Yesterday the computer tech did a great job.  He cleaned up the horrible bird’s nest of wires behind my computer that I cannot reach.  He got my screen working on the original DIV cable, and used the HDMI output on the video card to send computer images to my TV.  He scanner on my laser printer configured so that it works with the laser printers control center software. And he set my notebook computer up on the network, and installed a utility that allows me to control my home computer from a remote location over a secure encrypted connection.  I’m very pleased with him.  Portlanders, he’s Peter from Bolt Computers.  Store to door is delivering a grocery order today and I’ll need to unpack and stow them.  Later, WWWendy is coming to destink the vile TomCat and help with cores.  In short, it’s a busy day here at the CatBox.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:24 (average 5:43).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Bill Maher: If We Don’t Impeach President Donald Trump, Where Is The Bar?

Amen Bill!! I almost always agree with him, except for when he proselytizes for his religious faith in atheism. RESIST!!

From YouTube (NY Times Channel): Who Is Kirsten Gillibrand? | 2020 Presidential Candidate

I like her, and I’d love to see a bevy of qualified women and men competing for the nomination in an atmosphere of mutual respect and integrity . This time, if your candidate is not chosen, PLEASE don’t help elect Putin’s candidate again. RESIST!!

From NY Times: After suffering the worst parliamentary defeat in modern times over her plans for leaving the European Union, Britain’s prime minister, Theresa May, endured another day of turmoil on Wednesday, when she is to face a vote of no confidence in her battered government.

On Tuesday Mrs. May lost by a crushing margin, 432 to 202, when Parliament voted on her plan for European Union withdrawal, or Brexit, as the clock ticks toward March 29 when Britain is scheduled to leave.

Lawmakers spent much of Wednesday debating whether Mrs. May’s government should continue in power before voting at around 7 p.m. on a motion that could, in theory, lead to a general election.

That is an unlikely outcome, analysts say, because many of those who voted against Mrs. May’s withdrawal plan, including hard-line pro-Brexit rebels in her Conservative Party, and a group of 10 lawmakers from Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party, have said they will support the government on Wednesday.

We should remember that British Republicans, aka Tories, were suckers for Russian propaganda (Brexit) before US Republicans. I’d love to see Labour kick their Bridiot butts! RESIST!!

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Yesterday my technician stood me up.  I rushed through my blogging and prepared the area.  I waited for him for four hours, before I gave up.  I feel pretty angry at him, but I’d like to hope that he had an emergency so extreme that he could not even call.  I’ll listen to his explanation, before I put him on my do not use list.  Today is a High Holy Day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  It’s Division Playoffs Weekend.  My Broncos are not playing, because they stink.  If your team is still going, may the Orb bless them with its holy light.  Tomorrow is a WWWendy day.  After destinking a rancid TomCat, we have a ton of tasks.  Please expect no more than a Personal Update or an Open Thread, and I will not be sending links messages on Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:07 (average 5:38).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (NSNBC Channel): Senator Chris Van Hollen: Mitch McConnell Has Been ‘AWOL’ In Shutdown

Bought Bitch Mitch [R-KY] is a total coward. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Fox News on a Democrat swearing vs Fox News on a Republican embracing white supremacy

Barf Bag Alert!!

Well, you didn’t expect integrity from the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, did you? RESIST!!

From Alternet: Evangelical activists demand LGBTQ protections be removed from anti-lynching bill.

Incredibly, the United States has no law that makes lynching a federal crime. Now, decades after the Civil Rights Movement, a bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill to correct this. The Justice for Victims of Lynching Act would give federal prosecutors the power to charge people for bias-motivated mob killings. It passed the Senate unanimously and by anyone’s reckoning should be a slam dunk.

But according to PinkNews, the fundamentalist legal group Liberty Counsel is now lobbying the House to change the bill. Why? Because lynchings of LGBTQ persons are included as crimes — and that just might be a slippery slope to federal laws that would protect all LGBTQ civil rights.

“The old saying is once that camel gets the nose in the tent, you can’t stop them from coming the rest of the way in,” said Mat Staver, the group’s president. “And this would be the first time that you would have in federal law mentioning gender identity and sexual orientation, as part of this anti-lynching bill.”

Liberty Counsel has previously compared homosexuality to pedophilia, attacked bans on abusive “conversion therapy,” and defended the infamous former Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis as she defied the Supreme Court’s orders to allow same-sex couples to obtain marriage licenses. The Southern Poverty Law Center lists it as a hate group.

This is the 4th in the author’s list of the week’s 5 worst Republican outrages. Click through for the rest. RESIST!!

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If they could, Republicans would repeal it.

It’s another busy day here in the CatBox.  I slept well last night, but still feel tired and groggy  Tomorrow I have a computer technician coming, so I may have no more than a personal update or an Open Thread to publish.  I will not be sending links messages on Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:01 (average 6:57).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Rep. Jerry Nadler: ‘The Walls Are Closing In On The President Donlad [sic] Trump’

Under no circumstances may Republicans be allowed to hide the contents of Mueller’s report. RESIST!!

From Vox: Democrats who want to speak with William Barr, President Donald Trump’s nominee for attorney general, ahead of his confirmation hearing say they’re having a harder time doing so than normal. And the Justice Department’s excuse for why he’s unavailable — the partial government shutdown — doesn’t add up.

Barr will appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, on Tuesday to replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and current acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker. Some committee Democrats have complained that ahead of the hearing, Barr is declining invitations to meet, which is generally customary.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) said on Wednesday that he learned he wouldn’t get a meeting with Barr ahead of the hearing, calling Barr’s refusal “entirely unprecedented and unacceptable.” He said he was offered a meeting after the hearing, but obviously, he’d much rather meet before.

“The Department of Justice’s attempt to excuse this gross break in the norms by citing a ‘truncated schedule’ is galling when they are the ones who have rushed it,” he said in a statement. “My Republican colleagues should share my outrage at this appalling violation of the Senate’s independent authority.”

He’s had plenty of time to meet with Republicans. I suspect he’s giving them the criminal assurances they want, so they don’t worry when he lies and promises integrity during the hearings. RESIST!!

From Raw Story: Republican U.S. Congressman Steve King of Iowa, in a lengthy New York Times profile, expressed dismay and concern that “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” are offensive.

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” Rep. King asked the Times. “Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?”

King, a nine-term Congressman who represents a district that is more than 95 percent white, is perhaps best-known for accusing undocumented immigrants of having “calves the size of cantaloupes” from “running drugs across the Mexican border.”

The Times says that “Mr. King, in the interview, said he was not a racist.”

The paper notes that Rep. King “has used racist language in the past, promotes neo-Nazis on Twitter and was recently denounced by one Republican leader as a white supremacist.”

King is not a racist, the Pope is not a Catholic, and bears never, ever shit in the woods. How would he feel about the terms black nationalist and black supremacist? He’d shit his pants! RESIST!!

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For Trump, she would only need a very small knife!