Right now, our only hope for stopping WWIII is that there may still be at least one general in the Pentagon who will look at the invasion plan for Greenland and say, “yeah, this is stupid, insane, and illegal. I’m not doing it.”
Hope he wasn’t a beardo. Or (in Shitfaced’s mind) worse, black.
A little while ago I had an unexpected spike of pain. It came as I was coming out of a lovely nap. So I took two of my pain pills It was like a combination of a never-ending cramp combined with persistent itching. The pills took care of it and then some, leaving me feeling delightful. Which brings me to my point with this comment:
Socks are a warm, comforting hug. Especially when you haven't been able to wear them in two weeks.
Which leads me to this subsequent thought: Two weeks ago today, an ER doctor recognized how bad the infection of my leg had gotten--as in, she saw the CT scan and t he bone infection it identified--and she admitted me to the hospital for the third time in a month. And quite frankly, I am so grateful that she saw the problem. My infection is gone, my legs are both the same size again, The "stretch scars" are gone. My great toe is gone, but that's a small price to pay for finally ridding my body of a life-threatening infection.
Did I enjoy being nearly constantly attached to an IV pole with high-grade antibiotics? Nah, not really. Did the nursing staff and everyone--including the chaplain--make my hospital stay as comfortable and as pleasant as possible? Absolutely! Did the surgeon do an amazing job? Seems to! (I'm not a doctor. I just think it looks pretty good so far.) Hell, they all made me feel like I was their only patient. The chaplain asked if there was anything she could do, and I tried to say as jokingly as possible that I would love a soda, and five minutes later she reappeared with two cokes from the vending machine.
I can only hope that the remainder of my healing process is as smooth. I'm praying that the lingering financial ramifications won't destroy me. I am beyond grateful, appreciative, and thankful for the help already given and offered to me, but it seems there's still so much to do.
Do I like the convenience of being able to have my few groceries delivered? Oh yes. But groceries...add up, and that makes me rather sad.
There's a wunnerful 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰 ("saying") in Spanish to identify a social jerk: "𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘳 𝘮𝘢́𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘴𝘶 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘰," or "He wants to shit higher than his asshole."
Now the Dumbfuck in Chief has slapped 10% tariffs on England, France, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Holland and Denmark for sending troops -- even as little as a dozen or so -- to Greenland. They'll go up to 25% unless Denmark sells us Greenland.
Let me reiterate: Trump is penalizing Denmark for moving 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺.
I wish the fucking Supreme Court would go ahead and declare his tariffs illegal already.
"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland, setting up a potentially dangerous test of U.S. partnerships in Europe.
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland would face the tariff, Trump said in a social media post while at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The rate would climb to 25% on June 1 if no deal was in place for “the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland” by the United States, he said.
The Republican president appeared to indicate that he was using the tariffs as leverage to force talks with Denmark and other European countries over the status of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark that he regards as critical to U.S. national security."
I’d say it’s a toss up. The red line for republicans is anything that will fuck up the economy, whether it’s firing Powell or job crushing tariffs. They may hand him an L on these two cases because they know republicans are screwed in the midterms. And if the economy takes a deep nosedive, they’ll have a hard time installing J Divan in 2028.
Fun times. I had 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯 running in the background with the sound off.
Guess who the guest villain was? If you guessed Otto Preminger, you win!
Excerpt from Wikipedia: "However, despite his liberal social outlook, Preminger became notorious for his domineering and abrasive personality, his explosive temper, and his dictatorial manner on set, which earned him nicknames like 'Otto the Terrible' and 'Otto the Ogre.'"
I came to the surface a couple times, fought to get awake but it was not going to happen unless there was a fire/similar emergency. It's a bizarre experience.
I've been averaging 6 hours during the week (stupid 8th graders making me work more than I want to), and I slept from midnight until 10:00 this morning. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to get caught up.
Senator Thom Tillis, who is retiring in 2026, said that both Republicans and Democrats would revolt if Trump attempted to take Greenland by force, according to Politico.
“If there was any sort of action that looked like the goal was actually landing in Greenland and doing an illegal taking … there’d be sufficient numbers here to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto,” Tillis said.
Meanwhile, Congressman Don Bacon predicted such an action — which he called “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard” — would result in Trump’s impeachment.
The sharp Republican rhetoric follows efforts by lawmakers to reassure officials in Denmark and other European nations that U.S. military action lacks congressional support. This week, lawmakers traveled to Copenhagen to deliver this message in person.
***
Okay...perhaps I misunderstand how linear time works, but...
Sure. Okay, you'll have the votes for a war powers resolution---and maybe even for impeachment. Let's say that's so.
Isn't it, you know, too LATE by then?
Don't any of these consequences, because of how time works, happen AFTER he has already has blown up the world by putting troops on the ground in Denmark in hostility?
Is this going to be called the Repair of the Barn Door After the Horses Come Home Act?
the speciality of a certain breed of R--I will go on record as having taken a stand as long as I am confident that it will not have any impact on the outcome. Best of both worlds...
Trump is already at the point of fielding the army at home to restore order. There is some risk involved in empowering the military like that. They may decide they just don't need him anymore if they have to run everything themselves anyway. It's the banana republic dilemma.
We’re coming up on my 40th in 2027. I haven’t been to a single reunion yet. I couldn’t stand most of those people in the 80s. I doubt they’ve improved much since then. Most of them are probably MAGAts.
Got my 50th in a couple of years. I imagine that now it'd be just as if everyone dried up, grayed up, and pruned out.
I also imagine the only ones interested in the reunion would be those stupid enough not to get the hell out of that town. It's been dying a slow death since its main factory closed down, iirc just after I graduated.
Besides, there are only four people I'd want to touch base with, out of my graduating class of ~250, one of whom was my Best Man, whom I can contact via Mrs. Hero's FB. The rest of my class would see me and only remember what I was, rather than who I am now. Who the hell wants *that*?
I also imagine the only ones interested in the reunion would be those stupid enough not to get the hell out of that town. It's been dying a slow death since its main factory closed down, iirc just after I graduated.
My Texas high school moved it from late fall, when school is in and there’s a football game with our crosstown rival to attend, to summer. When Texas summers are a major reason why people move away.
So no. I wouldn’t go for my mom (she came to California), certainly not for schoolmates.
My 30th is coming up; none of us have changed since kindergarten except for height.
I'll also add that I graduated in a class of 27, and 19 of us went to school together from kindergarten on. We know each other better than I know some of my distant relatives.
I went to a small rural school, except for my senior year when the county consolidated several of their small schools into a few bigger ones, and yes -- I had about 20-some people I spent 12 years with, basically.
Among Mrs. Hero's and my first teaching jobs were at a small rural school. About 15-18 kids in every class, until, like yours, our school was pressured into consolidation in order to fulfill the state's mandate that we have every program the Big Boy schools have.
Tiedrich likes my photography, always exciting to get upvotes from people you like and respect.
Add this to my upvotes from E. Jean Carroll, Emily Nunn and Rickie Lee Jones on my most excellent upvotes list. It means nothing and it means a lot if you know what I mean.
Right now, our only hope for stopping WWIII is that there may still be at least one general in the Pentagon who will look at the invasion plan for Greenland and say, “yeah, this is stupid, insane, and illegal. I’m not doing it.”
Hope he wasn’t a beardo. Or (in Shitfaced’s mind) worse, black.
https://youtu.be/iXsB015LpH0?si=b2yNX-kvpRoxm6hz
Humpback Whale Sounds
Has anyone watches Seven Dials? Does it get any better?
A little while ago I had an unexpected spike of pain. It came as I was coming out of a lovely nap. So I took two of my pain pills It was like a combination of a never-ending cramp combined with persistent itching. The pills took care of it and then some, leaving me feeling delightful. Which brings me to my point with this comment:
Socks are a warm, comforting hug. Especially when you haven't been able to wear them in two weeks.
Which leads me to this subsequent thought: Two weeks ago today, an ER doctor recognized how bad the infection of my leg had gotten--as in, she saw the CT scan and t he bone infection it identified--and she admitted me to the hospital for the third time in a month. And quite frankly, I am so grateful that she saw the problem. My infection is gone, my legs are both the same size again, The "stretch scars" are gone. My great toe is gone, but that's a small price to pay for finally ridding my body of a life-threatening infection.
Did I enjoy being nearly constantly attached to an IV pole with high-grade antibiotics? Nah, not really. Did the nursing staff and everyone--including the chaplain--make my hospital stay as comfortable and as pleasant as possible? Absolutely! Did the surgeon do an amazing job? Seems to! (I'm not a doctor. I just think it looks pretty good so far.) Hell, they all made me feel like I was their only patient. The chaplain asked if there was anything she could do, and I tried to say as jokingly as possible that I would love a soda, and five minutes later she reappeared with two cokes from the vending machine.
I can only hope that the remainder of my healing process is as smooth. I'm praying that the lingering financial ramifications won't destroy me. I am beyond grateful, appreciative, and thankful for the help already given and offered to me, but it seems there's still so much to do.
Do I like the convenience of being able to have my few groceries delivered? Oh yes. But groceries...add up, and that makes me rather sad.
I really need to shut up.
I wish I was around so I could shop for you.
I'm sorry your toe is gone, but I'm glad that at least your medical condition seems to be under control.
I hope your finances work out. Just remember, affordability is a hoax.
Florida woman tries to avoid arrest by pooping ‘towards’ cops: authorities
https://nypost.com/2026/01/16/us-news/florida-woman-tries-to-avoid-arrest-by-pooping-towards-cops-authorities/
That trick never works, Bullwinkle!
Arse spraying mayhem
There's a wunnerful 𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘰 ("saying") in Spanish to identify a social jerk: "𝘘𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘳 𝘮𝘢́𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘢 𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘴𝘶 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘰," or "He wants to shit higher than his asshole."
and this is why a lack of classic education will fail you.
You FART in their general direction.
The woman's name was Fang Wang, comic gold by itself
We have to keep re-educating these masses. It's both a skill and a burden.
That's the French way...
C'est la vie, n'est-ce pas?
I note your use of "classic" rather than "classical" 🤣
I shit at you cops!
Interesting technique...Ted Nugent did something similar to a Draft Board, I think 🤔!?
What's funny is he bragged about his antics in an interview back in the day and now he denies it ever even happened.
Con/MAGA = Lies
Well, fuck me sideways. That's what I get for eating sticky candy -- one of my crowns just came off.
there are some crown glue products at your local drugstore. don't ask me how I know.
Ouch! I hope your dentist can get you in ASAP 🤞
Guess I'll be calling my dentist first thing tomorrow.
Call the CC Pro Shop. Sunday is golf day.
Well, fudge. I forgot tomorrow wasn't Monday. I might have to go look for that crown glue beebo jr mentioned.
So sorry that happened. What a pain.
Once one of my crowns fell into my pad thai. On Christmas Eve.
Santa gave you a crown? Better than coal.
On different Christmases, Santa has given me gout in both big toes, cracked ribs, and COVID and flu at the same time.
I'm beginning to think I'm on Santa's naughty list.
Its those fukin' elves. Ya gotta bribe the little shits.
That might actually be worse than coal.
You need to be better behaved, obviously.
JB Weld.
jus sayin.
I was just getting ready to write "Gorilla Glue".
The wicked flee where no man pursueth
But the righteous are bold as a lion.
-- Proverbs 28:1
https://youtu.be/OflP45UjgBU?si=j4yhNdZrXlJ5CGYo
Un'aura amorosa
Now the Dumbfuck in Chief has slapped 10% tariffs on England, France, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Holland and Denmark for sending troops -- even as little as a dozen or so -- to Greenland. They'll go up to 25% unless Denmark sells us Greenland.
Let me reiterate: Trump is penalizing Denmark for moving 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺.
I wish the fucking Supreme Court would go ahead and declare his tariffs illegal already.
I thank god I initially misread that as "...go up to 25% *when* Denmark sells us Greenland."
Because that sounds like something the Orange Imbecile would do.
Mad King Donald
SCROTUS?
LOL.
AP from around 5:00 today:
"WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Trump said Saturday that he would charge a 10% import tax starting in February on goods from eight European nations because of their opposition to American control of Greenland, setting up a potentially dangerous test of U.S. partnerships in Europe.
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Finland would face the tariff, Trump said in a social media post while at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The rate would climb to 25% on June 1 if no deal was in place for “the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland” by the United States, he said.
The Republican president appeared to indicate that he was using the tariffs as leverage to force talks with Denmark and other European countries over the status of Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark that he regards as critical to U.S. national security."
I wish that John Roberts would just admit that he made a mistake when he said that the president has full immunity for "official acts".
Stupid. Stupid. STUPID!!!!
He and his GQP brethren murdered stare decisis.
So why not murder their own from a year or so ago?
I think he has a good chance of being the last Chief Justice in history.
I wonder if he knows that.
At this point, it’s pretty moot. It’s not like Scammy Jo is going to allow an independent investigation into any of his crimes.
I’m still waiting for him to admit that racism isn’t over.
Whoa whoa whoa - but he assured me it was.
john is about to find out.
his opus dei masters lied, done fucked up, again.
Not understanding the constitution -the very foundation of our legal system, SEEMS like grounds for impeachment….
I'm with you, but I highly doubt that they will. My gut instinct says that they'll toe the party line.
I’d say it’s a toss up. The red line for republicans is anything that will fuck up the economy, whether it’s firing Powell or job crushing tariffs. They may hand him an L on these two cases because they know republicans are screwed in the midterms. And if the economy takes a deep nosedive, they’ll have a hard time installing J Divan in 2028.
Fun times. I had 𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘮𝘢𝘯 running in the background with the sound off.
Guess who the guest villain was? If you guessed Otto Preminger, you win!
Excerpt from Wikipedia: "However, despite his liberal social outlook, Preminger became notorious for his domineering and abrasive personality, his explosive temper, and his dictatorial manner on set, which earned him nicknames like 'Otto the Terrible' and 'Otto the Ogre.'"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Preminger
I saw him on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘊𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘸 once and he looked like he could be a real monster backstage. Hahaha
Otto the Autocrat was right there
Still a better Mr. Freeze than Ahnold.
Arnold never really warmed up to the role.
IOW, he was a movie director.
What villain was he?
I was thinking King Tut at first, but then I remembered that was Victor Buono.
Mr. Freeze.
Thank the Interwebz.
That's such a sad story...
The BTAS version was very moving.
I have seen a lot of people online who could really stand to learn this lesson:
"C'mon, c'mon. I was just kidding, all right? The thought never crossed my mind."
"You did think of it, Martin. You thought it, and then you said it. And now I'm left with the aftermath of that[.]"
Happened again. Went down for a "nap" and couldn't come to consciousness for over 10 hours.
I guess I will be doing some workout later. Got the analgesics at full strength to make it a possibility. Anything interesting happen today?
My first dayshift sawmill job: I'll just lay down on the couch for a few minutes before supper. Next thing I know It's time to go back to work.
Timely, from my POV.
I just yawned, considered laying down for a nap, and looked at the time, then read your post and reconsidered.
I think I'm going to feed the felines, scoop, brush, tend the fire, etc., and then revisit the question.
I came to the surface a couple times, fought to get awake but it was not going to happen unless there was a fire/similar emergency. It's a bizarre experience.
Your body wouldn't let you sleep that long unless you needed it.
I have to concede the point! Been going at 4 hrs a night all week.
I've been averaging 6 hours during the week (stupid 8th graders making me work more than I want to), and I slept from midnight until 10:00 this morning. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do to get caught up.
100%
They never know what they inflict on us, those little people.
https://youtu.be/W9VFsly_Wvk?si=E1iY-WYJ7HhpZ3_T
Canto de las ballenas
Senator Thom Tillis, who is retiring in 2026, said that both Republicans and Democrats would revolt if Trump attempted to take Greenland by force, according to Politico.
“If there was any sort of action that looked like the goal was actually landing in Greenland and doing an illegal taking … there’d be sufficient numbers here to pass a war powers resolution and withstand a veto,” Tillis said.
Meanwhile, Congressman Don Bacon predicted such an action — which he called “the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard” — would result in Trump’s impeachment.
The sharp Republican rhetoric follows efforts by lawmakers to reassure officials in Denmark and other European nations that U.S. military action lacks congressional support. This week, lawmakers traveled to Copenhagen to deliver this message in person.
***
Okay...perhaps I misunderstand how linear time works, but...
Sure. Okay, you'll have the votes for a war powers resolution---and maybe even for impeachment. Let's say that's so.
Isn't it, you know, too LATE by then?
Don't any of these consequences, because of how time works, happen AFTER he has already has blown up the world by putting troops on the ground in Denmark in hostility?
Is this going to be called the Repair of the Barn Door After the Horses Come Home Act?
Also too, Thom can fuck right off with that bothsiderist bullshit. The Dems can't "revolt" in any substantial way.
It's up to the GQP to grow spines again, and clearly that'll never happen as long as the Demented Orange Traitor is still alive.
the speciality of a certain breed of R--I will go on record as having taken a stand as long as I am confident that it will not have any impact on the outcome. Best of both worlds...
So, do it now (impeachment) and get ahead of the disaster?
And will the higher-ups in the military finally decide that they're being given illegal orders and say FUCK NO??
Trump is already at the point of fielding the army at home to restore order. There is some risk involved in empowering the military like that. They may decide they just don't need him anymore if they have to run everything themselves anyway. It's the banana republic dilemma.
No, they won't.
I'd like to believe him, but I can't....
It’s just a fancier version of “oh he didn’t actually mean what he said…out loud…on tv…”
I don't just because he's still being mealy-mouthed, and he only has even the Jello spine he has now because he quit.
"Did you go to yours?" [10-year high school reunion]
"Yes. It was just as if everyone had swelled."
We’re coming up on my 40th in 2027. I haven’t been to a single reunion yet. I couldn’t stand most of those people in the 80s. I doubt they’ve improved much since then. Most of them are probably MAGAts.
Got my 50th in a couple of years. I imagine that now it'd be just as if everyone dried up, grayed up, and pruned out.
I also imagine the only ones interested in the reunion would be those stupid enough not to get the hell out of that town. It's been dying a slow death since its main factory closed down, iirc just after I graduated.
Besides, there are only four people I'd want to touch base with, out of my graduating class of ~250, one of whom was my Best Man, whom I can contact via Mrs. Hero's FB. The rest of my class would see me and only remember what I was, rather than who I am now. Who the hell wants *that*?
//
I also imagine the only ones interested in the reunion would be those stupid enough not to get the hell out of that town. It's been dying a slow death since its main factory closed down, iirc just after I graduated.
//
Bowling for Soup, "My Hometown"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E-wlnRef7Q
Egg-zackly!
My Texas high school moved it from late fall, when school is in and there’s a football game with our crosstown rival to attend, to summer. When Texas summers are a major reason why people move away.
So no. I wouldn’t go for my mom (she came to California), certainly not for schoolmates.
My 30th is coming up; none of us have changed since kindergarten except for height.
I'll also add that I graduated in a class of 27, and 19 of us went to school together from kindergarten on. We know each other better than I know some of my distant relatives.
I went to a small rural school, except for my senior year when the county consolidated several of their small schools into a few bigger ones, and yes -- I had about 20-some people I spent 12 years with, basically.
Among Mrs. Hero's and my first teaching jobs were at a small rural school. About 15-18 kids in every class, until, like yours, our school was pressured into consolidation in order to fulfill the state's mandate that we have every program the Big Boy schools have.
I went to my 50...only recognized a couple of people...
Tiedrich likes my photography, always exciting to get upvotes from people you like and respect.
Add this to my upvotes from E. Jean Carroll, Emily Nunn and Rickie Lee Jones on my most excellent upvotes list. It means nothing and it means a lot if you know what I mean.
Congrats!
OMG, Rickie Lee Jones? I would swoon for realz.
E. Jean!!!!!
🙌🏾
😮
😺
I know, I always have at least a little internal "Squee!" if someone famous that I like updoots me.
I have three degrees of separation form Dick Van Dyke. Is that good enough for ya.
That is pretty cool.