Politics Plus

I must be feeling pretty tired, because I overslept again.  I just got my A1c results.  I’m quite pleased with 6.0.  Tomorrow Wendy’s niece, Katie, is filling in for her.  I hope to publish normally, but may not have time.  If I can’t I won’t send links messages on Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:33 (average 5:04).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): William Barr Improvises Role On Mueller Report Despite Clear Regulations (25 min.)

The more Republicans we subpoena (with cause), the better. Is Coverup General Barr suggesting that Moby Dick might contain evidence of whales, after all? People who believe anything Barr says are fools. RESIST!!

From Huffington Post: Former Nevada Assembly woman Lucy Flores published an op-ed in New York Magazine’s The Cut on Friday alleging that Joe Biden inappropriately kissed and touched her after he offered to help her with her 2014 campaign.

Flores, who was running for Nevada lieutenant governor at the time, described her encounter with the former vice president as making her feel “uneasy, gross, and confused.” During a Las Vegas campaign rally, she alleges he approached her from behind, put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair and kissed the back of her head.

“I froze. ‘Why is the vice-president of the United States touching me?’” she wrote.

She detailed the unwanted encounter with the likely 2020 candidate, which took place right before she was set to go onstage and speak.

I don’t want to rush to judgment, but I think it should be investigated and appropriate action taken. The Republican Reich already have a bush bandit running for Resident. Democrats cannot afford to copy them. RESIST!!

From Alternet: National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre issued a stark warning that the group may be forced to shut down due to financial woes in a fundraising letter to supporters.

LaPierre wrote in a four-page letter that the group may be forced to shutter “very soon,” The Daily Beast reported. The NRA chief blamed the financial woes on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who last year directed state regulators to “urge insurance companies, New York State-chartered banks, and other financial services companies licensed in New York to review any relationships they may have with the National Rifle Association.”

LaPierre wrote that Cuomo’s “tactics are already working.”

“Right now we’re facing an attack that’s unprecedented not just in the history of the NRA, but in the entire history of our country. And if this attack succeeds, NRA will be forced to shut down forever,” LaPierre wrote.

That would be wonderful. The demise of the NRA would open the door for the creation of a new organization to do the training in gun skill and safety that it used to do, when I was a member, half a century ago. RESIST!!

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I have to leave before 7:00, co color me gone.  This is today’s only article from me.  Hugs to all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:30 (average 4:59).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

It’s a chilly day here in the CatBox.  Yesterday’s meeting was very long and I’m very tired, but we accomplished everything we needed to get done.  On 2/19, I blasted Jussie Smollett.  Jussie Smollett has been cleared.  When I’m wrong, I say I’m wrong.  I apologize to Jussie and to you all.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:08 (average 4:17).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Trey Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – Mueller Report Schmueller Report

Dayyum! “2020 is the only play and it always has been!” Amen to that. However, we need to make the truth obvious. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich & W. Kamau Bell: A Tale of Two Tickets

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is half right. Bell is the other half right. RESIST!!

From Alternet: The Trump Administration told a federal court on Monday that it will be urging federal judges to strike down the Affordable Care Act of 2010, a.k.a. Obamacare. A lower court ruled in December that the law is unconstitutional, and Justice Department attorneys have asserted in a letter filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans that the December 2018 ruling “should be affirmed.”…

…Here are some of the most harmful results of the Trump Administration gutting and undermining the ACA.

1. Undermining the ACA is bad for Medicare

In 2016, Trump asserted that unlike other GOP presidential candidates, he had no interest in gutting Medicare. But when Republicans attack the ACA, they also attack Medicare. Obamacare didn’t hurt Medicare, contrary to what Trump claims; it strengthened it. But in 2017, it was estimated that the GOP’s anti-ACA efforts would cause Medicare’s revenue to drop by $346 billion.

2. Gutting Obamacare is terrible for Americans with preexisting conditions

Most Americans over 40, even if their health is generally good, have some type of malady that insurance companies call a “preexisting condition”—which could be anything from asthma to acid reflux. Pre-ACA, insurance companies could deny coverage to Americans because for a long list of reasons. But the ACA brought health insurance to millions of Americans who were uninsurable before, and everyone from diabetics to cancer survivors to asthmatics will be imperiled if Trump’s assault on health care reform progresses.

I shared the first two. Click through for the other three. RESIST!!

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