SoINeedAName

Sep 062019
 

Well, at least in Trump’s hand it is.

Here’s Trump’s original mistaken Tweet including Alabama in Hurricane Dorian’s path:

And in 20 minutes, the National Weather Service issues a Tweet correcting Trump – Alabama will NOT be hammered by Dorian

Here’s the official White House photo of Trump being briefed WRT Dorians path on August 29th:

But on Wednesday, unable to ever admit a mistake, Trump embellishes the map to include Alabama … by drawing it in with a Sharpie!

And thus “Sharpiegate” was born!

Well, of course, the Twitterverse was not going to miss this golden opportunity to mercilessly mock Trump’s mental illness. As you could imagine, a popular theme was getting his “Wall” finished …

And correcting the “fake news” error of not accurately reporting his HUGE Inauguration crowd size – his is much bigger than Obama’s …

And staying with the Inaugural theme, Trump released a photo showing how much Melania truthfully enjoyed it …

And to prove that he’s actually taller than Pres. Obama

When it comes to his mental prowess, the release of Trump’s brain scan should remove any doubts …

Buttressed by release of Trump’s official High School Report Card …

Still not convinced? Well, the list of the “13 Most Intelligent People In The History Of The World” should do the trick

And you know how all those Libtards are forever whining about the amount of time Trump golfs – but just look what it’s done for his physique!

And he’s really improved his game …

But his sports prowess isn’t limited to just golf – take a look at all the bullseyes he got:

Being the great family man, you can see how he enjoys taking Barron and the grandkids with him on his golf outings …

In fact he’s such a family man he deserves being named of the “Father of the Year”. Why, just look at this recent family portrait:

And about all those rumors of him being best buds with Jeffrey Epstein and sharing common … hmmm … interests and pursuits? Well, they are just that – RUMORS. He never met him!

In fact, Trump being a man of impeccable moral rectitude, a genius and the best president America has ever had (just ask him), he’s already planning on having his bust added to Mount Rushmore:

In closing, while we’ve all enjoyed yet another humorous display of his mental illness (you just gotta laugh if you want to stay sane) …

We would be derelict to not inform Trump that it’s ILLEGAL to knowingly issue a counterfeit weather report or warning

But I think the best use of a Sharpie is to spread this message far and wide:

 

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Sep 012019
 

This will be very short: To start the week off with a positive outlook, here’s a Mommy sea otter cuddling her one-day old pup (or can also be called a kitten).

I actually first saw it in a Twitter post – and I think it’s actually cuter.  It’s just hard to overdose on SKEE!

 

ADDENDUM WRT Leg Wound Care

After sharing w/ the nurse that when I changed the dressing on Thursday evening the wound looked WORSE from the day before (RHST), the Wound Care Clinic nurse, upon removing the dressings, agreed: “This is NOT a happy wound.”

She called the surgeon – but only left a voicemail.

So she called the ER and their Charge Nurse had me come down.

The ER doc agreed this was the WRONG way to progress on the wound, and ordered a CBC, Lactate (evaluates for sepsis) and a deep vein Ultrasound to be sure I had no thrombosis (blood clot).

Fortunately, everything came back normal. So I went back to the Wound Care Clinic for the wound packing and dressing.

Fortunately, I told the nurse that after they changed from Hydrofera Blue to Iodosorb last Wednesday, on leaving & on the way to the parking lot the wound started to burn like pouring rubbing alcohol on an open wound.

That burning lasted through Friday, and by Saturday it quit (or I was acclimated to it).

I shared this w/ the nurse before she put the Iodosorb packing backing into the wound. So she called the Wound Care Nurse Practitioner.

They switched back to the Hydrofera Blue packing (but this nurse packed a LOT more of it in the wound than previously … and w/ NO lidocaine gel).

Saturday not only did I feel much better, but on the dressing change that evening it looked much better.

That improvement pattern continued today (Sunday), so I’m hopeful that it was just a reaction to the caustic iodine in the Iodosorb.

I have a recheck on Wednesday, and I’m supposed to change the Hydrofera Blue packing w/ tomorrow’s dressing change.

That will NOT be the highlight of my day!

 

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Aug 232019
 

Remember seven years ago when a well-meaning elderly parishioner was given the task of “repairing” the “Ecce Homo” (Behold the Man) fresco painting in Borja, Spain – and it was so terrible it became a Meme?

Well, an Obama-hating, Trump-loving, right-wing “artist” (Jon McNaughton) has unwittingly provided the Twitter World with another chance of restoring his painting of Trump, modestly called “The Masterpiece”, to a similar new level of mirth as the fresco restoration.

McNaughton’s paintings have reflected his right-wing proclivities for years.  So when Trump was elected he practically probably had an orgasm.  He decided to do a portrait of Trump as an artist seated at an easel in what appears to be Wells Cathedral in England (no one knows why), teasingly revealing just a corner of his “masterpiece” because he’s not yet finished… (Editor’s Insertion: screwing America and the world).

This is the original Tweet by McNaughton announcing the painting:

While many think the reveal looks like the corner of Monet’s “Water Lilies” – the Twitterverse disagreed. And many took it upon themselves to fill-in the revealed corner of the canvas … with delightful results.

One aspect of the painting is plainly obvious: McNaughton has really done some major cosmetic work making Trump a LOT thinner. AND he appears to have greatly embellished his … endowment.

I’ll leave it to you to decide what … hmmm … errr … appendage is poking through the painter’s palette.

Some common themes emerged in the course of this meme. There was the linkage to White Nationalists …

And of course to dictators …

So you KNEW Hitler would also be showing up …

And sure enough, a food-theme started appearing

The one we’d all like to have revealed is this:

But my favorite Tweet was from the cheeky progressive, Tony Pasnanski, who starts out praising the rabid right-wing painter – before sticking the shiv in and twisting it. (If you scroll down, people are willing to pay for his work – well, at least the postage.)

 

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In Memoriam

In noting the passing of David Koch today, I thought I would take a cue from how he treated his fellow mankind. With that in mind, feel free to join in singing one of my favorite hymns to the Kochs.

 

 

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Aug 162019
 

There’ll be no “Fun” posted this week as I’m having Out-Patient Surgery this morning for a leg abscess.

On Saturday, July 27th I leaned over while in my desk chair to get something that was clearly out of my reach because the chair tipped over and I landed on the handle of an antique iron.

Before electricity, they used solid iron irons that you had to heat on the stove – and those suckers are heavy.

I developed a giant goose-egg hematoma that became Red, Hot, Swollen & Tender (RHST), so I went to my PCP’s Walk-In clinic on Friday, August 2nd. The Nurse Practitioner put me on Keflex, but since I didn’t see much progress, I went to the Wound Care Clinic this Wednesday.

The Nurse Practitioner (who I saw for my 36 days of antibiotics for my cat-bite cellulitis – and is excellent) confirmed my concern: abscess.

But I was shocked that the Wound Care Clinic does not drain abscesses.

So I had an Ultra-Sound done yesterday to be sure it’s walled off (it is), and will see the general surgeon this morning for a probable Incision & Drainage (I & D).

But I’ll share a cute cat Tweet:

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Aug 092019
 

A circle of life’s journey was completed at Dallas Love Field Airport yesterday.

Fifty-two years ago, 5 year-old Bryan Knight waved goodbye to his father, US Air Force Maj. Roy A. Knight, Jr., as he departed Dallas Love Field for service in Vietnam.

Bryan never saw his father again.

Maj. Knight was leading a flight of two aircraft on a strike mission attacking a military target on the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos when his plane was shot down on May 19, 1967. According to the Defense POW/MIA Account Agency: “No parachute was observed prior to the aircraft crashing and bursting into flames.”

Knight was listed as MIA and subsequently declared deceased in September 1974, when Bryan was just 12.

In 1991 a joint U.S.-Laos team investigated a crash site believed to be where Knight’s plane went down. The team recommended it for excavation, and over the years the site was examined five times.

In early 2019 possible human remains were found, and after extensive evaluation, were identified as now Col. Knight. (He was promoted while listed as MIA.)

Col. Knight is one of the 1,000 Americans killed in the Vietnam conflict whose remains have been identified, according to the Defense Dept. There are still more than 1,500 who remain unaccounted for.

Bryan Knight, the son who waved good-bye to his Dad 52 year ago has become a pilot for Southwest Airlines. And when he learned his Dad’s remains had been found, he described it as “surreal”.  “I really didn’t think it would ever happen. Wow, you know, he’s really coming home. We’re going to be able to bring him back, and we’re going to have a place where we can honor him.”

Col. Knight’s remains were flown from Honolulu to California. And Bryan Knight, who waved good-bye to his Dad 52 years ago, was the pilot who flew his father’s remains from California to Dallas Love Field – the site the two last ever saw each other.

When the plane carrying Col. Knight’s remains touched down, it was greeted with firetrucks shooting water cannons as the family waited to receive the flag-draped coffin.

And as a tearful gate agent recounted Col. Knight and his family’s story, the bustling airport came to a quiet standstill.

Passengers flocked to the windows to watch, many wiping away tears and some saluting as the coffin departed the plane to the care of a military honor guard.

 

It was a well-deserved hero’s welcome that most Vietnam veterans never received. And in a dark week from the horrors of the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton (made only darker by the appalling egomaniacal performance by the occupant of our Oval Office) – it was a bright spot of hope.

For that, we thank you Col. Roy and son Bryan Knight.

Col. Knight will be buried Saturday with full military honors. You can read his Obituary here:

OBITUARY:

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/col-roy-knight-jr-obituary?pid=193368969

 

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Aug 042019
 

To be honest, after yesterday’s horrific mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, I really didn’t feel like posting what I had put together because it wasn’t appropriate. But it will keep.

But I did feel I just put up something, so it was back to my notes on ideas that I keep for “Friday Fun” possibilities to see what I could find.

Maybe kids can point the way to showing us grown-ups how to get along, because lord knows we’re doing a piss-poor job of it. So I thought a fitting tribute to honor the people of El Paso is to celebrate a recent event watching kids and their parents playing together on hot pink Teeter Totters.

But this playground was like no other, because these custom-built sees-saws are between the border wall slats separating Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and El Paso. So the Border Wall becomes the literal fulcrum joining people from Mexico and the USA.

Digging into this project I was surprised to learn that the concept actually began a decade ago when two professors (Ronald Rael, a professor of architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and Virginia San Fratello, an associate professor of design at San José State University) came up with the idea.

Rael published a book called “Borderwall As Architecture”. In fact his concept drawings are part of the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York.

 

Rael said the event was about bringing “joy, excitement and togetherness at the border wall”. Adding it was also about finding “meaningful ways on both sides with the recognition that the actions that take place on one side have a direct consequence on the other side”.

Prof. San Fratello said that it is “also a place where people come together. We wanted to create scenarios that would celebrate togetherness. And also highlight the ridiculousness of the border wall.” She explained that the see-saws are made of light-weight steel and designed to be easily installed. “We could literally set [them] up in one minute.”

 

But unfortunately, they did not have permission. Surprisingly when the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) arrived, they permitted the sharing of joy across the border, using the Wall as a literal fulcrum, to continue unimpeded for quite a while. Maybe laughter is truly infectious. We can hope!

But as is frequently the case, all good things must come to an end. Let’s close on an upbeat note enjoying the Instagrams Rael posted of the event – and hope it can be reprised on a much larger scale..

[Editor’s Note: Sorry, I don’t know how to resize Instagrams]

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One of the most incredible experiences of my and @vasfsf’s career bringing to life the conceptual drawings of the Teetertotter Wall from 2009 in an event filled with joy, excitement, and togetherness at the borderwall. The wall became a literal fulcrum for U.S. – Mexico relations and children and adults were connected in meaningful ways on both sides with the recognition that the actions that take place on one side have a direct consequence on the other side. Amazing thanks to everyone who made this event possible like Omar Rios @colectivo.chopeke for collaborating with us, the guys at Taller Herrería in #CiudadJuarez for their fine craftsmanship, @anateresafernandez for encouragement and support, and everyone who showed up on both sides including the beautiful families from Colonia Anapra, and @kerrydoyle2010, @kateggreen , @ersela_kripa , @stphn_mllr , @wakawaffles, @chris_inabox and many others (you know who you are). #raelsanfratello #borderwallasarchitecture #teetertotterwall #seesaw #subibaja

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