I’m preparing to leave for a follow-up appointment with Megan, my Primary Care Physician. We’ll be going over some test results, and I want to discuss pain management. My hands are way overworked, because they have to bear most of my weight every time I transfer to the toilet, haul myself to a sitting position in bed, use the walker, etc. It really plays hell with my arthritis. This is today’s only article. Have an R2 day!!
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 4:24 (average 6:23). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Religious Notes:
The Denver Broncos have signed two QBs to fill the vacancies left by the Great Peyton and Brock Osweiller: Uncle Rico and Mark Sanchez. Neither can replace Peyton, but both are an improvement over Osweiller. Rico could actually start, because he has an arm like a cannon, but I don’t know if he can manage a complex pro offense. When the holy light from the Ellipsoid Orb returns, may it shine upon my Broncos!
Short Takes:
From Media Matters: The news media coverage of Donald Trump has been abominable. Media outlets have treated him with kid gloves, obsessed over him, and given him free run of the airwaves for the entire news cycle.
It’s even worse than that: The news media has given Donald Trump a special phone privilege, allowing him to call in to shows instead of forcing him to appear via satellite or in studio. As a result of this privilege, Trump can appear on more shows, and he can avoid being confronted by images and demonstrations showing his lies for what they are.
It’s time for it to stop. CBS refused to let Donald Trump call into its morning show. This is a start, but other networks and other shows are still letting Trump call in. Sign our petition, and tell news networks that it’s time to take away Trump’s special privilege.
Please click through and sign the petition. I did.
From NY Times: Establishment Republicans who are horrified by the rise of Donald Trump might want to take a minute to remember the glitch heard round the world — the talking point Marco Rubio couldn’t stop repeating in a crucial debate, exposing him to devastating ridicule and sending his campaign into a death spiral.
It went like this: “Let’s dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing.” The clear, if ungrammatical, implication was that all the bad things Republicans claim have happened under President Obama — in particular, America’s allegedly reduced stature in the world — are the result of a deliberate effort to weaken the nation.
In other words, the establishment favorite for the G.O.P. nomination, the man Time magazine once put on its cover with the headline “The Republican Savior,” was deliberately channeling the paranoid style in American politics. He was suggesting, albeit coyly, that a sitting president is a traitor.
And now the establishment is shocked to see a candidate who basically plays the same game, but without the coyness, the overwhelming front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Why?
The truth is that the road to Trumpism began long ago, when movement conservatives — ideological warriors of the right — took over the G.O.P. And it really was a complete takeover. Nobody seeking a career within the party dares to question any aspect of the dominating ideology, for fear of facing not just primary challenges but excommunication.
Click through for the rest of this excellent Paul Krugman editorial, I can summarize my response in one word: BINGO!!
From Alternet: SNL’s resident Hillary Clinton impersonator, Kate McKinnon, was in the house on Saturday night. The comic genius nailed Hillary Clinton in a spoof campaign ad for the ages.
FOMCPIMPROTFLMAO!!
Cartoon:
πR round!
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There is a not very pricy brand of gloves called Bionic endorsed by the Arthritis Association that includes special padding at the joints.
http://www.bionicgloves.com/
Signed.
People reap what they sow.
The SNL clip is good–I'll stop saving it now.
Happy Pi day!
Thanks!
5:28 Makes me think "gentrification" somehow.
Orb – Amusing that living in Colorado, I nonetheless get my Bronco news from Portland and some from Santa Fe.
Media Matters – "Thanks for signing our letter telling the news networks to end Donald Trump's special phone privileges. Your participation makes a difference."
NY Times – And the saddest part is that he is right about us too. Please – WE HAVE GOT TO WORK TOGETHER! OK, I know I am preaching to the choir here, but wherever you meet it, please help.
AlterNet – Funny, yes, indeed. But see my comment on Krugman.
Cartoon – Forgot all about it. And we won't have one this accurate for another hundred years.
Signed the petition. Drumpf needs to show up and defend his actions, IN REAL TIME and ON THE SPOT!
I can't remember who this "Uncle Rico" is. But if he has a good arm, we sure need him! Broncos ARE the World Champions and I hope they make it next year, TOO!!. It just won't be the same without The Great Peyton!!! I sure will miss his presence on the field!
Haven't gotten a chance to see the clip from SNL. I'll catch it later!
Hope your birthday was a BASH!!!
Oops. Cleared my history and it seems my email popped a glitch!
Hope someone will help me out, because I don't get what …
Is supposed to say/mean. (And yeah, I obviously know today is "Pi Day")
Apple πR round. Cherry πR round, etc.
Nameless, I'm thinking something like this re: Cartoon.
“Pi r squared” Baker:” No! Pies are round, cakes are square!
Thanks!
I think you're probably right WRT …
"Pi(s)R Round" [Pie(s) are round]
BUT if you can see a Cake in that clearly block of Wood w/ the rainbow Pi on it … well, you got a WAY better imagination than I do!
MM: Definitely signed!!
NYT: They should have seen the writing on the wall with this guy, and they still let him spin out of control??
" His party had it coming" Truth!
AlterNet: She hit the nail on the head with her skit. LOL.
Cartoon: Students used to have a PI Math party at school when I was still working, at precisely 1:59 p.m. Albert Einstein's Birthday is also on 3.14
Hope you get things resolved with your hands, and your pain meds. Take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Media Matters: Petition signed. The NEWS channels should pass on this "Drumpf Fascist" and give him the thumbs down and tell him to take a hike.
Krugman: Excellent article. Have a read.
The cable guy was just plain and outright obnoxious, a very lonely guy.
Alter, SNL: Good one from the SNL crew.
NYT: "Donald Trump is not an accident. His party had it coming." And the party ideologicals went down in flames. And the world was laughing gleefully at it and dancing with joy seeing it burn to the ground into nothingness of the black hole of the abyss.
Cartoon: πR round! It went round and round and round endlessly.
4:01 Finally, I beat TomCat to the door.
3:53 Love the bright colours! When I lived in Victoria, there was a wooden clapboard house that was painted purple with flourescenr orange trim. It was always well kept, but those colours!
The Squatch gotcha!
Thanks, I enjoy reading these articles and comments…peace.
YVW Cheryl!!
Puzzle — 3:53 Love the bright colours! When I lived in Victoria, there was a wooden clapboard house that was painted purple with fluorescent orange trim. It was always well kept, but those colours!
Religious Notes — Did you note the picture I put in my last OT under My Universe? It was specifically for you.
Media Matters — Drumpf is a user and a LOSER! Petition so signed!
NY Times — Drumpf! Made in America by the Republican Party.
Alternet — I really do wish I could see this. I guess we're not suppose to understand American humour here, north of the 49th! A pox on SNL for not making it available. I guess they feel it is enough to have a good looking, sexy Prime Minister. Hey, we shared him with the US last week! That should count for something!
Cartoon — Personally, I like my pi with apples and cheddar cheese.
Thank you. To be truthful, I saw it, but it didn't register, because I was in such a rush. L went back and like it.
Media Matters: I gladly signed this petition.
NY Times: Krugman always gets it right, I shared this one. The GOP is terrified of the monster it has created.
Alternet: SNL always nails it!
Cartoon: I am with Nameless on this one.
I hope you enjoy today's cartoon!
I absolutely did!
Arthritis? Dear TC please look up how sulphur/sulfur can help those with arthritis! There are MSM creams and capsules cheaply on the market and they can do WONDERS with pain relief and added movement of previously horrid joints
For one example – !
http://www.amazon.com/Jarrow-Formulas-Strengthens-Joints-1000/dp/B0001TNVEM/ref=sr_1_5_s_it?s=hpc&ie=UTF8&qid=1458033807&sr=1-5&keywords=msm+capsules
– good grief things are cheap over there – that is $11 delivered (if you have Prime)! Please try them, sulphur/sulfur is vital for body processes and we don't get enough in our diets so we get arthritis instead!
Thanks Pat!
I hope you had a great π day today, TomCat and that your PCP came up with some tips to spare your hands a little and with some pain management. I also hope she hasn't just prescribed you more pills on top of the things you're already taking.
MM: Excellent initiative and I could sign, so I did. If Drumpf gets elected to president the media are just as much to blame for it as the GOP, but then most media are Republican, aren't they. Strangely enough they go against the GOP's establishment/RNC and Drumpf treats them and their reporters like s..t, so they must be driven by ratings and other commercial considerations only. And that is what keeps Drumpf going too. If he doesn't make it to the White House the media have given him so much free advertising time his $25 million investment will pay out a tenfold or more for his emporium.
NYT: Paul Krugman is absolutely spot-on in his analysis of the Drumpf phenomenon, too bad he felt it necessary as a Clinton supporter to bash Sander's campaign. His conclusion however can be carved in stone: "Donald Trump is not an accident. His party had it coming." But shouldn't Americans be asking themselves: "Did we have it coming too?"
Alternet: FOMCPIMPROTFLMAO!! indeed
I hope your pants are changed now.
Thanks all!! Hugs!!