal Fuhrer Trump*. Since these high crimes and misdemeanors are even worse, it’s time to give that dirty son of a bitch (apologies to all female dawgs) a second asterisk.

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May 062020
 

It’s a super-tired day here in the CatBox.  I have no idea why, but, after sleeping just a couple hours last night, I woke up and could not fall asleep again.  Tonight is a WWWendy night.  After de-stinking the rancid TomCat, we’ll be gooping.  Happy Hump Day to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:16 (average 4:48).  To do it, click here.  Hoe did you do?

Cartoon:

I made this cartoon eight years ago.  Republicans are still at it, but worse.

Trump* Virus Update:

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Short Takes:

From YouTube (Raw Story Channel): Kamala Harris grills DNI nominee John Ratcliffe on Trump’s COVID-19 response [emphasis added]

That lying, goose-stepping, Republican Nazi Sycophant needs to change his name. As it stands, it’s an insult to Rats.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (Daily Kos Channel): Essential Workers Deserve a Bill of Rights

While I fully agree that essential workers are heroes that need and deserve a Bill of Rights, I would take it one step further and cover ALL workers with a Bill of Rights!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Wooden ShipsCrosby Stills Nash and Young

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

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May 052020
 

It’s a tired day, here in the CatBox, as yesterday completely wore me out.  I’ve avoided tatoos all my life, but now I have five.  They are small dots on my abdomen to serve as targeting guides.  I almost asked them to roll me over and put two eyes above my butt hole.  That would have given me a Trump* tattoo that acts just like the Fuhrer does!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:38 (average 5:08).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

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Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: There is an op-ed in the Kansas City Star written by Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren (www.kansascity.com/…) promising to use the power of the government to punish the blatant corruption that is obvious everywhere:

The Biden administration will appoint an inspector general to review every coronavirus relief transaction currently evading serious scrutiny. Wasteful, corrupt deals and giveaways will be rooted out and undone. Suspicious transactions will be referred to the Justice Department for investigation and prosecution. Every Trump administration official and business executive contemplating such deals should hear us loud and clear. Trump may wink and nod at this corruption. We will not.

Imagine what this means for Jared Kushner? Or everyone involved in the open piracy of stealing medical supplies from a state that paid for them (and arranged transportation)? Or all the companies selling our national stockpile for high profits?

When this unfortunate virus has stabilized, we need a national truth and reconciliation committee. And with real jail time!!

Wow! If they really follow through this time, unlike far too many past instances, we’ll need to build more prisons to hold those Republican corporate criminals.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): New Ad From Conservative Group Angers Trump

I think the Lincoln Project made a fantastic ad. On most things, I completely disagree with most conservatives. However, I am willing to respect them, coexist with them, and compromise with then, with one caveat. It must be mutual. That cannot happen with today’s Republican Reich.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Donovan – Catch the wind

Ah… the memories!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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