1/. Now the Voting Rights bills have sunk, this story from the Guardian seems right on the money.....
Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming.On the eve of the first civil war, the most intelligent, the most informed, the most dedicated people in the United States could not see it coming. Even when Confederate soldiers began their bombardment of Fort Sumter, nobody believed that conflict was inevitable. The north was so unprepared for the war they had no weapons.
2/. Stephen Colbert on Ron DeSantis......what an asshole....30 seconds...
3/. People aren't happy with our system in America, including Democratic voters.....most
interesting story from the Times.....
One year after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, a Times Opinion focus group of Democratic voters found them frustrated that President Trump’s inner circle had not been held accountable for what happened that day — but also empathetic toward some of the rioters and their frustrations with “the system.”
You don’t hear much empathy between progressives and conservatives these days, but some of the nine Democrats were clearly angry about politics and power in America and felt that Republicans probably shared that anger as well. One focus group member said of Jan. 6, “I want future historians to remember that all of that happened because of the corrupt system that already existed.”
4/. If you like Rodney Dangerfield, here is a great clip of his best 100 jokes.....some are really
funny, all of them are amusing.....about 12 minutes.....
5/. You see the occasional story about hospitals in trouble, but the reality is serious - the American
healthcare system is failing in a lot of areas.....
when a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like. Much of what’s wrong happens invisibly. At first, there’s just a lot of waiting. Emergency rooms get so full that “you’ll wait hours and hours, and you may not be able to get surgery when you need it,” Megan Ranney, an emergency physician in Rhode Island, told me.
7/. Nurses are the front lines of the healthcare system, and many of them can't take it any more.....
At Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, patients have found there is no nurse to greet them when they enter the pediatric emergency room in the borough’s largest public hospital and are forced instead to pack into a waiting room with two dozen or more people for up to three hours before a nurse checks their vital signs.
9/. Jimmy Kimmel interviews Mike Lindell from his prison cell....an amusing five minutes....
10/. A powerful, painful story from an emergency room doctor in rural Ohio....
I work mainly in the intensive care unit in a moderate-sized community hospital in a rural section of Ohio. Like many pulmonary and critical care physicians across the country, I continue to be immersed and consumed by COVID-19 and all of its destruction, with no clear end in sight
12/. This story has come true - the Supreme Court has rejected Biden's vaccine mandate, but as this article
points out there are deeper and much more dangerous agendas in play here....
A majority of the justices on the Supreme Court may not see COVID-19 as an emergency. But they do see it as an opportunity. This unprecedented pandemic, the deadliest in American history, has forced the executive branch to act swiftly and creatively at each stage of the crisis. Facing an often-deadlocked Congress, President Joe Biden has drawn on old statutes to establish new regulations to stop the coronavirus from spreading and killing more people. Yet in so doing, he has given the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed justices a chance to hobble his whole agenda. And during oral arguments over Biden’s vaccine mandates on Friday, these justices made it painfully clear that they will also seize this moment to grind down the federal government’s ability to perform even its most basic functions as well.
13/. Stephen Colbert has a song made for the Jan. 6 anniversary, set to the music of "Rent".....cleverly done, 2 minutes....
14/. We all hate Joe Manchin for his disgusting blockage of Biden's agenda, but I don't think you can realize
how truly evil he is until you read this excellent article from Jeff Goodell in Rolling Stone.....
One of the hardest things to grasp about the climate crisis is the connectedness of all things. One recent drizzly afternoon, I drove from Charleston, West Virginia, to the John Amos coal-fired power plant on the banks of the Kanawha River, near the town of Nitro. In the rain, the plant looked like one of the dark satanic mills that poet William Blake wrote about, with three enormous cooling towers that steamed like giant witches’ cauldrons. Across the river from the plant, mobile homes cluttered the bank of the Kanawha, streaked black with pollution that rained down on them 24/7.
15/. Jordan Klepper revisits the scene of January 6th.....he seems a little sad, not his best but still amusing....four minutes....
Today's video - wow.....it's a short film made by BMW starring Clive Owen, directed by Neil Blomkamp, called "The Escape"......it's 10 minutes, but feels like a real movie with a plot etc, and lots of action with [of course] a BMW! Really good.....
Todays golf jokes
If you really want to get better at golf, go back and take it up at a much earlier age.The game of golf is 90% mental and 10% mental.Since bad shots come in groups of three, a fourth bad shot is actually the beginning of the next group of three.When you look up, causing an awful shot, you will always look down again at exactly the moment when you ought to start watching the ball if you ever want to see it again.Any change works for a maximum of three holes . . . or at a minimum of not at all.No matter how bad you are playing, it is always possible to play worse.Never try to keep more than 300 separate thoughts in your mind during your swing.When your shot has to carry over a water hazard, you can either hit one more club or two more balls.If you're afraid a full shot might reach the green while the foursome ahead of you is still putting out, you have two options: you can immediately shank a lay-up or you can wait until the green is clear and top a ball halfway there.The less skilled the player, the more likely he is to share his ideas about the golf swing.The inevitable result of any golf lesson is the instant elimination of the one critical unconscious motion that allowed you to compensate for all of your many other errors.If it ain't broke, try changing your grip.Golfers who claim they don't cheat also lie.Everyone replaces his divot after a perfect approach shot.A golf match is a test of your skill against your opponent's luck.It is surprisingly easy to hole a fifty foot putt ......for an 8.Counting on your opponent to inform you when he breaks a rule is like expecting him to make fun of his own haircut.Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.It's not a gimme if you're still away.The shortest distance between any two points on a golf course is a straight line that passes directly through the center of a very large tree.There are two kinds of bounces; unfair bounces and bounces just the way you meant to play it.You can hit a two acre fairway 10% of the time and a two-inch branch 90% of the time.Every time a golfer makes a birdie, he must subsequently make two triple bogeys to restore the fundamental equilibrium of the universe.If you want to hit a 7 iron as far as Tiger Woods does, simply try to lay up just short of a water hazard.To calculate the speed of a player's downswing, multiply the speed of his backswing by his handicap; i.e. backswing 20mph, handicap 15, downswing = 600mph.There are two things you can learn by stopping your backswing at the top and checking the position of your hands: how many hands you have, and which one is wearing the glove.Hazards attract, fairways repel.You can put "draw" on the ball, you can put "fade" on the ball, but no golfer can put "straight" on the ball.A ball you can see in the rough from 50 yards away is not yours.If there is a ball in the fringe and a ball in the bunker, your ball is in the bunker. If both balls are in the bunker, yours is in the footprint.Don't buy a putter until you've had a chance to throw it.Today's police joke
“A Florida senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of the dealership. Taking off down the road, he pushed it to 80 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left. "Amazing,” he thought as he flew down I-95, pushing the pedal even more.
Looking in his rear view mirror, he saw a Florida State Trooper, blue lights flashing and siren blaring. He floored it to 100 mph, then 110, then 120. Suddenly he thought, “What am I doing? I’m too old for this!” and pulled over to await the trooper’s arrival.
Pulling in behind him, the trooper got out of his vehicle and walked up to the Corvette. He looked at his watch, then said, “Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes. Today is Friday. If you can give me a new reason for speeding – a reason I’ve never before heard – I’ll let you go..”
The old gentleman paused then said, “Three years ago, my wife ran off with a Florida State Trooper. I thought you were bringing her back.”
“Have a good day, Sir,” replied the trooper.
Today's little girl joke
"Hello?"
"Hi honey this is Daddy. Is Mommy near the phone?"
"No Daddy.
She's upstairs in the bedroom with Uncle Paul."
After a brief pause, Daddy says, "But honey, you haven't got an Uncle Paul."
"Oh yes I do, and he's upstairs in the room with Mommy, right now."
Brief Pause.
"Uh, okay then, this is what I want you to do. Put the phone down on the table, run upstairs and knock on the bedroom door and shout to Mommy that Daddy's car just pulled into the driveway."
"Okay Daddy, just a minute."
A few minutes later the little girl comes back to the phone. "I did it Daddy."
"And what happened honey?" he asked.
"Well, Mommy got all scared, jumped out of bed with no clothes on and ran around screaming.Then she tripped over the rug, hit her head on the dresser and now she isn't moving at all!"
"Oh my God!!! What about your Uncle Paul?"
"He jumped out of the bed with no clothes on, too. He was all scared and he jumped out of the back window and into the swimming pool. But I guess he didn't know that you took out the water last week to clean it. He hit the bottom of the pool and I think he's dead."
***Long Pause***
***Longer Pause***
***Even Longer Pause***
Then Daddy says, "Swimming pool? Is this 486-5731?"
