Yesterday Arvilla (PT) worked me hard. We needed to ascertain whether I could support myself well enough with a quad-cane to make transfers to a doctor’s table, a barber chair, a toilet without handicapped rails, etc., when I’m out and about, so I don’t have my walker for transfers. It worked well. I also tired myself out, so today, I’m taking a much needed rest day.
Jig Zone Puzzle:
today’s took me 2:44 (average 4:16). To do it, click here. How did you do?
Short Takes:
From The New Yorker: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continued to air her grievances against President Obama on Friday, telling an audience at a Trump rally in Iowa that Obama was “single-handedly to blame” for her defeat in the 2008 general election.
“Like a lot of American families, we Palins had big plans and dreams—in this case, regarding me becoming Vice-President,” she said. “But you know who had to go and ruin those plans and dreams? President Obama.”
Palin said that Obama insured her defeat in 2008 “just like he has defeated so many other great Americans,” and that her family had paid the price.
“I can’t help thinking that, if I had been elected Vice-President, Bristol and Willow wouldn’t have gotten into that drunken brawl and Track wouldn’t have threatened his girlfriend and whatnot,” she said. “Thanks, Obama.”
Andy sure understands Bloody Bullseye Barbie!
From NY Times: A massive winter storm that threatens to dump two feet of snow on the nation’s capital began pummeling the East Coast on Friday afternoon, as millions of people from the Carolinas to New York braced for a weekend of severe winds, power losses and coastal flooding. Thousands of flights were canceled; governors and mayors warned people to stay indoors and off the roads.
Governors in at least 10 states declared states of emergency, and travel was disrupted in at least five major airport hubs, with 6,300 flights canceled on Friday and Saturday and 4,675 more delayed. In North Carolina, more than 114,000 homes lost power. The Washington region’s mass transit system took what an official called an “exceedingly rare” step of shutting down for the weekend.
Cities from Nashville to New York started emergency operations to respond to what the National Weather Service deemed a “potentially crippling winter storm.” In Virginia, where snow began falling Friday morning in the southern part of the state, Gov. Terry McAuliffe put 700 National Guard members on standby; by Friday evening, hundreds of accidents had been reported. In Baltimore, shelters added hundreds of extra beds to accommodate the homeless.
To you, who are in the path of this fossil-fuel weather, you are in my thoughts and prayers. Please be careful and stay safe.
From Crooks and Liars: Oops! Trump Campaign Runs Veterans Ad Featuring Russian Soldiers
I bet Vladimir Putin (R-RU), aka GOP Pootie, hopes Hateful Hairball wins, so his vets get US taxpayer money!
Cartoon:
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Andy hit the nail right on the head!!! That whiny voice of hers grates on my brain EVERY time I hear it!!!
I hope the cane proves to be a LOT easier to use than the walker! Given time, you will have mastered the use of the cane and may not need it!
What's that is smell?? Smells like roses! The wind is from the NW! I bet that's TC's rosey self that I smell!!!
Take care TC! Tomorrow is the Playoffs! I can't wait to watch The Great Peyton take apart the defense of the Hatriots! This is gonna be GOOD!!!
2:31 Tip-toe through the tulips . . . Pretty tulip but not my colour.
NYer: Boy, is she nuts!!! LOL, Andy
NYT: My extended family lives in the NE. They are expected to get about 6-8 inches from the blizzard. Parts of NC (friends) have no electricity. I'm praying for those folks.
C&L: Oops is right, what an ID!!
Sounds like you got a good workout, with positive results!! Catnap, and rest.
Take care, and Thanks, Tom.
Good job! Many I know, when possible, have their walkers in the car just in case when out via a car even though relying on their cane.
I'm furious because none of the press says her son tried to get services from the VA and was refused or waitlisted…
In CA all DV offenders are required to get offender treatment upon release (parole, probation, etc.)–as Governor it was in her power to get similar laws and programs to be available for her son now…and no evidence she or her husband tried to get her son to get treatment and absent criminal justice problem, there is no big government requiring treatment unless the family acts…
And Palin in her VP campaign also had the option of a policy of reducing our wars and personnel harmed by them so could have prevented the impact to her son potentially.
Saw a question of whether Lancaster County had done their duty to their homeless…hope time proves no other country neglected that responsibility.
Would he also bomb the wrong country by mistake were he our Commander in Chief?
No Car!
4:36 I'm so used to seeing them before they splay out, I almost didn't recognize it.
New Yorker – Can anyone say it better than this picture from the Daily News? http://images.dailykos.com/images/198075/story_image/1.png?1453272774
NY Times – That sounds even worse than what we used to be used to. And those people probably have very little idea what to do. Prayers are probably the least that is needed. Well, mine are coming.
Crooks and Liars – Good gad. Look, I know there is a lot of corruption around, but there is also a little thing called Occam's Razor. Why go to corruption to explain problems that are fully accounted for by Republican obstruction and funding cuts?
Cartoon – Of course they will. No. It's not worth it. Voting out Republicans is the only solution that will actually work.
Thanks for the link, loved it.
which is funnier Andy or tRump??? (andy)
who is scarier tRump or Palin? (tough one)
has anyone explained to tRump that the problems with how vets are treated is due to his party???
Friendly "Heads Up" (which you probably already know):
Just remember there's an "Inside" and an "Outside" to a quad cane.
Explain please?
Take all the rest you need. We want you completely well.
The New Yorker: Andy always makes me laugh and wonder if it is fact or fiction.
NY Times: Kentucky got slammed Thursday and Friday. We had 18 inches of snow in our back yard and the main road are so bad that our subdivision has not been touched. I see cabin fever in my future. We have not lost power,though. I feel for those in the states that had blizzards and flooding.
Crooks and Liars: This is awful, but I can't help being amused at such a big goof up. I hope it gets the US veterans riled.
Cartoon: As my Grandmother used to say "Don't that just warm your heart?"
Keep warm and safe Edie please! Prayers going up that your electricity and water stay OK – if you have those surely you won't get cabin fever – the internet will keep you going!
Thanks!
Puzzle — 2:31 Tip-toe through the tulips . . . Pretty tulip but not my colour.
The New Yorker — Palin is a squeaky voiced (very irritatingly so!), non sensical, ranting idiot who doesn't know the difference between her ass and a hole in the ground! Andy sure has her number!
NY Times — My guess, Republicans will find a way to blame the storm on Obama rather than the effects of climate change. Having lived in the north and in central Canada where snow and cold were de rigeur, I can sympathise. Cabin fever is the worst part after lack of heat and electricity. Lack of water can also be a problem if pipes are not properly insulated. Stay warm and safe.
Crooks and Liars — That picture of Russian veterans is all over the internet. There is another Trump ad using migrants from Morocco as Mexicans. I wonder if that is where the idea of Middle Eastern terrorists coming to the US through Mexico came from. Trump is a bombastic piece of bilious flotsam. I wonder if his own words — You're fired! — come to mind for the idiot that put this together?
Cartoon — Republican negotiation. Don't trust a Republican to negotiate in good faith.
New Yorker – Argh – Andy made $$$arah sound real – she is crazy enough to say those things after all!
NYT – that storm looks awful – I have read with grief of those who have so sadly lost their lives due to it. Please stay warm and safe everyone – I can't be here too often still as have so many problems to deal with but you are in my prayers daily.
Crooks and Liars – sorry, my fragile system won't survive if I watch that horrible horrible man!
Apologies TC – forgot to say – well done on your physio and managing with a quad-cane – these things are exhausting – WELL DONE!!
Welcome home!!
Excellent, another step, though hard-earned, towards independence, TomCat. Your confidence must be growing each day. You certainly deserve a day of rest for all that hard work. Enjoy it!
The New Yorker: You can tell Andy is not reporting real-life on Palin but writing in her spirit – if she had one – because the sentences actually make sense. They are not word salads of different sound-bites thrown in for effect without making any sense together as Palin is habitual to do. I wish she'd stop trying to find inspiration in the bottle when she writes her "speeches" and courage in a line or two before she goes on stage. But stone cold sober she probably be as bloody awful as the rest of them and nobody would pity her for having let her family run to seed.
NY Times: I've been following this horrendous winter snowstorm hour to hour and my thoughts are with all the people who have to live through it. The year has just started and already the weather is breaking last years Climate Change records. We're told we have to get used to it, but how can you if you're caught up in the worst of it? Please take care and stay safe.
Crooks and Liars: LOL As a pacifist I'm the first to acknowledge that I know absolutely nothing about the military, but even to me it was obvious that this ad had no images of the vets that it tried to appeal to: those that fought in Vietnam and in the Middle East. The images were of WWII veterans and apparently of Russians at that, by the looks of it taken at a European commemoration – by my guess in The Netherlands because of the orange carnations and the many Polish (afterwards Russian) soldiers who fought and here. Not many WWII vets left in the USA that feel mistreated by the current administration, I would think. The other images were of some high up military, not necessarily veterans nor victims of anything. Of course most images were of Trump and his fans.
Trump is such as cheapskate that he allows his agency to rob some database of completely irrelevant material just to keep costs down, but still thinks that vets are going to vote for him on the basis of this patronizing and denigrating ad. I do hope American vets know they're better and deserve better than that.
Cartoon: Yup, sounds just like what the GOP and all the GOP candidates are proposing.
TC, you keep on trucking! I still expect to see a U-Tube of you tap-dancing, next year.
I forgot, for a bit, that that was Andy, dooing Sarah, and took the words to be hers! On the money!
NY Times: I had no cable, internet, home phone, most of yesterday, as Comcast service was out, in my part of N.J.
We had something close to 20 inches of snow, I will guess.
Before the so-called "Pundits" of the right start to proclaim that what we have is not global warming, but global cooling, let me repeat my mantra, taken from the first meteorological SCIENTIST, not some actor in the role of "weatherman,": "If we have global warming, the extremes will get extremer!"
Crooks and Liars: So, this jackass has people on his staff who can not tell the difference between American soldiers, and Russian ones? Where does that fit onto his resume? Did he fail to mention that it was G.W.Bushit who proclaimed that the returning veterans were just "beggars?"
Thanks all! Hugs!! Rushing!!