Good morning (possible MMM or BBF candidate?), and welcome to another edition of Hunky Hump Day.
Let’s get started. RIP, Ronnie Spector. A song you probably haven’t heard unless you are from New Jersey in the 80’s.
Now for the hunks. A decent one above the fold.
Fake redhead for Carin that was part of an interesting photo shoot.
Same.
Innnnnteresting.
Ok, enough of that.
Last, but not least.
Thanks to Pirate’s Cove for the linky love every week, prayers for those fighting the coof, and y’all have a good day.
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Checking Your Mom's Drawers for Hope&Change since March 2009 
a list of 30 shows with “you get a point for every one you’ve seen”. I’ve seen 2 (Game of Thrones and Stranger Things) and even then, just the first season of each. Half of them I’d never heard of. Euphoria? Succession? Barry? Narcos? Glow?
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I’ve heard of a few of those but haven’t watched any of them. Not really a big TV watcher. Used to regularly watch NFL & college football as well as local and Fox News. My viewing habits now include Patriots games and occasionally movies on TCM.
If it was just me I’d sign up for TCM only and listen to the games on the radio. You can watch highlights of any game on ScrewTube (as Bongino labels YouTube) for any game within hours of it ending.
Easter egg looks like an actress of some sort
Morning bolsa de vergasX
Good morning everyone, count your dick.
1!
Whew, I always worry when we have to do that.
it’s really cold here today, so .5
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/01/17/anti-vaxx-mandate-song-more-of-us-deboosted-from-youtube/
Does anyone here know much about setting up a GoFundMe? I’m trying to find good options for getting my debts dealt with in a way that frees up income to put a roof over my head and I want to know what all the tools are that I could call on. (Just as reference, I estimate between medical and back rent I’m about $10k in the hole. Yes, I know bankruptcy, but I already have an eviction on record and have no wish to become completely radioactive if avoidable.)
I sort of remember back when this here shithole blog was just getting good that we’d talk about the possibility of censorship.
And here we are.
Two or three companies control most of the information and will go so far as to buy an election to make sure their control continues.
Think back about 15 years…did you ever think one person could spend 400m dollars to get out the vote for his party and no one would even care?
The liberals love it of course but the conservative party doesn’t care at all. They’re like oh well, ho hum. No big deal. We’ll get ’em next time. Orange man bad.
People care, MJ, but the people who care have no power, and the people with power are getting paid not to use it. The only fix is to make those with the power care, or empower those who care while dethroning those who don’t.
If it’s any consolation, Zuckerberg and Gates can’t walk the streets without armed guards or a disguise of some sort.
RIP Oregon Muse.
Oh no! He had Covid very bad!
This still makes me mad to read. My dad was the most patriotic person I ever knew, and he was angry about this type of behavior
Twitter, Jesse Kelly: Word came down from on high that we were to take down and stash our flags.
OM had more than his share of health challenges lately. Guess it was finally just too much. Damn shame.
He will be greatly missed.
At the hospital. Bring on the versed!
TeeRoy, why are you at the hospital? Hope you feel better soon!
Routine colonoscopy. Thanks for the well wishes.
TeeRoy, may your colon be as clean as Trump’s financials.
Wait, so the Dems will be subpeonaing TeeRoy’s results? I mean, clearly they have nothing better to do, but damn…
I wonder if covid will take out a few of the grifter class.
I mean, they’re big boys with health issues…but they still inside all day addicted to posting on twitter.
Sorry to hear about OM. That’s pretty sad.
If it hasn’t killed Stelter, it won’t kill any of them. They are all getting the real prophylaxis.
Heck, the Wide Latina is still waddling around.
kind of expensive, but handy!
https://zstacklife.com/products/z-stack
I haven’t bought vitamins in a while, but that seems a little higher than you’d pay for separates. Plus, D3 really needs to be delivered via gelcaps, iirc, being fat-soluble. I guess you might be okay with this stuff so long as you take it with a meal.
Twitter: UK ends mask mandates and vax passports
yeah, but this way you aren’t swallowing a handful of pills daily.
Twitter: Wow. Justices Gorsuch and Sotomayor publicly rebuke NPR’s @NinaTotenberg for her false report:
Totenberg = mountain of death
Can’t expect any good from that.
Comment by Jay in Ames on January 19, 2022 12:11 pm
Twitter: UK ends mask mandates and vax passports
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Ho-Lee-shit, that’s big. Not big like Sotomoyer’s ass but huge.
Pray for Europe to follow suit. Austria is currently thinking about fining people higher than the median household income for not getting jabbed.
but, Brandon was just about to send out 400 million free masks? Enough for 1 day!
In holding pattern in pre op. Send lawyers, drugs, and money. I’m starting to get a bit agitated. Not a word spoken to me for 2 hrs.
hit that call button!
one time at the hospital, i sat and waited. Turns out the doc had fallen asleep, and I slipped through the cracks. Got to stay on their radar.
Wait, Nick Saban (and Jerry West, the guy in the NBA logo) urged Manchin to support the voting act? (Wapo and Jenn Rubin link, not being posted)
Thought he was smarter than that.
I can honestly say I’ve never fallen asleep on a patient. There’s been a few I wished I could have fallen asleep on during their painful, epic descriptions of their multitudinous maladies.
I did fall asleep once in the operating room when I was post-call as a junior resident, up al night with sleep total under an hour, while holding a retractor on a case where I couldn’t see the operative field.
to be fair, it was the middle of the night, and it was the wife with a kidney stone, waiting for dismissal. The nurse was hella pissed though.
I did fall asleep once in the operating room when I was post-call as a junior resident, up al night with sleep total under an hour, while holding a retractor on a case where I couldn’t see the operative field.
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This is why I don’t believe in the “let’s burn them out and see what they can do” method.
I don’t want you to fall asleep holding the retractor on my dad’s heart operation.
Twitter: Starbucks no longer requiring vaccination
Gee, i wonder why
Brandon was just about to send out 400 million free masks? Enough for 1 day!
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Local talk station was discussing N95 masks this morning and how they’re effective against omicron. As I was driving I put 2 + 2 together when I realized my former hospital is pushing the N95’s hard now too.
It’s going to be like the saying Marxists use, “Real Communism hasn’t been tried” just applied to mask mandates.
“Real Masking hasn’t been tried”
Don your N95 comrade!
OFFS, this mask bullshit has to stop. It doesn’t do shit. And so what if it did. Wear one if it makes your dumbass feel safe, but don’t make me wear one.
Just like the vaccines, if it works why do you care what other people are doing. Just STFU.
Cardiac surgeons use self-retaining retractors mostly. The attendings work with fellows who get plenty of sleep. I trained in the olden days and there was some utility to the punishment we endured.
As a medical student I got to do a hell of a lot more than a lot of the interns and residents do now. There’s a balance and I’m afraid it’s swung too far to the other extreme.
mare, you aren’t supposed to wear it on your ass
wakey wakey
So, Michigan’s death/case tracker on covid hasn’t updated since friday.
/checks calendar.
have I told you guys how much the puppies LOVE Moose? He most just ignore them, but they both just love him. Especially the girl.
Probably because they lack a father figure.
Is Lucy going to get tats and all the other things young girls do when their father abandons them?
3M’s lobbyist is probably sitting in a hot tub full of cocaine and $1000/hr hookers right now.
Starbucks dropped their jab requirement. Starbucks.
Carhartt (of Dearbornistan, MI) has yet to respond to the mountain of hate mail.
maybe no one is dying in Michigan? ever think of that?
look out for piercings, car in
They went from daily reporting, to updates three days a week. Monday was a holiday, so so far nothing, no update. Maybe at 5 pm?
BroTim, I asked a friend of mine who did a GoFundMe to get the funds to travel to his mom’s funeral last month. Waiting to hear back.
CDC won’t be doing counts come Feb, I thought. If you’re the MI shlub on the hook for that count, and you can’t be fired anyhow, how bothered are you to keep that crap updated in an election year?
Sorry to hear that about OregonMuse.
Looking at the Ewok’s post about the internment camps – Left and Right are flying away from each other at an accelerating rate. We’re undergoing a civilizational mitosis.
He’s going to need some kind of pivot
https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-fans-excited-to-vote-for-the-guy-who-fast-tracked-vaccines-and-hired-fauci
Doubling down on Warp Speed and “Vaxes Are Safe!” only gives 4 more years of Brandon who will gradually be embalmed so the American public isn’t aware he died from fatal priapism while sniffing a young girl’s hair
There was a local radio talk guy who would, referring to Germany et al. leading up to and through WWII, say, “How do you kill 10 million people? You lie to them.”
You can update that to “50 million” the way things are going.
He was right, naturally.
I’ve heard Trump went 94 minutes in AZ without mentioning the vaccines. Maybe he finally talked to Don Jr.
Jay – what’s the proportion of vaxxed to Unvaxxed in Iowa hospitals?
those not fully vaccinated account for:
72% of Covid 19 patients in ICU
64% of patients hospitalized for Covid 19
https://coronavirus.iowa.gov/
Well, we’re moving toward 50-50. Should be a few weeks to a month.
It was 80-20 at one point.
it’s not moving as fast here. Still don’t know what the calculation is
72% of Covid 19 patients in ICU
64% of patients hospitalized for Covid 19
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Are those patients there exclusively for covid? If not, those numbers mean shit.
Yes, those are for Covid patients only. And they said it excludes patients in for other reasons but test + for covid.
I’m watching President Silver Alert’s press conference and playing bullshit bingo. I’m drinking every time he says get vaxed.
Good thing I didn’t pick creepy whisper for “drink!”
Holy shit, he just said he expects Russia to prevail in Ukraine.
Tell me I heard that wrong, please.
tmi3rd
@tmi3rd
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It’d be one thing if we were only hospitalizing the unvaccinated. Granted, my inpatients are primarily unvaccinated, but a good 10% are vaccinated.
*drink*
Well, I expect Russia to prevail in Ukraine, so we have a certain harmony on that score.
We better not send so much as a spitball into that shitshow.
Creepy whisper again.
Theory: every creepy whisper is him remembering that he’s not supposed to be shouting.
COUNT THE VOTES!
Sorry, didn’t mean to startle anyone
His eyes look weird.
like a doll’s eyes…
He always looks like that in the afternoon now.
Speaking of eyes, my eyeballs feel like Adam Schiffs eyes look…
When we have oatmeal in the morning, I always throw a couple of spoons of applesauce in it. This morning, I added a big squirt of horse paste…
When was the last time his eye started bleeding? They must have that under control now. I wonder how humid they have to keep The Residence to stop his nose opening up.
I don’t know how y’all can stand to listen to the guy. Spongebrain Shitpants gives me the full body heebie jeebies.
In other news, I can finally smell and taste again.
I’m not, I’m watching a Stranded Deep playthrough and chatting on Catholic Discord.
Spongebrain Shitpants
I’m dying
Who lives in an ice-cream cone down in Dee Cee…
Crispy, my eyes hurt when I had it last week, too. Looking up was especially painful.
Spongebrain Shitpants – my new favorite epithet.
Also:
President Rutabaga (waves to UncleFacts)
President Silver Alert
Delaware Destroyer
Sir Shartsalot
Oatmeal Brain
Any good ones I’m missing?
Joey Fishsticks
President Brandon
Leon, great ear worm
President Kiddie Sniffer.
Big Guy getting 10%
Comment by ChrisP on January 19, 2022 5:35 pm
Speaking of eyes, my eyeballs feel like Adam Schiffs eyes look…
When we have oatmeal in the morning, I always throw a couple of spoons of applesauce in it. This morning, I added a big squirt of horse paste…
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This made me laugh.
Anecdotal not data. 30 CoWs out with the Rona. All are jabbed and boosted.
CoW has 4 children. All have had the Rona. Even her two youngest. 5 and 7. She keeps them home from school after every “Exposed to COVID” I can’t even with these people. Another CoW is mostly ok, but his wife is cray cray. They both had the Rona. Fully vaxxed and boosted. She works at Presbyterian Hospital. Exposed to a positive. They both took 10 days paid for “Exposure”
Paula was exposed to Ben and had to test before going back to work. That day it was balls to the wall busy with endless ambulances dropping off patients and her manager who was exposed to her daughter went home to quarantine for 5 days. Makes zero sense.
She had a Covid positive guy with some opiate withdrawal issues among other issues who had an unholy trifecta of refusing the mask, vomiting on himself and shitting himself. She now has a scratchy throat tonight at work.
CoW had the Chyna flu last year, her husband had it bad enough to end up in the hospital. Biden made his rule, jab or job, so she took the jab. She has it a second time now. Does the jab compromise natural immunity or is this strain that different?
who had an unholy trifecta of refusing the mask, vomiting on himself and shitting himself.
All respect to nurses. The worst I get at work is vacuum grease.
Tests can’t distinguish between Rona, Cold, or Flu.
Anyone use Slack? Is it bullshit software like Teams?
No, Slack is really good. Teams is inflicted on companies by MBA types and the loss of Slack is lamented by the productive staff for many months afterward.
Pretty sure Teams is just part of the package with Word, Excel, etc. Gov’t sees no need to try to find anything better. Good to know that Slack is useful, thanks.
Joey Sexknuckles. Stole that one from Ace.
Sobek, awesome. I missed that one.
Another one:
I slept through two alarms and I was 41 minutes late for work today. I was freaking out. Just realized I missed my nighttime meds. Pray for Oso.
So, by sheer coincidence I am told that after Jan 7, CDLs may only be granted by being educated at an accredited trucking school and then taking the state licensing test.
Because what trucking really needed was more barriers to entry, and pushing out the smaller schools. I suspect the other trades are next.
I can see it now: a BS to work as an electrician. Plus it’s a university, so you gotta get jabbed too.
Sample the Metaverse with Mark Z!
https://tinyurl.com/2p8zjs73
Leon, check out hair cutting and mani/pedi peeps in OK.
Beautician licensing is the same scam in most states now. It’s horseshit on toast and makes no sense except as grift.
The blossoming interest of zoomers into the trades must be strangled and managed by the all-powerful State.
Sorry got my date wrong, the CDL thing is Feb 7.
Leon,
Bing ‘Trucking Apprenticeship’
I can see it now, illegals queuing up for trade school…..ya, no. Ain’t happening. And that will produce “inequity”, and as we all know things have to be equitable.
Survived the procedure, made my way home, ate some pasta, took a nap, woke up, puked everything I ate, got the chills. Things are calm now. I probably ate too much. Identified and removed one polyp 7cm said it was unremarkable but sent it for test anyway cause billing and cya. I give em a 3.5 out of 5. Nothing great but nothing bad. Mediocre.
I wonder if there is people you see at every hospital video out there.
“…removed one polyp 7cm said it was unremarkable…”
Huh. My polyps are SPECTACULAR. Not to brag or anything.
“Sobek, awesome. I missed that one.”
I actually like Mitchell’s the best.
As mentioned by others “professional” licensing is a racket. I think there is a place for competency testing. I’ve attended security training in just about every state that requires it. Including MA, NH, RI, NYS, PA, MD, VA, NC, GA?, FL, MS, LA, TX, AZ, NV, CA, IL, MO, IN, OH, TN(that turned into a short list of where I’ve been while chewing gum and kicking ass) But the real point of this comment is that in more than two thirds of the classes, by lunch on the first day the Instructor would be like “what the fuck are you guys doing here? Give us test that afternoon and on our way. Reasonable. Demonstrate you know the material and move on. Some of the beauty schools are well over 2000 hrs. But a lady was telling me it’s also a scam because they can get school grants for hrs, so of course more hrs..
Nobody has better polyps than YOU. Best polyps ever.
Heh, heh I was watching vid of Trump doing his “I’m the greatest, all my shit is the greatest, and nobody is greater”routine. And the premise of the video is to slam him, but what amused me was they thought he was always absolutely serious and not trolling them. Funny funny stuff, dude says outlandish shit and they eat it.
This polyp, this polyp…was incredible. Yuge. Nobody had ever seen a polyp like this before. They said it couldn’t be done, but we did it. Everyone was amazed, simply amazing.
oh yeah? Quantity, not quality. I had 3 removed.
BOOYAH!
I had a mole like that once. Huge, purple. Your mom loved it.
Whitlock breaks down the Saban letter. He’s doing it to get social media off his back.
Jason is very smart.
Comment by Jay in Ames on January 19, 2022 10:08 pm
Whitlock breaks down the Saban letter. He’s doing it to get social media off his back.
Jason is very smart.
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Jay, I don’t know much about this story so would you explain that comment?
Other than what you linked earlier.
I think that licensing for a doctor, a pharmacist or a lawyer makes good sense. Licensing for a florist, not so much.
So, Biden is sending free Coronavirus tests to everyone who asks.
He bought them from China!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/18/ccp-mocks-biden-ordering-coronavirus-tests-china/
Comment by Sobek on January 19, 2022 11:16 pm
I think that licensing for a doctor, a pharmacist or a lawyer makes good sense. Licensing for a florist, not so much.
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This, 100%.
Comment by ChrisP on January 19, 2022 11:16 pm
So, Biden is sending free Coronavirus tests to everyone who asks.
He bought them from China!
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/01/18/ccp-mocks-biden-ordering-coronavirus-tests-china/
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We (collective US government “we”) are so dumb.
not much to tell. Saban signed a letter to Manchin, for him to support the Steal All Elections bill. Whitlock speculates that he’s doing it to keep social media off his back, and he really should stand up and support something, rather than bending the knee to everything
Glad y’all liked “Spongebrain Shitpants” feel free to spread it wide and far.
Depressed, Ellis rarely participated.