Politics Plus

It’s a comparatively lazy day here in the CatBox, but I do have three articles for you.  Tomorrow will be a little crazy, because it’s a WWWendy day and the highest holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb.  As a rule, I root for the AFC, but Trump loves the Patriots, do go Eagles!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:55 (average 4:48).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Inequality Media Channel): Trump’s 20 Worst Broken Promises

The Reich on the left is right, but it would be far easier to list the promises that he has kept. That list has zero items. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Former hippies across the United States have been put in the unbearable position of rooting for the F.B.I., hippies have confirmed.

From Vermont to California, erstwhile hippies bemoaned a nightmare scenario that has forced them to side with a law-enforcement agency they have despised since the Summer of Love.

“I always dreamed I’d spend my retirement surrounded by my grandchildren, telling them that the F.B.I. were fascist pigs,” Carol Foyler, a former hippie who lives in Santa Cruz, said. “That dream has been shot to hell.”

Her husband, Mick, nodded his head in sad agreement. “We were so happy when pot was legalized in California,” he said. “But the fact that we’re now on the same side as the F.B.I. has ruined even that.”

Dang Andy! As a former hippie, I have to agree! RESIST!!

From Raw Story: [T]he U.S. flu outbreak worsened over the past week as more people headed to doctors’ offices and emergency rooms, with hospitalizations at the highest in nearly 10 years, U.S. health officials said on Friday.

Sixteen children died of the flu in the week ended Jan. 27, bringing total pediatric deaths to 53 for the season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s weekly report.

Out of every 100,000 people in the general population, an estimated 51.4 have been hospitalized for the flu, surpassing the rate in the last severe season of 2014-2015, when 710,000 were hospitalized and 148 children died. Adults aged 65 or older had the most hospitalizations, followed by those aged 50 to 64 and children below 5.

“So far this year the cumulative rate of hospitalization is the highest since we began tracking in this way,” Dr. Anne Schuchat, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters on a conference call.

Do you feel safer, because Republicans have cut funding for the CDC? RESIST!!

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It’s am extremely busy day, here in the CatBox.  It’s the first of the month.  In addition to normal first chores on the home front, I changed the poll, and did my normal research.  I also made all the graphics and prepared all the data I shall need for tomorrow’s Monthly Report.  That’s two pounds of kitty shit in a one pound box, but I’m determined not to get way behind this month.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:37 (average 5:50).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Rep. Adam Schiff: Nunes Altered Approved Memo Before Sending To Trump Admin

What the F….?!!? We’re getting an exacerbated fantasy from Nunes’ Republican (lower than lizard) amygdala! RESIST!!

From YouTube: Congresswoman Maxine Waters Drags Trump In The Classiest Way

Amen Maxine! I could not agree more! RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: Donald J. Trump collapsed from exhaustion after approximately ninety minutes of pretending to be a human being with empathy, the White House doctor has confirmed.

“In all my years of practicing medicine, I have never met a patient as healthy and vigorous as President Trump,” Dr. Ronny Jackson said. “But the sustained effort of simulating compassion proved too much for someone who has never exercised that part of his brain before.”

Shortly after Trump spent a gruelling ninety minutes pretending to care about immigrants, the unemployed, and other people whom he normally dismisses as losers, aides noticed that he was turning from a bright orange to a slightly paler orange before crumpling to the ground in a giant heap.

“If you have never spent a moment thinking about a human being besides yourself, imagine trying to pretend you are doing that for a solid ninety minutes,” Jackson said. “It’s physically punishing.”

Dang Andy! It’s too bad Trump didn’t actually care for a split second. The strain of that would have killed him. RESIST!!

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It’s another muggy, sticky day, and it looks like unseasonably warm and wet weather will continue well into February.  I slept intermittently, but am not as tired as I was yesterday.  I should get some rest this evening, while I’m not watching the Piddle Pervert Prattle.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 6:04 (average 8:18).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Late Show Channel): The State Of Our Union Is… Misspelled

I won’t be watching the State of the Uniom address. The State of our Uniom is incompetent. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Inequality Media Channel): The Next Big Fight: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid

Please spread this around. Here at PP, we have been preaching both the problem and Reich’s solutions for ages. The rest of America needs education on the subject. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: With just one day until Donald J. Trump’s first State of the Union address, the cast of “Fox and Friends” is working furiously on the final draft of the speech, members confirmed today.

“We’ve really been burning the midnight oil,” Steve Doocy, the host of the Fox program, said. “We have so much to say tomorrow night, and we want to get it all in there.”

Doocy said that when he read the first draft of the State of the Union address last week, he “kind of flipped out” when he realized that there was “absolutely no mention of Hillary Clinton’s Hydra-like tentacles controlling the Deep State.”

“The State of the Union address is the President’s chance to tell the American people where the country is and where it’s going,” Doocy said. “You can’t do that without talking about how Crooked Hillary is funnelling her Russian-uranium riches directly into Bob Mueller’s bank account in the Seychelles.”

Dang, Andy! Did Rob Rosenstein help you wiretap the Oval Office? RESIST!!

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This is when America learned we were losing the war, and the whole damn thing was a lie.

I actually had a fairly good night’s sleep last night, but I have felt groggy all day.  I obviously need more.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:45 (average 7:00).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MoveOn Channel): The Muslim Ban One Year Later

Amen! Throw terrorists out of the country! How? Keep the Muslims, and expel Republicans! RESIST!!

From Share Blue: Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee’s finance chair Steve Wynn have more in common than just being casino owners and friends.

They are both sexual predators, according to recent allegations against Wynn.

(Trump admitted to being a sexual predator in the infamous”Access Hollywood” tape that surfaced in 2016.)

The Wall Street Journal reports multiple women faced sexual harassment and rape at the hands of Wynn, who now leads fundraising efforts for the Republican Party.

In 2005, a manicurist left Wynn’s office in tears, telling colleagues Wynn forced her to have sex. Former employees told the WSJ about a culture of sexual abuse and fear, one noting that “everybody was petrified.”

Mirroring Republican efforts from just three months ago, many people are now calling on Republicans to return money from an accused sexual predator.

When news of Weinstein’s sexual harassment broke, the RNC released the following statement:

During three-decades worth of sexual harassment allegations, Harvey Weinstein lined the pockets of Democrats to the tune of three quarters of a million dollars. If Democrats and the DNC truly stand up for women like they say they do, then returning this dirty money should be a no brainer.

Now that not only a Republican donor, but Trump’s hand-picked finance chair, is accused of similar behavior, will Republicans make the same demand of their own members?

I’m taking bets. Five to one on IOKIYAR!! Instead, they will invite him to attend one of the Fuhrer’s pervert parties.  RESIST!!

From The Palmer Report: Donald Trump has learned nothing from the mistakes that took down Richard Nixon, and now we know that Trump hasn’t learned anything from the mistakes he got called out on yesterday, either. Just twenty-four hours after Trump’s odds of avoiding prison took a nosedive with the news that he had tried (and failed) to illegally fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, now Trump is reacting to the fallout by trying (and apparently once again failing) to illegally fire someone else too.

Trump just told his advisers to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to reports from CNN, MSNBC and other sources. His advisers have apparently talked him out of the move. Because Rosenstein has control of Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation, firing Rosenstein would also be an illegal act of obstruction of justice. In other words, Trump is still trying to run from his mounting list of crimes by trying to commit even more crimes.

Moreover, Trump is acting as tepidly and indecisively as ever, as his staff keeps talking him out of the illegal orders he’s giving. Instead his advisers keep ratting him out, by telling Mueller that Trump was trying to fire him, and by telling the media that Trump is trying to fire Rosenstein. This also further demonstrates that Trump’s actions are growing more erratic by the day, as he can’t even decide which coverup crime he wants to commit next.

This looks like the penultimate struggles of a doomed and desperate dictator! RESIST!!

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Republicans want space-based nuclear weapons platforms.