Politics Plus

It was cool this morning, here in the CatBox, and I enjoyed it until the sun hit the wall.  Then the inside temperature increased 15° in the 8 minutes it took me co close the window, blinds, and door and fire up the AC.  Tomorrow will be the last cool morning until we’re back in the 90°s for at least a week.  TGIF!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:25 (average 5:23).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Yates: W.H. Knew Flynn Under Investigation As Donald Trump Coaxed Comey

Wouldn’t it be great, if she had become AG, instead of KKK Beauregard? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (RWW Channel): RWW News: Jerome Corsi Says Trump, Putin United in War Against ‘Deep State’

Barf Bag Alert!!

The Republican fascist conspiracy theorist got it half right. Trump and Putin are united in a war, but it’s against the US. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Alternet: Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) introduced a measure on Thursday to designate additional funding to states for the protection of elections.

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) spoke in support of the measure, saying, the federal government should help “slam the door in the face of the Russian bear or any other adversary who seeks to steal the integrity of our elections."

Hoyer explained that the amendment was about "one of the most pressing issues of our time."

“Surely we can rise above pandering to party and Putin to act on behalf of our freedom and our security,” he continued. “We have sworn an oath to defend our Constitution and our liberty against all enemies, foreign and domestic. You have the opportunity to do that today. Do so. Vote yes on this amendment for your country.”

Democrats applauded and began to chant "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" as Republicans went silent and voted against the measure to protect elections. [emphasis added]

Now we know how Republicans plan to win in 2018. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Saying that he was “flabbergasted” by the events of this week, the Revolutionary War-era traitor Benedict Arnold offered a ringing defense of his own career in treason, asserting, “I was never this blatant.”

“I was brought up to believe that betraying your country was something you’d do very secretively,” Arnold, who now resides in Hell, said. “If you were going over to the enemy side, you’d do everything you could not to be detected. You wouldn’t go around announcing it to the world like a jackass.”

Dang Andy! Is Benedict jealous or relieved, now that he knows that his reign as America’s most infamous traitor is at an end. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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It’s a little cooler with the forecast high in the mid 80°s, but the building is still superheated.  Store to Door delivered groceries.  I unpacked and put them away.  WWWendy comes this evening, and it won’t be a minute too soon.  I stink.  Happy Hump Day, but no humping Trump unless you are a foreign dictator.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:08 (average 8:31).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Liberal Redneck – Vlad n Donnie 2gether 4ever

I love Trey, but he missed a third possibility. Trump wants Putin’s ongoing help to transform the US government into a mirror image of Putin’s Russia, and to team with Russia to dominate the world. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Late Show Channel): The Fly On The Wall At The Trump-Putin Meeting

That may be close to what happened. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From Axios: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) is the U.S. Congressman named in Monday’s FBI affidavit against Russian national Maria Butina, which alleges Rohrabacher was part of a 2015 delegation that traveled to Moscow and planned to meet with a Russian official widely believed to be Alexander Torshin, reports The Daily Beast.

Why it matters: Torshin, who has been described as a "godfather" in a Russian organized crime syndicate, has been under FBI investigation for potentially funneling money through the NRA to help President Trump win the 2016 election. The notoriously pro-Russia Rohrabacher did not deny being the congressman referenced in the document, but said that the charge against Maria Butina is "bogus," according to Politico.

Is that treason? I wonder how many Republican Ammosexuals realize that the NRA is knowingly being used as a Russian front to funnel money to Republicans? Would they care? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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It’s another horrid heat wave day.  This is the weather I left Arizona to escape, and except for "monsoon season" in August and September, at least it was dry heat there.  ARGH!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:58 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): Before Trump’s meeting with Putin, Fox couldn’t stop gushing about how "strong" he is

Barf Bag Alert!!

Does the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, have traitor poop on their faces, or what? RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: The North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, is reportedly “upset” and “hurt” that Donald J. Trump is seeing other dictators, sources in Pyongyang have confirmed.

According to an aide close to the North Korean leader, Kim was “devastated” to see images of Trump warmly embracing another dictator in Helsinki on Monday, just one month after jetting off to Singapore to spend a memorable and intense five hours with Kim.

Shortly after their time together, aides close to Kim warned him against becoming emotionally attached to Trump, alerting Kim to press reports linking the American to many other dictators.

“He’s been quoted saying nice things about Xi Jinping and Rodrigo Duterte, to name just two,” one aide said. “Trump could never commit to just one dictator. When it comes to autocrats and strongmen, he’s a total player.”

Dang Andy! Kim had better make sure Putin used a condom with Trump, before Kim gets behind Trump again. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From NY Times: Among the first migrant parents to recover their children after they were taken by immigration authorities at the southwest border were 12 Guatemalans who disembarked jubilantly from a plane last week back in their home country. Immediately, though, there were questions: Had the families given up their right to pursue an asylum claim as the price for recovering their children?

In a court filing on Monday, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union said there are growing concerns that the Trump administration’s efforts to return more than 2,000 migrant children to their parents by July 26 to comply with a court order could be accompanied by attempts to carry out “mass deportations” once the families are reunited.

Lawyers for the civil rights group referred in their motion to “persistent and increasing rumors — which defendants have refused to deny — that mass deportations may be carried out imminently and immediately upon reunification.”

Those damn Republicans did not even stop deporting the parents of separated children. That is more vile than obscene. It’s Republican. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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(Before the US and USSR became Fascist nations)

Friday the 13th was a day late.  This morning, I was trying to hard boil some eggs in the microwave, something I have done without incident in two previous ovens over fifteen years.  This oven seems to be much hotter .  One minute thirty seconds before the cycle was done, all six eggs exploded simultaneously, blowing the oven door open, and spewing hard boiled egg pieces, tiny shell fragment, and boiling water all over the table and floor.  Cleaning up the mess from my power chair took the entire morning, leaving no time at all for research.  Therefore, this is my only article today.  RESIST!!  VOTE BLUE!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:01 (average 4:51).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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