It’s my last full day here in the crappy old CatBox.  I’d hoped that the move would go smoothly, but CCC could ruin a wet dream.  The movers were supposed to be here first thing in the morning.  That has now changed to “sometime in the afternoon”.  ARGH!  I will be SO glad when this mess is over.  Tomorrow I will post a brief personal update early and go back to bed to rest until late morning.  I hope to post another brief personal update, on Friday afternoon, assuming that my cable install is smooth.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:28 (average 4:32).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Jesse Dollemore Channel): Moscow Mitch is Hard at Work Making Sure Russia is Able to Interfere in the 2020 Elections!

Spot-on Jesse! The worst thing I can find to say about Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch is this. He is a Republican. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Where Your Tax Dollars Really Go

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. Every penny we spend on meeting Americans’ needs is a penny that the greedy Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, can’t give to a billionaire. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Pushing back against charges that Senator Mitch McConnell is a Russian asset, the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that McConnell “has never been an asset to any country.”

“You can scour the four corners of the globe, and you will not find a nation that would ever in a million years consider Mitch McConnell an asset,” Putin said.

The Russian President urged pundits who have called McConnell a Russian asset “to look up the word ‘asset’ in the dictionary.”

“You will find that ‘asset’ means a useful or valuable thing,” Putin said. “The only part of that definition that fits McConnell is ‘thing.’ ”

Dang, Andy! Putin [R-RU] does have a point, but McConnell sure is trying hard to help Russia. Do you think Putin has a pee-pee tape starring Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch? RESIST!!

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I’m in a bug rush to leave.  This is my only article today.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:03 (average 4:29).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Take:

From The New Yorker: A government-subsidized housing structure has fallen into a dangerous state and has become thoroughly infested with criminals and rats, a leading congressman warned on Saturday.

The building has become “the territory of vicious gangsters who roam freely and consider themselves above the law,” Representative Elijah Cummings, a Democrat of Maryland, said.

The congressman added that notorious gang members took over the housing facility in early 2017 and have “spread terror and despair” there ever since.

“People are scared to be there,” Cummings said. “Hundreds have fled.”

Amen Andy. 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is in dire need of extermination. RESIST!!

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I slept poorly last night here in the crappy old CatBox because of the extreme humidity (now 85%).  I feel very tired.  Please expect no more than a Personal Update with no links messages on Care2 both Tomorrow and Monday.  Tomorrow is a WWWendy day, and after de-stinking the smelly TomCat, we start packing.  Monday is my annual Cat Scan with contrast to ascertain that the eye-cancer I suffered did not metastasize.  It doubles as a COPD check.  I expect another clean bill of health, but I’ll be very pissed off, if I don’t get to play with the cat doing the scan.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:19 (average 4:56).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Detained American Teen Speaks About His Ordeal

This example of Republican Latino-hatred is horrific. RESIST!!

From Slate: There were likely big celebrations at the White House Friday night as the Supreme Court gave the green light for the Trump administration to use $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build parts of the wall along the Mexican border. In a 5-4 ruling, the court’s conservative justices overturned a lower court decision and said the administration could begin using the money while the case proceeds.

Even though the ruling was only one paragraph long, the conservative justices hinted pretty clearly they would likely side with the administration in the future by saying that those challenging the White House use of the funds didn’t seem to have a right to do so. On the opposite end, three of the four more liberal justices on the court—Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan—said they would have blocked the funds for now. Justice Stephen Breyer, meanwhile, said he would have allowed preparatory work but not actual construction that would be difficult to undo if the White House lost the case further down the line.

SCROTUS (Republican Anti-Constitutional VD) strikes again! They are allowing the Fuhrer to steal benefits, equipment, and training that our troops need and deserve to waste money on the bogus Republican wall. RESIST!!

From Daily Kos:

Republicans are really drawing the best people these days. For example, take Daniella Stella, the Trump-loving Minnesota woman who is trying to unseat Rep. Ilhan Omar in Minnesota’s 5th Congressional District. She has fully embraced the ridiculously absurd Qanon conspiracy theories (read more about that below.)

But, it turns out the congressional hopeful also has a criminal history. The Guardian has the goods:

Stella is accused of stealing 279 items valued at $2,327.97 from a Target store in Edina, to the south-west of Minneapolis, on 8 January this year. She was arrested for the alleged theft after security staff called the police.

A criminal complaint filed to Hennepin county district court alleged Stella was seen leaving the store without paying for most of her haul, after “scanning only a few other items” that were valued at about $50.

$2,327.97 from a Target? That’s a lot of stolen stuff. It’s hard to imagine executives or employees of Minneapolis-based Target Stores supporting her election campaign. 

The Target theft wasn’t her first time getting busted for shoplifting.

What do I think? I think the prospect of being in the House had her salivating with GOP greed. RESIST!!

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I feel very tired.  I woke up at midnight and felt so uncomfortable, due to the humidity (now 86%) that I could not get back to sleep.  At least today is the last 90°+ day in the crappy old CatBox.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:12 (average 5:20).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Neal Katyal On How To Prosecute A Sitting President

I’d love to see a state prosecutor indict the SOB and his whole clan. RESIST!!

From NY Times: The federal government will resume executions of death row inmates after a nearly two-decade hiatus, Attorney General William P. Barr said Thursday, countering a broad national shift away from the death penalty as public support for capital punishment has dwindled.

The announcement reversed what had been essentially a moratorium on the federal death penalty since 2003. Five men convicted of murdering children will be executed in December and January at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., Mr. Barr said, and additional executions will be scheduled later.

What else could we expect from Barrf? He demonstrated, once again, that Republicans are pro-death. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: In a sign that Donald J. Trump’scontrol over the Republican Party is now complete, congressional Republicans on Thursday defended his decision to give the Russian President Vladimir Putin office space at the White House.

A newly emboldened Trump told reporters that he had furnished Putin with a corner-office suite and secretarial staff to use whenever the Russian President is in town. “He says he plans to be here more and more,” Trump said….

…At the U.S. Senate, a visibly angry Senator Lindsey Graham called allegations that there was anything improper about Trump giving office space to Putin “totally unfair, disgusting, and vile.”

Ok, Andy… Where’s the humor? Where’s the satire? That’s just straight news! RESIST!!

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