Yesterday was a zoo. I practiced walking (with a walker) for PT. The RN took my vitals and checked both stumpy and my remaining foot. I took a shower with the bath-aide. I have soft fur and smell wonderful. I thought I might be bashful, but necessity trumps nekkidness, I ordered groceries. The sheets came, and I made the bed. It took two hours. When my helper friend arrived, my bed making was not up to her standards, so she remade it, swept and mopped the floor, moved a couple things to make them accessible to me, and helped empty the fridge, until she couldn’t eat anymore. Today will be lighter. I have a grocery delivery coming. I have a social worker coming top help me set a strategy to get a permanent bath aide, after home health services expires. My helper-friend may come again.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
Today’s took me 3:12 (average 4:59). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Tales:
From The New Yorker: Two days after their team completed a losing season for the fifteenth time in seventeen years, a consortium of Cleveland Browns fans has formally applied to relocate the N.F.L. franchise to Los Angeles.
Unlike other teams vying to move to L.A., such as the St. Louis Rams, the San Diego Chargers, and the Oakland Raiders, the Browns’ application is believed to be the only one submitted entirely by fans.
Andy may be reporting straight news again.
From Daily Kos: Read it and weep, Republicans. And while you’re at it, absolutely run on a rehashed version of George W. Bush’s economic policies.
Consider also that under Bush, the Democrats worked to boost the economy, while under Obama, the Republicans worked to sabotage it.
From FAIR.org: …Lesson One: Social Security and Medicare Are Not Unfair to the Young…
Lesson Two: The Affordable Care Act Redistributes from the Healthy to the Less Healthy, not the Young to the Old…
Lesson Three: Our Children Will Only Be Hurt by the Debt Because the Washington Post and Other Elite Types Will Use it As An Excuse to Cut Necessary Spending…
Lesson Four: We Hand Our Children a Whole Economy, Not Just Government Debt…
Lesson Five: Global Warming Threatens the Planet, but It Is the Fault of the Rich, not Older Generations… [emphasis original]
Click through for a fascinating article anout how media are trying to brainwash youth to blame seniors for the world’s ills, instead of the 0.1%.
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4:22 Cute can. The boot is almost indistinguishable from dead leaves.
New Yorker – I'm not knowledgeable enough to comment, but the concept is amusing even to the ignorant.
DKos – Thanks for your additional point – otherwise it becomes confuising that the Bush administration did so well.
FAIR – Yeah, no kidding. Of course it is critically important to maintain the secrecy of balloting, but if it weren't, what would make the most sense in the blame game woud be to terminate Social Security and Medicare from everyone who voted for – let's tie it to a Representative in the House – who campainged on and/or voted to gut Social Security and Medicare, and distribute that money fairly among those who voted for a candidate who campaigned on and/or voted to strengthen Social Security and Medicare – regardless whether that candidate won. The fact is, between what the people want and what actually gets passed into law, there is literally no connection. This was demonstrated by a Princeton study. Blaming seniors, or any other group, for laws on which their desires were ignored, is grossly unfair.
Cartoon – Well, of course Rethuglicans would refuse to believe this, since it reveals that they have no quality. Not that we didn't know that.
Just wanted to share an email I received from the Center for Medicare Advocacy. They appear to have discovered a little-publicized office within Medicare, namely the OMSP (Office of Mean-Spirited Policies), which is responsible for decisions like not covering white canes for the blind. SRSLY. If you know of any policy which is similarly mean-spirited, they are inviting information about it to be sent to Communications@MedicareAdvocacy.org (I don't have a URL for that – it is SUPPOSED to open up "compose" in whatever your email client it, but I won't guarantee it working.)
Wonderful; Site!! I biikmarked it.
NYer: I am still in awe of the last game Broncos vs. Browns. What a game!! LOL, Andy!
DK: Charts don't lie. What an awesome job our President has done. His speech about gun control was Amazing!
Cartoon: My father spoke of this while we were little/growing up. I married a person who believes this, and my son also carries on with this sentiment. Not that any of the Repubs care….
And here I thought I was busy. Not by a long shot, after reading everything that you accomplished! WTG, and now you can rest. Hopefully. In the meantime, enjoy your day, catnap, relax, and take care. Thanks, TC.
Congrats on the HUGE (or as Trump would say "YUUUGGGEEE!") progress you're making WRT ADLs! That truly is great news!
Thanks! It';s about survival!~
2:51 That shit-kicker is made for Squatches!
Shitkicked!
So glad to hear of progress on your bath aide yet sorry it first happened on the day you were complaining about how cold it was in your room….also glad they are addressing physical ability to use a walker since that makes a lot of options more accessible to you.
I remember the tale of two cities (Oakland and LA) and the Raiders all too well so can appreciate Andy even though I don't know the other stories near so well.
Important economic facts to remember whenever someone tries to invent an inappropriate context or myth to engender fear or division of people who should share the same perspective as being in their self interest.
Anyone surprised the GOP didn't want to claim quality in the cartoon?
You go, TC!
LOVE the cartoon!!!!
With any luck the GOPpigs will stick to their standard idiotic rambling BS about failed economics, and hand the election to people who can actualy think!
So you literally came up smelling like roses yesterday, TomCat 🙂 You must have slept well too after a busy but useful day, fur in top condition again and between some new, fresh sheets. I hope today has done you so much good as well.
The New Yorker: By now a rare occasion: I've no idea what Andy is satirical about. I gather it's something to do with NFL football, but as your Holy Elliptical Orb holds no attraction for me, I'm not wasting money and time on looking it up, sorry.
Daily Kos: When Obama became president, I believed he couldn't possibly meet all the high expectations people had of him. I really thought he had such a dreadful Bush legacy to overcome, especially the economic and war parts of it, Obama never would get anything off the ground. Boy, did he prove me wrong! Just look at that chart. Indeed he started of with economics in the red and getting further down in his firths few months. But despite all the opposition he got from Republicans, he managed to turn things around. Not quite fore everyone yet, but that is fully down to the GOP, not to him.
To keep that employment line going up straight as the arrow it is now, the next president needs to be a true Democrat backed by a Congress full of Democrats. So you know what you must do, my American friends: get out the vote, and Bernie will take care of the rest.
FAIR org: It was in the making now so many are poor that blaming them for everything that is wrong doesn't work any more. So the old are the new poor, made into scapegoats so the poor can blame them and feel superior to them, turning their attention away from the true culprits and keep voting for them (if they are allowed to vote at all). I think this strategy is going to fail the 1%. Most of them are in the same age bracket as those old they are trying to put the blame one and being so disassociated from the real world, the underestimate the force that is the older American. They may have brainwashed many of those that watch faux news regularly, but the majority is well aware what the GOP and theuir media are trying to do. Just look around here on this site.
Cartoon: The GOP wouldn't recognize a man of quality if they tripped over him. Not that there is a chance of that in their circles.
I must disagree. The GOP recognizes quality. Whenever they encounter it within their party, they purge it.
Something entirely different: has anyone heard of our English friend Pat A. recently? She's been of this grid for quite a while now and she doesn't react to Care2 messages. I do hope she's alright.
I emailed her last night. No reply. I'm worried too.
Puzzle — 2:51 That shit-kicker is made for Squatches!
The New Yorker — I don't watch NFL football (no TV) but I have heard the name "Cleveland Browns" used in disparaging tones so assume they did not do well. Yeah! Andy's back to reporting!
Daily Kos — Republicans need to have a very, very long affair with the truth. Speaking of Republicans, Whoopi Goldberg was interviewing Rand Paul on The View this morning. Because I was at physio, they don't have the sound on, but I almost shorted out the stationary bike I was riding, the Republican making me want to hurl. I peddled my ass for 50 minutes.
Fair.org — JD says it so well.
Cartoon — Pound sand Republicans! Amen men of quality!
So glad that you got your bath and your bed made! I know that was bothering you so much! Sounds like you had quite a gathering at your house for one day!!! At least they all came in the same day and you don't have to have them coming one at a time! Must've been quite the experience!!
Andy was so FUNNY! The Browns have done so poorly that I could almost believe it!!
Just so terrible that the right-wing nutjobs are trying to sell such garbage to the young!
Glad you are finally getting the help you need!!!
Thanks all! Hugs!