Yesterday, I mostly rested. Did some crocheting. I had finished the top I was making for my friend, and started another one for another friend. Ordinarily I vastly prefer knitting to crocheting, but this was an unusual pattern and the structure of it hooked me (pun intended.) I may be able to figure out how to translate that look to knitting, but I’ll want to try it doll-size before attempting anything bigger.
Cartoon –
Short Takes –
The Hill – Biden allies say media missing the mark on Afghanistan
Quote – “Every Biden misstep or setback is treated like Trump said COVID will just go away, windmills cause cancer, or that he won re-election,” [Philippe] Reines [a media aficionado and longtime senior adviser to Hillary Clinton] said. “If the goal is to be truly honest, accurate, and fair when covering Biden, there are thousands of adjectives and countless degrees of indignation for the media to choose from. This isn’t hard.”
Click through for other statements. Personally, I would file this under “No shit, Sherlock.” (and I would criticize the media a little more harshly than some), but apparently it needs to be said.
CBS News – Veteran dies of treatable illness as COVID fills hospital beds, leaving doctors “playing musical chairs”
Quote – [Belville emergency room physician Dr. Hasan] Kakli told [“CBS This Morning” lead national correspondent David] Begnaud that if it weren’t for the COVID crisis, the procedure for Wilkinson would have taken 30 minutes, and he’d have been back out the door. I’ve never lost a patient from this diagnosis, ever,” Kakli said. “We know what needs to be done and we know how to treat it, and we get them to where they need to go. I’m scared that the next patient that I see is someone that I can’t get to where they need to get to go. We are playing musical chairs, with 100 people and 10 chairs,” he said. “When the music stops, what happens? People from all over the world come to Houston to get medical care and, right now, Houston can’t take care of patients from the next town over. That’s the reality.”
Click through for story and video. This, along with one other case in Kansas, is the first confirmed case I am aware of where someone died specifically because of unvaccinated CoViD patients. And it’s heartbreaking.
Dem Underground – From the sane Kennedys
Quote – Our father’s death impacted our family in ways that can never adequately be articulated and today’s decision by a two-member parole board [committee] has inflicted enormous additional pain. But beyond just us, six of Robert Kennedy’s nine surviving children, Sirhan Sirhan committed a crime against our nation and its people. He took our father from our family and he took him from America.
Click through to read full statement. I admit this makes me nervous at best.
Food for Thought – kind of related to yesterday’s Furies.
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Biden allies say media missing the mark on Afghanistan
All that claptrap by GQP whining about “the liberal media”
Veteran dies of treatable illness as COVID fills hospital beds, leaving doctors “playing musical chairs”
*sigh*
I know a good many people have said they think hospitals should turn away COVID patients who were not vaccinated to make room for others. I understand their point – but that’s NOT how medical ethics works.
From the sane Kennedys
No one can dispute their feelings on this.
Food for thought:
When I zoomed in on this interactive Map, I was shocked to see that the KCMO Metro has ~ twice as many charging stations as the St. Louis Metro – which easily has a million+ more people than KCMO
https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/electricity_locations.html#/find/nearest?fuel=ELEC
That doesn’t astonish me as much as the fact that Colorado Springs (at least the County) has more than Albuquerque! What the heck is wrong with them?
The Hill: At least President Biden is explaining, and being up front and honest to the American people of what’s going on over in Afghanistan. btw…there is no comparison to what he is saying to the press,(the Truth), as to TOT and what he would have said, and not done re: world events.
CBS: omg. Such a tragedy for this veteran. So very sad for his family too, and all who knew him.
DU: I remember when it happened, and my disbelief of Robert Kennedy being shot.. and his death. I mourned his death, as I did for President Kennedy. Should have never happened, but it did. I extend my sympathies to the Kennedy family too.
Glad that you got some rest from your activities. Hope that you have a relaxing day. Thank you, Joanne for post.
Well, yesterday was a FANtastic! day! The movie was great and I highly recommend it, I mean, who wouldn’t enjoy it with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt being the lead characters? Fast moving, and good action. The food was fantastic, I ate too much, and recruited some family members to take a nice walk afterwards. A wonderful family day, and I suggested to all that we need to do it more often. Even if a certain someone has college homework to look at and complete….all around a day made with memories.
TJI: TJI “Raise your hand if you haven’t forgotten that Trump called America’s fallen heroes who died in war, “suckers and losers.” ~ Occupy Democrats ~
2. August 27th – “BREAKING: A Florida Judge just ruled that Ron DeSantis’s ban on mask mandates in schools is UNCONSTITUTIONAL!” ~ Meidas Touch ~
3. “A Texas mother has joined a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of 14 immunocompromised children. The lawsuit asserts that Gov. Abbott’s order forbidding public school mask mandates violates the Americans with Disabilities Act.” ~ @callerdotcom ~
4. “If you’re not decent enough to put on a mask, stay the hell away from airports. You’re just showing us that you’re the small percentage of people who are morally and riddled with self hatred.” ~ John Pavlovitz ~ ~
5. “I would like to point out that stores are running out of ivermectin so that cows and horses and sheep are going to suffer because the so-called higher species can be stupid.” ~Charles P. Pierce~
The Rock may not be on the level of Ian McKellen or Derek Jacbi or patrick Stewart, but he makes me smile. How could anyone not smile at the sonf “You’re welcome” from “Moana”? So glad you built a day full of lovely memories.
TJI #1 –
TJI #2 – Yes. Of course he will appeal, the @#$%^!
TJI #3 – Good point. Good luck to them.
TJI #4 – There’s a song for these people. It wouldn’t fit today, but I’ll get it up this week in a video thread.
TJI #5 – Fortunately, in serious farm/ranch areas, feed store know every horse for miles aroune, and their owners, and are refusing to sell it to anyone else.
Sounds like you had a lot of fun yesterday. Glad you had a nice time yesterday with your family, Pat.
TJI#1 My hand is UP … ditto Joanne’s.
TJI#2: Bravo to the Judge. Pray they keep rejecting dEsanto.
TJI#3: Good for her. I wish all of these moms the best.
TJI#4: They’re brainless fools who only care about themselves.
TJI#5: People are so insane. I like reading what Joanne wrote, that the store owners know who really have animals. I thank these owners.
Well, this is interesting. I know I posted the cartoon when I scheduled this, because I remember looking at the frame and saving it for future use. Yet this morning it was not there. It is now. I hope is stays.
The Hill: I feel President Biden has done a great job for the first 7 months he’s been in office. He finally took the final steps to end this war, that’s gone on for over 20 years and has killed so many. The media loves pointing out negative thoughts of their own, especially ones who still believe in all of the phony tRump lies.
CBS: Awful that this veteran died all because of the lack of beds due to anti vaxxers. I feel that the hospital should make patients like this veteran the top priority and treat them first over the anti vaxxers. Now that the vaccine has been FDA approved, the hospital and insurances should tell patients to get the vaccine or you don’t get paid treatment/services. Companies are doing that the their employees, so should the medical companies.
DU: I was surprised of the hearings outcome. I thought there was a second part of approval that maybe if enough are against his release, he will be kept in?
Food for Thought: Interesting amount. Nice to know for the future.
Like hearing that you’ve been able to get some rest for yourself. Hope it continues for you.
I know that when I use to crochet, it was nice and relaxing for me. I did a lot of it when my son was younger.
Take care. Thanks Joanne
Two more steps to parole – the full Board, and then the Governor must sign off – or not. It must have been the video thread I noted that in. Because I’m doing both, I feel I’ve communicated something if I post it one place or the other. You might just want t start reading the titles of the videos in case I made any comment about one or more myself.
With a tendency to sweaty hands when it is hot, my crocheting and knitting days usually confined themselves to cooler months than those of summer. Given the climate and temperatures of the area you live in, I’m amazed you can manage so much.
TH: The media’s critique on Biden should be filed away under 🐮💩, next to the subcategory “both sides should be presented equally”. There isn’t even the intention to be fair.
CBS: I’m so sorry for the family and friends of the veteran who didn’t get treatment in time because of the strain Covid patients put on healthcare, but I’m even more sorry for the doctors having to play this game of “musical chairs” with the lives of their patients in the balance. Doctors and nurses in hospitals of Covid hotspots are already overworked and psychologically burdened; the stress of knowing that people are dying unnecessarily from other, treatable, diseases or accidents because anti-vaxxers are taking up beds must be unbearable.
DU: I was led to believe yesterday that the Kennedys were OK with the parole.
Somewhere along the way, too many Americans got yhe idea that “fairness” means “treating both sides equally.” And, to be fair, colloquially, and sometimes in actuality, it does. Sp either the word needs a semantic overhaul, or else it should be removed from journalism altogether in favor of concepts like “truth,” “accuracy,” and “reality.”
I’m sorry if I gsve you the impression the Kennedys didn’t object. When I drafted the video post, I didn’t know how they felt. It was when I found out that they did object that I added the line about a followup as a flag that “there’s more to this story.” But the first version didn’t get published that way.