I’m about to leave to be evaluated by the Eye Surgeon, who will correct my double vision sometime this summer. When I return this afternoon, I will have been fully dilated, and will be useless for the rest of the day. Therefore, this is my only article today.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 5:31 (average 6:40). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Take:
From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): Battle Hymn of the Republic – Modified for Relevance
In two words… Amen! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
It’s a sad, but busy day here at the CatBox. I overslept this morning, so I’m working straight through until lunch, instead of resting. I expect Store to door to deliver groceries in the next hour. WWWendy is coming this evening to de-stink the TomCat.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:03 (average 4:46). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Funny or Die Channel): How To Spot Dangerous Skin Colors
Comedy? Republicans normally rate skin color from White to Bad and react violently. RESIST!!
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Lawrence On President Donald Trump, Robert Mueller And ‘Subject’ V. ‘Target’
The fool is equating "subject" with not guilty. May he quickly graduate to "target" or ready to indict. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: \Viewers of the Sinclair station in Akron were startled on Monday when a longtime news anchor, Carol Foyler, inexplicably began reading the evening news report in Russian.
Foyler, who is not of Russian heritage, greeted her audience with a hearty “Zdravstvuyte,” and then read the evening’s top stories entirely in her newly adopted language.
After racing through the local coverage, Foyler abruptly segued to footage of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, admiring the launch of his nation’s highly touted new Satan-2 missile.
Viewers flooded the station with complaints, with many expressing alarm that, in the words of one audience member, “something was up with Carol.”
Dang Andy! Was she wearing her swastika and her MAGA hat? RESIST!!
From Think Progress: Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) compared teachers who are walking out of schools to demand better pay and education funding to spoiled teenagers in an interview with CBS news on Tuesday.
“Teachers want more, but it’s kind of like a teenage kid who wants a better car,” Fallin said.
In reality, Oklahoma teachers are the lowest paid in the country, according to 2016 Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Data gathered by the National Education Association, which only considers public school teachers, shows Oklahoma teachers only made slightly more than Nebraska and Mississippi teachers, with an average salary of $45,245.
Teachers are continuing to strike on Wednesday to demand more education funding.
Kudos to the brave teachers in Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona for resisting the Republican Reich!! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
It’s a busy day here in the CatBox. The last documents I needed to prepare my taxes came in today, so I need to get ready to do them on Sunday. It’s Monthly Report day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:49 (average 5:46). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Inequality Media Channel): The Con Mannity Show
Who would have imagined that the Reich on the left could be a comedian, while also being right! RESIST!!
From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Right-wing debunking the right-wing: Planned Parenthood edition
Republicans normally keep repeating the same lies over and over again until apathetic voters accept them as true. RESIST!!
From NY Times: The Environmental Protection Agency signed off last March on a Canadian energy company’s pipeline-expansion plan at the same time that the E.P.A. chief, Scott Pruitt, was renting a condominium linked to the energy company’s powerful Washington lobbying firm.
Both the E.P.A. and the lobbying firm dispute that there was any connection between the agency’s action and the condo rental, for which Mr. Pruitt was paying $50 a night.
For Republicans, government is a for-profit investment. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker:
Former White House staffers who were fired by Donald Trump held their first reunion on Easter Sunday in Houston’s Astrodome.
The event, which drew a crowd of approximately sixty-five thousand people, had been organized by the recently axed Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson.
“The turnout is just outstanding,” a beaming Tillerson told reporters. “Of course, most of these people didn’t have anything else to do.”
I’m calling BS on you, Andy! The Astrodome isn’t big enough. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
And he is what Republicans call too moderate.
It’s a very busy day, here at the CatBox. I’ve made four trips to the porcelain worship site to express my opinion of the Republican Party. I changed the poll. I researched today’s articles. I prepared the graphics and collected the data I will need to prepare tomorrow’s Monthly Report for March. I need two things: a nap and a cork.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:54 (average 5:33). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Challenge): Dems’ 2018 challenge: find message on taxes, health care
Some things must be absolute, like protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Others are more situational. RESIST!!
From Washington Post: Somehow, it didn’t seem as though he got the spirit of the holiday. “President Donald Trump again called for an end to the filibuster and said there will be no deal with Democrats on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA.
Trump still hates Latinos. Republicans would insane to nuke the filibuster now. They are likely to lose the Senate. RESIST!!
From Think Progress: \Seattle-based ABC affiliate KOMO-TV says its owner, the conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, is forcing its reporters to air pre-scripted segments about fake news media, in an attempt to undermine non-Sinclair stations.
Sinclair has long produced “must-run” segments for its stations, dispersing them to its various subsidiaries and requiring the local stations to run controversial, typically conservative commentary promos alongside their regular news coverage. However, in recent weeks, it’s begun turning its sights on the competition, throwing in mentions of “fake news,” among other things.
“The promos, which began airing on the station last week, are part of a Sinclair campaign that forces local anchors to read Sinclair-written scripts warning of the dangers of ‘one-sided news stories plaguing our country,’” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on Thursday.
Here’s the video:
Barf Bag Barrage!!
You won’t see a better example of the Republican bubble machine in action, as they categorize any stations that do not goose-step with Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten as fake news. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
I’m hurrying, because WWWendy is due in under an hour. Exhausted. WWWendy thank you for your greetings.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:21 (average 4:30). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Tales:
From YouTube (CNN Channel): Lack of diversity in White House intern group
The Trump group of interns is very diverse. He has Nazis, Homophobes, KKK, Misogynists, pseudo-Christians, Ammosexuals, and Grabables. RESIST!!
From Daily Kos: Ralph Peters is a retired Army officer who was a Fox News commentator for a decade. Ten days ago he declined to renew his contract with Fox, not only closing that door but slamming it off the hinges with an impassioned internal memo which was leaked, decrying the network as a propaganda machine and saying that Peters was ashamed to be there. He’s not a rat leaving the ship, he made clear, rather, “the best sailors were driven overboard by the rodents.” Peters elaborates on the Trump Russia probe in an illuminating op ed piece today at the Washington Post:
I was the one person on the Fox payroll who, trained in Russian studies and the Russian language, had been face to face with Russian intelligence officers in the Kremlin and in far-flung provinces. I have traveled widely in and written extensively about the region. Yet I could only rarely and briefly comment on the paramount security question of our time: whether Putin and his security services ensnared the man who would become our president. Trump’s behavior patterns and evident weaknesses (financial entanglements, lack of self-control and sense of sexual entitlement) would have made him an ideal blackmail target — and the Russian security apparatus plays a long game.
As indictments piled up, though, I could not even discuss the mechanics of how the Russians work on either Fox News or Fox Business. […]
All Americans, whatever their politics, should want to know, with certainty, whether a hostile power has our president and those close to him in thrall. This isn’t about party but about our security at the most profound level. Every so often, I could work in a comment on the air, but even the best-disposed hosts were wary of transgressing the party line.
Fox never tried to put words in my mouth, nor was I told explicitly that I was taboo on Trump-Putin matters. I simply was no longer called on for topics central to my expertise. I was relegated to Groundhog Day analysis of North Korea and the Middle East, or to Russia-related news that didn’t touch the administration. Listening to political hacks with no knowledge of things Russian tell the vast Fox audience that the special counsel’s investigation was a “witch hunt,” while I could not respond, became too much to bear. There is indeed a witch hunt, and it’s led by Fox against Robert Mueller.
Rarely an honest conservative like Peters surfaces. I would disagree with him on many issues, but I respect his integrity. RESIST!!
From NY Times: Gov. Jerry Brown of California on Friday pardoned five ex-convicts facing possible deportation, drawing criticism from President Trump and heightening continued tensions between Washington and California.
I support this move, if and only if they qualified for pardons, because they are not a danger to the community. I commend Brown’s courage. RESIST!!
Cartoons:
Another month is coming to an end, here in the CatBox. As if I wasn’t already busy enough, tomorrow is April Republicans Day, Easter Sunday, and WWWendy’s de-stink the sweaty TomCat day, all rolled into one. Therefore, both the new poll and the Monthly Report will be delayed a day, to Monday and Tuesday respectively.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:21 (average 5:16). To do it, click here. How did you do? I hope they have dawg burgers and dawg dogs.
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): High Costs For Mocking Parkland Student Survivors
Updating yesterday’s article, kudos to the thirteen companies. Whether or not, Faux Noise fires her, and she becomes the next White House Communications Director, RESIST!!
From NY Post: Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.
Woooo Hoooo!! RESIST!!
From Space: A full Blue Moon rises into the evening sky tonight (March 31). This will be the second and final Blue Moon of 2018, so don’t miss it!
Despite the name, the "Blue Moon" won’t actually be blue. In fact, it will look the same as any other full moon. According to the current definition, the term refers to the second full moon in a given calendar month. The traditional definition of a Blue Moon was reserved for the third full moon in a season that has four full moons, which happens in years that have 13 full moons instead of the usual 12.
Talk about Déjà vu! RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: Calling it a “medical mystery of the first order,” scientists are baffled by the ability of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to stand upright without the benefit of spines.
Doctors at the University of Minnesota Medical School, who have been studying the skeletal structures of both Republicans for months, believe that their ability to stand, walk, and even break into a brisk trot when confronted by reporters’ questions is “virtually inexplicable.”
“The fact that they can do these things without the aid of spines makes McConnell and Ryan anomalies in the animal kingdom,” said Dr. Davis Logsdon. “According to everything medical science teaches us, their bodies should be collapsing to the ground in two heaps.”
Dang Andy!! I know God wouldn’t do this, but you sure have proven the existence of the devil!! RESIST!!
Cartoon:
I’m running a little late, because something or some idiot set off the fire alarm system, and I had to put on George and my outside clothes to prepare to evacuate. The alarm went off less than a minute, after the fire department arrived. It was small cooking fire. I’m still sweating from the rushed exertion. Yesterday’s meeting went exactly as I anticipated. It was for the benefit of those, who are too lazy to read the FAQs CCC distributed over a week ago. However, the weather was nice, so I took the opportunity to make a bank run, so I can pay WWWendy on Sunday.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:46 (average 5:04). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Vox Channel): Why the Stormy Daniels and Summer Zervos lawsuits matter
I would love see Drumpfenfarten deposed and charged with the resultant perjury. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Tucker Carlson parrots YouTube’s most extreme misogynists
Barf Bag Alert!!
Dang! I’m an oppressed minority, am I? Well, I’m just too busy to commit suicide this week.
RESIST!!
From The Courier-Journal: In just a matter of hours Thursday Republicans in control of the Kentucky House and Senate unveiled – and zipped through to final passage – a new version of a controversial pension reform bill.
As about 200 stunned and furious teachers and other opponents chanted objections like "Shame on you" from outside the chambers, the House first passed the bill 49-46, and a few hours later the Senate passed it 22-15.
The bill now goes to the desk of Gov. Matt Bevin.
Passing a pension bill stands as the turning point of the 2018 legislative session, opening the way for passage of a state budget bill and perhaps a surprise tax reform bill during the remaining three days of the session.
This is how Republicans demonstrate their commitment to education: by screwing teachers. RESIST!!
Cartoon:
It’s another crazy day here at the CatBox. I’m hurrying to get done before I need to leave for a Fair Market Residents’ meeting for the remodeling relocation. Because I have been proactive, I’d be willing to bet that I will learn absolutely nothing that I do not already know, but I need to put in an appearance to keep them focused on my needs.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:03 (average 4:18). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): President Trump May Rue Selection Of Bolton For National Security Adviser
Based on what Rachel said, Bolton will soon be the subject of major national security and campaign finance criminal investigations, if he is not already. This will compromise his ability to keep his security clearance. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Vox Channel): US voting machines are failing. Here’s why.
All voting machines must have a paper trail to minimize Republican election theft. RESIST!!
From Bloomberg: If John Dowd discussed the possibility of a presidential pardon with lawyers for Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort while Dowd was serving as Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, it’s a big deal — definitely for Dowd, and conceivably for Trump.
The president has the inherent power to pardon anyone he wants. But doing so with a corrupt reason — such as saving the president’s skin — would be obstruction of justice.
Drip… Drip… Drip… RESIST!!
Cartoon:
The Injustice may be sizzling, but the Republican judicial procedure remains the same.