34 thoughts on “Bring Out Your Cots”

  1. Iā€™m no expert on congressional procedure, but some reform that allows the majority to advance legislation in the Senate has to occur. The notion that legislation that is not for the purposes of taxing or spending must have support of 60 Senators to pass is stupid when the same restriction does not apply to legislation that is for those purposes. My 2 cents.Ā 

  2. Yee haw. Something about snakes (or pagans or druids or something; itā€™s so hard to sort that all out, but I digress) and beer.Ā 

  6. BiD

    There are tribes that depend on that revenue and tribes whose lands are being destroyed by the production.Ā  I would guess that wind and solar and development of grids that could sell back to the near by cities would be a good compromise.Ā Ā 

    An even bigger issue is probably getting water to indigenous areas.Ā  It is hard to have development without water for the inhabitants.

     

  9. The president also weighs in on the future of the filibuster in the Senate and gives an update on his dog, Major.

  10. The Loock Oā€™ Thee Oirish ainā€™t helping me secure a vaccine appointment.
     
    …must be my iconoclasmšŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

  11. major breaking news out of the steph interview šŸ™‚

    cnn via msn:

    “Is Major out of the dog house?” ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos asked in a one-on-one interview with the President that aired on “Good Morning America” on Wednesday.

    “The answer is yes,” Biden responded. “Major was a rescue pup. Major did not bite someone and penetrate the skin. The dog’s being trained now with our trainer at home in Delaware.”

    […]

    The President also asserted that Major wasn’t banished to Delaware in response to the incident, but that the move was previously planned to accommodate the first family’s upcoming schedule.

    “He was going home. I didn’t banish him to home. Jill was going to be away for four days. I was going to be away for two, so we took him home,” Biden said.

    […]

    Biden said 85% of people at the White House “love” Major.

    “But he turned a corner, there’s two people he doesn’t know at all, you know, and they move and moves to protect. But he’s a sweet dog. Eighty-five percent of the people there love him. All he does is lick them and wag his tail,” the President said on ABC.

  14. Bink, are you in your state’s eligible age groups for receiving the vaccine?Ā  I thought you are a whippersnapper, relatively speaking.

  15. Ā We are having colcannon in honor of St Patrickā€™s day. Ā The kind with bacon.
    My guess is McConnell has some sort of dementia and still thinks he is the majority leader. Ā  He Ā contradicts himself practically hourly now. Ā No wonder he is talking about retiring. Talk about past your sell by date.

  21. If those three don’t get you in the mood you are beyond hope.
    Got a trip to the dentist to get my lower partial fitted. Then I’ll have a pretty smile for when the mask comes off this summer. With a mask why bother.Ā 
    after I get back I’ll crack the seal on the Jamison, then we will celebrate.
    Jack

  24. bink, what do you mean by “Xrep is in one of the vids”?Ā  the last 2 that jack posted or the one you repeated that he first posted in his series?

  25. darcy today in cleveland plain dealer:

    Wearing of the Green and mask

    CLEVELAND, Ohio –Ahead of this St. Partickā€™s Day, President Biden delivered a ā€˜pot ā€˜o goldā€™ to the nation in the form of his $1.9 trillion Covid Relief package, and has more 4-leaf clovers he hopes to pick and pass along — infrastructure and voting rights protections.
    Biden is only the second Irish-Catholic U.S. President in history. The first being President John F. Kennedy, elected in 1960.
    Great grandparents on both Bidenā€™s maternal and fraternal side emigrated from Ireland in the 1840ā€²s and after. They came from County Louth on the east coast of Ireland and County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland.
    Bidenā€™s great-great grandfather James Finnegan emigrated from County Louth in 1850 as a child. After the great Irish famine, his great-grandfather Edward Blewitt emigrated to Scranton, Pennsylvania in 1840 from Ballina, County Mayo. Itā€™s fitting that Biden has roots in Ballina since itā€™s the birthplace of Irelandā€™s first female President Mary Robinson, and Biden chose Kamala Harris to become the first female-black-asian-American Vice President of the United States.
    In 2016, upon his trip to Ireland, then Vice President Biden described his great grandfather Blewit as an ā€œengineer with a poetā€™s heartā€ and spoke of finding a box of his poems in the attic.
    “In his poetry, my great-grandfather spoke of both continents, and how his heart and his soul drew from the old and the new. And most of all, he was proud. He was proud of his ancestors. He was proud of his blood. He was proud of his city. He was proud of his state, his country. But most of all – he was proud of his family.ā€
    ā€œAnd that is America. This nation that home is where your character is etched. As Americans, we all hail from many homes. Somewhere along the line, someone in our lineage arrived on our shores, filled with hope. We are blessed to experience that simultaneous pride in where weā€™ve found ourselves, while never forgetting our roots.ā€

  26. Pat
    That is the playlist Bink created of all the stuff myself and others played last year.
    You can play the whole list ad free unless you mess with it, like skip a song then you get ads.Ā 
    btw, I book marked the comment link so I can always go back and play it all afternoon ad free.
    Jack

  28. My doctorā€™s office said their request for vaccine was declined! Ā  Itā€™s a big practice in several cities.Ā 

    Others are getting calls from their docs to come in, so whatā€™s the deal?

  30. A few of the worst things I have read in the last month concern people who have been through some type of surgery involving joints or bones.Ā  Those are very painful surgeries.Ā  Recovery from joint or bone surgery can be very painful and the best thing I have found is to be asleep in bed or a chair, well medicated.Ā  I am reading about people sent home to recover with nothing more than ibuprofen.Ā  Geez zowie.Ā  The fulcrum swing from over medication to “suffer in pain, no meds for you” is extreme.Ā  As someone who schedules yearly operations which result in extremely painful recoveries I know pain.Ā  Pain so extreme that morphine and oxycodon barely reduce it.Ā  To even imagine people are going through procedures like what I go through and all they get is a pill of ibuprofen is next to criminal.Ā 

  31. I might have some Irish in my background, or not.Ā  While I don’t dislike Irish Whiskey I prefer Scotch, and I’d prefer my beer not be green – I prefer it dark brown – Guinness Stout to be exact – so I guess I may indeed have a bit of Irish in me – assuming that not ALL of the Guinness I’ve drunk over the years passed through my kidneys.Ā  Surely at least one pound of me is from drinking Guinness – so that much of me is Irish, right?

  32. Damn, BB, what different experiences we’ve had with surgeries.Ā  15 years ago I had a right hip resurface.Ā  One year ago last Sunday I had a left knee replacement.Ā  (And both shoulders have been operated on but too many years ago to remember much about those) Of course they had me dulled up pretty well in the hospital each time, but after that I took 1 oxycontin to dull the hip pain the 2nd day following surgery to make the 4 hour drive home after the hip surgery and took one that night and the next to help me sleep.Ā  The other 28 they sent me home with got taken to my doc’s office to be disposed of.Ā  After my knee I went to the hotel the day after surgery and took one (I think this time it was Percocet) and took another one the next morning to get me through the 6 hour drive home and again, one that night and the next to help me sleep.Ā  After each of those I just went to Ibuprofen without any significant post-op pain. I do have a pretty high tolerance for pain, except headaches and toothaches.Ā  Those I can’t stand.
    Ā 
    Well, Spring has hit AL, MS & LA a few days early, bringing tornadoes with it. Tuscaloosa area is taking it on the chin, but just barely – Moundsville is taking the brunt of the AL damage.Ā  Times like now I’m glad I don’t live down there anymore.

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