Politics Plus

Yesterday was such a grueling day that I still have not recovered from it.  I spent over two hours in the lift buses, and over three in an unpadded eye surgeon’s chair, while they tried to figure out just how misaligned my eyes are.  By the time we finished, my back and my butt were throbbing in pain.  The office was so worm that it caused phlegm to drain into my chest, and it was close to midnight before I choked it all up.  I feel like something I forgot to bury.  It looks like I’ll get the surgery in December.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:47 (average 4:54).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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From The New Yorker: Scott Walker, the governor of Wisconsin, said on Wednesday that he was “dismayed and alarmed” that people in his state had somehow become smarter despite substantial cuts in education.

“Ever since I took office, I have slashed education with the goal of making the voters of this state markedly dumber and incapable of critical thinking,” he told reporters. “Instead, what I am looking at is a doomsday scenario.”

Walker said that his cuts were based on a theory known as “trickle-up stupidity,” in which students in Wisconsin’s schools would become less informed and their ignorance would eventually infect their voting-age parents.

“Clearly, what looked like a can’t-miss plan on paper has not panned out,” he said.

Dang Andy! Hurrah to the voters, who will dump the Fartfuhrer of Fitzwalkerstan! RESIST!!

From YouTube (Inequality Media Channel): What If Everyone Voted?

Demos President Heather McGhee is part of Robert’s Reich, the Reich on the left, so she’s right! Get out the vote. RESIST!!

From The Hill: In an interview Friday with "Bernie & Sid in the Morning" on 77 WABC, the president said he will "probably" not attend the annual gala hosted by the White House press association.

"It’s unlikely I will do the White House Correspondents dinner this year," Trump told the hosts, before taking a swipe at the news media: It’s “so bad and so fake."

Buk-buk-buk-buk-bwaaaaack!! RESIST!!

Also From The New Yorker: Hoping to resolve the seemingly intractable conflict over immigration, Mexico surprised the world on Thursday by agreeing to pay for Donald J. Trump’s psychiatric care.

Speaking to reporters, the Mexican President, Enrique Peña Nieto, said that he had authorized funding for the psychiatry and proclaimed, “Work on Donald Trump could begin tomorrow.”

Peña Nieto displayed several photographs showing prototypes of therapists, including a bearded Freudian analyst who he said came highly recommended.

Dang Andy! Enrique ought to toss the Fuhrer in a padded cell, provide a hooker to spank him when he’s naughty, and throw away the key! RESIST!!

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It’s a sad, but busy day here at the CatBox.  I overslept this morning, so I’m working straight through until lunch, instead of resting.  I expect Store to door to deliver groceries in the next hour.  WWWendy is coming this evening to de-stink the TomCat.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:03 (average 4:46).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Funny or Die Channel): How To Spot Dangerous Skin Colors

Comedy? Republicans normally rate skin color from White to Bad and react violently. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Lawrence On President Donald Trump, Robert Mueller And ‘Subject’ V. ‘Target’

The fool is equating "subject" with not guilty. May he quickly graduate to "target" or ready to indict. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: \Viewers of the Sinclair station in Akron were startled on Monday when a longtime news anchor, Carol Foyler, inexplicably began reading the evening news report in Russian.

Foyler, who is not of Russian heritage, greeted her audience with a hearty “Zdravstvuyte,” and then read the evening’s top stories entirely in her newly adopted language.

After racing through the local coverage, Foyler abruptly segued to footage of the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, admiring the launch of his nation’s highly touted new Satan-2 missile.

Viewers flooded the station with complaints, with many expressing alarm that, in the words of one audience member, “something was up with Carol.”

Dang Andy! Was she wearing her swastika and her MAGA hat? RESIST!!

From Think Progress: Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) compared teachers who are walking out of schools to demand better pay and education funding to spoiled teenagers in an interview with CBS news on Tuesday.

“Teachers want more, but it’s kind of like a teenage kid who wants a better car,” Fallin said.

In reality, Oklahoma teachers are the lowest paid in the country, according to 2016 Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Data gathered by the National Education Association, which only considers public school teachers, shows Oklahoma teachers only made slightly more than Nebraska and Mississippi teachers, with an average salary of $45,245.

Teachers are continuing to strike on Wednesday to demand more education funding.

Kudos to the brave teachers in Oklahoma, Kentucky and Arizona for resisting the Republican Reich!! RESIST!!

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It’s a very busy day, here at the CatBox.  I’ve made four trips to the porcelain worship site to express my opinion of the Republican Party.  I changed the poll.  I researched today’s articles.  I prepared the graphics and collected the data I will need to prepare tomorrow’s Monthly Report for March.  I need two things: a nap and a cork.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:54 (average 5:33).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Challenge): Dems’ 2018 challenge: find message on taxes, health care

Some things must be absolute, like protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Others are more situational.  RESIST!!

From Washington Post:  Somehow, it didn’t seem as though he got the spirit of the holiday. “President Donald Trump again called for an end to the filibuster and said there will be no deal with Democrats on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, also known as DACA.

Trump still hates Latinos. Republicans would insane to nuke the filibuster now. They are likely to lose the Senate. RESIST!!

From Think Progress: \Seattle-based ABC affiliate KOMO-TV says its owner, the conservative-leaning Sinclair Broadcast Group, is forcing its reporters to air pre-scripted segments about fake news media, in an attempt to undermine non-Sinclair stations.

Sinclair has long produced “must-run” segments for its stations, dispersing them to its various subsidiaries and requiring the local stations to run controversial, typically conservative commentary promos alongside their regular news coverage. However, in recent weeks, it’s begun turning its sights on the competition, throwing in mentions of “fake news,” among other things.

“The promos, which began airing on the station last week, are part of a Sinclair campaign that forces local anchors to read Sinclair-written scripts warning of the dangers of ‘one-sided news stories plaguing our country,’” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported on Thursday.

Here’s the video:

Barf Bag Barrage!!

You won’t see a better example of the Republican bubble machine in action, as they categorize any stations that do not goose-step with Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten as fake news.  RESIST!!

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Another month is coming to an end, here in the CatBox.  As if I wasn’t already busy enough, tomorrow is April Republicans Day, Easter Sunday, and WWWendy’s de-stink the sweaty TomCat day, all rolled into one.  Therefore, both the new poll and the Monthly Report will be delayed a day, to Monday and Tuesday respectively.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:21 (average 5:16).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?  I hope they have dawg burgers and dawg dogs.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): High Costs For Mocking Parkland Student Survivors

Updating yesterday’s article, kudos to the thirteen companies. Whether or not, Faux Noise fires her, and she becomes the next White House Communications Director, RESIST!!

From NY Post: Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter.

Woooo Hoooo!! RESIST!!

From Space: A full Blue Moon rises into the evening sky tonight (March 31). This will be the second and final Blue Moon of 2018, so don’t miss it!

Despite the name, the "Blue Moon" won’t actually be blue. In fact, it will look the same as any other full moon. According to the current definition, the term refers to the second full moon in a given calendar month. The traditional definition of a Blue Moon was reserved for the third full moon in a season that has four full moons, which happens in years that have 13 full moons instead of the usual 12.

Talk about Déjà vu! RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Calling it a “medical mystery of the first order,” scientists are baffled by the ability of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to stand upright without the benefit of spines.

Doctors at the University of Minnesota Medical School, who have been studying the skeletal structures of both Republicans for months, believe that their ability to stand, walk, and even break into a brisk trot when confronted by reporters’ questions is “virtually inexplicable.”

“The fact that they can do these things without the aid of spines makes McConnell and Ryan anomalies in the animal kingdom,” said Dr. Davis Logsdon. “According to everything medical science teaches us, their bodies should be collapsing to the ground in two heaps.”

Dang Andy!! I know God wouldn’t do this, but you sure have proven the existence of the devil!! RESIST!!

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