Welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day. Let’s get started.
I saw “No Safe Spaces”, the documentary by Adam Carolla and Dennis Prager. It was depressing but well done, and I have hope that we can turn things around and keep free speech. If nothing else, some of the liberals have been caught in their own trap and have been red-pilled. One song from the movie was sung by Dennis Quaid, and since I can’t find it on Youtube, this will have to do.
Now for the hunks.
One of the trailers was for “The Last Full Measure” about an Air Force Pararescueman killed in action in Vietnam and the fight for his Medal of Honor.
It stars Sebastian Stan,
Jeremy Irvine,
Zach Roerig,
and Cody Walker, younger brother of Paul. (Sorry Cody, you need better pics.)
The other interesting trailer was for “I Still Believe” about Christian music star Jeremy Camp. K.J. Apa is a fake redhead (for Carin) here for “Riverdale”.
He looks better as a brunette.
That’s all I’ve got time for. Thank you for your attention, thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week, and y’all have a good day.
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Paul Walker, no longer with us but not forgotten. He had a beautiful face and smile.
I’ve been up since 3:15, took my husband to the airport. Man, I’ve been kicking butt around here. Unbelievably productive. I expect a slowdown/nap around 1-2 o’clock.
I’m even cleaning the microwave.
No, you calm down!
Jimbro should be checking in at any minute.
Mooom! Mare’s in the meth again!
I’m stuck waiting at the airport because my flight was delayed.
Where are you going/coming from, Alex? Is this the trip home from visiting family for Christmas? That’s a long time with family.
Wakey wakey.
Good morning guys. I’ve been up since 0530, later than my usual. Paula slept on the couch last night since she’s feeling distraught over her friend’s cancer. It’s a long story, I mentioned it here a few weeks ago and it’s only gotten worse since then. This is a story about how life is a series of choices.
Brief summary (just read my comment again, not so brief): 39 yo woman, Type 1 Diabetes, chain smoker, Celiac Disease, and a couple of other issues was advised to get a colonoscopy by her PCP at least 10-11 months ago for symptoms friend had been ignoring for months. For a variety of what most people would consider trivial reasons (didn’t want to do the prep, just wanting to be treated for what she considered celiac disease with no scope, etc) the scope was not done until November. Huge colon mass with spread to local lymph nodes. Most people would come to Jesus and get on the treatment train ASAP but she has dithered for irrational reasons which would require way too much explanation for this comment. Bottom line, at this point the cancer has spread to her rectum and vagina and she is currently being treated for hypokalemia (low K+) which was causing an arrhythmia. I really don’t think she can be cured at this point. Paula has done her best to cajole her into treatment all along for months/years to no avail. Her friend’s lack of participation in her own care while at the same time calling and crying to Paula about her pain yet refusing to use the pain meds prescribed because of worries over “side effects” is pushing Paula over the edge. She would support her decision for treatment if she actually did it or hospice if she declared that but her friend is living in this gray zone of non-compliance with treatment. My take on it which I have told Paula is that regardless of her friend’s wishes the cancer will end up making the decisions for her at some point. I told her the hypokalemia would come at some point from her refusal to eat or drink either than the occasional sip (she ended up with an emergency colostomy because of a bowel obstruction in early December) because she doesn’t want to deal with emptying her shit bag. The next thing that will end up happening is infection from the fistulas and it will be difficult to eradicate with antibiotics alone. Surgery to clean her belly out will leave her further weakened and at some point she will either die on the table or the surgeon or anesthesiologist will refuse to proceed knowing that she will likely die on the table. From a rational perspective and as a nurse Paula knows what’s going on but they’ve been friends who have had their ups and downs over decades, since elementary school and remained close.
Sigh, long comment. This has been on my mind and I tend to spill stuff like that here rather than keep it in with my other stuff. It’s so depressing watching this play out from afar and knowing the eventual outcome which could have been avoided or at least ameliorated with proper early treatment. No updates until she eventually passes, too depressing for daily blogging. Her name is Jessica for anyone who wishes to offer a prayer for her.
-$20 fine for using the word ameliorated-
Jimbro,
Prayers sent for Jessica.
And for you and your wife.
ouch, that has to be hard, watching someone fade like that, knowing it didn’t have to be that way, and also knowing there is nothing you can do about it.
Mare, I’m flying to Colorado to see Mom and stepdad. Stepdad works for USPS so Christmas is his busy time. We delayed Christmas to mid Jan.
Who perishes descending Everest? Robert was a pussy.
OH, man. I’m so sorry for Paula and her friend. Hang in there, man.
Yesterday was Orthodox Christmas (because FU Pope Gregory, the Julian Calendar is totes the best), so you’re almost on time.
Sorry Jimbro.
Jimbro, feel free to spill.
Good luck to Jessica.
Oh, and… Mare, calm down.
That sucks. People do avoid treatment when they know they should – denial. It’s going to bite my sister in the ass sooner rather than later.
Jebus, she’s such a bitch: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/01/07/nancy-pelosi-dodged-mike-pence-phone-call-notifying-her-of-iranian-missile-attack-tell-him-ill-call-him-back/
Seems like a lot of folks with diabetes avoid treatment.
*looks at oso
New shirt from Nine Line
Who perishes descending Everest? Robert was a pussy.
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It’s happened a few times. Delays getting to the summit result in not enough oxygen for the trip back down. Or you get caught in a storm.
Praying for Jessica. The word “depression” was never used regarding her, but I almost guarantee it’s been in play for a very long time. That kind of slow-motion suicide is…all too familiar.
ba haaa haaa haaaa …
Gutfeld replied to Car in’s link: what a country where the economy is so good that able bodied adults have time to do this.
BRAINS
Jimbro, I’m very sorry for you and Paula. So, so hard watching people you know/love slowly kill themselves. I’ve seen it a couple of times. They just don’t want to deal with it. Brother Cavil may be right on the depression aspect.
If you can’t vent at this dump what are we good for? Besides listening to Hotspur make fart noises with his mouth.
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BTW, I did ask the group’s spokesperson if they have jobs.
“Some people have taken time off from work…Our country is in danger and you have to make a choice to go away from your families and friends and your work and sacrifice your life for the better good of the nation.”
“Some people have taken time off from work…Our country is in danger and you have to make a choice to go away from your families and friends and your work and sacrifice your life for the better good of the nation.”
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No doubt Trump will resign because of their walking in a circle. These are the true warriors in our Country.
*starts drum circle
Can you say, “retired, know it all attention whores?”
39 is way too young to deal with that shit.
These are people you can’t reason with, heck, you can’t even have a conversation with these dolts. They are so sure of their position, so sure they know what’s “really” happening.
Hey, dummy, yea, you, who keeps droning on about Russian collusion, why are there tensions with Iran a Russian ally if Trump is Putin’s puppet?
Ufffffffff these stupid people make the United States dumber and sadder.
MJ, are you up for walking slowing in a circle with me while looking mental while Jay bangs his drum (not a metaphor) so we can bring about world peace? I’m sure it will work.
It’s only 10 o’clock??? Oh, man.
Heh, it’s 10 o’clock and I’ve already walked 5000 steps.
Mare’s gonna crash like a puppy hitting the wall. Just sink to the floor already in mid-snooze.
Yea, a “friend” on facedouche pasted apocalyptic cries about the 4.9 earthquake in Iran. When I pointed out 4.9 is considered “light”, it was 40 miles from the nuclear facility, and earthquakes are a natural phenomena that happens everyday … well, he’s starting to lose it.
you see, the earth has HAD ENOUGH and this is signs that it is falling apart.
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I just spent about 90 minutes stretched out on an airport couch in that half asleep state that is so wonderful.
Which one is your mom, Carin?
Too much oil in the ground lubricating the fault lines.
We need more fracking.
That’s just science.
It wasn’t my mom. She doesn’t engage me. This is a guy I met at a QOTSA show (a friend of another friend sort of thing).
https://nypost.com/2020/01/07/new-girl-scout-cookie-flavor-comes-with-a-surprise-feminist-message/
They are lemon-flavored, and thus sour in many respects. Neat.
They should make a box-wine and regret flavored cookie so the girls are prepared for their feminist futures.
you see, the earth has HAD ENOUGH and this is signs that it is falling apart.
If earthquakes are a sign of this, then Earth has about fucking HAD IT with Iran and California. Take it to the logical conclusion.
Girl Scout cookies have always been a rip off. Overpriced, and very little money actually goes to the girls.
Now that they’re turning the little cunts into SJWs they might as well merge them with the queers in the Boy Scouts and have done with it.
Bhahhhaaahh, just read Lauraw’s comment while pulling a blanket over me, laying on the couch. Nigh night.
you see, the earth has HAD ENOUGH
So, climate change is like a case of the sniffles? Or a cough?
4.9 earthquake is a like a benign tumor then
I’m looking to get Possum into American Heritage Girls when the time comes. They were great at my old parish. When they sold cookies, they were home-baked. The only time they sold other people’s work was the packzis for Fat Tuesday.
Thinking of trying my hand at making my own grafted tomatoes this Spring. I need to get a toolkit together and practice on some junk seed first, I think. The seed for grafting rootstock is a little spendy.
https://twitter.com/ohcrap91/status/1214920358693916676
Comment by Colorado Alex In Exile on January 8, 2020 10:27 am
I just spent about 90 minutes stretched out on an airport couch in that half asleep state that is so wonderful.
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Did a hobo steal your shoes?
“Why didn’t you go to the General’s funeral, Comrade? Didn’t you… love the General?”
Good news yesterday, the well drillers hit good water at 560 feet on the well we were really worried about. Crazy water around here. A guy around 1/4 mile away from this location drilled down to 1,100 feet and didn’t get any water at all. I thought there was less than 50% chance we’d get a good well.
Good heavens, that’s deep. In MI you rarely go more than 50′ before you hit the “first water” and then you have to drill until you hit it again. My well is only 180′. Livestock well at the old place was 17′. You could prime it with a glass of water.
Good! I was worried about you and your well thing.
That’s good news Pepe. Are you going to finally take a bath or you going to save it all for the herd?
MJ, are you up for walking slowing in a circle with me while looking mental while Jay bangs his drum (not a metaphor) so we can bring about world peace? I’m sure it will work.
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As long as I’m in front so you can look at my beautifully sculpted black girl ass.
Watch the Left implode and start advocating for war by the end of the day:
Trump’s response:
1. More sections on Iran
2. Work with NATO
Ironically the formerly-Boy Scouts have been effectively poaching prospective Girl Scouts by dint of having a program that doesn’t suck as badly. Seems the traditional BSA program is an easy sell to girls used to the shitty GSA routines. (Source: Have talked to girls who said exactly this)
The Girl Scouts are less than happy by this turn of events. It’s kinda hilarious.
Girl Scouts is transitioning to a woke cookie distributor with unpaid labor. The Teamsters should just unionize the girls and then strike.
Right now, it’s an expensive hole in the ground. We have to buy a pump, pipe, solar panels, wire, storage tanks, livestock tanks, more pipe, all the valves and fittings, and get it all installed. Fortunately it’s less than 600 feet. The standard solar pumps don’t work past 700′. There is a new brand that’s supposed to work on deep wells, but I’m sure it’s really expensive. If we had to run power to the well, it would be another $15K to $20K. No fun at all.
I’ve talked with the wife about adding another well if we get serious about livestock here, but I don’t think adding another iron filter is in the budget. I might go the route of digging out a cistern to connect to a big rainwater collector on the pole barn. Wouldn’t replace our well, but it would ease the burden on it and the existing filter system.
Glad you got to water as shallow as you did, Pepe.
Pepe, that is awesome news. It’s kind of hard for me to wrap my mind around how nerve wracking it must be to make that kind of investment and not know if it’s going to produce a thing.
Also, what beasn said about the bath. Maybe you can up your frequency to twice a month, you know, live high off the hog for a change.
Holy shit…was just listening to the local news blurb on the radio.
Apparently, the Walmart by us has been evacuated and everyone is told to stay away from the area, but that didn’t make my ears tingle as much as catching something something something to do with the state legislature back in session and someone someone…planning on introducing a bill to get rid of the personal property taxes.
WUT!!? I was only half listening by the end and almost didn’t hear that. I would totes send a love letter to whoever is able to do that.
Someone needs to get #NoFoodFebruary to trend on the twitters as a protest against Trump’s actions with Iran.
SOBs in the city here want to put a 1% occupational tax on jobs in the city limits. Trying to capture taxes from folks who live outside the escalating shithole that is Montgomery but work here. It’s never been a popular idea but I get the feeling the city council is working on simply imposing one anyway, which will never go away naturally (and will probably shove some businesses outside the city limits, thus cutting their own throats, the geniuses).
Have you guys ever heard of beauty sleep?
Well, I certainly didn’t have that. But I did enjoy my nap and feel like I can carry on for a few more hours.
Trump responded perfectly.
Someone in Ace’s comments said he would do exactly that…let the 12th century freaks beat their chest and save face by sending up some rockets. Now, if they HAD killed some ot our troops, all bets are off. But this absolutely effed the left’s narrative once again. They are in the immortal words of Fred Sanford, “BIG DUMMIES!”
Meh…someone got their announcements mixed up. It was a bomb threat….on Sunday.
Trump is running circles around the “politicos” and “media” and it’s making them nuts.
Politicos and media types are not very bright so it’s easy but I’m happy he’s doing it.
I know this will sound crazy, but it’s almost like a guy who is used to bluster and negotiations knows how to read when his opponents are full of shit and are bluffing.
You guys need to check out the twitter thread wherein Krugman says he’s hacked with kiddi porn.
The comments are laugh out loud funny.
First flight was delayed due to mechanical problems. Now this flight is delayed as well. Yay.
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js
Hey, Hotspur, don’t click on the bottom link.
Not a fan of flying in general and delays are the #1 annoyance for me. #2 is the tiny bags of pretzels which would barely feed an infant on a special pretzel-only diet.
Prayers for Jessica and Paula. J’ames, Dan calls me “Stump” to get me prepared for my future as an amputee. Pretty sure I’ll be going to the Dr in February. Insurance changed. Have to get new Drs.
Thank you, Romacita for keeping my Wednesday eye candy fix.
Dan decided to make fried bologna sammiches tonight. Dan has never had a fried bologna sammich. Ever.
He’s been replaced by a synth.
Where has Pups been?
🤣🤣🤣 He made mine like a grilled cheese. He made his on toast. With cheese and yellow mustard. He’d never had SPAM until we got married. Worst blanco Basura EVER
The krugman stuff is hilarious.
Si, si, Pedro Carin
I’ve never had spam.
My CIL is a troopmaster. He runs both BSA orgs. His daughter has been a Boy Scout forever. She is still on 5Ks and half marathons. She got her deer and an oryx this year. I think she might Bataan up to the half marathon this year. My cousin thought it was more important to get his kids away from Planned Parenthood.
Leon, what? Ever? How about Vienna Sausage?
Nope. Lots of summer sausage, but not Vienna.
I don’t think spam or vienna sausages are things that you can enjoy if you first try them as an adult.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/2020/01/quote-du-jour_8.html
I can’t even eat hot dogs anymore. Or Kraft Singles.
Bleh.
Lauraw is right. I’ll add Kraft Mac and Cheese. Only kids enjoy that orange crap. And Drunks.
I imagine stoners too, but that’s only a guess.
One of my occasional med school meals was a mix of mac n’ cheese, frozen peas and a drained can of tuna all in one pot. Eat half, cover the pot with saran wrap and pop it in the fridge for the next day. BAM … a meal with only one pot and 2 forks to clean afterwards.
Next summer I am gonna do a smoked lobster mac n cheese.
Scott is truly Even Steven.
Jimbro, we haz twins cooking for celebrities
Watching Deadpool 2 with Mom and stepdad. This is weird…
Haven’t seen either Deadpool movie. We have one up at camp I think.
Put your pants on..
I saw Deadpool with the Wisers.
First move since The Waterboy,
PJW
NSFW
The truth about the Australian brushfires.
https://videos.whatfinger.com/2020/01/08/paul-joseph-watson-the-truth-about-the-australian-bushfires/
“Some Like It Hot” was on, and Mini-me watched it for the first time. Her burst of laughter at “Nobody’s perfect” was awesome.
Krugman deleted his tweet. Bummer.
After the game tonight, something is bothering me. Well, besides the Cyclones getting embarrassed by KU.
Why don’t women take off their baseball hats during the national anthem? Equal rights, and you are wearing a traditionally men’s hat. Works both ways.
and we get it, Tucker. You’re anti war.
Dana enjoyed receiving postcards.