Politics Plus

I have no idea why, but I could not fall asleep last night, and I dozed for a couple hours at most, so don’t be surprised, if I typo.  In theory, the AC should stay off all day, but the sun just came out, so I’ll have to see if it stays.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:31 (average 5:33).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Robert Mueller Secures Full Cooperation, Guilty Plea From Paul Manafort (19 min.)

Would anyone be surprised that Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten, aka the Tweeting Traitor, is about to smell a big stinky Manafart? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From CNN: Anita Hill called on the federal government to implement a "fair and neutral" way to investigate sexual misconduct complaints after allegations surfaced against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh this week.

Hill, who accused Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas of workplace sexual harassment during his confirmation hearing back in 1991, said she has seen "firsthand what happens when such a process is weaponized against an accuser and no one should have to endure that again."

Then a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, Hill testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that she had been sexually harassed by Thomas when she worked with him at the Education Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Thomas denied the allegations and he was confirmed to the bench.

At the time there were three more women, who wanted to testify against Thomas. They were denied, and Republicans pushed through the confirmation instead. We need to stop Pervert Kava-Nazi first! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump placed “a large number” of phone calls to his former campaign manager Paul Manafort on Friday morning, and all of them went straight to voice mail, White House sources have confirmed.

The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that the number of voice-mail messages that Trump left for Manafort was somewhere in the range of twelve to three hundred.

Trump reportedly continued to leave messages for Manafort until his mailbox was full, after which Trump hurled his phone across the room, narrowly missing Mike Pence’s head.

Dang Andy! What a crime! Did he really have to miss Pence?!!? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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It’s cool so far here in the CatBox, but it should be sunny in a bit, so I’ll need to crank up the AC.  News may be slow for the next few days, as MSNBC is reporting Florence, almost to the exclusion of everything else.  It’s a holy night in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  The Bengals and Ravens are meditating, and I expect the birds will eat the cats.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:47 (average 4:57).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: How to Build Progressive Power

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. In order to accomplish his worthy goals, we need to flush the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich at all levels of government, federal, state, and local. Every Republican dawg catcher is one Republican dawg catcher too many! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Lawrence: GOP Midterm ‘Shipwreck’ Could Be Worse

I’ll be surprised, if we take the Senate, but let this go from Lawrence’s mouth to God’s ear. However, we will win nothing, unless YOU… RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From CNN: Nearly 3,000 people died in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. President Donald Trump denied this reality as a hurricane barrels toward the Carolinas.

"3000 people did not die in the two hurricanes that hit Puerto Rico. When I left the Island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths. As time went by it did not go up by much. Then, a long time later, they started to report really large numbers, like 3000," he said in a tweet Thursday morning [Twit tweet delinked] as Carolinians prepared to be pummeled by Hurricane Florence.

Earlier this month, the island’s governor formally raised the death toll from Hurricane Maria to an estimated 2,975 from 64 following a study conducted by researchers at The George Washington University. CNN’s own reporting reflects similar numbers. The university study accounted for Puerto Ricans who succumbed to the stifling heat and other aftereffects of the storm and had not been previously counted in official figures. Much of the US territory was without power for weeks.

Para el cerdo anaranjado: mierda de toro!  RESIST!!  VOTE BLUE!!

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I’m not running A/C in the CatBox, and may be able to leave it off all day.  Outside my window, liquid drops are falling from the sky on occasion.  I’ve seen this before, and know I should know what it is, but it’s been so long that I just can’t recall.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:25 (average 6:31).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Fantasy Football Report:

Here’s the latest from our own Fantasy Football League, Lefty Blog Friends.

Scores:

Congrats to Pam, me, and Patty Monster!  Condolences to the Squatch, WWWendy, and Vivian.

Standings:

We hit the ground running!

Short Takes:

From YouTube (RWW Channel): RWW News: Pat Robertson Establishes A ‘Shield Of Protection’ Against Hurricane Florence

Barf Bag Alert!!

You folks in the Southeast are well and truly screwed! When he targeted gay people with a hurricane in 1986, God proved she has a sense of humor. Hurricane Bonnie damaged Robertson’s Virginia Beach HQ. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (The Late Show Channel): Colbert To Bob Woodward: What Do You Fear Most?

I will get the book when it goes Audible. When that happens, whether I recover my sanity is an open question. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Alternet: With D.C. appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court hearings over, and his record of lies to the Senate and legal extremism laid bare for all to see, voters are demanding answers from their senators.

One senator who seems highly unwilling to talk about the issue is Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee. In fact, at a town hall in Osceola, Grassley was bombarded with so many Kavanaugh questions that he started imploring the attendees to ask about something else.

"If you folks are wondering why we’re talking about Kavanaugh all the time, if somebody came here to talk about tariffs, somebody came here to talk about budgets, somebody came here to talk about something else, raise your hand," he said.

Why am I not surprised? Snake in the Grassley needs to be retired… permanently. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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I’m in a hurry this morning.  WWWendy is due in about an hour and a half.  Football starts in three hours.  My Broncos play in six.  We have a lot to do.  Today should be the last day in the 80°s for a while.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:15 (average 5:17).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): LIE LIE LIE – a Parody

Don has oversimplified. Strategic voting is honest common sense, not a lie. Regressive concrete thinking like this here is the reason Trump is in the White House. I’m embedding this video out of respect for the great work Don has done, but the truth is this. Every third party vote on the left increases the chance of electing a fascist Republican. Progressives are taking over the Democratic Party from within. The change won’t happen all at once. It’s incremental, but it is happening. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: The Dangerous Myth of Deregulation

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, hurts people for profit. Regulations exist to protect citizens against the many forms of damage Republican corporations would inflict upon them instead of paying the cost of preventing the damage. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From NY Times: A pair of top Republicans acknowledged in a private meeting on Saturday that the party was battling serious vulnerabilities in the midterm elections, including what one described as widespread “hate” for President Trump, and raised the prospect that Senator Ted Cruz of Texas could lose his bid for re-election because he is not seen as “likable” enough.

The two Republican leaders, Mick Mulvaney, the federal budget director, and Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, assured party officials and donors at a closed-door event in New York City that the right would ultimately turn back a purported “blue wave” in November. Mr. Mulvaney also questioned whether Democrats could marshal support from outside the left, criticizing them as a party defined solely by opposition to Mr. Trump.

But Mr. Mulvaney and Ms. McDaniel also offered an unusually raw assessment of their own party’s strengths and weaknesses in the midterm elections. They pointed to the burning energy among Democratic voters and the dozens of open House seats, where Republican incumbents decided not to seek re-election, as fearsome obstacles to retaining control of Congress. And Mr. Mulvaney suggested Republicans would fare better if they could “subtract” the president’s divisive persona from voters’ minds, and stress instead that the country is in a “pretty good” condition.

Go, Beto, Go! If he beats Cruz, that’s a progressive wet dream! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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