Now This News – The “For The People” Act
Justice Matters – Glenn Kirschner’s take on the Garland confirmation.
Ring of Fire – Michael Cohen has just had his seventh “visit” with Cy Vance (and counting.)
MSNBC – Senator Schumer on Lawrence O’Donnell
Robert Reich – Amazon v. Union
Cole and Marmalade – 10 Ways Cats say “I Love You”
Beau on a strategy not in the Alt-Right playbook
It’s a tired day, here in the CatBox. All things considered, yesterday went well. The shower aides were on time and they did a great job. My grocery delivery was on time and accurate. I even Republicated. Nevertheless, it was still an overly full day and I am BIG TIME pooped. Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update. It’s a WWWendy morning, and we have chores. TGIF!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:26 (average 5:26). To di it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
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From YouTube (a blast from the past): Strawberry Alarm Clock – Incense and Peppermints
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
Meidas Touch (from podcast)
Really American
Adam Schiff on Lawrence O’Donnell from 3/9
Stacey Plaskett loses it (goodly and beautufully) And this is why I want USVI statehood so badly.
Not every Ryan in politics is a dud. Paul and timothy may have been close in the Book of Acts … but in the House, they are poles apart.
Puppet Regime
Beau on the PRO Act
As I trust you know, it’s a humongous hurry day here in the CatBox. Color me rushing!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:59 (average 4:43). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Short Take:
From YouTube (a blast from the past): “Going up the Country” – Canned Heat / WOODSTOCK ’69
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
Meidas Touch
The Lincoln Project
These sea turtles were rescued from the ocean off of Texas when the temperatures dropped below freezing (Imagine living in water which then freezes around you.) They were treated for hypothermia and eventually released- with playground equipment. The video only shows a few (and no words, just a chuckle at one point.)
Randy Rainbow’s new promised parody …
Katie Porter …
A Big Oil exec told me I had a “misconception” about a special tax break polluters get that other businesses don’t.
So, after explaining the deduction to him, I offered to write it out of the tax code if that what he wants. Just let me know! pic.twitter.com/ML25PMnrg5
— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) March 9, 2021
Robert Reich – I would be remiss not to quote a comment on this: “BTW – Reich refers to LBJ using the “Bully Pulpit” to pass the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Dems had near 2/3 majorities in both houses at the time that overcame the objections of Southern Democrats and conservative Republicans like Barry Goldwater. And the 60-vote threshold in the Senate wasn’t in effect like it is today.”
Beau on a bold move by the Biden administration
It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. I had to take an Oxycodone this morning to supplement the methadone. I try to avoid that whenever I can.It’s been three days since the last time I Republicated, and I’m not happy with that. Happy Hump Day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:41 (average 4:31). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From Daily Kos: House Democratic legislators including the chair of the chamber’s Veterans’ Affairs committee have reintroduced legislation that would block the deportation of noncitizen U.S. military veterans, and allow eligible deported veterans to return home to the U.S. Because federal immigration officials don’t follow even their own policy, it’s unknown exactly how many veterans have been kicked out of the U.S. over the years. Advocates have estimated the number to be around 230.
“It’s a disgrace that veterans are falling through the cracks of our broken immigration system and being deported,” Veterans’ Affairs chair Mark Takano said, who reintroduced the bill with fellow Californian Juan Vargas and Arizona’s Raúl Grijalva. “Deported veterans are exiled from the country that they call home and that they fought to defend, and they face significant barriers to access the benefits they are entitled to and eligible for under the law. Congress must act and fix this injustice, and passing this comprehensive legislative package can help us achieve that.”
I fully agree with this legislation. To deport veterans who have put themselves in harm’s way to defend this nation is so criminal, it’s … Republican! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From NY Times: It was a familiar play by Donald J. Trump: lashing out at his enemies and trying to raise money from it.
The former president this week escalated a standoff over the Republican Party’s financial future, blasting party leaders and urging his backers to send donations to his new political action committee — not to the institutional groups that traditionally control the G.O.P.’s coffers.
“No more money for RINOS,” he said in a statement released on Monday by his bare-bones post-presidential office, referring to Republicans In Name Only. He directed donors to his own website instead.
Trump** wasted no time in getting back to sheeple fleecing. Sheeple are so dumb that it’s BAAA-A-A-A-A-AAD!! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Judy Collins – Send In The Clowns
Ah… the memories and the clown cars! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
Yes, this is a short list (and mostly transcript at that.) I’ll make it up probably tomorrow.
Democracy Calling
She may not be perfect (but then, who is) but I do like “The Claire Bear.”
Justice Matters – Glenn Kirschner. It gave me a smile to hear Glenn say my own words to me (“rue the day” waspart of them)
Rare panther sighting in the Everglades (from Ezra Van’s pwn channel)
Rough and ready transcript: Anchor: A man makes a discovery in the wild and the story behind this Trare sighting. The florida panther, is an elusive animal. Most of us will likely only see one in captivity in a place like the miami zoo, but a miami beach, man came across some in the wild, four of them together, and he had his camera with him to be. CBS 4 shows us the incredible video.
Announcer: What a stroke of luck to get a glimpse at a florida panther in the wild. But how about seeing four or more all at the same time?
Ezra Van: I mean I physically was shaking. I was so excited.
Anouncer: Ezra Van heads out to the everglades at least once a week, wildlife photography as a hobby. In all his years. He never saw what he found at Fakahatchee Strand State Preserve. It happened just when he was leaving and saw a panther hangingout with the vulture
start, taking some pictures and another panther walks up and they and they bark both start playing with it and then another panther walks up, and then all three of them are kind of toying around. With it and then a fourth panther walks up and just kinda sits off on to the grass on the side.
Announcer: Van says they stalked that vulture a little while longer and eventually let it go
EV: and they hung out in the grass for a little while they would even look over at me one of them meowed at me, hung out there for three minutes and just walk back off into the trees
Alligator Ron Bergeron: Looking at the video it looked like to me a a female panther with three cubs. These cubs will stay with their mother for about two years.
Announcer: Alligator Ron Bergeron is known as the mayor of the everglades he has many titles. Everglades conservation is just one
ARB: well, that’s very incredible, and that has a lot to do. If you go back to nineteen. Eighty one are estimates on panthers win twenty to thirty panthers across all of the Everglades.
Announcer: He said seeing those four panthers together could only happen after years of hard work to save the endangered animal .
ARB: we put together a panther team and studied it. And today. We estimate we have somewhere around one eighty to two hundred and thirty panthers across the beautiful Everglades tremendous success story on one of the most endangered species on the planet.
Announcer: Alligator Ron says while the population is growing there is still more to do to ensure a bright future for the florida icon.
ARB: it’s biggest enemy, is loss of habitat and collisions with cars. More crossings under our roads are extremely important to avoid collisions with panthers.
EV: The panthers are a Florida treasure you know and appreciating nature and everything that lives in it, including the panthers. I mean, I think, that’s really key to why a lot of us who live in florida
Announcer: we’ve got a lot of interest and for you on a website. Cbs miami dot com. You can get another look at all of that and video. You can also find out more about conservation and efforts to save the florida panther in the everglades ted scout cbs Four News.
Second Anchor: My hats off to the cameraman
First Anchor: sure.
Beau on Trump and money and Republicans
It’s a very tired day here in the CatBox. WWWendy and I finished our chores last night, and it should be fairly calm until Thursday. With both a shower aide and grocery delivery day, I’ll be spending a lot of time in my chair that day. I’m not looking forward to it. Tuesday is a Flush you Republicans Day, but so far, I haven’t had any to flush. Have a great day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:58 (average 4:36). To do it, click here. How did you do?
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From NY Times: One sunny day last spring, Bridgette Craighead was dancing the Electric Slide with three police officers in the grass next to the farmers’ market. It was the first Black Lives Matter protest this rural Virginia county had ever had, and Ms. Craighead, a 29-year-old hairdresser, had organized it.
She had not known what to expect. But when the officers arrived, they were friendly. They held her signs high, and stood next to her, smiling. Later an officer brought pizzas and McDonald’s Happy Meals. They even politely ignored her cousin’s expired license plate.
This, she thought, was the best of America. Police officers and Black Lives Matter activists laughing and dancing together. They were proving that, in some small way, their Southern county with its painful past was changing. They had gotten beyond the racist ways of older people. This made her feel proud. In a photograph from that day, Sgt. Thomas Robertson is smiling, and Ms. Craighead is standing behind him, her face tilted toward the sun and her fist held high.
She did not see the officers around Rocky Mount much after that. But in early January, someone sent her a photograph. It showed Officer Jacob Fracker and Sergeant Robertson posing inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the day the building was stormed by Donald J. Trump’s most fervent supporters.
At first, she did not believe it. Not her officers. But there they were, Officer Fracker giving the camera his middle finger. She confronted them on Facebook and they did not deny it. On the contrary, they were proud.
On a hate and hypocrisy scale of 1 to 10, Repuglicans rate a 50! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): SCHNOZZOLA – A Parody of Lola | Don Caron
Don always has a knack for lambasting Republicans! RESIST the Republican Reich!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Let the Good Times Roll – Harry Nilsson
Ah… the memories! RESIST the Republican Reich!!