Politics Plus

It’s still cold here in the CatBox, and we still have a Winter Storm Warning.  Tomorrow I may have no more than a Personal Update with no links messages.  WWWendy will be here to thaw the stinky, iced TomCat under hot water.  We have so much to get done, I’ll have little or no time for research and writing.  After hours of work, our transition to SSL is now complete.  The authentication and encryption our  SSL provide helps secure our content  and connections from attacks by the Republican Reich and their Russian allies.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:24 (average 5:55).  To do it, click here.  How did you do.

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From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Ex-DOJ Official: Whitaker Testimony ‘An Embarrassment To The DOJ’

I have no doubt that evidence will surface that Shitaker lied under oath, He is an embarrassment to the country, not just the DOJ. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): Whitaker clashes with lawmaker over donations

What America needs to understand is that nobody can qualify for any high office in the Republican Reich without being thoroughly vetted to demonstrate long-term criminal history and intent. Shitaker personifies this truth. RESIST!!

From Alternet: After Justice Brett Kavanaugh was condemned on Thursday for declaring “war” on Roe v. Wade by dissenting against the Supreme Court’s decision to block a Louisiana anti-abortion law, reproductive rights groups quickly turned their ire toward Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for casting the decisive vote to confirm the right-wing judge—and ramped up their efforts to oust her in 2020.

“Paging Senator Collins—this is on you,” UltraViolet declared on Twitter after the high court’s 5-4 decision.

A grassroots fundraising effort to unseat Collins after her decisive vote last year to confirm Kavanaugh has already raised millions of dollars, and the advocacy group Demand Justice announced in an email to supporters on Friday morning that it will run digital ads in Maine highlighting the judge’s dissent in the Louisiana case as yet another reason the Maine Republican should be ousted in 2020.

“Brett Kavanaugh has declared war on Roe, and Susan Collins is the one who made it possible,” Demand Justice director Brian Fallon said. “Even as it was obvious to everyone else that Kavanaugh was a partisan warrior committed to rolling back abortion rights, Collins defended her vote for him by promising that he would follow Supreme Court precedent. It only took four months for Kavanaugh to prove Collins’ promises were a sham.”

I could not agree more. We came close to defeating the nomination of Injustice Pervert Kava-Nazi. We failed when Collins betrayed her promise with the ridiculous excuse that he would protect women’s right to choose. RESIST!!

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WWWendy was tied up at her day job, so she  arrived about 40 minutes late last night.  I got to bed late, and I’m feeling very tired.  It’s currently 27° F.  This is the warmest day until late next week.  Brrrr!!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:37 (average 4:53).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Daily Kos Channel): During hearings on Gun Violence, Republican gets smashed by audience and Democrats

Barf Bag Alert!!

Damn Ammosexual Republican Racist! Put a .50 cal. with a drum magazine and a bump-stock up his butt and pull the trigger! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): House Intel Outlines Parameters Of Donald Trump Investigations (18+ min.)

When Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten threatened Democrats over investigation, he waved a red flag at a bull. Charge! RESIST!!

From NY Times: The third-ranking elected official in Virginia, Attorney General Mark R. Herring, acknowledged Wednesday that he had worn blackface at a party as an undergraduate student, deepening a crisis that has engulfed the state’s Democratic leadership.

Then, just two hours later, a woman came forward to describe in detail her accusation that Lt. Gov. Justin E. Fairfax had sexually assaulted her in 2004, an accusation he denies.

The back-to-back revelations threw the Capitol into a state of uncertainty about who would lead Virginia, coming less than one week after the disclosure of a racist photograph on the yearbook page of Gov. Ralph Northam led to demands for his resignation. Grim-faced legislators rushed through the hallways, shaken by a series of allegations and confessions that threatened to cripple the Virginia government’s three leading officials.

Amid the tumult, Democratic lawmakers were all but paralyzed in the face of a deeply painful sequence of events that could undermine their hopes of reclaiming the State Legislature, the Republicans’ last remaining foothold of power in Virginia, in the fall. The party has not lost a statewide election here since 2009, and Virginia was the only Southern state President Trump lost in 2016.

I see the case of the AG differently.  First, he was in college, not med school. Second, he came forward to apologize without having been caught. Third, after admitting it, he isn’t claiming that it wasn’t him. In such cases, the authentic contrition he demonstrated could occasion forgiveness without derailing his career. However, if he does step down, he should do so before Northam, so Northam can appoint a new AG, ideally a black woman. If all three resign, without replacing the AG, the next in line for Governor is a very racist Republican. RESIST!!

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It’s a frigid day here in the CatBox.  The weather snuck up on me.  It’s 9:30 and it hasn’t even climbed to freezing yet.  It will get colder for the next ten days.  Now this is nothing compared to the polar weather a lot of you had last week, but if I’m getting this here, you’re in for a lot worse when this moves east.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me  2:44 (average 4:26).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From The New Yorker: A leak of Donald J. Trump’s official White House schedule has left millions of Americans deeply relieved that Trump spends approximately sixty per cent of each day not using his powers as President.

In conversations across the country, Americans called the revelation that Trump devotes the majority of his day to “executive time,” a euphemism for watching TV and checking Twitter, the most reassuring news out of the White House in months.

“Like most of the people I know, the idea of Donald Trump sitting behind his desk doing things that affect the country has me in a state of mortal terror,” Carol Foyler, a resident of Minneapolis, said. “Just knowing that he’s spending sixty per cent of his time doing basically nothing makes me feel somewhat better.”

Amen Andy! RESIST!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: How Trump Plays the Press

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The media should inform us completely and truthfully. They should not just parrot the vile propaganda spewed from the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): THE GAMBLER – Parody

As always, Don had pictured Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten perfectly. RESIST!!

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As previously announced, it’s a religious holiday.  Go Rams!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:37 (average 4:48).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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