Hump Day [DOT 30/12/20]

30/12/20 MegMegMcGee 43

Happy hump day gang.

I hope you are all having a nice short week and not going totally insane at work like me. Hey did you know the IRS shut down their EIN generator on December 23rd this year? #fun

Anyhow, let’s see what else is happening…

Saying he looks like a turtle is offensive to turtles. #Turtles2021

McConnell blocks Democrats’ attempt to quickly approve $2,000 stimulus checks amid pressure on GOP to act
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/stimulus-checks-senate/2020/12/29/344fa850-49d9-11eb-839a-cf4ba7b7c48c_story.html

41! Wear a mask FFS. A quick scroll through his Twitter feed and color me not surprised he got COVID.

Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies after battling Covid-19
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/29/politics/luke-letlow-died-covid/index.html

A fun game I like to play is “Imagine if this guy’s skin tone was a few shades darker.”

Today’s “Yikes”

First case of highly infectious coronavirus variant detected in Colorado
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-variant-colorado-us/2020/12/29/8e6379fc-4a01-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html

Cheapskate is cheap, news at 11.

Sprots!

Stonks!

Stock futures advance as market tries to reclaim record highs
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/29/stock-market-futures-open-to-close-news.html

2021 is just around the corner…

Have a great Wednesday Deadsplinters!

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  2. I presume that Pence restaurant bill is for two. I wonder who his “date” was? Maybe it was Mother, since they both had the exact same things (except for the ginger ale, but maybe they asked for two straws?) 
     
    That aside, the chipotle chicken sandwich sounds pretty gruesome and at $14.99 I assume it’s not the Capital Grille. Then, to somehow wash it down, hot chocolate and ginger ale. Who eats like this? Maybe the ginger ale was the pre-lunch “cocktail” and the hot chocolate was kind of the dessert, and the sandwich was consumed with water. 
     
    But in any event I’m slightly nauseated and I now have to go make breakfast for when the Better Half returns from the gym. Coincidentally I am going to make crustless bacon and Swiss mini-quiches in a muffin tin {excellent leftovers, and can be eaten cold.) Maybe I’ll throw in some shredded chicken and top with guacamole and call it Quiche à la Maman. I could totally do this: we have two bathrooms so when we get the dry heaves we will have two toilet bowls available to us. 

    • This also reminds me of something I read years ago and never found again. It was a challenge. Take three ingredients. Any two have to pair deliciously, so you have three combos. But, and here was the challenge: If you combine all three it’s something you’d never touch. It was very clever and I can’t remember a single response, and can’t think of any of my own. Does anyone remember anything like this? I probably read this on a once-popular website that went belly-up many years ago.

        • Bless you, child! The Triad was the concept but wherever I read this allowed for freewheeling commenting, like Deadsplinter. Now that I think about it I may have come across this on the old Gawker (when it was fun, RIP.)

          • RIP can confirm I’m v. good at finding things on the interwebs. 

            Agreed:

            “I love the answer by Noah Snyder and his colleagues at U.C. Berkeley, who suggest these three items: a shot of tequila, a shot of tequila, a shot of tequila.”

      • Dunno why your “Three food items” combos reminded me of it, but I giggled, thinking of the 21st birthday of a former-roommie’s baby brother😉😆🤣
         
        He LOVES ranch dressing, beer, and pizza, and had started drinking with their middle brother at a local bar/resto/ pizza joint in the EARLY afternoon.
        And those three things CAN meld divinely! But it’s the two-combos which go sideways, and made me giggle remembering how TERRIBLY they can be!💖😂🤣🤣…
         
        We got the call (from middle brother) to come pick them up at around 9 pm, because baby bro was DONE in his big brother’s opinion….
         
        When we arrived, baby bro was insistent that we NEEDED to try the pizza, and some of the beer AND ranch, because the combination was “SO GOOD!!!”
        And when his big sister and I told him, “Naaah, we’re fine, we’re here to get you home.” Baby bro picked up a cup of ranch, said, “But (sister’s name), ranch goes with EVERYTHING!!!” then he proceeded to slam the (FULL!) cup of ranch into his nearly-full mug of beer–like it was a shotglass of whiskey, pick up the ranch-beer, and tried to down the mug…
         
        We all watched in fascinated horror, as he suddenly set down the mug sat down in his seat, and sheepishly–and sotto-voce–said, “Ranch does not go with beer!”
         
        Which was the point when the other three of us CRACKED up, and were able to convince him very shortly afterward (with the help of his waitress!) that “It’s almost 1, and the bar will be closing soon, so we should beat the rush pay our bill, and just sneak out now, before everyone ELSE is also going to their cars!”
         
        Thank GOD he has a December birthday–because “sneaking” out of a bar at 10 pm “to beat the crowds *just before they do last call*” wouldn’t work, when the sun has barely set, in the middle of summer!🤣🤣🤣
         
        The kid had a hell of a hangover the next morning, but between the three of us we DID have him poured into his bed by about 10:30pm😉

    • im going to bastardize a beef stew recipe……soon as i can motivate my ass to go shopping…which ill need to do soonish as it’ll take 2 to 3 hours to cook and i guess people would like to eat at a normal ish time….
      but considering it took me 3 hours just to get myself motivated to do the dishes…i dunno…could be pushing it today….im on a major go slow on everything today

      • I’m not cooking anything, misfits market AND igourmet are being delivered today so I will be flush with cheese and fruits. I think I ordered pears, what cheese goes with pears? This will be a nice change for me, yesterday I ate a giant whoopie pie during a conference call, instead of the fruit I usually have for dessert. 

        • A nice sharp cheddar. Because I am firmly rooted in the 20th century I also sometimes make a pear and gorgonzola salad with walnuts, something that was probably served in the Kennedy White House.

          • Yay, I got cheddar! I got Jarlsberg, Butterkase, Parmigiano Reggiano, Drunken Goat, Red Dragon and Barber’s 1833 Vintage Reserve Cheddar.
            I don’t think I’ve ever had gorgonzola. I’ll try that next time.

          • A nice, warm Brie with a hot** honey drizzle on top would ALSO be excellent with the pears!!
            Heck, one could bake all three together in phyllo/puff pastry, parchment, or–if you’re short on time & feeling a bit lazy, some aluminum foil (or if even Lazier, omit the wrap entirely & just nuke the brie & honey for a few seconds in the microwave!😉😁🤗)
             
            (**tobasco/hot-sauce infused–i got the Tobasco stuff, when we clearenced it out after accidentallyordering 4+ cases at the exurbangrocery store, but there are other brands, too!😁)

        • not cooking anything sounds like a great plan (well tbh not doing anything sounds like a great plan) buuuut…i already defrosted the beef so i guess im committed now…
          no idea what cheese goes with pears tho…i kinda avoid fruit lol

          • hmmmm…i may have actually kinda screwed up on the stew…does not seem to want to thicken as much as it should
            smell allright tho….
            welp…worst case scenario i still have 2 thirds of a bottle of wine left
            cabernet sauvignon tho….where i kinda wanted a shiraz…but the shop was a nightmare today and i just wanted out….fucking hate it when the supermarket shuffles everything around so i have to search again
            sooo…pretty much everythings going as well as expected here today

            • …depending on how much stew I guess it might get thicker on a reheat…but I believe otherwise that’s something a small amount of cornflour is good for, although confusingly I’m sure I was always told to mix it into a splash of cold water before adding it to the hot liquid you want to thicken?

              …so maybe check that makes sense…if in fact there’s cornflour on hand…otherwise you’ll need someone cleverer than me about this stuff…of which I can think of at least four just from the FYCE crowd…so it seems like that shouldn’t be too hard

              • yeah already added a little flour..now leaving it to cool for a minute to see if that helps…and if it doesnt its just gonna be on the thin side…coz im starving here

    • Oddly enough, Pence is one of the poorest of the Trump co-conspirators. According to Forbes, his net worth is about $1 million. He’s actually part of the swamp, a deep-state parasite:
       
      “Mike Pence has little notable experience in the private sector. Instead he has spent two decades earning government paychecks and banking on hefty, taxpayer-funded plans to cover his retirement.”
       
      So Pence is a welfare queen.  
       
      https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2019/07/18/how-mike-pence-became-a-millionaire-from-government-pensions/?sh=10b7053a4835

    • I find it almost scandalous that he eats chipotle & guacamole!  Aside from it being un-American, I assumed that a pinch of  pepper is about as spicy and adventurous things get at the Pence residence. 
       

    • He was dead in 11 days. That’s scary as shit. I’m out of sympathy for him, but feel bad for anyone he exposed or risked themselves trying to take care of him. 

      • Yeah, that’s crazy fast. I tried to find out if he had any co-morbidities, but one doctor said no. Of course, Louisiana has one of the worst life expectancies in the US, so there’s that. Plus you might assume that a Republican is anti-science, so possibly he didn’t bother with “nonsense” like flu vaccines or regular checkups. (Early research shows flu shots may reduce coronavirus infections.) He could have had undiagnosed asthma or hell, been a smoker. 
         
        https://www.wafb.com/2019/06/19/louisiana-life-expectancy-rating-among-worst-us/#:~:text=In%20Louisiana%2C%20heart%20disease%20and,shorter%20than%20the%20national%20average.
         
        https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-flu-shot-might-reduce-coronavirus-infections-early-research-suggests/

      • There’s an update. While he was being treated he underwent surgery and suffered cardiac arrest. So this is technically a covid-related death, he might not have needed surgery if not for covid, but I’m not sure it was the disease itself that “carried him away.”

      • I feel bad for his wife, and worse for their kiddos (who are apparently young).
         
        We had a classmate whose dad died suddenly, when we were kids (cancer in his case), and it was HARD for the whole family.
        We talked with her often about it over the years, and there were SO many things–from the *big* stuff, like their mom going from a stay-at-home/”full time mom” and ALWAYS available for the kids (she was really involved & able to shuttle them to things like after-school activities, sports practices, girl scouts, etc), to her becoming *the income earning parent* who had to plan meals for the kids to cook (the oldest two were in senior high, when it happened, we were in late-elementary, and the youngest was in 1st/2nd grade)…
        But it was the *little* things which were hard–the fact that he wasn’t going to be there on “parents’ night” for their sports in high school–when at our school, ALL the parents of the athletes were called out to the field/floor, and given a rose by their kiddo on the team…
         
        Or for the girls, knowing he wasn’t going to be there, for their prom pictures, and eventually to walk with them down the aisle at their weddings (their brother and their  mom did, instead).
        There were just SO many tiny things, all through our school & college years, that our friend missed sharing with her dad–and that’s what I end up thinking of, when I think of the poor kiddos, who lose their parents.💔💔💔
         
        And it feels especially senseless in a case like this one–which *might* have been prevented, had he just been less stupidly prideful (and possibly spiteful, tbh!).

  4. …there’s a definition for infinity someone told me once that invovles a hotel that’s always at maximum occupancy but never has to turn away new guests because it simply adds another room each time…& I’m starting to feel like it’s an effective description of how much I dislike mitch mcconnell

    …like, I always think I dislike the man as much as is physically possible but somehow every time he pulls some new bullshit I find I have some hitherto unknown latent capacity to loathe him that much more?

    …so…with the $2,000 payments for example…responding to the house passing that by tying a couple of legislative albatrosses around its neck in the shape of knocking down section 230 to fuck with social media (which still seems like it wouldn’t work out the way dumbass donnie thinks it would…but that’s a whole other thing) & starting an investigation into spurious claims of election fraud is surely yet another instance of assuming that the only people who’ll take in that he’s the one fucking everything up are the ones that don’t vote his way anyway

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/mcconnell-blocks-senate-democrats-move-pass-2-000-coronavirus-checks-n1252483

    …it’s practically the definition of mindbendingly shitty

    …so the bit where bernie sanders is apparently threatening to filibuster the senate vote on the defense bill that needs to be un-vetoed & generally fuck up senators plans to be home for NYE unless they offer a straight up vote on just the $2,000 thing is nice to see…not sure I give it much hope of working out that way but as threats to filibuster things go it seems like a good one?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12/29/bernie-sanders-stimulus-2000-mcconnell/

  5. I dunno.  I’m supposed to believe that the Vice President of the United States walks into something called “The Coyote Cafe” with the Secret Service and picks up his own chicken sandwich?

    • I don’t know what compelled Raffensberger to allow Ga to go blue in the Presidential – but he’s trying to make up for it for the runoff. Guess he just disliked tRump – but repubs gonna repub.

    • I love contemplating the self-diagnosed unspecified health issues some of these idiots suddenly claim to have for excuses not to wear masks.

      I mean if you want to talk about  health issues that don’t exist, let’s talk about yours before we get into the hoax one that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, k? K.

    • I would LOVE if the Grocery Store would change from their “For the safety of all out shoppers and employees, please wear your mask during the entirety of today’s shopping experience and work shifts. And Thank-you for shopping at (Grocery Store).” 
       
      To THIS lady’s speech being broadcast on the regular!😉😍🥰😈😈😈😈💖💖💖

  9. welp…that settles it…i clearly need therapy
    just decided to watch this


    it was pretty funny in places
    but clearly the decision to watch a 70 minute long recap of 2020 is not one a person sound of mind would make

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