“Ford, the parent company of Lincoln, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are warning owners of nearly 143,000 Lincoln MKC compact SUVs to park them outside and away from buildings and other vehicles because they could potentially catch fire, even when not running.”
Category: Scary shit
Well, I can’t tell you that I’m ready to run a marathon, but I’m more optimistic. Unfortunately, the infection is still in my system so I’ll be having good days and bad until that is solved. I may or may not be posting because although I feel great now, I felt like I might die just three hours ago, and I may feel that way again in three more.
Many thanks for all the kind words and well-wishes you guys wrote.
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I learned that there are certain benefits to a forced vacation:
1. I’m an old fart who literally had not taken a day off for something like 9,000 consecutive days. Maybe a rest was due. Preferably not an eternal one.
2. My other obsession besides my websites is my lively career in senior athletics. I don’t know if any of you follow my Facebook page under my real name (you really should not because it is as boring as a Terrence Malick film festival), but if you do, you know that I finally won my personal grand slam last year – a medal in the singles events of all four “racket sports” in the Senior Olympics. Pickleball is considered a racket sport even though no rackets are involved. I guess that’s because it’s basically badminton + tennis + a whiffle ball. Anyway, I play several hours every day, so I chew Ibuprofen like M&Ms, and my legs still ache all the time. My left knee is so painful I can’t walk up the stairs some days. Well, guess what? Turns out that two weeks of doing nothing has completely restored my legs. So I guess that’s a silver lining.
3. Also, it turns out that dyin’ is a great way to lose weight. I’m back to my youthful shape.
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Anyway, be sure to keep supporting the guys who bring me traffic:
Popoholic, the complete optimist, my main man. How can you not love him? He never met a woman unworthy of at least four exclamation points! The internet can by a dark road to travel, and that makes his enthusiastic site a refreshing way-station.
Drunken Stepfather, the complete opposite of Popoholic – cynical and sometimes outright mean. I don’t know if I ever agree with his rants, but since he’s obviously writing in a character voice, I’m not sure whether he agrees with his own rants. (He writes several other sites, and they are quite straight. DS is his “bad as I wanna be” project.) Many of you dislike him, but he’s a guilty pleasure for me. Sorry to admit it guys, but he often makes me laugh, and sometimes I even have to admit he has a good point. I’m not sure if you know it, but celebs are only a portion of that site’s raison d’etre. DS truly manages to assemble an uncanny collection of videos for his special themes. Given the time he spends updating his other blogs, he must live on a planet with longer days
When a woman wears a see-thru, Hot Celebs Home does’t run one pic of the event. He’ll have every possible pic. Really a thorough guy.
The Nip-Slip is also into swanky bullshit events, but he digs really deep to find events I’ve never heard of.
I don’t need to tell you what The Booby Blog and The Booty Source are all about. The names kind of give them away.
Celeb Stalker doesn’t make many posts, but the ones he makes are huge – like 900 pics + some vids
You may have noticed that blog posts are scarce and Funhouse updates are non-existent.
At this moment I can’t tell you when that will change. My body is racked with a massive bacterial infection and my doctors haven’t come up with a solution yet (today marks two full weeks, The biggest problem now is that I haven’t eaten in five days, which is not exactly a recipe for energy. I struggled to get out of bed just to write these few words.
The docs will try some new meds Monday. Hope springs eternal.
Moving the Bills game seems to have been the right move. Get this: ” Orchard Park, where the NFL’s Buffalo Bills play, has picked up 77.0 inches in the last 48 hours”
Sports Update: the Bills will play Sunday – in Detroit!
Weird stuff: Buffalo Channel 4 Weather has confirmed 77 inches in Orchard Park, a southern suburb, but Tonawanda, a northern suburb, has received only three inches! Orchard Park is directly in line with the eastern shore of Lake Erie, while Tonawanda is just far enough north on the Niagara River that it is out of the direct path of the lake effect snow.
“It’s a shot I’ll never get again. It just looks like ‘Sharknado,’ it doesn’t look real.”
And instead of being sexy, she looks creepy AF.
She was one of the world’s great beauties, but she has made some bad choices.
… although it may or may not be a shark. Marine biologists say the dorsal fin is wrong.
Tarpon, maybe? But still, that’s one big backyard fish.
Legends of backyard sharks creep in after every storm, but this is the real deal.
The viral 'shark' video from Fort Myers is real, Storyful has confirmed, but whether it shows a shark or another fish has not been determined 🧵 (1/4)https://t.co/O9HPOU37US
— Rob McDonagh (@RobMcD) September 29, 2022
“Astronauts’ blood shows startling DNA mutations after visiting space”
So, a prominent figure who opposed Putin has died. There’s a shocker.
According to his company’s statement, Maganov “passed away following a severe illness.” However, the Russian news agency Interfax reported that he died after falling from a window.
That all makes sense. They didn’t say he died FROM the severe illness, just “following” it. Here’s my theory: the dizziness from the severe illness caused him to lose his balance and fall from the window. That could happen to anyone.
Well, anyone in Russia.
“By 2040, if population trends continue, 70% of Americans will be represented by just 30 senators, and 30% of Americans by 70 senators.”
In contrast to the underepresented majority, the 30% of Americans represented by those 70 senators would be white, rural, and poorly educated.
Even if the remaining 70% could manage to elect a President, it would be meaningless if the opposing party can control the House and 67 senators because, in the worst case scenario, the President and Vice-President could be impeached and convicted almost instantly after their inaugurations, thus making the Speaker of the House the President. (Per the Constitution, the House need not choose a member as its speaker. It could, for example, choose the person who just loss the election for the presidency.)
It is not realistic to expect the House of Representatives to maintain the sanity of the political process, because that body is increasingly filled with extremists from both sides of the spectrum, thanks to the widespread gerrymandering of “safe” districts.
“U.S. actress Anne Heche dies after being pulled off life support”
The USA is acting as if we were through with COVID; as if were a thing of the past. Unfortunately COVID, like the past itself, is not through with us. The newest sub-variant of Omicron (BA.5) is the most contagious variant yet. An area of special concern is that the contagion does not appear to be significantly deterred by either inoculation or previous infection.
New Cases:
After a plateau of substantial length in which the number of cases hovered right around 100,000 per day, the number has again started to climb steadily in the States, and is now at 133,000. That represents 400 per million population, which is nearly triple the red line. 49 of the 50 states are in the red zone, excepting only Vermont.
Positivity:
The nation’s current positivity rate is 17%, nearly double the red line. Five states are in the 30s, topped by Missouri (35%) and Mississippi (33%). Seventeen more are in the 20s, and twenty-four more are in the 10-19 range. That leaves only four states in the green zone (Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire).
Other national trends:
In the past fourteen days:
- COVID fatalities are up 10%
- COVID hospitalizations are up 18%
- The number of COVID patients in ICU is up 22%
International trends:
The number of cases is rising even more rapidly overseas. As of mid-June, the global number of daily COVID cases had fallen to about 550,000 per day (7-day average). In just a month, it has climbed back up in the 900,000 range.
Only one country, New Zealand, is in the quadruple danger zone (cases rising, cases already in the red zone, fatalities rising, fatalities already in the red zone), but several countries in Asia and Europe appear on the first three of those lists, and some of them are nearing crisis conditions:
- Cases in Japan and South Korea are doubling weekly.
- Australia, Italy, and Singapore have new infection rates at 10 times the red line, and are still increasing.
- In the cases of Australia and Italy, fatality rates are already near the red zone, and are increasing rapidly.
“The World Health Organization on Friday warned that urgent action is needed to contain the spread of monkeypox in Europe, as cases have tripled over the past two weeks.”
“Putin’s Bodyguards Collect His Excrement On Trips Abroad To Hide Possible Health Problems”
The full COVID update for Tuesday is here.
In the USA, cases are up 61% in the past two weeks, and there are now more states in the “new cases” red zone than out, 29 to 21. And the official numbers are probably low because more and more people are testing at home rather than heading out to a lab or clinic. Positive home tests have a way of staying out of the official stats.
The official testing percentages are creeping steadily upward. No states have re-entered the red zone yet, but a handful are getting close.
There is also some good news. COVID total hospitalizations and ICU cases remain steady, and fatalities are still declining. Only five states are in the fatality red zone.
Only one state (Kentucky) is in the red zone for both new cases and fatalities.
By far the strangest story out of Ukraine so far is this: “Louis CK to Perform in Ukraine Amid Russian Invasion”
Good luck with that, Louis. Yakov Smirnoff covered this situation already, with the quote in the headline, and this one: “In America, you assassinate president. In Russia, president assassinate you!”