19 thoughts on “JOY”

  1. Jack don’t know if you meant this to be posted now but I just love it. And at the risk of being too political I’m feeling joy that Trump is getting thumped by J6 Committee today at 1pm ET. 

  2. jack, wonderful find for the festivities this week.

     

    craig, yes, true joy in critterville today on jan6 proclamations; but being the 1st day of hanukkah, this may be more appropriate

  3. or this from jokeindex:

    The Eight Days of Hanukkah

    On the first night of Hanukkah my true love gave to me
    Lox, bagels and some cream cheese

    On the second night of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me
    2 Kosher pickles and
    Lox, bagels and some cream cheese

    On the third night of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me
    3 pounds of corned beef
    2 Kosher pickles and
    Lox, bagels and some cream cheese

    On the fourth night of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me
    4 potato latkes
    3 pounds of corned beef
    2 Kosher pickles and
    Lox, bagels and some cream cheese

    On the fifth night of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me
    5 bowls of chicken soup
    4 potato latkes
    3 pounds of corned beef
    2 Kosher pickles and
    Lox, bagels and some cream cheese

    On the sixth night of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me
    6 pickled herrings
    5 bowls of chicken soup
    4 potato latkes
    3 pounds of corned beef
    2 Kosher pickles and
    Lox, bagels and some cream cheese

    On the seventh night of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me
    7 noodle kugels
    6 pickled herrings
    5 bowls of chicken soup
    4 potato latkes
    3 pounds of corned beef
    2 Kosher pickles and
    Lox, bagels and some cream cheese

    On the eighth night of Hanukkah, my true love gave to me
    8 Alka- Seltzer
    7 noodle kugels
    6 pickled herrings
    5 bowls of chicken soup
    4 potato latkes
    3 pounds of corned beef
    2 Kosher pickles and
    Lox, bagels and some cream cheese

    PS:
    For the Israeli version, substitute 1 Falafel ball , 2 spoons of Hummos, 3 liters of Tehina, 4 plates of salads, 5 glasses of eshkoliot (grapefruit juice), 6 bags of pita, 7 mouthfuls of ful and 8 greps

  4. however, let us indeed take comfort in the happenings today on the hill and what they portend

    U.S. Constitution – Fourteenth Amendment | Resources | Constitution Annotated | Congress.gov | Library of Congress

    Section 3
    No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

  6. ms petri’s op ed “Not another column about Elon Musk” in wapo

    In “The Madness of King George,” there are several scenes where very learned doctors dedicate considerable time and effort to squinting at the contents of the king’s chamber pot. Watching the movie, you think, “Well, at least we are at a stage of civilization where we don’t have to do that! We do not live in a world that hinges so completely on the condition of one or two powerful men that it is worth our while to spend hours every day examining their stools in minute detail and trying to draw conclusions from them.” But then Elon Musk buys Twitter, and — I can think of no better analogy for what has ensued.
    […]
    I have complained about this before. But one of the minor, in the scheme of things, yet persistent frustrations of the Trump era was the sheer amount of brainpower that all kinds of people — good, busy, even witty — had to spend staring into the unfathomable abyss of his words and actions and trying to extract meaning from them. What was covfefe? People spent hours on that! The sheer volume of analysis and jokes and grunting, straining effort to make sense of what made Donald Trump tick — and what made his head open up and a screaming bird shoot out of it at regular intervals — was debilitating.
    There are so many people to know about on this planet. Some of them are pleasant and others are wise and many of them are kind and a few of them are funny and polite to waiters. Some of them possess remarkable skills and others are tremendous listeners and still others know what to do if you spill certain kinds of things on certain types of surfaces. Lots and lots of them own cats, and when they go online, all they do is post pictures of those cats doing cute and interesting things. There are so many people who are interesting. And instead we have to follow Elon Musk and Donald Trump. We have to watch them host SNL, and read their inane tweets, and know precisely what they are going through at all times, because their whims can cost people jobs and ruin lives.
    There is something desperately boring about despots and plutocrats. And one of the frustrating consequences of an unequal society is that the rest of us have to care what is going on with them. Now Trump might be gone, but we still have a main character we don’t want. Not that this is a new phenomenon. The ancient historian Suetonius may not have been the most accurate source, but seeing people like Musk and Trump in action, I feel more sympathetic to his accounts of what boring people, given power answerable to their whims, wind up doing. I thought it was ridiculous when he said Nero, literally the emperor of Rome, decided that, actually, what he wanted to be was an actor — but here is Musk, one of the richest men on the planet, who has decided for no reason whatsoever that what he wants to be is a Twitter troll! And not even a funny one; just as transphobic and anti-vax and awful as the bog standard. I’m sorry I doubted you, Suetonius! Maybe if we are lucky Musk will start doing more of the fun caesar things, such as trying to get a horse into the Senate, and will stop his mission to turn Twitter into a hateful cesspool! But somehow I doubt it.
    I hate that we have to pay attention. Our lives will be impacted if Trump is again elected president, say, or the roads are suddenly filled with exploding cars, or if the place where journalists go to water-cooler about breaking news gets seized up and its rules rewritten, seemingly arbitrarily, on the fly. Mark Zuckerberg changes an algorithm, and livelihoods in the content economy shudder in terror. I would like nothing better than to not have to know or care about these people. With the amount of time I pour into them, I could have invented Narnia twice. But instead we are sitting there squinting into the king’s stool.

  7. some good news for a change in re the climate change catastrophe 

    Nations strike deal to try to save wildlife from extinction at COP15 – The Washington Post

    MONTREAL — Close to 200 countries reached a watershed agreement early Monday to stem the loss of nature worldwide, pledging to protect nearly a third of Earth’s land and oceans as a refuge for the planet’s remaining wild plants and animals by the end of the decade.
    A room of bleary-eyed delegates erupted in applause in the wee hours after agreeing to the landmark framework at the U.N. biodiversity summit, called COP15.
    The hope is to turn the tide on an ongoing extinction crisis. About a million species are at risk of disappearing forever, a mass extinction event scientists say is on par with the devastation wrought by the asteroid that wiped out most dinosaurs.
    [continues]

  10. Mush’s poll:

    Do you like me?

    [meh]. [not so much]  [what?]
    [new phone, who dis?]
    [go away, kid;  yer bugging me]

    Check one.

  14. Craig… don’t worry about the politics.
    Just be you…  everyone here can decide for themselves what they want to read and what they want to comment on.
     
    BTW… both Rick and I will be watching the J6 hearing this afternoon.

  16. That was a great conclusive hearing, IMO.  Very thankful it lasted for only slightly more than an hour.
     
    Now to await to see what DOJ does…

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