Yum.
I double-dog dare them, too!
This is one of the ones that has hilarious captions, along with excellent information about the subject.
Category: Businesses / Corporations / Industry
Clay Jones, Open Windows
There are several this time! The titles are links, as usual, but for space consideration, I’m leaving Clay’s awesome commentary on his pages, and posting only toons this time. Go see what he has to say, though-it’s always good!
The bottom feeder
Trump’s algae filled, one bid contract Reflecting Pool
Drain The Swamp Things
Instead of draining the swamp, Donald Trump literally refilled it for $14.2 million
(snip-go see the comments, and his creation video, too)
Trump announces a Fourth of July “Trump Rally”
Hijacking our nation’s 250th anniversary celebration
It’s not enough he turns the White House into a trashy spectacle or plasters his name all over everything.
Nazis and Trillionaires
Republicans and MAGAts love trillionaire Nazis who don’t pay taxes.
(snip)
Love The Inflation
“The Day The War Began”
A spoken poem by friend of Playtime Bee Halton, The Bee Writes.
An update on today.
I was to have an appointment this morning with my pain clinic provider. My pain medication and steroid shot provider. But first thing this morning I called into the clinic and got a less than understanding person who would only tell me her screen was different from mine and was rude, belligerent, and not really on the same brain level as I was. The result was I had no appointment today that would give me relief and let me walk.
This was important to me because my ability to walk or even function is getting less and less, but the clinic has been in the process of moving and has been the target of anger from the largest profitable medical providing system in our county. Ron and I worked for that system. They don’t like any company that provides services they have in house or contracted doctors to do so they try to either take them over, have cooperative agreements with them (meaning they get a cut of the cash) or destroy the competition. Thier responce is to try to either ruin any competition or to fold it into their company. So my pain providers who once worked in partnership with that hospital system but then refused to submit to them agreeing to be folded into the hospital system the hospital system is endeavoring to destroy. Sadly for the hospital system the patients like me were loyal and stayed with the providers we had instead of abandoning them.
The pain group grew and merged with some other groups because they needed protection from the hospital system that runs the majority of medical services in our area and provides the only hospitals for doctors that business requires access to hospital type services. Blackmail on display for the for profit healthcare system in the US.
The building they had was far too small, so they are moving. I had my last visit on the first of June as a telehealth because they couldn’t get the city inspection certificate to allow them to use the new building. My pain doctor listened to me and said I needed the next in person visit to get muscle injections and then an appointment with my pain surgeon for spine shots.
That has led to this where I get multiple emails and texts of appointments that then never appear on my patient portal. So today I got showered and dressed and Ron put my walker in the car. But then the appointment disappeared from my patient portal list and several new appointments were listed.
Which leads me to the point of this post. I was emotionally rocked at 7:45 this morning after finding out I did not have an appointment for the relief I needed and was depending on. I went to work doing the cartoons / memes / news post for today. But by 10 I was in serious pain. I took my noon medications early. It did not help and by noon I couldn’t walk. At 1 pm I took an additional 15 miligarm extended relief morphine and another 15 miligarm instant relief.
At this point Ron had done everything all day in the house and seeing how much pain I was in wouldn’t even let me do the easiest things. Ron had been doing that for weeks now trying to make sure I did not do anything that might cause me pain even to the point of getting into arguments if I should do the dishes even though for the washing part I could use my grand rolling stool.
That did not help so at 3 pm I took another 30 miligarm exstened relief morphine and another 20 miligram backlofen muscle relaxer. That did the trick. It was slow in helping but by 4 pm I could feel the relief and the frantic desperate need for the pain to stop was dissipating. By 5 pm I felt almost pain free, as pain free as I can ever be.
So why this post you might be wondering. Several reasons. I still have to finish tomorrow’s cartoons / memes / and news posts and want everyone to understand why it might be late. But most important are the draconian laws about pain medications that have swept the country mostly driven by republicans but also some democrats that want to look tough on drug abuse since they got caught doing nothing over the OxyContin scandal. So if one company convinced doctors on lies to overprescribe medication leading to massive addiction issues when those pain drugs were withdrawn politicans with no medical backgrounds or information just started setting abartary rules which made no medical sence.
So state legislators who had no expertise started to push laws that limited the amount of medications that doctors could prescribe. I want you to understand how that affected me. I was receiving a combination of medication that made it so with all my dying bones, all my bones growing in very painful ways, my immune system attacking my own body that let me live a normal life. I could walk, I could garden, I could grocery shop.
But then those drugs were taken away or reduced by nonmedical people in the Florida legislature who wanted to look tough on illegal drugs. Remember my legal drugs were prescribed by doctors that had years of experience in pain medication. So for a politician to run for reelection on being tough on illegal drug use I had my medications reduced and restricted. That was the start. Over the years legislators who were realtors or other wealthy people with no medication criteria or education background created more laws in Florida resticted my pain medication amounts that could be prescribed to me.
Which leads me to this year. I was down to the barest amount of pain medication daily along with having to have trigger point muscle injections every two months and every 6 to 8 months having spine epidurals. That of course increased the cost of each visit to my pain doctors. Grand how the government is looking after the lower incomes. But I no longer could do any yard work, couldn’t do any real house work other than folding clothing or doing a small amount of dishes. I had been basicly reduced to sitting in my chair at my desk. Then came the new fuck you from the tRump people.
RFK Jr. decided that people like me were getting too much pain relief and all we needed to do was live like he did. So he sent out a directive to all doctors that they had to get all their patients to 100 morphine equivalent levels with the goal of taking them to less than 50 morphine equivalent levels or those that did not comply would be fined and possibly lose their license.
I was well above that limit set by a toilet seat snorting cocaine addict that made his millions refuting real medical science while playing off his family name. So I got taken down another 15 milligrams of instant release with the pain doctors having to keep every visit to justify my being over that and risking their license and practice. To day I had to dip into my saved medication to function. What am I to do when they are gone?
My primary pain doctor along with my pain surgeon has recommended and sent a referral to a neurosurgeon to have some of the vertebrae/nerves repaired. But I have to have eye surgery, Ron needs eye surgery, and all of this is not covered completely by medicare. So we are on the hook for the costs. We recently paid $2,800 for Ron’s heart catheterization, which thankfully turned out he did not have any real blockages. Was that collusion between the people who did the scan and those that did the heart catheterization?
But his eye surgery will be at least $ 1,000 and mine for my eyes will be at least twice that. So my back surgery is not going to happen anytime soon. As I let everyone know my eye doctor would not even give me a prescription for glasses as she said my vision is far too compromised. Yes I will address that issue, I promised Randy after he chewed my ass off for a long time over the issue. My point is that we have a lot of medical issues and it will take time.
That flows to my last point. Tomorrows cartoons / memes / news post. It is not done yet but I am working on it. Now that I am not in excruciating pain with every breath I will try to finish up and get it scheduled. However, and I am going to regret mentioning this. Due to the medication and pain I did eat anything but a small breakfast. I simply can not stomach food now. I know the wonderful people here will tell me to use MDavis’s grand advice to use a nutritional shake and I will do so. But I wanted to be honest as I am always here even when it is painful for me, I just can’t stomach food now. Best wishes for everyone and hugs for those that want them.
Would ’twere…
but, it’s The Onion. Enjoy!
FDA Recalls 40,000 Gallons Of RFK Jr. Milk
Contaminated Teats Of Health Secretary Produced Tainted Dairy Products
Vats full of milk secreted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. formed the backdrop for an FDA press conference.
WASHINGTON—In what experts are already calling one of the worst outbreaks of foodborne illness in decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an urgent recall Tuesday for 40,000 gallons of RFK Jr. milk.
The recall, which covers all milk produced by the body of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was issued following widespread reports of high fever, nausea, arthritis-like symptoms, and uncontrollable diarrhea among consumers. The FDA urged Americans to throw out any RFK Jr. milk they had in their refrigerators, saying those affected would be entitled to a full refund and should take a 60-day course of the antibiotic ciprofloxacin.
“If you purchased a jug of milk pumped from Secretary Kennedy’s breasts on or after Mar. 4, 2026, you may have noticed a sulfurous smell, streaks of red pus, or visible effervescence in the liquid,” said FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, stressing that anyone who experienced blindness or vertigo after drinking the beverage should consult a healthcare provider immediately, especially if they were pregnant. “We also ask that consumers dispose of the milk by incineration instead of dumping it down the drain, which could result in the substance entering rivers and streams and cause mass aquatic die-offs.”
“We acknowledge our error in ever allowing this man’s milk to make it onto store shelves in the first place,” Makary added.
According to sources, the recalled Kennedy dairy has been sold at wellness retailers and health food co-ops in all 50 states and includes processed RFK Jr. milk products sold under names such as Bobby Butter, Hyannis Port Farms Cheddar, and Kennedy’s Curse-Reversing Longevity Yogurt. Many of these products have been touted through official channels by the secretary himself, who as a central pillar of his “Make America Healthy Again” campaign has strongly encouraged consumption of his body’s milk.
FDA officials said the RFK Jr. milk was contaminated with E. coli, salmonella, listeria, and a previously unknown pathogen scientists have named Robertococcus kenneddi, which appears to have proliferated exclusively in the squalid and unsanitary conditions in which Kennedy lives. Inspectors described “appalling” conditions in the Georgetown residence where much of his milk was pumped, citing moldy, sweat-soaked gym equipment, five-gallon buckets of rancid beef tallow, and the rotting carcasses of several unidentifiable marine mammals.
“The spread of bacteria by RFK Jr. milk has led to numerous confirmed cases of sepsis, meningitis, and necrosis of the tongue,” said FDA microbiologist Hana Steiner, adding that she had long warned friends and relatives against consuming the poorly regulated substance. “People will say Kennedy should have been pasteurizing his milk, and of course he should have, but I’m not sure it would have mattered. A lot of these bacteria have mutated in the dank, humid piles of unwashed jeans found on the floor of his home, and many have become antibiotic-resistant thanks to his frequent swims in sewage-tainted waters.”
While the FDA has ordered an indefinite halt to the distribution of RFK Jr. milk, some MAHA diehards have decried the crackdown as federal overreach, with Kennedy himself criticizing scientists who have questioned his milk’s safety.
“The probiotic cultures in my milk are a feature, not a bug, and any negative reactions people have experienced are the result of a lack of ferments in the American diet,” Kennedy said in a recent video message in which he is seen pumping and drinking a bright yellow glass of his own milk to demonstrate its safety. “There are no dangerous additives in here, just pure, natural goodness. Americans have neglected their gut microbiomes for so long that even the gentle, nourishing milk of their health and human services secretary upsets their stomachs. That’s how bad things have gotten.”
“The obvious answer is for people to drink more of my milk, not less,” Kennedy continued. “It’ll take more than some misguided recall to stop me from lactating for the health and longevity of this nation.”
The second Gilded. The upper income take over of the government
Her Gotcha Backfired Spectacularly…
Sam and crew go over Graham Platner’s win and his interview with Mika Brzezinski Scarborough on Morning Joe. Amoung the jokes about her interview they go over his acceptance speech. I am personally satisfied he has answered all the questions. I love his line “… if you give me the chance I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator”. I am a progressive and a believer in DSA policies. Graham Platner is not the perfect person who is flawless and unlike many his flaws are out in the open, not hidden behind a facade of fake religious politeness. He is a populist. I am not looking for religious leaders in our lawmakers, I am not expecting someone who walked blamelessly through life, that they way only one person did and his name was Jesus. I am looking for someone whose policies help the lower incomes and the public at large, not the privileged few. I am looking for a congress and White House filled with people who do not think elected office is their golden ticket to personal wealth and authority over others. Real people screw up and those that ask and work for a second chance should be given a chance to show they deserve it. In my opinion Platner has and does shown he deserves his forgiveness. Plus people look at Graham’s past are not looking at Collin’s past or even Mika who started dating Joe when he was still married. To me a lot of these people going on about Platner’s past seem to hold him to a different standard than they themselves are held or republican canidates are held. Hugs.
Your Josh Day Next Day!
Scott Pelley says Bari Weiss wanted 60 Minutes to say Renee Good was ‘driving toward officer’
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jun/07/scott-pelley-bari-weiss-renee-good-report
Fired journalist accuses CBS News chief of interfering with report because it did not echo Trump’s view of the shooting
Scott Pelley was fired from CBS 60 Minutes last week. Photograph: Charles Sykes/AP
The fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused editorial management at CBS of interfering with a broadcast segment on the killing of the Minneapolis protester Renee Good by an immigration officer in January.
The veteran broadcaster, who was recently dismissed from the show, said CBS News’s editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, had sent an email to his supervisor requesting changes shortly before the airing of the segment in question.
In an interview with the New York Times published on Sunday, the 68-year-old Pelley accused Weiss of injecting “falsehoods and bias” into programming.
Pelley told the outlet: “Two of the things in the email include, ‘Can we make the protesters look more violent?’ Now, I’m paraphrasing. I don’t have the quote, but that’s what was communicated to me. And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.”
Pelley maintained that was the direction contained in the email even though video of Good’s shooting did not support such a conclusion.
A CBS News spokesperson told the Times in response to Pelley’s statements that Weiss had made four points in an email exchange on the segment that had “no political motivation and were proposed solely to make the piece as strong, fair, and accurate as possible”.
“Not everything she raised made it into the final piece,” the statement added.
Pelley’s accusation comes amid turbulence at the flagship TV news show that has seen the 60 Minutes executive producer Tanya Simon replaced and several correspondents and producers leave over questions of editorial independence. Three of the show’s veterans – Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim – are staying on.
The newly installed executive producer, Nick Bilton, a former Vanity Fair journalist and film-maker, told staff in a memo that “the foundation of 60 Minutes is journalistic independence.
“We will always pursue stories without fear or favor.”
Pelley’s accusations to the Times followed a heated exchange at a meeting on Monday in which he accused Weiss of “murdering” the show. He was fired soon after.
In his latest salvo, Pelley said he was concerned that Weiss “had zero television experience and had never managed a large global operation like CBS News”. He also called her lack of TV news experience “red flags to me”.
Pelley also said that Bilton’s mission to modernize the 58-year-old show ignored changes that were already in play.
“Of course we have to reach out to a younger and younger audience, but their argument about joining the internet age is just disingenuous,” Pelley said. “It’s almost as if Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton were sealed in a time capsule in 1990, and it just cracked open. They’ve just discovered the internet, and they’re running around telling everybody how important it is.”
Pelley’s accusations over the Minneapolis segment in part centered on what took place in the seconds before Good was shot by an immigration enforcement officer.
“On the video, you see the officer standing slightly off the front of the car,” Pelley told the Times. “You clearly see Ms Good’s wheels turned completely as far as they will go, away from the officer. But he shoots her in the head [and] kills her.”
Pelley also alluded to cellphone video from the officer’s vantage point that was publicly released and captured him calling Good a “fucking bitch”.
As Pelley put it, the officer said “something about her that I can’t repeat in polite company”.
Pelley said that 60 Minutes had “gone out of our way in our plan from the very beginning to show the protesters for the responsibility that they had … somehow that wasn’t enough for Ms Weiss”.
He added that video of the shooting showed that the officer wasn’t standing in front of the car and she wasn’t “driving toward him”. He argued that Weiss “wanted it described that way” because it echoed what Donald Trump said of the shooting in his capacity as president.
Asked to respond to Pelley’s claim that Weiss “was putting a thumb on the scale on behalf of the [Trump] administration”, CBS News said there was “no credible argument” to suggest she was doing that.
“That’s The Way Life Is”: Trump Tells Knicks Fans That Can’t Afford $8K Tickets To Kick Rocks
Scottie's Playtime 