Aug 162019
 

There’ll be no “Fun” posted this week as I’m having Out-Patient Surgery this morning for a leg abscess.

On Saturday, July 27th I leaned over while in my desk chair to get something that was clearly out of my reach because the chair tipped over and I landed on the handle of an antique iron.

Before electricity, they used solid iron irons that you had to heat on the stove – and those suckers are heavy.

I developed a giant goose-egg hematoma that became Red, Hot, Swollen & Tender (RHST), so I went to my PCP’s Walk-In clinic on Friday, August 2nd. The Nurse Practitioner put me on Keflex, but since I didn’t see much progress, I went to the Wound Care Clinic this Wednesday.

The Nurse Practitioner (who I saw for my 36 days of antibiotics for my cat-bite cellulitis – and is excellent) confirmed my concern: abscess.

But I was shocked that the Wound Care Clinic does not drain abscesses.

So I had an Ultra-Sound done yesterday to be sure it’s walled off (it is), and will see the general surgeon this morning for a probable Incision & Drainage (I & D).

But I’ll share a cute cat Tweet:

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Aug 152019
 

It’s that time of week again, and here are three excellent video clips from Sam’s show last night.  Enjoy!

Full Frontal Investigates: The Case of Jerry Falwell, Jr., the Pool Boy,

 

Dang! Even Uranus Inspector Cruz would have been a better pick. Who F’d the pool boy? The Falwells, the Trumps, Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch, Larry Craig, Diaper Dave, and the entire Republican Reich.

Sticky Fingers, Sticky Conversations: BBQ and Reproductive Justice

 

Kudos to the ladies. They sound like a southern fried version of Planned Parenthood.

Betty Who Gives Us One Last Summer Bop

 

Woooo Hoooo Betty Who!

Thanks, Sam!

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Aug 152019
 

I’m pretty tired out, because WWWendy got caught in traffic and was 45 minutes.  We had extra work to do, because she and her girlfriends are committing wanton debauchery in a German Village this weekend so my next shower day won’t be until Monday.  Today is a grocery delivery day.  BTW, I fixed the Mouse.  I had to move the wireless receiver from the back of the computer to a USB port on my hub near the front.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:14 (average 5:22) to do it, click here.  How did you do?

About Mewe:

Several of our Care2 Refugee friends recommended a site called Mewe.  Some started a group there called Care2share.  So far, it’s almost all petitions, but I asked the group owned if she would like us to add PP articles to the site.  I recommend checking out both the site and the group.

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Mitch McConnell At Nexus Of Increased Russian Leverage On U.S. (29 min.)

 

Bought Bitch Moscow Mitch is the best thing for Russian dominance and the worst thing for US national security since Resident Drumpfenfarten. Putin (R-RU) loves his Republican Reich. Every Republican in office is one Republican too many! RESIST!!

From Newsweek: A man, allegedly a correctional officer, drove a pickup truck into a group of Jewish peaceful demonstrators protesting outside the Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island on Wednesday night.

Hundreds of Jewish protesters, mostly members of Never Again Action, a group that advocates for the rights of migrants detained by ICE, gathered outside the Donald W. Wyatt Detention facility in Central Falls on Wednesday evening. The protesters stood blocking the entrance of the facility, linking arms while chanting for the abolition of ICE and the end to America’s harsh immigration policies.

At around 10 p.m. local time, a dark-colored pickup truck drove slowly up to a group of roughly 40-50 protesters blocking the entrance to the location’s parking lot, before driving straight through the crowd, according to a video uploaded to Twitter.

Amy Anthony, one of the protest’s organizers, told Newsweek that the group has identified the man driving the truck as a correctional officer. “We have confirmed that the person driving the truck is a correctional officer who works for the detention facility,” she said. “The driver was in his uniform when he hit the protestors. His rank and name were embroidered on his shirt and he was wearing a badge at the time.”

 

Was he a lone Republican or was he under orders from the Republican Reich? RESIST!!

From Vanity Fair: John Hickenlooper’s presidential campaign has been on death’s doorstep for weeks. He’s been nonexistent in the polls; he was mistaken for a reporter upon arriving at the first presidential debate in June; and in July, his own staff staged an intervention, urging him to drop his bid to “pursue other opportunities.” Now, the former Colorado governor appears ready to heed their advice. The Associated Press reports that Hickenlooper will announce his withdrawal on Thursday, making him the latest 2020 Democrat to exit the crowded primary field. His announcement will come amid speculation that he is weighing a Senate run against vulnerable Colorado Republican Cory Gardner, but a Hickenlooper campaign source told Politico he will not address that possibility.

From what I’ve seen of him, I’m not favorably Impressed, but I trust he has some god qualities.  If the choice is he or Trump-endorser Corey Gardner for a Senate seat, the worst Democrat is infinitely better than the best Republican. Vote Blue, no matter who! RESIST!!

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Aug 142019
 

Here is the one hundred sixty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s winner is Trump’s Republican Acting Director of Citizenship and Immigration Services, Ken Cuccinelli. He is so honored for rewriting Emma Lazarus’ poem about Lady Liberty, converting it to racist Republican propaganda.

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It’s practically a parody of Trumpian ignorance and bigotry: Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, offering a rewrite of the famous Emma Lazarus poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.

Instead of reading “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” Cuccinelli suggested–in answer to a reporter’s question about whether he agreed with Lazarus’s poem–that maybe it should say, “Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.”

This is in line with a new Trump administration regulation that could dramatically reduce the number of legal immigrants to the United States by allowing officials to reject green card and visa applicants if they are low-income, have little education or have ever relied on social assistance programs like Medicaid or food stamps. “This will help Citizenship and Immigration Services objectively determine whether the applicant is likely at any time in the future to receive public benefits,” Cuccinelli wrote in a CNN op-ed… [emphasis added]

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I strongly suspect that right-wing Caucasians from Europe would automatically pass the Republican tests.

Lawrence O’Donnell exposes his hate and hypocrisy.

 

He’s way lower than a sleaze bag. He’s a Republican!

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Aug 142019
 

My Windows 10 installation is still somewhat buggy, after the update from hell, but I just don’t have time to waste another day dealing with their horrid customer support.  Today is a WWWendy day.  From force of habit, I keep thinking it’s a grocery day too, but grocery day is Thursday in the shiny new CatBox.  I slept poorly last night.  I had to get up for an Alka-Seltzer.  That hiatal hernia has been acting up, and I feel tired.  Hump Day Hugs to all!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:56 (average 5:27)(mouse still flaky).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (Robert Reich Channel): Robert Reich: Is America Becoming a Third World Country?

 

Of course the Reich on the left, Robert Reich, is right. If the Reich on the right, the Republican Reich, has their way, we will become a fourth world country. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Trae Crowder Channel): Do What Now – ICEcapades in the Mississippi Heat

 

Trae is spot-on, but it makes me sick to compare this racist Republican hatred to the gorgeous production on ice that thrilled me so, when I was a child. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: One day after the White House took steps to weaken the Endangered Species Act, an irate polar bear has demanded a face-to-face meeting with Donald J. Trump.

The bear, who was described as “livid” by his spokesperson, has already begun his journey from the Arctic to Washington to express his deep dissatisfaction with Trump.

“He has been ravenously hungry because of the destruction of his habitat,” the bear’s spokesperson said. “The latest news about the Endangered Species Act has not improved his mood.”

Dang, Andy! How could the poor creature possibly bear such a vile encounter? RESIST!!

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Aug 132019
 

Last Night Windows Update installed a major revision to Windows 10.  It trashed my computer.  I have almost everything working again. but it took me all morning to do it.  Therefore this is all I have today.  I’ll be back in the saddle tomorrow.  ARGH!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:28 (average 5:15) (mouse still flakey).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

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Aug 122019
 

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Pat followed Politics Plus and commented for quite some time on Care2, where she has been active for years, before she started commenting here at the site.  A few months later, she won her first Big Mouth Award for the 78,000th comment in May 2016. She became a daily regular and won her second award for the 85,000th comment in December 2016 and her third for the 93,000th comment in October 2017.  She won her fourth for 97,000 in March, 2018.  She won her fifth for 101,000 in August 2018 and her sixth in October This is her seventh award. She is a progressive activist, an authentic Christian, a proud veteran, and a Michael Moore Fan.  If you tell her to go to hell, she’s likely to answer, “I already live there.”  The poor girl is still a Texan. On the other hand, she loves her Houston Texans.  Her comments are still bright, witty and above all, compassionate.  She always greets WWWendy on shower day!  I don’t know what else I can say, but please add praise with more compliments.  She deserves it.

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Aug 122019
 

I don’t know why, but I feel very tired today.  My mouse stopped tracking evenly, and it’s driving me nuts!  ARGH!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 7:29 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever

 

Ah… the memories!! RESIST!!

From Huffington Post: Fox News and host Tucker Carlson are losing more advertisers.

Long John Silver’s will no longer advertise on Fox News, as confirmed to Media Matters’ Angelo Carusone. 

Nestlé and HelloFresh, which have advertised on Carlson’s show in the past, told The Hollywood Reporter they were no longer running ads on the show. Nestlé said it had no plans to do so in the future.

On Friday, Stein Mart confirmed that it is no longer running ads on Carlson’s show.

A spokesperson for SoFi, a personal finance company that had recently been running ads with Carlson, told HuffPost that the company buys “programmatic advertising and [does] not purchase directly through the sponsorship of any shows.” Additionally, SoFi said it had “made sure our ads will no longer air during this program.”

Earlier this week, Carlson claimed on his show “Tucker Carlson Tonight” that there is no white supremacy problem in the United States, and that it’s a “hoax” proliferated by the media.

Wonderful! Our voices matter enough to punch the Republican Reichsministry of Propaganda, Faux Noise, right in the wallet! RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: When I spotted this tiny, dark booth, I surveilled it for a while, feigning to study the map of the fairgrounds for bearings on my phone. Minutes passed, and then a few more, and all the while this forlorn booth had no guests. Literally not a single one.

It wasn’t for lack of potential visitors. Friday was a perfect day for the popular fair – warm but not hot, and as comfortably cloudy as it was sometimes sunny. Ohio’s capital city of Columbus is centrally located – in the Heart of it All of the Heart of it All – which makes for only a few hours’ drive to its location from just about anywhere in this quite populous state. Understandably, the fair was crowded. Just about every booth got their fair (sic.) share of attention this day, but for that one – sparse, and sporting an overly tiny identifying sign – which seemed patently unable to buy a break…

…Now Ohio is a purple state, but even though the fair takes place in the big city (Columbus is Ohio’s largest), the fair is a rural-themed park which attracts more than its share of the red team. That pretty much holds true for both booth denizens as well as fairgoers, but the marketplace’s desire to make the sale puts a damper on risky political banter. That’s why I was surprised when I saw the undersized sign on the back of the lonely booth:

T R U M P
P E N C E
Make America Great Again

The two twenty-something booth caretakers were bored. Very bored.

FOMCROTFPIMPLMAO! RESIST!!

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