Monday, August 2, 2021

Davids Daily Dose - Monday August 2nd

 



1/. There's a bacon crisis coming......for California, but if it makes pork producers finally treat their animals 
humanely so be it....
What's for breakfast? In California, at year's end, maybe not this.
Photo: Douglas Sacha/Getty Images


Soon Californians may have to come to grips with the consequences of their system of easy-to-generate popular ballot initiatives. By that I am not referring to the slim chance that Golden State Republicans will succeed in removing Governor Gavin Newsom from office via a recall vote on September 14. A more likely effect may arrive at year’s end when full implementation of 2018’s Proposition 12 animal-welfare initiative could spark a breakfast-hour crisis as bacon and other pork products disappear from California grocery stores and eateries.



2/. A last, final plea to vaccine refusers.....get the shot!
So you’ve decided you don’t want the coronavirus vaccine. That would be fine under normal circumstances. Pharmacies offer the flu shot every single year, and it’s always up to individuals.

This time, it’s different.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  https://jessicalexicus.medium.com/a-final-plea-to-vaccine-refusers-28ec4d6db264



3/. Key and Peele with "Substitute Teacher".....a classic, you will play this over and over...3 minutes...



4/. Maureen Dowd's column in the Times.....

It feels like we are living through the first vertiginous 15 minutes of a disaster movie, maybe one called “The Day After Tomorrow Was Yesterday.”

Heat waves are getting hotter. Forests are ablaze. Floods are obliterating. An iceberg nearly half the size of Puerto Rico broke offfrom Antarctica.

Florida’s fleurs du malalgal blooms known as red tide, have become more toxic because of pollution and climate change. They are responsible for killing 600 tons of marine life, leaving beaches strewn with reeking dead fish.




5/. Bill Maher on his favourite topic - being "woke"....
A good but not great "New Rules"....6 minutes....



6/. Who is the biggest spreader of vaccine BS in the country? Of course, it's Dr. Florida man...

The article that appeared online on Feb. 9 began with a seemingly innocuous question about the legal definition of vaccinesThen over its next 3,400 words, it declared coronavirus vaccines were “a medical fraud” and said the injections did not prevent infections, provide immunity or stop transmission of the disease.

Instead, the article claimed, the shots “alter your genetic coding, turning you into a viral protein factory that has no off-switch.”




7/. Tom Tomorrow eviscerates the worst person in America...




8/. This got my attention.....
Polar Portal found that ice melt on Tuesday in Greenland was enough to cover the entire state of Florida under two inches of water. 
It is the largest melting event on the massive island of ice so far this summer.




9/. And if you are worried and wondering why nothing is being done about climate change, this article might explain it. 
It's because the super rich think they will be fine, and don't want their business and profits interrupted....
Interesting story....

This last week, we had a small taste of what is going to happen over the next five or so years. I’m willing to bet that at the end of that time period, many millions of people will be dead, and some of you reading this piece won’t be around anymore either.




10/. The latest[?] from the CDC....




11/. Cities and States are going around and around about what to do about the current outbreak....but as 
this column says forget masks etc....the only answer is vaccinations...
It’s not often that I say this as a conservative, but Mayor Bill de Blasio is absolutely correct to reject calls for a renewed indoor mask mandate and to refuse to consider renewed lockdowns in New York City in light of the emergence of the Delta variant. “A mask doesn’t arrest the progress of the variant,” Mr. de Blasio said, explaining how following the science led him to be reluctant to reinstitute the mandate this week. “Vaccination does.” This holds true not just for New York City: reinstituting mask mandates and lockdowns would be a mistake nationwide as well.



12/. I only rarely read David Brooks' column in the Times, but this was interesting and I'm sure applicable to many of us....

At least 27 percent of Americans are estranged from a member of their own family, and research suggests about 40 percent of Americans have experienced estrangement at some point.

The most common form of estrangement is between adult children and one or both parents — a cut usually initiated by the child. 



13/. If you like medieval dramas like GOT, you might like this movie coming out soon...."Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...





Today's video - "I Should Have Killed You When I Had the Chance".....a supercut.....


Today's medical joke

I went to the doctor for my yearly physical and the nurse started with the basics.
 
He asked me how much I weighed. "185 pounds," I answered. 
She asked me to step on the scales. It turns out I weigh 215 pounds.
 
She asked me, "How tall are you?" I told her, " I'm 6 feet even."
She then measured me. I topped out at 5 feet 9 inches.
 
She then measured my blood pressure. "It's very high," she said.
 
"Of course it is," I yelled. "When I came in here I was tall and thin. Now, I'm short
and fat."
 
She put me on Prozac.
 
What a bitch!



Another medical joke
Professor Higgins at the University of Sydney was giving a lecture on 'Involuntary Muscle Contraction' to the first year medical students.

This was not an exciting subject and the professor decided to lighten up the mood.

He pointed to a young woman in the front row and asked, 'Do you know what your asshole is doing while you're having an orgasm?'
 
She replied, 'Probably golfing with his buddies.


Today's "Old" jokes
             #1               
I very quietly confided to my best friend that I was having an affair.
She turned to me and asked, "Are you having it catered?"    
And that, my friend, is the sad definition of "OLD"!
 
#2
        Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, 
"How old was your husband?"
"98," she replied: "Two years older than me"   
"So you're 96," the undertaker commented.
   
She responded, "Hardly worth going home, is it?"
 
#3
Reporters interviewing a 104-year-old woman:
"And what do you think is the best thing
about being 104?" the reporter asked.  
She simply replied, "No peer pressure."
 
#4
I've sure gotten old!  I have outlived my feet and my teeth
   
I've had two bypass surgeries, a hip replacement,
new knees, fought prostate cancer and diabetes
I'm half blind,
can't hear anything quieter than a jet engine,
take 40 different medications that
make me dizzy, winded, and subject to blackouts.
Have bouts with dementia.
Have poor circulation;
hardly feel my hands and feet anymore.
Can't remember if I'm 85 or 92.
Have lost all my friends. But, thank God,
I still have my driver's license.
  
#5
I feel like my body has gotten totally out of shape,
so I got my doctor's permission to
join a fitness club and start exercising.
I decided to take an aerobics class for seniors.
I bent, twisted, gyrated, jumped up and down, and perspired for an hour. But,
by the time I got my leotards on,
the class was over.
 
#6
An elderly woman decided to prepare her will and told her preacher she had two final requests.
First, she wanted to be cremated, and second,
she wanted her ashes scattered over Wal-Mart.
"Wal-Mart?" the preacher exclaimed. 
"Why Wal-Mart?"  
"Then I'll be sure my daughters visit me twice a week"
  
#7
My memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.
  
#8
Know how to prevent sagging? Just eat till the wrinkles fill out.
 
#9
It's scary when you start making the same noises
as your coffee maker.
 
#10
These days about half the stuff
in my shopping cart says,
'For fast relief.'
 
#11
THE SENILITY PRAYER :
  
Grant me the senility to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
the eyesight to tell the difference.
 
 Now, I think you're supposed to share this with 5 or 6, maybe 10 others.
 
Oh heck, send it to all your friends, if you can remember who they are.
 

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