Open Thread – 8/24/2018

 Posted by at 1:08 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Aug 242018
 

This morning I opened my window and turned off my AC.  As long as the sun never hits the wall, it will stay off.  Kitty Kitty one-legged happy dance time.  My Broncos play Washington tonight in preseason game three.  It will not be televised here.  May the holy Ellipsoid Orb shine its blessed light on my Broncos, relocate the Redskins to Tel Aviv, and change their name to the Foreskins.  TGIF!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:47 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): Opinion | Trump is facing worse than Watergate. I should know.

 

I agree. Nixon:Trump::Jaywalker:Serial Killer! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Unchecked and Unbalanced

 

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, have turned over their balls to Putin’s Puppet. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Hat-Tip Animae for the idea): The 2018 leadership spill in numbers

 

Condolences to the people of Australia on your new Republican PM instead of having Labour. But at least your Republicans are nowhere near as evil as ours are. RESIST!! VOTE LABOUR!!

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Republicans are far more destructive.

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Friday Fun: Rationing Our Schadenfreude

 Posted by at 6:38 am  Politics
Aug 242018
 

This will have to be a short one for two reasons:

[1] I’m concerned that some of us (myself included) our on the verge of overdosing from Schadenfreude with all the good news FINALLY coming out.

[2] I have a doctor’s appointment in less than two hours.

Can’t help but feel I’d be remiss if I did not memorialize the good news of the week in some manner, so I think a sampling of the headlines from major newspapers across the country would be a good way:

So what was Fox news (sic) covering instead of these major stories?

And all I’ve got to say is FINALLY somebody’s covering the giraffe story! And it’s about damn time, too!

And just a quickie note about David Pecker, publisher of the National Enquirer, flipping and spilling lots of sexual secrets on Twitler …

Of course, some people say it wasn’t that big of a loss.

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Republicans on Parade – 8/23/2018

 Posted by at 12:59 pm  Politics
Aug 232018
 

Here is the one hundred thirty-second article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Ammosexual Republican Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos.   She is so honored for trying to spend funds intended to educate students on putting guns in school classrooms.

0823DeVosEducation Secretary Betsy DeVos is considering allowing states to use federal grant money to buy guns for schools, people familiar with the matter said.

Two people said the question has been raised inside the department as to whether states are allowed to use money available through Student Support and Academic Enrichment grants to buy firearms. Unlike other federal grants, this one does not expressly prohibit such purchases.

Allowing schools to use federal money to buy firearms would fuel anger among those who say the response to school shootings should be fewer guns, not more. But it could find support among gun rights advocates who say that having firearms in schools would make them less likely to be targeted.

“The department is constantly considering and evaluating policy issues, particularly issues related to school safety,” said Education Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Hill. “The secretary nor the department issues opinions on hypothetical scenarios.”…  [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Washington Post>

Whenever the Republican Reich evaluates policy issues, they are really floating a trial balloon to see how big a stink they’ll get.

I was surprised to discover that I’ve never given DeVos a parade before.  She was certainly overdue.  Betsy’s brother is Eric Prince, founder of the GOP SS, Blackwater.  When their reputation became so bad it was costing them, they changed their name to Xe.  They trashed their reputation again and changed their name to Academi.  It wouldn’t surprise me Betsy plans to line the family pockets with federal dollars by sending mercenary thugs to teach white supremacist teachers to blow away naughty Latino students.

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

75 DAYS!!

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Open Thread – 8/23/2018

 Posted by at 12:58 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Aug 232018
 

The weather here in the CatBox is cooler, but very muggy.  I can’t get any cross ventilation, because the building is so super heated that the hallways are still high 80°s.  WWWendy comes this evening.  After today, our schedule will be back to normal.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:47 (average 5:14).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Jig Zone Puzzle:

From YouTube (Washington Post Channel): Not just misleading. Not merely false. A lie.

If Fuhrer Drumpfenfarten is around much longer, he’ll break Pinocchio’s nose! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (NY Times Channel): Coal Miner to Trump: “Coal Mining Isn’t Coming Back”

The only people stupid enough to believe that it is coming back are sheeple addicted to the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From CBS News: The first juror in Paul Manafort’s trial to speak out says prosecutors almost got the 18 guilty verdicts they wanted. Paula Duncan told Fox News that one juror caused a mistrial on 10 of the charges against the president’s former campaign chairman.

In her interview, Duncan said she voted to convict him because the evidence was “overwhelming.” She described a taxing and emotional deliberation process and said the discussions brought some jurors to tears.

  • According to Duncan, she and her peers worked to convince the lone dissenting juror, but ultimately failed to prevent a split verdict Tuesday.

“There was one holdout,” Duncan said. “We laid it out in front of her again and again and she still said that she had a reasonable doubt.”

Evidently, she was a sheeple. Otherwise, she would not have had a so-called “reasonable doubt”, without a reason to have it. We’re lucky she didn’t trash the other eight too! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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At the direction of

 Posted by at 12:51 pm  Politics
Aug 222018
 

Yesterday was a bad day for Putin’s Puppet, Fuehrer of the Republican Reich.  Not only was his Campaign Manager, Paul Manafart, convicted on eight counts, but also, his fixer, Michael Cohen pled that he interfered with the election by bribing Trump’s affairs, Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal to buy their silence.  He made those illegal bribes "In coordination with, and at the direction of a candidate for federal office.  Would you care to guess who that candidate was?

0822TrumpBlame

U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen testified on Tuesday that Trump had directed him to commit a crime by arranging payments ahead of the 2016 presidential election to silence two women who said they had affairs with Trump…

…Cohen’s accusation increases political pressure for Trump ahead of November’s congressional elections where Democrats are trying to regain control of the House of Representatives and Senate.

Cohen told Judge William Pauley III that “in coordination with, and at the direction of, a candidate for federal office” he arranged payments to two women for their silence “for the principal purpose of influencing the election.”… [emphasis added]

Inserted from <Reuters>

Lawrence O’Donnell covered the story.

No matter what Republicans say, I refuse to believe that Hillary did it.

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

76 DAYS!!

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Open Thread – 8/22/2018

 Posted by at 12:50 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Aug 222018
 

I’m waiting for Store to Door to deliver my groceries.  They are running late.  The weather today is a little worse than yesterday.  In a late afternoon surprise yesterday, I went out to look at a room in the Alder, a few blocks away from my current location.  The room is about the same size, and may be workable.  The next step is to see if I can fit the income requirements.  When I returned home my eyes were on fire.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:47 (average 8:58).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Media Matters Channel): A sampling of Mike Cernovich’s vile commentary (that he’d like you to forget)

Barf Bag Alert!!

 

CernoBITCH is currently touring Arizona with Kelly Ward, the Republican candidate for US Senate. If Trump sees this, he’ll be working in the White House. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Memo to the Press

 

The Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. The Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, is criminal. And there’s another way to cover the Fuhrer. Put him under the seat in an outhouse, and leave him, until it’s full. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Michael D. Cohen decided on Tuesday to plead guilty to a host of financial crimes shortly after Rudolph Giuliani offered to be his lawyer on a pro-bono basis, Giuliani confirmed.

In an interview with Jake Tapper, on CNN, the former New York City mayor said that he had offered to give Cohen “the kind of defense that only I am capable of giving.”

“The minute I said that, the blood drained from his face and he was out of there like a shot,” Giuliani said. “It was the strangest thing I’d ever seen.”

Dang, Andy! If Rudy 9/11 was my lawyer, I’d cop a plea in a heartbeat!! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Republicans on Parade – 8/21/2018

 Posted by at 12:37 pm  Politics
Aug 212018
 

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Here is the one hundred thirty-first article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Ammosexual Republican wife of a vile SCROTUS (Republican Unconstitutional VD) Injustice, Ginni TEABAG Thomas.   She is so honored for using a bogus conspiracy theory to paint heroic Parkland High student activists as terrorists.

0821ThomasMemeGinni Thomas, lobbyist, occasional Daily Caller contributor, Trump apologist, drunk dialer, right-wing message coordinator and oh yes, spouse of sitting Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas must be on the NRA’s payroll now, given her latest posting on Facebook.  [Facebook delinked]

Alongside the nasty meme above tying the Parkland survivors to the truly ugly story out of New Mexico about children being trained to shoot up schools, as if that is a thing that young victims of a school shooting should be opining on instead of registering people to vote so we can get some decent gun safety laws on the books, Thomas felt compelled to bully those brave teenagers, too.

"What makes radicalized Democrats like David Hogg and others so dangerous to the survival of our nation is their total, shameless hypocrisy!," Thomas remarked with the photo. She also used the hashtag #WalkAway which has been associated with Russian bots and trolls on social media sites…

Inserted from <Crooks and Liars>

It’s hard to act more Republican than that.  To make your day…

Barf Bag Alert!!

RESIST!!

VOTE BLUE!!

77 DAYS!!

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Open Thread – 8/21/2018

 Posted by at 12:36 pm  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Aug 212018
 

Here in the CatBox, I expect a high in the high 90°.  The humidity is 48%.  My COPD is acting up and my eyes are burning from the smoke.  Trump overload has caused a case of Republicosis.  ARGH!!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 4:21 (average 6:24).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Oregonian Channel): Portland’s hazy skies as seen from aerial tram

 

That was yesterday when it was just beginning. Today, it’s much worse. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Donald Trump Claims "I Could Run" Robert Mueller Investigation "If I Want"

 

Once again, the ogre, whose head is swelled as huge, as his hands, etc. are tiny, has demonstrated his PhD (piled higher and deeper) in Bullshitology! RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

From The New Yorker: Vladimir Putin is reportedly “very close” to firing Rudolph Giuliani as Donald J. Trump’s attorney, a source close to the Russian President confirmed on Monday.

According to the source, Putin allowed Trump to hire Giuliani in the first place because “it’s important to let Trump think that he has some autonomy from time to time,” but now the Russian President has apparently determined that “enough is enough.”

Over the next few days, the source indicated, Putin is likely to replace Giuliani with a handpicked successor, Arkady Lubetkin, a criminal-defense attorney who has represented several prominent Russian Mob figures.

Dang Andy! After Meet the Press, Putin (R-RU] does have just cause for doing do. RESIST!! VOTE BLUE!!

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Vintage 2012

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