I had an indescribably shitty day. This made me smile. https://t.co/jDRdWGX89S
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 30, 2020
Even on a normal-for-this-lousy-year day, the video still delights!
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I had an indescribably shitty day. This made me smile. https://t.co/jDRdWGX89S
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 30, 2020
Even on a normal-for-this-lousy-year day, the video still delights!
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Major Major Major Major
Respite? Cheryl retweeted this and I love it. Beware the old Sami woman in the woods!
germy
debbie
“Man, you’re better looking when I look at you upside down.”
germy
debbie
@germy:
Didn’t Worf look after Spot for Data?
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@germy: hard to believe a game show “doctor” underestimated a pandemic.
jl
Thanks. Oregon Zoo looks like it rocks. I’ll put it on my NW bucket list.
But should have had a trigger warning. Pogonophobia is real. Insensitive to O’Reilly and Colbert, and many others suffering from that debilitating condition
Edit: and a danger to public health, given the high prevalence of Pogonoillaoblivia (irrational obliviousness to danger from bears in national parks). And I cobbled that together from Google translate, so the BJ Latin pedants can shut up in advance, thank you very much and have a good day, I say good day, sir.
Edit2: Ursapicturaemania
Edit2: Ursamortavotia
germy
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
We got a gameshow “businessman” for president.
NotMax
@germy
Yes. See also Toby.
SATSQ
jl
@germy: Maybe this guy could replace Trump.
Andy Daly Is Reed Newport: ’80s Game Show Host
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwavEURD5Ww
MazeDancer
“We Rate Dogs” – the monster success on Twitter, where every dog is at least a 10 – has put out his “Dogs of 2020” video.
It is lovely. Will give a nice, very long smile.
Play it on full screen, here it is on YouTube.
jl
@MazeDancer: Thanks. Looks like all the dogs go to eleven too. Fricken amazing dogs.
I take a break from parrots and look at the dogs over new year break.
SiubhanDuinne
@jl:
Pogonophobia is fear of beards, not bears.
But it’s a fine, cromulent word, and I shall keep it.
Ken
Probably not tribbles.
My theory for the change in Klingon appearance between TOS and TNG is a species-wide allergic reaction to tribble dandruff. The only evidence I have for this is Worf’s embarrassed “We do not discuss it with outsiders” in that DS9 time-travel episode.
jl
@SiubhanDuinne: Oh, shit. Thanks. It is very good thing that I supplied some very expert erudite Latinate alternatives, huh
Edit: hell with it, bears look like they have beards, if you squint. My choice was actually correct. You are welcome. Physicians take a lot of poetic license with those names, and so can I. QED.
prostratedragon
@Ken: A good series must leave room for apocrypha.
Benw
Bam bam bam bam
bam bam bam bam bam
i wanna be sedated!
Mag
Balloon man is so very blurry. I went back to 2003 and rejiggered him for 2021. Still pixilated, I’m no artist, but not so darn blurry. Here he is: https://imgur.com/oCKtPLv and at 50%: https://imgur.com/jgm1U1j
I thought fixing blurry balloon man was on the todo list when the site was updated?
Brachiator
@SiubhanDuinne:
I don’t understand the fear. I enjoyed “Yogi the Beard” when I was a kid.
hotshoe
@germy:
I hope the Dr dies painfully, at home, without wasting any hospital space, and without infecting anyone else.
Unfortunately, he says he is recovering. So I guess the best I can really hope for is long-hauler side effects.
Goddamn each and every one of the bastards who deliberately have spread medical misinformation and made our lives worse.
MazeDancer
@germy:
Yes.
There is a snarling, monster kind of steel plated “dog” seated at the feet of the commander in one of the movies. Commander gets up and yells at lieutenant to “feed it”. “Dog” snarls viciously.
Emma from FL
The one that I loved most in the video was the elephant throwing mud towards the camera. It was like “hey! I’m trying to take a bath here!” in a Brooklyn accent.
NotMax
Reap. Sow.
Kent
These fuckers have SO MUCH TO ANSWER FOR.
“I was wrong” does not begin to cut it. They need to devote the rest of their fucking lives to fighting Trumpism and right-wing insanity if they hope to even come close to balancing the scales for the damage the have don.
cckids
Not to nerd out, but the change in Klingon appearance is addressed in Enterprise; there was some sort of plague that affected them.
I really didn’t like Enterprise much, so never paid complete attention when the spouse was watching it, but the doctor on Enterprise helped find a cure. Was the plague man-made maybe? Or genetic-engineering related? Also possible. All that I can dredge up from memory is that it happened.
Roger Moore
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Dr. Drew actually has an MD (USC, 1984) and completed his residency.
NotMax
FYI.
Cheryl Rofer
@Major Major Major Major: Here’s Modeste Mussogorsky’s “Hut on Chicken Legs, Baba Yaga” from “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
NotMax
Also too (previously mentioned some time back), Mary Todd Lincoln’s tea service.
;)
CaseyL
@MazeDancer: That was delightful and made me happy-cry. FSM bless dogs, and WeRateDogs for compiling those lovely vignettes.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore: Well, it is from U$C.
NotMax
Dolt 45 delusion #711,944.
MazeDancer
@CaseyL:
I happy cried, too.
sab
@NotMax: I especially like the creamer, since it looks like it has a beak.
Yutsano
@MazeDancer: The targ is a magnificent and fierce beast. Worthy of a warrior.
I am also quite pleased how many people in the thread are choosing to enlighten her over attack her.
NotMax
Anyone have Lizard People on your BINGO card?
Miss Bianca
@NotMax: Oh, my, my mother had silver tea service pieces with little feet like that! She was an antiques buff.
Ruckus
@Emma from FL:
“Hey Yous, I’m traying toos take a fucking baths here!”
debbie
@NotMax:
Similarly, NPR reported this morning that Israel had no intention of providing any vaccines for the Palestinians living in the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel. ? ?
Baud
@NotMax:
Baud!/Lizard! 2032!
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Hey, my sister used to teach at University of Special Cash , or USC, as they call themselves.
Uncle Cosmo
@Kent: Now wait a minute – according to this USA Today article, Pinsky retracted and apologized for “downplaying the coronavirus epidemic” back in April. There was a lot of partial and contradictory information circulating before then. If we can cut Tony Fauci a break for discouraging people from obtaining masks (in an understandable but badly-put effort to reserve the then-inadequate mask supply for frontline health-care workers), we might not want to shit all over someone who made a mistake and ‘fessed up to it rather early in the process.
Miss Bianca
@MazeDancer: Oh, so fuckin’ cute. Much needed. Thank you!
NeenerNeener
Hey, it looks like there’s a new litter of Shiba Inu puppies as of today. I found the puppy cam on You Tube while watching the Dogs of 2020 video.
Appears to be only 3 puppies in this litter.
japa21
More later but I am about to be admitted to a Covid unit, but not ICU.
NotMax
@Baud
It would be to laugh if it wasn’t so pathetic (emphasis added).
LurkerNoLonger
This is part of the Hawley statement objecting to the Electoral college certification:
“I cannot vote to certify the electoral college results on January 6 without raising the fact that some states, particularly Pennsylvania, failed to follow their own state election laws,”
Does anyone know what this is referring to? Or is it just bullshit? I’m strongly leaning towards the latter.
Baud
@LurkerNoLonger:
He’s just repeating the allegations of the Trump people that the courts rejected.
Uncle Cosmo
@Ruckus: I heard it was the University of Spoiled Children.
zhena gogolia
@japa21:
Oh, I hope you get the best care and get better very soon.
LurkerNoLonger
@Baud: Thank you. So it’s bullshit after all…
NeenerNeener
@japa21: What zhena gogolia said. Get well soon.
Baud
@LurkerNoLonger:
As usual.
Baud
@japa21: Speedy recovery.
debbie
@LurkerNoLonger:
Not as bullshit as this gem:
debbie
@japa21:
Fingers crossed you’re out of there very soon!
Spanky
@japa21: Well. Fuck.
“Good luck” seems trite and dismissive and altogether inadequate.
We’re at least at a phase where we know what works and what doesn’t. You’re now part of your care team. Do what you need to do.
Achrachno
Red pandas are cute, but ground hornbills are not.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: In the hills of Westwood, U$C has many names: University of Spoiled Children, Figuroa Tech, Costco(South LA)…
CaseyL
@japa21: Well, shit. Hope the care is excellent and you make a fast, full recovery.
Achrachno
@japa21: Best wishes, which is clearly inadequate but the best I can do from here.
SiubhanDuinne
@japa21:
Speedy recovery, fellow jackal.
Yutsano
@japa21: Oh no. I hope you recover quickly.
mrmoshpotato
Hey Boo Boo! It’s just your typical type beard oil basket!
lamh36
Good evening BJ. Sitting here watching the old Wonder Woman episodes on HBOMax. Do ya’ll remember the one about the “Great Ape” Gargantua that the Nazi trained to attack Wonder Woman? Every fight was just dude holding Lynda Carter around the waist and Lynda Carter obviously trying to keep the top of her suit from being pulled down…smh LOL
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6be94f00a91c4cd1872d36bd03a4ad45b463a0c1574d2acc58e30581409bc1df.png https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dc099a931bd20c889c11f7a52e8dbec098bf719309e5324a39fb02488b2f9ec5.jpg
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
So, a Schick-a-nic basket?
dexwood
@japa21: Best wishes for you and your recovery. Maintain a daily infusion of Balloon Juice in large doses.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Future generations aren’t going to believe this kind of shit took place because of being asked to wear a mask in public during a national (also global) health crisis.
This is insane.
gbbalto
@japa21: Sorry to hear that – best wishes for a quick recovery!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@japa21: Hope they fix ya up and quick.
Dan B
@japa21: Heal quickly!
Tony Jay
@cckids:
I could be wrong (often) but I think it was some kind of abortive attempt to exploit the banned genetic manipulation techniques that created Khan and his fellow supermen.
Enterprise was a bit rubbish, though. Other than the two part Mirror Universe episode.
frosty
@japa21: Whoa. Best wishes for a good recovery. As others have said, the docs and nurses have a much better idea of how to deal with COVID than they had in March.
Bill Arnold
I like to think of this story as a Baba Yaga origin story, before she built the hut inspired by her friends:
The Tale of the Three Beautiful Raptor Sisters and the Prince Who Was Made of Meat, by Brooke Bolander
Tony Jay
@japa21:
Soon get well, you will.
Wanderer
@japa21: I wish you a rapid recovery.
mrmoshpotato
Can their part of this fight take place while they’re also doing housekeeping and emptying bedpans in hospitals?
NotMax
@Tony Jay
Like unto saying Johnstown experienced a bit of a puddle.
:)
mrmoshpotato
@japa21: I hope it’s a mild case, and you have a quick and full recovery.
zhena gogolia
@?BillinGlendaleCA: They have a good Slavic Department.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Very cute!
Geminid
@debbie: if you are interested, there is good coverage of Palestinian Covid-19 vaccine questions if you google the topic. Israel in fact does intend to inoculate it’s own citizens including Arab Israelis and Israeli citizens living on the West Bank, and leave Palestinians living under it’s control in the West Bank and Gaza to obtain the vaccine on their own. Russia is promising to deliver 4 million doses of it’s “Sputnik” vaccine to Palestinians, starting next month; the UAE will pick up part of the tab. Qatar provides a lot of financial support to Gaza, and will probably buy some vaccine for those folks. The liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz has an editorial today strongly emphasizing Israel’s legal and moral obligation to ensure Palestinians are vaccinated. It may be paywalled for some, though.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Anyone know how close Crackpot Jones is to being sued out of existence?
Roger Moore
@Ruckus:
I thought it was the University of Spoiled Children.
Tony Jay
As a member of the Labour Party I’m at risk of suspension and expulsion for even reading that comment.
Though given today’s colossal shitshow I don’t think I’ll have that conflict of interest much longer.
prostratedragon
@Cheryl Rofer: Thanks! As antic as those unhatched chicks.
Poe Larity
The FAA has shut down the North Texas ARTCC due to Covid cases. Which means you aren’t landing at DFW until they figure it out.
https://twitter.com/cbs11doug/status/1344412313105920001/photo/1
JMG
My last Christmas present arrived! It is intentionally late because my son and his fiancee did not come here for the holiday until last night. In early December he had an emergency appendectomy and although he is fine, 16 hours in a Brooklyn hospital caused him to reset his quarantine clock to zero. Anyway, he changed the delivery date of the present so he could be here. It’s a big package from Katz’s Delicatessin! Pastrami, corned beef, brisket, latkes, pickles, mustard, knishes!!! There’s a whole pastrami in there. Cooking instructions say boil it for three hours. I’m thinking of sending to my cardiologist. Not sure I want it around next month.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Gillette – The Best A Bear Can Get!
Tony Jay
@NotMax:
I strive for subtlety. Famous for it. 8-)
Such a missed opportunity that show.
Roger Moore
@mrmoshpotato:
Not close enough.
lamh36
@zhena gogolia: it’s all so cheesy. But damn if I don’t love it. Nostalgic feeling sure can be strong…LOL
mrmoshpotato
Wow! You raised that kid right.
prostratedragon
@japa21: Hope you get well soon. The medics do indeed seem to know much more about helping that happen than at first.
debbie
@Geminid:
Good to know that there will be help for them. Fucking Bibi.
debbie
@JMG:
Their ads have been all over my FB page, tormenting me. Lucky you!
West of the Rockies
Has everyone notes the passing of Dawn Wells yet? She had a good run.
cckids
@Tony Jay: That sounds right. I was vaguely remembering some type of gen engineering gone wrong.
And yes, Enterprise has so much wrong with it, with such a great premise. Worst written Trek show, by far.
Loved the Mirror episodes, though, you could tell the cast was finally having fun.
jl
@Roger Moore: IIRC Jones seems to have gotten out of his previous jam by testifying that he is really a clown who doesn’t mean anything he says, it’s all for yuks and giggles.
I wonder whether the judge made him put a disclaimer on everyone of his broadcasts, for every second. Actually, should be a disclaimer on all of his public communications, including interviews and any random clip that bubbles up on youtube.
“Hi, I’d be glad to answer some questions, but first a disclaimer: I am a clown and don’t mean anything I say.”
Dahlia
@japa21: I wish you a swift and complete recovery.
jackmac
@germy: Klingons had targs for pets, according to a Star Trek WIki page. “The Klingons enjoyed hunting wild targ but also maintained agricultural herds for consumption and commonly kept targs as pets.”
@germy:
JAFD
@japa21: OK. You’re in a battle, but you can win it.
Relax. Conserve your strength. Trust your doctors and nurses.
DON’T WORRY. Your welfare – and survival – is now Somebody Else’s Problem – a whole bunch of somebodies. Let them take care of it.
Keep smiling. Take it one day at a time. Try to be as pleasant as possible to the doctors and nurses, they don’t have it easy either.
Be confident that you’ll recover. This, too, shall pass.
That be accumulated advice from time after my heart attack. Worth twice what you paid for it ;-)
So sending some thoughts and healing energy and requests for favorable interventions by Higher Powers your way, too.
West of the Rockies
@japa21:
Very best wishes for a full and speedy recovery!
WaterGirl
@Mag: No one could find the original, and it would have cost $ to have him recreated from scratch.
Two or three different people volunteered to have a go at it, but one set didn’t work out and the other two never got back to me.
Dahlia
@JMG: You have my sincerest envy. Drool.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Fuck Israel. How far they have fallen.
jl
@japa21: Good luck. Get well. Stay strong. Keep hope.
WaterGirl
@japa21: oh, japa. very sorry to hear that. may you recover in no time.
Dahlia
@Tony Jay: Would you like to share any thoughts about today’s development in Brexit? Chris Grey is quite thorough but he lacks your flair.
Spanky
@West of the Rockies:
Fucking covid, too.
John Revolta
Yikes. From the article:
But, it’s just like the flu!
MazeDancer
@japa21: Oh no. Sending many healing beams.
lamh36
From now on only Jon Ossoff and Pete Buttigieg are allowed to go on Faux News for the Dems!
https://twitter.com/TheRickyDavila/status/1344441339639783426?s=20
Mike in NC
@West of the Rockies: Jon Voight also turned 82 this week. Hoping he checks out real soon, no matter the cause.
jl
@Baud: ” Baud!/Lizard! 2032! ”
Seems pretty damn fancy pants and elitist for the Baud! XXXX! Base. Keep it simple, western fence lizard. Every future tramp used to chase them across vacant lots and quick stop parking lots, for various reasons and with varying degrees of desperation.
japa21
Thanks to everyone for their thoughts. I am positive. Also have pneumonia which doesn’t help. Still waiting for my bed. May have to wait to tomorrow as I don’t have my charger with me.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: 1) is that the Young Doocey asking the question?
2) what are the “allegations of wrong-doing” against Warnock? I’m a political junkie and that’s the first I’ve heard
randy khan
@LurkerNoLonger:
I do, and it is.
One of the arguments made in, among other dumb cases, the Texas suit was that the disputed (well, at least disputed in the minds of the crazies) states had not followed their own election laws, which somehow rendered the results invalid. In Pennsylvania, in particular (but also Wisconsin, and maybe other states), those issues were raised in state lawsuits, and the State Supreme Court ruled that the actions by state election officials were consistent with the law. So Hawley basically is saying that state Supreme Courts got the state law issues wrong. Since he does not appear to ever have been a lawyer in any of those states, I think it’s safe to say he knows next to nothing about their election laws and, in any event, when a state Supreme Court says something is the law of that state, it’s hard to explain why anyone should listen to someone who says otherwise.
Suzanne
@japa21: Hugs. Best wishes to you. I am sure you will kick its ass. We’re all wishing you the best.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@japa21: wishing you a full and quick recovery
West of the Rockies
@Mike in NC:
James Woods is no spring chicken either. Maybe he can F@#* off, too.
Another Scott
@japa21: Rest easy and get well. We’re pulling for you, and will be here when you’re able.
Best wishes,
Scott.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
AND they welcomed Jonathan Pollard into their country. I’d forgotten that until now. ?
jl
Just heard a news report that McConnell is just outright saying he ain’t going to do the $2K checks, just eff it all, fuggedaboudit, screw everyone and they can just suck it up. Seems to be very theatrically throwing down his own BS poison pill plan and stomping all over the $2K check and spitting on it.
I am not as savvy and with it politically as other wise commenters here are. Or imaginative enough to spin plausible sounding political punditry BS out of my ass (yes, I am a crappy BJ commenter, why do you ask?).
What is he doing? I don’t see how this is helpful at all for the GA runoff.
WaterGirl
@japa21: Someone mentioned yesterday that hospital gift shops often sell phone chargers. Worth a try?
Geminid
@debbie: The Israelis are beginning their fourth election campaign in 14 months. Election Day will be in late March. Some influential Likud politicians are thoroughly disgusted by Netanyahu and have defected to form a new party. And the long serving Mayor of Tel Aviv has also formed a new party. Candidates for Knesset run nationwide on party slates. If a slate wins 10% of the vote the top 12 candidates on their List win seats in the 120 member Knesset.
Your regard for Netanyahu is shared by a lot of Israelis, especially politicians, since he has double crossed most of them one time or another. His 12 year run as Prime Minister may actually end this time.
Israeli politics are hard to keep up with, but The Jerusalem Post and The Times of Israel are covering the election, and are not paywalled, unlike the better Haaretz.
randy khan
It would seem churlish to complain that there weren’t enough otters in the video, so I won’t. Otters seem to exist to be joyful, and I’ve never seen one that didn’t seem to be happy. And seeing the video reminds me of a really delightful interlude with my then-girlfriend at the Seattle aquarium watching some otters cavort and, not much more than a year later, of seeing an otter carefully and contentedly eating a fish in a little park – and practically posing for photos for amused onlookers – in Florida during our honeymoon.
Also, the porcupine was great.
daryljfontaine
@lamh36: “In case you didn’t hear it the first… or the second… time, let me repeat myself clearly and distinctly on camera for the benefit of your generally low-information viewing audience.”
D
WaterGirl
@debbie: The Nazis tried to wipe out the Jews and now they are trying to do the same to the Palestinians. How did they get here
They have lost their way.
randy khan
@jl:
It’s not helpful for the GA runoff, which means he’s either concluded that the elections are lost (which would be swell) or that the impact of the $600 v. the $2,000 already is baked in (possibly with a side of thinking that Loeffler and Perdue are making it sound like they’d vote for the $2,000) and so that not doing doesn’t make any difference.
There might also be a bet in there somewhere that a 50-50 Senate doesn’t get much done because the Dems won’t kill the filibuster.
Miss Bianca
@japa21: Oh, no! Please keep us posted on your progress if/when you can!
Another Scott
@jl: He probably figures the Georgia results are baked in and nothing he does will affect it. He knows that the House has left town and there’s no chance they would accept his poison pills, and there’s no time for a conference to paper over the differences. (This Congress ends at noon on Sunday.) Since he won’t let the House bill come up for a vote, the $2000 is dead this year.
IMHO, this has been his plan since the House passed the HEROES act on May 15. He was going to try to run out the clock and at the last minute stampede the Democrats to accept liability protection for businesses in exchange for little else. As usual, he failed in getting what he wanted, so he’ll let the country burn for another few weeks (until the Democrats take over) as punishment.
We need to win Georgia!!
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@randy khan:
He looked like a King with his amazing cloak.
japa21
@WaterGirl: my wife can bring it to the main desk tomorrow.
WaterGirl
@japa21: Okay. I sent you an email, too, because I didn’t know if you would see my comment.
laura
@japa21: Wishing you all the good things. Rest when you can, fight when you must. ?
debbie
@Geminid:
I was just listening to an interview with an Israeli reporter on the BBC’s The World who said Bibi is angling for retroactive immunity. I don’t remember his reasoning, but I do remember thinking it was very Trumpian. I’m also cheered to know parties are being formed to counter Bibi.
Most of the people I know here are less strident than I about him, so it’s good to get your perspective. Many thanks.
John Revolta
@japa21: Damn. Here’s hoping for a quick and easy one.
SFBayAreaGal
@Tony Jay: So true about Enterprise.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I remember saying pretty much the same thing to my parents back in the 1970s. I think that’s the closest I ever came to getting kicked out of the house. Even closer than when I argued with my father about Vietnam and Richard Nixon.
jl
@randy khan: Red pandas in designer T-s, stork and sea lion duet. Oregon zoo rocks.
debbie
@randy khan:
I think he’s doing it to make Biden have to ask Congress for the stimulus payments. McConnell really wants to beat Biden over the head with his own power.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie:
Political immunity or COVID immunity?
JPL
@japa21: I’m so sorry that you have to fight this dreadful virus. Fight you will though.
lamh36
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think they’ve been pushing some stuff about an arrest or something and an inciden w/his ex-wife that when you read the details really just sound like your run of the mill bad divorce scenario where one of the divorcee is not quite truthful and in a vengeful mood.
Nothing that will matter to any voter in this election. It’s about about voter turnout
zhena gogolia
@West of the Rockies:
I saw that today. Very sad.
jl
@randy khan: @Another Scott: @debbie:
On my good days, I do hope and strive to be somewhat less depraved than McConnell, and I do have some difficulty understanding his way of thinking.
But, if I were trying to win GA and create a good foundation for my first attempt at an epic Biden beat-down, now would be a perfect time for the standard McConnell boilerplate: posture around as if trying to get something done, pretend to try to compromise while keeping one fatal poison pill in the bill, lie to big time corporate media talking heads that it is very sad that the Democrats won’t compromise. More drone, the better.
lamh36
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: it’s the smile at the end from Ossoff that got me.
It was a “yeah you thought you was going to get me, but you got, GOT”
lol
frosty
@WaterGirl: Really? After reading about all of the talented commenters on B-J no one could recreate Balloon Man? I has a sad. Seems to me (not knowing diddly about it) that it wouldn’t be so tough.
jl
@frosty: When BJ did the last redesign, I asked for a magic touch-screen balloon man who, when activated, would put me in the balloon, and sail me away somewhere over the rainbow to a pot of gold.
Didn’t happen. And Cole still claim’s it’s a full service blog.
frosty
@jl: Full service? Hah! Lies, lies I tells ya.
lamh36
Jon Osoff ain’t got no chill and I LOVE it!!!
JoyceH
Reporter on CNN just said that Trump is returning to DC tomorrow, skipping his NY Eve bash. Uh-oh, is he planning to stir up more trouble?
Geminid
@randy khan: The people at Springdale Water Gardens, over in the Shenandoah Valley, noticed they were losing Koi fish. The fish were quite expensive, so a camera was set up to catch the thief. It was an otter, trekking a half mile from its creek to visit the koi buffet.
TS (the original)
@japa21: get better very very quickly
JPL
@JoyceH: Probably trying to goad Iran into a strike,cuz he can’t be replaced during a war. Wish I was just kidding, but I’m not.
jl
@JoyceH: Trump wants to drum up more GOP support in Congress for his heroic last stand, or miraculous out of nowhere victory, on January 6?
THE COUNTENNENNENNINGGINGG!
Edit: Trump has shown he can comprehend the possibility that he won’t hold on to power, but his delusions keep drawing him back in. And whatever happens, Trump surely wants a huge, top, terrific, the best, show. High production values, a winner. Highest rated ceremonial electoral college vote in Congress ever.
Edit: goose his election fraud fund scam and ticket sales for his first post-administration re-election rally. He really wants those rallies, if he can stay ahead of the law and his creditors.
JoyceH
@JPL: Can’t be replaced in a war? Sez who?
JoyceH
I’m hoping he’s just too grumpy to go to his NYEve party but it would be too obvious if he was there and just sulked in his quarters and didn’t show up.
raven
@JPL: Who says he can’t be replaced during a war?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Plank IV of the Baud!20XX platform!
Winston
I’m just going to leave this here.
https://www.facebook.com/bruce.boros/posts/1844242049049397
edit: deleted your link because long lines line that break the margins on phones.
HRA
@japa21: I am sending you the best for a good and full recovery.
debbie
@JoyceH:
Don’t forget he doesn’t like how Melania redecorated those quarters.
debbie
@raven:
Kraken!
trollhattan
Uh…wow.
jl
@trollhattan: After Trump treated them badly for four years, there are still Secret Service people who are aligned with Trump? They were on other assignments away from the WH?
Maybe they are all covid long haulers with lingering brain fog?
lamh36
Damnit!!! 2020 YOU AIN’T SHIT!
mali muso
@trollhattan: yeah, just saw that too. Nightmare fuel. Is there anything that has come into contact with tRump and not been corrupted?
debbie
@trollhattan:
I’m glad there are people thinking like this. Trump would like nothing better than to undermine Biden anyway he can.
Doc Sardonic
@Winston: First off..Ivermectin is a de-wormer you give to your dog, cat, horse, pig, sheep, etc. Second… doxycycline and Zithromax are anti bacterials. Last time I checked COVID is a virus, not an intestinal parasite or clap. Fucking dumbass
Ken
Hey, I’ve been working on it, and should have it ready to roll-out in January. Really cool, my first Flash animation project.
JPL
@JoyceH: That’s just the way he thinks.
Lyrebird
@japa21: Further good thoughts of QUICK and FULL recovery!
There go two miscreants
@Ken: Well done!
JPL
@trollhattan: Everything trump touches becomes politicized. I’m glad they are making changes, but it’s unfortunate they had to.
raven
Who has had lumbar decompression?
zhena gogolia
@raven:
Not me. Is that the result of your nerve test?
Winston
@Doc Sardonic: I don’t know. Glad to have a snark expert aboard since this is the main function of this blog. My doctor from Cuba tells me that in Cuba, they use this. Cuba has kinda the lowest incident of cases and deaths in this part of the world. Perhaps you can explain that.
J R in WV
@japa21:
OH, noes, Japa21. I hope they get your treatments, and ready to be discharged soonest!.!. Best wishes from W Va!!!
burnspbesq
@Ruckus:
Mocking USC makes about as much sense these days as mocking NYU. It’s orders of magnitude better than it was when I was there (1979-82). They’ve put all that cash to good use. I especially like the stories about spoiled rich legacies who couldn’t get in because the admission standards got so much more stringent.
raven
@zhena gogolia: It’s an L4 problem and surgery is an option. I told the doc I wasn’t doing anything while Bodhi is still hangin in there because I have to be able to carry him. She was down.
lamh36
@trollhattan: GOOD
randy khan
@Geminid:
And probably having a nice swim apres buffet.
Another Scott
Election respite-ish.
:-) More, more please!!
(via LOLGOP)
Cheers,
Scott.
burnspbesq
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Below the verdant-by-irrigation hills of Westwood lies the University of Common Little Adults.
BEAT! THE BRUINS!
https://youtu.be/vJyRisT-GB8
zhena gogolia
@raven:
I’m glad they were able to diagnose it.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@japa21: I’m sorry to hear that—you’ll be in my thoughts.
Winston
@Winston: Isn’t a virus a parasite?
Doc Sardonic
@Winston: mainly because Cuba, much like New Zealand and Hawaii are limiting entry as well testing and quarantining everyone as soon as you deplane. But if your Cuban doctor is using that protocol for COVID maybe I should have him take a look at my cat.
debbie
@Another Scott:
❤️❤️❤️
mrmoshpotato
@MazeDancer: Damn that’s a good video. Thanks!
Now to watch previous years’ dog compilations…
raven
@zhena gogolia: Yea, I’m glad to know what the deal is.
Uncle Cosmo
@japa21: Late to the wellwishers’ gathering but adding earnest hopes for rapid & full recovery.
Winston
Wow, 3880 new covid deaths today. Good thing Trump got us all that new vaccine.
Ruckus
@Uncle Cosmo:
Some of them, sure.
Bill Arnold
@Winston:
Why did you link those? Is there any science backing it? (Not watching a crackpot video; will read scientific papers though.)
There’s a bit for vitamins D, C and Zinc, though not strong.
Last I looked the evidence for the other ingredients in that brew was slim, though at least they’re harmless though I don’t know about the Robitussin or the claritin.
Evidence for aspirin is weak
e.g.
Mortality and pre‐hospitalization use of low‐dose aspirin in COVID‐19 patients with coronary artery disease (18 December 2020)
“Collectively, our study suggested that the pre‐hospitalization use of low‐dose aspirin was not associated with the clinical outcome of patients with CAD hospitalized with COVID‐19 infections.”,
though the theory (clot reduction to reduce morbidities) is plausible.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@burnspbesq: Trojans burst under pressure.
geg6
@japa21:
Oh no! Sending all the get well vibes your way!
Winston
@Doc Sardonic: The protocol is being used in Key West , because emulating Cuba. Do you have some documents of Cuba quarantine or are you just making that up?
NotMax
Feeling the eldertude today. Trip to the laundromat and a fast in and out at the market to pick up some dairy items needed for planned New Year’s menu plumb tuckered me out. Hot, hot hot and sticky, sticky, sticky weather out there today. Zero breeze, lowering gray skies. Gonna be several hours before shall be able to muster the energy to fold and put away the laundry.
Looked at the price of ricotta cheese and damn near bruised my masked chin on the floor as jaw dropped. Cottage cheese will have to suffice.
Winston
@Winston: Cuba has the reputation of having the best medical infrastructure in the western hemisphere and since they are socialists all the medical is free to all their citizens.
burnspbesq
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Remember the first event at the Galen Center? It was a basketball game against South Carolina. Trojans vs. ‘Cocks.
Another Scott
@Winston: Not Doc, but extremely easy to verify what he said. e.g. https://cubatravelservices.com/notice-for-travellers-covid-19/
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
Tazj
@jl: I’m not a savvy myself but I’ll express my opinion about what might be McConnell’s spin on this. In his floor speech he complained about people getting the $2000 checks that didn’t need it and that this was a waste. I think he also said that this wasn’t really helping the most desperate and needy people. I think John Cronyn also said something like this.Democrats are wasting your money on people who don’t need it. They also want people to believe that everyone gets a $2000 check regardless of their income.
When I heard part of his floor speech I thought the same thing as you, how does this help them in Georgia? I don’t know but maybe they’re hoping being in favor of something helps them now (the relief Bill plus $600) but railing against another $1400 will help them drag the economy against Biden later.
Odie Hugh Manatee
In the spirit of animals that make you smile, how about a thumb-sucking kitten?
Doc Sardonic
@Winston: https://cu.usembassy.gov/covid-19-information/
jl
@Tazj: Thanks, I didn’t hear the whole floor speech, just some soundbites in the news report. McConnell shit all over the $2K check much more than my impression from the report.
I can see the angle: portray the Dems as still giving away money to the undeserving. But AFAIK, they didn’t propose any constructive alternative (which they never do) at all. And, there is a danger here, that is not usually present, that many GOPers will know damn well they or those they know need the money, so the BS will show through. And Trumpsters don’t care about arguments, they want what the Boss says. And, Loeffler and Perdue have backed Trump, right?
Still seems puzzling, and rare misstep by a political Kabuki pro.
Winston
@Bill Arnold: I don’t know. I am not a doctor. My Doctor told me this protocol is used in Cuba. She is Cuban. The protocol is being tested in the Keys. I’m just posting this for general information. Perhaps you get exposed and can’t get a test or vaccination. Maybe this is something you could keep on hand, just in case.
Ruckus
@burnspbesq:
I believe you. I’ve only been there in this century, my sister’s memorial was held there, because she was a teacher. All the students that I met seemed pretty normal collage aged kids and as the Metro goes right by the campus on my way to the VA hospital, it looks like a totally different place than has been described to me from about your time. The closest I was way back then was that I went to college after the navy and went to an all day seminar at the med school as I was premed. Got to see a cadaver and everything.
DivF
@burnspbesq:
Would you two get a room?!
Signed, Guy with three degrees from Cal.
John Revolta
@Tazj: Perdue and Loeffler have said they’re in favor of the $2000 stimulus so I guess they figure they’re in the clear. Time will tell.
Spanky
@Winston: Is this your Cuban doctor?
Gin & Tonic
@NotMax: Easy enough to make your own.
MomSense
@japa21:
Rooting for you!!!
Winston
@Another Scott: Sounds like the requirement to visit my Doc
John Revolta
@jl: Looking back I’m kinda embarrassed that I spent so much time trying to figure out how Yertle was going to wiggle out of this. Doing nothing is his signature move, after all, and why not? It works for him every time.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@burnspbesq: I always enjoyed the Oregon State v. U$C…Trojans v. Beavers.
Frankensteinbeck
@John Revolta:
The strategy is that McConnell is a mean shit who loves watching Americans suffer. He doesn’t want to pass anything, at all, and has the power of veto over all legislation. The $600 was a miracle. McConnell is a worse threat to America than Trump, but at least we’ll only have one of them to deal with in a few weeks, not both.
EDIT – And one thing I’ve noticed lately is that his mask has been progressively slipping. He used to be really great at pretending to be responsible. More and more lately, he’s just been open about what a sadistic shit he is. I suspect it’s part of his health deteriorating. I loathe saying this, but I want him to die, because it’s the only way I can think of to stop him hurting people.
rikyrah
I? felt ? this ?
Sentiment about the vaccine
Ken
Yes, but not the kind that are affected by de-worming medications.
Also, we should probably make an exception for the ones that worked their way into our genome a few million, or hundred million, years ago. Most of those are junk now, but a few are expressed.
DivF
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
There was a Firesign Theater routine in the early 70s built around an LA Times headline: “Duck passing worries UCLA”.
Winston
@Spanky: Naw. you would be smack dabbed drooling on the floor if you saw her
Tazj
@jl: I certainly hope it’s a misstep for him.
Everyone if you get a chance watch Jon Ossoff’s interview on Fox News, it’s hilarious. “Kelly Loeffler is campaigning with a Klansman.”
John Revolta
@Frankensteinbeck: Of course, I agree with all of this. Thing is, if he wants to keep his power, he’s got to have those two GA seats. I expected something a little more I dunno, crafty out of him, but, as I said, doing nothing seems to be his main tactic, and it rarely fails him.
bemused senior
@JMG: I have ordered whole pastrami three times from Katz’s deli for the obligatory family Hanukkah party. It is delicious cooked following the instructions. Bon appetit!
mrmoshpotato
@Frankensteinbeck:
No need to feel bad when wishing ill on that evil, fascist turtle.
Tazj
@John Revolta: You’re right, I forgot about that.
Winston
@Ken: Well ivermectin prevents parasites and viruses from reproducing according to the advocates. I don’t know. What I do know is my Doctor told me, it is used in Cuba and go check Cuba out on worldometers.info
Ken
@Winston: The NIH currently recommends against ivermectin for COVID treatment, except as part of a clinical trial. Such trials aren’t unusual; probably hundreds of existing medications have been tried against COVID. Derek Lowe’s “In the Pipeline” blog has had fairly good coverage of these repurposing trials.
There have been relatively few successes, and most of those are not because of anti-viral activity, but because they reduce the immune response that causes the “cytokine storm” that kills (killed) so many in the first wave of the pandemic.
Edit: That NIH page ivermectin inhibits the virus in vitro, which makes further trials reasonable. But also remember Randall Munroe’s take on what in vitro means, an assessment that I think Derek Lowe (a medicinal chemist, when he’s not being diverted by a pandemic) shares.
satby
@Winston: You’ve tried to flog ivermectin in a couple of threads now and Ken’s response is pretty much the same as the one I gave you a few days ago. Next you’ll be suggesting oleander.
Gravenstone
More commonly called lies.
satby
@NotMax: I’ve shared how to make ricotta cheese yourself multiple times. It’s cheaper, easy, and tastes so much better than storebought anyway. Here you go.
Punchy
@Winston: also the best sandos.
mrmoshpotato
@satby: Let’s go ask WebMD about COVID!
Spoiler – We all have cancer.
“But I was just looking for remedies to soothe a scratchy throat!”
satby
@japa21: Take care and get better soon. Keeping you in our thoughts.
Citizen Alan
@debbie: Is there any meaningful difference between Likud and the Nazi party? I’ve said for years that the eyes of the world were on Bibi Netanyahu in a way they were never on Adolf Hitler, and that fact–and nothing else–is why the majority of Palestinians haven’t been herded into concentration camps and exterminated.
Suzanne
2020 just continues to be a fucking piece of shit. I think I told y’all about my friend whose dad died, then her mom fell and broke her shoulder the following day, then got surgery the day after that, then my friend’s husband didn’t pass the Rona screening at the hospital when they went to get her mom…. turned out he had COVID and ended up needing to be hospitalized himself.
Anyway, her husband’s mom died yesterday. My God. What the fuck.
NotMax
@satby
Appreciate that. However almost never have milk in the house. And that amount of milk would cost like twice what the tub of cottage cheese did.
It’s for a noodle kugel, which I’ve used cottage cheese in previously with success, so not a big deal to substitute. Now if it were, say, lasagna that would be a horse of a different color. Tucked away your linked recipe for future use should that situation arise.
CarolDuhart2
@JPL: Well, he thinks that. But it only works while running for re-election, not after the election. Daddy Bush tried to start something with Clinton, and it didn’t work too well. After the election too, I recall.
Another Scott
I guess we’re done respitizing in this thread??
dick_nixon has a 3 minute summary of what he thinks the BoJo-EU Brexit agreement means:
He thinks this effectively hastens Irish reunification, and I think that’s probably right (but it will still be a slow process).
He thinks that Scotland will leave the UK at the “earliest opportunity”. I think a later reply may be right that Scotland would like to leave but there are too many obstacles to joining the EU on its own.
The (limited – it doesn’t include a lot of stuff) agreement certainly does not sound like anything good for the UK.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
(“Looking forward to Tony Jay and Robert Sneddon and the rest of our UK friends’ comments.”)
Citizen Alan
@West of the Rockies: I’ll add her to the evergrowing list of people who I’d thought had died ten years ago. Isn’t she the last of the Gilligan’s Island cast?
Odie Hugh Manatee
@japa21:
Thinking good thoughts and sending them your way.
@Suzanne:
Wow, talk about when it rains…
Fuck 2020.
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: I am having trouble processing all that, just reading about it. I had to parse it like a word problem.
Your friend’s:
Dad died
Mom broke her shoulder and had to have surgery
Husband hospitalized for covid
Mother-in-law died
There are no words. I am so sorry. I hope her husband recovered from COVID. Does she have kids?
Nutmeg again
@raven: Best of luck whatever your path. I actually wanted surgery, and was told at my last workup that I’d have to be significantly more (more, hah!) debilitated, i.e., incontinent and wheelchair-ish before I was a surgery candidate. Of course there is not effing much that can be done in the meantime. Bitter? nah.
If you figure out a genius solution, please post!
WaterGirl
@Nutmeg again: That sounds terrible. Were you able to get a second opinion?
Suzanne
@WaterGirl: Yep, you got it right. Her husband is doing okay post-COVID. He’s still getting worn out easily. (And he is a healthy young dude who lives in Denver and spends lots of free time climbing mountains and hiking.) They don’t have kids. Both of her parents had had strokes in the past decade and needed a lot of care, so my friend and her husband have (had) her parents living with them, and they didn’t feel that they could care for her parents and kids, and have jobs. All of this happened in the last month. Good Lord.
JoyceH
@mrmoshpotato:
Did you ever see the cartoon of “Charlotte’s WebMD”? Spider spells out in her web, “It’s Probably Cancer”
WaterGirl
@Suzanne: So awful. And you have had so many friends with huge losses this year. I know that has to be taking a toll on you, too. What a year.
different-church-lady
I…. I love you jackals.
(DCL, +uh… uhhh…)
mrmoshpotato
@JoyceH: No, I haven’t. I just know the joke that if you “research” something on WebMD enough, it’ll tell you it’s probably cancer.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@raven:
I’m dealing with L3 right now so I’m right there with you. They want to try shots to try to reduce inflammation and make some room in there for things to move. I’m fighting it with exercising but the RA makes some exercises difficult. People keep telling me that I look real good for my age so I know I have to look pretty bad…lol
Good luck in dealing with it!
@Nutmeg again:
That’s odd, my doc has no problem with surgery if the pain management and exercises are not successful.
Get a second opinion.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JoyceH: I think i need to find that
jonas
@jl: Trump may have given them Covid, but he also treated them to week after week at luxury golf resorts courtesy of the American taxpayer. Not a bad deal, I guess. Biden will probably spend weekends at some lame-ass place like Camp David.
SiubhanDuinne
@Citizen Alan:
One of the obits I saw earlier today said that Ginger is the last remaining cast member.
(ETA: Tina Louise. Sorry, blanked on her name until the second after I hit Send.)
Bill Arnold
@Tazj:
True that they’re pretending that there is no income test, and its even a bit more strict than they’re not admitting; the income test is from the last tax return, 2019, which means that people with a 2020 income that dropped substantially, to well below the threshold, during the pandemic recession, might not get a check. (Income tests that use annual income are a blunt tool.)
Bill Arnold
@Ken:
Well, ivermectin has been and continues to be studied as a COVID-19 treatment. e.g.
Efficacy and Safety of Ivermectin for Treatment and prophylaxis of COVID-19 Pandemic (October 2020, preprint).
(I have no clue, though possibly interesting, but it could use some editing by a native(or at least better) English speaker.)
JoyceH
I saw the video of McConnell saying there was no way this 2K bill could pass. Of course, he’s lying, but did anyone else think he sounded different? His voice seemed to me to be a lot more muffled and mumbly than usual. Tooth problems? Brain problems?
Ruckus
@raven:
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
I herniated the disc between L4-L5 about 10 yrs ago, it was fun getting as far back as I’ve come but like a lot of things, no good deed goes unpunished. That’s my story, if your’s is a worse problem I hope there is something that can be done because a back that doesn’t pull it’s load is less fun than most anything.
I hope both of you feel better asap. Be warned that once weakened it’s easy to have it get worse – again, so follow docs instructions and do the work. And realize that some days being old is a stone bitch, only made OK by the fact that it’s better than the alternative.
Ruckus
@JoyceH:
Well we know he has brain problems, he’s a republican.
But it wasn’t long ago that pictures of him looked like death warmed over. Within the last 30-60 days. He had polio as a kid and the people I know who had polio have numerous problems as they age. One I talk to regular is my age, 7 yrs younger than turtle and she’s for the most part wheelchair bound.
Winston
@satby: You know what? Go fuck yourself.
Anotherlurker
@mrmoshpotato: I was experiencing severe itching, numbness, stabbing pain and uncontrollable itching in my left eye. I also had lesions on my cheek, in my nose and in my mouth, again only left side. I was also totally knackered.
I check out WebMD and enter my symptoms. The first thing that comes up is Tearduct Cancer. Scared the shit out of me.
Went to the Doctor ASAP and was diagnosed with Shingles. It turned into a 1 year + ordeal.
Doc ordered me to stay away from WebMD.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Ruckus:
Yeah, getting old sucks but the alternative sucks a lot more! I’ve had C5 though C7 fused, plated and screwed so I’m in no hurry to go through that crap again. Luckily I’m not overweight so that helps a lot with the problems I am dealing with. I had another birthday a few days ago and my neighbor asked how old I am. When I told him he said “You get around pretty good for a guy your age” and when he saw that I was choking back laughter he tried to clarify it by saying that it seems a lot of people my age look a lot worse.
I couldn’t stop laughing and nether could my wife when I told her. I told him thanks for the compliment. :)
mrmoshpotato
LOL! Yikes!
evodevo
@Ken: Yes. This. No one teaches genetics anymore, so most people don’t realize that a large percent of their genome (up to 18%) consists of deactivated retrotransposons from millions/billions of years ago lol (See: LINES and SINES)
J R in WV
@JPL:
This is not accurate. There is no requirement of any kind to keep a president in office during a war. That’s why elections are held during wars, in case the people decide to replace the commander-in-chief during the war.
SteverinoCT
@Bill Arnold:
Late to this, but Orson Scott Card has an interesting novel, Enchantment, which is a twist on Sleeping Beauty. Baba Yaga is in there, and her hut on chicken legs is inspired by a passenger jet airplane with its landing gear.