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another day, another holiday
thanksgiving over, buy local day over, 1st day of advent over, hanukkah begins, cyber monday crashed and it’s only november the last – more advents, festivus, christmas, kwanzaa et al to go
today i’m breaking the set for another show. into storage go the fall colors and out come the reds and greens and golds and lots of sparkle. santa hats, reindeer antlers, merry christmas and bah humbug signs to hang.
I’m just looking at the holidays as paid, mental health days.
Gasoline is down 20 cents/gallon.
Inflation is just a greed-o-meter.
to me a holiday is what a painter calls where he missed a spot.
it’s the season to be jolly so let the parodies begin
An eco-friendly O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum) written and performed by Local Anxiety (aka Kevin Crofton and Mark Leiren-Young). Written and directed by Mark Leiren-Young. Local Anxiety’s new CD and/or digital release — the eco-comedy Greenpieces and their classic, Forgive Us We’re Canadian — are available on iTunes and CDbaby.com For more on Local Anxiety visit http://www.leiren-young.com
i haven’t bought anything on Amazon in a while, but i still have that goddamned prime subscription, and frankly, i like its programming. i should still cancel, regardless, but then i’ll be excluded from the space colony
i have a feeling that people might start tiring of Republican shenanigans they same way they would with a petulant child- it’s enough already, and anger grinds people down
ofc i could be wrong and we’re halfway down the quick slide to fascism- trying to stay positive, here🤷♂️
Haha saw a funny thing about having a positive attitude
Wonder where it was
Moe: Are you sure?
Curley: I’m positive!
Moe: Only a fool is positive.
Curley: Are you sure?
Moe: I’m positive!
I wasted a lot of positive thinking on 2 impeachments and a Mueller report, but what the hell, hold up that football, Lucy, and I’ll have another go at it.
Show opening on the ups and downs of politics. – Tragedy Tomorrow Comedy Tonight
The new Maccabeats Hanukkah Hamilton
Many, having painted themselves into an ideological corner, are simply afraid of admitting that they just miiiiight be a tiny-teeney bit of a tenet too far. Afraid that someone might neener neener them, they remain deeply entrenched in what has become a sewer-ditch of a political philosophy. Their Antifa dads would be non-plussed or worse.
Marcus Lamb, pseudo-Christian, anti-vaxxer has died.
This is sickening. Debbie one of my favs in Congress… Rep. Debbie Dingell’s Dearborn office was broken into and memorabilia of her late husband, former Rep. John Dingell, was destroyed. “Police said it was personal. I’m not going to say that it didn’t bother me.” https://t.co/BTJjTe27oC
Trump Org fleeced Americans for $1.7 billion while in office: David Cay Johnston https://t.co/AXJjzvi6eQ
Renee, thanks for your shout out yesterday. As my buddy from Kentucky says, don’t bet against Saban. I was astounded at the last drive, and considering the history of Auburn last play upsets of Alabama when they were favored, it’s a bit of poetic justice. I don’ think this coming Saturday is likely to repeat that. Georgia’s defense is close to epic and Bama’s O line is mushy. Not a great match up for a QB who as good as he is, spends too much time with the ball. Current line is 6.5 points in GA’s favor – I’d say more like 14.
Yes, another holiday. Those are the bane of a family lawyer’s existence. Personally, the biggest decision is which cold spot to spend the holiday weekend in.
Jamie – one of my favorite movies is A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. Zero Mostel is a blast. It is one of the series of movies of the Sixties, which is breaking away from the Hayes commission, yet gives a lot of out of work actors a place to strut their stuff. Think of: Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines, Pink Panther, Support Your Local Sheriff, and many more. I have Blue Ray DVDs of these and many more. These are great for my movie nights, funny and enjoyable.
“He also has connections to Trump. In 2018, Trump appointed Oz to the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, reappointing him to the position in 2020.”
“In his campaign video, Oz criticized the federal response to Covid-19, saying that “Washington got it wrong.” “They took away our freedom without making us safer,” he said.
One of my pet peeves is the “oh it is simple, just “. The just is usually something so simplistic and rather ignorant of what actually is important, usually to the process of how to make something. Make it in America! You bet. Of course most of the raw materials and components come from other countries, but, damn it sounds good.
Seventy years ago the world was rebuilding from the latest world war. America had steel plants that worked. America had sand to make glass, the plants worked. America had manufacturing plants that were not destroyed during the latest war. And manufacture and thrive America did.
During the Fifties, the transistors (created in America (all you know about that is a lie)) were used to make a lot of things, one of which is the transistor radio, not fully created in America (lots of propaganda about that). But, foreign parts became important to manufacturing products any where in the world.
The word “globalization” is very true now compared to the first years after WWII. Products components are from around the globe. You need minerals, basic materials and manufacturing facilities where are not in the U.S. just to make a cellular phone. Yes, those can and are manufactured in the U.S., but not all is possible in the U.S.
With composites and weird compounds, products are no longer of U.S. steel and copper. We have moved from those basic minerals and metals to manufactured chemicals. Many of which are not found in America. Moving manufacturing to the U.S. requires the movement of those from out of America to America.
It ain’t as simple as a slogan to manufacture in the U.S. What left the borders in the Eighties is not what is built today.
Yes, but as the economy depends on folks spending money on stuff, the climate depends on us not doing that.
Maybe it’s time for a basic, living income for all. Lots of creative pursuits don’t use stuff to make them; music, dance, collage, found art, quilting from scraps and repurposing clothing. Gardening and cooking the harvest. Teaching things like swimming /water safety. I doubt that we’d all want to do the same thing, and, with basic necessities met…it might be a pretty nice world. All of those advertising folks would be able to focus on what they first, loved doing when they were young. I doubt that it was advertising drugs or makeup or whatnot.
BB, thanks. Someone near and dear to me makes such simple solution comments. Won’t listen to my opinions about global supply chain displacing the made in the USA meme. I buy some (few) things genuinely made in the US. But I drive a German car, play US guitars with some parts sourced from the Far East, and comment here on a phone designed ostensibly in the US, with nothing else American about it but the name. It ain’t the 50s anymore.
Oz is a prototypical RW expert. I’d pit Sanjay or Rashida against him every day and twice on Sunday. He’d do alright on nutrition but as for virology, he’d be screwed. But he’s a media doctor so if ShitForBrains runs and wins in 2024 expect Oz to be Surgeon General.
“…Oz was oddly cavalier about the prospect of increased COVID deaths that some feared at the time would result from reopening schools; a two-to-three percent increase in total deaths, he told Hannity, might be an “appetizing opportunity” to “get our mojo back” as a society. “
“He has promoted a long line of dubious cures, including hydroxychloroquine as a COVID treatment. (He backtracked somewhat on his advocacy for the drug, saying in a Fox & Friends interview last year that “we are better off waiting” to see how it performed in clinical trials; studies have shown the antimalarial to be ineffective against COVID-19.) “
“Oz also infamously conducted a televised “physical” of then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016, in which he read over two pages the future president pulled out of his pocket and claimed were his medical records.“
“Mehmet Oz is a physician who, after practicing actual medicine for a few years, embarked on a life mission to get rich by giving wellness advice. “
“In 2014, a team of medical researchers released a report proving that 60% of advice given on Dr. Oz’s TV show lacked scientific basis. Soon afterward, 1,300 doctors signed an open letter calling him “a quack and a fake and a charlatan” whose “advice endangers patients.”
another day, another holiday
thanksgiving over, buy local day over, 1st day of advent over, hanukkah begins, cyber monday crashed and it’s only november the last – more advents, festivus, christmas, kwanzaa et al to go
today i’m breaking the set for another show. into storage go the fall colors and out come the reds and greens and golds and lots of sparkle. santa hats, reindeer antlers, merry christmas and bah humbug signs to hang.
another opening another show
other shows opening today
Congress’s goal in December: Avoid shutdown and default | TheHill
and the covid show goes on and on
I’m just looking at the holidays as paid, mental health days.
Gasoline is down 20 cents/gallon.
Inflation is just a greed-o-meter.
to me a holiday is what a painter calls where he missed a spot.
it’s the season to be jolly so let the parodies begin
An eco-friendly O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum) written and performed by Local Anxiety (aka Kevin Crofton and Mark Leiren-Young). Written and directed by Mark Leiren-Young. Local Anxiety’s new CD and/or digital release — the eco-comedy Greenpieces and their classic, Forgive Us We’re Canadian — are available on iTunes and CDbaby.com For more on Local Anxiety visit http://www.leiren-young.com
i haven’t bought anything on Amazon in a while, but i still have that goddamned prime subscription, and frankly, i like its programming. i should still cancel, regardless, but then i’ll be excluded from the space colony
i have a feeling that people might start tiring of Republican shenanigans they same way they would with a petulant child- it’s enough already, and anger grinds people down
ofc i could be wrong and we’re halfway down the quick slide to fascism- trying to stay positive, here🤷♂️
Haha saw a funny thing about having a positive attitude
Wonder where it was
This is along the same lines
https://smarterstorytelling.com/blog/positive-thinking-cynical-cruelty/
Moe: Are you sure?
Curley: I’m positive!
Moe: Only a fool is positive.
Curley: Are you sure?
Moe: I’m positive!
I wasted a lot of positive thinking on 2 impeachments and a Mueller report, but what the hell, hold up that football, Lucy, and I’ll have another go at it.
Show opening on the ups and downs of politics. – Tragedy Tomorrow Comedy Tonight
The new Maccabeats Hanukkah Hamilton
Many, having painted themselves into an ideological corner, are simply afraid of admitting that they just miiiiight be a tiny-teeney bit of a tenet too far. Afraid that someone might neener neener them, they remain deeply entrenched in what has become a sewer-ditch of a political philosophy. Their Antifa dads would be non-plussed or worse.
Marcus Lamb, pseudo-Christian, anti-vaxxer has died.
This is sickening. Debbie one of my favs in Congress… Rep. Debbie Dingell’s Dearborn office was broken into and memorabilia of her late husband, former Rep. John Dingell, was destroyed. “Police said it was personal. I’m not going to say that it didn’t bother me.” https://t.co/BTJjTe27oC
Trump Org fleeced Americans for $1.7 billion while in office: David Cay Johnston https://t.co/AXJjzvi6eQ
Renee, thanks for your shout out yesterday. As my buddy from Kentucky says, don’t bet against Saban. I was astounded at the last drive, and considering the history of Auburn last play upsets of Alabama when they were favored, it’s a bit of poetic justice. I don’ think this coming Saturday is likely to repeat that. Georgia’s defense is close to epic and Bama’s O line is mushy. Not a great match up for a QB who as good as he is, spends too much time with the ball. Current line is 6.5 points in GA’s favor – I’d say more like 14.
Yes, another holiday. Those are the bane of a family lawyer’s existence. Personally, the biggest decision is which cold spot to spend the holiday weekend in.
Jamie – one of my favorite movies is A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. Zero Mostel is a blast. It is one of the series of movies of the Sixties, which is breaking away from the Hayes commission, yet gives a lot of out of work actors a place to strut their stuff. Think of: Those Daring Young Men in Their Flying Machines, Pink Panther, Support Your Local Sheriff, and many more. I have Blue Ray DVDs of these and many more. These are great for my movie nights, funny and enjoyable.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/30/politics/dr-oz-senate-campaign-pennsylvania/index.html
Quack, quack, quack.
“He also has connections to Trump. In 2018, Trump appointed Oz to the Presidential Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition, reappointing him to the position in 2020.”
“In his campaign video, Oz criticized the federal response to Covid-19, saying that “Washington got it wrong.” “They took away our freedom without making us safer,” he said.
One of my pet peeves is the “oh it is simple, just “. The just is usually something so simplistic and rather ignorant of what actually is important, usually to the process of how to make something. Make it in America! You bet. Of course most of the raw materials and components come from other countries, but, damn it sounds good.
Seventy years ago the world was rebuilding from the latest world war. America had steel plants that worked. America had sand to make glass, the plants worked. America had manufacturing plants that were not destroyed during the latest war. And manufacture and thrive America did.
During the Fifties, the transistors (created in America (all you know about that is a lie)) were used to make a lot of things, one of which is the transistor radio, not fully created in America (lots of propaganda about that). But, foreign parts became important to manufacturing products any where in the world.
The word “globalization” is very true now compared to the first years after WWII. Products components are from around the globe. You need minerals, basic materials and manufacturing facilities where are not in the U.S. just to make a cellular phone. Yes, those can and are manufactured in the U.S., but not all is possible in the U.S.
With composites and weird compounds, products are no longer of U.S. steel and copper. We have moved from those basic minerals and metals to manufactured chemicals. Many of which are not found in America. Moving manufacturing to the U.S. requires the movement of those from out of America to America.
It ain’t as simple as a slogan to manufacture in the U.S. What left the borders in the Eighties is not what is built today.
Yes, but as the economy depends on folks spending money on stuff, the climate depends on us not doing that.
Maybe it’s time for a basic, living income for all. Lots of creative pursuits don’t use stuff to make them; music, dance, collage, found art, quilting from scraps and repurposing clothing. Gardening and cooking the harvest. Teaching things like swimming /water safety. I doubt that we’d all want to do the same thing, and, with basic necessities met…it might be a pretty nice world. All of those advertising folks would be able to focus on what they first, loved doing when they were young. I doubt that it was advertising drugs or makeup or whatnot.
BB, thanks. Someone near and dear to me makes such simple solution comments. Won’t listen to my opinions about global supply chain displacing the made in the USA meme. I buy some (few) things genuinely made in the US. But I drive a German car, play US guitars with some parts sourced from the Far East, and comment here on a phone designed ostensibly in the US, with nothing else American about it but the name. It ain’t the 50s anymore.
Oz is a prototypical RW expert. I’d pit Sanjay or Rashida against him every day and twice on Sunday. He’d do alright on nutrition but as for virology, he’d be screwed. But he’s a media doctor so if ShitForBrains runs and wins in 2024 expect Oz to be Surgeon General.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/11/dr-oz-expected-to-announce-pennsylvania-senate-run
“…Oz was oddly cavalier about the prospect of increased COVID deaths that some feared at the time would result from reopening schools; a two-to-three percent increase in total deaths, he told Hannity, might be an “appetizing opportunity” to “get our mojo back” as a society. “
“He has promoted a long line of dubious cures, including hydroxychloroquine as a COVID treatment. (He backtracked somewhat on his advocacy for the drug, saying in a Fox & Friends interview last year that “we are better off waiting” to see how it performed in clinical trials; studies have shown the antimalarial to be ineffective against COVID-19.) “
“Oz also infamously conducted a televised “physical” of then-candidate Donald Trump in 2016, in which he read over two pages the future president pulled out of his pocket and claimed were his medical records.“
https://www.businessinsider.com/dr-oz-false-misleading-baseless-medical-claims-coronavirus-2020-4
“Here are eight times Oz made misleading or downright false scientific claims.“
Dr. No Nothing
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelschein/2018/05/25/dr-oz-makes-millions-even-though-hes-a-total-fraud-and-other-reasons-you-should-follow-his-lead/
“Mehmet Oz is a physician who, after practicing actual medicine for a few years, embarked on a life mission to get rich by giving wellness advice. “
“In 2014, a team of medical researchers released a report proving that 60% of advice given on Dr. Oz’s TV show lacked scientific basis. Soon afterward, 1,300 doctors signed an open letter calling him “a quack and a fake and a charlatan” whose “advice endangers patients.”
So, why not give politics a whirl?
Quack, quack, quack.
https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/dr-oz-calls-keystone-state-home-as-he-ponders-u-s-senate-bid/
fake Pennsylvanian
…he’s about to get a lesson in PA GOP racism
PA is deep GQP country, let’s see how whacky he is willing to get, i’ll bet it’s a bridge too far, even for him
Joe Biden is more Pennsylvanian than him, hey-oh 🥁
tip you waitstaff 🥸
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