Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! and what an amazing day it always is!
Schumer Vows Vote On Changing Senate Rules If GOP Continues To Block Efforts
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy
The Theranos investors who were duped out of millions
New York AG subpoenas Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump
Judge signals perjury trial against Ghislaine Maxwell will likely go forward
Judge suspends COVID vaccine mandate for military service members seeking religious exemption
3,200-Plus Schools Closed for Omicron Despite Low Risk
Study: More Than Half Of Omicron Hospitalizations Weren’t Actually For COVID-19
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
The Reign of Pelosi link appears to be D-E-D.
It’s an allegory.
Fixed
Appreciate it.
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy – so the patriarchy made me do it defense failed? damn
What’s the point of having a vast State propaganda apparatus if you’re not going to use it?
The biggest fear for Paula Davis, a middle school special education teacher in a rural central Indiana district, is that the discussion about what happened could be used by teachers with a political agenda to indoctrinate students. She won’t discuss Jan. 6 in her classroom; her focus is math and English.
“I think it’s extremely important that any teacher that is addressing that topic does so from an unbiased perspective,” said Davis, a regional chapter chair for Moms for Liberty, a group whose members have protested mask and vaccine mandates and critical race theory. “If it cannot be done without bias, then it should not be done.”
No reasonable unbiased person can look at the events of that day and not see a
blacklily-white insurrectionist cloud descending on DEMOCRACY!her focus is math and English
The country no need that. It need soldiers for revolution.
“it is fair to draw parallels between what happened on Jan. 6 and the rise of fascism.”
Interestingly the US government is behaving fascistically regarding that particular mostly peaceful protest.
Some students questioned Wagner last year when she referred to what happened as an insurrection. She responded by having them read the dictionary definition for the word.
Interestingly the dictionary definition defeats her own argument.
talking to students about what happened on Jan. 6 is increasingly fraught.
It doesn’t need to be talked about at all.
Imagine a math and English teacher focusing on math and English.
Schumer Vows Vote On Changing Senate Rules If GOP Continues To Block Efforts
About free and fair elections as Euro press is all about republicans bad there are plenty of Europeans who say GOP wants to suppress votes by voter ID laws though in no EU country can you vote without ID
Look, it’s too hard for minorities to get an ID. So instead, just let the Democrat party vote for them.
They know what is best for the proles.
Blackinoids are too dumb to get IDs and there’s nothing racist about saying that.
/Democrats
Also, we need vaccine passports.
It really is astonishing how thought-free the repetition of propaganda can be.
Here in the US we have people who live in states in the Northeast that require ID to vote dancing boycotts of Georgia for being racist in voting to require ID to vote.
Doublethink is not just a rhetorical device.
“Sixty-three percent of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 in South Africa during the surge had “incidental” COVID-19 diagnoses, meaning they were admitted to the hospital for a separate reason and tested positive for the virus once there. ”
I’m sure it’s not just Africa.
As was linked here recently – pediatrics “surge” is patients in hospitals testing positive for COVID, not being hospitalized because of COVID.
Schumer Vows Vote On Changing Senate Rules If GOP Continues To Block Efforts
Hey Chuck, you might want to ask Reid how his rules changes on judicial nominations worked out. If you’re having trouble getting in touch with ol’ Harry, I’m sure a meet-up can be arranged.
That was a joke, Preet.
Judge suspends COVID vaccine mandate for military service members seeking religious exemption – honestly I am not that impressed by religious exemptions, it should be enough that you don’t want it, though I can understand US constitution can make it easier over religion
It’s not against one’s religion to join the military though.
The Torah is filled with examples of great warriors winning battles. It also prohibits eating a ham and cheese sandwich.
Religion can be funny like that.
Ham is forbidden with or without cheese.
Cheeseburgers are right out, but a hamburger is allowed if the beef is kosher.
But can you wear clothes made of a mix of fibers?
Yes.
Cheese sandwiches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pRKCONXKi4
mildly NSFW
There’s also a famous battle known by “Torah! Torah! Torah!”
LOL! good one!
Was it over when the Jews bombed Pearl Harbor?
Yup. The religious exemption should require no more than the following statement:
“No.”
A majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations during the South African Omicron variant wave weren’t actually for the virus, a new study has found.
We’ll never see the terrifying hospitalization numbers we need if we restrict “elective” treatments. You’ve got to get those people admitted and tested.
*Smile spreads across face*
Mine too. It was such an obvious fraud. Everyone in the lab business knew it for years before it collapsed.
There seems to be no end to the willingness of people to believe in magic. Perhaps a chunk of this is due to the media being a bunch of English and journalism majors…. People who traditionally not only don’t love science, they are actively hostile to the subject.
So we get a parade of perpetrators of woo on morning news shows. Chia seeds make you healthy! No, acai berries! Homeopathic Male Enhancement!
It makes fertile ground for an electorate who can believe anything they are told.
That list really is amazing. She may be the greatest con man of all time.
People don’t invest $100 million casually. They have teams of accountants check things out. They bring in experts.
Having absolutely no product at all and getting hundreds of millions in single chunks like that is astonishing.
Also…. Wow… Raising a billion in cash and nothing to show? I wonder how much was spent propping up the gift and how much was shuffled away into hiding.
She’ll start working for the government in prison.
I wonder how a “warrior-monk” Marine made $85 million? I’m glad he got conned out of it.
My question exactly – where the fuck does a career military man get $85 million to invest?
I think that $85M figure is wrong. His net worth is reportedly $5 – 7M.
From 2013 to 2017 he was on the board of General Dynamics.
It was 85K “As a show of good faith” – Considering he was paid $150K a year to be the celebrity board seat, not a bad deal…
My question exactly.
And what does he have left?
He never took a vow of poverty!
+1 Templars
Con woman
“People don’t invest $100 million casually. ”
Yeah, normally you have to get government subsidies for sums like that.
Well played!
For Murdoch, the Waltons, DeVos & Kraft, that’s gotta be a family office that made those investments, right?
Time to get new money managers.
(though that was pocket change for Kraft, who’s worth north of $6 billion)
Tsunamicron
The chief doctor for Congress is urging lawmakers and staff to take greater precautions in protecting themselves from the coronavirus as the Capitol grapples with an explosive spike in COVID-19 cases.
The Capitol’s attending physician Brian Monahan said on Monday that the Capitol COVID-19 testing center’s seven-day “positivity rate went from less than 1 percent to greater than 13 percent” since the end of November.
In a letter to congressional offices, Monahan advised members to shift towards remote work, noting that hundreds of people have been infected. For those choosing to remain on the Hill, he suggested cloth face coverings should be swapped out with more robust N95 or KN95 masks.
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Monahan noted most of the cases on the Hill are due to the omicron and delta variants. As of Dec. 15, he wrote, a limited sampling of cases showed 61% of cases were linked to omicron and 38% were linked to delta. Recent cases also appear to be breakthrough infections in people who are vaccinated. He said that so far, no one has reported serious complications, hospitalizations, or deaths.
Don’t let that interfere with your panicmongering.
I am amused how data reporting has changed about the covid… Here in Romania the press every day published new cases, hospitalizations and deaths. Every day they reported the comorbidity among deaths. Usually all had comorbidity. Recently when the vaxed started dying the report says 38 died unvaccinated, 14 died vaccinated and “all vaccinated people had comorbidity” with no mention on whether the unvaccinated had comorbidity.
I also noticed that until a few months back vaccination rates per country were reported relative to eligible population, but when that crossed 90% for many they started reporting to total population counting de under as well.
No one here cares about any this eurofag talk about comorbidity. We opened fast food restaurants and closed gyms. Because America.
Elie Mystal
@ElieNYC
Keeping schools open is fucking stupid but nobody actually seems to care about that anymore.
https://twitter.com/ElieNYC/status/1478034261282336771
Insert Michael Jordan fuck them kids meme
“You’re fucking stupid.”
Am I tweetering right?
Where was she when DeVos wanted to do that 5 years ago??
How are they going to pump kids full of ritalin and critical race theory if the schools are closed???
Elie Mystal was poised to be the next Magical Negro. But he was a particular mix of lazy and stupid enough to believe “blogging is teh futur!”
OMG the replies.
You assholes run this fucking place. I’m so sorry you have to lift a finger and get your ass into class now.
Despite the skyrocketing case numbers at the Capitol, it is not likely the place where lawmakers and staffers are becoming infected, according to Monahan. “While many infections can be detected through workplace testing, the most common risk of acquiring infection is the individual’s activities outside the workplace, such as attendance at receptions, entertainment venues, celebrations, family gatherings, travel, and crowded indoor situations,” he said.
You’ve got it ass backwards. Instead of sending them home, you should lock everyone in, where they will be safe from contact with the icky infectious masses.
Also, at this point, I would like to see mandatory kn95 masks, 24 hours a day, for all elected officials. Because abundance of caution. We cannot afford to lose our most precious resource: leadership.
Where did all the money go that investors poured into the Theranos scam? When something seems too good to be true…Same-same Covid vaccines.
Mrs Fourscore has urged me to get a walking cane but I keep telling her that canes are for the old and handicapped and I’m neither.
Great music and topical,Banjos. Thanks
Who let Heroic Mulatto run the PBR twitter account?
Pabst Blue Ribbon Deletes Tweets About ‘Eating Ass,’ Saying They Were ‘in Poor Judgment’
For those not wanting to click through, the original tweet (from the official PBR account) was:
Eating ass is so 2020
Ass burrito?
I’m still eating leftover Christmas ham.
That really is astonishing.
Even as just a random dude, I am not sure that comeback is on point
Great way to plug a shitty beer. Also, that link was the first item in my inbox this morning. Working in advertising can be entertaining at times.
It hit my newsfeed last night, and helped to distract me from the
poorbadgods awful showing from the Browns last night. Usually, I’m skeptical about claims of HAXX0RS! but with one of the exchanges being:Random Twitter person: PBR or ass? Whats the difference?
PBR: Ask your mom
I’m slightly inclined to believe in this case.
I’m slightly inclined to believe in this case.
#metoo. Hats off to the perpetrator, haxxor or not.
I already made that joke, followed by an actual HM appearance.
(I rarely make even borderline-worthwhile contributions – I figure I should claim credit if I do)
People don’t invest $100 million casually. They have teams of accountants check things out. They bring in experts.
Having absolutely no product at all and getting hundreds of millions in single chunks like that is astonishing.
They were buying a dream, from a hot chick.
“Buying a dream”
Like every newly married guy
1999 called…
would we call her hot? because meh…
Crazy eyes. Also beware women who wear lots of kohl, esp. on the lower lashes.
Kohl’s is an American department store retail chain, operated by Kohl’s Corporation
hmmmm
The clothes are OK.
So back in the day Nassim Taleb occasionally had something interesting to say, but I somehow ended up on his twitter after a while and the man lost his damn mind. He always blocked non sycophants calling them idiots but now it is worse. And the sycophants are kissing his ass even more.
Everyone who is not a full branch covidian is a psychopath now.
“COVID DEBUNKING DU JOUR
Many psychopaths are leading you to believe that Covid’s risk is self inflicted by people who don’t work out & are overweight.
Covid’s main 2 risk factors are gender (male) and age, and as age increases body mass index becomes less & less of a factor.”
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1477277102764400645
it is as well established as anything that obesity is a major factor and working out helps a lot (being fit in general helps with the immune system and many diseases). But Taleb debunked it with zero data. Off course someone links a CDC study on hospitalization which shows obesity as a major factor and the response is “I block idiots. Sorry.”. I mean the man was always a moron but it got much worse.
“COVID DEBUNKING DU JOUR: VITAMIN D
Another story of “Vitamin D as cure for Covid” bites the dust. Those who published the study never learned to look at data.
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1477355655036088322”
No one says vitamin D is a cure, just that it helps in covid and other respiratory ilnesses and there are literally hundreds of studies. But DEBUNKED by Taleb.
Off course nothing works, the covid is ebola, and the vax is a miracle, so more vax is better. Somehow the precautionary principle melted down. And he adresses this in a video full oif bullshit
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1477672542072680450
basically because many people got the vax we can fully tell long term effects by what we know now… And off course the vax helps a lot for transmission which is fucking bullshit.
We don’t know long term how many boosters you will need, but we do know there are no long term side effects.
What annoys me about these assholes is that risk of disease and vaccine are very different based on demographic and they rarely take that into account.
And as it clearly does not fucking help transmission, let the old take the booster and let the young and fit be.
The idea that vaccination wasn’t endlessly promoted as a mechanism to stop transmission is total BS — the only outstanding question is whether “experts” are going to retract their past pronouncements
https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1478272934577909764
The WINTER STORM dropped 14 inches here. Half the county and about 400,000 in the area are without power. 50 miles of I-95 are shut down.
It completely bypassed NYC, or at least my part of it.
Just missed it. Wife and kids just got back from Ocean City NJ Sunday afternoon. They got 14″ from this storm.
Reports from my family two islands up and another group mostly across the bay from OC is that it is quite icy too.
Ouch. We got about 6. Doubt I’ll be able to find salt today….maybe tomorrow. Guess I could use some excess table salt just in case? – don’t need a lawsuit from an accident during the fridge delivery.
As long as the stuff on the local roads melts fully in the sun and doesn’t refreeze on the road overnight…
Congratulations everyone, we did it.
Can we get to 2?
GRIM MILESTONE!
ICU admissions fell from 21.3% to 4.5%, and deaths fell from 4.3% to 1%. The average length of stay required for COVID-19 patients was four days, compared to 8.8 days in previous waves. The average age of patients was 10 years younger, at 39 compared to 49. At the peak of the wave, hospital bed occupancy was only 51% of previous waves, researchers found.
And this is bad news, which must be buried.
I think doctors and hospitals are slowly starting to incorporate SOME of the FLCCC’s protocols on patients. As long as they don’t administer the I-word or the HCQ-word they can plausibly deny they are following other parts of the protocol, they can just claim they came up with the ideas on their own. As long as the patients are FINALLY getting some treatment besides intubation.
This week we’ve had several business development and consulting meetings with hospital C-Suites across the country postponed, all saying that the covid surge was requiring 100% of their attention right now. Proposed rescheduling dates offered have been in February, suggesting these folks don’t anticipate the surge ending shortly.
I just had a mid-Jan business trip canceled. The local plant manager is a covid bitch who sent out graphs and numbers and shit predicting a GA covid peak the very same week myself and others would be there and he strongly suggested we cancel the trip. So of course those who wander the corporate hallowed halls bowed under such pressure.
Yeah, so my son’s 4th grade teacher (31) died of covid (complications from, whatever) 2 days ago. As far as I can tell she had no comorbidities that I know of except she was a bit chunky (no, not thicc). Also, it took her quickly.
Another friend of mine (~53) died quickly of covid back in August and no comorbidities that I know of.
I don’t know if it’s a thing that it takes young ones quickly, but my anecdata says there might be something to it.
Hey all, just popping in to say I’m not dead. I’ve been doing a social media/internet fast over the holidays and will be a bit scarce around here for the foreseeable future. I’ll come back and say hi on the regular, but I’m focusing on reducing the amount of time I’m buried in my phone each day.
Wise man (not w. guy).
I can see my future being a reduced presence as well, once I’m not shackled to a desk for work. For now, this is absolutely necessary to make it thru a work day.
Hi, Trashy! *waves*
I only have 3-4 places online I go every day and I get my news here, so even if I were to get offline, I’d still be reading books on my phone.
It really is astonishing how thought-free the repetition of propaganda can be.
It’s a catechism. Repetition begets belief.
I’ll come back and say hi on the regular, but I’m focusing on reducing the amount of time I’m buried in my phone each day.
Good luck. We’re all counting on you.
Micro BIKINI Try On Haul – Anna Zapała
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-z670i4Los
Another year without winter… 12 C and sunny.
We were having a really mild winter too – until this morning. It’s 12 F.
Also duped was the Walton family, who own Walmart. They sunk a cool $150 million into Theranos.
Sam was the only member of that clan with a lick of sense. If they didn’t have a fleet of accountants and advisors, the kids would be back in the trailer park by now.
Which is how mega fortunes always seem to go.
“Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 3 generations.”
Do you know how many lines of code were in the original Pong console game? None. It was done with discrete logic chips.
https://twitter.com/davidtroup/status/1478150590278553602
Aw yeah. Schematic porn…
Tab A into Slot B! Rawr!
“Kim Jong Il ‘invented BURRITOS in 2011’: North Korean mouthpiece makes bizarre boast about ‘booming’ Tex-Mex dish… as people across the nation struggle to find food”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10367237/North-Korean-mouthpiece-claims-Kim-Jong-Il-invented-BURRITOS-2011-sales-booming.html
Yeah, well, Torquemada invented kim chee. Prove me wrong.
Excellent juxtaposition….
There has got to be a good Torquemada joke in there… Maybe he invented shish kebob? Pulled pork?
I dunno… There has to be a joke that isn’t too tortured.
Goddammit, you snookered me into clicking a WaPo link.
Fuck those guys, and Nancy, too.
They should just take her to the same taxidermist who did Barbie Boxer. They can get another three or four terms out of her.
They’ll need to work on the wiring that seems to be the only thing that keeps her jaw in place.
I hope they wire it shut.
Eddie: Darling. Darling, look at Mummy. Look at Mummy, sweetheart. Do I need surgery, darling?
Saffie: Yes.
Eddie: Alright.
Saffie: Get your mouth sewn up.
Eddie: I’m still here, darling. I heard that.
I need to put “BLOODY BUGGERING BOLLOCKS!” on a loop and point it at the television news. I think it would be cathartic.
Howdy Banjos! That was indeed a fine tune. Special thanks to whomever posted that link about the four-master rounding the Horn in the dead thread. Terrifying!
Schumer Vows Vote On Changing Senate Rules If GOP Continues To Block Efforts
Curious since he once said something about ending the filibuster being the rubber stamp of dictatorship.
Only when it isn’t him doing it….
Time for a possible meal culpa…
The other day I took a crap all over “The Witcher” in book form. After reading “The Witcher”, I said it was a terribly written and disjointed mess.
Then someone here told me that it was translated from Polish. So I looked it up, and indeed it was originally published in Polish. I also learned that the book “The Witcher” is not part of the Witcher series, but is one of two collections of short stories that were the first things published on the topic.
So, needing something for reading time with my girls, and finding that I wasn’t interested in getting into the Ludlum novel on hand, I pulled up “Blood of Elves”, the first book of the Witcher Saga, and third book about the Witcher.
I am just a couple of chapters along … And it reads like an actual book written by someone who knows how to write a book. So what is a nerd to think?
Meanwhile, after being discouraged by the right leaning online review community, I also relented and tried out the first episode of season 2 of the Netflix series. It was a story from “the Witcher” short story collection.
So now I am totally confused. Did the author write a bunch of stories and then go back and clean them up, expanding them into a book series? Or are the Netflix team trying to pound that mish-mash of short stories into a series?
Somehow I am left with more questions after getting more answers.
So… Who is ahead of me? Is it worth continuing down this path? Or should I punt and find another series?
Dunno how many similarities, but Razorfist made a vid a few years back about how the Witcher ripped off Elric of Melnibone by Michael Moorcock. (Still haven’t read any actual Elric novels, just some comic adaptations).
sounds about right.
After almost 19 years as House Democratic leader, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) is expected to step down at the close of this Congress, ending a historic career that included trying to end George W. Bush’s Iraq War, implementing President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law, impeaching President Donald Trump twice and squeezing President Biden’s sweeping agenda through a narrowly controlled House.
When the fuck did that happen?
They lie. They always lie.
MiniLuv wants a word with you, comrade.
She actually voted against the authorization to use military force. Which might sound cool and everything, but it was an entirely partisan effort.
She also put forward resolutions whenever a Republican happened to be in power to end the authorization. Not so much when Obama was president, however.
Principals over Principles, amirite?
Poll sez
As hundreds of people face charges for their alleged participation in the January 6 insurrection, the general public says punishments for those found guilty are not up to scale.
A new poll from The Washington Post and the University of Maryland found 51 percent of Americans think the legal repercussions for those who forced their way into the U.S. Capitol last year have “not been harsh enough.”
Fewer than 2 in 10 Americans told surveyors that the punishments are “too harsh” while 28 percent said they believed the consequences to be fair.
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Roughly two-thirds of Americans say it’s “never justified” for citizens to take violent action, while one-third said such action is justifiable. Roughly 4 in 10 Republicans and independents surveyed said that violent action against the government is sometimes justified.
Sure. Sounds legit.
If you do not think violent action against the government can be justified under any circumstances, you do not understand American history and civics well enough to be a decision maker in the American political process. Please refrain from voting.
This entire country was founded on a violent revolution against a government that it’s citizens viewed as unjust. You really can’t understand our constitution and our form of government without understanding this Genesis.
Meanwhile a trial in the world’s biggest pedophile ring just concluded with only 2 convictions and all the evidence sealed away deeper than the Ark of the Covenant.
This is what finally black-pilled me.
The elite gonna do what the elite gonna do and the rules are different for the rest of us. No use fighting it.
The amazing twist on that is the today-show-watching mom contingent and their logical knots. Enraged at the exploitation of young girls, they were eager for a pound of flesh to be extracted.
Watching them be easily herded into apathy about the perpetrators has been stunning. On the left there does not seem to be even a whiff of antipathy toward Clinton over this.
The left also wants to sexualize little girls and accept pedos as just another sexual orientation, so the left’s outrage about sex trafficking is either completely false and they really don’t give a shit OR they have totally dissociated sex trafficking from sexualizing little girls and accepting pedos as just another sexual orientation.
Mob justice, sure let’s go with that.
That survey seems out of sync with other surveys showing a lot of people think the 01/06 events were not that big a deal, certainly not an insurrection, etc.
I think it comes down to how much cognitive dissonance you can tolerate. If you have a high enough tolerance, you can see the leftist riots last summer as justified/nothing to worry about but the 01/06 events as a profound threat. If you think the leftist riots last summer were a Very Bad Thing, the mild vandalism and relatively restrained violence (relative to the explosives, molotovs, and firearms of the leftist riots) of 01/06 as regrettable, your tolerance of cognitive dissonance is likely less.
Also associated with low tolerance of cognitive dissonance – skepticism of the media and the response to COVID.
“On January 6th, violent insurrectionists stormed the capitol in the the most violent attack since 1812, causing the deaths of nine people, and very nearly succeeded in ending Democracy in America. And yet, of the hundreds of criminal arrested, they have been sentenced to a combined total of less than five years. Do you think these racists’ sentences have been 1) too lenient, 2) about right or 3) I am a transphobe?”
not been harsh enough
Held in pre-trial solitary while being abused in several ways for charges amounting to trespassing just is not harsh enough.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has issued subpoenas for two of former President Trump’s children, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump, as part of a civil investigation, according to court documents filed Monday.
Let’s go fishing!
Letitia James is nothing less than a master baiter. Of course she wants to go fishing.
The chick ran for office on a promise of “getting” Trump and anyone associated with him, particularly his family members. Any court that signed off on any subpoenas is completely incompetent and corrupt. The bar association of New York is completely corrupt and incompetent for failing to disbar her based on that simple representation that she made as a candidate. There is no way in hell that is within the canon of ethics of the bar of New York.
Why does our country seem to be rife with corrupt prosecutors on team Democrat, when the popular image of abuse of authority by a prosecutor in the
Entertainment industry always seems to be on the right?
From Texas Democrat prosecutors going after Tom delay to Antifa sympathizing prosecutors declaring their intention to protect their violent allies from prosecution to federal prosecutors doing the bidding of Democrat partisans in prosecuting Trump campaign officials, we have a long record in this millennium of extremely corrupt actions on behalf of Democrat partisans entrusted with prosecutorial powers.
This seems like a really dangerous road to walk down. These people have insane amounts of power. Allowing even a tiny bit of corruption and that arena seems suicidal.
Every New York DA runs on “taking down Wall Street” and/or “taking down Trump” – this has been going on as long as I can remember, and nothing else happened.
It really is astonishing.
Titty Tuesday is certified face diaper free.
https://archive.fo/wip/gs282
One of the best collections in a while.
I’ve caught a cold. I blame you people.
not my fault I keep telling you to drink more scotch
If I can’t get my cough medicine without having to test for the vid, I may start drinking so I can get some sleep.
My wife was hounded by the checkout person, not even a pharmacist when she went to go purchase some cough medicine. I was glad I wasn’t there because I would have torn into some little old lady trying to give medical advice to my wife.
What did your wife say/do? I can’t say what I would have done, but it probably wouldn’t have gone past a dead stare and a lifted eyebrow.
“My wife was hounded by the checkout person”
Why?
I am guessing because if she is buying cold medicine, it means she is sick and must be covid and therefore needed to be scolded? That is the only thing I can think of. Mojeaux, she quietly declined her advice to do an at home test or to schedule a test with CVS, after she insisted for 5 or so minutes.
CWAA
Your wife could have been buying it for someone else, for the future, or any number of reasons.
Get well soon!
I need to conk out. Too fucking tired. Have a great one, fellow Glibs!
Random thing came up and I shared it with my therapist at betterhelp.com (so far I am very, very impressed). Thought it could be fun here:
“Watching something and temporal lobe epilepsy randomly came up. Looked into what they mentioned and found “Geschwind syndrome,” which some have tied to my type of epilepsy. This stuck out: “Hypergraphia is the tendency for extensive and compulsive writing or drawing, and has been observed in persons with temporal lobe epilepsy who have experienced multiple seizures.[5] Those with hypergraphia display extreme attention to detail in their writing. Some such patients keep diaries recording meticulous details about their everyday lives…These individuals also tend to have poor penmanship.”
HA! I’ve always had terribly handwriting. Being left-handed when writing doesn’t help that. (I’m mixed-handed. I’m left-handed and right-armed. I’m goofy.) The focus on writing and details also struck out. Especially with editing mine and others’ work. I had all of these before The Incident, same as my dad, but it’s just curious how it happens to overlap with my own renewed tendencies now. I don’t think my injury at all *caused* those, but it may have increased them. I hope in a fun way. That’s the best way to look at it. Just something that came up and thought it would be fun to share.”
Something that I’ve always thought, and Littlefinger nailed it when he says that he doesn’t see chaos as a pit, but as a LADDER. Don’t sink into shit. You’ll just sink further. Finding every bit of promise and distinction in the ways that you’re odd is the best way to elevate yourself from that chasm that may threaten beneath.
Glad to hear that therapy is working well for you.
I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I think with my talks with my psych that I may have it boiled down: I really need to get off my ass and write a book. There’s one there. People love to write about travel, and I can do that. I live it. A while ago combining that with food was something that made Bourdain and others successful in that realm. But now, everyone does that. I have chapters of my tale that I’ve submitted here and those would work very well. But seen-read-done-that?
However, I am sitting on something distinct, The Incident and how that affected everything. I can still write about travel and also give insight into all the shit that I went/go through vis a vis The Incident. Then post-Incident life and travel. I think that’s a unique selling point. I’m not aware of others really doing that before. I plan on adding stories I’ve told here as prior-to-The-Incident travel. Those are clear chapters.
I also have hundreds of pages of notes from my recovery. I don’t plan on editing those AT ALL. I just started rereading them and I think they are interesting. It is clearly OBVIOUS at points that a broken human being was putting down thoughts in their (my) shattered psyche in a journal. The ideas are usually there, but there are so many weird stretches of lost-thought that truly give insight into where I was at that moment in the recovery. I want the reader to see it exactly as it was, errors and all. It’s the reader talking to someone in the midst of it all. To change it in any way would take away the immediacy and clarity of the instability of the situation. And it’s still cogent enough to get (whatever) point I was trying to get across to penetrate their minds.
I honestly think I have landed on a goal, here. I think this idea is solid, would sell, and be successful. It certainly would end up its Own Thing. Ex-pat life and travel, combined with The Incident, and the inherent stages of recovery that I have a first-person and directly time-stamped diary of. That is…I think I’m on to something.
Have I finally figured out the Big Purpose goal I’ve been searching for? That would be ironic. This needs to be furthered. It’s the first thing in a long-while that I feel actual artistic devotion to. Been a while since I was in a band. This is…something I really should pursue. *Nods to self with intent*
The ol’ monkey-see-monkey-do defense
Lightfoot’s remarks came on the same day that her city will start requiring proof of Covid vaccination for most residents to enter indoor spaces, such as restaurants, bars, gyms and other areas.
The new rules are being imposed in response to “an alarming rise” in Covid cases due primarily to the highly transmissible omicron variant, Lightfoot’s office said late last month. That statement noted that Chicago’s requirements are similar to those already in place in other cities.
Aww, Ma. Everybody’s doing it!
“Rein of Pelosi ending”
The internal polling must be *REALLY* bad if the Queen is abdicating.
Yeah, that sounds like a desperate electoral strategy. Promise that a new Democrat speaker will take over for the old guard if you only vote for team Democrat !
I wonder who would wield the power? AOC certainly seems to have the heart and soul of the Democrat party in their popular image. And it would be hard for anyone to vote against her in the Democrat party, since people only question her if they are intimidated by her beauty and frustrated in their desperation to have sex with her.