Saturday, June 4, 2022

Davids Daily Dose - Saturday June 4th

 



1/  Did you know the Middle East is having apocalyptic dust storms? Of course not....
A man walks past the Kuwait Towers shrouded in heavy dust in Kuwait City
A man walks past the Kuwait Towers shrouded in heavy dust in Kuwait City last month.Photograph: Noufal Ibrahim/
Blankets of thick gritty haze and ominous orange skies since early April have sent thousands to hospitals and resulted in at least four deaths in Iraq and in Syria.
The apocalyptic scenes have affected everyone. Hospitals in Syria have been on standby for residents unable to breathe. 
Iraq forced schools and offices to close in some provinces, and on 16 May declared a state of emergency. 
In the Gulf states, flights were halted in Kuwait, and both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates issued dust storm alerts.



2/  As a boomer, I can relate to this story - it's time for the oldies to let go....

America’s top political leaders are remarkably old. Our president will turn 80 this year. His predecessor, who is contemplating running again, is about to turn 76. The speaker of the House is 82. The Republican leader in the Senate is 80, and his Democratic counterpart is a comparatively sprightly 71.

This is very unusual. 



3/  Tom Tomorrow nails it again.....
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4/  Democrats are quietly looking for alternatives to Biden running in 2024.....



5/  And if you want to know why, read this pathetic story. Biden is still looking for "rational Republicans"...

Joe Biden is once again butting up against the limits of his presidency — and with not much working in his favor other than “hope” that he can will the political world of today to look again like the one he once knew.

“I think things have gotten so bad that everybody is getting more rational about it,” Biden told reportersMonday, suggesting there might be enough “rational Republicans” on Capitol Hill to help his party get at least some gun reforms passed. “At least, that’s my hope.” 

That hope, for even modest measures to address the scourge of gun violence in this country, depends entirely on the largess of a party that has shown none of it, on the idea that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell — who has filled his coffers with NRA money by routinely blocking common sense gun regulations — can be trusted to be “rational” now where he hasn’t before. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/biden-pins-gun-reform-hope-on-rational-republicans-mitch-mcconnell



6/  Jordan Klepper digs deep into the lunacy of Trumpies....scarily amusing, 'cos these are your neighbors....



7/  Republicans' plans for our schools....
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8/  Why are Democrats so weak? Here is one theory, which sounds correct to me......
After Tuesday’s mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, we saw an instant outcry, as we often do after a mass shooting, for some kind of action on gun control. Instead of seizing the moment, Senate Democrats demurred and recessed for the holiday weekend, because they do not have enough votes in their own caucus to abolish the filibuster, and therefore 10 Republican votes would be needed to pass any gun-safety legislation. Swing vote Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., and Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said they would reach out to their Republican colleagues, an effort that is absolutely guaranteed to fail.



9/  MichelleGoldberg with an excellent column.....
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In an ad released last year, Blake Masters, a leading candidate in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary, cradles a semiautomatic weapon. “This is a short-barreled rifle,” he said, ominous music playing in the background. “It wasn’t designed for hunting. This is designed to kill people.”

For Masters, this isn’t an argument against allowing such guns to proliferate. Rather, it’s an acknowledgment of why access to these weapons is, for the right, a matter of existential importance. “The Second Amendment is not about duck hunting,” said Masters. “It’s about protecting your family and your country. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/uvalde-shooting.html?referringSource=articleShare



10/  A typical school room, coming soon.....really soon in Texas....
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11/  Matt Taibbi really hates Hillary, but in this article spells out some things I didn't know......for instance how Rachel Maddow 
fell hook line and sinker for the Russiagate narrative.....which is now officially BS....
it's good to read challenging stories folks....

Last week, in the trial of former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, prosecutor Andrew DeFilippis asked ex-campaign manager Robby Mook about the decision to share with a reporter a bogus story about Donald Trump and Russia’s Alfa Bank. Mook answered by giving up his onetime boss. “I discussed it with Hillary,” he said, describing his pitch to the candidate: “Hey, you know, we have this, and we want to share it with a reporter… She agreed to that.”

In a country with a functioning media system, this would have been a huge story. Obviously this isn’t Watergate, Hillary Clinton was never president, and Sussmann’s trial doesn’t equate to prosecutions of people like Chuck Colson or Gordon Liddy. But as we’ve slowly been learning for years, a massive fraud was perpetrated on the public with Russiagate, and Mook’s testimony added a substantial piece of the picture, implicating one of the country’s most prominent politicians in one of the more ambitious disinformation campaigns we’ve seen. 





12/  A John Oliver special on Kandiss Taylor, a lunatic running for Georgia Governor in the primary - she [of course] 
lost, but she's crazy enough to be funny.....



13/  Some books for the summer....
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14/  Lefsetz loves this show....hmmm, might be a challenge....

Love On The Spectrum U.S.

Netflix Official Trailer: https://bit.ly/3PS6DCz

This is riveting television.

It will make you smile and it will bring tears to your eyes. As a matter of fact I’m holding back the waterworks right now.

You know someone on the spectrum. Even though they may not even know it themselves. But in the last thirty years incredible advancements have been made.

The spectrum… Usually with every little thing taken away, something is added back in. You’ll be wowed at Subodh’s mathematical skills.

So that’s what this show is about, people on the spectrum dating, many for the very first time.




15/  A Doctor in the UK is super stressed.....TV series....
“You think that you are the cleverest person in the room, and that makes you dangerous,” a colleague tells Dr. Adam Kay, the British obstetrician at the center of the UK limited series This Is Going to Hurt. Ordinarily, this is the kind of sentiment hurled at the protagonist of a modern antihero drama, or at least the main character of a slightly complex network procedural. (If that exact sentence was never said to Dr. Gregory House, the general sentiment surely was, many times over.)




16/  A Danish TV series "Borgen" with an excellent review......note, Lefsetz loves this show too....



Today's circus joke
A husband and wife go to an adoption agency looking to adopt a child. They are well dressed and well spoken,
and the social workers are quite impressed with them. However, when asked about their profession,
the couple said that they run a circus.
Hearing that made the social workers raise an eyebrow. It didn’t sound so good to them, an environment with animals,
that is moving all the time? Doubts were raised about their suitability as parents.
So the couple produce photos of their 55 foot motor home , which is clean and well maintained and equipped with a large and spotless nursery.
The social workers are happy to see this but then raise concerns about the kind of education a child would receive while in the couple’s care.
The husband puts their mind at ease, saying, “We’ve arranged for a full-time tutor who will teach the child all the usual subjects along
with French, Mandarin, and computer skills.”
Next though, the social workers express concern about a child being raised in a circus environment.
This time the wife explains, “Our nanny is a certified expert in pediatric care, child welfare,
proper nutrition and exercise – all that a child requires.”
Their questions met with such excellent answers, the social workers are finally satisfied and ask the couple,
“What ages were you looking to adopt?”
The husband says, “It doesn’t really matter, as long as they fit in a cannon.”



Today's "Out of the mouths of babes" jokes
KIDS WERE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. THE FOLLOWING 25 STATEMENTS ABOUT THE BIBLE WERE WRITTEN BY CHILDREN. THEY HAVE NOT BEEN RETOUCHED OR CORRECTED. INCORRECT SPELLING HAS BEEN LEFT IN. 
 
1. IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS. GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.
 
2. ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AND ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.
 
3. LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A BALL OF FIRE DURING THE NIG
 
4. THE JEWS WERE A PROUD PEOPLE AND THROUGHOUT HISTORY THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH UNSYMPATHETIC GENITALS.
 
5. SAMPSON WAS A STRONGMAN WHO LET HIMSELF BE LED ASTRAY BY A JEZEBEL LIKE DELILAH.
 
6. SAMSON SLAYED THE PHILISTINES WITH THE AXE OF THE APOSTLES.
 
7. MOSES LED THE JEWS TO THE RED SEA WHERE THEY MADE UNLEAVENED BREAD, WHICH IS BREAD WITHOUT ANY INGREDIENTS.
 
8. THE EGYPTIANS WERE ALL DROWNED IN THE DESSERT. AFTERWARDS, MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT CYANIDE TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.
 
9. THE FIRST COMMANDMENTS WAS WHEN EVE TOLD ADAM TO EAT THE APPLE.
 
10. THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT IS THOU SHALT NOT ADMIT ADULTERY.
 
11. MOSES DIED BEFORE HE EVER REACHED CANADA THEN JOSHUA LED THE HEBREWS IN THE BATTLE OF GERITOL.
 
12. THE GREATEST MIRICLE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN JOSHUA TOLD HIS SON TO STAND STILL AND HE OBEYED HIM.
 
13. DAVID WAS A HEBREW KING WHO WAS SKILLED AT PLAYING THE LIAR. HE FOUGHT THE FINKELSTEINS, A RACE OF PEOPLE WHO LIVED IN BIBLICAL TIMES.
 
14. SOLOMON, ONE OF DAVIDS SONS, HAD 300 WIVES AND 700 PORCUPINES.
 
15. WHEN MARY HEARD SHE WAS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, SHE SANG THE MAGNA CARTA.
 
16. WHEN THE THREE WISE GUYS FROM THE EAST SIDE ARRIVED, THEY FOUND JESUS IN THE MANAGER.
 
17. JESUS WAS BORN BECAUSE MARY HAD AN IMMACULATE CONTRAPTION.
 
18. ST. JOHN THE BLACKSMITH DUMPED WATER ON HIS HEAD.
 
19. JESUS ENUNCIATED THE GOLDEN RULE, WHICH SAYS TO DO UNTO OTHERS BEFORE THEY DO ONE TO YOU. HE ALSO EXPLAINED A MAN DOTH NOT LIVE BY SWEAT ALONE.
 
20. IT WAS A MIRICLE WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD AND MANAGED TO GET THE TOMBSTONE OFF THE ENTRANCE.
 
21. THE PEOPLE WHO FOLLOWED THE LORD WERE CALLED THE 12 DECIBELS.
 
22. THE EPISTELS WERE THE WIVES OF THE APOSTLES.
 
23. ONE OF THE OPPOSSUMS WAS ST. MATTHEW WHO WAS ALSO A TAXIMAN.
 
24. ST. PAUL CAVORTED TO CHRISTIANITY, HE PREACHED HOLY ACRIMONY, WHICH IS ANOTHER NAME FOR MARRAIGE.
 
25. CHRISTIANS HAVE ONLY ONE SPOUSE. THIS IS CALLED MONOTONY


Today's jokes for nerds

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