Politics Plus

It’s a cool day, so I think I can get away with no AC.  WWWendy is due in 15 minutes.  When we finish our tasks, I plan to spend my day in religious meditation on the wonder of the holy Ellipsoid Orb.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:21 (average 4:38).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Politico: Six of Republican Rep. Paul Gosar’s nine siblings set tongues wagging in Arizona and beyond with some of the more memorable ads of the year, urging voters of the state’s 4th congressional district to boot him from office in November.

The brothers and sisters instead encouraged voters to cast their ballots for the congressman’s Democratic opponent, David Brill, who surfaced the three spots on his YouTube page Friday. They quickly went viral.

One ad — entitled, “A Family Defends Its Honor” — opens with David Gosar, a lawyer.

All relatives of Republican politicians, pundits, and goose-steppers should do that. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos:

Kavanaugh and the W.H. have both denied conspiring with Ed Whelan on his bullshit hit piece but…

Washington Post

“On Sunday, Ford noticed that — even before her name became public — Whelan appeared to be seeking information about her.

That morning, Ford alerted an associate via email that Whelan had looked at her LinkedIn page, according to the email, which was reviewed by The Post. LinkedIn allows some subscribers to see who views their pages. Ford sent the email about 90 minutes after The Post shared her name with a White House spokesman and hours before her identity was revealed in a story posted on its website.

A White House spokesman said Friday that neither Kavanaugh nor anyone in the White House gave Ford’s name to Whelan before it was disclosed by The Post. Whelan did not respond to a request for comment on how he first learned of Ford’s identity.

Now we know how Christine was outed. Pervert Trump and Pervert Kava-Nazi had it done. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Washington Post: Just as he did several weeks ago to prepare for his confirmation hearings for the Supreme Court, Brett M. Kavanaugh was back inside a room at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building — again facing questioners readying him for a high-stakes appearance in the Senate.

This time, the questions were much different. An array of White House aides, playing the role of various senators on the Judiciary Committee, quizzed Kavanaugh last week about his sex life and other personal matters in an attempt to prepare him for a hearing that would inevitably be uncomfortable.

In his answers during the practice runs, aides said, Kavanaugh condemned sexual assault and carefully avoided seeming to discredit Christine Blasey Ford, a psychology professor in Northern California who has accused the nominee of pinning her to a bed, groping her and putting his hand over her mouth to stifle her screams as he tried to take off her clothes at a drunken high school party in the early 1980s.

But Kavanaugh grew frustrated when it came to questions that dug into his private life, particularly his drinking habits and his sexual proclivities, according to three people familiar with the preparations, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. He declined to answer some questions altogether, saying they were too personal, these people said.

Hmmmm…. Does Pervert Kava-Nazi have other victims? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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I’m still quite busy.  It’s a warmer muggy day today.  I get two cool days, starting tomorrow, followed by four in the 80°s.  TGIF!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:14 (average 6:17).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Network): Robert Reich: Another Tax Scam for the Rich

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. When they keep adding weigh to the capstone of the financial pyramid, it becomes so heavy that it crushes everything below it. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): GOP woman on Kavanaugh: What boy hasn’t done this in high school?

We sure know who wears the pants in their families! For women to channel abuse is almost as bad as the abuse! That is not normal behavior for teenage boys.  Most boys in my day were ham handed, but we stopped when we encountered resistance.  RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Saying that “it’s time to face the consequences of my actions,” Judge Merrick Garland admitted on Thursday that he cheated at Scrabble one time, in 2003.

Garland, who recently informed the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was “still available” to be confirmed as a Supreme Court Justice, choked back tears as he confessed to the “disgraceful” Scrabble incident.

“In late 2003, I was playing a game of Scrabble with my wife and Googled a word while she was off using the bathroom,” Garland said. “I deeply regret my behavior, which was reprehensible and inexcusable.”

Garland revealed that the word he Googled, “muzjiks,” all but sealed his victory in the Scrabble contest.

Damn, Andy! How Awful! No wonder the Republicans refused him! They are far too moral to entrust our country to a monster like Garland… Have I filled the room with shit, yet? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Can anyone spare a torpedo?

I’m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries, and they are running late.  When they arrive, I’ll have to break to unpack them, put them away, and eat lunch.  WWWendy comes this evening to destink the TomCat and do chores.

Groceries done.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:20 (average 4:43).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MoveOn Channel): Black, Queer, Feminist — and Unapologetic

I agree. We’re all in the same basket, except the people who control the Republican Reich. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Chuck Grassley Responds To Brett Kavanaugh Accuser’s Request For FBI Probe

The Republican Party Operatives that attacked Christine need to wear jump suits, as orange as their Fuhrer’s ass! The Republicans on the committee should be tied under their Fuhrer’s Russian Hookers. Lindsey Poo should bare his butt to Putin, like his Fuhrer does. I fully believe, agree with, and support Christine. Late Update: Republicans are refusing to budge.  I guess Republicans think that what happens at Georgetown Prep should stay at Georgetown Prep, to quote an infamous pervert.  RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From TPM: Just under 600 women alumnae of the high school that Christine Blasey Ford attended in Bethesda, Maryland have signed an open letter indicating their support for the woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape in high school, Vox News reported. 

While the women said they did not know anything about the specific allegations that Blasey Ford has made against Kavanaugh, they called her experience “all too consistent with stories we heard and lived” while attending Holton-Arms High School. The signees are students who attended the private girls school between 1962 and 2018, according to Vox.

“As far as Dr. Ford’s specific allegations, it is inconsequential/irrelevant to us whether anyone has heard them before, and in no way affects our belief that she is telling the truth,” Kate Gold, a class of 2005 graduate who was part of the group that first circulated the letter, told Vox. “What we are referring to in our letter is the nearly ubiquitous experience of high school girls as they try to navigate coming of age in a society dominated by toxic masculinity.”

They should all be called to testify. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Yesterday was such a busy day that I got to bed late and did not get enough sleep, so I’m quite tired.  It’s a cool day, but it’s sunny enough that I’ll need to button-up by mid afternoon.  OGIM!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:11 (average 6:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Religious Ecstasy:

What a last seconds relief!  It would have been really glum, had the lost because a couple zebras, who seemed to have Raider patches on their eyes, cost them two TDs!

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): ODE TO A LIAR – Parody of I Never Say

Brilliant, Don! There has never been a bigger liar than Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Millions of Americans do not want Donald J. Trump to text them that there is an emergency, but “very strongly” want Robert Mueller to text them when this current emergency is over, a new poll shows.

fema’s about-to-be-launched “Presidential alert” system drew a sharply negative reaction in the poll, with a majority of Americans saying that they would burn, smash, or otherwise pulverize their phones in advance of the first text that Trump attempts to send them.

By contrast, and by a wide margin, Americans said that they wanted an alert system that would enable Mueller to text them “the second he knows this shit show is over,” the poll indicates.

Dang Andy!! This year would be nice! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From NY Times: It’s not the smokestacks that mark this part of southeast Michigan as a labor stronghold, or even the boxy union halls.

To Michelle LaVoy, a city treasurer running for the State Legislature, it’s the way people say “union” as shorthand for “decent job.”

“My husband works at Yanfeng,” Carolina Ricci, perched outside her front door, told Ms. LaVoy, referring to a nearby auto parts plant. “He’s got the union, he’s a steward. But we still struggle.”

Ms. LaVoy, strait-laced in affect and business casual in dress, doesn’t present as a working-class hero. But she is trying, hard, and her pitch has a distinctly Norma Rae vibe.

“We should be getting our fair share,” Ms. LaVoy told Ms. Ricci, echoing a refrain that many Americans are using this election year. She wants more money for roads. More money for unions. More money in workers’ paychecks.

Amen Michelle LaVoy!!  Democrats need to run on what their OWN constituents need, in addition to opposing Republican policies. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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