Topic: Local News

[goldshirt*9]

First outing of the year for myself, Mrs Goldie and the Van.
Off for the night to a Tap house, music and food night at a place called "Church end Brewery" which is not too far away. 

[goldshirt*9]

Mother went in hospital Friday with suspected Pneumonia, Started seeing, children and people in coffins and at one point a circus troop. Very confused all the time. Doctors put her on a "Doll" list (cannot leave hospital and security would prevent her leaving the ward) due to her state
Had a Cat scan Sunday and found out she has advanced dementia. Doctors have said when she may improve in her usual environment ?
What a kick in the face out of no where.
Wife and daughter being fantastic as work in same hospital, Angels both of them and in fact the staff are great.

 

[smokester]

Mother went in hospital Friday with suspected Pneumonia, Started seeing, children and people in coffins and at one point a circus troop. Very confused all the time. Doctors put her on a "Doll" list (cannot leave hospital and security would prevent her leaving the ward) due to her state
Had a Cat scan Sunday and found out she has advanced dementia. Doctors have said when she may improve in her usual environment ?
What a kick in the face out of no where.
Wife and daughter being fantastic as work in same hospital, Angels both of them and in fact the staff are great.

 

That's a really tough break and I hate it when one moment your life is one way, and the next it's on its head. It's something you can never get used to.

Good luck, goldie old pal, looks like your mother is going to need it.

PS, I moved this post to local news so that it was more independent.

[dweez]

Sorry to hear this goldie. Life really knows how to kick you in the teeth sometimes. Glad it sounds like you have a good support base but still, sucky.

[6pairsofshoes]

I'm sorry to hear about your mother, goldie.  This is a really difficult thing to deal with since your mother is still living but slowly going away.  I feel for you.

We spent a year caring for my husband's father before he passed away.  I don't know why there seems to be a rash of this malady, but both his parents suffered from it.  The only positive thing about it is that these patients seem to thrive as long as they are well fed and cared for by people who love them, so it sounds like you are in a good place there.

[goldshirt*9]

Boiler was condemned on Tuesday, new one to being  installed Friday.
May have to sell my soul to pay for it 

[6pairsofshoes]

That sounds expensive.  We had to have our plumbing redone and it will also cost an arm and a leg.  At least you will have a reliable source of heat to enjoy in the winter.

[goldshirt*9]

Wasn't by choice as the old one was condemned. About £2500 with a cash only deal, Boiler and power wash the system and a overflow pipe (which was forgotten the first time we had one fitted).  On top of all the roof work 

[6pairsofshoes]

I don't know if South Dakota is "local" (and to the extent that it isn't, I'm completely grateful) but the governor is currently enjoying a well deserved backlash for taking a 14 month old puppy that was bred to hunt pheasants and shooting it in a gravel pit.  This was followed by a similar summary execution of a goat because she found it disagreeable and smelly.

After everyone was horrified by this cruel behavior, she doubled down on this approach to the disposition of unwanted animals by boasting that they'd also just killed 3 horses that had been owned by the family for 25 years. 

article here:  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book

[6pairsofshoes]

With some irony an old twit from Hillary Clinton is circulating, in which she said that you shouldn't elect someone that you wouldn't trust with your dog.

It is a common criticism of Trump that "he doesn't even have a dog..."

[8ullfrog]

What she thought she was selling -
"I'm a hard headed decision maker, willing to make the hard decision"

What she actually said -

"I hated that dog".

So it was a ritual killing to soothe the call of blood.

[6pairsofshoes]

Yeah.  She's super tone deaf.  I watched her in an interview with some CNN reporter and she seemed like someone who really loved makeup and enjoyed avoiding answering tough questions.  She's also super loyal to Trump, despite any questions about his potential conviction on any number of indictments.

I think "I hated that dog" is going to sink her.  Nobody in their right mind who is an animal lover (and that's about 90% of Americans) would think shooting a wayward puppy in a gravel pit is the appropriate solution to an adolescent dog who could have benefitted from the right training for a different owner.  I think that it reveals more about the owner than the puppy.

So putting her second in line to having access to the nuclear codes would be kind of a bad decision.  I can foresee the thought processes that stem from her solution to that dog:
Having troubles with North Korea?  Nuke 'em. 
Putin getting out of hand?  Nuke him.  But in that scenario, the gravel pit is planet Earth and the rest of us will have to suffer the consequences.  She sure isn't leader material.

[6pairsofshoes]

The general public are not the target for the current crop of "Republican" politicians, their core (if not only) audience is the large body of Americans that are fed up with "progressive leftism"; the same body of people that truly and deeply believe any and all conspiracy theories, and don't care for democracy because it lets the woke-left dominate thinking through the deep state and subversion of the media. And for those people she absolutely definitely is leader material. As far as they are concerned, she has the courage to do things that are unpopular with the pinko-commie-fags, and the strength of character to stand by her beliefs. I find it odd that the same constituency that supported and fuelled McCarthy currently prefer Russian leaders to elected American ones.

These "Republicans" are betting the farm on that core audience outnumbering the rest in a count, so that they can permanently subvert democracy in their favour.

I agree with you except on the last point.  The genius of the modern GOP is that they are a minority party that has managed to prevail against the will of the majority of voters by taking advantage of spurious redistricting that splits Democratic leaning districts in ways that favor GOP candidates, and also there's the train wreck of the Electoral College.  A majority of Americans would never have suffered a first Trump administration, let alone the threat of a second one.  I can't explain South Dakota and Noem's electoral success.  Maybe the water has been polluted via too many agricultural chemicals and the brains of the populace have been affected to vote against their own interests.

[6pairsofshoes]

True - I should have said "outvoting in an election", rather than "outnumbering".

Noem is accusing (whatever unflattering term for the mainstream media she can come up with) of "fake news" or distorting the facts.  It's kind of hard to distort facts when she's laid them down in print.  Maybe she's had one too many Botox or collagen injections and they've affected her ability to think.

[6pairsofshoes]

Again - her supporters have the memory of a goldfish and so believe what she says; and they have completely forgotten the original statements: and because they have been conditioned to disbelieve the "lame stream media" they ignore those statements when the LSM repeat them (and in fact consider that it must be false, because it is in the LSM).

... and to her, her supporters are all that count because they will re-elect her. (How can they not, when the opponent is an "America-hating pinko-commie cigarette"?)

Here you go, Jordan Klepper interviews some low information voters.