In Monday’s Atlanta Urinal and Constipation someone wrote the following vent.

I’m 65 and I still don’t know when to use who or whom.

Are you bragging or complaining? I would not admit my ignorance of how to decline pronouns. We’re lucky that in English, unlike Russian or Latin, we don’t have to decline all of our nouns or unlike in the Romance languages, our nouns don’t have gender.

Even professional “journalists” don’t know when to use who or whom and their editors don’t know either. I see poorly written English on a daily basis. You would think that “journalists”, who have layers and layers of fact checkers and editors, unlike bloggers, could get this stuff right. Nope. They are no better than this ignoramus venter bragging about his ignorance of pronoun usage.

Who is the nominative case (subject or predicate nominative) just like I, he, she, and they. Whom is the objective case (direct object or object of a preposition) as is me, him, her, and them.

This would also go right over the head of this venter who prolly slept through all of his English classes. Do they still diagram sentences in middle school English classes?

Take a few semesters of Latin and you’ll see how lucky we are that we only have to decline pronouns.

So, I went to the pain clinic last week. My pain is getting worse. They prescribed some hydrocodon to go along with all of the other pain meds I’m on: Gapapentin, Oxcarbazipine, methadone, and Elavil. I also have some Percocet to use when the pain gets really bad, like it did about 5:00 AM today. I also get to take two blood pressure meds and my cholestoral med. I’m a walking pharmacy.

They decided to get an MRI for my lower spine to see if there was some degeneration that is causing my pain to get worse. Cindy thinks my tolerance to all of these meds has gone up which is why the pain is getting worse. I tend to agree with her since she was a neuro nurse for 30 years before she went to the dark side and got a job with Big Pharma.

I called MRI scheduling on Wednesday figgering it would take about two weeks to get an appointment. Compared to places like Canada or other countries with socialized medicine that would be a fantastic wait time. Much to my surprise, I got an appointment for 1:00 PM yesterday. Obummercare will fix this and our MRI wait times will increase for everybody except our ruling class who will not be covered by Obummercare. Dontcha just love how these assholes exempt themselves from the laws the rest of us commoners have to follow?

I showed up 15 minutes early to answer the pre-MRI questionnaire. I still didn’t get in until 2:00 PM. The bad thing was there was this old coot (prolly my age, but he looked older) who was with his daughter and her son and he wouldn’t STFU. He was loud as well. I kept hoping the techs would come out and take him back to get his procedure done.

Finally, they did. 15 minutes later, it was my turn.

They didn’t make me undress and get into a gown (which is a royal pain in the ass) they just let me pull my jeans down. They gave me some ear plugs and a panic button. Fortunately, I’m not claustrophobic like my buddy Catfish.

They rolled me into the machine, and I closed my eyes and relaxed. I came close to falling asleep even with the noise.

Yep! I can sleep with noise. I developed that skill in the Navy. When we went up the Bassac River in ‘Nam to carry up supplies for the LST on station there we would spend a couple of days up there. Our sister ship got mined when she was up there so to prevent that, they had PBRs circling the ships and throwing out concussion grenades every twenty minutes. My rack was just about at the water line so it got real noisy. I trained myself to ignore the noise and I was fine. That’s why I can sleep though thunder boomers with no problem.

What’s funny is sometimes no noise will make you alert or an unexpected noise can do the same thing. Once, we were parked on the beach at Danang, and all of a sudden I woke up. I had my dungarees and shower shoes on and headed for my GQ station before there was an explosion and the ship sounded General Quarters. I asked one of my shipmates how many mortar rounds had been fired. He said that there was only one. In other words, I woke up before the mortar round hit. After I got out of the service, I related this tale to a friend of mine who had been a ground-pounder in ‘Nam. He told me that I had heard the shell coming out of the tube. I told him he was full of crap, but he told me the same thing had happened to him. This ain’t no shit!

About now, I have to tell you that the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story is that the fairy tale starts out “Once upon a time…” and a sea story starts out with, “This ain’t no shit!”

But, I digress.

They finished the MRI and when putting my braces back on, I fell off the table. Wait until Cindy reads this. I appear to be OK, but when one is a crip, that’s relative.

Damn those greedy Africans! How dare they eat our fuel!

Stole it from here.

Roger sent me this one.

Amazing!  According to the LSM, he’s the black JFK and this is Camelot and he’s one of the smartest people in the world.  How is it that he knows nuttin’ about Fast and Furious, Benghazi,  the IRS scandal, NSA snooping,  and the other scandals he’s involved in? He’s more like the black version of BJ.  BJ has a photographic memory but he, like Thunder Rodent Thighs (the smartest woman in the world), couldn’t recall anything about the myriad scandals they were involved in.   What is it about Dimocrats and their poor memories?

Poor Paula Deen.  All she had to do during her deposition was to use  the Dimocrat’s defense and say, “I don’t recall”.  It worked for BJ and Thunder Rodent Thighs and it looks like it’s working for Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade and all of his minions.  Of course, having a lapdog media, which is the propaganda arm of the Dimocrat Party, helps.  As Insty said, “If Nixon had been a Dimocrat, no one would have heard of Woodward and Bernstein.”  Nixon would have been a two term president.

This one is from MoK.

The local news station was interviewing an 80-year-old lady because she had just gotten married for the fourth time. The interviewer asked her questions about her life, about what it felt like to be marrying again at 80, and then about her new husband’s occupation. “He’s a funeral director,” she answered.

“Interesting,” the newsman thought.

He then asked her if she wouldn’t mind telling him a little about her first three husbands and what they did for a living. She paused for a few moments, needing time to reflect on all those years. After a short time, a smile came to her face and she answered proudly, explaining that she had first married a banker when she was in her 20’s, then a circus ringmaster when in her 40’s, and a preacher when in her 60’s, and now – in her 80’s – a funeral director.

The interviewer looked at her, quite astonished, and asked why she had married four men with such diverse careers.

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Toejam sent me this one.

An uninformed voter, standing 3 stories up on scaffolding, was doing some remodeling work on the outside of an old Georgian house when he accidentally cut off one of his ears with an electric saw.

Holding an old dirty rag to the side of his head he called out to a man walking on the street below, “Hey dude, do you see my ear down there?”

The man on the street picked up an ear and yelled back: “Is this it?”

“No,” replied the uninformed voter, “mine had a pencil behind it.”

More tan lines from my buddy Pres.
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As always, I could give it to Obungler or the Hollywood dimwits who made a stupid video about eliminating nuclear weapons or John McRINO attacking people who want border security before any kind of amnesty. Playing for the LSM again aren’t you McRINO. How’d that work out when you ran for preseident? I found a much worthier candidate, Karen Lewis the head of the teachers union in Chicago doing what she does best, playing the race card. Whitey don’t pay enough in taxes and that is why the schools in Chicago suck.

Asked if the city schools also should boost property taxes, Lewis said, “Yes.” But, she added, ““If you look at a majority of the tax base for property taxes in Chicago, they’re mostly white, who don’t have a real interest in paying for the education of poor black and brown children. We don’t want to say that out loud.”

She just did. School performance has absolutely nothing to do with the anti-achievement mentality of blacks, yannow like doing well in school is “acting white” and blacks who do work hard in school are branded as Uncle Toms. But due to white guilt, no one wants to say that out loud, which I just did. Nope, it’s all due to racism in this race-baiters mind.

Here’s a much better take down of her than I can do. I love this guy! He’s every bit as politically incorrect as I am. Read what he has to say about this pathetic porker. We saw how concerned she was about students when she led the teachers on a strike last September.

She may not get a teacher of the year award, but she does get the coveted AOTW Award.

Actually, there are two of them. Casey sent me these. The first one came from here.

A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than a gun in the hands of 200 million law-abiding citizens.

The second one is attributed to Clint Eastwood.

We Americans are so tired of being thought of as dumbasses by the rest of the world that we went to the polls this past November and removed all doubt.

Speaking of which, Oblunder bombed in Berlin. He made his usual citizen of the world (Dear World: You are welcome to him.) speech full of empty platitudes and his delivery sucked. From Nile Gardener of the UK Telegraph.

“Barack Obama bombs in Berlin: a weak, underwhelming address from a floundering president”

Ouch!

“Barack Obama underscored again why he is no JFK or Ronald Reagan. In front of the Brandenburg Gate, Obama sounded more like the president of the European Commission than the leader of the free world.”

Got the link from Rich Galen. Galen also writes that Jug Hussein Ears Downgrade kept calling the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeffery Osborne. His real name is George Osborne. Galen writes, “Imagine the projectile tears of derisive laughter among the MSNBC crowd if George W. had done that?”

But I digress.

Tingles Matthews bemoaned the fact that the sun was shining on his trusty TelePrompTer and he was forced to read his speech the old fashioned way, from paper. We’ve come a long way from Ronald Reagan telling Gorbachev to “Tear down this wall” to Oblunder mouthing empty platitudes. Obungler wouldn’t even make a flea sitting on a hair growing out of a boil on Ronald Reagan’s ass. We’ve gone from a giant to a pygmy SCoaMF

We reached our zenith with the defeat of the USSR and the “Evil Empire” and the end of the Cold War. Reagan fought communism and the Dimocrats, who were on the wrong side of history. The Floater belittled the Strategic Defense Initiative by calling it Star Wars. SDI forced the Soviets to throw in the towel. We’ve been in a downward spiral ever since. The proof of that is reelecting Obeauzeau after his disastrous first term. We doubled down on failure. Here’s a delicious irony. The unions who overwhelmingly supported Oboner are now finding out that they are gonna get screwed by Obummercare. Welcome to the party assholes! You voted for it. Elections have consequences.

We’re doomed!

David sent me this spoof of an educational film.

“The science is settled.” – Pope Albert I of the Church of AGW BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I remember some of the really good science films made back in the 50’s by Bell Labs that ran in prime time. One of them was Our Mister Sun. Another one was Hemo The Magnificent (many of us called it Homo the Magnificent), both directed by Frank Capra. And both of them are on YouTube.