Politics Plus

It’s a cold, busy day here at the CatBox.  Store to Door will be delivering my groceries, so I’ll have to unpack and stow them.  This evening, WWWendy is coming to de-stink the rancid TomCat and help with chores.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:30 (average 8:31).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Lawrence’s Last Word: Lindsey Graham’s Latest Humiliation

Poo Bag Alert!!

Lindsey Poo humiliated himself at birth, it that is the applicable term. RESIST!!

From YouTube: My plan for 2020

Jeff made the right decision. He’s my Senator, and I worked to get him elected, but he needs more experience and more name recognition. I will support his presidential bid in 2028, after a Democrat spends the next eight years in the Whitehouse. In the meantime, let the Senate remain a place where Oregon leads the way. RESIST!!

From TPM: Rep. John Burt, a Republican who sits on the New Hampshire House Committee on Public Safety, had dismissive words for the Moms Demand Action volunteers who were insulted Tuesday by his peers’ decision to don pearls during a hearing on a gun safety measure.

“The anti-gun out-of-state lady and the other anti-gun folks need to get over themselves,” Burt told TPM in an email, referring to Moms Demand Action founder Shannon Watts. “This had nothing to do with them. It is to support the Women’s Defense League and the good they do to train women to protect their children.”

Bullshit!  These Republicans insulted the women in a most vile way. If you don’t understand the significance of a pearl necklace, click here. RESIST!!

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It’s a frigid day here at the CatBox, and I was starting to wonder if we would need to rebuild the site from scratch.  We were 90%+ crashed since early Friday afternoon, until this morning.  Our graphic comment editor crashed the site, so I had to take it out, along with all it’s bells and whistles that we all loved. 🙁  WordPress plans WYSIWYG comment editing with the next major release.  Please do not use links in comments, unless you know how to edit it to blank the target.  In hope of preventing this, I invested in a utility to backup the core elements of the site.  This will be today’s only article, and I should be back in the saddle tomorrow.

Jig Zone Puzzles:

Saturday’s took me 3:46 (average 4:42).  To do it, click here.  Sunday’s took me 3:04 (average 5:28).  To do it, click here.  Today’s took me 4:09 (average 5:10).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): At CPAC Gorka Claims Dems ‘Want To Take Away Your Hamburgers’

I’m continually amazed that Sheeple are so stupid that they actually believe that garbage. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Panelist: Disheartening to see CPAC Republicans clap like seals

Every year, CPUKE is worse than it was the year before. Why? Every year, the Republican Reich is worse than it was the year before. RESIST!!

From NPR: Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper has announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, becoming the second governor to join a crowded field of candidates.

In a short video released Monday morning, Hickenlooper pledged to fight what he referred to as a crisis that threatens everything America stands for, as a picture of President Trump flashed on the screen, “As a skinny kid with Coke bottle glasses and a funny last name. I’ve stood up to my fair share of bullies. Standing tall when it matters is one of the things that really drives me.

I’ll leave it to JD to comment on this one. RESIST!!

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It’s a frigid snowy day here at the CatBox.  Store to Door just called.  They cancelled all grocery deliveries due to inclement weather.  I’m contacted WWWendy to do my shopping for me.  She has a snow day too and a 4 WD pickup.  Happy Hump Day!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:13 (average 5:02).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Fox News misrepresents Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to claim she wants to “get rid of children”

Barf Bag Alert!!

It’s not just AOC . The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, misrepresents everything! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): House Passes Resolution To End Trump’s ‘National Emergency’

I saw Bought Bitch Mitch. He looked like he ate a bad clam! Love it. RESIST!!

From NY Times: Mark Harris, the North Carolina Republican who nearly won a seat in Congress last year but saw his political fortunes collapse after the revelation that his campaign had financed a fraud-tainted voter-turnout effort, said on Tuesday that he would not run in a new election.

In a statement on Tuesday, less than one week after the North Carolina State Board of Elections ordered a new contest for the seat, Mr. Harris attributed his decision to medical issues that included two recent strokes and issues with his memory and recall, saying the Ninth District deserved “to have someone at full strength during the new campaign.”

Bullshit! He was caught red-handed, and cowardly Republican that he is, he’s slithering away. RESIST!!

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It’s a cold, busy day here at the CatBox.  The snow is forecast to end in about three hours.  Oh God it’s Monday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:38 (average 4:55). To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Elizabeth Warren’s new promise: No fundraisers, phone calls with wealthy donors

Kudos to Liz for following the trail Bernie blazed in 2015. The rest of the candidates should follow suit. RESIST!!

From NPR: Requiring only men to register for the draft is unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled.

The Military Selective Service Act, or MSSA, states that males in the U.S. aged 18 through 25 must register in case the country needs a military draft. Women face no such requirement. On Friday, a federal judge in Texas ruled that a males-only draft violates the equal protection provisions in the U.S. Constitution.

While historical restrictions on women in the military may have justified past discrimination, they don’t anymore, wrote Senior Judge Gray Miller of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. “If there ever was a time to discuss ‘the place of women in the Armed Services,’ that time has passed,” he wrote, citing an earlier Supreme Court decision.

I have always opposed the draft, because of the ease with which children of the rich and powerful can get deferments to evade service, for example, with dissolving bone spurs.  I especially opposed the draft for women, because I did not realize my chivalry was a mask for residual sexism. Now I would support a draft, if and only if the progeny of the rich and powerful were first to be called and automatically designated for combat.  There would ne far fewer wars. RESIST!!

From Alternet: President Donald Trump’s supporters in the right-wing media have often described Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe as a reckless “witch hunt” that lacks merit. Trump himself has used the phrase “witch hunt” countless times to describe the investigation. But Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general in the Obama Administration, has a very different view. And when the attorney appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, he told host Chuck Todd, “If this is a witch hunt, Mueller has found a coven at this point.”

Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble. Trump has made the bullshit double! RESIST!!

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Billionaires have been deprived of their rights under this amendment.  Increase their rights to 90%!