Friday, December 31, 2021

Davids Daily Dose - Friday December 31st

 Happy New Year folks!


1/. Dr. Oz is running for Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican, but as this story says he gives us a clue who he really is....inadvertently! 
A scoop for Olivia Nuzzi of New York Magazine.....and did you know he is a Muslim, and served in the Turkish Army? Thought not, nor do his Republican voters....


Dr. Oz for Senate is headquartered in a patch of strip mall next to a Mexican restaurant in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, where the candidate’s father-in-law, Dr. Gerald Lemole, maintains a medical office down the road from the Lemole family farm, three acres overlooking the Philmont Country Club that the candidate, who seems to live in New Jersey, has claimed as his official place of residence. Five days into the race, there was no discernible election-related activity of any kind. No staff. No yard signs. No signs of life at all.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/dr-oz-senate-pennsylvania.html



2/. Beautiful pictures of awful extreme weather events in the West.....

Even before summer heatwaves sent temperatures soaring across the west, lakebeds had already begun ceding ground to the cracked, dried earth.

Rings showed around reservoirs where water levels fell to historic lows, verdant hillsides took on brown hues, and trees became tinder in forests primed to burn. The conditions fueled unstoppable fires that grew large and ferocious enough to create their own weather patterns.



3/. Bad Lip Reading - NFL 2021.....the names are really funny....



4/. Umair with the lessons unlearned in 2021 for liberals and conservatives alike....

How do you think history will remember 2021? I think it’ll say something like this. It was a year of unlearned lessons. The age of civilisation fragility had dawned — and the year 2021 gave humanity a portrait of how it would respond to crises greater even than the pandemic which had swept the globe. That portrait? It wasn’t a kind one.




5/. This guy is funny.....the photoshop king.....



6/. The right wing media is going crazy over the latest poll, that young Democrats won't date Republicans 
but as this story shows there's good reasons for this.....and the poll is real by the way....
You have to give it to Axios: They know how to throw out some tasty bait. Their latest is irresistible for conservatives, who love any story that frames them as victims, and gives them the chance to blame the left for "incivility." Never mind obvious counter-examples such as the storming of the Capitolgun-waving Christmas cards, and the entire person of Donald Trump. 



7/. Tom Tomorrow with "Seasons Greetings".....from Manchin!


8/. The next 50 years could well be disastrous if the Antarctic ice melts like scientists are 
predicting.....excellent article by Jeff Goodell.....

One thing that’s hard to grasp about the climate crisis is that big changes can happen fast. In 2019, I was aboard the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a 308-foot-long scientific research vessel, cruising in front of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica. One day, we were sailing in clear seas in front of the glacier. The next day, we were surrounded by icebergs the size of aircraft carriers.

As we later learned from satellite images, in a matter of 48 hours or so, a mélange of ice about 21 miles wide and 15 miles deep had cracked up and scattered into the sea.



9/. A three minute clip of good lines from the Golden Girls.....very funny....and BTW Betty White died today!



10/. Had what you thought was a cold recently? Hmmmm.....maybe it was Omicron....

The list of symptoms of Covid-19 has grown longer and stranger throughout the pandemic. With so many people now vaccinated, the warning signs of an infection have grown more subtle and vague. That’s becoming especially evident as the omicron variant gallops around the world, squeezing through the nooks and crannies in the wall of immunity that’s been built over the past two years.





11/. The quiet strategy from the Trump Republicans is at the local level....and very dangerous....

But the Patriot Front’s action actually belied a disturbing reality of how many American far-right groups have shifted their focus in 2021 to far more local audiences and regional venues where, experts warn, their activities can have far-reaching and dangerous impacts



12/. Did you get this for your loved one at Christmas? Good for you.....



13/. Tom the Dancing Bug.....on racism....


14/. A moving story from a woman who fought her way out of homelessness.....and 
what she went through....

My descent into homelessness felt as though it happened in the blink of an eye. It was as if one moment I was standing in a meadow next to my horses, stroking their manes, and the next I was lying inside a plastic garbage bag on a park bench, wrapping clothes around my shivering body




15/. Red States.....





16/. Ten best horror movies of 2021.....





17/. You may have read negative reviews of "Don't Look Up", with Leonardo DeCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence - ignore them because Conservatives hate this movie. 
Instead read this from Bob Lefsetz, and watch it this weekend.....I'm going to!

You’ve got to see it.

Ignore the reviews. Ignore the fact that it stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Forget that it opened in theatres. Ignore its budget. There’s almost no buzz. But this movie is FANTASTIC!

Then again, if you’re a Trump supporter…

We haven’t had a movie that’s captured the zeitgeist like this since “Network.” And that may be a better movie, but it’s not as good of a snapshot of life in these United States and the media business.



18/. EW rates the best/worst TV of 2021.....
Confession: It was a real challenge to narrow this list down to 10. (Damn you, David Letterman!) So before we begin, allow me to name a few honorable mentions that didn't quite make the cut but nonetheless are worth your precious viewing time. Evil (Paramount+) only gets better, weirder, and more compelling in season 2; What We Do in the Shadows (FX) perfected the art of vampire world-building and delivered a truly amazing finale in season 3; wrestling drama Heels (Starz) is an ornery delight; and Ultra City Smiths(AMC+) is, as I've noted before, the Sistine Chapel of stop-motion animation. Check 'em out, won't you? And now, on to the main event.



Today's video - here is the clip again of a guy on a super bike outrunning the cops in a suburban area. It's shot with a helmet cam 
and you can see some of the street signs that show his locations blacked out, because it looks like he got away.

Until he posted it....he has since been arrested....




Today's blonde joke

A blonde finds herself in serious trouble. Her business has gone bust  and she’s in dire financial straits. 

She’s desperate, so she decides to ask God for help.

She begins to pray… ‘God, please help me. I’ve lost my business and 
if I don’t get some money, I’m going to lose my house as well. Please  let
me win the lottery’

Lottery night comes, and somebody else wins.

She again prays… ‘God, please let me win the lottery! I’ve lost my business, my house and I’m going to lose my car as well.’

Lottery night comes and she still has no luck.

Once again, she prays… ‘My God, why have you forsaken me? I’ve lost
my business, my house, and my car. My children are starving. I don’t
often ask You for help, and I’ve always been a good servant to You.
 
PLEASE let me win the lottery just this one time so I can get my life  back in order.’

Suddenly there is a blinding flash of light as the heavens open.

The blonde is overwhelmed by the Voice of God, Himself…

‘Sweetheart, work with Me on this…. Buy a ticket.’



Today's second blonde joke
“Stay!”

I pulled into the crowded parking lot at the local shopping center and rolled down the car windows
to make sure my Labrador Retriever Pup had fresh air.
 
She was stretched full-out on the back seat and I wanted to impress upon her that she must remain there.

I walked to the curb backward, pointing my finger at the car and saying emphatically,

"Now you stay. Do you hear me?"

"Stay! Stay!"

The driver of a nearby car, a pretty young blonde, gave me a strange look and said,
 
"Why don't you just put it in 'Park'?"


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