I’m feeling very tired and pretty sick, so I’m returning bed. OGIM!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:52 (average 4:36). To di it, click here. How did you do?
Short Take:
From YouTube (Last Week Tonight Channel): Green New Deal: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
He’s as right as he is funny. RESIST!!
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WWWendy had to work, and she’ll be late, do I’m going back to bed. This is today’s only article.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:43 (average 5:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
To Moms Everywhere:
Short Take:
From YouTube (SNL Channel): Meet the Press Cold Open
It’s so close to true that I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. RESIST!!
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Name them after Republicans: Hurricane Asshole, Hurricane Bastard, Hurricane Craven….
Here’s the problem. It’s 90° weather. CCC has not gotten my own AC to me. They did give me a loaner unit, but jury rigged the installation. There a 2″ square of open window in a place I can’t reach to patch or plug. Worse yet, the exhaust tube does not seal properly, so some of the hot air is venting into the room instead of being pumped outside. It was over 80° here last night. My COPD is horrid. Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow. This is today’s only article.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:48 (average 4:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
Four from Real Time Channel:
Monologue: The Resistance is Futile
When pigs fly out of Putin’s ass? We know one has flown in: Trump’s nose. RESIST!!
Tim should not be confused with the infamous Lyin’ Ryan. I think he’s in it to build name recognition for the future. RESIST!!
Michael Lewis: Why Government is Good
The only time that government is the problem is when the Republican Reich destroys it. RESIST!!
Of the two, Melania is worse off than Jerry. RESIST!!
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The excessive heat is setting off my COPD. I need to go back to bed.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:24 (average 5:36). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Take:
From NY Times:
[R]esident Trump escalated his trade war with China on Friday morning, raising tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods and taking steps to tax nearly all of China’s imports as punishment for what he said was Beijing’s attempt to “renegotiate” a trade deal.
Mr. Trump’s decision to proceed with the tariff increase came after a pivotal round of trade talks in Washington on Thursday night failed to produce an agreement to forestall the higher levies. The White House said talks would resume again on Friday but it remains uncertain whether the two sides can bridge the differences that have arisen over the past week.
In his comments at the White House on Thursday afternoon, Mr. Trump vacillated between threatening China and suggesting a deal could still happen. The president said he had received a “beautiful letter” from President Xi Jinping of China and would probably speak to him by phone, but said he was more than happy to keep hitting Beijing with tariffs.
To be clear, China pays nothing for Trump’s tariffs. YOU pay it all, and the Republican Reich gets the money. RESIST!!
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The heat wave continues here in the CatBox with record highs forecast for the next three days: 86°, 90° and 90°. I’m very tired, because I was up late last night. Wendy was a couple hours late. Her dad passed yesterday. In spite of her grief, she came to do my care anyway, God bless her. Please remember her and her family in your kind wishes and prayers.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:34 (average 4:59). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Senate Judiciary Democrats Submit Question List For Robert Mueller
They’re making a list. They’re checking it twice. Will Lindsey Poo hide who’s been naughty, not nice? RESIST!!
From YouTube (Daily Kos Channel): Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “We do have a little jail down in the basement of the capital.”
Don’t even clean that jail. Just fill it with Barrf! RESIST!!
From NBC News: A co-founder of Facebook called for the government to break up the tech giant in an op-ed article Thursday in The New York Times.
“The Facebook that exists today is not the Facebook that we founded in 2004,” Chris Hughes, who started Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg in their Harvard dorm, told NBC News after the op-ed was published.
“And the one that we have today I think is far too big. It’s far too powerful. And most importantly, its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is not accountable,” Hughes said of his former business partner.
With Facebook, the only way to win is not to play. UNPLUG!! RESIST!!
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A blast from the past. In 2014 the HRCC gave the title to Sheeple who donated.
As I continue to improve slowly, it’s a very busy, very hot, day here in the CatBox. It’s grocery delivery day, and WWWendy is coming to scrape the stink from the TomCat. Happy Hump Day!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:38 (average 5:48). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Donald Trump Red Line Failing Despite Urgency To Keep Finances Opaque (19 min.)
The Fuhrer lost that much, did he? I’m surprised it wasn’t more. Due to dementia, he is even less competent now than he used to be. RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: President-elect Donald J. Trump will no longer have day-to-day responsibility for driving his businesses into bankruptcy and will instead focus on bankrupting the country, one of his leading surrogates said on Wednesday.
Appearing on Fox News, Kellyanne Conway said that while Trump no doubt could “plunge both his businesses and the country into bankruptcy at the same time,” he feels that he “owes it to the American people to put them first.”
Acknowledging that Trump has no government experience, Conway said that his years of bankrupting a variety of companies would prove “invaluable” as he does the same to the United States.
“It’s going to surprise a lot of people when they see how great he is at this,” she said.
Dang Andy! For the very first time, Smellyanne was right! RESIST!!
From Raw Story: resident Donald Trump on Wednesday asserted executive privilege over all of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference during the 2016 presidential election.
The assertion of executive privilege came just as the House Judiciary Committee was about to hold a vote on holding Attorney General Bill Barr in contempt. The president’s assertion over the entire report comes despite the fact that most of the report has already been made public.
I’m not sure where we go from here, but resolving it through the courts could take years. We should still charge Barrf with Contempt of Congress. RESIST!!
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It’s another hot day here in the CatBox. I’m trying to climb back into the saddle. I’m improved, but hot and tired.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:43 (average 4:48). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Divider in Chief
Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, screws YOU to suck Koch. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Jesse Dollemore Channel): Donald Trump Tweeted That He’s Owed an EXTRA TWO YEARS in Office Because of “STOLEN TIME!”
Excellent points. Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten owes the American people for the years America has had a Resident, not a President. He can pay us from the inside of a cell. Could this be a prelude to seizing power by force after a 2020 loss? RESIST!!
From The New Yorker: President Donald J. Trump is reportedly “seething with envy” and “furious” that another baby is suddenly getting all the attention, White House aides have confirmed.
The aides, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Trump was “beside himself” after watching cable news cover a baby other than himself all Monday morning.
“He can’t understand why they are suddenly obsessed with this baby,” one aide said. “He thinks he should be the only baby that people are thinking about, and this new baby is driving him nuts.”
Real news, Andy? Awwww… Poor widdle Fuhrer! Does Twumpy Wumpy need Stormy to change him again? RESIST!!
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It’s a hot day here in the CatBox. The normal high is 62°. For the next week, we’ll be 20°+ over that and pushing 90°. I’m feeling a little better, but am staying down to be sure. Prayers for Wendy, please. Her niece’s memorial service was last night, and her father will pass any day. OGIM!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:46 (average 5:08). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From YouTube (Last Week Tonight Channel): Lethal Injections: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
There are two categories of nations: nations that do not execute prisoners and barbaric nations. End state sponsored murder, especially by slow torture. RESIST!!
From YouTube (Jesse Dollemore Channel): TRUMP IS FREAKING OUT!!! Robert Mueller to Testify Before Congress on May 15th!
Amen. I bet Barrf is freaking out along with his Fuhrer! RESIST!!
From Washington Post: Up to 1 million plant and animal species are on the verge of extinction, with alarming implications for human survival, according to a United Nations report released Monday.
The report’s findings underscore the conclusions of previous scientific studies that say human activity is wreaking havoc on the wild kingdom, threatening the existence of living things ranging from giant whales to small flowers and insects that are almost impossible to see with the naked eye.
But the global report by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services goes a step further than previous studies by linking the loss of species to humans and analyzing its effect on food and water security, farming and economies.
[Read the U.N. global report: Species extinction rate is accelerating]
According to the report, more plants and animals are threatened with extinction now than any other period in human history. Nature’s current rate of decline is unparalleled, it says, and the accelerating rate of extinctions “means grave impacts on people around the world are now likely.”
A catastrophe that could wipe out all life on earth is an ELE (extinction level event). The Republican Party is an ELE. RESIST!!
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