I’m still feeling sick and need to go back to bed. Wendy came and trook care of me yesterday. Back when I can.
May 152020
May 142020
I’m very sick with severe diarrhea and need to take the day off. Hugs!
May 112020
I’m in a huge rush as I have to be in the lobby for the TriMet Lift Bus from 6:22 to 5:52 AM. I will not have time for the TVU or Short Takes. I’ll try to add a “home safe” comment this afternoon. Oh God, it’s Monday!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:14 (average 5:54). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
May 032020
It’s a very busy day here in the CatBox with lots of chores for WWWendy and I to to. Tomorrow is my measuring appointment with my radiation oncologist, but I have a special article to finish writing tonight. Have a great Sunday.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:54 (average 5:51). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Godwin’s Law: a common meme used by Republicans, other fascists, pseudo-intellectuals, and people with their heads in the sand or in smellier places, whenever anyone points out the verifiable commonalities between today’s Republican Party and Germany’s National Socialist Party in the mid-1930s. Germany could have stopped criminal Fuhrer Hitler. Can we stop criminal Fuhrer Trump*?
Trump* Virus Update:
Trump* virus Cases: 1,162,164
Deaths: 67,494
Recovered: 173,910
Short Take:
From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Sound of Silence Original Version from 1964
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
Apr 282020
After several days in the hospital, the cat is back in the CatBox. Apparently my chemo wiped out my immune system, and I caught a bug that brought raving Republicosis. The first two days,they quarantined me and tested me for Trump* virus twice. I am not guilty! Then they loaded me with antibiotics. WWWendy brought me home last night. I’ll be crawling back in the saddle, barring future complications. I plan to get WWWendy and JD in touch with each other, so I don’t leave you beloved people hanging again. Hugs!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:14 (average 5:05). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
Apr 232020
It’s a pleasure to be back in the CatBox, after an absence of over two weeks. Our HSP shut us down for a TOS compliance violation for using a © image several years ago. One of our Administrators had purchased a membership from a photo sharing site that misrepresented that its members could use the images there for all noncommercial purposes. They did not tell members that the original photographers retained ownership of the images. This particular photographer has a long history of scamming site owners with bogus lawsuits. For our protection from such scams, I keep our domain anonymously held. He couldn’t find out who we are to sue us. All he could do is complain to our HSP, Bluehost. They apparently emailed me in late March, warning me to correct the problem by removing the image. I never noticed it. They send me SPAM every day, trying to sell me business services that we will never want or need. I suspect I trashed the warning with those. They shut us down on 4/6, when I did not comply with their warning. Normally, their CS is excellent, but an inadequate response to Trump* Virus has put their CS in the toilet. I deleted the image from the Bluehost site. Then, over the next two weeks, I spent over 48 hours in chat and wrote a dozen emails, while fighting with incompetent underlings. Finally one got the info to a competent tech. He reviewed it yesterday and restored our access to the site. It has been a Republican cluster f*ck! I apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you. Catching up will take a few days!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:25 (average 4:28). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Damn! Talk about sticker shock! The last time I did a TVU Trump’s* Republican murder total was only 8,454 dead.
My New Sweater:
JD made me this beautiful sweater! Thank, you, JD! This may also be my last pic with hair, as I have chemo again Monday.
Short Takes:
From Daily Kos: Well we knew it was just a matter of time, per The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Officials have identified seven people who appear to have contracted COVID-19 through activities related to the April 7 election, Milwaukee Health Commissioner Jeanette Kowalik said Monday.
Six of the cases are in voters and one is a poll worker, Kowalik said.
By the end of this week, officials hope to have additional information on the cases that were reported between April 7 and Monday, she said.
The Wisconsin GOP, the five SCOTUS Conservatives, Trump and all his enablers are responsible for this…
And all those Republican murderers, who voted, voted by mail. RESIST!!
From Salon.com: A Yale psychiatrist has warned that pro-Trump lockdown protesters, who exhibit similar psychology as “child soldiers,” could quickly turn into “armed troops in the streets” if the president loses his re-election bid.
Dr. Bandy X. Lee, a forensic psychiatrist at the Yale School of Medicine who has mostly taught at Yale Law School, said the armed protests were a natural evolution of the loyalty President Trump demands from his supporters. Many of these protests have evidently been organized by deep-pocketed groups allied with the president.Lee, the author of the textbook “Violence,” has been sounding the alarm about the danger posed by the president for years. She edited “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” after his election, with a group of fellow mental health professionals. The book’s authors recently started a chat series entitled “Is America in an Abusive Relationship With Its President?”
Lee has also served as a project group leader for the World Health Organization Violence Prevention Alliance. She told Salon that Trump’s recent call to “liberate” Democratic-led states was a dog whistle to his core supporters.
I fully agree. Bill Maher and I have both suggested that criminal Fuhrer Trump* and the Republican Reich will resort to violence to stay in power after they lose the election, unless they are able to steal it again! RESIST!!
From YouTube (a blast from the past): Bob Dylan – Lay, Lady, Lay (Audio)
Ah… the memories! RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
Apr 062020
I’m in a big rush to get ready to go to the hospital to have my infusion port surgery. I hope to be back in the saddle provided the pain is not too severe. OGIM!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 2:56 (average 4:40). To do it, click here. How did do?
Cartoon:
Trump* Virus Update:
Cases: 336,851
Deaths: 9,620
Recovered: 17,977
RESIST!!
Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!
Apr 042020
Fifty two years ago today I had “cleaned up for Gene”, sort of, and was working on his campaign, while fighting to keep SDS nonviolent. Back then, the world was not connected the way it it now. I did not watch TV every day, so I did not learn until sometime the next day that my hero and friend had been murdered. Barack Obama joined John Lewis in a tribute to his legacy.
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, and Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of his death. In order to commemorate the occasion, Barack Obama discussed MLK’s legacy with John Lewis and a group of high school students in a new video released by the Obama Foundation.
At the beginning of the video, Lewis recalls where he was when he got the news that King had been shot — in Indianapolis, organizing a rally. Obama tells students from Washington, D.C.’s Ron Brown College Preparatory High School that Lewis was one of the people who made him want to become involved in public life.
“I thought that this would be a good opportunity to connect the people who inspired me with the next generation of young leaders who are going to be doing outstanding things themselves,” Obama tells the students, whose all-male high school grew out of the Obama administration‘s My Brother’s Keeper initiative…
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Here’s that video.
Civil Rights leaders remembered him in a CNN interview.
The previous summer I was walking down the hallway after a planning session for one of Dr. King’s Vietnam Summer demonstrations. Dr. King appeared between two of us and told us how glad he was that young people were dedicated to continue the work after he was gone. I felt surprised and asked, “Gone?” He said that he was stirring-up a hornets nest didn’t know how long he would be allowed to live. In the naivety of youth, I assumed he was kidding.
He was right, of course. If he had stuck with civil rights, he might have died of old age. But when he also organized so effectively against the war, and for the poor, he was threatening billionaires’ profit.
It boggles my mind that this was over fifty years ago. That confronts me with my own mortality.
I’ll hope you’ll invest 43 minute to listen to his last speech, in which he predicted his own death.
RESIST!!