Politics As Usual

During the boys call last night we viewed the pandemic from the celebrity angle.  We made fun of the completely clueless Meghan McCain and her daily double stupidity. She stated that they need to replace Fauci with someone who “understands science” and lamented that she, as The View co-host, cannot get the vaccine.  Maybe someone should tell her the only reason she has that job is because Daddy was a senator. Otherwise, she might be assistant manager at Burger King.

I had been pissed that I, as DJ’s Detritus blogger, could not get the vaccine either.  But through a simple twist of fate, I got one last week.  The wife is doing some part time work for her old gig and qualified.  I accompanied her to the Oakland Coliseum and the nice man there asked me if I’d like one too. I said yes, please jab me.  We return on March 9.  We got the Pfizer dose and neither had any reaction.

I’m a little late with this one but I noticed in Trump’s predictable attack on McConnell that he called him a “dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack". While spot on, can you see Trump using that language?  I don’t think those adjectives are in his lexicon. He’ll have a chance to expound on his feelings at CPAC 2021, America Uncancelled.  This is the event that canceled Young Pharaoh, which is the right thing to do due to his reprehensible statements, but since when did CPAC start having a conscience?  Trump will be going, but Pence will not.  Through his spokesman, Mikey said he cannot make the event because he does not want to get murdered. I caught the following tweet re that event.

I mentioned a bete noire of mine in my 12/8/18 post and I’d like to share another.  Using the term “it was everything” for a non-event, such as detailed in the below link, is really annoying me.  “It was nothing” is more like it.  You should not be able to use that phrase so flippantly.  Let’s go back to 1969.  If they had said “we have landed a man on the moon and it was everything”, I might be inclined to work with them.  But anybody can do no pants.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/halle-berry-posted-no-pants-160433648.html

Ted Cruz is still getting some flak.  He’s unhappy with the “assholes” that leaked the Cancun text messages.  Poor Ted.  He was playing with his phone during insurrection hearings yesterday, so I think he’s the asshole.  Also, somebody hired a mariachi band to play in front of his house recently.  DJ like.  Lastly, you can pick up your Ted pinata here.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/sen-ted-cruz-pinatas-created-at-dallas-party-store/2560281/

Anybody have thoughts on the recently cloned black-footed ferret?  I think it is time to stop messing around and bring back some dinosaurs.

Ding Dong, Rush Is Dead

I thought that one up this morning during my swim laps, but as usual, somebody quicker and smarter beat me to it.

https://twitter.com/tonygoldmark/status/1362094145481834497

They say you should not speak ill of the dead, or as I usually put it, De mortuis nil nisi bonum dicendum est.  However, Rush is a special case, so I’ll let you peruse the following:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rush-limbaugh-spent-his-lifetime-speaking-ill-of-the-dead?ref=home

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35538951/rush-limbaugh-obituary-dead-at-70/

https://defector.com/point-counterpoint-rush-limbaugh/

I toss the Latin around with such facility due to the elite East Coast schooling I bragged of in my 2/7 post.  I actually did take a year of Latin in high school.  Unfortunately, as with all subjects, I paid scant attention.  I think one would be hard-pressed to find a school today where Latin is still taught, Catholic or not.  I’m in the “back in my day” stage of my life.

It looks like Ted Cruz stepped on his dick recently with his trip to Cancun, putting the blame on his kids.  His political self-preservation alarm must have gone off because he returned less that 24 hours later.  Of course, he asked Houston PD for help on his return, as if they did not have better things to do.  As Charles Pierce pointed out, a regular citizen making that sort of jaunt would have the DEA waiting on his lawn when he got home.

One of Cruz’s partners in mendacity, Gov. Greg Abbott was blaming Texas’ current disaster on the Green New Deal.  Maybe I missed it but I don’t think that has been enacted yet.  The Republican party should be going the way of the Whigs any year now.  They just screw things up until the Dems can take over.  I see that The Prez is sending generators and fuel down to Texas, and he didn’t even make any of the pols on the other side of the fence fawn over him.

The Wig’s brother pinged me for my take on Harry and Meghan’s second baby.  I’ve been trying to put into words how I feel, but my giddiness is preventing me from articulating it. I did have a chat with the Wig a few days ago.  He was unaware of my herculean 10-day blog spree, but he finally got on board and gave me a couple hits.

I must say farewell now and head to Safeway.  I’ll be featuring this tasty dish tonight.  I highly recommend it.  

https://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/salmon-croquettes-0

No Air in Belmont

We got a call from the Wig last night.  His youngest, our old roomie, was having trouble inflating her tire.  We headed down to the Belmont gas station but were of little help.  There were a couple guys trying to fill their tire, so they gave it a shot as well.  No go.  We drove over to the next Belmont gas station and the same thing happened.  What gives?  We then decided to head to beautiful Foster City, because we know there’s air there.  We drove to my personal filling station, Chevron, on the corner of FC Blvd. and E. Hillsdale.  Guess what?  Their tire pump was out of order.  We finally met with success at the Valero station.  I plan on raising hell with the Belmont Gas Station Association.

This is my last post of the ten I committed to.  I know it is a sad day, but I will be back.  I’m thinking of putting a picture of my breakfast on FB for ten days in a row.  I’ll let you know if I decide to move forward. 

Fun with Endodontics

I went to see my friendly neighborhood endodontist this morning.  We had not seen each other for twenty years, so ours was a teary reunion.  After a little chit chat, he informed me that the tooth could not be saved, so it is time for an extraction and implant.  So now it is time for fun with periodontics.

I later went to CVS.  They have a prominent sign saying, “no open alcohol containers on premise”.  I was pissed.  I had to dump my can of Lagunitas IPA before picking up my prescription.

This C lister dared to wear a bathing suit and puffer coat in the snow.  My bud Unc has a puffer coat.  I wonder how he’d look in a similar snap. My prediction: dreamy

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/vanessa-hudgens-dares-wear-bathing-210039881.html

The word is that Trump was pissed with his lawyers’ bumbling performance yesterday. Maybe somebody should tell him you get what you pay for.

Slow Lane

I got my lane today, but I didn’t get any blog ideas.  I blame you.  If my vast audience was not so demanding, I might relax and write something slightly humorous.

After my swim today, I did my volunteer activity.  I pick up a big Safeway order and bring it to their food pantry.  My wife also works for the same charity. She delivers bags of groceries to people’s homes.  We are active seniors.

I told my brother I was blogging 10 days in a row.  He responded with "finally some good news".  He’s always been my biggest supporter.

Based on these two recent headlines, it is my hope that Lou Dobbs is only the first domino to fall.  They are really bringing the crazy. 

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-suggests-msnbcs-nicolle-wallace-wants-to-drone-strike-trump-supporters?ref=home

https://www.foxnews.com/media/ingraham-biden-figureheads-the-insurrection-against-the-american-people

Day 7

 I’m not feeling it people.  I could not get a swim lane today.  I get all my best ideas in the pool.

I did not have a good Super Bowl experience.  I’ll soon be creating a Go Fund Me link so you can help me recoup that hit to my retirement account. I was thinking that it might have been appropriate to have SB LV in the new Raider stadium in Las Vegas, but apparently the NFL brain trust does not think like me.  In any case, its Tommy’s world and we just live in it.

I do not have much else, except to say you know that times are strange when Liz Cheney becomes the voice of reason.

LV

We had a good portion of the FC Fun Bunch over yesterday afternoon.  Oh, what a joy it is to spend time with this crew.  The Hotelier got here first, and therefore was the first non-family member to experience the pergola heaters.  Now the Hotelier can lord that fact over #1 during our Tuesday night Zoom call, or the COVID-19 Report, as I call it.

Besides for the Hoteliers and #1s, we were also joined by Charlie and Katie.  Damn, those bar names rear their ugly head again.  I’m going to rely on #1, The Hotelier, and TCG to work out a solution to this thorny problem, as soon as they finish getting to the bottom of the vaccine distribution issue.

The conversation last night was scintillating.  We got into a discussion of “carmel” vs. “caramel”.  The below definition was proffered, and I believe I was only one that got it correct.  But I was very understanding, as I am the product of elite East Coast schooling.

"Carmel and caramel are not different spellings of the same word. Caramel is the correct spelling if you're talking about food or colors. Carmel is a misspelling when used in those contexts, but it is a word that can be used as a name for people or places."

By the way, Katie’s dessert featuring CARAMEL ice cream was a knockout.

I got a nice comment from The Wolv today, praising me for going 5 for 5 blog-wise and imploring me to continue.  I found this interesting because The Hotelier and #1 pled with me, over turkey chili yesterday, to give up the enterprise in its entirety.

I have 10% of my retirement funds on KC to cover the spread.  I hope you all have an excellent Super Bowl experience.

LooooDobbs

The prevaricating pile of shit just got shown the door.  It looks like Fox has been a little shook up by the $2.7B Smartmatic lawsuit.  Good!  Maybe the other knuckleheads, like Bartiromo, known as fart aroma in my circles, will be following.  Gosh, is this part of cancel culture?  No, this is just the consequence of lying with impunity.  

I was enjoying this video clip when I got the news of good ol’ Lou’s departure.  You’d think his producer might have gone over the pronunciation with him beforehand, so it didn’t look like he was having a stroke. In any case, we won’t be subject to his cacophony of crap for a while, at least until Newsmax picks him up.  The second link will help you with the correct pronunciation.  There’s quite a bit of daylight between the two versions.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1055317751751942144

https://forvo.com/word/huixtla/

Where’s the Hits?

Since I announced Tuesday that I’d be blogging daily for ten days, I figured that the hits would be going up.  What I had no idea about was the extent, and I am taken aback.  They have increased at a breakneck pace, now averaging 2.5 views a day.

The Biden era is a return to sanity.  The House has just stripped MTG of her committee assignments, so I’m feeling pretty good.  Now all they have to do is impeach Il Duce Arancione and I’ll be one happy camper.

The manufacturers of voting machines are pissed and they are going after Giuliani, Fox News et al.  You love to see it.  Here’s how one of them opened their lawsuit.  Godspeed!

"The earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for president and vice-president. The election was not stolen, rigged, or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable.”

Apple is introducing a mixed reality headset.  I have no need for it as my reality has been a jumble for over 63 years.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/04/poll-would-you-buy-an-advanced-apple-mixed-reality-headset-with-two-8k-displays-for-3000/

The pergola heaters are now operational.  The wife and enjoyed some quality time outside yesterday afternoon.  I am so impressed that I’d like to start work on heating the entire yard.

Blast from the Past

I was sitting at the bar of The Shack, the appropriately named dump we used to hang out in back in the 70s. They featured 30 cent drafts, 15 cents on Tuesday nights. It was late one night, and I was with my high school buddy Teddy, who unfortunately passed away several years ago.  He was relating to me with glee the following scene with the character Father Damien Karras from The Exorcist.  He got quite a kick out of saying to me “why you do this to me?”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxloaEhwzPA

It has been bandied about in the mid-Peninsula gossip rags that this series is about my marriage, which I categorically deny.  I did manage to keep it out of the Foster City Patch, as they respect me as a former associate.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10846464/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

Day 2

I know you guys were excited to hear the news about me blogging ten days in a row.  You were likely hoping to hear some news about Angelina Jolie.  And here it is.  She says turning 50 feels like a victory.  She didn’t mention anything about it being a pyrrhic one.

I got my first social security check this month.  Angie is going to have to wait a few years for hers.

Paulina Porizkova got naked to support Elizabeth Hurley and I am fully in support of it.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/paulina-porizkova-bares-all-defends-elizabeth-hurley-192627332.html

I’ve found all the talk from Republicans about unity and bipartisanship quite heartening, but unless they impeach that orange bastard, they can go pound sand. There is also a vote tomorrow to remove lunatic MTG from her committees.  I’ll believe it when I see it.

Keep an eye out.  Apparently this guy is missing.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-authorities-send-out-amber-alert-for-chucky-the-killer-doll-from-childs-play?ref=home

Jeff Bezos will be stepping down as Amazon CEO later this year, by Friday if you’re a Prime member.  Yes, I stole that joke.

Maybe I shouldn’t have committed to ten consecutive days of this.

Turds In Space

Hey folks, it is Groundhog Day, so time for the same old shit.

You learn so much reading the New York Times.  And yes, if you have not figured it out yet, I’m juvenile.

In recent news, there is a suit against Subway because it is contended that their tuna fish subs are neither “tuna” nor “fish”, but I have not been able to learn exactly what they are supposed to contain.  I’ve only had two experiences with Subway, and both were associated with the UK and have been documented here.  I survived both.

Pam Anderson has found love with her bodyguard.  I have muted feelings.

I made $5M last week on Game Stop, so I’ve decided to end my 14-year quest to monetize this blog.  However, in an attempt to become more au courant, I will post daily for the next ten days.  I expect the third in the series will be the one in which I walk that statement back.