It’s a very busy day, here at the CatBox.  First I overslept an hour.  Then I had to prepare and send my grocery order to Store to Door.  Then I had to prepare our Fantasy Football Report and set my lineup.  Then I did my daily research.  Now I’m writing.  This evening  WWWendy comes to de-stink the foul TomCat.  After so many days, I’m… quite ripe.  Tomorrow please expect no more than a Personal Update.  I have another appointment with Megan, my PCP, about my gut trouble.  Hectic hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:37 (average 4:24).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) is worse!

Fantasy Football Report:

Here’s the news from our own fantasy football league.

Scores:

Congrats to Patty Monster, Vivian and WWWendy for winning their games.  Kudos to Patty Monster for the week’s high score.

Standings:

Congrats to Vivian and WWWendy for leading the league.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): US Policy Collapses Into Catastrophe Following Trump’s Whims

Erdogan gets Syrian Kurdistan. Putin [R-RU] gets control of Syria. Trump gets to bend over for Daddy Vladdy. The Kurds, our loyal allies, get betrayed, dispossessed and decimated. The US get to look like fools. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): FUN FUN FUN – A Parody

Love it, Don! But I would prefer it, if the paddy wagon took Trump away! RESIST!!

From NY Times: The creator of a gruesome video that showed a fake President Trump killing journalists and political opponents and that was played at a meeting of a pro-Trump group over the weekend is part of a loose network of right-wing provocateurs with a direct line to the White House.

The unidentified creator of the video operates under the name of “The GeekzTeam” and has proclaimed on Twitter to be a “red blooded American with ZERO tolerance for the liberal agenda.” Like many in the online group, the person specializes in creating pro-Trump internet content, often by remixing the president’s image into clips from popular movies and television shows.

Another of the provocateurs, Logan Cook, who often has posted the videos on MemeWorld, his website, participated in a social media summit at the White House in July and took his children to meet the president in the Oval Office, accompanied by Dan Scavino, the White House social media director.

No wonder the Fuhrer loves it so much! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

It’s a muggy day here at the CatBox.  It’s only 48°, but the humidity is 89%.  I’m ready to be de-stunk, but WWWendy is 1800 miles away.  It’s a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos are meditating with the Titans, but the game is not televised here.  May the blessed Orb shine it’s holy light on your team, unless they are descendants of Uranus and Gaea.  Ellipsoid Orb Hugs to all!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:23 (average 4:50).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From YouTube (SNL Channel): CNN Equality Town Hall Cold Open

It’s nice when they make fun of the good guys for a change. We get to laugh without having to cry at the same time. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Trump voters react to impeachment inquiry. This is what they said off-camera

Amazing! There’s only one thing you can say that voters liker the first group can understand: BAAA-A-A-A-A-A!! RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Beatles – Something

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

It’s another busy day here at the CatBox.  WWWendy was a bit late last night, and we had extra stuff to do in preparation for her trip, so I made it to bed about three hours after my normal time, so I slept in an extra hour this morning.  She’s stopping by on the way to the airport to drop off my packages that she forgot to bring yesterday.  She just came and went.  She’ll be gone until Tuesday.  I’ve noticed that m heartburn seems to have gotten worse since I started omeprazole and I’ve also had persistent Republicosis and nausea.  I looked up side-effects, and there they were.  I discontinued taking it with last night’s dose.  I don’t know about the Republicosis, but the nausea is gone, and the heart burn is not as bad as it was yesterday.  Don’t you hate going to doctor to get sicker?  TGIF!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s too me 2:56 (average 4:23).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: A nonpartisan study published by the University of Minnesota has found that the nation could save “untold millions” of taxpayer dollars by impeaching Mike Pence at the same time as Donald J. Trump.

The study, entitled “Operation bogo,” makes a compelling case for commencing an impeachment inquiry into Pence “as soon as possible,” its author, Davis Logsdon, said on Thursday.

“The cost of impeaching Trump alone or Trump and Pence together is virtually identical,” Logsdon, an economics professor, said. “This is all about economy of scale.”

“Taxpayers are already paying Adam Schiff to investigate Trump,” he added. “I’m fairly sure Schiff could be persuaded to throw in Pence for free.”

When it comes time to publish articles of impeachment against Trump, Logsdon noted, “It would cost almost nothing in terms of paper or ink cartridges to add the words ‘and Pence, too.’ ”

Amen, Andy! Doesn’t that mean we get to dump two tons of shit for the price of one? RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): See Elizabeth Warren’s simple response to a marriage equality question

FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO!! Love Liz! RESIST!!

From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – Yellin Bout Ellen

Thanks, Trae. Your normal routines are far better than Bubble Bustin’. I can forgive her for hanging out with Crawford Caligula. Had it been Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten, forget it! RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!

It’s a crappy, busy day here at the CatBox.  My Republicosis is back.  I had to prepare my grocery list for this week, send it to Store to Door, prepare the graphics for our Fantasy Football Report, do my normal research for PP and make four five draining trips to the throne.  Now I get to do the actual writing.  Poopy hugs to all.  ARGH!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:56 (average 5:29).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Fantasy Football Report:

Here is the latest from our own Fantasy Football league.

Scores:

Congrats to WWWendy, Patty Monster and me for winning our games.  More congrats to me for the highest score of both the week and the season.

Standings:

Congrats to Vivian and WWWendy for leading the league.

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: After looking at the most recent polls for the Democratic Presidential race, Donald J. Trump has ordered the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Senator Elizabeth Warren.

“What Elizabeth Warren and her crooked kids have been doing in Ukraine is a disgrace,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn. “This is maybe the biggest scandal in the history of our country.”

After Jim Acosta, of CNN, pointed out that there had been no reports of any involvement in Ukraine on the part of either Warren or her children, Trump responded, “You bet there’s been no reporting, because you people are even more crooked than she is.”

Trump brushed aside an official statement by the Ukrainian government indicating that Warren’s children had never set foot in the country. “That is because the Warren kids are basically spies, and everyone knows that spies are invisible,” he said. “You people are so dumb.”

Good one, Andy. I’m confident that statement is on his bucket list. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower On Dangers To Democracy

I just learned that Cambridge Analytica was founded to fight radicalization. They flipped to promoting radicalization, when Mercer bought the company and put Bannon and the Republican Reich in charge. Now that they are gone, many of the fascists on their staff are working for Mark Fuckerberg at Facebook, With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. Flush Facebook! RESIST!!

From Alternet: …“For a long time, however, making that case — pointing out that Republicans were sounding ever more authoritarian and violating more and more democratic norms — got you dismissed as shrill, if not deranged,” Krugman explains. But extremism, Krugman adds, was a feature of the Republican Party long before Trump ran for president.

“It’s important to understand that the GOP hasn’t suddenly changed, that Trump hasn’t somehow managed to corrupt a party that was basically OK until he came along,” Krugman emphasizes. “Anyone startled by Republican embrace of wild conspiracy theories about the deep state must have slept through the Clinton years and wasn’t paying attention when most of the GOP decided that climate change was a hoax perpetrated by a vast global scientific cabal.”

Krugman concludes his column on a somber note, stressing that Trumpism isn’t merely an indictment of Donald Trump, but of the Republican Party in general.

“Trump isn’t an aberration,” Krugman asserts. “He’s unusually blatant and gaudily corrupt, but at a basic level, he’s the culmination of where his party has been going for decades. And U.S. political life won’t begin to recover until centrists face up to that uncomfortable reality.”  [emphasis added]

I’m so pleased that Paul Krugman agrees me. How many times have you seen me state that Trump is the Fuhrer of the Republican Party, because he’s a perfect reflection of who and what they are?  RESIST!!

Vote Blue!!