Mar 292021
 

It’s another Republicosis day here in the CatBox.  Both WWWendy and the Hospice Nurse are coming, and I’m waiting to learn if WWWendy could coordinate the times.  On the plus side, my system is getting used to Methadone.  OGIM! (Oh Great, I survived until Monday).

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:14 (average 5:04).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Short Take:

From YouTube (a blast from the past): The Animals – House of the Rising Sun (1964) + clip compilation ♫♥ 57 YEARS AGO

 

Ah… the memories!  RESIST the Republican Reich!!

Don’t Let Republicans Steal YOUR Future!!

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  19 Responses to “Personal Update – 3/29/2021”

  1. Cartoon: I remember this well. Today is Vietnam Veteran’s Day. 
    “But The Freedom That They Fought For, And The Country Grand They Wrought For, Is their Monument Today, And For Aye.” ~ Thomas Dunn English ~ 
    BFTP: Wore the vinyl right off with this one. Loved it. 

    Hope all goes well with Wendy and your Hospice nurse. Get your rest, and take good care, Tom. Have a good day! 

    *This just in: “In honor of Obama-Care’s 11th Birthday I’m gonna call Medicare “LBJ-Care” Social Security “FDR-Care” and Coronavirus “Trump-Don’t-Care.” ~ John Fugelsang ~  * H/T ~JD~
    2. “Voter fraud is a myth beddled by a republican minority to disenfranchise people of color.” ~ Robert Reich ~ 
    3. “Attacks against the right to vote continues to threaten our democracy, and the voting restrictions passed in Georgia are deeply troubling. My office is examining all legal options to take on these anti-democratic measures.” ~ Letitia James, NY AG ~ 
    4. “Ray Charles newest song – ‘Georgia lost its’ mind.” ~ Eugene R. ~ 
    5. “Ironic that in GA, the global headquarters of Coca-Cola, it is now against the law to give a coke or a Dasani to someone waiting in line to vote.” ~ Steven D. ~ 

    • *The container ship ‘Ever Given’ has been fully dislodged and is currently floating, Suez Canal Authority says. 

      https://www.cnn.com/africa/live-news/suez-canal-shipping-crisis-03-29-21/h_6d43349d407a2026a9dc95f25aee13de

    • That’s a lovely bit of poetry. But my monument has gotten so tarnished I hardly recognize it any more.

      TJI #4 taps in to the whole question of whether morality is, or is not, perceived through the intellect. It isn’t really it’s mind, in the sense of intelligence it lost – the actions are caluculated precisely to accomplish the evil they want to accomplish. But what for aure they no longer have (if they ever did) is a soul. Of course that doesn’t fit the song very well.
      TJI #5 – Are there any Republicans left standing who can even perceive irony, let alone a ppreciate it?

    • I found it fascinating the role science played in freeing the Ever Given.

      Workers took advantage of the Spring Tide or King Tide produced by the full moon to free her.

      Around each new moon and full moon, the sun, Earth, and moon arrange themselves more or less along a line in space. Then the pull on the tides increases, because the gravity of the sun reinforces the moon’s gravity. In fact, the height of the average solar tide is about 50 percent of the average lunar tide.

      Thus, at new moon or full moon, the tide’s range is at its maximum. This is the spring tide: the highest (and lowest) tide. Spring tides are not named for the season. This is spring in the sense of jump, burst forth, rise.

      So spring tides bring the most extreme high and low tides every month, and they always happen – every month – around full and new moon.

      https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/over-300-ships-now-stranded-at-the-suez-canal-problem-looking-more-like-pilot-error

  2. Good luck, or hoping you had good luck, with Wendy and the nurse.
    ‘Toon: Should never have been there.  Notice the airline doing the pick-up?
    BFP: Love it.

    • The airline could have been any airline, depending on who was the low bidder for the day.  Military planes are for fighting, not for troop movement.  And the military spends a lot of money on aircraft – but it’s not dumb enough to buy its own planes for troop movement when they can be chartered instead.

  3. Having the hospice nurse come is supposed to be a relief rather than a stressor. Or so I thought. But what do I know. I do hope you get lots of time for rest, ans lots of rest in that time.

    Cartoon – I vaguely remember that. I wasn’t involved. It was the rwemoval of the civiliand which I played a part in.

    Blsat -Great song. Well performed. I realize they were using it as a metaphor, but I am very uncomfortable with that metaphor. Yes, being a draftee has hardships. But I’m pretty sure being a sex slave is so much worse that they are not really comparable.

  4. TJI#1: Charmed put-together.  Trump never cared, nor ever will.
    TJI#2: No, there is voter fraud…just that it’s always perpetrated by the Jim Crow Bastards.
    TJI#3: You rock, Ms. James.
    TJI#4: Again, I must protest: Georgia never had a mind.
    TJI#5: Indeed!  And despicable, to boot!

  5. Cartoon: Remember it too. 
    BFTP: Great one by the Animals. 
    Hope things were able to be coordinated with Wendy and the Hospice Nurse. Tell Wendy “Hi”. 
    Hope that you’re feeling better. Happy to hear that your system is finally getting use to the Methadone.
    Please do eat, plus drink your fluids.
    Take care. Have a nice afternoon Tom

  6. Hope you were able to have your confab with Wendy and the Hospice nurse.  Looking forward to an update.

    • Hospice and one of the Adult Foster Care Homes we’re looking at are making sure my treatment plan is a fit with their services, but everything is looking good so far.  I’ll keep you posted as I learn more. 04

  7. I have to concur with Joanne but I also see it as a good sign that anyone visiting from the hospice care is a stressor to you, TomCat, because you want to be prepared and be at your “best”. To me, it means you haven’t given up yet, as your little wordplay on OGIM also implies. I hope your Republicosis lessens soon, without turning into painful Republicitis again.

    Cartoon: The Aussies were in Vietnam with you and also reminisced about leaving the country with a documentary on the horrible effects of Agent Orange and the large number of birth defects it still causes after all these years.

    BFTP: Songs like these have a comeback every few years and that’s why I know it so well. When it came out originally, I was only 7 or 8-years-old, still engrossed in kiddie songs.

  8. Thanks and resting Hugs to all! 19

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