Politics Plus

It’s much cooler here in the CatBox, but with 78% humidity, it’s muggy as hell.  I’m still very tired.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:54 (average 5:45).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Parody Project Channel): LOSE YOUR HEAD – Inspired by War Pigs – Black Sabbath

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If the US is to effectively oppose war crimes, we must first stop committing them. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Harried Staff Sees Donald Trump Unready For Possible Democratic House

I can’t wait! When the investigations get going, we set a record for sore Republican sphincters in one place. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: Donald Trump started the morning with a string of allegations, including accusing NBC and Lester Holt of “fudging my tape on Russia.” Which would appear to be a claim that Holt had somehow altered or edited the interview that he conducted with Trump on May 11, 2017, just after Trump fired James Comey. In that interview, Trump admitted that the reason for Comey’s firing was that he refused to halt the Russia investigation.

Trump: In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story.

Since that interview, Trump has neither backed away from that statement nor made any public claim that Holt altered the interview. In fact, both Trump and attorney Rudy Giuliani have adopted the “article two powers” defense, arguing that Trump can fire anyone he wants for any reason. Why Trump is now making a claim that Holt “fudged” the interview in some way isn’t clear. It’s even less clear why Trump would believe that Holt already “got caught” fudging the interview or that it “hurt [NBC] badly.”

That lie registered 9.99 out of 10 on my Ka-shit detector! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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My semi-annual eye torture was a success, as there is no evidence of the cancer.  I’m still a little blurry and quite tired, because the day is an ordeal.  We have a two day heat wave: Low 90°s today and mid 80°s tomorrow.  Hopefully I’ll see normally (for me) by then.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:21 (average 4:53).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): What Happens If Democrats Take The House

If we take the House, everyone in the Trump Reich will have to lawyer-up. In self-defense, nobody new will go to work there. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (RWW CHANNEL): RWW News: Jim Bakker Won’t Wear A Trump Hat For Fear Of ‘Being Murdered In The Street’

Barf Bag Alert!!

He wouldn’t be murdered in the street, but pigeons love the earth sufficiently to target Trump hats from any altitude. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Robert Mueller is renting a massive warehouse facility in suburban Virginia to accommodate the approximately forty cubic tons of evidence against Donald Trump that the independent counsel’s investigation is generating on a daily basis.

Employing over two thousand workers in a warehouse the size of seven football fields, the Mueller investigation has become the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. economy, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Working twelve-hour shifts, the members of Mueller’s evidence-storage team rarely leave the warehouse, where the punishing task of filing mountains of evidence against Trump proceeds around the clock.

Dang Andy! 40 tons a day? That’s ALL?!!? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Here in the CatBox, I’m quite comfortable.  WWWendy is due in about an hour to destink the TomCat.  Tomorrow, I have my semi-annual screening for a recurrence of eye cancer with Alison, my ocular oncological surgeon.  It’s the one I hate, because the ultrasound right on my eyeball is like fingernails scratching a blackboard inside my head.  Please expect no more than a Personal Update tomorrow, and I won’t be sending links messages at Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:34 (average 4:15).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From Washington Post: Unions representing federal workers on Saturday declared victory in what they have described as an assault by the Trump administration after a federal judge struck down key provisions of a set of executive orders aimed at making it easier to fire employees and weaken their representation.

The ruling, by U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson in Washington, was a setback to the White House’s efforts to rein in federal unions, which have retained significant power over working conditions even as private-sector unions are in decline.

“It’s a big win for us,” said David Borer, general counsel for the American Federation of Government Employees. With 750,000 members, the AFGE was the largest of about a dozen unions to sue the administration to block the new rules affecting 2.1 million civil servants.

Kudos to the judge! Support Labor! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Alternet: On Friday morning, the family of Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) announced his decision to discontinue treatment for brain cancer. It was a solemn announcement, effectively signalling the imminent end of a man of towering career, service, and legacy, and it ought to have been treated with respect from people of all persuasions.

Sadly, that was more than Fox News’ "Final Thoughts" host Tomi Lahren could muster.

Just hours after the announcement, at a campaign event for Arizona GOP Senate hopeful Kelli Ward, Lahren proclaimed that "we can’t put up another RINO [Republican In Name Only] like McCain

There must be a special place in hell for Lahren and Faux Noise Republicans of her ilk. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From NY Times: Democratic Party officials, after a yearslong battle between warring ideological wings, have agreed to sharply reduce the influence of the top political insiders known as superdelegates in the presidential nomination process.

Under the new plan, which was agreed to on Saturday afternoon in Chicago at the Democratic National Committee’s annual summer meetings, superdelegates retain their power to back any candidate regardless of how the public votes. They will now be largely barred, however, from participating in the first ballot of the presidential nominating process at the party’s convention — drastically diluting their power.

Superdelegates will be able to cast substantive votes only in extraordinary cases like contested conventions, in which the nomination process is extended through multiple ballots until one candidate prevails.

I’d rather see the Super Delegate system eliminated entirely, but this is a giant step in the right direction. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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This morning I opened my window and turned off my AC.  As long as the sun never hits the wall, it will stay off.  Kitty Kitty one-legged happy dance time.  My Broncos play Washington tonight in preseason game three.  It will not be televised here.  May the holy Ellipsoid Orb shine its blessed light on my Broncos, relocate the Redskins to Tel Aviv, and change their name to the Foreskins.  TGIF!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:47 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): Opinion | Trump is facing worse than Watergate. I should know.

I agree. Nixon:Trump::Jaywalker:Serial Killer! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Unchecked and Unbalanced

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, have turned over their balls to Putin’s Puppet. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Hat-Tip Animae for the idea): The 2018 leadership spill in numbers

Condolences to the people of Australia on your new Republican PM instead of having Labour. But at least your Republicans are nowhere near as evil as ours are. RESIST!! VOTE LABOUR!!

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Republicans are far more destructive.