Attribution: Every Month Madness by Christopher Weyant, CagleCartoons.com
Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,’ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‘Shake it off. Stop complainin’. Stop grumblin’. Stop cryin’. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
stephen last night
There’s no way Truth Social is worth what investors are paying for it, President Biden posed for a St. Patrick’s Day photo with members of RFK Jr.’s family who oppose his candidacy, and Democratic operative James Carville blames the party’s problems on “preachy women.”
it might not be faulty brackets or mad magats or normal insanity in general why we’re breaking down. ‘Everybody has a breaking point’: how the climate crisis affects our brains | Climate crisis | The Guardian Are growing rates of anxiety, depression, ADHD, PTSD, Alzheimer’s and motor neurone disease related to rising temperatures and other extreme environmental changes? […] Yet Nomura and her colleagues’ research also offers a representative page in a new story of the climate crisis: a story that says a changing climate doesn’t just shape the environment in which we live. Rather, the climate crisis spurs visceral and tangible transformations in our very brains. As the world undergoes dramatic environmental shifts, so too does our neurological landscape. Fossil-fuel-induced changes – from rising temperatures to extreme weather to heightened levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide – are altering our brain health, influencing everything from memory and executive function to language, the formation of identity, and even the structure of the brain. The weight of nature is heavy, and it presses inward. Evidence comes from a variety of fields. Psychologists and behavioural economists have illustrated the ways in which temperature spikes drive surges in everything from domestic violence to online hate speech. Cognitive neuroscientists have charted the routes by which extreme heat and surging CO2 levels impair decision-making, diminish problem-solving abilities, and short-circuit our capacity to learn. Vectors of brain disease, such as ticks and mosquitoes, are seeing their habitable ranges expand as the world warms. And as researchers like Nomura have shown, you don’t need to go to war to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder: the violence of a hurricane or wildfire is enough. It appears that, due to epigenetic inheritance, you don’t even need to have been born yet. When it comes to the health effects of the climate crisis, says Burcin Ikiz, a neuroscientist at the mental-health philanthropy organisation the Baszucki Group, “we know what happens in the cardiovascular system; we know what happens in the respiratory system; we know what happens in the immune system. But there’s almost nothing on neurology and brain health.” Ikiz, like Nomura, is one of a growing cadre of… Read more »
europeans noticed the madness even back in 2019
THE MADNESS OF KING DONALD | ‘Trump’s Voice Speaks Volumes’ Greg Shapiro. In 2019, Greg Shapiro (voice of the ‘Netherlands Second’ video) created a solo show, demonstrating how Trump’s voice says WAY more about him than he’d like.
Charlie Sikes is characterizing Dumbass’ latest grift as Commoditizing the Bible during Christian holy week. How very trumpian. Bink’s comment from last night is particularly apt – “a grift of Biblical proportions.” How special. Brings to mind the cleansing of the Temple episode in all 4 canonical books the New Testament. Does it come with a free download of Greenwood’s song? That would be the cherry on top.
amy’s take on the bible grift
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., joins Morning Joe to discuss Trump’s latest bid for cash by selling $60 Bibles, which she says is ‘one more moment of hypocrisy’. Sen. Klobuchar also discusses the Supreme Court hearing abortion pill arguments.
King Shameless Version
liz’s advice reported by the hill :
In case you had not heard yet, a large container ship hit the supports for the Francis Scott Key bridge at the entrance to the Patapasco River which is where Port Baltimore is. The bridge collapsed into the river blocking the port. The bridge was I-695, a major interstate of the mid-Atlantic region. The port is one of the major ports of the U.S. This disaster is massive for the region, and major for international trade to and from the U.S. I have been reading up on what the people who analyze stuff for a living have to say. First it is a massive hit on the port and region, but for a limited time. Second is the international trade will have a minor hit, with few issues in the short term. Third is the Port of Baltimore was the major port for auto, truck, heavy equipment imports and exports. Fourth is the port is one of only three on the east coast of the U.S. capable of handling the large freighters and container ships of the modern era; the immediate impact is a need to shift the current ships to ports which can handle them and the cargo. And finally, the overnight thought is the port will be shut down for about three weeks, plus or minus a week or so. Clearing the wreckage and the ship will be difficult, but not impossible. To the interstate. Right now there are three major routes through Baltimore of I-95. Two are tunnels which limit size and contents. Something I did not know was propane tanks are limited to a max of ten pounds. Normal grill uses a twenty pound tank. So the two tunnels were at max capacity years ago and the I-695 bridge took that load off. The third route is I-695 loop over the top of Baltimore which adds about thirty miles more to the journey. It is often packed, similar to the Washington, D.C., Beltway. All this means is that north south traffic along the East Coast is severely impacted getting through Baltimore. Once the Port of… Read more »
I think I have to get me one these signs…
The “Ten Commandments” Controversy In the United States, a controversy has persisted for many years regarding the placement of the “Ten Commandments” in public schools and public buildings. But one critical question seems to have escaped most of the public dialog on the subject: Whose “Ten Commandments” should we post? The general perception in this country is that the “Ten Commandments” are part of the common religious heritage of Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism, part of the sacred scriptures that we all share, and should not be controversial. But most people involved in the debate seem to have missed the fact that these three religions divide up the commandments in different ways! Judaism, unlike Catholicism and Protestantism, considers “I am the L-rd, your G-d” to be the first “commandment.” Catholicism, unlike Judaism and Protestantism, considers coveting property to be separate from coveting a spouse. Protestantism, unlike Judaism and Catholicism, considers the prohibition against idolatry to be separate from the prohibition against worshipping other gods. No two religions agree on a single list. So whose list should we post? And once we decide on a list, what translation should we post? Should Judaism’s sixth declaration be rendered as “Thou shalt not kill” as in the popular KJV translation, or as “Thou shalt not murder,” which is a bit closer to the connotations of the original Hebrew though still not entirely accurate? These may seem like trivial differences to some, but they are serious issues to those of us who take these words seriously. When a government agency chooses one version over another, it implicitly chooses one religion over another, something that the First Amendment prohibits. This is the heart of the controversy. But there is an additional aspect of this controversy that is of concern from a Jewish perspective. In Talmudic times, the rabbis consciously made a decision to exclude daily recitation of the Aseret ha-Dibrot from the liturgy because excessive emphasis on these statements might lead people to mistakenly believe that these were the only mitzvot or the most important mitzvot, and neglect the full 613 (Talmud Berakhot 12a). By posting these words prominently and… Read more »
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jon-stewart-daily-show-trump-politics-biden-jokes-rcna145148?cid=eml_mda_20240327&user_email=d75621b537d5e32caee29175c2f9e621c9f96cbd410e06e6d57cc1294da0c1d7
Alito Surge Strikes Again
Thanks to the Taliban Republican assault on reproductive rights Dems are not just winning swing seats, they’re even winning GOP seats in red states!
Alabama Democrat flips GOP seat after campaigning against threats to IVF.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/26/2231775/-Alabama-Democrat-flips-GOP-seat-after-campaigning-against-threats-to-IVF
There’s no way around the fact that the “commandments” are antiquated like my iPhone 7. All 613 of them. Time for an upgrade.
The official book of my people lists them as The Ten Suggestions.
Jesus, Nietzsche, or Spock—I just can’t make up my mind.
Sturge, your people’s book appears to have the correct translation.
They’re more like guidelines.
The Ten Things. That sounds right. I see them as 10 things that sound like good ideas for the most part and that we might consider before doing something different. The 3 (take the lord’s name in vain), 4 ( keep the Sabbath holy) & 10 “(not covet thy neighbor’s [this and that] …” – hard to live up to, (and 31 years ago if I’d gone with 7 (adultery) I wouldn’t be with the love of my life today). BTW, I’d think that if god thought homosexuality and abortion were all that important they would have been Nos. 11 and 12.
Trump’s Leading AG Pick: “I don’t like Democracy”
Introduced just now by Steve Bannon on his show as “Trump’s potential attorney general”,former Grassley chief counsel Mike Davis says “I’m going to be Trump’s viceroy of D.C. because I don’t like democracy. I want more authoritory powers”
I guess when you have “authoritory” power you don’t have to know how to spell it.
Loverly
they intend a coronation (not an inauguration) come jan 20, 2025?
from wiki:
A viceroy (/ˈvaɪsrɔɪ/) is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.
The term derives from the Latin prefix vice-, meaning “in the place of” and the Anglo-Norman roy (Old French roi, roy), meaning “king”. This denotes the position as one who acts on behalf of a king or monarch. A viceroy’s territory may be called a viceroyalty, though this term is not always applied. The adjective form is viceregal, less often viceroyal. The term vicereine is sometimes used to indicate a female viceroy suo jure, although viceroy can serve as a gender-neutral term. Vicereine is more commonly used to indicate a viceroy’s wife, known as the viceregal consort.
What is with MAGAs (starting at the top) and their inability to spell in the age of spell check and auto correct? Or is authoritory some sort of stern musical work? (misspelling the second root?)
BTW, Poobah, how’s the hip coming along?
Today’s “Four Years Ago Today” video from Biden camaign:. This is when he was doing his disastrous daily press briefings denying and lying. (The chaotic sessions stopped once his numbers persuaded him they were unpopular). Now, Biden camp is routinely distributing short clips like this, the day he claimed they’d have “100,000 ventilators in 100 days”. (It turned out they had not even been ordered, staff didn’t know he was going to say that — he just made it up — and the supply chain wasn’t fixed for months, thousands died).
Four years ago today
Q: Will everybody who needs a ventilator be able to get a ventilator?
Trump: Don’t be a cutie pie
Video —
Hip feeling fine, Pogo, but tomorrow I take the last of the Oxycodone, so that’ll be the test
Every now and then a trolling question makes its way through social media. One that keeps coming back is something about the first important world happening you remember. Lately I have become an old lump of lard and so I thought about it. It was the Korean war, not much at first, but more as the world changed. Our neighbor was WWII vet, but recalled and sent over. I do not remember my father being concerned.
Glad it’s coming along – by 3-4 days out I didn’t need anything, and only took the Oxy at night to help me sleep more comfortably during that phase. Ibuprofen worked fine for me during the day and during the night after that first few days – plus it didn’t screw with my ability to
givetake a shit.Blue Bronc: thank you for your recap. I figure I’ve made at least 5,000 trips over these bridges and through those tunnels, plus the Conowingo Dam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conowingo_Dam
I can go with this.
I don’t wish ill on him but I can’t lionize Lieberman. He was a Dem who became an Indie who John McCain reportedly wanted to have as his VP. Sorry, but while Johnny Mc deserves a touch of credit for his FU votes as a Senator; a Dem who moved far enough right to be considered for a Repub VP needs to look right for his accolades.
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