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ParallelLines and Trumplicans
Stumbled across this great little synopsis of our current political situation on the Dope this morning:
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Sounds about right, to me.
Gangin’ Up on Boots
At least Jax was in play mode this time:
Russians Running Wild on the Internet
Has everybody finished connecting the dots between Trump and Russia yet? I’ve been turning them away from my site on a daily basis since before the 2016 election. If you can imagine how insignificant a grain of sand my blog represents on the Internet beach, you must also realize how bad the situation is. It is now quite clear the Republican party in this country has been engaged in a long-running, concerted authoritarian takeover supported by Russia – that failed.
Now the perps need jailed, and the Russians punished. Just give me some bandwidth and top cover.
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A Much Needed Break
From the endless angst and pain…
Jerk-off Jimmy Jordan
Junior Fuckwit, no doubt.
“Why weren’t they able to stop this riot we incited!” Mar-a-lago’s filling up fast. Better make your reservation and start working the extradition issues.
Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome
Had to take ambulance ride for an IV and Covid test today. It was inevitable. It took about 5 years of daily edible doses of CBD flower, regular vaping and knocking myself out with dabs at night to finally catch up with me.
I probably should have taken a break a month ago. The weed issue for me all along revolved around being able to use enough to get a good therapeutic effect on the radiculopathy and muscle strain without being blotto all the time. Early on, it was just inflammation and pain from the bad joints. Then I was treated to a partial right leg paralysis with accessories in a malpractice episode a couple years ago.
Warning to prospective Hyperemesis candidates: Despite not being too dangerous from a medical standpoint, it’s no joke. The possibility of going untreated and dying from dehydration or aspirating vomit is concerning. I was the worst sick I have ever been for about 10 hours and could not keep anything down 24 hours after it started. BP ranged up over 150-something during seizures and body temp dropped to 94 at one point – almost in shock. The condition seemed to light up my entire CNS in gag reflex – particularly uncomfortable with the spine injuries. And it continued relentlessly, vomiting or not.
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It’s not technically “an” overdose in the traditional sense of the word. Maybe something akin to a long-term overdose. It doesn’t kill you outright like opiates, but develops over months or even years in my case, depending on usage patterns. The important thing to remember is to recognize it. It’s one of the body’s natural auto-protect reactions. As long as you can hydrate and maintain for a few days you’ll get over it, no problem. Mine was so bad I could not even keep water down. Time for an IV.
Available research is inconclusive, and I suspect even the doctors do not really understand it, as the endocannabanoid issue has gone largely un-addressed in the medical field forever. My layman impression suggests the system gets too saturated from the constant over-supply, until it finally goes haywire. Probably not enough viable CB receptors available at some point. The ER took a bunch of tests and confirmed there was nothing they could do but stabilize and send me home. And I don’t have Covid. Yay!
This 10-year-old NHS paper gives a decent overview of the chemo-mechanical relationships, but lacks definitive explanation or conclusions.
(Late Update 30 JUL 21) Ondanseteron stops the puking, but the delirium and bedspins continue. I thought I would be over it today, but it came back strong this morning and I spent most of the day trying to nap and hydrate.
Most concerning symptoms: Once you get over the scromiting, body temp regulation gets iffy with ongoing hot/cold flashing. Nausea is intense.
1 AUG 21: Feeling better today, have a little appetite, body temp regulation still iffy with hot/cold spells. It’s gonna take awhile to get completely over this.
3 AUG 21: Seem pretty much over it today after a week. Thermal reg still not quite there, but the flashing hot/cold spells are gone.
4 AUG 21: In retrospect, it’s now clear what made my case so acute: The hot tub. I do all my bathing there, along with some PT including a breathing exercise for the nerve roots. A little research on the topic reveals how hyperemesis patients often develop compulsive bathing/showering habits to alleviate their symptoms. I learned that a couple hours before I went to the hospital – it’s what set me over the tipping point after I tried it! I had no need to develop an OCD behavior, because it was already there in normal activity. Maintaining stable body temp remains the only symptom today. I’m not sweating bullets while puking into the kitchen sink, but the internal temp control mechanism was probably front-and-center leading up to this little episode all along.
Car Stuff
I was feeling my oats enough to get the Bimmer tires re-organized a few weeks ago. Then it came home with this, the 1st time time I took it out on the Bridgestones:
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The funny thing was, I did not know it was dead flat before next time I almost got to the highway, except for the TPMS warning. Love the runflats! I’m starting to work through the process of some long term maintenance, coming up on 150k miles. It’s going to need belts, bushings, balancer, tensioner and maybe some new motor mounts and turbos. Bimmer Haus has a big job coming next month…
So with the little one outside, the big one came down from it’s lift perch for the 1st time in probably over 2 years. Accelerator pump is toast again, so I guess I’ll put another carburetor on it this time. Replacing the accelerator is a trivial, inexpensive task I’ve accomplished 3 or 4 times on these things, but it’s time consuming and I’ve never been able to get the carb(s) – on it’s 2nd AVS now) – tuned properly for altitude, so we’ll try a newer model Eddy 750. A 3-car garage holding 4 vehicles including a 91′ Dodge Cummins is tight. But with the 20-foot-long land barge on the lift, everything fits with the doors closed.
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Is Mississippi ALL Troglodyte?
You have to wonder, when the best they can do is petition the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade, while their state leads the country in the now out-of-control so-called 4th Covid-19 wave. You’d think they’d have better things to do with over half their population vulnerable to the most deadly respiratory virus to stalk the planet in modern times.
“But this week, the state reframed its argument, abandoning its earlier and narrower attack, to take direct aim at Roe and its holding that women have a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy before the fetus is able to survive outside the womb.”
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…the state’s brief “reveals the extreme and regressive strategy, not just of this law, but of the avalanche of abortion bans and restrictions that are being passed across the country.”
Late Update: Florida passed them up overnight. Big surprise.
Governor DeSuckass
With Mar-a-Lago just down the road, at least this laughably incompetent excuse for a human being doesn’t have far to go to get his tongue into Trump’s bowel.
“While hospitals in our state were filling up, DeSantis was shouting about ‘Freedom over Faucism,’” said Ashby who leads the group of 405 Florida physicians. “If DeSantis were as concerned about stopping COVID-19 spread as he was about coming up with these clever jabs about Dr. Fauci, we might not be in this position.”
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Florida’s Covid-19 Surge Continues
Between Fox and Facebook…
It’s hard to pick a winner for the most insidious anti-vaxx misinformation source. Must be a 2-pronged attack, with Fox aiming for the elderly and Facebook set up to take out the stupid. Either way, the anti-vaxxers are set for a red-pill nightmare of epic proportions.
Once again: They need to shut this shyt down.
Deranged Lunatic
Eric Clapton Can Go Suck a Fat, Hard Throbbing Cock
“Wah, wah wah, I had a bad reaction, so the vaccine must be bad!” …said a celebrity musician dumb enough to believe he has a clue about the matter. I used to like Clapton’s music, but this public health menace is now just another tired old hack too stupid to keep his mouth shut.
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“Who shot the Sheriff? Certainly wasn’t you, mate.”
Jordan Learned Cocksucking Early
Is it any wonder a filthy creep like Jim Jordan adopts the depraved personna we see in DC?
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Dark Corner No More
Having been a big lemon benefactor over the years, I’ve always subscribed to the old adage “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade!” So after last fall’s early hard freeze took out half the trees in the front yard, I took advantage of the situation.
“The Weed Tree” was not dead. But most of one side and half the other was. It took me almost a month to get the dead parts trimmed down, cut up and the small stuff burned. The remainder is still a decent-sized tree, now also forming a street light pole at least double the candlepower of the more decorative variety the town put on the other corner. I had to fabricate a small adapter for a clean attachment to the tree limb.
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You can get an idea of the extent of the damage from that last “before” pic with Tigger. I had started pruning the dead stuff off it a couple weeks prior to that shot. Weather extremes driven by climate change are here now. We still have quite a bit of Aspen left to come down from the one on the other side of the driveway. I’ll tackle that later this year after it cools off. Probably later than last year, not quite as cool…
Billionaire Astronauts
I’m making a rare exception to posting policy acknowledging Blue Origin’s successful mission today. Posts here are typically supported with links to relevant information, but not this one. The following is purely my opinion on the topic.
Many judgements and accusations surrounding wealth disparity and income inequality have been leveled against people like Musk, Brandon and now Bezos, with regard to the commercial space industry. I call it antithetical hypocrisy. It is a more secular non-political form of hypocrisy held by people living their daily, mundane lives in the lap of technology born from space programs.
Anyone enjoying their cellphone/Internet, powerful pharmaceuticals, high tech apparel, fashion accessories, cars, and a plethora of advances in techno-driven manufacturing can thank space exploration and research. It all sources from programs like DARPA, NASA and others, pushing the envelope to meet the next challenge and conquer another frontier.
So if it takes alot of big dick energy and billionaire dollars to get it done, – more power to ’em! And if they just want to have some fun and take their friends for a ride, that’s cool too.
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