Video Thread 11/13/21

 Posted by at 11:51 am  Open Thread, Politics
Nov 132021
 

Glenn Kirschner – Insurrection Defendant Gets 41 Months in Prison. But What of the Cases that are Set for Trial?

Thom Hartmann – Why Is The Judge Hiding Rittenhouse’s Ties To White Supremacy? (Shades of Zimmerman)

Rebel HQ – Crooked Judge In Kyle Rittenhouse Trial EXPOSED

PBS – Amanpour & Co – Chase and Takota Iron Eyes. Yes, this is almost 20 minutes.

RepresentUs – Limp Democracy

Cracked – If Dating Apps Were Honest

Beau – Let’s talk about a message from a small government conservative…. [This is the video which contains Beau’s method for predicting what Republicans will do.]

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Open Thread for October 10, 2021

 Posted by at 7:01 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Oct 102021
 

Yesterday, the opera was “Billy Budd,” based on the novella by Herman Melville, and composed by Benjamin Britten. It goes to some dark places, and I can’t call the ending happy, though it does achieve a measure of peace. Of course the music is lovely. While it was on I organized both morning and evening meds for the next two weeks … so I am ahead of my usual accomplishment with them.

Cartoon –

Short Takes –

Bears Ears Inter-Tribla Coalition – “We Did It!”
Quote – The Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition (BEITC), comprised of delegates from the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and the Zuni Tribe, issued a statement today in response to President Biden’s upcoming announcement that the boundaries of Bears Ears National Monument will be restored…. This statement represents the joint views of the five Tribes making up the Coalition. Each Tribe, acting as sovereign nations, may also offer independent comments.
Click through for quotes from members. I certainly needed some good news today, and assume y’all do too. You can sign a thank-you note here, courtest of the Grand Canyon Trust, if you like (And you’ll get a nice reply pretty quickly.)

Quote – Unfortunately, in a big black eye for her reputation, Beeman’s own racist comments in a University of Connecticut online forum on “critical race theory” were noticed by Hartford TV station WFSB, which reported on the comments yesterday. The station didn’t specify when the forum took place, but it had a screenshot, and Beeman was quick to insist that heavens no, she didn’t mean anything bad when she’d typed “Helping kids of color to feel they belong has a negative effect on white, Christian, or conservative kids.” Of course she didn’t! Here’s the video, cued up to the story so you don’t have to be confused by several minutes of silence at the start, yeesh, guys, you work in teevee.
Click through for clip woth quote. “Tone deaf” doesn’t even begin to describe this. The implication alone that Chrstians can’t possibly be black is nauseating.

Crooks and Liars – Maryland Man Fatally Shot His Pharmacist Brother For ‘Killing People’ With The COVID Vaccine
Quote – Burnham is being held without bond in Allegany County, where he is charged with stabbing Rebecca Reynolds, 83, to death inside her Cumberland home on Sept. 29. Police said he took her car and fled to Ellicott City, where a day later he killed Robinette, 58, and his wife Kelly Sue Robinette, 57. He faces first and second-degree murder charges in the couples’ deaths.
Click through – Apparently we are already in a shooting Civil War. “Brother against btother.” (I didn’t look for Law & Crime’s take on this but I’ll bet it’s epic.)

Food for Thought – Chyron of the Year

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Video Thread 4/23/2021

 Posted by at 4:47 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Apr 232021
 

The Lincoln Project – Well, this is interesting. I believe it’s called “stiring the s***.”

Meidas Touch – “Impressed?

Really American – Mo Brooks

https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/sign-the-petition-fire-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy
Glenn Kirschner – I’m glad he’s taking this up … and has information on a petition (which I’ll spare you tracking down through Twitter)

Earth Day – “Trash TV” – Every time this video is watched, it will fund the removal of one piece of plastic from the ocean. I don’t know for sure if that is true for embeds, but you can always click through just in case.

LPLP – “Welcome home, Rattler! Michael “Rattler” Markus, “who served during the NoDAPL protests as an Akicita (defender), positioned between police and water protectors to keep everybody safe, was arrested in February of 2017. He subsequently accepted a plea to a civil disorder charge stemming from his presence on Oct. 27, 2016 — when law enforcement assaulted unarmed water protectors with sound cannons, tasers, bean bags, rubber bullets, and pepper spray.” Sprry about the spring plains wind, which can be heard throughiut.

5 Things Cats Do Better Than Humans!

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Video Thread 4/21/2021

 Posted by at 2:32 pm  Open Thread, Politics
Apr 212021
 

Tweet – POTUS and VPOTUS call to Floyd family after vrdict

Republican Accountability Project

Really American – check for CC – also, this has been scrapped

Now This News – what you are not being shown

Lakota People’s Law Project

J Street recognizes Jimmy Carter with the Tzedek v’Shalom Award

Fugelsang – The Inadequate Dictator

Beau “Let’s talk about reaching your right wing family and posture statements” I don’t know how helpful this will be, but we should know about it.

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Open Thread – 11/21/2020

 Posted by at 11:05 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Nov 212020
 

It’s a tired day here in the CatBox, but I am eating well.  Tomorrow is a Holy Day in the Church Of the Ellipsoid Orb.  My Broncos will be playing the Dolphins, but the game won’t be televised here.  On Monday I have my Oncologist appointment, my infusion at the hospital, and a full WWWendy Day, so tomorrow I want to get as much rest as I can in preparation.  Because Trump* is circling the drain, Saturday had become CATurday again,  Happy CATurday!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:49 (average 4:38).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Compared to Trump*, Nixon’s crimes are chicken feed.

Short Takes:

From NY Times: A coalition of Democrats, Native Americans and liberal activists is urging President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. to nominate one of Congress’s first Native American women to head the Interior Department, putting an American Indian in control of vast swaths of the continent and the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The nomination of Representative Deb Haaland, Democrat of New Mexico, as Interior secretary would have undeniable symbolic power. If confirmed, a Native American for the first time would oversee 500 million acres of public lands, including national parks, oil and gas drilling sites, and endangered species habitat, and control the federal agencies most responsible for the well-being of the nation’s 1.9 million Indigenous people.

Ms Haaland and Sharice Davids of Kansas made history in 2018 as the first two Native American women elected to Congress, and Ms. Haaland would do so again as the first Native American cabinet secretary. But her lack of policy experience worries some Biden advisers, who have suggested another Native American candidate: Michael L. Connor, a deputy Interior secretary in the Obama administration, whose experience is unquestioned, even if he lacks the star power of Ms. Haaland.

I think filling that position with a Native American is a great idea and that either Haaland or Connor would be an excellent choice for the post.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (MSNBC Channel): Lawrence O’Donnell Thanks Rachel Maddow For Her Powerful Covid-19 Message

 

Rachel Maddow has been a Godsend to all Americans who love this nation. This is the first time I learned that her partner, Susan, had almost died from Trump* virus. Both are in my thoughts and prayers with thanks that Susan survived. Please join me!  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast for our earth): Buffy Sainte Marie – No No Keshagesh

 

Listen to Buffy! The time to stop Republicating our earth and Build Back Better is NOW!  RESIST!!

59 Days Until the Big FLUSH!!

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Video Thread 10/2/2020

 Posted by at 3:06 pm  Politics
Oct 022020
 


From the Biden Campaign

Meidas Touch

Really American has two …

The Lincoln Project

This one is 13+ minutes, and it’s about Standing Rock

Beau makes a very good point here. It isn’t easy to think like a stupid person if you aren’t one, but we need to be able to.

RBG Petitions update –
Democratic Conservation Alliance
Fight for Reform (updated)

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Open Thread – 8/11/2020

 Posted by at 11:04 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Aug 112020
 

It’s a crazy day here in the CatBox.  Providence already approved the Pembrolizumab treatments.  WWWendy will get her schedule tomorrow from school, and I’ll be scheduling treatments as soon as I know what’s best for her.  The 25 µg Fentanyl patch is giving me much better pain relief.  For the first time in months, my pain level has been zero all day, except for when I Republicated a brick that made my hemorrhoids bleed.  May all your Republicans be softer.

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 2:49 (average 4:37).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0811TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 5,254,561
US Deaths: 166,295

Short Takes:

From Daily Kos: Donald Trump has repeatedly and far-too-publicly mused over wanting his own face carved into Mount Rushmore. This we knew. Over the weekend, however, we learned that it has gone a bit farther than mere public desire: On Saturday, The New York Times reported that an unnamed Trump White House aide “reached out” to the office of South Dakota’s Republican governor to inquire as to what the process of adding new heads to Mount Rushmore might actually be.

Mt. Rushmore is on sacred Native American land. Can you imagine anything more sacrilegious than carving the head of criminal Fuhrer Trump* in a sacred place?  RESIST!!

From NY Times: President Trump is considering new immigration rules that would allow border officials to temporarily block an American citizen or legal permanent resident from returning to the United States from abroad if the authorities have reason to believe the person may be infected with the coronavirus.

In recent months, Mr. Trump has imposed sweeping rules that ban entry by foreigners into the United States, citing the risk of allowing the virus to spread from hot spots abroad. But those rules have exempted two categories of people trying to return: American citizens and foreigners who have already established legal residence.

Worrying about spreading Trump* virus from Mexico to the US is bass ackwards. Mexico should be worried, not the US. Being Black or Latino will be “reason to believe the person may be infected” with Trump* virus, especially before election day.  RESIST!!

From YouTube (a blast of protest): Donald Trump Anti-Wall Protest Song<.p>

 

Amen! Kudos to left wing protestors!  RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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