Except for the “finding Jesus” part, the blowing up the TV, throwing away the papers, and growing peaches is sounding better each day. The only problem is that should the Republicans gain full control ever again, I am coming to the realization that I’ll have to hide people in the attic… as opposed to bodies in the crawl space.
Chilly in the old office. I just wanna wallow in my bubble of blissful ignorance with my blankie and coffee, but some assholes keep ordering music from my dying little online storefront. So I rise once again a member of America's zombie workforce, chugging coffee and muttering angry epithets at my packing tape dispenser. "You're too loud!" I mutter, but it can't hear me. It's a tape dispenser.
I observed yesterday that a great many people believe Uncle Joe is somehow empowered to make this stop, as if he could just tell Netanyahu to get the fuck out of Gaza and he'd DO it.
Sometimes I get frustrated enough to almost just give the fuck up.
I feel you. I love living in a small apartment, for the most part, but when I cannot sleep I sometimes wish we had a bit more room so I could do some overnight baking without waking up my man.
He probably realized what the implications of the Kentucky gubernatorial race were — that a black Republican can shave off 20% of the black vote while losing 60% of the white Republican racist MFer vote.
I take my BP before going to the Dr for routine checkups and always have "normal" readings yet when they take it there I'm told it's high and need to be on medication, fuck that. The PA's don't have a clue IMO.
I've monitored that as well. My damned B/P always goes up in the damned office secondary to parking issues and the stress of an appointment. While sometimes my numbers aren't great at home they're always WORSE there.
I got to the doctor once for an appointment I desperately needed and it turned out my job had fucked up my insurance. My BP came out mega high and I was trying to explain it to the nurse and she would not listen.
It's supposed to be taken after a resting period and they walk me down the hall and measure my height and weight and then stick the cuff on me, of course it'll read somewhat high if I've been walking around.
I get that also, but mostly mine is the second it starts tightening on me I get discombobulated. I think maybe it is that I don't do well with people touching me and ditto anything restraining
Most of the time they chill, wait a few, and retake it. But every once in a while someone is in a hurry and they TSK! instead
NY mayor Eric Adams definitely returned swagger to the big apple as well as grift on an impressive, NYC sized scale. He was swaggering down the street the other day and the FBI approached and seized his phone!
Well, picking up these cold sores has really flared up my Fibromyalgia and Saturday night I slept not at all. I tried a nap Sunday but by Sunday night I had so much muscle pain I could barely move. Fibromyalgia also makes you sensitive to the cold, and after I decided to have a virgin piña colada for my dinner dessert, I was fucked (no, not like that). I was SO COLD and shivering but I also was having severe muscle pain. I managed a hot shower, but it was well into the night and with Termite to the left of me and Tuna to the right that I managed to get warmed up.
All of that said, I slept pretty good and today, the muscle pain is as if it never were here to begin with. How the fuck is there a condition that causes you to have horrible physical pain if you don't sleep and why do I have it?
The body's buildings in Gaza shelter nearly 780,000 displaced people.
“This recent attack is yet another indication that nowhere in Gaza is safe. Not the north, not the middle areas and not the south. The disregard for the protection of civilian infrastructure including UN facilities, hospitals, schools, shelters and places of worship is testament to the level of horror that civilians in Gaza are living every day,” the UNRWA commissioner-general said.
If Hamas gave one single shit about civilians, they would release hostages and turn over the perpetrators of the Oct. 7th attack to face justice. They *want* mass civilian casualties.
And so we can head off that tiresome discourse, the laws of war envision and accept civilian casualties in wartime. It's a regrettable consequence of fighting in urban areas. There is an enormous difference between the IDF hitting a building (note the difference between the singular "building" in the title and the plural "buildings" in the sub that shelter the 780k in Gaza) and, say, Russia deliberately targeting civilian population centers with thermobaric or phosphorous weapons.
But Hamas's leadership, billionaires living in luxury hotels in Qatar, do not give one single shit about civilian casualties, and in fact want them, because they are fanatics hellbent on the complete destruction of Israel and are willing to sacrifice however many hundreds of thousands of their own people it takes if it helps them achieve it.
The only way Hamas's actions make sense is if they wanted this overwhelming response, with the aim of recruiting new fighters from the survivors. It's sick, cynical, and it looks like Israel is obliging them, so no one wins and this cycle of violence looks set to continue.
I expect, though (and hope), that US diplomatic pressure will keep Israel's response restrained, and stave off a broader escalation (which is what they want). If the IDF can keep it to a limited action to eliminate Hamas, this will be over in a couple months.
My hope is, when that happens, that the Israelis will then let loose with the protests they're now holding back, and Hamas's partner and benefactor Bibi can finally be ousted. My understanding is the vast majority of Israelis lay the blame for this attack at his feet, and are only refraining from demanding his ouster because of the fight in Gaza.
I don't know if that's possible at this point, this is a pretty big middle finger to the entire world. Also, I am no military expert but I'm pretty sure naval bombardment is not part of a limited action. I thought Bibi would overreact as hard as he thought he could get away with to do as much collateral damage as possible but I never thought he'd bombard the UN.
We'd need to turn it into a limited action to eliminate Hamas, not 'keep' it there, because what we're seeing right now isn't that. But yes, if we can bring the pressure to get Israel to do that, it would be better for everyone.
I don't think Israel cares either. Izach Rabin was on the Sunday show saying they are going after Hamas and so be it if there are civilians in the area.
Well, yes. It's a war. Civilians die in wars (which sucks, of course). But so long as the aim of the war is "eliminate Hamas" and not "reduce Gaza to rubble," I think they can keep it contained.
Palestine needs a state, and getting one means getting rid of both Hamas and Netanyahu.
Except for the “finding Jesus” part, the blowing up the TV, throwing away the papers, and growing peaches is sounding better each day. The only problem is that should the Republicans gain full control ever again, I am coming to the realization that I’ll have to hide people in the attic… as opposed to bodies in the crawl space.
Or both.
Chilly in the old office. I just wanna wallow in my bubble of blissful ignorance with my blankie and coffee, but some assholes keep ordering music from my dying little online storefront. So I rise once again a member of America's zombie workforce, chugging coffee and muttering angry epithets at my packing tape dispenser. "You're too loud!" I mutter, but it can't hear me. It's a tape dispenser.
You know where your katana is, right?
Yeah, in my samurai's grass hut. With my samurai, I hope!
Maybe it CAN hear you and just ignores you.
It’s just vengeful.
You're right! We have a baggie full of googly eyes around here somewhere, but someone should really invent the googly ear for situations like this.
Its’ mouth is taped over.
Maybe that's why it screams so much?
Richard Haas is so full of shit: Joe has no more ability to 'move Bibi out the door' than the janitor of the building 3 doors down from the UN.
You're right. It's the morons that keep voting Bibi back into Office. They support war mongers.
I observed yesterday that a great many people believe Uncle Joe is somehow empowered to make this stop, as if he could just tell Netanyahu to get the fuck out of Gaza and he'd DO it.
Sometimes I get frustrated enough to almost just give the fuck up.
Bibi is entrenched. Rooted.
It is going to take a major failure to get him out.
Oh, wait.
On the other hand, it does imply that people consider Joe omnipotent… even at his age…
🎶He's a...Dick Haas🎵
No tighty-whities, just letting it all hang out.
Biden has very very little room to maneuver here, especially in public.
Sleep eludes me...again.
Maybe I just don't need sleep anymore. I've gone a while without it and it's not so bad, except for the nothing much to do in the middle of the night.
I feel you. I love living in a small apartment, for the most part, but when I cannot sleep I sometimes wish we had a bit more room so I could do some overnight baking without waking up my man.
That's one thing about living in a house. If I'm quiet I can accomplish a few small tasks or otherwise entertain myself.
Your options are more limited in a smaller space. That could get frustrating.
I should take something were I you.
think she has tried most everything short of having paul whack her with an iron skillet ala a Warner Brother's cartoon
That was a cartoon?! Hmm, no wonder… never mind.
I have. Sleeping pills don't even phase me. It's very strange.
Then clearly the solution lies in stop taking whatever it is you are taking and take a vacation; someplace electronically disconnected.
That sounds like heaven to me.
Now I just have to talk paul into it.
We're here, Skepti!
Wait, that was supposed to be a positive, dammit
And now so am I, darling.
FWIW I feel your pain: it's 4am here and I don't want to be awake either.
I'm watching some cat cam and horsing around here.
Here is MUCH more fun than where I was. I should't have tossed and turned for as long as I did.
Did Gary Numan influence Trent Reznor?
Or did it go the other way?
Or, both.
Gary Numan and Trent Reznor, Metal and Cars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fbVlVLu1m8
Damn. I dug The Cars when I was in high school and had the hots for Trent Reznor in the nineties.
Just hearing Gary Neuman makes me feel my age...but it's not too bad, actually. I've had a very good time.
Skepti, I say to you again, we are from the same time.
And, idiom.
I hear you, Sister.
NUUUUUUUUUUMAAAAAAN!
Sorry. Force of habit.
You won’t have Tim Scott to kick around anymore.
Why would Republicans vote for a happy person?
He probably realized what the implications of the Kentucky gubernatorial race were — that a black Republican can shave off 20% of the black vote while losing 60% of the white Republican racist MFer vote.
Question is, when will Nikki and Vivek answer the clue phone?
It is being posited that Nikki will gain 9 of the 10 Scott votes; not 9 out of 10, 9 of THE 10.
And another one bites the dust?
He wasn't much of a target in the first place.
Damn! I just found my steel-toed hobnail boots.
Who?
Who?
🦉🦉
I take my BP before going to the Dr for routine checkups and always have "normal" readings yet when they take it there I'm told it's high and need to be on medication, fuck that. The PA's don't have a clue IMO.
𝑀𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑔𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ 𝑏𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑒
https://newatlas.com/medical/sit-blood-pressure-taken-readings/
I've monitored that as well. My damned B/P always goes up in the damned office secondary to parking issues and the stress of an appointment. While sometimes my numbers aren't great at home they're always WORSE there.
I got to the doctor once for an appointment I desperately needed and it turned out my job had fucked up my insurance. My BP came out mega high and I was trying to explain it to the nurse and she would not listen.
It's called "practicing medicine" for reasons. Like "practicing law."
White coat hypertension.
That, or different BP measuring instruments. Or asshole drivers on the drive to the doctor’s office.
It's supposed to be taken after a resting period and they walk me down the hall and measure my height and weight and then stick the cuff on me, of course it'll read somewhat high if I've been walking around.
Yeah, especially if I look at the scale.
I get that also, but mostly mine is the second it starts tightening on me I get discombobulated. I think maybe it is that I don't do well with people touching me and ditto anything restraining
Most of the time they chill, wait a few, and retake it. But every once in a while someone is in a hurry and they TSK! instead
I don't like people touching me either, I never have.
feel seen!
Was musing the other night that it is rather remarkable I had spawn, considering.
You should've been a Futurama mermaid.
Today . . . in HISTORY!
1002: English King Aethelred II orders every Dane in the kingdom killed. I think we call it ethnic cleansing nowadays.
1922: The US Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations in their decision Zucht v King.
1927: The Holland Tunnel opens. Freudians go all coy.
1940: The movie 'Fantasia' premieres.
1947: The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47 assault rifle.
1956: The US Supreme Court rules that Alabama's laws about segregated busing are unconstitutional, so there.
1982: In boxing, Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim. Kim will die four days later from his injuries.
1982: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
1995: Mozambique joins the Commonwealth, which is a bit odd as it was never part of the British Empire.
2013: Hawaii legalizes same-sex marriage.
Unfun fact: Mozambique's flag has an AK-47 on it
True!
Fantasia scare the shit out of me.
I loved it, and still do.
Wasn't Aethelred II also Æthelred the Unready?
(checks) Yes.
IIRC, Æthelred II was run out of England after he pissed off the Danish king. (Was reading up on the Wessex kings due to a Netflix series I watched)
After the massacre in 1002, the Danish King invaded and Aethelred skedaddled to Normandy.
But, according to the wiki, he came back, succeeded in retaking London, and died there in 1016.
The dream has ended.
Tim Scott drops out of the 2024 presidential race
It was taking too much time away from his hobbies. And by hobbies I mean totally real Canadian girlfriend.
I hope he made a lot of money.
I don't.
Would you settle for him having made a lot of money whilst draining donationbux from more viable campaigns?
OK, Tim, come pick up all your signs that visually assault me on my back and forth to work every day. I'll give you a week.
TIMMAH?
He failed to hook up with the Lords of the Underworld.
He should have turned his attention back to the Crips.
Tim Scott (who?) has suspended his bid for the presidency. Should have never entered in the first place.
(R) always need a Black candidate with no chance of winning.
NY mayor Eric Adams definitely returned swagger to the big apple as well as grift on an impressive, NYC sized scale. He was swaggering down the street the other day and the FBI approached and seized his phone!
Bless his heart.
Maybe PAB is right about rampant criming in NY
Feels like the crime spree moved to Florida recently.
If anyone should know, it's PAB.
Well, picking up these cold sores has really flared up my Fibromyalgia and Saturday night I slept not at all. I tried a nap Sunday but by Sunday night I had so much muscle pain I could barely move. Fibromyalgia also makes you sensitive to the cold, and after I decided to have a virgin piña colada for my dinner dessert, I was fucked (no, not like that). I was SO COLD and shivering but I also was having severe muscle pain. I managed a hot shower, but it was well into the night and with Termite to the left of me and Tuna to the right that I managed to get warmed up.
All of that said, I slept pretty good and today, the muscle pain is as if it never were here to begin with. How the fuck is there a condition that causes you to have horrible physical pain if you don't sleep and why do I have it?
Glad you got a bit more rest and have less pain, but I join you in wondering what is up with these wacky human bodies of ours.
They just do such strange stuff.
Right? I mean, yeah, they can be lots of fun, but really, WTF is up with all the weirdness?
the human body is an argument against intelligent design
For Monday, a little something I think every employee's wanted to say to their employer. NSFW for naughty language and some images.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HsEa1dCHyE
Morning all. ☕
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UN Building Bombed By Israeli Naval Forces
The body's buildings in Gaza shelter nearly 780,000 displaced people.
“This recent attack is yet another indication that nowhere in Gaza is safe. Not the north, not the middle areas and not the south. The disregard for the protection of civilian infrastructure including UN facilities, hospitals, schools, shelters and places of worship is testament to the level of horror that civilians in Gaza are living every day,” the UNRWA commissioner-general said.
If Hamas gave one single shit about civilians, they would release hostages and turn over the perpetrators of the Oct. 7th attack to face justice. They *want* mass civilian casualties.
And so we can head off that tiresome discourse, the laws of war envision and accept civilian casualties in wartime. It's a regrettable consequence of fighting in urban areas. There is an enormous difference between the IDF hitting a building (note the difference between the singular "building" in the title and the plural "buildings" in the sub that shelter the 780k in Gaza) and, say, Russia deliberately targeting civilian population centers with thermobaric or phosphorous weapons.
But Hamas's leadership, billionaires living in luxury hotels in Qatar, do not give one single shit about civilian casualties, and in fact want them, because they are fanatics hellbent on the complete destruction of Israel and are willing to sacrifice however many hundreds of thousands of their own people it takes if it helps them achieve it.
Malcolm says you may be onto something there (this is a lengthy, but thoughtful colloquy--worth the full listen):
https://open.substack.com/pub/malcolmnance/p/this-roland-martin-interview-matters?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1na5bz
The only way Hamas's actions make sense is if they wanted this overwhelming response, with the aim of recruiting new fighters from the survivors. It's sick, cynical, and it looks like Israel is obliging them, so no one wins and this cycle of violence looks set to continue.
I expect, though (and hope), that US diplomatic pressure will keep Israel's response restrained, and stave off a broader escalation (which is what they want). If the IDF can keep it to a limited action to eliminate Hamas, this will be over in a couple months.
My hope is, when that happens, that the Israelis will then let loose with the protests they're now holding back, and Hamas's partner and benefactor Bibi can finally be ousted. My understanding is the vast majority of Israelis lay the blame for this attack at his feet, and are only refraining from demanding his ouster because of the fight in Gaza.
I don't know if that's possible at this point, this is a pretty big middle finger to the entire world. Also, I am no military expert but I'm pretty sure naval bombardment is not part of a limited action. I thought Bibi would overreact as hard as he thought he could get away with to do as much collateral damage as possible but I never thought he'd bombard the UN.
Israel wants the world's permission do do a full war on terror in Gaza.
We'd need to turn it into a limited action to eliminate Hamas, not 'keep' it there, because what we're seeing right now isn't that. But yes, if we can bring the pressure to get Israel to do that, it would be better for everyone.
Yep.
I don't think Israel cares either. Izach Rabin was on the Sunday show saying they are going after Hamas and so be it if there are civilians in the area.
Well, yes. It's a war. Civilians die in wars (which sucks, of course). But so long as the aim of the war is "eliminate Hamas" and not "reduce Gaza to rubble," I think they can keep it contained.
Palestine needs a state, and getting one means getting rid of both Hamas and Netanyahu.
"𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑠" 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑛𝑜𝑡 "𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑧𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑢𝑏𝑏𝑙𝑒"
wink wink nudge nudge
:(
Yeah, those are one in the same here.
Don't usually post Twitter links any more, but this is pretty good for anyone interested:
https://x.com/TheAstuteGaloot/status/1723997414632432005?s=20
That is good! And trump should remember what happened to Mussolini and to Hitler. Spoiler: it wasn't pretty.
Pfft, he'll be dead by then.