1/. Good for Biden - time to confront the anti-vaxxers head on....
Are these the successors of the January 6 insurrectionists? Photo: J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday RM via Getty Images
On September 9, President Biden formally imposed a workplace vaccine mandate on 2.1 million federal employees and contractors, 17 million employees of facilities receiving Medicare or Medicaid funds, and 80 million people working in firms employing more than 100 people. So about 100 million Americans will soon face a choice between getting vaccinated, submitting to weekly COVID-19 tests, or quitting their jobs.
2/. Oooooh - nasty little ad from the Lincoln Project....nasty for DeSantis that is....
3/. What are the Democrats doing about the Texas abortion ban? Nothing, but they
can do a lot if they have the spine for it....
No matter what fresh lawlessness Republicans commit, or what their legal enablers on the Supreme Court do to support that agenda, you can count on some Democrat or liberal-adjacent person saying, “But what can the Democrats do?” Never mind that Democrats control both chambers of Congress and the entire Executive Branch. They walk around every day like a defeated minority unable to stop Republicans—who lost—from having their way with our country.
4/. Umair reflects on Texas, and although as usual he's a little OTT, he's right about a lot....
It’s hard to know where to begin. Texas, it appears, already one of the most backwards places in the world, wasn’t just content with being a Covid hot zone, a supremacist haven, or the laughingstock of the entire world: now it wants to become Gilead. You know, from the Handmaid’s Tale.
5/. Boy is this true....
6/. No politics, no controversy, just a series of wonderful animal photos.....enjoy!
7/. Have some dewormer on me!
8/. And the corruption goes on and on and on....lobbyists are killing the taxes on the rich....
Last week, Democratic senator turned anti-tax lobbyist Heidi Heitkamp, who represented North Dakota for one term before losing in 2018, appeared on CNBC to make a surprisingly emotional appeal against President Biden’s plan to close a notorious loophole for the wealthy. The loophole, called “stepped-up basis” or “the angel-of-death loophole,” allows capital gains to escape any tax at all as long as the owners pass the asset on to their heirs before they sell it.
9/. You can't fix stupid....
10/. It appears Frank Rich has returned to New York Magazine, and he writes about
the legacy of 9/11 in this insightful piece....yeay - he's back!
If you want to contemplate the legacy of 9/11 20 years later, the logical place to begin might be the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. It bills itself as “the country’s principal institution concerned with exploring 9/11, documenting its impact, and examining its continuing significance.” And so it is, though not necessarily in the way its proponents had imagined.
11/. The right wing Supreme Court....
12/. A scholarly muse on why facts don't change minds......very insightful.....
The economist J.K. Galbraith once wrote, “Faced with a choice between changing one’s mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy with the proof.”
Leo Tolstoy was even bolder: “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.”
13/. "The Gunfighter", the best short film ever....7 minutes.....I love this one...
15/. A warning that the right wingers are winning.....not quite as forceful as Umair, just more reasoned.....excellent article....
In early 2016, when the prospect that he could actually become president was still the stuff of late night jokes and distant nightmares, Donald Trump stirred outrage when he suggested that women who seek out abortions would face criminal consequences under his administration. “There has to be some form of punishment,” he told Chris Matthews. This wasn’t his first controversy as a candidate; by that point in the campaign, he’d already called Mexican immigrants “rapists,” mocked John McCain’s war service, and demanded a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United States.
16/. Welcome kids!
17/. From Rolling Stone - 50 movies worth seeing this fall....and yes if you see three you'll be lucky...
18/. Looks like a scary one.....on Netflix, "Midnight Mass"....
No major religion survives the eons without being a source of comfort and reassurance to its followers, but if the incidents described in ancient scripture started happening in real life, it would bring people to their knees in a much more traumatic way. Healing the sick is one thing, but raising the dead? Doomsday prophets? Turning bread and wine into flesh and blood, and an angry deity unleashing plagues, fires, and floods? Be careful what you pray for.
19/. The fourth Matrix movie is coming in December.....hope it's good, I loved Matrix 1....
Today's video - "How To Change A Lightbulb".....on a TV tower, filmed by a drone.....two minutes.....
Today's marital joke
How men and women record things in their diaries.
Wife's Diary:
Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner.
I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment on it.
Conversation wasn't flowing, so I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk. He agreed, but he didn't say much.
I asked him what was wrong; He said, 'Nothing.
I asked him if it was my fault that he was upset.
He said he wasn't upset, that it had nothing to do with me, and not to worry about it.
Wife's Diary:
Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner.
I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset at the fact that I was a bit late, but he made no comment on it.
Conversation wasn't flowing, so I suggested that we go somewhere quiet so we could talk. He agreed, but he didn't say much.
I asked him if it was my fault that he was upset.
He said he wasn't upset, that it had nothing to do with me, and not to worry about it.
On the way home, I told him that I loved him.
He smiled slightly, and kept driving. I can't explain his behavior. I don't know why he didn't say, 'I love you, too.'
When we got home, I felt as if I had lost him completely, as if he wanted nothing to do with me anymore. He just sat there quietly, and watched TV. He continued to seem distant and absent.
Finally, with silence all around us, I decided to go to bed. About 15 minutes later, he came to bed. But I still felt that he was distracted, and his thoughts were somewhere else. He fell asleep; I cried. I don't know what to do. I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with someone else. My life is a disaster.
Husband's Diary:
He smiled slightly, and kept driving. I can't explain his behavior. I don't know why he didn't say, 'I love you, too.'
Finally, with silence all around us, I decided to go to bed. About 15 minutes later, he came to bed. But I still felt that he was distracted, and his thoughts were somewhere else. He fell asleep; I cried. I don't know what to do. I'm almost sure that his thoughts are with someone else. My life is a disaster.
A two-foot putt .. who the fuck misses a two-foot putt?
Todays Bubba joke
A gas station owner in Alabama was trying to increase his sales.
So he put up a sign that read, "Free Sex with Fill-Up."
Soon a local redneck pulled in, filled his tank and asked for his free sex.
The owner told him to pick a number from 1 to 10.
If he guessed correctly he would get his free sex.
The redneck guessed 8, and the proprietor said, "You were close. The number was 7. Sorry, no sex this time."
A week later, the same redneck, along with a buddy, Bubba, pulled in for another fill-up. Again he asked for his free sex.
The proprietor again asked him to guess the correct number.
The redneck guessed 2 this time. The proprietor said, "Sorry, it was 3.
You were close, but no free sex this time."
As they were driving away, the redneck said to his buddy, "I think that game is rigged and he doesn't really give away free sex."
Bubba replied, "It ain't rigged. My wife won twice last week."
Today's older lady joke
A 65 year old woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital.
While on the operating table she had a near death experience.. Seeing God She asked "Is my time up?"
God said, "No, you have another 33 years, 2 months and 8 days to live."
Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a Face-lift, liposuction, breast implants and a tummy tuck.
She even had someone come in and change her hair color and brighten her Teeth! Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as Well make the most of it.
After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. While crossing The street on her way home, she was killed by an ambulance.
Arriving in front of God, she demanded, "I thought you said I had Another 33 years? Why didn't you pull me from out of the path of the Ambulance?"
God replied:
"Damn! I didn't recognize you!!!!!"
Today's British little old lady joke
Two little old ladies, Connie, and Jean, were sitting on a park bench outside the local town hall where a flower show was in progress.
The short one, Jean, leaned over and said, "Life is so boring. We never have any fun anymore. For £10 I'd take my clothes off and streak through that stupid, boring flower show”!
"You're on!” said Connie, holding up a £10 bill.
So, Jean slowly fumbled her way out of her clothes.
She grabbed a dried flower from a nearby display and held it between her teeth. Then, completely naked, she streaked (as fast as an old lady can) through the front door of the flower show.
Then, completely naked, she streaked (as fast as an old lady can) through the front door of the flower show.Waiting outside, her friend soon heard a huge commotion inside the hall, followed by loud applause and shrill whistling.
Finally, the smiling Jean came through the exit door to the sounds of a cheering, clapping crowd.
"What happened?” asked Connie.
"I won £1,000 as 1st prize for 'Best Dried Arrangement'!" 
Life is short...Break the rules
