Sleepy Saturday [DOT 2/4/22]

2/4/22 MegMegMcGee 27
image of neon letters spelling out "HAPPY SATURDAY"

So usually on Friday afternoon-ish, RIP and I divvy up the weekend days. I always think, I’ll take Saturday because I’ll just have a quiet Friday evening and have plenty of time. Lies, dear reader, lies!

It is late, so I shall do my best…

Ukraine updates:

Russia-Ukraine war latest: Russian troop withdrawal ‘noticeable’, says Zelenskiy; US gives Kyiv $300m more in – live
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/apr/02/russia-ukraine-war-latest-russian-troop-withdrawal-noticeable-says-zelenskiy-us-gives-kyiv-300m-more-in-live

Take one thankless job and swap it for another thankless job, with better pay one hopes.

Press secretary Jen Psaki plans to depart White House for MSNBC in coming weeks
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/01/media/jen-psaki-msnbc/index.html

Something good comes out of Staten Island.

Amazon workers celebrate a shocking, unexpected victory in N.Y.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/01/amazon-workers-staten-island/

Oh FFS.

Oh no, this is terrible.

Is it gauche to share one’s own tweet? Do I care?

Have a great weekend!

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27 Comments

  1. Oh FFS, are we really gonna have to hear about Sarah Palin again? And no doubt trump will be out campaigning for her. I’m gonna need more pics of your cat to get through this.

      • Guessing if her financial acumen is as good as her political instincts then yeah she needs the money bad.

        Besides, no one can trust her to stay in the job or actually do something. Don Young was a dick at times, but he did legislative work.

        • Pretty sure she was counting on a big payout from the NYT, like a lot of litigation lottery players. Most of those are counting on slip-and-falls, but Sarah hasn’t resorted to that yet. Once she got booted out of court, she realized that she needed a new grift.

          • I think she realized she needed a new grift post divorce and when the Going Rouge money dried up due to family avarice and over spending.

            Hence the NYT lawsuit.

            I’m guessing the Wingnut Welfare machine stopped their handouts when they realized she was a waste of time and useless (something the rest of the grifter crowd has yet to realize when folks get tired of them… come on down Maddie Crawfish if you can cause the Koch brother don’t believe in wheelchair access for moochers.)

            Kinda like the guy who sued me (and my insurance company) for a million dollars on a minor fender bender.  It was nice to have the vultures, er, lawyers for an insurance company on your side for once.  From what I heard through the grapevine, he didn’t get much at all.

            • Yeah, my wife was in a fender bender a month or so ago. Rolled into a woman who stopped in front of her while exiting a parking lot. My daughter called me asking what to do and I forced them to call the cops. You need a police report for the insurance company and then if the woman sues and you haven’t filed a report with your insurance you’re screwed. The woman my wife hit first wanted a check, and then when my wife called the cops and filed a report the woman called an ambulance chaser. It’s nice though, to be able to say “call my insurance company.” This woman has a history of accidents and lawsuits, so the insurance company is playing hardball.

    • There appears to be 48 announced candidates – funny how the line grows when one guy holds the spot for 44 years.

      I’d love to see a Native American get nominated and the voters tell Palin who’s a real American on a debate stage. Don’t know if white Alaskans can stomach that, though.

    • …I think aphasia can be a symptom of dementia but it can be a condition in its own right or stem from some other brain trauma rather than dementia…I’ve not followed this closely but I don’t think his family have said anything about what it might be connected to, though

      …so you could be right…or it could have been triggered by a stroke…or one too many blows to the head over the course of his career…but depending on the severity it’s also something people can be good at masking under some circumstances (not so much when trying to stick to a script but in general interactions) & can get worse over time…sometimes, like with some cases where a stroke is the trigger, it can get better but it doesn’t seem like that’s willis’ trajectory

      …but it cuts both ways, so along with saying the wrong words or not being able to find a word at all or seeming to speak gibberish it can impede the ability to follow what others say…which leads to confusion and frustration…so it would be pretty plausible for people observing him to describe something that sounded like a case of dementia even if it were “only” aphasia?

      • Yes, my understanding of aphasia is that it’s a symptom, not a disease. RIP outlined the common causes: head injury and stroke. Both my parents had it in their declining years, due to strokes (TIAs, actually, which are small strokes). Dementia is kind of a catch-all term that covers declining mental faculties due to a variety of factors.

  6. I will stick up for Staten Island. I looked up famous people who were born there. There were more than I expected. Christina Aguilera and Joan Baez were both born there. And, famously, SNL cast members Pete Davidson and Colin Jost. Do you remember the guy who played “Chief” on Get Smart (Don Adams’s and Barbara Feldon’s boss)? Edward Platt, Staten Island-born. Unfortunately, two cast members of “Jersey Shore” are also from Staten Island, confirming everyone’s ugliest stereotype of the kind of people who live there.

    Should you ever take the ferry over to Staten Island (tons of visitors do; it’s free, en route you come quite close to the Statue of Liberty, and don’t fall for the hucksters who will try to sell you “tickets”) don’t just turn right around and get on the next boat back, like most people do. If you walk straight out of the terminal and take a left around the huge parking lot, to the left you’ll see some very good pizza/red sauce Italian restaurants, where you can have lunch or dinner there for far less than you’d pay for similar in Manhattan.

      • Less than half an hour. During weekdays it leaves every 15 minutes, which is convenient, because the terminals on both sides are sketchy and can be filled with unsavory denizens you might not care to get to know. New York Harbor is usually pretty calm; it’s extremely rare that a ferry is cancelled because of rough weather. If you go during rush hour the ferries are crowded. Or maybe they used to be and are less so now since so many are working from home. In the opening credits of “Working Girl,” a wonderful movie, you see a ferry arrive at the Whitehall terminal in Manhattan and the floods of commuters.

        The Whitehall terminal doesn’t have its own subway station; you take the 1 train to South Ferry. If you do this during the afternoon rush, you will join what I call The Running of the Bulls. Most people at least jog to the terminal so they can get onto a ferry that may be just about to depart. In New York 15 minutes is 15 minutes too long to wait.

    • Joseph Mitchell’s “Mr. Hunter’s Grave” is set on Staten Island and it’s absolutely great. Mr. Hunter was a part of a small African American community that had lived there from the early days of NYC.

  7. I’m going to miss Psaki dunking on Peter Doocy every day. FFS. I wish her well and everything but there is no chance her replacement even comes close…unless…

    #VinceCarterForPressSecretary

  9. Holy shit! Mike Yeo, who sucked at hockey and sucks even more as a coach, is scratching Keith Yandle tonight in order to get younger prospects playing time before the Flyers season ends.

    Keith Yandle has the all-time iron man record, WHICH IS STILL ACTIVE, at 989 consecutive games.

    The Flyers have 15 games remaining this season, with zero chance of making the playoffs – LITERALLY BECAUASE THEIR COACH SUCKS AS THEIR GM MADE DEALS IN THE OFFSEASON TO GO “ALL IN” – which could easily get Yandle to 1,000 consecutive games.

    Clearly Yandle made a mistake when he signed a one year deal with the Flyers this season.

    Phil Kessel, whose contract expires this year, and who is currently at 968 consecutive games, should beat Yandle’s record early next season. Unless, of course, he signs with a team with no fucking class whatsoever and a piece of shit coach who scratches him beforehand.

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