The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades!
I mean yeah, I read the headlines and just want to back to bed, but a bright, beautiful day is good for the soul.
Put them out of their misery and onto my plate.
Seems like a sound business model to me.
Dictators are smelling weakness in the water. No doubt Team Biden will do something incredibly stupid in response.
I’m going to miss this guy if it’s true. He’s the type of elite we need.
And on a final note. A shoutout to hayek and Mr. hayek. You are both in our thoughts and prayers.
Has anyone been following the Gaetz story? Supposedly he was being blackmailed or some shit?
It’s some pretty wild stuff. If any of this is true, Gaetz is the type of man we need in charge of Washington.
He claims some ex-feds want 25 million to help secure the release of a guy who’s been held hostage in Iran for 14 years and is presumed dead. The guys supossedly knew he was being investigated and hinted that helping free this guy would go a long ways to helping him out of his mess. Not really sure if that’s Blackmail or “you scratch my back I’ll scratch yours”. The thing that strikes me is even if it is blackmail he still could very well have done all the sleazy things he’s accused off, in fact the blackmail doesn’t work is he’s clean. It doesn’t seem like a very good defense.
Oh absolutely, it might be he’s being blackmailed for something he actually did in which case he’s screwed. I have to chuckle at the brazenness of what he’s alleged to have done though. He had to have known it was eventually bite him in the ass but he decided to ride the tiger anyway.
You can see his stripes, but you know he’s clean. Can’t you see what I mean?
+1 RJD
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The closer you get to the meaning, the sooner you know that you’re dreaming. I could go on and on!
I’m hearing about some sort of sex-ring among FL state legislators. That’s just… insane, if true.
Maybe, I think I’m becoming jaded because nothing surprises me anymore and neither would this.
What little detail I’ve read says it’s pay to play; not coercion. It won’t get him out of political trouble but may keep him out of jail.
We’re still talking about Florida, right? And these are the guys/gals chosen to represent Florida Man/Florida Woman – so I fail to see the reason for surprise here.
Makes you wonder what Swalwell did to make his Fang Fang problem go away.
Oh, I just assume that the CCP covered their asses and bought the right people in the right positions to make that little problem go away before it was even implemented.
So far he seems like he might be legit for real. He claims he can prove all of this. Of course, Sidney Powell seemed that way for a minute too.
Is your sound business model based on number of clicks?
That YouTube pic makes it look like Gilmore has a man bun.
Ha! There’s not a whole lot of hair there.
Re farmed fish: They’re just going to bitch and bitch and bitch until we’re all forced to eat lab grown meat and insects I guess.
The whole lab grown/3D printed meat thing kind of gives me the creeps.
If it works out to taste good – fine. If not, sod off, swampy!
Holy Jesus FUCK, that story literally made me cry with laughter! I was trying to describe it to my wife and I flatly couldn’t. It fucking HI-LAR-IUOS!
He declined to say more, citing Good Friday
That’s a new one on me. Is there some religious reason Good Friday prohibits one from answering question?
You know who else was dead to the world on Good Friday?
Dysmas and Gestas?
Tres Cool?
Hey- I have an excuse. I work nights!
(and Im usually faded by 9am so I can sleep through the afternoon)
‘My son has wanted to be a lawyer since he was 11. Then one day he came home and told me, “But Mommy, there are these systems put in place that prevent Black people from accomplishing anything.”…
‘I’ve spent a lot of time in Central Africa because my dad is from the Congo. And some of the propaganda that’s being spread right now here in Evanston is similar to some of the divisiveness that took place in Rwanda before the massacre.”…
‘what are we telling our children, who will one day lead our society, when we show them that if you pose a question, and if someone doesn’t agree with you, maybe they’re going to go after your job?’
So Mommy is running for school board.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/black-lives-matter-curriculum-has-unintended-lesson/618501/
Good for her. Sounds like her head is screwed on straight.
Yeah, sure, right.
/Suburban Illinoisans.
“Fears grow WW3 could be triggered ‘in a month’ as Russian military seen ‘on the move”
And we just cannot stress strongly enough again, how fortunate we are to have gotten rid of bad orange man.
The preHarris Admin also sent a carrier to the Eastern Med meaning Syria:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-carrier-launches-operations-east-med-top-us-syria-policy-czar-calls-al-qaeda-leader
Fun times…
If I was watching this from Elysium Station, this would be fun.
Because war in yet another irrelevant place would mean more looting of American taxpayers?
Yep, endless low intensity wars that never resolve one way or the other make some really powerful (and horrible) people a lot of moolah. You don’t want that gravy train to dry up do you?
And did we tell you the name of the game, boy?
My wife has bunny Easter cookies and I’ve been told I cannot have any. Toxic femininity strikes again. But I have 24oz cans of Heineken, so toxic masculinity wins again.
Heineken?! Fuuuuck Heine- eh, I’m not doing this bit any more.
Well, you limies, drinking your warm crappy beer…
In defense of our forefathers, if you have to make it ice cold to drink it, it’s because it tastes like piss.
Y’all got this American IPA will over there too now? Sorry.
It is indeed crappy and warm. Flat, too. Don’t forget flat. And sometimes metric *shakes fist*.
You’re a victim of wife supremacy.
HT The Bee
Dude, as firstish-US gen Dutch…AVOID THAT Dreck!
I kinda light Amstel Light.
Has ENB come to Matt Gaetz’ defense?
Well, nothing surprises me anymore, I mean NOTHING.
Well, except that some people still think that is a libertarian site. They have libertarian confused with cocktail swilling cuntes.
I quit the editors podcast a long time ago because of Matt Welch’s seething TDS and constant interruption and outrage at The Jacket for not being as fanatically deranged as he was. The Jacket, in many respects, managed to be fairly objective on Trump for a long time.
Heh. Welch got really mad at me over the cocktail party jokes. Grow a sense of humor and some facial fair, Welch, you pussy.
Did the cocktail party quips upset him because the truth hurts?
Or, despite his best efforts, he still doesn’t receive the invitations.
Must. Pander. Harder.
Yes
Truly, he is an uptight poopyhead.
*raspberry*
Fifth Column podcast?
Reason has three podcast nows: editors, Jacket interviews, and Soho debates
The Jacket has never sat in on Fifth Column that I recall.
I don’t find any of the four podcasts flawless, but I listen to them all. I like smart, well-read, well-traveled people, and I don’t need to agree with everyone perfectly to enjoy them.
1) Kmele is finding his way: excellent instincts in a well-meaning ramble
2) Jacket: he’s a relatable, self-deprecating grownup; I haven’t cataloged his sins . . . I’m sure they’re out there
3) Fisher: follow his twitter, don’t think he’s got a podcast these days
4) Welch: carefully stays away from gun chat, I notice; smart, sociable, unmanly
5) Moynihan: barely contained autocrat; you can be really smart and still be wrong often, and fuck you, you can’t even run your own life.
I’m also kinda beat on this inside baseball about the publishing industry: these precious writers and this mean old publishers trope bore me to death. I don’t care about what the offices of the Daily Beast are like.
Goldberg strikes me as decent, but I’m wary of neocon fellow travelers. Similar issues with French.
The main thing I notice about libertarian-adjacent podcasters is an absence of portfolio . . . all this posture by guys who have never built anything, sold anything, who buy stuff on credit. A philosopher king . . . really, they just gossip for a living, all of them . . . shouldn’t be a little bitch about his personal situation (the city must open the schools!). Please, please buy my book or my online university course or whatever because I’m just a useless person away this microphone.
Thanks for the summary. Is Reason Editors a.k.a. Reason Roundtable?
‘…..some people still think that is a libertarian site.”
Nancy Rommelman has been publishing some pretty good “person on the street” interviews regarding the Chauvin trial though.
Yes.
I just read that, and it’s a fairly decent writeup. I’m pleasantly surprised.
It’s not a defense, but it is actual journalism for a change.
Yeah, she even says it’s not a defense of Gates “per se” (which I took to mean we don’t know what he did yet) but the pen-ultimate paragraph seem to imply that if all he did was hire whores she will defend that.
Well, Lizzie did find Sugar Babying too difficult of a career.
She ain’t gonna offer him a sammich, if that’s what you mean. Maybe she needs a flat tire changed or something.
A shoutout to hayek and Mr. hayek. You are both in our thoughts and prayers.
Hopefully he pulls through.
Those who care about the welfare of fish and seafood should opt for clams, mussels or seaweed, according to a new report, which says popular fish, including farmed Atlantic salmon and trout, have more complex welfare needs and are more likely to experience pain and suffering.
There is no scientific evidence of the behavioural and environmental needs of nearly 80% of aquatic species, an analysis of more than 400 species farmed around the world found.
The “enormous” lack of information is “going to translate into extreme suffering for individual animals”, said report co-author Becca Franks, a research scientist at New York University.
The report, published in the journal Science Advances, found that a failure to provide the right environment and to handle aquatic animals correctly can lead to birth defects, restricted mobility, aggressive behaviour and extreme pain during slaughter.
Putting these four paragraphs together is interesting.
It often comes down to which claim you believe should shoulder the burden of proof?
A) You must prove beyond reasonable doubt that there is no pain and suffering before you proceed
or
B) You must prove beyond all reasonable doubt that there is pain and suffering before preventing this from proceeding
The fetal pain arguments against abortion follow a similar structure. Pro-“choice” advocates would regularly say that it’s “settled science” (in so many words) that the fetal pain question has been answered indisputably by “studies” and “experts”. Of course this is misleading. It is not generally argued from first principles, though. One might otherwise seek to balance perceptions of suffering, or potential suffering in later life, or myriad other attempted rationalisations from imperfect knowledge. Useless.
Those who would place the burden of proof on proving beyond all reasonable doubt that the unborn do not feel pain would at least be on more intellectually honest ground with regard to the limited evel of knowledge and understanding of just how much an unborn child will be aware of, and suffer, and at what point this becomes an issue of conscious suffering.
The intellectualy honest position of the pro-choice advocate would be to acknowledge and accept the uncertainty in regards to pain, and to then argue their ethical and philosophical rationale and justifications for maternal agency in killing their unborn child.
It is much less controversial, of course, to say, “the fish is tasty; I want to eat it even if it is possible that this necessitates suffering”.
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Apparently I did not close the tag.
You’re literally gonna bake/fry/roast it and then squirt some lemon on it and chow the fucker down. There ain’t no happy ending and the fucking fish did not go live on farm somewhere.
Les… poissons! Les poissons! Hee hee hee Haw haw haw!
Duh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoJxBEQRLd0
(I had no idea Odo sang that)
It’s the
two week one year anniversary of me hosting these Zoom/Happy Hour/Gripefests. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern, and admit my shame for calling for a pick up on my bike ride today (fucking 15+ MPH headwind and ~750 feet climbed into that).So I guess it’s not anything?
It never really is.
But I’ll own up to me fucking up tags:
Zoom/Happy Hour/Gripefest
For those who haven’t saved it and need something clean(ish) to click on.
Those people are pussies, and we don’t want them anyways.
That would be me. I’d no idea there was one link for all teh zooms. It’s a fascinating modern age we live in.
This link is just for the weekend standard zooms. Not the additional SP/NW/Anyone else starting one up.
It’s set as a recurring meeting, and the link stays the same. All are welcome, even Tulpa.
/reserves the right to mute and kill video for anyone
Yet again, Im working.
/TV breathes a sigh of relief
No shame in calling for a pick up because at least you got in the saddle. I went to the store, took a nap and grilled some chicken. I did not get one thing done today I wanted to except going to the store, taking a nap and grilling some chicken.
Same. Walked the dog, thought about doing other stuff, took a nap.
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Must be the nature of the holiday combined with all the freakin’ COVID restrictions. This has basically been my day, too. Now the Spousal Unit and I are going to eat homemade perogies with lazy cabbage rolls and turkey-and-cranberry sausages for “Easter dinner.” Without any family or friends. For the second year in a row.
I loathe our provincial and Federal politicians.
My plan for tomorrow (wind and legs dependent) is to do a short ride (~10 miles) up to a place for brunch. If they’re closed, go ~2 miles on to a second option. If both are closed, then I have a fallback option ~3 miles from there (and about 7 miles from my house) that I know will be open.
Walked the dog and watched a movie off the DVR.
I just buzzed the kid’s hair into a mohawk. It’s like the third time, but this time I tapered it down to the bald part. Very challenging. Much respect for the barber lady who did it last time. Came out OK, though. I also put a new screen in my laptop. It has shitty resolution. I’m thinking I might try and swap the digitizer from the OG screem and just use the glass on the new one. Unless the glass is hazy? I guess I’ll try and see.
And, no. The digitizer is fused o the glass. Now I have a small crack on it too. I’mma just return the shitty chinese knock off digitizer and try to find a better one. This one was 150.00, maybe the 200.00 ones are better?
There’s shame. I feel it, and I took the girlfriend out for dinner to pay back her taking time out to pick me up. The ride home would have been easier, but I was burned out. Climbing into headwinds is just demoralizing.
True dat. I really haven’t achieved much the last couple of days because rhinovirus, and I’m a pathetic specimen of a man when it comes to the common cold. I can’t ever remember being bothered by it when I was younger. Runny nose, sure throat, bit of a cough, so what? Nowadays I’m a sad, low energy blob.
I believe the best course of action would be to shut down the entire Western world until I have recovered, give or take eighteen months. You know, just to be safe.
Was the chicken happy before you ate it? What was his name and where did he live?
I started my outdoor cleaning. I finished most of my indoor cleaning.
I’m going to watch the Uncle Tom documentary. I might join the zoom afterwards.
Tomorrow I have more outdoor work to do, more indoor work, and I need to get a little work done for work.
MLB: We’re pulling the All Star Game out of Atlanta because those mean republicans enacted a voting law that is, like, really bad and stuff.
GOP: Why do these fuckers still have anti-trust status?
Which is a good question on any given day, but an especially good question when the MLB has chosen political sides and now operates with political goals.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/546291-gop-senators-push-to-end-mlb-antitrust-status
Republican social signaling.
They can and will do nothing.
I agree with that.
But it’s still a good question.
libertarians are afraid of the monopoly boogie man?
A guy wearing a top hat and monocle killed my father and raped and my mother but go ahead and dismiss my pain.
David Gilmour.As much as I like ol’ David G., he’s going to have to wait until after The Devil’s Daughters finish’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PQ0i-72pZw&list=RDQx7FDGpZQsQ&index=30
Oh my.
Moar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUpDslHSLbU&list=RDQx7FDGpZQsQ&index=13
That place has some good ac.
It’s got a couple of good points.
Points all her own, way up high. Way up, firm and high!
Mesmerizing. I can’t remember hoping harder for a slight clothing malfunction.
Yep.
Well, after a lovely soapweed drunken steak mesquite smoked fajita dinner with my wife’s
Mexicanculturally appropriated rice, it’s time to check out the latest Gojira – Giant Monkey flick on HBO Max. I’m already BAC’d out, so I’ll miss you all. Toodles.…….a bright, beautiful day is good for the soul.
Amen to that.
https://www.businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of-533-million-facebook-users-leaked-online-2021-4
Doh!
Glad I don’t Facebook.
Fortunately, I dropped my FB account months ago.
Unfortunately, that won’t help — the hack is several years old.
“Glad I don’t Facebook.”
QFT.
Better living through chemistry on Silicone Saturday.
https://archive.li/TcSb2
Not bad.
Is there some correlation between side boob and tattoos?
Huh…Tracy Lords did two episodes of Married With Children. I knew about the dentist one, but there’s another one on right now.
She did several episodes of Roseanne too.
She’s still working: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000183/?ref_=rvi_nm
Good for her. I enjoyed her basically playing “herself” on those 90’s sitcoms.
Clearly her best role was on First Wave.
Confirmed.
Fun fact(s)- she was on Melrose Place, and is from Ohio.
And her real name is Norma Kuzma
I thought she was from South Bay L.A. (also?).
No, that’s Heather Torso.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/04/hunter-biden-says-no-recollection-encounter-stripper-fathered-child/
That dude is a hot mess.
I would The Media would focus more on his family’s corruption and less on his whoring and drug adventures which are really none of my business.
wouldwishThat ship set sail, was lit on fire, and then torpedoed.
Their corruption won’t see the light of day anymore. You’ve got a better chance of Hillary being indicted.
They don’t call it the Swamp for nothin’.
I agree for anyone else but politicians. We should know when they or their families are getting passes on things that the children of others are sent to rape cages for.
Fair point, esp. on the drugs.
Yeah, Biden, Kamala, Hunter all of the appointments, they’re all a fucking mess. Every move so far has been disastrous. How the fuck did this admin get elected? Oh yeah, they straight up cheated. I wonder if we’ll get the chance to correct that?
I’m curious how the fuck Biden can lie about this Georgia election law. the mainstream media even admits it, and yet he isn’t being censored for disinformation.
We’re in the era of red truth vs blue truth. Nothing good is expected to come from it.
David Gilmore’s best, IMO.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/rapper-dmx-on-life-support-after-heart-attack-lawyer-says/article_ad3d847c-afee-54bf-8920-1cd00d8716a9.html
Wow.
My nephew is still in the hospital, getting shuffled around for dialisys and skin grafts. OD’ing is no fucking joke. He’s been doing this shit for the last 2 months or so. Just to get high that one day.
Really sorry, BJ. Oof.
Thanks. I’m hopeful that he’ll get enough suffering out of this to finally quit messing around, without any permanent damage beyond what he’s certain to get.
Glad he survived anyway; dunno if he is.
Looks like it. It was iffy at first because his kidneys were failing. He got compartment syndrome. It very bad when it’s caused by opiod ODs.
Sorry to hear that BJ.
Here’s what people don’t realize: I’m actually an ambassador of goodwill and world peace sent to unite the people once and for all. You see, *everyone* loves big tits. EVERYONE. Men, women, otherkin… even people who claim not to, do. Big tits are the one true common thread among humanity and I will bring it down from heaven like Prometheus.
https://archive.li/kk8Rs/f8e5db03a1908526b206036dc546d0747461d3c8.jpg
NSFW.
So you like Chuck Schumer’s tits?
Ban this man.
Yes, I wish we could ban Chuck Schumer.
I buleeve U haz confuz – he clearly stated “man”
You see, *everyone* loves big tits. EVERYONE. Men, women, otherkin… even people who claim not to, do. Big tits are the one true common thread among humanity and I will bring it down from heaven like Prometheus.
“Lemme tell you something about gay porn. That doesn’t mean a guy’s gay, I’m not saying that, just because a guy watches gay porn all the time. I enjoy gay porn, I’m not gay. Gay porn is a genre that cuts across all demographics, you know? Young people, old people, straight people, the gay people enjoy it, everybody likes gay porn. But [Andy Richter] really likes it.” –Norm MacDonald
Odd cat, Norm. I like that he never apologizes.
Hero.
Wow. Although, not sure if passover is a Christian holiday.
Well the Last Supper was in some gospels a Seder.
For many Christian denominations the whole week leading to the crucifixion has multiple holidays. Hopefully some of our religious Glibs can chime in.
He’s Polish so I think he’s referring to the whole week and his translations may not be as accurate – you can briefly see the church name on the sign by the door and outside too.
THE POWER OF ZARDOZ COMPELS YOU!
That is beautiful.
It is. He’s got stones. I salute him.
#metoo
Counterpoint https://twitter.com/nigel_farage/status/1378289101070295045?s=21
Although in both cases, it’s the level of threats the cops are willing to employ. Cops aren’t being stacked like authoritarian cordwood in any country for their participation in these Orwellian episodes.
For the love of god, don’t read the comments. Assholes are defending rounding up Jews because it’s the law and everyone needs to cooperate with authorities regardless of their opinion.
And naturally, putting them on trains is greener than if you carted them off in police vans. And you’ll need some sort of camp in which to put them.
Just had another delightful andouille-nie roast over the fire bowl on the mound in our back yard. Tom T. & I disagree on the proper spelling of this neologism – my inclination is to spell it “andouille-nie,” while he prefers “andouieenie.”
I’ve always seen it spelled as Andouille.
I’ve always pronounced it as An-Duel-Lee*
…To be honest, I’ve always thought it was kinda bland. Not at all what I expect or have experienced from other Creole fair.
*uncultured Midwesterner
She’s making a portmanteau of Andouille and wiener/wiennie.
And do we?
On-dwee?
Yes, we do!
Uh, add -nee suffix either way.
And suggest to the mister that he post here more often.
I try! I’ve tempted him here occasionally, with Animal’s gun history posts in particular, but his timing is off – he tends to show up late to dead threads. From time to time, though, he pops up here and surprises me. 🙂
Smoking, yet another, brisket. I’ve just been trying to dial in the process. I also enjoy having brisket sandwiches off and on through the week.
I’ve only been smoking them a half at a time. Probably about four pounds each time. That gives me more practice per pound.
I’ve been doing pressure cooker corned beef for the past two weeks. Going to try this one next week
https://www.virtualweberbullet.com/quick-pastrami-smoked-corned-beef-brisket/
I use the pressure cooker to get the ribs tender before throwing them on the grill. I also use it to get Carnitas started sometimes. Otherwise, I prefer the grill for the touch of smoke in the flavor. Hard to beat it IMO.
This sounds useful:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9430891/Worlds-wireless-brain-computer-interface-successfully-tested-human-brain.html
I’ve seen this movie.
And this one.
Geez. Aside from Jeff Fahey’s torso that is without a doubt one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. Shame on you.
This sounds less useful:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9432933/Jealous-girlfriend-cuts-lovers-penis-slept-accusing-cheating.html
I guess he doesn’t have to worry about sticking it in crazy anymore.
Well, he learned the important rule, which I’m sure he will adhere to from now on. Never stick it in crazy.
Speaking of. Are we going to hear your Johnny Depp story? Was it told already and I missed it?
It’s not really that big of a deal. We went to Ben Frank’s diner ( it’s now a Mel’s) on sunset at around 2:00 AM once, and as we were walking to our table I noticed everyone murmuring ” there’s Johnny Depp” OOOH! it’s Johnny Depp” etc. So when we sat down at out table, my friend and I picked up all of the forks and knives and held them between our fingers, clattering them together and saying rather sarcastically, ” Look! It’s Johnny Depp! Whoo hoo!” Really we were making fun of the gawkers more than Johnny himself.
Anyways, after awhile this totally trashed skeletonized person comes up and asks ( as forcefully as he could muster, which wasn’t very forcefully), Why do you keep saying my name Man?” I said, ” Man relax, we’re just kidding around” He looked around as if to see if there was anyone who could confirm it was OK. Not seeing anyone he just shrugged and said OK. Then He went and sat back down.
I used to see his buddy, Chuck E. Wiess all the time, because he was in the band at club Central before it was the viper room. Somehow, he got pissed at me after that and would not smile or he’d walk dramatically out of the way or whatever. Apparently the word got to him.
One night, maybe two months later ( this all happened a couple months after River Pheonix died) Chuck E. pulled up and was walking inside when some Japanese tourists asked him what kind of car he had. He drove a 1954 Plymouth Savoy. Chuck had a huge stuttering problem and was trying for at least a whole minute to answer and the tourists were starting to seem worried about him, so I walked over and told them what kind of car he had and then said that it was a particularly nice one, too.
After that Chuck would go out of his way to wave at me and smile when he saw me. It’s a weird car and just somebody else knowing what it was probably impressed him. Oh, and yes, he’s the guy they sang about in the song, Chuck E’s in love. His band was called Chuck Wiess and the goddamn liars and their signature tune had him stuttering and interspersing various proclamations by the other band members with the phrase, “goddamn liar”
And now you know….the rest of the story.
Aw, thanks, Paul Harvey. I do like your stories.
Oh, and YT keeps suggesting for me this sort of thing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sLv4g_A1JP8
That’s just a few blocks west of Ben Franks. All my friend were bummed when that place closed. It had been the premier late night coffee shop forever and seemed untouched by time, until it was suddenly gone.
I remember that place (in person) now that I think of it. Hangout of Janis et al.
More yum: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TXnB8brkWxQ
I too would have had a difficult time not staring / murmuring at ’90s JD.
http://cdn.mcstatic.com/contents/videos_screenshots/8991000/8991137/preview.jpg
We now know which side of the crazy/hot divide she falls on.
Well, I can’t say much about how hot she might be but she’s got the crazy part covered without further citation.
https://archive.li/r67y4/09722dd1923f766be67e4ace98f3be0304c535f9.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/3PbeL/68dbbd1c7bea94feb7958fe008fc0f06d19dba62.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/yYxLW/a28ab56149132e960dd1ce0ed1d487406ee01930.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.li/ym5De/a578925d2c969eaaf59cb1f98536bcad25ce307a.jpg
NSFW.
Winner winner pollo dinner
Tattoos always gives me a little cringe but her retrousse nose is a major plus.
Tonight’s winner by a country mile.
Did… did someone say…
And now for something completely different –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMwPEmUMP7U
Thanks for the shout-out and also for the prayers and encouragement.
Here’s the report:
Mr Splosives surgery went well today (the cardiac surgeons had a side bar and decided waiting for Tuesday was too risky. The surgeon told me afterwards that the hubby basically had no aortic valve, just a whole.
So now he has a bovine tissue valve. His breathing had gotten worse before the surgery, and when they opened him up, they drained a liter of fluid off each lung.
They’re keeping him on the ventilator all night and will try weaning him off tomorrow.
His post-op CT scan showed no new bleeds on the brain.
Once his lung function is normal, he’ll be out of the woods. Then the long road to recovery beckons.
I’m really glad they did it today instead of waiting.
I’ll keep my fingers crossed and my prayer muscles exercised…so far, so good…
Good to hear from you. About ready to take up cigarettes.
I don’t get why people are shocked by the cost of modern medical care when it is so all-encompassing as this. Yeah, maybe setting a bone shouldn’t cost twenty thousand dollars. All the scans and technicians you employ to conduct those scans, and the high-priced doctors who review the scans, not to mention the magicians who do the gross bloody handiwork I don’t like to think about, none of this would have been conceivable a century ago, now it’s all expected to be provided gratis by… just someone.
Our science outgrew our ability to provide and our expectations outgrew even the science.
I can’t imagine this kind of response from a NHS type of place.
These Scripps guys know their stuff.
Heck, even the decision to do surgery Saturday instead of postponing to Tuesday was one that was made between the two cardiac surgeons after Neurology finally gave the green light. Nobody required them to rethink it and reschedule for 12 hours from then (it was around 6 pm at the time).
I just can’t imagine a government-run healthcare outfit letting surgeons make that call outside of bureaucratic interference.
Sounds like things went as well as could be hoped – I’m glad to hear it!
As scary as it is, it sounds like he should make a full recovery; as you say, it will take a while, but you’ll both make it through, I’m certain.
I’m so glad to hear that he’s gotten past the operation and can look forward to healing up.
No aortic valve! That would explain the lack of energy.
I will keep both of you in my prayers.
Yeah, his heart has been pounding so quickly snd so violently to try to get enough blood flowing that it made the aortic valve with its big lump of diseased tissue was just flapping around, never really closing. He’d even developed a mitral valve murmur but that turned out to be because the mitral valve was getting pulled by suction. It started behaving normally in surgery once they put in the beef valve.
That’s why they moved the surgery up: they were worried about chunks shedding off and wandering throughout his brain and body.
I was kind of curious to see the valve and growth but I’d probably have thrown up. (They didn’t offer.)
Just admit it. You wanted a piece of his heart.
Kidding. Glad to hear things are getting better for him.
Good news!
This is why you have insurance. I hope it all goes well.
I’ve heard of a correlation between depression and heart problems, possibly via celebrities.
Carvey and Letterman
Huzzah! If you didn’t see it with everything going on, 4X dropped in today too.
Oh good! No, I’ve been pretty tied up.
Michael’s daughter and one of his sons flew in, so I spend a good chunk of the day with them. (They didn’t rent a car.)
XXOO
That sounds like really good news.
My Grandma had two heart valve replacement surgeries using pig valves. One was in her early 70’s and the other mid 80’s. Long recoveries, but she was able to stay very active after recovery. Her heart was still fine in her early 90’s, but 3rd bout of lymphoma and declining chemotherapy did her in.
Hopefully Mr Splosives has a similar outcome. Positive vibes.
Thanks.
The doc mentioned that if this valve wears out in 15 years, they can just go up through a vessel in the thigh/grain area, fish a new tissue valve up to the heart, and deploy it inside the one they just stitched in.
They couldn’t do that for his procedure because they needed to clean up all infected tissue and close the rather large hole where the blown valve was.
Sounds a lot like science fiction. I know they actually do this almost routinely these days but I can’t shake how incredible it sounds.
Of course he’ll get better! He has the heart of a bull!
Good news. ?
Why yes, I AM hiding Easter baskets for my 15- and 17-year-old children.
Are you hiding real, dyed, hard-boiled eggs in the yard?
Oh hell no.
GF and I still give each other Easter baskets. Mine had a bottle of gin and a couple other little things. I called no (low carb) candy this year.
Now that’s commitment to the job.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/my-police-officer-wife-sex-23828776
Undercover work indeed.
https://youtu.be/xtQob0SKp6k
Want
Definitely cool for the historical factor, but as a practical shoulder arm I think they’re rather bulky for the round they spit out.
more yum: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TXnB8brkWxQ
https://youtu.be/_mo4FAqDejI
I couldn’t care less about her physical appearance, then or now. Just saying Karen O’s ally cat/screeching gutter punk voice makes my naughty bits tingle.
Goodnight, Glibs.
Ta ra!
Bleah… I got up early this morning to get the brisket going early, hoping to be able to cook it all the way to done without wrapping it in foil. But after seven hours the internal temperature was stalled at 160F. At that point it was going to delay our dinner so I wrapped it in foil and kicked the heat up.
I have anorher older Weber with a rusted lid that I should repair and use as a dedicated smoker. That way I can just let it keep going and cook dinner with the newer Weber.
Judi has gone vegan. You wouldn’t believe the wasted food. I’m not a big eater but mostly keep my mouth shut about the waste. I suppose we might have a talk about when gas prices double.
I’m not sure why “vegan = wasted food”?
Are you throwing out stuff previously purchased?
We can’t eat it fast enough. My diet nor hers. She’s always been a “big cooker” having raised four kids. Our poor fridge looks like Joe’s detention centers.
Ah.. so she went vegan and you’re going along for the ride. I hope you’re good with that.
My wife would never be that delusional about me.
I’m actually quite lucky that we both, via completely different paths but at the same time, came to a basically keto diet. Not strict, just a lot fewer carbs. It could have been difficult had she not come to a similar conclusion around the same time.
I miss everything. My helper is a weirdo. Have you people ever dealt with a young woman that speaks so quickly that you wonder how she ever draws breath? I have tonight for the first time in decades. What should have been a couple of texts turned into a twenty minute phone call. They’ve saddled me with someone with Social anxiety. She will work around the staff if she knows that I’m there. I don’t get paid for this.
Hooray for Mr. Hayek and 4×20! Good news for a change.
This is the start of a beautiful, comedic relationship of some sort. Is she allowed to use your special heavy broom?
Yeah, could be sitcom gold.
*audience laugh track*
yo what’s goody yo ?
I just read the encouraging news about Mr. Splosives. Its Easter and he has risen !
It’s FRIDAY for this zombie!
Happy Easter.
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May your bunnies be cute and prolific!
Well, except for those wacky Orthodox.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/leak-at-wastewater-pond-prompts-evacuations-in-florida
“”The pond is basically salt water. We saw ducks yesterday, there are snooks swimming in there. It’s sustaining wildlife. That’s not the case for the other two pools,” he said, adding the wastewater in the other ponds would need to be treated to reduce ammonium content and other materials.”
Uh huh….