So at the ripe young age of 62, I hate my body. Many years of abusing myself during work, and family genetics have me occasionally feeling much older than my age.
This has happened before, but this one is really annoying. For no reason whatsoever, I strained my right Achilles. It starts out as a low ankle sprain, spreads to the Achilles, then up to my knee to be replaced in the near future, and then finally coalesces in my lower calf, before it finally fades away. But before that happens, there are several days on the couch, and about five days using a cane. And I have no idea what caused it. Fuck this shit.
But that won’t stop, the Links!
Something about this story smells.
Looks like we’re still in Syria.
Our cosmic overlords will be here in a few days.
“Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.”
Okay, that’s good for today. Time to ice, and elevate. Peace out, Glibbies.
“And I have no idea what caused it. ”
You were too diligent carrying out the commands of ZARDOZ?
The obvious solution is federal drivers’ licenses for all vehicles.
I have been wondering – How many of these Illegals with revoked licenses will go “Oh well, I guess I won’t drive anymore”? And how many sketchy companies will keep employing them if not severely penalized?
Too many interested parties for any of the sketchy companies, states, or people to be punished. There will be show threats but nothing will actually happen.
Or the feds / state will go after the low-hanging fruit. Some Mom-and-Pop outfit with five trucks will have their owners frog-marched in front of the cameras for hiring one Pedro and one Pajeet, while the huge fleet companies get a pass.
Audit the personnel files of the five largest trucking companies in the worst offending states, with both the companies and the hiring managers jointly and personally liable for any illegal alien hires. When a few dozen of the People Who Matter get sent up the river, word will get out.
Eliminate the CDL.
Deport the illegals.
Cut off all federal funding to states that issue ANY lisence to an illegal.
You mean REAL ID?
But after that back-and-forth, California revoked 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses last month after confirming problems with them. That number has since grown to 21,000. So the Transportation Department hasn’t pulled that funding.
Seems like standard operating procedure. Make a big splash to the Very Online People how you’re defending the realm from the predations of Orange Man Bad, then start following the law when the money spigot is about to be turned off.
“Interesting read” if you like cheap spy melodrama.
Huh, would have thought this would be the musical choice for the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9K-Zv_pTfk&list=RDW9K-Zv_pTfk&start_radio=1
Shit…
Authorities search for suspect after multiple people shot near Brown University, police say
Unsure if this is a school spree shooting or just the usual suspects doing some gangbanging near campus.
Sailer’s Law suggests the latter. I’m applying the 48 Hour Rule.
Latest reports I’ve seen say it happened in the campus engineering building. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess “international” grad student going off the deep end.
Either way it gets counted as a ‘school shooting’ for propaganda purposes.
From the story:
“70 school shootings” is a link to a page that has this:
Personally I think it would be useful to know how many of these are “spree” shootings where random people get gunned down by some psycho, vs. accidents or fights that escalate into shooting (or targeted assassinations like Kirk), but CNN isn’t really interested in that.
Relevant
The media is only interested in what drums up the most fear of guns.
that left political activist Charlie Kirk dead
Nice euphemism there.
The area around Brown is not particularly gang-banger-y, at least last time I was in the area.
Headline updated to 9 injured. They’re bussing in victims.
And now updated to “several”…
Anchors aweigh, bitchezz!!! 😁
Of course you would know that it’s “aweigh,” not “away,” hon.
Thank you for seighing so! 😉
Awhey?
That’s how they’d spell it in the Kurdish navy.
If a Shawn yawns, does a Sean yean ?
I feel ignorant and small for not knowing that. 🙁
Awww, please don’t! If you’ve only ever heard it and not seen it in print or have no connection to the Navy, there’s no reason for you to know that’s how it’s spelled.
Or if you haven’t seen the movie.
Aweigh? No whey, too rye.
My interactions with customers is limited on weekends, but when a customer sent me an ad for a “cheap” Range Rover that she was interested in, I had to respond today or risk having to fix it down the road. There is no such thing as a cheap Range Rover. That turd is loaded with traps.
BMW era? Or Tata?
/s Former Land Rover Owner
Tata. I remember when BMW motors made Bentley more reliable briefly.
Tata
We got about 6″ in the last eight hours or so. Supposed to get all the way up to 9 tomorrow! Today got ridiculously busy after folk woke the fuck up. Seemed like a preparation drive, with everyone getting shit they’ll know they’ll want before everything shuts down.
Storm’s soon to pass and I’ll clear my car off, at least. Proper roads were mostly ok today, but getting out of this complex will be more interesting. Funny, I now have AWD for the first time.
Sunday morn will keep folk away, but add the cold and all the snow? Me thinky folk will stay in… UNLESS! Christmas Spirit, cooking supplies, and The Desperation force people to Lewis & Clark their way to my aisles.
Another week of shorter days still a’brewin’. With cloud cover, it was dusky on my way home yesterday around 3pm. I strongly disapprove. Should be on the phone with MN Munchkin soon, and I know she has a favor to ask. Will be nice to hear from her.
STEVE SMITH GIVE YOU MORE THAN SIX INCHES
You set yourself up for that one.
A waiter at this wedding reception is reading this over my shoulder.
Ask for the “clean” soup.
Thank you R.J. That’s right along the lines of what I was thinking.
I watched my human niece get married off today. Many tears. Very exciting.
Excellent
No last minute drama at the altar?
The bride almost wept for a moment. Then I poked her with a stick and she straightened up and said the vows.
What does a fez wearing alien give as a dowry? A totally rad spaceship? Green camels? Enquiring minds and all that.
They didn’t really ask for anything significant. My brother (There is another R.J.) paid for the whole thing and reception at a fantastic steak house.
They are welcome to visit Stately R.J. Manor at any time.
You can still, to this day, wander around a Kroger listening to Bittersweet Symphony and feeling like it’s 1998, perfectly legally. You might even grab a Shasta off the shelf.
You can but why would one? such a horrid, horrid song.
I never found it horrid, exactly, but I also could not tell you who did it nor had any interest in anything else from that band.
Why would you want Shasta?
It’s just oddly temporally 1990s in some places
I drank Shasta in the ‘70s.
Is Shasta of today the same?
I said if I ever grew up and heard that song I would turn it, and I do, despite protestations of the wife. Happy wife, happy life, my ass, everyone needs a little stress to feel alive. It’s that or cutting, and I’m no fag.
The vax can kill young men?
No wonder progressives and feminists don’t care.
If sniffing your own farts made you smarter, I’d not only be gassy, but smert to.
It made me a genius. Thanks Mexican food!
Like Tostitos. I’m going to have a Tostito’s Pizza tonight. You had a Tostito’s recently? They’re delicious.
Tostidos Pizza? Are you sure you don’t mean Totino’s Pizza? I don’t like em, the crust is too much like a Pillsbury Toaster Strudel.
Love Is ONLY A FEELING
If you’re not a Darkness fan by now, you’re not a fan of life.
So mean with that non link.
You people and your links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSGa1dW_KoE
THERE”S YOUR LINK
Christ, why is this so difficult?
Because you’re drunk?
Requiring illegals to follow all laws increases global warming and stuff. Also racisty.
Still in Syria. Good grief. That should make Lyndsy Graham happy.
Shitty journolos trying to be shitty novelists is the worst editorializing, because I get tired of it before they even get to the point.
Yeah, I tap out if the fluff goes more than one (short) paragraph.
They all do that shit now.
The punchline is they are still worried about a plutonium isotope that has an 88 year half life falling into the wrong hands 60 years later. I was told there would be no math.
I smell the plot of next summer’s quirky action flop! An odd but skilled and plucky team needs to come together and recover the nasty stuff before a bad actor does.
Where does one purchase that fancy dildo glove?
That would make an excellent Christmas gift.
I know! I thought there would be a link.
Every few years since my late 20s I’ve spent a few months needing a cane. Those months keep getting longer. I’m sure I’ll be needing one year round before I hit 50.
I bought mine pending my first knee replacement. I knew what I wanted and perused the antique stores for a bent wood cane. I found one that has “Ontario Livestock Commerce Council” burned into the barrel. Ontario, OR is about an hour from here. And it’s stout. Preston Brooks would approve.
Mine is a bent wood cane my grandpa used, and then my dad used. TRADITION!
Now I’ve seen some cattlemen’s canes made out of bent ‘wood’ before.
In of those?
I’ve got a Blackswift:
https://www.blackswiftsticks.com/
Or I did until Mrs. Dean appropriated it.
I don’t use a cane but in the middle of the night I have a walker by the bed for those treks down the hall. I use an ice scraper outside (with the wide blade) when walking to-from the garage/wood shed in this weather.
Mrs F is using a cane outside these days
I rocked a cane from Rite-Aid in my early 50s for a couple months until I had my insides rearranged by a bypass of the colon blowout that I probably should have paid more attention to. All part of the fun that was 2020.
Ahem, gentleman’s walking stick…
This makes me sad. Is it knees or feet?
Both
And back.
I use mine everyday, and in most of the house. I don’t need one upstairs in the middle of the night most of the time, but keep one handy.
https://www.coldsteel.com/walking-sticks-canes/
I’m surprised I can even look at that page in California.
You’re doing it wrong. Grow your beard crazy long and get a staff – like a wizard.
You guys and your ailments are making me feel relatively spry even with the failing ankle replacement.
Once we all hit 65 we must start Sprybertarians.com.
I’ve seen it circulating on Facebook a lot lately. The covid vaccine truthers. The ones who tell you that they never claimed that the vaccine stopped transmission as if most people don’t remember the lies they told in the first few months after it came out. I guess the best thing you can say is that most people are actually too stupid to remember what was said at that time. Too far back and their monkey brains can barely recall the last post they read let alone that.
Ridiculous shit like it was 98% effective at stopping the spread of Covid. Came from politicians, the media, and Pfizer itself.
Lying fucking dirtbags. I responded which I don’t normally do. Post was deleted and I was blocked within literally seconds.
Obviously when you block anyone who disagrees with your post, you’re definitely interested in science and actually persuading people. You totally aren’t looking to preach to the already converted and to reinforce what they want to believe.
On the Myocarditis story that’s funny because the latest propaganda making the rounds is on a study from France that found no increased mortality of any kind post-vaccine. They claim that those who were vaccinated had a 25% lower risk of all mortality. On the social media this is often being spun to argue that it actually protects against cancer. These people are shameless.
I have two of these:
https://www.oldeshillelagh.com/
One for the left hand and one for the right. Yes they are “handed”. It depends on the shape of the root ball they dig up.
Both are loaded. Meaning the heads are drilled and filled with lead.
RIP Army football
2:23am is God’s time, I’m calling it till the morning crew takes over.
-3 and feels like -27 in Carmel, IN. This’ll be an interesting day. I hope people got the panic out yesterday when they were stocking up.
Sleep in. Go to church. Embezzle what ya can. Don’t get caught. That kind of thing.
Yes, ppl of the universe. Do those things. Leave the barren aisles to experts. Like me.
Be well and warm.
Hoooo-aah!
Jebus, I’m still up, go back to bed.
Clocked in. *Grumble*
Well when I’m off, you’ll still be at!… Oh. *Grumble*
I actually am optimistic. Foolishly, perhaps. Bit it’s got a good ‘Thursday’ feel.
*Holy Cross*
Death toll climbs to 12 in Bondi Beach terror attack and a home-made bomb is uncovered by cops after two gunmen opened fire on beachgoers during Jewish festival
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-15382321/Bondi-shooting-terror-attack.html
“A festival, Chanukah by the Sea, advertised as a night of family fun, was taking place, with children attending the event when the gunmen, one of whom was on the terror list and known to authorities, opened fire.”
Of course. “He was on our radar”.
Good morning all you grinches.
🎅🏻🎄🎁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cUz-zAATNI
🎶🎶
We had an inch or so of snow overnight.
I’d rather have one 12-inch storm than a bunch of storms with one two to inches.
None at all for me thanks. About to GTFO California for Texas.
Yeah, but you’re in Texas where one snowflake shuts the entire state down.
The amount of snow we had is enough that it has to be moved, but little enough that trying to do so with the snowblower is inefficient.
I am just glad to get out of California. Everyone have a good morning!