Apr 192019
 

UPDATE NOTE: I have edited this post so that BOTH the TEXT ABOUT and the PHOTO of Notre Dame are LINKS to the interactive, zoomable 360-degree aerial picture.  It truly is worth a Look-See!

This will be fairly brief because I’m still dizzy from shaking my head so much in disbelief over what America’s Attorney General – TWITLER’S attorney, Bill Barr, did yesterday in his Spin Zone rollout Whitewash Coverup of the Mueller Report.

How Barr justifies giving Twitler a total pass in his own unbelievable words: “… there is substantial evidence to show that the President was frustrated and angered….”

Well, Hell’s Bells – I didn’t realize that Twitler was “FRUSTRATED” and “ANGRY” about the Special Counsel Investigation … did you?

Golly gee, that changes everything.  Absolutely: NO COLLUSION – NO OBSTRUCTION!  Constitutional crisis avoided.

Moving on, and just to reinforce the fact that I actually do have real compassion (just not for Twitler), here’s a touching video of someone caring for a bee who had no wings.  A lesson worth sharing.  (You might want to have a hanky handy.)

We’ve all been saddened by the damage that a fire has done to Notre Dame Cathedral.  But here is a fascinating 360-Degree Interactive, Zoomable Aerial View of Paris centered on the charred remains.  I think it’s best to view full-screen.

NOTE: Sorry for the confusion.  The above, bolded description of the site is the Link.  

BUT I’ve now also made the photo itself a link.  But you’ll have to do a right-click “Open In New Tab” or “Open In New Window” because if you click on the photo itself – it’ll open the whole page as a new window.

Just grab the picture with your cursor and move it around.  To Zoom in and out, use the scroll-wheel on your mouse.  And if you don’t have scroll-wheel, then use the “+” and “-” signs on the keyboard.

NSFW – My Righteous Rant That Is NOT SAFE FOR WORK

Just like Twitler, I, too, am frustrated and angry – and I’m going to relieve some of that frustration and anger by venting a bit.

My current favorite part of the whole Mueller Report is this passage on page 290 (or page 78 of Vol. II):

… when Sessions told the President that a Special Counsel had been appointed, the President slumped back in his chair and said, “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I’ m fucked.”

That is NOT a phase an innocent person would ever utter.  So let’s see what some folks have done with Twitler’s actual admission of guilt …

Taking a page from Twitler’s own playbook, the “Game of Thrones” was used a couple of times:

And one I like even better:

And here’s Twitler issuing another of his Executive Orders:

But given how Barr handled – and most likely will continue to handle – the Mueller Report, I guess Melania can offer a pithy summary of where our country is at … at least for the immediate time being:

 

 

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Barrf Barrfed!

 Posted by at 9:55 am  Politics
Apr 182019
 

The redacted version of the Mueller Report has been released, and I have a link to a PDF copy of that report.  However, before that was released, Coverup General William Barr, aka Barrf, did his nest to misrepresent its contents in order to protect his Fuhrer.  He did a poor job. In fact, Barrf Barrfed.

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Attorney General William Barr’s Thursday morning press conference on special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia report was a whitewash.

There’s no other way to describe it. Barr, who claimed beforehand that the press conference would focus on process, spun the report’s conclusions before it was released and expected reporters to ask questions about a document they had not even seen. He literally uttered the phrase “no collusion” to describe Mueller’s conclusions — providing a perfect sound bite to play on loop on cable news in the president’s favorite phrasing.

Barr repeated this and similar talking points multiple times during his prepared statement. He put tremendous effort into explaining why Trump’s behavior during the probe should be seen as justified and in no way constituted obstruction. He even praised the president for providing “unfettered access” to documents and said the White House “fully cooperated” with the investigation, despite Trump’s refusal to submit to an interview with Mueller.

At the end, when a reporter asked if it was improper for the attorney general to spin the report to the public before it was released, Barr literally walked off the stage.

Meanwhile, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is generally respected by Trump critics, stood next to Barr silently.

It was a spectacle that said more about Barr and the way the Mueller report has been twisted by partisan politics than the report itself….  [emphasis added]

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Don’t take my word for it.  Decide for yourself.  CSPAN recorded Barrf’s presser.

Barrf Bag Alert!!

 

What do you think?

Finally, click here to read the redacted Mueller Report.

I’ll have to depend on others to dig out the dirt.  I have a copy, but my eyes are not capable of evaluating it.  Go for it.

RESIST!!

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Apr 182019
 

Summer has come early to the CatBox.  It’s still cool now, but the forecast high this afternoon is 75°.  It may get too warm here, as my O2 concentrator sheds heat. I hope your day is Republican-free.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:54 (average 4:10).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Uninvited: GOP Representative Flip-Flips On Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

 

I love it when Republicans step in dawg crap and put their feet in their mouths. RESIST!!

From YouTube (CNN Channel): North Korea tests ‘tactical’ weapon, report says

 

I wonder what Resident Rump Dump will give away to Kim this time. RESIST!!

From The New Yorker: After putting in what one associate called a “hellish all-nighter,” the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, is almost finished redacting Robert Mueller’s report in time for its release, on Thursday.

Earlier in the week, the U.S. Attorney General, William Barr, submitted the approximately four-hundred-page document to Putin for his approval, but the Russian President was reportedly “in a state of disbelief” over how much Barr had failed to redact.

Quickly assembling a crisis team at the Kremlin to implement further redactions, Putin told his associates, “Put some coffee on, boys—it’s going to be a long night.”

Dang, Andy! You nailed it! RESIST!!

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Democrats, Knock It Off!

 Posted by at 10:27 am  Politics
Apr 172019
 

If I wake up in the middle of a political wet dream, and I am ripped from sleep by members of my own party drenching my naked body with ice water, I can tell that I am a Democrat.  In 2008, there was a struggle between Clinton and Obama.  Almost 5% of Democrats, angry that Clinton lost, voted for McCain.  In 2016, angry that Bernie lost, over 10% of Bernie supporters voted for Trump.  Are we starting for 2020 already?  Democrats, knock it off!

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…From canapé-filled fund-raisers on the coasts to the cloakrooms of Washington, mainstream Democrats are increasingly worried that their effort to defeat President Trump in 2020 could be complicated by Mr. Sanders, in a political scenario all too reminiscent of how Mr. Trump himself seized the Republican nomination in 2016.

How, some Democrats are beginning to ask, do they thwart a 70-something candidate from outside the party structure who is immune to intimidation or incentive and wields support from an unwavering base, without simply reinforcing his “the establishment is out to get me”’ message — the same grievance Mr. Trump used to great effect?

But stopping Mr. Sanders, or at least preventing a contentious convention, could prove difficult for Democrats.

He has enormous financial advantages — already substantially outraising his Democratic rivals — that can sustain a major campaign through the primaries. And he is well positioned to benefit from a historically large field of candidates that would splinter the vote: If he wins a substantial number of primaries and caucuses and comes in second in others, thanks to his deeply loyal base of voters across many states, he would pick up formidable numbers of delegates…

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This is the worst thing establishment Democrats could do.  Look at this video:

 

Bernie’s campaign is behaving just as badly.  They are fundraising with the message “The Democratic establishment and high-dollar donors are already planning how to stop our campaign. They are terrified of our movement — as they should be.”  That will only frighten establishment Democrats more, a very unwise choice.

In the end, no matter who wins have a massive bloc of resentful lefties, who feel anger toward and unrepresented by the winning candidate.  How insane!

Democrats need to knock it off. If you support Bernie, support him. If you support someone else, support them. If we allow our disagreements to become feuds, whoever wins our nomination will be too battered and bloody to win the general. Let’s compete on issue and let the voters choose the individuals. And when we have a nominee, we ALL need to get behind them with enthusiastic support. The alternative is four more years of Republican tyranny.

RESIST!!

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Apr 172019
 

It’s a very busy day, here in the CatBox.  Store to Door will deliver my groceries, and I have to unpack and put them away.  Later WWWendy is coming to de-stink the vile TomCat and help with chores.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 3:38 (average 5:23).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Short Takes:

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Trump 2020 GOP Challenger: ‘No Limit’ To Damage Another Trump Term Could Do

 

May this challenger, as bad as his fiscal policies are, weaken Trump so much that his landslide defeat spells the end of the Republican Reich. RESIST!!

From YouTube (Dollemore Channel): White House Officials Afraid They’ll be Punished for Telling the Truth to Robert Mueller!

 

Spot-on, Jesse. They are right to be afraid. When their Fuhrer says “Tell the truth”, he means “the ‘truth’ I want”. They brought it on themselves by taking jobs in his Republican Reich. RESIST!!

From Daily Kos: Donald Trump, deplorable in chief, has no qualms whatsoever about the increased number of death threats Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar has been receiving since he tweeted a video of edited 9/11 footage interspersed with remarks Omar had made to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Taken out of context, the video made Omar sound as if she was dismissive of the terror attack, when Omar was clearly making the case that more than a billion Muslims were not responsible for the actions of 19 hijackers, 16 of which came from Trump’s favorite ally, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Nevertheless, Trump saw his moment to pounce and take the most racist track possible, loudly barking to his followers that Omar wasn’t American at all, and suggesting she had allegiances elsewhere. Of course, Trump has a history of questioning the loyalty of American citizens of color. Look no further than his racist birther attacks on President Obama for another crystal-clear example.

Why would Trump have regrets because of death threats against Omar. Those threats, especially if carried out, are the reason he did it. RESIST!!

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Barrf Has Priors

 Posted by at 9:31 am  Politics
Apr 162019
 

We already know that Putin’s Puppet hired Coverup General William Barr, aka Barrf, to lie, cheat and abuse the DOJ to protect his Fuhrer from consequences so thoroughly deserved.  I wondered how Trump was able to predict that Barrf would protect him so thoroughly.  Then I learned that Barrf has priors.

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…Barr’s stated position is that the redactions will be as narrow as they can be to ensure transparency. But once the redacted report is released, it’s safe to assume that some skepticism about what was withheld will continue.

Particularly given Barr’s track record, as New York University professor of law Ryan Goodman wrote on Monday at the site Just Security, where he’s a co-editor-in-chief.

Goodman, who is a former Defense Department special counsel, details a remarkably similar fight from 1989 in which Barr, then head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, was involved. The OLC had determined that the FBI was allowed to take people into custody in foreign countries without the consent of those countries’ governments — a ruling that seemed to pave the way, Goodman notes, for the eventual arrest of former Panamanian leader Manuel Antonio Noriega.

This was a contentious position to take, and Barr was asked to provide the memo offering the detailed legal rationale for allowing such detentions. He declined, instead offering a 13-page document that “summarizes the principal conclusions.” When Congress, and then The Washington Post, obtained the full opinion in 1991, it was quickly noted that several conclusions from the full document hadn’t been included in Barr’s summary. Foremost among them was that the opinion authorized the president of the United States to ignore the United Nations Charter….

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He did the exact same thing in 1989.  No wonder the Fuhrer hired him.

Lawrence O’Donnell provides more depth.

Why didn’t Barrf do time for perjury, obstruction, and contempt when the truth came out in 1991? Why wasn’t he at least disBarred?

RESIST!!

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