Today has been, is, and shall be entirely boring. And slightly uncomfortable.
My stump is being annoying. Phantom pain is pissing me off. I’m so tired of being able to “feel” my foot and ankle. I’m also tired of my stump feeling…much of anything. Like, I can feel the things that were fixed and glued together at the end of my stump. It’s bloody annoying.
But I confess that the biggest thing on my mind continues to be fear. Specifically, I’m scared that when I see my surgeon Thursday, he’s going to give me bad news involving admission to the hospital again.
The comforting thing I’m trying to hold on to: I can’t see problems with my stump. No discharge, no smell, no prominent swelling, and no weird colors. Just, unfortunately, discomfort. Although I can’t tell if that part is real or phantom.
Ugh. I miss having something tasty to puff on. I’d love to go sit on my back porch and enjoy the evening.
"Railroad Commissioner" doesn't seem to have much to do with trains. Possibly it refers to the fact that they've got the world tied the the railroad tracks and the train is almost here.
"The Railroad Commission of Texas oversees the vast oil and gas industry, including pipelines, drilling permits, waste disposal and new programs like carbon capture and storage."
Their mandate from the state is to enable the companies, and don't try any of that dadgummed liberal regulation shit.
Saxophonist and bandleader Julian "Cannonball" Adderley was born on this day in 1928. Here he is with his quintet in 1962 playing "Bohemia After Dark". Brother Nat Adderley is on cornet here:
"Online critics are accusing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick of posting a fake video of supposed pieces of the Kennedy Center ceiling collapsing.
Lutnick posted the video on his official X account as the Kennedy Center board voted to shut down for renovations. Lutnick, whose wife sits on the board, has previously called for closing the facility because its collapsing ceiling makes it "dangerous."
In his post, Lutnick wrote that the ceiling was "crashing violently" onto the center's main floor because of the "collapsing concrete" and "steel that is rotting." Just as President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday, Lutnick wrote that a security guard avoided the falling ceiling "by just minutes," adding that "patrons could have been killed."
However, critics quickly pointed out details in the video posted by Lutnick that cast doubt on the authenticity of the video and the legitimacy of Lutnick's demands for a Kennedy Center shutdown.
"Why was the yellow caution sign in the exact place where the ceiling fell in, before it fell in?" wondered Andrew Feinberg, a White House correspondent for The Independent.
"Security cameras don't point low on to the ground," noted political consultant and journalist Adam Cochran. "The way that shatters looks more like a bad AI edit than a slow frame security camera."
Even the poorest poorly maintained buildings don't usually have ceilings that fall in without there being a cascading series of things that caused the collapse in the first place. Not saying it couldn't happen, but "rotting steel"? Yea, that's not really a thing.
There was a time when Americans counted on US news media to sufficiently reiterate and appropriately disdain such egregious deficits from powerful leaders.
Time is ticking away and circumstances only continue to deteriorate.
Gosh, I feel so special! Some dickweed troll took time out of their busy trolling schedule to take a swipe at my little old account over a pro trans rights essay I restacked! Instant block, because why give it more thought and oxygen, but I'm a patriarchal frigid baby killing monster I believe I was called?
The bigots in the White House -- and their legislative and some judicial accomplices as well as some in "law enforcement" -- have put together a PERMISSION STRUCTURE such that the ones who bleat their racism out loud don't feel like they have to use the dogwhistles anymore
I mean MAGA thinks dog whistling is for cucks. Like sharks with the taste of blood, you’re not easily going to get them back from the taste of Turner Diaries-level racism.
'Noting a rapid increase in the number of Latinos voting in California elections, some analysts cite Wilson and the Republican Party's embrace of Proposition 187 as a cause of the subsequent failure of the party to win statewide elections. A 2006 study published in the American Journal of Political Science found that Republican support of Proposition 187 and two later state ballot initiatives—Proposition 209 in 1996, which ended affirmative action at governmental institutions, and Proposition 227 in 1998, which limited bilingual education in public schools—shifted both white and Latino voters in California away from identifying with the Republican Party and toward the Democratic Party. The authors of the study said that the "results raise serious questions about the long-term efficacy of racially divisive strategies for electoral gain."'
For the benefit of others, 187 was a heavy-footed crackdown on "illegals." What really made people gag was preventing public schools from enrolling "illegal" children. It fucked over the Republican Party in California to this day. Sometimes life, and politics, 𝘢𝘳𝘦 fair.
Pete Wilson was a weasel's weasel. That fucker was the JD Vance of his time and place.
Today has been, is, and shall be entirely boring. And slightly uncomfortable.
My stump is being annoying. Phantom pain is pissing me off. I’m so tired of being able to “feel” my foot and ankle. I’m also tired of my stump feeling…much of anything. Like, I can feel the things that were fixed and glued together at the end of my stump. It’s bloody annoying.
But I confess that the biggest thing on my mind continues to be fear. Specifically, I’m scared that when I see my surgeon Thursday, he’s going to give me bad news involving admission to the hospital again.
The comforting thing I’m trying to hold on to: I can’t see problems with my stump. No discharge, no smell, no prominent swelling, and no weird colors. Just, unfortunately, discomfort. Although I can’t tell if that part is real or phantom.
Ugh. I miss having something tasty to puff on. I’d love to go sit on my back porch and enjoy the evening.
Backhoes are faster than judges.
Not many people know that . . .
1. Tramp and his ghouls on the broad looted the endowment.
2. Tramp is going to put a fence around the Kennedy Center and try to demolish it.
Live report from I can't believe the monster I created is rampaging.
Everybody should see this - American Doctors about Doctors in Gaza-
https://youtu.be/lMOhjwDRPGY?is=De74wlf-P3dQh0W2
Rove says he won't vote for French, but I bet he'll vote for Paxton.
Oh, "that was his persona online." Great. The next time Repubs get in anyone's face about Hassan Piker, just say "that's his persona online."
👆👆👆👇👇👇
He'll vote for French.
Yep, lying liar that he is.
Sounds like a Taylor Sheridan script. Get me Billy Bob stat!
"Railroad Commissioner" doesn't seem to have much to do with trains. Possibly it refers to the fact that they've got the world tied the the railroad tracks and the train is almost here.
"The Railroad Commission of Texas oversees the vast oil and gas industry, including pipelines, drilling permits, waste disposal and new programs like carbon capture and storage."
Their mandate from the state is to enable the companies, and don't try any of that dadgummed liberal regulation shit.
It's a powerful position there controlling the Energy Sector.
I believe GWB was Railroad Commissioner before he got elected Governor.
Saxophonist and bandleader Julian "Cannonball" Adderley was born on this day in 1928. Here he is with his quintet in 1962 playing "Bohemia After Dark". Brother Nat Adderley is on cornet here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJi6Ec4LalE
Here he is in Switzerland a year later with his sextet playing "Jessica's Birthday". Yusef Lateef is on the tenor sax on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnwi0pXND5s
"Online critics are accusing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick of posting a fake video of supposed pieces of the Kennedy Center ceiling collapsing.
Lutnick posted the video on his official X account as the Kennedy Center board voted to shut down for renovations. Lutnick, whose wife sits on the board, has previously called for closing the facility because its collapsing ceiling makes it "dangerous."
In his post, Lutnick wrote that the ceiling was "crashing violently" onto the center's main floor because of the "collapsing concrete" and "steel that is rotting." Just as President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday, Lutnick wrote that a security guard avoided the falling ceiling "by just minutes," adding that "patrons could have been killed."
However, critics quickly pointed out details in the video posted by Lutnick that cast doubt on the authenticity of the video and the legitimacy of Lutnick's demands for a Kennedy Center shutdown.
"Why was the yellow caution sign in the exact place where the ceiling fell in, before it fell in?" wondered Andrew Feinberg, a White House correspondent for The Independent.
"Security cameras don't point low on to the ground," noted political consultant and journalist Adam Cochran. "The way that shatters looks more like a bad AI edit than a slow frame security camera."
https://www.rawstory.com/howard-lutnick-kennedy-center/
Huh, it's almost like nobody is willing to believe a fuckin' thing that the secretary says!
That could be a handicap for a fellow in that job
It was VANDALS!
If it's under 15 seconds it's probably A1
Even the poorest poorly maintained buildings don't usually have ceilings that fall in without there being a cascading series of things that caused the collapse in the first place. Not saying it couldn't happen, but "rotting steel"? Yea, that's not really a thing.
Howard's a slob
and a criminal
The sheer quantity of shameless liars in this administration is astounding.
He hired in his image
And nobody reined these people in before this
Can you imagine if Pete His Own Mama Said He’s Trash Kegsbreath was never a Faux weekend anchor?
Or if he’d never been admitted to Princeton?
On the teevee, Tom Nichols just said 'it wouldn't surprise me if before last week he didn't even know that Northern Ireland was a separate place'.
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He's Scottish descent so I wonder how he feels about Scottish Independence?
I enjoyed Jeff Tiedrich's take
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/why-the-fuck-were-millions-of-dollars
Especially the header pic!
Pretty sure Tom Nichols is right!
Then what in the HELL is he doing in power, FFS?
There was a time when Americans counted on US news media to sufficiently reiterate and appropriately disdain such egregious deficits from powerful leaders.
Time is ticking away and circumstances only continue to deteriorate.
That time passed in 2004....with a brief flirtation with competence...
He's in power because he exploited the power of this country's racism. The racists don't care about competency.
I'm afraid--and it pains me to say this--that we've more time than circumstances, comrade.
@BillEGoatSmile: That is almost certainly true...not that his total ignorance sheds any justification on the orange Odium thereby.
It definitely would surprise me, if he did.
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Gosh, I feel so special! Some dickweed troll took time out of their busy trolling schedule to take a swipe at my little old account over a pro trans rights essay I restacked! Instant block, because why give it more thought and oxygen, but I'm a patriarchal frigid baby killing monster I believe I was called?
https://substack.com/@uphereintheclouds842485/note/c-337792333
The trolls are going to be busy this election season
I've had to swat a few
No death threats yet this year, though
Not so far
That's crazy talk. I hear-tell you haven't murdered a baby since late last week!
Thank you!!!
Details matter!!!
I get the rest of it, but "patriarchal"? Did he mean "anti-patriarchal"? Or maybe "matriarchal"?
Who cares, I guess. Whatever he meant, it's stupid.
Nobody has style any more.
For real, man. It's like having access to the full panoply of Three Stooges shorts and going straight for the Joe Besser episodes.
Oh lord, Hunter Biden is back, and he's pumping and dumping memecoins.
https://defector.com/hunter-biden-andrew-callaghan-crypto-rug-pull
I get that you need money, kid, but why must you make it everyone else's problem? Why must you disgrace your father even further?
Please just go away and get whatever kind of real job you can.
He should ask Don Jr. for job interviewing advise.
He sickens me.
How can he get a real job? Not excusing this grift, but who would hire Hunter Biden knowing the media would be following him?
Yeah, true, but not my problem or yours.
Not our problem, sure, but I'm also not in the habit of telling people to go do something I know they can't do.
I guess French is too stupid to figure out dog whistles.
It's not just lack of brains
The bigots in the White House -- and their legislative and some judicial accomplices as well as some in "law enforcement" -- have put together a PERMISSION STRUCTURE such that the ones who bleat their racism out loud don't feel like they have to use the dogwhistles anymore
I mean MAGA thinks dog whistling is for cucks. Like sharks with the taste of blood, you’re not easily going to get them back from the taste of Turner Diaries-level racism.
California Republicans went full racist right at their death throes as a statewide party. Maybe a replay?
𝘊𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘢 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺
How are you figuring? What constituted "going full racist" for those guys?
Do you remember Bob “enemy of every spear chucking lesbian and disloyal little Jew” Dornan?
I believe they're referring to Prop. 187 in 1994:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_California_Proposition_187#Legacy
'Noting a rapid increase in the number of Latinos voting in California elections, some analysts cite Wilson and the Republican Party's embrace of Proposition 187 as a cause of the subsequent failure of the party to win statewide elections. A 2006 study published in the American Journal of Political Science found that Republican support of Proposition 187 and two later state ballot initiatives—Proposition 209 in 1996, which ended affirmative action at governmental institutions, and Proposition 227 in 1998, which limited bilingual education in public schools—shifted both white and Latino voters in California away from identifying with the Republican Party and toward the Democratic Party. The authors of the study said that the "results raise serious questions about the long-term efficacy of racially divisive strategies for electoral gain."'
Yeah, I kind of thought that would be it.
For the benefit of others, 187 was a heavy-footed crackdown on "illegals." What really made people gag was preventing public schools from enrolling "illegal" children. It fucked over the Republican Party in California to this day. Sometimes life, and politics, 𝘢𝘳𝘦 fair.
Pete Wilson was a weasel's weasel. That fucker was the JD Vance of his time and place.