Waiting for the VA glue to cure. Also scheduling a visit to the wound care clinic. A quarter size sore on my foot is not healing as expected.
It happened during a pedicure, she was grating the dead skin and took off some live skin. Its my fault, she said to tell her if anything she did caused pain. Being a tough old geezer I failed that instruction.
Heading South from where my sister lives. And we grew up. A good night was had as many libations poured and consumed. Bit after 1pm Sat. Think I'll partake in more libations and lunch on the way home.
The Qatar money trail is the worst, but because it filtered through Jared, doesn’t appear. US regional policy 180’d once the Kushners were bailed out on the 5th Ave building from hell.
The local news is reporting our area out by the lake has a rat infestation. That's the first we've heard of it. People keep calling and asking us if we're under attack by Ben and Willard.
Hannity tells me it's all a lie. Trump didn't even have a hotel. He doesn't even know where China is. And no Chinese government official ever dropped off a bag of money in any Trump property...ever. So, checkmate, Libs.
By now, most Americans are familiar with at least the broad strokes of the Jackie Robinson story -- including the fact that Jackie was carefully chosen not because he was the best Black ballplayer, but because he had the temperament Branch Rickey thought it would take to be first. Rickey and the Dodgers commitment to integrating baseball didn't stop there, though.
In 1946, Robinson (along with Black pitcher Johnny Wright) was sent to Montreal, one of the Dodgers' two top minor league affiliates, making him the first Black player to play in the AAA International League. Jackie wasn't the only Black player the Dodgers signed in 1945. They also signed the aforementioned Wright, Mexican League star catcher Roy Campanella, and 20-year old hurler Don Newcombe. Campanella and Newcombe were believed to be 2-3 years from the Majors, so they needed to be assigned to one of the Dodgers' minor league affiliates. The trouble was, most of the Dodgers 20 minor league clubs were in the South. Rickey wasn't going to risk sending prospects to Valdosta or Abilene, so he had a problem.
He summoned his right-hand man, Buzzy Bavasi, and they went to work to find a club in the US where his two black prospects could play in relative peace. They needed to find a relatively (for the time) non-racist population with a liberal local newspaper. They deliberately sought out a place with a large share of French/French-Canadian ancestry, and ultimately settled on Nashua, NH, a town with no existing professional baseball team. The Dodgers put up the money for a team that became the first stop for their top Black prospects for the next three years.
The Nashua Dodgers won three straight league championships before folding after the 1949 season. The manager of the 1946 club, Walter Alston, went on to manage the Dodgers from 1954-1976, winning 4 World Series. Roy Campanella joined the Dodgers in 1948, was an 11-time All Star, 3-time NL MVP, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don Newcombe was the NL Rookie of the Year in 1949, a 4-time All Star, and won both a Cy Young Award and MVP. Dan Bankhead won just 26 games in the Majors, but made history in 1947 as MLBs first Black pitcher.
Our local press, most of whom have been bought by Sinclaire, keep doing these "polls" of how popular Youngkin is even though the last election here handed he and his agenda his ass. It's kinda amusing.
Last night's didn't even try to hide where they were polling from and straight up said most the respondents were from the Roanoke and southern districts. And they could still only drum up 58%.
"From Ronald Reagan in Philadelphia, Miss., to Donald Trump in Tulsa"
What he was trying to do is the same thing Donald was trying to do ... but also the same thing the Bund in the 1930s was trying to do ... which is return the country to the state it was in prior to the 1860s when the Confederacy was presumed to be an equal power in U.S. government as opposed to the insurrectionist traitors they actually are.
When Raygun noticed there were Black people and other minorities getting educated at state universities because the costs were comparatively low, that was also when he started pressuring states to RAISE the costs of education and
What he was trying to do -- what Donald has tried to do, what every "States rights" type has tried to do with their racist denialism -- was TURN BACK THE CLOCK to the point where a multiracial democracy where all people have equal rights was not even considered a possibility.
It's one of the reasons the 14th Amendment was written WHEN it was, the WAY it was.
Or people outside of cell tower range out in the weeds somewhere who only have landlines...or people so retrograde that they can't use a cell phone because it has demons in it. Fuck those fucked-up bumpkins who don't speak for any of us.
You know, I was VERY happy in marriage and would have married him again in a heartbeat, but when the chance to be unmarried came up, I jumped for it. That's about all I have. I am PISSED that I committed myself for life and was willing to support him and live with his bullshit (we all have some), and that after asking me to drop my life and move in with him he left after three years. I have a lot of resentment about the fact that I gave up a beautiful home and sold all my furniture and moved our of the city for him, particularly because returning to that life means a HUGE time and financial investment.
More than anything, I am just angry at the upheaval.
Got a message from my estranged wife. We're civil, just apart.
One of our kids was to have surgery today. She went to be there "for them".
This kid has serious issues waking up. They lost an excellent job for this sleep disorder.
Now wifey cannot wake her up, BECAUSE WIFEY STAYED IN A FUCKING HOTEL, KNOWING KID NEEDED TO BE UP EARLY FOR SURGERY. WHAT'S THE POINT OF BEING THERE IF YOU AREN'T THERE?!?!! WHAT HELP WAS THAT?
I am absolutely furious over this stupidity. Incensed. Because goddamnit sleep on the kid's fucking couch, WE KNOW THEY HAVE A SLEEP ISSUE.
Waiting for the VA glue to cure. Also scheduling a visit to the wound care clinic. A quarter size sore on my foot is not healing as expected.
It happened during a pedicure, she was grating the dead skin and took off some live skin. Its my fault, she said to tell her if anything she did caused pain. Being a tough old geezer I failed that instruction.
And so it goes.
Be excellent to each other.
Heading South from where my sister lives. And we grew up. A good night was had as many libations poured and consumed. Bit after 1pm Sat. Think I'll partake in more libations and lunch on the way home.
Oh. One feature of these buses - apart from being double deckers- is that the seats are fitted with USB charging ports
The Qatar money trail is the worst, but because it filtered through Jared, doesn’t appear. US regional policy 180’d once the Kushners were bailed out on the 5th Ave building from hell.
The local news is reporting our area out by the lake has a rat infestation. That's the first we've heard of it. People keep calling and asking us if we're under attack by Ben and Willard.
Daddy, what did you do in the War on Rats?
Nothing. The rats aren't coming round he-are.
Hannity tells me it's all a lie. Trump didn't even have a hotel. He doesn't even know where China is. And no Chinese government official ever dropped off a bag of money in any Trump property...ever. So, checkmate, Libs.
Fuck Ted Cruz.
"He doesn't even know where China is."
That part, at least, seems plausible.
'Nope. Even with both hands and a roadmap, I still can't find my ass'
How would Hannity know? He's too busy ducking bullets and avoiding roving gangs of muggers in NYC.
He's too busy avoiding Preet Bharara's grand jury
He's still afraid he'll come back
How did you get a cat whose scowl matches TFG's? And the same color, too!
Bitch and moan all you want about PAB’s $7.8 million, but the president is not an officer of the United States.
Why, he's not even bound by the Constitution if his last name is Trump!
No? I guess we just refer to the *office* of the Presidency, and the highest *office* in the land for funsies, then.
So why does he sign my paycheck?
By now, most Americans are familiar with at least the broad strokes of the Jackie Robinson story -- including the fact that Jackie was carefully chosen not because he was the best Black ballplayer, but because he had the temperament Branch Rickey thought it would take to be first. Rickey and the Dodgers commitment to integrating baseball didn't stop there, though.
In 1946, Robinson (along with Black pitcher Johnny Wright) was sent to Montreal, one of the Dodgers' two top minor league affiliates, making him the first Black player to play in the AAA International League. Jackie wasn't the only Black player the Dodgers signed in 1945. They also signed the aforementioned Wright, Mexican League star catcher Roy Campanella, and 20-year old hurler Don Newcombe. Campanella and Newcombe were believed to be 2-3 years from the Majors, so they needed to be assigned to one of the Dodgers' minor league affiliates. The trouble was, most of the Dodgers 20 minor league clubs were in the South. Rickey wasn't going to risk sending prospects to Valdosta or Abilene, so he had a problem.
He summoned his right-hand man, Buzzy Bavasi, and they went to work to find a club in the US where his two black prospects could play in relative peace. They needed to find a relatively (for the time) non-racist population with a liberal local newspaper. They deliberately sought out a place with a large share of French/French-Canadian ancestry, and ultimately settled on Nashua, NH, a town with no existing professional baseball team. The Dodgers put up the money for a team that became the first stop for their top Black prospects for the next three years.
The Nashua Dodgers won three straight league championships before folding after the 1949 season. The manager of the 1946 club, Walter Alston, went on to manage the Dodgers from 1954-1976, winning 4 World Series. Roy Campanella joined the Dodgers in 1948, was an 11-time All Star, 3-time NL MVP, and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don Newcombe was the NL Rookie of the Year in 1949, a 4-time All Star, and won both a Cy Young Award and MVP. Dan Bankhead won just 26 games in the Majors, but made history in 1947 as MLBs first Black pitcher.
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Our local press, most of whom have been bought by Sinclaire, keep doing these "polls" of how popular Youngkin is even though the last election here handed he and his agenda his ass. It's kinda amusing.
Last night's didn't even try to hide where they were polling from and straight up said most the respondents were from the Roanoke and southern districts. And they could still only drum up 58%.
Sinclair Broadcast Group is pure evil antichrist shit.
In a sane country their monopoly would have been broken up. Or we'd still have the fairness doctrine.
We would have had one -- House & Senate Democrats gave us a new one when Raygun was in office but he vetoed it
Another one of those quiet sneaky Confederate Republican power moves nobody knew about till recently
All the shittiest parts of our current society seem to go straight back to effing Reagan!
The first time, sure
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/06/19/ronald-reagan-philadelphia-miss-donald-trump-tulsa-pattern-racially-divisive-politics/
"From Ronald Reagan in Philadelphia, Miss., to Donald Trump in Tulsa"
What he was trying to do is the same thing Donald was trying to do ... but also the same thing the Bund in the 1930s was trying to do ... which is return the country to the state it was in prior to the 1860s when the Confederacy was presumed to be an equal power in U.S. government as opposed to the insurrectionist traitors they actually are.
When Raygun noticed there were Black people and other minorities getting educated at state universities because the costs were comparatively low, that was also when he started pressuring states to RAISE the costs of education and
What he was trying to do -- what Donald has tried to do, what every "States rights" type has tried to do with their racist denialism -- was TURN BACK THE CLOCK to the point where a multiracial democracy where all people have equal rights was not even considered a possibility.
It's one of the reasons the 14th Amendment was written WHEN it was, the WAY it was.
https://twitter.com/TheLastWord/status/1740588063829434510
They are the smell part of antichrist shit!
And they indeed smell the part. (Or The Fart, if you will.)
58% in North North Carolina? Damn ... he really *does* suck.
Or people outside of cell tower range out in the weeds somewhere who only have landlines...or people so retrograde that they can't use a cell phone because it has demons in it. Fuck those fucked-up bumpkins who don't speak for any of us.
"Or people outside of cell tower range out in the weeds somewhere who only have landlines.." those are the only people who CAN speak for my family.
I feel contrite.
Me too. Sorry about my knee-jerk reply, telecommunications is like Squirrel! to my brain.
No problemo. My family is rather similar.
Obviously not in Virginia! If he was so popular, the people he backed for election woulda won I am thinking.
It even looks MORE uneven when you consider how close quite a few /reliably/ red districts were this go around
Genuine frontier gibberish!
"Morons." Quite apropos!
And barely a majority of those.
They keep prefacing that with "despite the election"
and I lol every time
God bless companies over ordering for Christmas. Just picked up half a kilogram of Blue Stilton for 77 of our finest British pence (about a dollar).
Starts looking up recipes.
Recipe: Wine, cheese.
I HATE you. I'm not kidding.
sounds like drugs
It fucking is!!! And is an excuse to eat Welsh Rarebit for breakfast, double breakfast and lunch!!!
Like a hobbit
Or a breed of sheep.
Or a dessert topping.
Yes but how is it as a floor wax.
You could do that! I think!
If you are getting half a kilogram of a sheep, you are not vegetarian
My ex husband got served last Friday! Yay!
Serves the big dummy right. what. a. jerk.
I don't think that marriage was so good for you.
You know, I was VERY happy in marriage and would have married him again in a heartbeat, but when the chance to be unmarried came up, I jumped for it. That's about all I have. I am PISSED that I committed myself for life and was willing to support him and live with his bullshit (we all have some), and that after asking me to drop my life and move in with him he left after three years. I have a lot of resentment about the fact that I gave up a beautiful home and sold all my furniture and moved our of the city for him, particularly because returning to that life means a HUGE time and financial investment.
More than anything, I am just angry at the upheaval.
(((((((((Diane, Warrior)))))))))
I should have listen to my HP which to me not to marry him.-_-
((((((((((more))))))))))
Happy dance gif.
I'm in the middle of taking the UNH monthly poll.
"What one word would you use to describe Chris Sununu?"
near-palindromic
"Sununu."
Insert "Futurama Snu Snu meme" here
Splunge.
diarrhea
Uh Oh!!
Who?
Say that, Primer! LOL
giggle agreed, that is a good answer
quisling
I'm considering "obsequious".
"Shithead"!
oooohhh another good one
Shame it is only one word
Two-faced opportunistic prick has a nice ring to it
I actually went with "opportunist". For real, before I read this.
There must be a single German word for "two-faced opportunistic prick".
I vote for quisling.
I bet I would be the only one to give that answer if I use it.
Banana beaked be-yotch?
Got a message from my estranged wife. We're civil, just apart.
One of our kids was to have surgery today. She went to be there "for them".
This kid has serious issues waking up. They lost an excellent job for this sleep disorder.
Now wifey cannot wake her up, BECAUSE WIFEY STAYED IN A FUCKING HOTEL, KNOWING KID NEEDED TO BE UP EARLY FOR SURGERY. WHAT'S THE POINT OF BEING THERE IF YOU AREN'T THERE?!?!! WHAT HELP WAS THAT?
I am absolutely furious over this stupidity. Incensed. Because goddamnit sleep on the kid's fucking couch, WE KNOW THEY HAVE A SLEEP ISSUE.
This was funnier on Seinfeld.
Fuck Ted Cruz.
Update: They got there 15 minutes late. At least I got to have an ugly adrenalin rush out of it.
And I'm still pissed, there was no reason for any drama.
Zyxomma is right. {{Hugs}}
No wonder you're estranged. You are not the asshole.
Best, very very best wishes for kid's procedure.
If she gets there :-/
Thank you. It's an issue that can be rescheduled, not immediately threatening, but goddamn.
:hugs: Bob
Thanks. I'm so angry about this.
Understandably so. That's your kid.
We humans are programmed to become really irate when we feel our kids are suffering/in trouble/whathaveyou
This was so avoidable. It's predictable that kid won't wake in time for whatever.
An interesting longer read. (I remember the gorilla video from the early internet)
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗴𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝘂𝘀 𝘃𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀
Psychologists behind "invisible gorilla" study are back with a new book: Nobody's Fool.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/01/how-to-avoid-the-cognitive-hooks-and-habits-that-make-us-vulnerable-to-cons/
Thanks for the link. That was super interesting.
I cannot deny this simple truth:
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"People love reading about cons, yet they keep happening," Simons told Ars. "Why do they keep happening?
Desperation, I believe.
Also a little "Well /I/ am smarter than that and do my own research" I am thinkin
I AM ANTI BIG PHARMA bullshit.
Thanks for posting this!
i just order a copy of their book. I am going to be writing a piece about migraine home treatments that I think this will inform.
One of the podcasts I listen to has a host who escaped Maryann Williamson's "high-demand group" and got sucked into a second one.
Plus les choses changent, plus ils restent les mêmes escrocs...
(The more things change, more they stay the same scammers...)
It is probably wrong and bad and whatever, but it is 20 degrees out and Idunwanna so I think I'll burn another day.
I was thinking why am I in such a funk this week and I think it might be withdraw. But that might just be an excuse for the Idunannas.
That is medical issue! It totally counts!
day 7 without a single one, Diane.
I can't lie and say I do not want one constantly, BUT I had an opportunity to buy em the other day and did not.
This is hopeful
{{Hugs}}
:hugs or whatever is that nice thing you do, JSNY!
:hugs back:
I probably shouldn't and I will ask if it is ok first (if there's field work I gotta go no matter how much Idunwanna).
And I LIKE my job. Like a lot.
Further proof that humans are meant to hibernate
I wish I could estevate - I hate summer!
No, you're right. Like biologists are supposed to........ be outside, a lot, LOL.
Just not when it is 20 degrees
brrrrrrr
HAH supe texted back and was like no, no field work, and the servers are down.
Can't fault my timing XD
Yah! Jen gets a snow day!
Several!
I totally fucked off all this week save one day XD