Late Night Open Thread: Lady of the Lake 2012
Posted: July 11, 2012 Filed under: 2012 presidential campaign, Barack Obama, just because, Republican politics, SDB Evening News Reads, U.S. Politics | Tags: Excedrin migraine, migraine 30 Comments »
Okay, today has been one of those days from hell. My daddy is feeling better, but the doctors are keeping him in the hospital for observation. So, I just have a couple links for you tonight…first let’s start with the above image I saw on Facebook. It was posted by one of mine and Mona aka Wonk the Vote’s FB buddies, and I had to share it. By the way, my dad’s name is Dennis, so it is very appropriate.
Anything with a reference to Monty Python’s Holy Grail will get my attention, this one especially! If you aren’t familiar with the scene this poster is spoofing, here it is:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Scene 3
[clop clop] ARTHUR: Old woman! DENNIS: Man! ARTHUR: Old Man, sorry. What knight live in that castle over there? DENNIS: I'm thirty seven. ARTHUR: What? DENNIS: I'm thirty seven -- I'm not old! ARTHUR: Well, I can't just call you `Man'. DENNIS: Well, you could say `Dennis'. ARTHUR: Well, I didn't know you were called `Dennis.' DENNIS: Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? ARTHUR: I did say sorry about the `old woman,' but from the behind you looked-- DENNIS: What I object to is you automatically treat me like an inferior! ARTHUR: Well, I AM king... DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress-- WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do? ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Who's castle is that? WOMAN: King of the who? ARTHUR: The Britons. WOMAN: Who are the Britons? ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king. WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes-- WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again. DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would-- ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? WOMAN: No one live there. ARTHUR: Then who is your lord? WOMAN: We don't have a lord. ARTHUR: What? DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. ARTHUR: Yes. DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. ARTHUR: Yes, I see. DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,-- ARTHUR: Be quiet! DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more-- ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet! WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is? ARTHUR: I am your king! WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you. ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings. WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then? ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king! DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. ARTHUR: Be quiet! DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you! ARTHUR: Shut up! DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an empereror just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away! ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up! DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system. ARTHUR: Shut up! DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed! ARTHUR: Bloody peasant! DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
Ah, that 2012 poster is something that even Ignatius J. Reilly would approve of! It has such taste and decency…quite pleasing to anyone who fancies a political system based on a “farcical aquatic ceremony.”
Now just a couple links:
Patients Paying Top Dollar For Excedrin Migraine Since Recall « CBS Pittsburgh
I had no idea this stuff was off the shelves.
No Excedrin Migraine has been available since January.
That’s when Novartis recalled the popular product, along with Bufferin, No-Doz, and Gas-X because of quality control issues at the drug maker’s Nebraska plant.
“Novartis, the manufacturer of Excedrin, has opted to completely shut down production to aid in more quickly updating some of their facilities,” explains Paula Horn at the Allegheny General Hospital pharmacy.
“When someone finds something that works, and then they’re not able to get it, it can be a real problem,” says Dr. Andrea Synowiec, a neurologist at Allegheny General Hospital.
Some patients are desperate, paying anywhere from $100 to $300 on Amazon.
“For patients that find that this is what relieves their headache, they’re willing to pay the extra amount of money to get the headache relief and to be able to function daily,” says Horn.
Wow…
And then there is this:
Lexington: What’s eating Appalachia? | The Economist
A.J. WADE, a lifelong Democrat and one of three elected commissioners who run Hardy County in West Virginia, fiddles with his bolo tie as he tries to explain the results of his party’s presidential primary, back in May. “People here”, he says, “would have voted for Mickey Mouse if he’d been on the ballot.” The fictional rodent was not running, however, so they ended up supporting a much less appealing candidate: Keith Judd, a convict serving a 17-year sentence for extortion in a Texan jail. Mr Judd won 58% of the vote in Hardy County to Barack Obama’s 42%.
Continue to read the rest of that at the link above…here is just another taste:
Mr Obama suffered a similar rebuke in neighbouring Kentucky, where 41% of Democrats ticked a box labelled “uncommitted” rather than endorse the president’s re-election bid. He has never had much of a following in Appalachia: Hillary Clinton thumped him in the primaries in the region in 2008. At the general election that year, even as the rest of the country swung to the left, a crescent of counties astride the Appalachian range, from south-western Pennsylvania to north-eastern Mississippi, moved in the opposite direction. Late last year Gallup put Mr Obama’s approval rating in West Virginia, a state with almost twice as many registered Democrats as Republicans, at 33%. The president is so unpopular that the two most senior Democrats in the state on the ballot this year, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and Senator Joe Manchin, both refuse to say they will vote for him.
Asked what has got West Virginia’s goat, Shelley Moore Capito, who represents Hardy County in Congress, mentions onerous regulation—a familiar refrain among her fellow Republicans. The county is a big poultry producer, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused several chicken and turkey farmers in the area of polluting water that will eventually find its way into Chesapeake Bay. In the rest of the state, coal is king and the EPA is seen as committing regicide. It has withheld permits for coal mines, tightened pollution controls for power plants that use coal, and is in the process of drafting regulations on greenhouse gases. To distance himself from such policies when running for the Senate in 2010, Mr Manchin produced an ad in which he took a rifle to a proposed climate-change bill.
But West Virginia’s distaste for the president, Mrs Capito argues, is “more than just a policy disagreement—it’s at the core of who we are.”
Yes, I guess I am being a bit manipulative by cutting off at that questionable and possibly racist quote, guess you will just have to read the rest of the article and come up with your own conclusions.
Have a good night, ya filthy peasants!
Sima
dakinikat
fiscalliberal
grayslady
JJ Lopez Minkoff
mablue2
NW Luna
peggysue22
quixote
Mona (aka Wonk the Vote)
If anyone is having trouble with the Economist link let me know…and seriously, have a good night.
Nope … But I do have to say I prefer watery tart!!!
I had Watery Tart 2012 for the title of the post, then I thought about it and changed it…but I am with you! I prefer watery tart!
I’m sure Romney would prefer farcical aquatic ceremonies too!!
Yeah especially if they are in the waters off Big Cayman Island…
No problems with the link but their answers to the question are largely self protective crap. The main problem with Obama, for a lot of those people, is his race. That brings on all the birther, Kenyan Muslim Socialist stuff as cover.
That one dude who thinks Obama is a gay Muslim who is in cahoots with Bin Ladin (cause he isn’t dead…it was just staged) is something else. It is frightening to think that these people are out there.
And there are probably a lot of the stupid fools!
There’s a political cartoon present for you in the media files.
This is awesome!
Truth via cartoon.
That video clip is one of the funniest of the Monty Python take on history (or reality).
Reminds me of “manifest destiny” used to justify the theft of the land of Ingeniousness people. Since the “king & queen” of some far off place were placed on the throne because of God’s will — and the “king & queen” gave the unknown land to some white guys — therefore you brown beings now must live on reservations. Change some words around and that’s what Chief Justice Marshall decision was on the outright theft of land.
That cartoon is 1000 words in pictures. Even those with atrophy of the brain can understand it.
Good campaign fodder any way you slice it for Democrats.
Reid Rounds Up The Votes For Obama’s Bush Tax Cut Plan…If GOP Drops Filibuster
Excedrin is a mixture of aspriin, Tylenol, and caffeine. You can mix your own by drinking a caffeinated drink along with your pain killers. The caffeine speeds up your metabolism and gets the stuff into your bloodstream faster. If you use a carbonated drink it will be even quicker.
I speak from long experience as a migraine sufferer. But I think Advil works best. Take 4-6 at once.
BB’s right. Excedrin Migraine is merely a combination of acetaminophen 250mg, aspirin 250mg, and caffeine 65mg in each tablet. I can’t believe people are paying $$$ for it.
Anything for a migraine or other headache should be taken as soon as possible. Much easier to stop/reduce pain before it gets too bad; harder to control after it gets severe.
However ibuprofen recommended dose for migraine is 400mg every 6 hrs. Higher doses haven’t been shown to significantly improve relief and may increase risk of GI upset or GI bleeds. Maximum recommended dose per day is 3,200mg (this changes depending on reference). Chronic use of any NSAID (ibuprofen, naproxen, prescription anti-inflammatories) ups cardiovascular risk (for example, as was seen with high doses of Vioxx, since removed from market). Naproxen has the lowest cardiovascular risk of all the NSAIDs.
If you have migraines twice a week or more then I’d recommend a trial of something for prophylaxis.
Migraine prophylaxis options with low side-effect risk and good random controlled trial evidence of effectiveness are:
Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) 200-400mg daily. or
Butterbur (petadolex) 40-75 mg twice daily. or
Feverfew 40 – 100mg daily.
Betablockers such as propranolol are also helpful but have more side effects.
Anything for prophy (prevention) can take 1-2 months to be effective. As a migraineur myself, I use riboflavin.
Reference: Tarascon Pharmacopoeia
{Urgh. Really too late to be talking shop but I can’t help myself sometimes.}
Luv the Lady of the Lake graphic! And that Monty Python clip is one of my faves.
David Corn has a new scoop on Romney’s finances.
EXCLUSIVE: Romney Invested Millions in Chinese Firm That Profited on US Outsourcing.
According to government documents reviewed by Mother Jones, Romney, when he was in charge of Bain, invested heavily in a Chinese manufacturing company that depended on US outsourcing for its profits—and that explicitly stated that such outsourcing was crucial to its success.
Later this investment was split between Brookside and Sankaty–that mysterious black box corporation in Bermuda that Romney never listed in his financial disclosures until he had to release his 2010 tax return. He actually had to amend his disclosure findings. BTW, he hadn’t listed his Swiss bank account either. What else is he hiding?
Did you see this BB? Romney On NAACP Booing: If They Want More Free Stuff From The Government Vote Obama | Mediaite
More:
No, but I’m not surprised. Thanks for that link!
Check this out.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120711104811.htm
Evidence Supports Health Benefits of ‘Mindfulness-Based Practices’
ScienceDaily (July 11, 2012) — Specific types of “mindfulness practices” including Zen meditation have demonstrated benefits for patients with certain physical and mental health problems, according to a report in the July Journal of Psychiatric Practice.
Do you have a link to that BB? (The Corn article?)
It’s in my comment now.
Bwahahahaha. If this is the best the Romney campaign can do for defense, they are screwed!
ROFLMAO … yeah, that is equivalent … ROFLMAO
Stop the presses!
lol. A Vanguard fund. That is so tepid.
“strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government”
That’s the best thing I’ve heard in ages. My stomach hurts, I’ve been laughing so much for so long.
During an interview with Miami’s Spanish-language America TeVe broadcaster which aired late Tuesday, Obama was asked if Hugo Chavez was a major security threat to the US. He answered as follows:
While that seems a perfectly fine and reasonable answer to me, Mitt the Neo-con had a conniption. Rmoney needs to find some sane foreign policy advisors.
Romney lashes out at Obama over Chavez comment
Actually the US is more dangerous to Chavez — he was kidnapped by the.CIA according to him — and then flown to an island. It was a stupid stunt by GWB and it did NOT go over well in the Caricom region. I was in the Caribbean when it happened and the Guyanese were really angry.
So yes 0bama’s response was very mature. In some ways Mittens is a lot like GWB — he really doesn’t seem that bright — just another guy who had a rich daddy.
Nice to see newsmedia continuing to catch up with the abundant evidence on mindfulness benefits. Here is a recent study with a delightful finding:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22615758
Now, how could we foster mindfulness practice among the fundamentalists and the Romney-voter types?
There are several apps for Android which are supposed to be good for memory.
Rigidity in thinking is a personality trait — perseverance in tasks – which reminds me of the Republicans in Congress who continually vote to terminate 0bama’s health insurance law — 33 times. I think they may have voted on jobs legislation either once or never.
That research is most interesting because there is hope for the poor souls who are so rigid in their world view.