Open Thread – 6/27/2019

 Posted by at 10:47 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics, Religion
Jun 272019
 

It’s a tired day here in the CatBox.  It was so muggy, I slept poorly, after staying up to watch the debate.  It’s a good thing WWWendy is coming this evening, before her raucous expedition to the City of Sin. I need a shower so bad, I can  almost taste it.  YUCK!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:08 (average 4:34).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (RWW Channel): RWW News: Mike Heath Says That ‘Homosexuals Are Worse Than Murderers’

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

The only souls that should matter to these Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians (the exact opposite of real Christians) are the souls that they are: ass-souls! RESIST!!

From Washington Post: The Supreme Court’s conservatives decided Thursday that federal courts do not have a role to play in deciding whether partisan gerrymandering goes too far.

The 5 to 4 decision was written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and joined by the court’s other conservatives.

“We conclude that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts.,” Roberts wrote. “Federal judges have no license to reallocate political power between the two major political parties, with no plausible grant of authority in the Constitution, and no legal standards to limit and direct their decisions.”

Justice Elena Kagan dissented for the court’s liberals. “For the first time ever, this court refuses to remedy a constitutional violation because it thinks the task beyond judicial capabilities,” she wrote.

We can lay this horrendous decision by SCROTUS (Republican anti-Constitutional VD) at the feet of Bought Bitch Mitch for stealing the seat that went to Injustice Whoresuch and forcing the confirmation of criminally pervert Kava-Nazi. RESIST!!

From NBC News: The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration cannot include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census form that goes to every U.S. household, giving a win to populous states that said it would discourage legal and illegal immigrants from responding and make the population count less accurate.

The ruling was a setback for the Trump administration’s tough position on immigration. It was also a surprise, because it appeared in April when the case was argued that the court’s five-member conservative majority was prepared to rule that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted within his authority to add the question. They seemed to agree with the Justice Department that Ross’ decision was a rational one, balancing the need for more information against concerns about accuracy. But in the decision Thursday, the court found that while the department of commerce has a right to reinstate the question, it did not provide an adequate justification for doing so.

That should kill it for the 2020 census, as the forms deadline is in three days.  I’m shocked. Chief Injustice Roberts voted No in a 5-4 decision. RESIST!!

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That was a disaster, considering his replacement.

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Open Thread – 6/26/2019

 Posted by at 9:50 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jun 262019
 

It’s a strange but busy day here in the CatBox.  The weather is temperate, but muggy, and grass pollen is still very high.  Store to Door is delivering groceries later, and I have to unpack and put them away.  That WWWendy won’t be here until tomorrow evening makes it strange.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:06 (average 4:44).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): Hannah Explains: How to check your gender bias while watching the primary debates

 

While, I think I can make an honest evaluation about which candidate is best for America, must I check my opinion that it’s about time we put a woman in the Oval Office? RESIST!!

From YouTube (Elizabeth Warren Channel): Elizabeth Warren’s plan to protect our democracy

 

She has a plan for that. As usual, it’s impeccable. RESIST!!

From  CNN: Eric Trump, son of President Donald Trump, said Tuesday he was spat on by an employee at a Chicago-area restaurant.

“It was purely a disgusting act by somebody who clearly has emotional problems,” the President’s third child told conservative site Breitbart News [Breitfart delinked] by phone Tuesday evening.

The Chicago Police Department was on the scene and assisted Secret Service, per CPD spokesman Anthony Guglielmi.

“CPD was on scene and assisting the United States Secret Service with a law enforcement matter. Any and all inquiries regarding a federal protectee must be directed to the Secret Service,” Guglielmi tweeted.

A United States Secret Service spokesperson declined to comment to CNN, and did not respond to inquiries on whether charges had been filed.

Eric Trump cast blame for the incident, which took place at upscale cocktail bar and restaurant Aviary, more broadly on the Democratic Party.

Dang, spit? The attacker got a letter wrong. An H would have been better than the P. 😉 RESIST!!

From NY Times: A divided House voted on Tuesday to send $4.5 billion in humanitarian aid to the border to address horrific conditions facing a crush of migrants, attaching significant rules on how the money could be spent in the first action by Democrats to rein in President Trump’s immigration crackdown.

But the package — which passed by a vote of 230 to 195 nearly along party lines, only after Democratic leaders toughened restrictions on the money to win over liberal skeptics — faces a tough path to enactment. A similar measure with many fewer strings binding Mr. Trump has drawn bipartisan support in the Senate. And the House bill faces a veto threat from White House advisers, who regard the Senate bill as the surest way to speed the needed aid to strapped agencies dealing with the migrant influx.

Hours before the House bill passed, Mr. Trump said that he did not like some of the restrictions that lawmakers were seeking to place on the humanitarian funding, but that he badly needed the resources.

Trump and the Republican Reich do not want funding that stipulates how children have proper food, living conditions and medical care. The Reich has been charging taxpayers and paying cronies $750 per day per child for cement floors, no showers, too little junk food, and no medical care. RESIST!!

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Open Thread – 6/24/2019

 Posted by at 10:21 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics, Religion
Jun 242019
 

I’m running way behind, because of trying to find a way to talk to a human at USPS.  I get my packages delivered to Wendy, because I can’t get them here, and they clearly went to the wrong place, because they say they “could not get access to the building” Saturday, but someone was home all day, and no attempted delivery slip was left at the door.  The USPS website recognizes my tracking number, but the customer service number does not and will allow me to proceed no further.  ARGH!  Oh God, it’s USPS Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:52 (average 4:42).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Teach Your Children

 

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

From Washington Post: On the campaign trail, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Ind., largely faced a warm reception as he emerged from relative obscurity to become a promising Democratic presidential contender. But when he addressed a majority-black audience on Sunday afternoon in South Bend, things were markedly different.

This time, Buttigieg wasn’t speaking as a candidate but as the mayor of a city where emotions have run high since a white police officer shot a black man last week and failed to capture the fatal confrontation with his body camera. The town hall meeting, which Buttigieg convened to respond to the rising tensions, descended into chaos as community members shouted their anger and frustration. At times, the mayor struggled to speak amid the interruptions, and he was repeatedly heckled and booed.

“We don’t trust you!” yelled one audience member. “Liar!” yelled another.

This is a disaster for Mayor Pete, a candidate, who ran an excellent campaign, until now. South Bend PD has a long history of Racism. Mayor Pete fired South Bend’s first and only black Police Chief for recording officers making racist remarks. The officer who killed the unarmed black man has had multiple complaints of using excessive force against blacks. I fear Mayor Pete’s failure to clean up the Republican PD in his own back yard first will spell the end for him. RESIST!!

From Alternet: Children in immigrant detention centers are reportedly going without basic supplies like soap and toothbrushes but Vice President Mike Pence insisted on Sunday that it’s the fault of Congress.

During an interview on CNN, host Jake Tapper asked the vice president to “talk about the kids” who have been detained for crossing the border.

“Last week, legal advocates reported there are horrific conditions for children at the border,” Tapper said, pointing to reports that say children have gone without soap, toothbrushes and other items needed for basic hygiene.

“The administration was actually arguing in court this week that the administration should not be required to give soap or toothbrushes or showers to children detained at the border,” Tapper added. “Aren’t toothbrushes and blankets and medicine and basic conditions for kids, aren’t they a part of how the United States of America — the Trump administration — treats children?”

“Well, of course they are, Jake,” Pence replied with a shake of his head. “It’s one of the reasons we ask for more bed space.”

The vice president, who is an evangelical Christian, argued that the Trump administration will not give soap to detained immigrant children because of Congress.

This article is incorrect. Pence is NOT a Christian. He is a Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian, the exact opposite of a real Christian. No authentic Christian could defend such Republican crimes.  RESIST!!

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Open Thread – 6/23/2019

 Posted by at 8:05 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jun 232019
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  WWWendy will be here in an hour.  We have lots of chores, so this is my only article today, with no links messages on Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:40 (average 5:06).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (A blast from the past): George Harrison – Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)

 

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

From Crooks and Liars: Brave New World creates films intended to drive home a point in a short period of time. “Families Torn Apart: America’s Deadly Immigration Policy” does just that about our Abuser-In-Chief’s masochistic policy targeting migrant children, toddlers, and babies.

 

Every American should see this.  Click through.  RESIST!!

From TPM: Oregon’s state Senate has cancelled its session scheduled for Saturday, citing a “credible threat” from militia groups over the showdown between the state’s Democratic legislators and GOP senators.

The Oregon Capital Bureau obtained an email from the Senate’s Democratic caucus telling its members on Friday to stay away from the Capitol on Saturday.

“The State Police superintendent just informed the Senate president of a credible threat from militia groups coming to the Capitol tomorrow,” the email read. “The superintendent strongly recommends that no one come to the Capitol and President Courtney heeded that advice minutes ago by adjourning until 10 a.m. Sunday. Please make sure your staffs know not to come in tomorrow.”

This latest development is a dramatic escalation of the ongoing conflict roiling in Oregon’s state government.

Oregon Republican Senators have called in Nazi storm troopers to help them evade the just consequences of breaking the law to help polluters pollute. RESIST!!

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Open Thread – 6/22/2019

 Posted by at 9:40 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jun 222019
 

It’s a lazy day here in the CatBox.  The weather is comfortable, except for high humidity and very high grass pollen.  Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and I may publish no more than a Personal Update, with no links messages on Care2, depending on how busy we get.  Have a great weekend.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:03 (average 5:42).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Donald Trump’s Tale Of Canceled Iran Operation Strains Credulity

 

The projected military losses on both sides, in addition to collateral civilian casualties is a standard part of all operational briefings for attacks. I think the Fuhrer just put on a big act to divert attention from his daily scandals. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Snopes Channel): Do Seniors on Social Security Have to Pay for Medicare While “Illegal Immigrants” Get It Free?

 

Thank you Snopes for exposing more Republican bullshit. RESIST!!

From TPM: Terms Limits? Who needs ’em.

President Trump tweeted a video of a doctored TIME Magazine cover that essentially depicts him running for president to infinity and beyond.

 

Trump has embraced the Republican plan to establish a permanent, totalitarian, plutocratic Republican Reich and adapted it to include himself as its permanent Fuhrer. RESIST!!

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Open Thread – 6/21/2019

 Posted by at 9:53 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jun 212019
 

I hope you all had a better Spring than I did.  Welcome to Summer.  By my divine feline decree, today shall be the longest day of 2019.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:02 (average 4:25).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Hope Hicks Transcript Provides Window On 2016 Dual Trump Tape Crises

 

There you have it. If the incident behind the infamous pee-pee tape wasn’t real, then why did the Trump campaign engage a Russian operative to stop the release of that tape and others, long before the Steele Report?  The Fuhrer really is Putin’s Piddle Pervert Puppet. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Roy Moore running again for US Senate seat in Alabama

 

If elected, Moore, Injustice Kava-Nazi, and Resident Trump can have Republican pervert parties in which all three branches of government are represented. RESIST!!

From PBS: …The bleak portrait emerged Thursday after a legal team interviewed 60 children at the facility near El Paso that has become the latest place where attorneys say young migrants are describing neglect and mistreatment at the hands of the U.S. government…

…Three girls told attorneys they were trying to take care of the 2-year-old boy, who had wet his pants and no diaper and was wearing a mucus-smeared shirt when the legal team encountered him…

…Binford described that during interviews with children in a conference room at the facility, “little kids are so tired they have been falling asleep on chairs and at the conference table.”

She said an 8-year-old taking care of a very small 4-year-old with matted hair couldn’t convince the little one to take a shower.

“In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention I have never heard of this level of inhumanity,” said Holly Cooper, who co-directs University of California, Davis’ Immigration Law Clinic and represents detained youth….

Can there be any doubt that the Republican Reich racists now run concentration camps to torture Latino kids? No wonder kids are dying! RESIST!!

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Open Thread – 6/20/2019

 Posted by at 9:31 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jun 202019
 

It’s a cool. but muggy day here at the CatBox.  I overslept, and I feel rushed and groggy at the same time.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:52 (average 5:27).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Pence NSA Kept Maria Butina Tie Secret At Senate Confirmation: WaPo

 

Pence is not the solution to the Trump problem. He’s an equally evil part of the problem. Therefore…Impeach Pence first! RESIST!!

From NY Times: Several Democratic presidential candidates sharply criticized Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Wednesday for invoking two Southern segregationist senators by name as he defended himself over accusations of being “old-fashioned” and fondly recalled the “civility” of the Senate in the 1970s and 1980s.

Mr. Biden, speaking at a fund-raiser at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City on Tuesday night, stressed the need to “be able to reach consensus under our system,” and cast his decades in the Senate as a time of relative comity. His remarks come as some in his party say that Mr. Biden, the former vice president, is too focused on overtures to the right as he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination.

At the event, Mr. Biden noted that he served with the late Senators James O. Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia, both Democrats who were staunch opponents of desegregation. Mr. Eastland was the powerful chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee when Mr. Biden entered the chamber in 1973

Biden just doesn’t get it. His Democratic rivals aren’t accusing him of racism. That civility existed only because Biden had not challenged the Dixiecrats’ racist policies. When Democrats did so, the Dixiecrats abandoned the party and became the Republican base. The purge of moderate Republicans from the Reich began in the 1980s.  Democrats keep trying to cooperate civilly with today’s Republicans, but Republicans keep refusing to respond in kind. Biden is chasing a pipe dream. RESIST!!

From Willamette Week: City Commissioner Chloe Eudaly has successfully championed tenant protections designed to offer people with criminal histories a better chance at securing apartments.

The June 19 vote by Portland City Council to approve those protections represents a significant political victory for Eudaly, who worked toward passing the policy for the last two years. She says the final policy came from working and being pushed to understand how black Portlanders and others continue to face discrimination in the housing market.

“It is no secret that Portland has a long history of overtly racist housing laws—the effects of which still shape our city today,” Eudaly said before casting her vote in support. “What we fail to acknowledge more readily is that many of our current laws continue to uphold discriminatory practices. While the language may be less explicit now, the effect is just as clear: we continue to see communities of color, and especially black residents, pushed to the margins of our city and beyond at an alarming rate.”

She continued: “The heart of the Fair Access in Renting policies is about addressing the criteria that continue to be used in as a proxy for race, which includes criminal records, income requirements, and credit scores which leads to discrimination and disparate outcomes.”

Kudos to Eudaly, for whom I voted. As my guys get out of prison, this should help them. Oregon leads the way. RESIST!!

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Open Thread – 6/19/2019

 Posted by at 9:17 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jun 192019
 

It’s a busy day here in the CatBox.  Store to Door will deliver a big grocery order later, and this evening, WWWendy will be here.  I’ll be in the saddle tomorrow after all.  My prison-volunteer friends and I rescheduled our working Lunch until Monday, 7/1.  Happy Hump Day to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:57 (average 4:45).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): WHEN JOHNNY COMES ROLLING HOME

 

Amen Don! The Republican Reich gave us Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s two wars too many! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Donald Trump Officially Launches His 2020 Re-Election Campaign

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

The following is a complete list of all the good things Trump said: [end of list]. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: In a state of panic after their father dispatched troops to the Middle East, Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., have both sought medical notes from a Manhattan podiatrist.

According to an official statement from Donald Trump, Jr.,’s spokesperson, John Barron, Jr., the two Trump boys obtained the medical notes “out of an abundance of caution.”

The podiatrist’s notes, which were made public by Barron, paint a picture of two otherwise healthy young men with foot problems that can only be described as dire.

Dang, Andy! Imaginary bone spurs are hereditary!  Imagine that!  RESIST!!

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This is what triggered the Republican Party to become the Republican Reich.

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