Open Thread – 10/8/2018

 Posted by at 1:03 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 082018
 

I’m still feeling pretty burned-out.  I trust that, within a few day’s, I’ll feel more motivated.  In the meantime, I’ll just keep going.  OGIM!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:38 (average 5:29).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Religious Agony:

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If they can’t beat the dawg ass Jets, it’s going to be a long year.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): New climate change report issues stark warning

 

Unless greedy Republican polluters, both at home and abroad, can be forced to act responsibly, they will kill us all. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube: "Nasty Man" by Joan Baez

 

I loved Joan as a 1960s protester. I count finding this a joy! Here she is in her prime.  RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Vox: For the past week, House Democrats have been saying they’ll take over the investigation into Kavanaugh’s background if they win in the 2018 midterms. Five Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee — including ranking member Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) — have called for an investigation into the sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh. (Kavanaugh has denied all the allegations made against him).

Nadler, who would become committee chairman if Democrats win back the House, made it clear he would like to do a thorough investigation into both the sexual assault and misconduct allegations brought by Christine Blasey Ford and other women, as well as claims that Kavanaugh perjured himself in sworn testimony in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

It is possible that sufficiently egregious criminal findings proven by such an investigation may prompt Roberts, who is very big on institutional reputation, could side with Democrats to force Pervert Kava-Nazi to resign over violations of the Judicial Code of Conduct. That may be our best hope. To convict of an impeachment, we won’t have 67 Senate votes anytime soon.  RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Our Future: Georgia has purged nearly ten percent of its registered voters – nearly 750,000 people  -from the voting rolls without their ever knowing. Now these voters have just one more day to reregister.

IF YOU VOTE IN GEORGIA, OR KNOW ANYONE WHO DOES, BE SURE TO CLICK ON THE FOLLOWING WEBSITE TO SEE IF YOU OR THEY HAVE BEEN PURGED FROM THE VOTER ROLLS, AND TO GET HELP IN RE-REGISTERING BY TUESDAY. CLICK HERE.

The problem is that even if these voters find out they’ve been purged, unless they reregister by Tuesday, October 9th, they won’t be allowed to vote.

Don’t let Republicans steal your vote!  Enough said? RESIST!!  VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 10/7/2018

 Posted by at 1:04 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 072018
 

WWWendy is due in about 45 minutes to destink the TomCat and help with chores, including the dreaded task.  I hate it when my Broncos play during the early game, and I’m working.  After my blogging is done, I’ll try to avoid thinking about current events for the rest of the day.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:55 (average 6:05).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (SNL Channel): Brett Kavanaugh Post-Game Cold Open

 

I’m surprised Injustice Clarence Thomas, Judge Roy Moore, and the Pussy Grabber-in-Chief didn’t join the celebration. OOPS! I know! They were partying with Injustice Pervert Kava-Nazi! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Protesters Swarm Door Of Supreme Court

 

I hate to tell those protestors, but those doors will be locked to them and anyone else seeking justice for a generation or more. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Crooks and Liars: Thank you, Joy-Ann Reid, for reading Deborah Ramirez’s statement on the air this morning. And to Deborah Ramirez: We. Hear. You.

 

Kudos to Debbie Ramirez. America must never forget that Republicans have put two pervert injustices on SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD). RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 10/6/2018

 Posted by at 12:42 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 062018
 

It’s another chilly day here in the CatBox.  I’m feeling very depressed, because Pervert Kava-Nazi will be confirmed shortly after this is published, or shortly thereafter, and I thought we were going to stop him.  Tomorrow is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos are visiting the Jets, and it will be televised here.  May the Orb shine it’s holy light on your team, unless they are planes.  Tomorrow is also a WWWendy day.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:40 (average 5:00).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Brett Kavanaugh Vote Will Drive Political Backlash If History Is Guide (25 min.)

From Rachel’s mouth to God’s ear! Pervert Kava-Nazi’s decisions will drive backlash for a years. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!

Also from YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Lawrence: ‘The Senate Is An Unfixable Crime Against Democracy’

He is so right. I wish I knew how to fix it.  RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: Just after Maine Sen. Susan Collins spent 50 minutes on the Senate floor rolling out the twisted logic of her support for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin finally decided he had enough cover to announce he would help push Kavanaugh’s nomination over the edge.

His support was full of useless caveats, like having “reservations” about Kavanaugh’s “temperament” and the “serious accusations” against him. “I do hope,” Manchin said, Kavanaugh won’t let his self-professed partisanship “follow him onto the court.” Gee, that’s reassuring. But here’s the most craven defense of his decision, concerning the pre-existing conditions coverage for West Virginians that Kavanaugh may well shred thanks to his position on the Supreme Court.

I think I disagree.  You all know that the only reason I ever support Manchin [DINO-WV] is that even the worst DINO is better than the best Republican, because the DINO counts towards having a Senate majority. That said, I want to give Manchin the benefit of the doubt here. He could choose an easy reelection by voting yes or a knife fight by voting no. After Collins announced, it was a done deal with or without Manchin’s vote. I think he would vote no, if it mattered. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 10/5/2018

 Posted by at 1:08 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 052018
 

It’s been such a busy week that I’m feeling so burned out that I thought it was Thursday, until just a few minutes ago.  Pardon my brevity.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:15 (average 5:53).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

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

 

Thanks Don. Pervert Kavanookie can’t wait to have a pervert party with Clarence Thomas and Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Daily Kos Channel): CNN 10 04 2018 Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says NO to Kavanaugh nomination

 

This has never happened before. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From AlterNet: In a new piece for the New York Review of Books, historian Christopher Browning warns that there are troubling parallels between the present-day United States and the days of fascism’s rise in Europe.

Browning, a specialist in the areas of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and world war-era Europe, isn’t arguing that President Donald Trump is a modern Adolf Hitler or that Trumpism is akin to Nazism. But he does argue that certain stress fractures in the society and the international order appear to be re-emerging and that these patterns portend troubling trends for the United States and the rest of the world.

And there is one figure in American politics that Browning does see as a relatively direct — and troubling — analog to a crucial world war-era figure. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican, is becoming "the gravedigger of American democracy," Browning wrote, a role played for Germany beginning in the 1930s by President Paul von Hindenburg… [emphasis added]

Click through for more.  Now why I call them the Republican Reich should be clear. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 10/4/2018

 Posted by at 1:18 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 042018
 

It’s a chilly day here at the CatBox.  I just finished writing the Monthly Report and that wore me out.  Wish me lots of Zs.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:21 (average 5:13).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Sen. Jeff Merkley: ‘Absurd’ There’s Only Going To Be One Copy Of FBI Report

 

Jeff was on this before we knew Kavanookie was a pervert. Dozens of Democrats won’t even get to see the cover-up. Jeff and Oregon lead the way. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): News reports and personal accounts contradict Kavanaugh’s defenses of himself

 

That’s over a dozen lies under oath. To disqualify, all it takes is one lie.  RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: Voting early has grown increasingly popular across the country in recent years, and in some states, the early voting period for the Nov. 2018 midterms has already begun. Below, courtesy Ballotpedia, you can see when early voting starts and ends in all of the states where it’s available.

STATE

START

END

STATE

START

END

Alaska

22-Oct

5-Nov

Montana

9-Oct

5-Nov

Alabama

None

 

North Carolina

17-Oct

3-Nov

Arkansas

22-Oct

5-Nov

North Dakota

27-Sep

5-Nov

Arizona

10-Oct

2-Nov

Nebraska

9-Oct

5-Nov

California

8-Oct

5-Nov

New Hampshire

None

 

Colorado

5-Oct

6-Nov

New Jersey

22-Sep

5-Nov

Connecticut

None

 

New Mexico

20-Oct

3-Nov

Delaware

None

 

Nevada

20-Oct

2-Nov

Florida

27-Oct

3-Nov

New York

None

 

Georgia

15-Oct

2-Nov

Ohio

10-Oct

5-Nov

Hawaii

23-Oct

3-Nov

Oklahoma

1-Nov

3-Nov

Iowa

8-Oct

5-Nov

Oregon

17-Oct

6-Nov

Idaho

22-Oct

2-Nov

Pennsylvania

None

 

Illinois

27-Sep

5-Nov

Rhode Island

None

 

Indiana

10-Oct

5-Nov

South Carolina

None

 

Kansas

17-Oct

5-Nov

South Dakota

21-Sep

5-Nov

Kentucky

None

 

Tennessee

17-Oct

1-Nov

Louisiana

23-Oct

30-Oct

Texas

22-Oct

2-Nov

Massachusetts

22-Oct

2-Nov

Utah

23-Oct

2-Nov

Maryland

25-Oct

1-Nov

Virginia

None

 

Maine

8-Oct

1-Nov

Vermont

21-Sep

5-Nov

Michigan

None

 

Washington

19-Oct

6-Nov

Minnesota

21-Sep

5-Nov

Wisconsin

Varies by locality

 

Missouri

None

 

West Virginia

24-Oct

3-Nov

Mississippi

None

 

Wyoming

27-Sep

5-Nov

RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 10/3/2018

 Posted by at 12:28 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 032018
 

It’s a busy day here in the the CatBox.  I’m waiting for Store to Door to deliver groceries, so I’ll need to unload and stash them.  It’s actually a bit chilly here, and I’m enjoying that.  I made the graphic and collected the data I’ll need for tomorrow’s monthly report.  ClustrMap is on the fritz and I have no idea why.  WWWendy is back on schedule so she comes this evening to destink the TomCat.  My plan is to finish my work shortly after lunch, as I’m still quite tired.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:17 (average 5:00).  To do it, click here.  How did you do? (I ate a big bowl of killer green cloud chili last night, hoping to blow that Sasquatch back, long enough for me to get that dawg!)

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Trump mocks Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

Put this together with Kavanookie’s statements about her and we have a tag-team of perverts. Putting Kavanookie on SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD) would be no worse than giving the seat to Trump. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: Georgia’s Republican Senator David Perdue, known around these parts for being a millionaire who loves bailouts and outsourcing American jobs, was walking through Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport when he was approached by three women. According to The Cut, the three women, including two identified as sexual-assault survivors, wanted to ask Sen. Perdue to stand up for women by demanding a thorough investigation into Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

The three women — sexual-assault survivors Patti Serrano and Jennifer Epps-Addison, of the Center for Popular Democracy advocacy group, along with Arizona State Representative Isela Blanc — also asked Perdue whether he supports a full FBI investigation into the allegations against Kavanaugh.

Perdue tried to ignore the women, and then told one of them not to touch him when she put out her hand to introduce herself. Perdue proceeded to make a beeline for an airport bathroom. Maybe an appropriate Republican motto could be “Republicans: angry and afraid of women … since forever.”

That a thoroughly Republican thing to do! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From NY Times: Amazon said on Tuesday that it would raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour for its United States employees, a rare acknowledgment that it was feeling squeezed by political pressure and a tight labor market. The raises apply for part-time workers and those hired through temporary agencies.

The company said it would also lobby Washington to raise the federal minimum wage, which has been set at $7.25 for almost a decade.

The new wages will apply to more than 250,000 Amazon employees, including those at the grocery chain Whole Foods, as well as the more than 100,000 seasonal employees it plans to hire for the holiday season. The change will not apply to contract workers. It goes into effect on Nov. 1.

“We listened to our critics, thought hard about what we wanted to do, and decided we want to lead,” Amazon’s chief executive, Jeff Bezos, said in a statement. “We’re excited about this change and encourage our competitors and other large employers to join us.”

Kudos to Jeff Bezos and amazon.com. I’d rather pay a little more, if that means more for workers. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 10/2/2018

 Posted by at 1:51 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 022018
 

It’s a relatively cool day, here at the CatBox, but the sun is on the wall, so I’ll have to break soon to button-up and turn on the A/C.  This morning I was busy doing my normal research, preparing football reports, and finalizing my shopping list, so tomorrow I’ll prepare the graphics and collect the data for September’s Monthly Report.  Then I’ll post it on Thursday.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:07 (average 4:24).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Religious Agony:

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My guys played a superior game against a superior team, and they should have won.  In KC’s game winning drive, they were 3rd and 7 on the 46, when the play clock expired a full second before the snap.  Denver’s defense relaxed, expecting the delay of game call, and Mahomes passed to Harris moving the ball to the eleven.  The official, who was supposed to be watching admitted that he muffed the call, but there’s no replay for a missed penalty. That mistake probably cost Denver the game.  That damn stinking Orb really F’d up!

Fantasy Football Report:

Here’s the latest for our own fantasy football league.

Scores:

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Congrats to Wendy, Patty Monster and me for winning.

Standings:

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Kudos to Pam, me, and Patty Monster for leading the league.

Short Takes:

From Huffington Post: Harvard Law School dean John F. Manning informed students last week that, although he couldn’t say whether Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh would still be teaching his January class, called The Supreme Court Since 2005, the school was still taking its students’ concerns seriously. But now the school has told students that Kavanaugh’s course, which he’s been teaching since 2009, would not be offered in 2019.

He’s too dishonest to teach at Harvard, but he’s good enough for Republicans. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: In the Rose Garden outside the White House, Donald Trump announced a renewed North American Free Trade Agreement, which he is trying to rebrand with the new name: U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). Toooooooootally different, see?

He turned to questions from the gathered White House reporters and Donald Trump being Donald Trump, he just couldn’t help but insult Cecilia Vega of ABC News, who was trying to ask a question. And of course his gathered bros, including Jared Kushner and Steve Mnuchin, laughed it up. WATCH:

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

Talk about misogyny! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: As the F.B.I. hurries to complete its supplemental background check of the Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, twenty million witnesses have come forward claiming that they saw Kavanaugh lie under oath.

According to the witnesses, they can remember the place where they saw Kavanaugh lie, a hearing room in the United States Senate, and the exact date and time, this past Thursday afternoon.

Despite the striking similarity of their stories, the twenty million witnesses to Kavanaugh’s mendacity said that they were having trouble getting in touch with the F.B.I., even though lying to the Senate is a federal crime and thus within the Bureau’s jurisdiction.

“I called my local F.B.I. office and was told to call the Bureau’s toll-free tip line,” Harland Dorrinson, a resident of Toledo, Ohio, said. “I did that, but the mailbox for Kavanaugh tips was full.”

Dang, Andy! You underestimated the total big time! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Open Thread – 10/1/2018

 Posted by at 12:49 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 012018
 

A new month is upon us, and we have a few cool days here in the CatBox.  I’m tired, because WWWendy, who sends greetings, and I were up late last Night doing chores.  Tonight, my Broncos play the Chiefs in Denver on Monday Night Football.  May the holy Ellipsoid Orb bless my Broncos.  (They’ll need it!)  OGIM!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:04 (average 5:23).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Trump mocks Dianne Feinstein over Ford’s letter

Barf Bag Alert!!

A pervert perverting justice to defend a pervert. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The Oregonian: Portland police are investigating a police shooting early Sunday in downtown Portland that left a Portland man dead.

The Police Bureau has released few details about the shooting, but social media from relatives and friends of the victim are filled with “R.I.P.” messages for the family of a 27-year-old man named Patrick Kimmons, known as “Pat Pat.”

 

The building you see with the Starbucks is mine, and all this happened in full view of my window, which you can see when it pans. By the time I was aware of it, they were already removing the body. Even at 5:00 PM, WWWendy had to park several blocks away. She explained that she is a caregiver, so she got a police escort to my building to be allowed into the area. Police say it was gang related. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From NY Times: The F.B.I. moved on Sunday to quickly complete an abbreviated investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct against Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, even as Democrats demanded more information about the inquiry’s scope, warning that its apparent constraints could make it a “farce.”

As agents conducted their review, which involves interviewing four potential witnesses, a college professor in North Carolina became the latest in a series of former Yale classmates of Judge Kavanaugh’s to accuse him of giving untruthful testimony by minimizing his use of alcohol when he was a student.

The professor, Chad Ludington, said he frequently saw Judge Kavanaugh “staggering from alcohol consumption” during their student years. He said he planned to tell his story to the F.B.I. at its office in Raleigh, N.C., on Monday. A spokesman for the White House declined to comment on Mr. Ludington’s allegations.

It may be that a limited investigation might be all that’s needed to, but if it’s a farce, we can only hope that Flake, Collins, and Murkowski refuse to goose-step without a real investigation. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

Late Update:  The restrictions on the investigation have been lifted, because Flake and Collins insisted.

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