Needing a Shot in the Arm

22 thoughts on “Needing a Shot in the Arm”

1. remember the relief when it first came out in 2021 and trying to spread the word

   ‘We’re jabbing’: Covid vaccine song remakes, from Bob Marley to Madness | Music | The Guardian

   Dolly Parton adapted Jolene for her Covid jab celebration song, but how about looking to Ramones, Bob Marley or the Beach Boys? “Good, good, good, good vaccinations.”
   Parton set social media ablaze on Wednesday by releasing a short video from her injection in Nashville. “Well hey, it’s me. I’m finally going to get my vaccine and I’m so excited,” she said.
   Encouraging people to follow suit she sang a reworked version of one of her biggest hits. “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. I’m begging of you please don’t hesitate,” she sang. “Vaccine, vaccine, vaccine, vaccine. ‘Cos once you’re dead, then that’s a bit too late.”
   Get the vaccine, Parton urged people, and to all the cowards out there “don’t be such a chicken squat, get out there and get your shot.”?
   The video prompted an immediate outpouring of affection for Parton, who gave $1m (£716,000) last year to help develop the Moderna vaccine. “I didn’t think it possible to love Dolly more. I was wrong,” tweeted the physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili.
   It also raised the question of which other songs could be repurposed to encourage people to get a jab?
   Anything by the Vaccines, obviously. But would the Beach Boys settle their differences for a sing-a-long 2021 version of Good Vibrations?
   “I’m picking up good vaccinations. She’s giving me the inoculations. Oom bop bop … good, good, good, good vaccinations [repeat many times].”
   Might Madness urge people: “Listen buster, you’d better start to move your feet, to the rockin’est, rocksteady beat of Pfizer. One step BioNtech.”
   If only Joey Ramone were still around for a reworking of the Ramones classic I Wanna Be Sedated: “Twenty, twenty, twenty four hours to go. I wanna be vaccinated. Nothing to do, nowhere to go, oh, I wanna be vaccinated.”
   In response to a Guardian callout, Ian Cookson suggested Jamming by Bob Marley and the Wailers: “We’re jabbing, we’re jabbing, we’re jabbing … I hope you like jabbing too.”
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   looks like we need some new songs or at least updated boosters — “the second (or 3rd or 4th) time around” or “i’ve got you under my skin”

3. speaking of shots on another issue, here’s eugene robinson’s

   Opinion Elon Musk shouldn’t be calling the shots on how Ukraine fights- The Washington Post

   and in the same vein  🙂

   the editorial board’s

   Opinion | The platform X shouldn’t help Saudi Arabia repress its citizens – The Washington Post

4. Oh good. I’ve been delaying getting the vaccine hoping the new one would be approved. Now I can get my Fall cocktail when CVS gets stocked up. 

5. Yay, shots.  Never happy being in formation at 0615 and having my name called out with a “report to xxx at o800” knowing that xxx was the medics building, not the hospital. Some of those injections came with “do not shower for 24 hours”.  Yeah, you know your week is going to suck.
   Earlier this year I did pneumonia, shingle and tetanus.  That was a week in hell too.
    
   Now we look at the fall blast of flu, COVID, and RSV.  Living healthy is getting to be arm sore.

6. Question is will anti-vaccers prevent enough followers to refuse the vaccine that it’s less effective overall?

7. too many booster shots of vodka maybe? what’s with putie these days — odd contradictions lately. 

   Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong, Putin says – BBC News

   Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia were wrong.
   Speaking at a forum in eastern Russia, he said it is not right to do anything in foreign policy that harms the interests of other people.
   His remarks come as Russian troops continue fighting in Ukraine.
   The Soviet Union invaded Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968 following mass protests and demands for greater freedoms.
   President Putin made the comments at the Eastern Economic Forum in the far eastern Russian city of Vladivostok on Tuesday.
   A moderator asked him how he would respond to those who say the Soviet Union behaved like a colonial power when it sent tanks into Prague in 1968 and Budapest in 1956.
   Mr Putin said: “We acknowledged a long time ago that that part of the Soviet policy was mistaken and only led to tension in relations. One must not do anything in foreign policy that comes in direct contradiction with the interests of other peoples.”
   Mr Putin went on to say that countries in the West, primarily the US, were now making the same mistake as the Soviets made then.
   “They put pressure on their allies, so-called partners. They have no friends. They only have interests. That is a continuation of a well-known British formula,” he said.
   Mr Putin’s comments about the Soviet Union’s actions in Hungary and Czechoslovakia appear to contradict the views of some within his inner circle.
   In August, a history textbook written by one of Mr Putin’s advisers, Vladimir Medinsky, claimed that the 1956 Hungarian Revolution was a fascist uprising organised by the West and said that the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Hungary in 1990 had been a mistake.
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8. “Question is will anti-vaccers prevent enough followers to refuse the vaccine that it’s less effective overall?”
    
   Count on it. 
   The Oafs are legion.

   (Oafs or Oaves?)

   Oafen.

9. Here’s my beef:  I have had five vaccinations, all Moderna, at my local Walgreens. My insurance company only  has a contract with CVS.   CVS only carriers Pfizer.   Now that government funding for vaccines has ended, I will have to switch manufacturers in order for the insurance company to pay for it.  (ps – My Obamacare insurance kicked out a lot of stuff that has, in the past, been covered for a yearly physical.   So far, I’ve written to five Senators and one one Rep.  I’m paying tax dollars and premiums and not getting decent coverage, so the insurance company can make bigger profits.)  Anyway, nobody at the closest CVS to me has any idea about a new covid vaccine coming.  I got a blank stare, shrug, and “maybe in the next month or so,” followed by the notification that they do not carry Moderna.   My doctor said they won’t get covid vaccines because they even have a hard time getting flu vaccines, as the pharmacies contract with the drug manufacturers, so I can’t get Moderna there, either. Out entire heathCARE system is EFFED because the pharmaceutical and insurance companies lobby (pay off) the critterz in Congress who are supposed to be working for us. Here, endeth the daily beef.

10. …looks like not getting vaccinated doesn’t benefit one’s achilles tendon at all 😆 😆 😆 

11. I’ll wait and hope. Our IT guy has Covid and I’m sitting here looking at a blue “software is updating  do not turn off your computer” screen that’s been on here for an hour. I’m told it’s windows updating at the most inconvenient time, right in the middle of the workday. I like my phone and all, but…

12. Yeah Bink…  I felt bad for Jets fans…  but Rodgers…   not so much.

13. doocy did good for a change

    White House thanks Fox News’s Peter Doocy after report on Biden’s ‘all-nighter’ overseas  | The Hill

    The White House sent an online thank you to Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy after he mentioned President Biden’s tough work schedule while in Asia this week.
    “He has basically been working all through the night,” Doocy said while reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam, where Biden is meeting with the country’s leaders. “The equivalent of an all-nighter Eastern Time. So, he’s probably pretty tired, pretty jet-lagged.”
    Critics of Doocy and Fox had circulated the clip online late Monday, pointing out the routine criticism of the president’s age and mental state that have become a regular staple of Fox News’s programming since Biden took office.
    “Thank you Peter,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, early Tuesday morning.
    Jean-Pierre’s message to Doocy comes just hours after the White House rolled out an online pushback campaign regarding the way Biden’s age — 80 — is covered by mainstream media outlets.
    “Here on Earth, we saw the President start his day in India at the G20, end the day in Hanoi with a substantive & detailed 40-minute press conference at 9pm, and continue to answer questions—including from @cnn—as he departed. What will be enough?” one top aide wrote on X recently.
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14. Second 14th Amendment challenge to Trump candidacy filed in Minnesota | The Hill

    A second lawsuit has been filed to keep former President Trump off the ballot in 2024, this time by a liberal group seeking to do so in Minnesota by citing the 14th Amendment.
    The suit, filed by Free Speech For People in Minnesota’s Supreme Court, echoes similar arguments made by some legal scholars and lawmakers who maintain that Trump should be disqualified from the ballot under the 14th Amendment for his actions in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol. 
    […]
    In its letter to Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon (D), the group asked Simon to exclude Trump from the ballot.
    Simon said in a statement earlier this month that his office had gotten hundreds of calls, emails and letters regarding “a legal argument that the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution calls into question the eligibility of former President Donald Trump to run for office again,” and made note that his office has no authority to investigate a candidate’s eligibility. He added, however, that eligibility could be challenged in court.
    Laying out several allegations about Trump’s actions leading up to, during and after the riot, the suit points out that the former president, who is a leading 2024 contender, “remains unrepentant and would do it again.” 
    “To this day, Trump has never expressed regret that his supporters violently attacked the U.S. Capitol, threatened to assassinate the Vice President and other key leaders, and obstructed congressional certification of the electoral votes. Nor has he condemned any of them for these actions,” the suit reads.
    A Washington-based watchdog group filed a similar suit to block Trump from the 2024 ballot in Colorado. 
    Earlier Tuesday, a group of New Hampshire lawmakers pressed the Granite State’s secretary of state to reject any ongoing attempts to keep Trump off the ballot, calling the argument an “absurd conspiracy theory.” 
    Section 3 of the amendment has rarely been used since the period immediately following the Civil War.

15. offering off-the -wall offal oafen often offend while in office.

16. Kevin is a jellyfish. 🪼

17. Wow, Matty-likes-em-young-Gaetz is going after Kev.   They eat their own.  

18. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/politics/biden-poverty-safety-net/index.html

    “On Tuesday, the Census Bureau reported that the child poverty rate skyrocketed from a record low 5.2% in 2021, when families were receiving the enhanced child tax credit and third round of stimulus checks, to 12.4% last year. What’s more, the share of children in poverty is roughly back to where it was prior to the pandemic in 2019, based on a broader alternative measure developed by the Census Bureau.”

    The headline is baloney. Congress controls the purse strings. You know who’s doing just fine? The billionaires who got to keep their tax cuts. Republicans hate children. Republicans want to destroy families. Republicans are owned by corporations and billionaires.

19. Well, it’s official. Jim Justice is running against Joe Manchin. I just got it Justice’s first fundraising appeal in the mail today. If Joe doesn’t run for president, it should be interesting. And as much as I hate to say it, my money is on Justice. Not going to him, but if I were a betting man… and if you think Tommy Tubberville, or Lindsey Graham are corn pone, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

20. https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/12/politics/minnesota-trump-14th-amendment-lawsuit/index.html

    “A liberal group filed a lawsuit Tuesday to block former President Donald Trump from the 2024 presidential ballot in Minnesota, the second major lawsuit in two weeks that hopes to invoke the 14th Amendment’s arcane “insurrectionist ban.”

    “A post-Civil War provision of the 14th Amendment says any American official who takes an oath to uphold the US Constitution is disqualified from holding future office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or have “given aid or comfort” to insurrectionists.”

21. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/conservatives-aim-to-restructure-u-s-government-and-replace-it-with-trumps-vision

    “With a nearly 1,000-page “Project 2025” handbook and an “army” of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the “deep state” bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers.”

    “We need to flood the zone with conservatives,” said Paul Dans, director of the 2025 Presidential Transition Project and a former Trump administration official who speaks with historical flourish about the undertaking.”

    “This is a clarion call to come to Washington,” he said. “People need to lay down their tools, and step aside from their professional life and say, ‘This is my lifetime moment to serve.'”

    It doesn’t matter if it’s him or another Republican. They are all a danger to our democracy. They are evil, authoritarian nut-jobs. All of those yt folks that booed and gave him and DuhSantis the finger are more than likely not going to vote for a Dem.

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