I’m busy this week writing something that isn’t intended for any blog. I apologize for the interruption.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I’ve got a sweet gig this weekend here in Nashville. Is that interesting?
Y’all come!
styling green shirt, brendan.
real 1970s vintage, polyester knit!
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/belief-is-truth-by-bloggersrus.html
From Digby:
Not only that, but he performed in it.
He’s also in the WWE Hall of Fame. Here’s the speech he gave at the induction ceremony.
It’s also no accident that Linda McMahon is the Adminstrator of the Small Business Adminstration.
Donald Trump, the kayfabe candidate.
In the past somewhere, I read an article (that I can’t find) that claimed that there’s a sub-group of wrestling fans who actually believe it’s real.
The rest realize it’s scripted, but they enjoy it and are entertained by it.
I guess that’s what they found so attractive about Trump as a candidate. I did hear Trump voters on the radio talking about how entertaining and exciting he was.
Yes, truly Kayfabe in all senses of the word, but it got out the vote. Sad.
WE’RE the common enemy, not Mexico.
I’m cleaning my garage before putting the CNC I built in.
Outlast 2 came out yesterday. Pretty wild game.
I spent yesterday afternoon, evening, and overnight in the hospital hooked up to monitors, to see if my chest and back discomfort were from a heart attack.
Apparently not, as I am a free woman again.
At least the food was remarkably good, and the staff were likewise.
Gosh, Janicket! I hope you’ll be all better soon!
Feeling fine now, thanks. The pains that had been scaring me for a couple of hours of course went away as soon as I put myself in medico hands, and did not return.
Probably some sort of muscle strain that paranoia over my family’s dreadful cardiac history magnified to scary proportions.
Getting older is the worst, except for the alternative. Hope your aches and pains can be banished soon.
I am finally pain free after a year and a half (tendionitis in my legs). What finally cleared it up was exercise with weights.
Heh. At age 68, overweight and underfit, with bum knees that need soft braces to be happy, I am grateful for any day that’s merely uneventful. A recent course of physical therapy has done the lower appendages some good; shedding the blubber would do a lot more.
Lots of it.
Glad it turned out non-serious.
I have a walking buddy, and if our schedules align we get in some two to three mile walks each week. I will walk alone, too, but it’s having company to natter to that gets me the big mileage.
Hospital food has greatlt improved. I thought that my taste had just run downhill. Apparently not.
Anytime you say you have a pain in your chest they think “heart!” even before you tell them the pain is under your right nipple so it can’t be your heart. Losing my faith in modern medicine. it seems like a computer program could replace most diagnosticians and maybe do a better job.
Well, to be fair, my family is riddled with heart disease; my father and his three brothers all had it, and dad in fact died in the recovery ward after open heart surgery for a double bypass; both of my brothers have been stented. So even though my cardiologist gave me a clean bill of health at my last checkup (doc holds up EKG printout: “This is perfect.”) I can’t help worrying when certain symptoms present themselves, and would rather have my doctors err on caution’s side.
My big fear is Parkinson’s. I’m about ready to pay the $200 to 23andme to see if I have the gene. My daughter is worried about breast cancer. If I’m not carrying it (my mother died from it) then she is probably clear as there is none on my wife’s side.
Parkinson’s is not thought to be hereditary I thought.
I completely agree with you about Chest Pain. My wife’s family has a pretty bad history – and twice the ER was determined to spend great amounts of time making sure she was not having a heart issue, and in once instance she wound up having a heart cath – rather unnecessarily.
My wife had the genetic test for BRCA1 & BRCA2, as breast cancer runs in her family, and her mother had breast cancer twice. A friend of ours, in addition to my cousin, both had voluntary double mastectomies after testing positive. Our friend’s sister and mother had both died from breast cancer.
I have to tell you, that wait for those results was gut wrenching. Her tests came back negative. Not a guarantee, but it keeps her at the same risk as the general population, rather than the 80-85% chance she would have had if she had tested positive, given her family history.
I’m not sure what I would have done in this case. I have a cousin who had two siblings die from Huntington Disease. She decided not to to get tested. It is a difficult decision when one has a disease with a high genetic component, which runs in their family.
Thankfully nothing more than a scare. Was wise to go in just to be on the safe side. Would have done the same myself.
I’d called my PCP’s office, talked to a nurse who gave me an appointment in a couple of hours but told me if anything seemed to be getting worse call 911 and get taken in by ambulance. Which I wound up doing.
The EMT’s were amused that I had a go-to-hospital bag all ready, complete with charger for phone/Kindle, when they got there.
Best to be prepared.
Would appreciate, Booman, if you could discuss the parliamentary aspects of the latest, ongoing GOP effort to gut the Affordable Care Act. Is what they’re trying feasible strictly from the perspective of Congressional rules?
I agree, I would too. I think they are going to go back to selling crap insurance (worse than Bronze) but still make you buy it. Diehard doctrinaire Randites won’t like that, but I expect the blue wall to be broken by the liberal application of green.
Wait, it gets better!
http://www.vox.com/2017/4/25/15429982/gop-exemption-ahca-amendment
Already been putting phone calls to our Congresscritters. They needed a “friendly” reminder that what happened in those town halls not too long ago was not a fluke, but the new normal.
We’ve been running phone banks to constituents of select members of Congress again this week, and we will keep it up as long as The Undead American Health Care Act continues to get the Weekend At Bernie’s treatment.
Lucky me, my Senators are Markey and Warren, and Seth Moulton is my Rep.
We’re calling into other States and other Congressional Districts. We’ve got enough resources to be able to talk to voters outside our region.
Anything “interesting” going on!!!???
Whaddayou, kiddin’ me or what, Booman?
We are in the middle of the height of the kayfabe era!!!
Like our recent “Peace President” and his various violences.
Like Bill Clinton saying “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.”
And not getting called on it.
Like Bush II sitting there with his Pet Goat book as the Twin Towers burned.
Like Lee Harvey Oswald being killed by a low-level mafia sex bar owner.
Like Sirhan Sirhan not being able to remember what he had done or even if he had actually done it.
And thousands more pieces of publicly…and largely consciously on some level…swallowed bullshit.
What?
You think it started with Trump?
It started out in a way that most people did believe. After all…it was “The News,” right?
And then it escalated.
It escalated so far that almost an entire generation of our best and brightest youth rebelled.
And eventually got their asses handed to them for their trouble.
And then came the yuppies.
The beginning of real “kayfabe.”
They knew it was all bullshit. They just made believe they didn’t in order to get over.
And now?
Now almost the entire corporate-owned government is kayfabe.
Everybody knows it’s not really working…cedrtainly not in the way it says it’s working. People are just going along to get along.
And now we have a Gordon Gekko wannabe as our president.
Nice work, America.
Nice work.
The real America, circa 2017?
The contraction?
Kayfabe.
The United States of KayFabia.
Get used to it.
or…
Do something about it. Something other than supporting the DemoKayFabeatic Party, that is.
Please!!!
AG