With all the political 
grabbing going on, I felt confident that Samantha Bee would deal with it in a low key, politically correct, G-Rated manner. Now that your jaw has recovered from the dropped position, if I really had thought that, I would have been sorely disappointed.
I don’t know about you, but I’m sufficiently burned out, that I felt an entertainment break is in order, so I’m serving-up all Andy Short Takes and a lead article that buzzes. Enjoy!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:25 *average 4:23). To do it click here. How did you do?
Fantasy Football Report:
Here’s the latest from our own fantasy football league, Lefty Blog Friends.
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Standings:
I’m amazed that I won with most of my starters injured or bye, but Rob, Vivian, and Robb are way out in front.
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: As the crisis at the top of their ticket deepened on Sunday, there were increasing calls from Republican officials to replace a man who hates women with a man who hates both women and gays.
“We currently have a Presidential nominee who is consumed by his hatred of women,” Harland Dorrinson, a longtime G.O.P. official, said. “It is time for him to step aside in favor of a man who has demonstrated a more even-handed loathing of both women and gays.”
The Republican official argued that a “stellar performance” in last week’s Vice-Presidential was another reason to elevate the man to the top of the ticket. “For ninety minutes, he made no reference whatsoever to female genitalia,” he said. “That showed he has what it takes to be President.”
Andy, as I have long said, Trump is merely a symptom of the cancer that must be excised to save the US: the Republican Party.
From The New Yorker: Fearing that millions of foreign tourists might cancel their plans to travel to the United States, President Obama used his emergency powers to interrupt the broadcast of the second Presidential debate.
“Good evening, friends around the world,” Obama began, in a reassuring tone. “For the past hour, many of you have been observing something that can only be described as nightmarish. I want to state in no uncertain terms: if you come to the United States, you will never, ever meet another man this horrible.”
“I can understand that many of you might greet my words with skepticism,” he said. “Well, you just have to believe me on this: I have met many, many, Americans and this is the worst guy I have ever encountered.”
Andy, should Obama really deceive the world like that? Bubba Bagger is as bad as Rump Dump, as is every Republican who votes for him.
From The New Yorker: Calling the Republican nominee’s behavior “completely indefensible,” the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, cancelled a joint campaign appearance with Donald Trump on Monday.
Putin, who had been scheduled to campaign alongside Trump at a rally in Columbus, Ohio, said that he would make no joint appearances with the billionaire for the remainder of the campaign.
“As the father of two daughters, I cannot condone or defend Mr. Trump’s behavior,” the Russian leader said in a curt official statement.
In addition to cancelling his appearance with Trump, Putin, who had been expected to spend thirty-one million rubles, or roughly five million dollars, on Trump campaign ads, is pulling those funds and will instead “focus on down-ballot races,” the statement said.
Andy, I don’t believe it. Putin (R-RU) has done so much for the Trump campaign already. I can’t see Putin abandoning his pet pup yet. I think he’ll just try to teach Trump to stop crapping on the rug.
Cartoon:
I don't know how it appeared on your TV, but this is what the creepy, lurking, stalking Donald looked like on my set:
And the tape of Donald bragging about being able to "Grab them by the pu$$y" is a prime example of GOP hypocrisy:
And I found the reaction of Trump's daughter, Tiffany, post-debate very … well, disturbing:
I’m about to go to a medical appointment over my double vision. I’ll publish this after I return. In last nights masdebate, Trump was deplorable. No fact passed his lips. However, this was more even than the last, because Hillary performed poorly.
The doctor said that she thinks I’ll need surgery, but wants to be the last thing done, after cataract surgery and after surgery to remove the droop from my eyelids. In the meantime, she fitted my old glasses with a prism that partially corrects the double vision at short range, as long as I’m looking straight ahead.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:49 (average 7:09). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Religious Agony:
Cartoon:
Wendy just left. We perfumed the TomCat, did the dreaded task, cooked and cleaned. Today is a holy day in the Church of the Ellipsoid Orb. My Broncos meditate at Atlanta, and the game will be televised here, so I'm rushing. Tomorrow, please expect no more than a Personal Update. I have a long appointment with an eye specialist to see what can be done for my double vision. I will be gone most of the day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today's took me 3:43 (average 5:04). To do it, click here. How did you do.
Short Takes:
From KP Daily Funnies: SNL- A Day Off for Trump's Campaign Manager
Cute, but I thought another clip was more relevant.
From YouTube: VP Debate Cold Open – SNL
That sounded just like trump.
From The New Yorker: In what is being described as a best-case scenario, some political experts are predicting that the Republicans could once again be a viable political party as early as the year 2096.
Davis Logsdon, the head of the University of Minnesota’s political-science department, said on Saturday that the eighty-year time frame for the Republican Party to recover was “admittedly optimistic, but still doable.”
“It’s not going to be easy, and they have very little margin for error,” Logsdon said. “But if they do everything right and a lot of things cut their way, they could be up and running as a somewhat serviceable political party as early as 2096.”
According to the political strategist Tracy Klugian, however, Logsdon’s 2096 target date for the Republicans’ comeback is “laughably upbeat.”
“In order for the G.O.P. to become even a marginally functional political party again, all memory of the 2016 campaign will have to be obliterated,” Klugian said. “That means everyone who witnessed it will have to be dead, and probably those people’s children, and their children’s children, too. I wouldn’t bet on the Republican Party recovering any earlier than the year 2132.”
Andy, That's horrible!! 2132 is MUCH TOO SOON!!!
Donald Trump has once again proven himself to be the perfect reflection of Republican misogyny. While Republicans strive to be obscene and not heard, this Republican put it on tape for the whole worlds to hear, causing a tempest among Republicans desperate to lie that they aren’t the same way.
Under fire for lewd comments about groping women, Donald Trump released a video statement shortly after midnight Saturday in a bid to save his candidacy, apologizing and pledging to be a "better man."
“I’ve said and done things I regret," Trump said. "Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.”
Trump’s campaign was sent reeling on Friday after a private tape was published in which the reality TV star bragged about groping, kissing and attempting to have sex with married women — and said he was entitled to do so because he’s a “star.”
The comments threaten to envelop, if not torpedo, his candidacy just days before his second presidential debate with Hillary Clinton, as top Republicans from across the nation condemned him in the sharpest possible terms…
From <Politico>
Here’s the tape itself:
Barf Bag Alert!
Is that acting like a Republican or what?
Here are three video clips from the Rachel Maddow Show. In the first, Rachel covers how the tape reinforces other claims that Trump has been denying.
In the second, Rachel discusses the tape with the reporter who originally exposed it.
In the third, Rachel covers the Republican Reaction, including considering alternatives, if Trump drops out.
Frankly, I think that’s just wishful thinking, and I doubt he’ll drop out.
You might considering me harsh for painting the entire Republican Party with this brush, bur please consider this. I’m referring primarily to politicians and pundit, virtually all of whom jumped on the Rump Dump bandwagon after he was nominated. But his misogyny was already a matter of record when his campaign began. Further more, he could not have won the nomination, if the majority of voting rank-and-file Republicans had not voted for him.
This is Joanne’s fifth Big Mouth award. She earned her first in September 2013, her second in March 2015, her third in May 2015, she lit up the sky on July 4, 2016. I predict there are more coming.
A denizen of Care2, she came to us from there, and is now a regular. She’s super-smart, witty a political junky and an activist for all kinds of human rights. I have had occasion to correspond with her, and she faces some major issues in her life with exceptional dignity and grace.
Last Autumn I appointed her to a staff position, Politics Plus Author, and this month I promoted her to Editor. One of her articles in June had more traffic than any of mine did. Please join in burying her with the praise and kudos she deserves. Her daily comments and her articles make this a better site.
Today is another very busy day, as I have three articles to write, a week’s supply of pills to restock, and a menu and grocery list to plan for a week’s meals. Courtney changed all my exercises, because the way the surgeons constructed Stumpy, the old exercises were putting too much pressure on the end of the bone. Until I become accustomed to the new set, they will tire me more than usual, and I took a nap this morning after completing my research.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:53 (average 5:29). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Republicans on Friday expressed bafflement that President Obama had garnered a record-high second-term approval rating despite having turned the United States into an economically devastated, crime-ridden hellhole.
Appearing on “Fox & Friends,” the Trump surrogate Rudolph Giuliani said he was “dumbfounded” by the disconnect between Obama’s high approval rating and the President’s near-total dismemberment of a formerly strong nation.
“This country used to be a wonderful place to live,” the former New York mayor said. “Today, all you see is a hellscape of smoldering ruins.”
Giuliani blamed the mainstream media for not properly informing the American people about the destruction and havoc Obama has wrought since his first day in office.
Andy, where’s the humor? Hasn’t Rudy 911 (R-Dementia) said this very thing?
From YouTube: New Rule: America Rules, Trump Drools | Real Time with Bill Maher
We know America is rising. How? It’s the opposite of what Trump says. ChickenHawk Cheney being alive is the exception to that rule.
From Daily Kos:Libertarians, it’s time to get serious. Gary Johnson is not ready for prime time. Even if you forgive him for not knowing anything about Aleppo, the epicenter of the Syrian refugee crisis and you forgive him for being unable to name a single foreign leader he admires, you have to admit his latest faux pas is frightening: he failed to remember the name of one of the most dangerous people in the world:
He certainly puts the DUH back in dumb!
Cartoon:
Republicans would love to do that here!
