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“But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

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  2. Wingnuts Discuss Biden Supreme Court Pick About As Calmly As You’d Expect – Wonkette

    Joe Biden’s intention to choose a Black woman to replace Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court seems unlikely to face any serious opposition in the Senate, according to Politico, because until January — and beyond we hope — Democrats hold the Senate, and there simply aren’t many procedural tricks available to Republicans, just as Democrats had little ability to block the steamroller confirmation of Amy Conehead Barrett in 2020. And even when that nominee takes her place on the Court, Republicans will still have the same supermajority they had, thanks to Mitch McConnell’s infinite shittiness.

    That doesn’t mean rightwing media has any intention of remaining calm about any of this. There may be no real way to block whomever Biden nominates, but that’s no reason not to lovingly stroke the lizard-brain fear reflexes of the Trumpy base, because how can anyone but a white male jurist be the best choice for the job? …..

    […]

    Over at Fox News, the panic started as soon as the news of Breyer’s planned retirement broke. Tucker Carlson fumed Wednesday evening that Biden is incapable of thinking in any terms other than skin color, and so of course he would not be choosing anyone on the basis of their qualifications.

    Joe Biden confirmed today what we already knew. Our next Supreme Court justice will not be chosen on the basis of legal acumen, intelligence, wise judgment, or fealty to the Constitution of the United States. Biden believes those are outdated Eurocentric criteria. In this country, equity trumps competence. What matters, Joe Biden explained, is sex and skin color.

    We suppose it might just be possible that only a racist would assume that a Black woman lacks all those qualities, but then we are all radical crazy people, don’t you know.

    Carlson also accused Biden of being a terrible racist for deciding that Black women deserve representation on the Court, because that magically is the same as “believing all Black women are the same.” After all, they all got their jobs because they were affirmative action hires, which meant that the “best candidates” hadn’t been chosen. Gosh, one might get the impression it’s Tucker who’s lumping all those women together.

    […]

    Not to be outdone, Sean Hannity was just one of several Foxers who speculated that Biden’s decision to appoint a Black woman might be outright unconstitutional, because isn’t that discrimination?

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  3. Bink – From the OT: Do you really think they can connect the dots?

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/ivermectin-fans-are-back-with-even-weirder-drugs-for-your-covid-19-including-hormone-therapy

    The “Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance” has a new miracle cure, and it’s hilarious.

    “They [hormone replacement drugs] are also well known for their use in transgender health care, Media Matters noted after the FLCCC promoted the drugs on Fox News this weekend. The FLCCC recommended COVID patients take 100mg of the anti-androgen spironolactone daily, which is the Mayo Clinic’s recommended starting dose for feminizing hormone therapy. “This blocks male sex hormone (androgen) receptors and can suppress testosterone production…”

    Step aside horse dewormer, there’s a new prank in town.

    Hmmmm, it was promoted on Faux News.

  4. I’d love to see Hannity try to make the case that nominating a black woman for a judicial position subject to confirmation by the US Senate is unconstitutional discrimination. Who is the injured party?  Bakke?

  5. bId – I think that initial dose of blood pressure medication, and anti-androgen, will reduce the rage in some of them.  Add in a bit of estrogen and they will be on their way to a new figure too.  Results will be noticeable in a couple of months.

  6. BB – It has to be a prank.  It’s like they’re asking what’s the most far out thing they can suggest.    Next month, they’ll have same meeting.   But, yeah, if it would bring down the level of rage, maybe that would be a good thing.

  7. BiD, something new on the scene and not being pushed by the crazies but by some science types according to daily beast yesterday

    Many Clinical Trials Are Testing Whether Cannabis CBD Could Be an Effective COVID-19 Treatment (thedailybeast.com)

    Let’s get this out of the way now: You should not take CBD to prevent COVID-19. You should not smoke weed to prevent COVID-19—in fact, that will probably make things worse. You definitely should not drink CBD seltzers or take gummies to protect yourself from a virus that has the potential to kill you—especially when there are vaccines that are proven to protect you.
    At the same time, it can also be true that CBD from cannabis has a role to play in this pandemic—from treating COVID directly, to dealing with the pandemic’s emotional side effects. We’re already seeing this potential teased out in a flourish of new scientific research.
    Last week, scientists published findings suggesting CBD might stop the coronavirus from replicating inside cells. They also found that patients prescribed CBD-based drugs for epilepsy had lower COVID-19 positivity rates than people who hadn’t been prescribed CBD, an early signal that this could hold up in the real world. This was hot off the heels of another recent study suggesting two other cannabis compounds could bind to the coronavirus’ spike protein—stopping it from getting into cells in the first place.
    “When COVID first started, there was a lot of interest in the potential for cannabidiol [to] treat COVID patients, at that time there was scant data to hang our hat on,” Ziva Cooper, the director of the UCLA Cannabis Research Initiative, told The Daily Beast. “Then here are two examples, both published within a week, that show maybe there is some promise.”
    The bottom line for these two studies was the same: We need more clinical trials on CBD and COVID-19. The good news is that there are some trials already in the works. At the moment there are currently seven clinical trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov that are investigating CBD in connection with COVID-19, and several more in progress elsewhere, The Daily Beast has learned.
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  8. CBD grower economy is big deal in this area, the holy land of weed and the cornbread mafia. now that they’re outta jail they’re back to growing it legit. 
    seems it’s the new snake oil product that cures everything from sore muscles to what knows next.  just wish it could be used to do something to cure KY poor taste in u.s. senators.

  10. following up on bink & pogo comments last thread

    Butt of the joke: Bette Midler fires back at West Virginia governor Jim Justice | Bette Midler | The Guardian

    Bette Midler had harsh words for the governor of West Virginia after he showed his dog’s backside at the end of his State of the State speech, in a bizarre rejoinder to the actor, singer and activist.
    Responding on Thursday to a tweet in which Midler called West Virginia “poor, illiterate and strung out”, the Republican Jim Justice said she could kiss his dog’s “hiney”.
    On Friday, Midler retweeted a picture of the stunt with the caption: “Here we can see a dog’s asshole. Right next to it is the butt of Jim Justice’s dog.”
    Midler also tweeted: “Here are the state rankings of all the areas and agencies for which the so-called ‘governor’ of West Virginia, Jim Justice, is responsible. Judging from these rankings, I’d say his dog’s ass would make a better governor than him!”
    […]
    Justice, 70, a coalmining magnate who was elected as a Democrat, is an eccentric figure who often uses his English bulldog, Babydog, as a political prop. His State of the State speech, at the capitol in Charleston, was delayed after he contracted Covid-19.
    Midler angered the governor with comments in December that were prompted by her own anger towards the West Virginia senator Joe Manchin.
    […]
    “Babydog tells Bette Midler and all those out there: Kiss her hiney,” he said as the crowd applauded. Attendees included lawmakers, state supreme court justices and agency heads. Members of a high school girl’s basketball team Justice coaches were present in the gallery.
    Shawn Fluharty, a Democratic state delegate, said: “The governor brought his Babydog and pony show to the State of the State and pulled this stunt as some bold statement.
    “It was nothing short of embarrassing and beneath the office. Jim Justice habitually lowers the bar of our state. They don’t laugh with us, but at us.”

    Jim Justice holds up his dog Babydog’s rear end as a message to people who’ve doubted his state. Photograph: Chris Dorst/AP

    Jim Justice holds up his dog Babydog's rear end as a message to people who've doubted his state.

  12. As this pandemic continues on we are learning more about those who have continuing side effects from COVID infections.  The sense of smell going away or even changing what stuff smells like. Parosmia, a condition in which normal smells register as “unpleasant or even disgusting,” is one of the more than 200 symptoms that researchers have associated with long covid.
     
    Years ago I was in a truck that found a tree on the side of the road.  It took a couple dozen stiches to put my nose back on.  After healing I learned that my sense of smell was gone.  Chow hall food was good, almost everything was okay.  I enjoyed food by texture not taste or smell.  Forward a few decades and shards of bone that was shattered in that accident were working to my skin and needed removal. 
    The facial surgeon went all in and rebuilt my nose, sinuses, and internals.  A couple months later I realized everything smelled terrible.  But some things tasted good.  Potatoes tasted “earthy”, mushrooms tasted like mushrooms, I could smell natural gas leaks, it was amazing.  I quit smoking. 
     
    It was the stench of everything that hit me hardest.  The world stank.  The entire world.  I hated going outside because it was like a garbage pit and outhouse combined.  As my smell cells started working I came face to face with the world stink.  The article above describes how hard it is to adjust to something like changing a human sense from not thinking about it to having it go bad on you.  I often wonder why the astronauts do not mention it as they come from an isolated island that lives on purified air.  It took me several years to slowly become accustomed to the smell of the world.

  13. I guess you get used to most anything……I remember when a rat would die in the attic and you couldn’t find it, if you wanted to play in the attic you just got used to it……my old aunt lived in a house with a bunch of cats and it all smelled ok to her. And this one time I found out that the sure cure for fleas was to thinly spread mothball flakes on the floors, and poof, there were no more fleas.  You’re supposed to vacuum assiduously to get rid of the smell. I swept up most of it and let it go, so the house smelled like mothballs.  
    I kinda got used to it. Much better than fleas at any rate.

  14. I picked up a chicken snake one time and absolutely could not get used to THAT smell.  lol
    And dog got skunked once in Tennessee……that was rough.

  16. Everything smells so strong when a migraine is coming on.  Even if it’s not a bad smell, it’s just overwhelming.  Everything is loud and bright, too. 

    Ladybugs smell terrible. I had one inside my car; I got her out and she flew away, but that smell. They have a ladybug festival here every spring and they release ladybugs and some fly and some get scooped up for folks to take to their gardens. They are beautiful, but they smell terrible. Ants, too. If you ever smoosh an ant, that smell is terrible.

  18. Hey… in case you think we’re being buried in snow…  we are further west than the worst of it.  Once again…  Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard are getting a lot more snow than we are…  and they are getting the hurricane force winds that we aren’t.  We might get a foot of snow… which is no big deal for around here.  Boston is suppose to get 2 feet plus…  that’s hard for a city.
     
    Thinking of OldSeaHag right now…

  19. ok, jack & sturge, let the saturday spin jockeying begin. 

    wrongly remembering and googling when it’s snowy time down south (my nod to today’s weather) i came upon this relic from 1942. one of the commenters said satchmo loved it so much he sang it at every live performance. a wiki blurb about it follows the vid

    “When It’s Sleepy Time Down South“, also known as “Sleepy Time Down South“, is a 1931jazzsong written byClarence Muse,Leon RenéandOtis René. It was sung in the 1931 movieSafe in HellbyNina Mae McKinney, and became thesignature songofLouis Armstrong, who recorded it almost a hundred times during his career.]The song is now considered ajazz standardand it has been recorded by a plethora of artists.A popular recording in 1931 was byPaul Whitemanand his Orchestra (vocal byMildred Bailey).

    […]

    The lyrics concern the Great Migration in the United States, the movement of African Americans from the South to cities in the North, with the singer talking about the “dear old Southland… where I belong”, and contain many racial stereotypes. Armstrong’s popularity among African-American audiences dropped because of the song, but at the same time it helped the trumpeter to make his fan base broader. In protest during the 1950s, African Americans burned their copies of the song, which forced Armstrong to re-evaluate and change the song’s lyrics in a reissue. There is a 1942 film short of the song where Armstrong and others played slaves and farm workers.

  20. his updated version

    Louis Armstrong performing “When It’s Sleepytime Down South'” at the 1970 Newport Jazz Festival. “Sleeptytime” was one of Louis Armstrong’s “signature” songs, and his entrance onto the stage at this 70th birthday tribute to Louis brought the house down. This is believed to have been the last filmed performance of Armstrong, who passed away in 1971.

  21. Gov. Jim Justice enters a battle of wits with Bette Midler  …………. Jim comes half armed to the contest.  The other arm is carrying an entire dog’s ass.

  22. THE ANTI-VACCINE RIGHT BROUGHT HUMAN SACRIFICE TO AMERICA

    Since last summer, the conservative campaign against vaccination has claimed thousands of lives for no ethically justifiable purpose.

    By Kurt Andersen

  24. Went and saw Jimi Hendrix in Mumphus in 69…..The full house crowd was just not too terribly excited, I just don’t think enough of the audience was actually clued in to what exactly was going down….a few hoots here and there but basically just kind of polite, if you will.  Jimi was a pro, he was working it…..he did it and pushed and did some amazing guitar stuff, but in the end the crowd was just kind of sluggish.  I felt bad for Jimi cause i knew what the deal was…..anyway his last note was he hit a full bar chord and intoned, “When It’s Sleepy Time Down South”  and took his leave.   It stirred the crowd into clamoring enough for an encore which turned out to be really nice.
    I always blamed it on that stupid Fat Mattress who opened and put every damn body to sleep.

  26. Oh, those “looney libs” and their craaazzzy ideas like “equal opportunity for education”, “man-made climate change”, and “not infecting your community with disease”, so nutty🙄

  27. Breaking… Tom Brady is retiring…
     
    now back to your regularly scheduled programming…

  28. That last game was a rough one for him, I don’t know when I’ve seen an uglier play off game. but all of last weekend’s games were ugly even the Chiefs/Bills game. 
    Jack

  29. I saw Jimi at the Denver Pop Fest. on the same tour , he was so stoned Mitch and Neil stopped playing , and just stood there . Really sad  day, the  Denver cops had a pitched battle outside of Mile High with the gate crashers .  Then they broke out the pepper gas , and it floated into the stadium. 
    Zephyr was good  – Tommy Bolin was great.
    https://youtu.be/8fkZ9atctFw
     

  31. The G.O.A.T. is dead , long live the G.O.A.T. !
     
    It really pissed him off when no one drafted him , talk about taking the bit in your teeth.  Nothing breeds greatness like ignoring it when it’s young.  
     
     

  34. The James Webb Space Telescope’s 1st target star is in the Big Dipper. Here’s where to see it.

    By Doris Elin Urrutiapublished about 8 hours ago

    https://www.space.com/james-webb-space-telescope-first-target-star
    Now that JWST has reached its final destination in space, the mission team is getting the next-generation space telescope prepped for observations. A bright point like HD 84406 provides a helpful target by which the team can align JWST’s honeycomb-shaped mirrors and to start gathering engineering data, according to the tweet.
     
    This star will play an important role for this specific purpose, but it won’t be studied by the observatory once it officially begins its science projects. 
     
    “HD 84406 will be too bright to study with Webb once the telescope starts to come into focus. But for now, it is the perfect target to begin our search for photons, a search that will lead us to the distant universe,” according to a NASA blog post published on Thursday (Jan. 27) written by Jonathan Gardner, Webb deputy senior project scientist from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, and Alexandra Lockwood, project scientist for Webb science communications at Space Telescope Science Institute. 
     

  35. CC –
    Waiting to see who else will stand up as well .
    Rogan has a $100 million dollar deal with them.
    They came out with the ole’ “fair and balanced”  routine  to justify the deal , hard to believe that he wasn’t acting on , “News Radio” playing a paranoid nut ball, with Andy Dick.  Oh wait , I get it ! Neither one  of them was “acting”. 
     

  36. satirically speaking

     Brett Kavanaugh Fears Biden’s Supreme Court Pick Will “Hog the Keg” | The New Yorker

    WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Justice Brett Kavanaugh has expressed concern that President Biden’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court will, in the jurist’s words, “hog the keg.”

    “Breyer was cool, because whenever we had a party at the courthouse he was good for one Solo cup—two, tops,” Kavanaugh told reporters. “You never worried about Breyer draining the keg dry.”

    But, with a new Justice joining the court, Kavanaugh said, “You could wind up with someone who’s a straight-up keg hog, and that would suck.”

    Drawing on his own experience, the Justice said, “I can remember one time during Beach Week, Tobin practically attached himself to the keg like he owned it. You’d go to get a refill, and the keg would be empty and all, and meanwhile Tobin managed to get good and polluted.”

    “The last thing the United States Supreme Court needs is a Tobin,” Kavanaugh added ruefully.

     

    Andy Borowitzis a Times best-selling author and a comedian who has written for The New Yorker since 1998. He writesThe Borowitz Report, a satirical column on the news.

  38. But, with a new Justice joining the court, Kavanaugh said, “You could wind up with someone who’s a straight-up keg hog, and that would suck.”

    lol

  39. Why tigers eat their young –
    (This is a good one) 
     

    GOP Governors Under Attack From MAGA Monsters They Helped Create

    RINO LINER

    Republican governors across the nation are facing primary challengers from the right over COVID restrictions and their apparently insufficient support for Donald Trump.

     
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-governors-under-attack-from-maga-monsters-they-helped-create
     
     
    Of the 15 GOP chief executives who are running for re-election, eight are facing at least one primary challenger running a real campaign. That number stands in stark contrast to the number of credible primary threats faced by the eight Democratic governors running for re-election: zero.
    As I see it,  the GOP is currently burning down it’s own trailer park .
    Banning books , erasing  history  in schools,  screwing with who counts ballots.  That’s a lot of ox’s getting gored .  All the while they fight over who can kiss Trumps ring the best. 
    This mid terms will not be played out like all the past ones. 
     
    Top to bottom, front to back  the world has rolled over.
     
     
     

     

  40. yeah but what about those looney libs and their support of free and fair elections?!  What nonsense!🙄🙄

  41. The Liberty Fetish –
    You are live because we mandated the small pox vaxx.
    George Washington made his army get it at Valley Fucking Forge !
    It was the greatest killer of human beings in the entire history of humankind. 
    It is the only virus we ever ran off the Earth. 
    Your kids are not in an iron lung because we mandated the polio vaxx . 
    We have driven it into a small corner of our world , where it is opposed by who ?  The Fucking Taliban !
    They shoot health workers in Pakistan  trying to drive it off the Earth. 
    Viruses  do not care about “Liberty” , they just want a new host to make more virus, and swap genetic material to make them “better’,   That’s all they do. And they never sleep , take time off,  or stop to rest.
    And as I type , the new Omicron variant is 1.5 times better at infecting people. 
    I really fear it’s working on it’s mortality rate. 
     
    Total cases

    370M

    370,000,000

    +3.66M

     It’s killing over 10% of the people who get it world wide. 
    https://www.google.com/search?q=covid+death+rate+us&sxsrf=APq-WBsSUFkJ25n-CfFEvtc448uBZVxr1Q%3A1643496442765&ei=-sP1Yej_LbenqtsPy8CPsAU&oq=covid++death+rate+&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAEYATIFCAAQgAQyCAgAEIAEELEDMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQ6BwgjELADECc6BwgAEEcQsAM6CggAEEcQsAMQyQM6CAgAEJIDELADOgQIIxAnOgsIABCABBCxAxDJAzoFCAAQkgM6BAgAEEM6DQgAEIAEEIcCELEDEBQ6CAgAELEDEJECOgUIABCRAjoICAAQgAQQyQNKBAhBGABKBAhGGABQ4gtY5FVg-7kBaAFwAngAgAFZiAHcB5IBAjEzmAEAoAEByAEKwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz
    If it’s lethality rate improves , we will really start “thinning the herd”. 
    Remember that Delta came out of the unvaxx in India, and Omicron came out of the unvaxx in South African.
    We know it can infect tigers , and hamsters. 
    This thing is not done with us yet.  Not by a long shot .
    And the word “Liberty” means nothing if you are dead by the hand of something that is neither alive or dead.  
     

  44. OM – I knew a few shot hole drillers in my old life.  ‘course that life was not one of those listed in the “how to live a long and fruitful life” instruction book.

  45. I know I say good nite and do 2 or 3 encores. 
    The greatest blues song ever to come out of Britain, and no one knows it.
     
    Dear Jill 

     
     
     

  46. Blue Bronc –
    I crossed  the High Uintas and drilled a shot hole at 10,400 feet on a Texaco contract in winter. 
    I was “A Flying Squirrel” , I slammed steel , and made love to the Mormon girls .
     
     

  48. OM – I loved being deep in the Unitas.  Something about the solitude and being right up to the sky.  Unless you have been there there is no way to explain what being in the high country, alone, is like. Especially in winter.  At the time I was working for Amoco Production.  That is the hardest thing I left behind when I moved East.  Now I live at sea level where my ancestors lived about four hundred years ago.
     
    There is nothing like the blue of the sky with little to block it.

  49. Blue Bronc –
    I drilled 22,  150 foot shot holes  in a day  for Western Geophysical along “Crazy Woman Creek” in Wyoming.  We got our water truck stuck  3 times that day .  I made our “powder monkey” shine  his headlights  on the last 2 holes.   
    That was a record as well for them. 
    They didn’t  give me a dime for it .
    I twisted off , and went work for pecker head  company out of Rawlins that had a 1948 Garner Denver  as a the drill of last resort. 
    That guy wanted  to drill on a 100 foot hill  in a thunder storm with 59 feet of steel in the hole. 
    I was once again down the road , I was living on a Honda V-Twin  500 , water cooled drive shaft .
     
    I had already crossed the desert twice with 25 cents and a suit case. 
    Seeing this in type now , and all that when with  it’s a wonder  I’m still typing keys. 
     
     
     

  51. Long bday. Our snow ended overnight. I replaced the carb on the snowblower my MIL gave us when she liquidated her homestead and moved west. Runs like a top now. Then grocery shopping and gas. Premium is 349/gal at Sam’s. And then, honeydo project – covering the hole exposed by plumbers replacing a cast iron stack last year. But Mrs. P made terrific meatballs and roasted some beets (delicious) and settling in with wine to relax and hopefully drift off and wake up just in time for the SNL cold open. Too bad about Ukraine and Boston. Both have their challenges. 

  52. OM – were you up towards Muddy Gap or west towards Wamsutter?  I worked out of Rawlins for a couple of years.  Loved fishing the Miracle Mile. 

  54. “‘course that life was not one of those listed in the “how to live a long and fruitful life” instruction book.”

    BB
    Last night I watched a documentary on Amazon Prime called Red Dog. It was about a titty bar in Oklahoma City during the oilboom years of late 70s early 80’s. It was done by one of the children of a dancer getting stories from his mom, other survivors, dancers, bouncers and bartenders. Kind of reminded me of some of the shit I pulled back when and damn glad I’m  among the survivors. Not that I ever got to their level of crazy shit but it did bring back memories.  If you get a chance it was a good watch.
    Jack

  55. Trump at Texas rally tonight: “If I run and I win, we will treat those people from January 6 fairly, we will treat them fairly and if it requires pardons, then we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”

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