Politics Plus

Here in the CatBox, the heat wave goes on and on and on.  Thank goodness WWWendy comes tomorrow to destink the foul TomCat!

Jog Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:53 (average 5:26).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): Why hundreds of migrant children are still separated from their parents

Trump is just the symptom. The Republican Party is the disease. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Right-wing media panic over Democrats acknowledging health care, housing, and jobs as rights

Barf Bag Alert!!

The Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, has a BS in Bullshitology. For this campaign, they get a PhD! (Piled Higher and Deeper) RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From KATU TV: Portland residents will be voting on a so-called climate-change tax this November.

An initiative qualified Friday that would tax businesses to fund renewable energy projects.

The proposal would create a 1-percent tax on retailers with national sales over a billion dollars if those businesses do at least $500,000 in sales in the city of Portland each year.

I like the idea of a tax for green energy, and I will probably vote for it, but I’d rather see the tax on boutique firms that serve the 1%, like yacht sales and high end country clubs instead of retail that will pass the cost to mainstream Portlanders. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Bringing a tumultuous chapter of American history to an abrupt conclusion, Donald J. Trump and three of his adult children fled to Moscow in the early hours of Friday morning.

Accompanied by Ivanka, Eric, and Don, Jr., Trump boarded a specially chartered Aeroflot plane to take him to his new home in Moscow, a nondescript apartment building that also houses the former N.S.A. employee Edward Snowden.

Trump reportedly was in a tremendous hurry to catch the plane and left behind only a one-sentence note, reading, “THERE WAS NO COLUSION [sic].”

Yay, Andy! Oh No!! They forgot to take Pence! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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I’ll be getting this up way late, because I slept poorly last night.  Then  I took a nap this morning and overslept.  Next, I just spent an hour on the phone with a nurse form my Medical Advantage Plan for my annual prescription meds review.  The heat wave goes on and on and on.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:59 (average 5:20).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Soccer Ball From Vladimir Putin Had An Electronic Chip

One has to wonder if Russia has Nano-circuitry tiny enough for Putin to have chipped Trump’s other balls. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Calling it “an exciting new chapter in my amazing life,” Ivanka Trump has been named dean of the business school at the newly reconstituted Trump University.

“I’ve been incredibly blessed with stratospheric success as a businessperson,” Dean Trump said on Wednesday. “This is my chance to give something back, for only fifty thousand dollars in tuition and other fees.”

Trump said that students enrolling at the Trump University School of Business can look forward to gleaning wisdom not only from her but from another star faculty member, Jared Kushner.

“When it comes to business, Jared has been almost as incredible I have,” she said.

I’m calling BS, Andy! There’s no way she can turn out graduates as incompetent and perverted as her father. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Daily Kos: In classic con man fashion, the candidate and president who has sworn to bring manufacturing back to the United States isn’t making any attempt to start with his own campaign. In fact, as evidenced by these photos, the Trump campaign is actively getting their gear made in China.

Hey Shit for Brains! How about a tariff on flags for assholes? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Welcome to the hot CatBox with 90°s weather and an air quality alert (smog) all week long.  Yesterday’s CAT-Scan (both chest and abdomen) was pretty grim.  The injected dye made me sweat all over, but the worst was the the great big bottle of dye I had to drink for the abdominal portion of the scan.  I had a bad taste in my mouth, and chemical smelling burps and farts for the rest of the day.  I had red-hot burritos for breakfast to overpower the dye.  I’ll get the results next Thursday, but there’s no reason to suspect anything problematic.  I hope you are enjoying your day.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:41 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: We’re Living a Constitutional Crisis

Of course the Reich on the Left, Robert Reich, is right, except for one detail. Donald Trump, Fuhrer of the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich,is a Resident. He is not and never will be a President. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Representative Adam Schiff: Devin Nunes, Trey Gowdy Lied About The F.B.I.

Devin Nunes and Trey Gowdy won’t be expelled from the House until and unless Democrats take control of the HR. Even then, it might be a bad idea, as the Fuhrer could put them on SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD). RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Remember This?): Dixie Chicks – Not Ready To Make Nice

Fifteen years ago, when they said they were ashamed of GW Bush performed this song, he was the worst occupant of the White House I can remember. Republicans tried to destroy them. Now, Trump is far worse that Bush ever thought of being.  But remember, Trump is just a very blatant form of what the Republican Party has been for decades.  Trump is the tumor.  The Republican Reich is the cancer.  RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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WWWendy is due in a half hour and we have a busy morning planned.  Tomorrow I have to go to the hospital for my annual preventive Cat-Scan for cancer.  I should be home before the severe heat of the day, but the dye they inject usually leaves me feeling queasy.  Please don’t be surprised, if I publish the Personal Update and that’s all.  I will not be sending links messages at Care2.  Portland is under an Excessive Heat Watch.  WWWendy kindly offered to do the dreaded task by herself, so I can finish early and rest.  I need to be in the lobby at 6:00 AM in the morning.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:23 (average 5:18).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Rachel Maddow: We Have To Assume Russians Recorded Trump-Putin Meeting

Nobody farts in Russia without the FSB recording it for Putin [R-RU]. That’s the way Trump wants his control to be here in the US! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From NOLA: A CVS pharmacist refused to fill an Arizona transgender woman’s hormone prescription on the basis of moral grounds, according to the Arizona Republic. 

Hilde Hall said she was "elated" when her doctor handed her the prescription for her first round of hormone medication, the Arizona Republic reported. However, instead of walking out of the Fountain Hills CVS with her treatment in hand, Hall said she was denied her hormones and "loudly questioned" by the pharmacist as to why she had the prescription.

The pharmacist also refused to give Hall her prescription note back, according to Arizona Republic, and she left the store feeling "mortified." Hall told her doctor, who sent the order to a Walgreens instead, where Hall was able to get the prescription filled.

According to Arizona Republic, CVS apologized for the incident in a statement… [emphasis added]

And CVS damn well should apologize, and the pharmacist should be fired and lose his license.  Imagine the Republican Reaction, if a pharmacist denied Trump the Preparation H he uses as face cream. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Alternet: Glenn Greenwald has a piece up at the Intercept declaring that Julian Assange’s tenure at Ecuador’s London embassy may be coming to an end very soon.

Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno traveled to London on Friday for the ostensible purpose of speaking at the 2018 Global Disabilities Summit(Moreno has been confined to a wheelchair since being shot in a 1998 robbery attempt). The concealed, actual purpose of the President’s trip is to meet with British officials to finalize an agreement under which Ecuador will withdraw its asylum protection of Julian Assange, in place since 2012, eject him from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, and then hand over the WikiLeaks founder to British authorities.

Now it is Glenn Greenwald, so take it with an appropriately large grain of salt, but apparently this has been in the works for some time.

I hope Greenwald isn’t blowing smoke up our butts, as he so frequently has. However, I’d love to see Assange [R-BS] face comeuppance for his crimes. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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