It’s another muggy day here in the tiny old CatBox, but I’m feeling somewhat better, and I should be in the saddle both today and tomorrow.  WWWendy and I go to sign the lease in the shiny new CatBox late tomorrow afternoon, so I will be showering, eating, and getting to bed late.  I may need to take Thursday off to recover.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:56 (average 4:42).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (a blast from the past): Apollo 11 launches, beginning epic journey to the moon

Ah… the memories! RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Racist Trump Spectacle Distracts From Other Damaging Trump News

Rachel makes perfect sense. The rabid Republican Sheeple love their Fuhrer’s racist diatribes. At the same time, he angers people, who point others to what they already knew instead of what could inspire more to oppose him, such as the absolute proof that criminal bastard, Julian Assange, worked hand in glove with Russia and the Republican Reich. RESIST!!

From NY Times: The immigration raid early Monday morning at the El Paraiso Apartments in Houston was not exactly a major victory for law enforcement. It was foiled, in part, by 19-year-old Kaylin Garcia.

Shortly before 7 a.m. Monday, Ms. Garcia was sitting in her car near her family’s apartment, in a largely Hispanic section of southwest Houston about 15 miles from downtown. She saw four Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents walk by — one dressed in camouflage fatigues and the others wearing black T-shirts and bulletproof vests. They were knocking on apartment doors. She took a picture of the agents with her phone, posted it to her Facebook page and notified some of her neighbors.

At least one of her neighbors saw Ms. Garcia’s picture and heard about her warnings — the family slid the chain closed on their door. When the agents knocked on the door, the family — an undocumented Honduran man and his wife, along with their American-born children and another relative — kept silent and never opened it. After a minute or two, the agents left.

“I wasn’t scared,” Ms. Garcia said. “I was scared for my neighbors.” She added, “Nobody opened the door.”

The anticipated large-scale ICE raids aimed at rounding up at least 2,000 migrant parents and children appear to have run into similar problems in other parts of the country. With widespread publicity about the raids, many undocumented migrants have been counseled to avoid opening their doors.

Finally! A win for the good guys (gals too)! RESIST!!

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I’m feeling frustrated this morning.  I just received an auto-reply that the person at CCC, who’s supposed to be organizing my move, is out of the office until Monday.  That not only leaves me hanging, but also, means that I cannot move next week.  Now it will have to wait until the week after.  ARGH!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:52 (average 5:41).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Mitch McConnell Blocks Bills To Combat Election Interference

Bought Bitch Mitch and the Republican Reich want Russian interference. They are depending on their Russian masters’ help to stay in power. RESIST!!

From Oregon: In Lynn’s Honor

It’s about time someone gave our Sasquatch the credit she deserves. Oregon leads the way! RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: The special counsel Robert Mueller ignited a firestorm of controversy on Wednesday by recommending that millions of Americans read.

Mueller, seemingly oblivious to the uproar he was about to create, repeatedly commented that there was valuable information available to the American people only by reading a long book.

At the White House, sources said that Donald J. Trump was furious about Mueller’s statement because he interpreted the special counsel’s pro-reading message as a thinly veiled attack on him.

I hate to say it, but Andy has a very valid point. Expecting American voters to read is a tall order, and expecting Republican sheeple to read is pure comedy. RESIST!!

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I don’t like the devices, but love the contents.

It’s a chilly day here in the CatBox.  Finding stories has been difficult because a single subject had dominated the news.  I will be tied up much of the day tomorrow in a volunteer meeting.  Therefore, I will only publish one article with no links messages on Care2.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:53 (average 5:15).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube: Enya – Only time

I hope you enjoyed something soothing as much as I. God knows we need it. RESIST!!

From Huffington Post: Democrats in Congress are gearing up for a fight to ensure that special counsel Robert Mueller’s findings are made public, calling for the release of the full report.

On Friday, Mueller submitted his report to Attorney General William Barr, who now has to determine what to do with the conclusions from the 22-month investigation that resulted in charges against 34 people. As a start, he is expected to send lawmakers a summary of the findings as early as Sunday.

Democrats are pushing for transparency on the report, pressuring Barr to release as much information as possible. 

“Now that Special Counsel Mueller has submitted his report to the Attorney General, it is imperative for Mr. Barr to make the full report public and provide its underlying documentation and findings to Congress,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a joint statement. 

We all deserve a chance to know all the details possible, without compromising either ongoing investigations or intelligence community sources and methods. I’m tired of watching “experts” analyze the contents of an unopened, unlabeled container. RESIST!!

From NY Times: More than 18,000 activists will converge in Washington on Sunday for the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, as Democrats wrestle with the left’s rising criticism of Israel and as President Trump seeks to divide his political rivals while bolstering Israel’s embattled leader.

In some respects, the three-day Aipac conference will look much as it has in years past. American and Israeli luminaries will speak, including Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice President Mike Pence, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Mr. Netanyahu’s main challenger in Israel’s election next month, Benny Gantz. It will wrap up on Tuesday with a “lobbying day,” when thousands of activists will flock to Capitol Hill to press Aipac’s legislative agenda.

I hope thousands of Authentic Jews, Authentic Christians, Authentic Muslims and Authentic others flock to Capitol Hill to oppose the legislative agenda of AIPUKE’s pseudo-Jews and pseudo-Christians. RESIST!!

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It’s a chilly muggy day here in the CatBox.  I’m not feeling very well, as I have Republicitis.  I had to take a Dulcolax, as my blue eyes are turning brown.  I submitted my grocery order to Store to Door.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:55 (average 6:13).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Who Will Be the Next President

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The only way to defeat the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, which is wrong, is to change. We need a grass roots progressive campaign. RESIST!!

From YouTube (MoveOn Channel): Nationwide Protests Against Trump’s Fake Emergency

Kudos to all who protested nonviolently. RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: Republicans have made their strategy for the 2020 elections crystal-clear: going after the newly serving Democratic women of color in Congress.  Given this, we can only anticipate conservatives becoming even more rabid over the next two years, ramping up their claims that progressive Democrats in the House are all socialists, who also happen to be anti-Semites that get a kick out of murdering unborn children. The New York Times reports that this is how Republicans hope to appeal to voters, and that they have unabashedly claimed this as their plan for victory going forward.

Of course, it’s always super fun for the GOP to make false claims about Democrats and paint them as out-of-control lefties who threaten the American way of life. But this time, it isn’t just business as usual. By pinning their hopes on this as a viable campaign and fundraising opportunity, Republicans are also hoping they can “strangle the new Democratic majority in its infancy.”

As absurd as this sounds, beware! If the Republican Reich were 1/10th as adept at governing as they are at disinformation, they would be half competent. RESIST!!

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As true today as it was when I made it, eight years ago.