This is the official video of the Eurovision Song Contest winner yesterday šŗš¦. Itās well worth seeing. pic.twitter.com/QsjRg5BqgR
— Carl Bildt (@carlbildt) May 15, 2022
Yes, I *did* intend to post this last weekend, but — it’s still good!
Kalush Orchestra of Ukraine returned to their homeland after an emotional Eurovision Song Contest victory https://t.co/jndOcBfEtM pic.twitter.com/ShGfsUNkiF
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 17, 2022
āAt that moment, we saw that the whole world, the whole Europe, all the European people, stood with us."
Ukraine's Eurovision presenter went wild in a Kyiv bunker, after his country was named the winnerhttps://t.co/3usUvtrl5Y pic.twitter.com/Ms7b1oX43O
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 16, 2022
And the Russians had such high hopes!…
(John Deering via GoComics.com)
Pro-Russian hackers attempted to disrupt voting for Eurovision Song Contest, Italian police say https://t.co/sWTELsxUPR
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 16, 2022
Awesome. What powerful lyrics and visuals. The song gives me hope that we can defeat Putin, and the GQP as well.
Great to see.
I believe the singer’s returned to the military?
That’s just great.
OT, I just tested positive for Covid 19. Rats. I’m sleeping in the guest bedroom until it goes away. It’s like a really nasty cold, so far. I have a little fever, 99.6, just enough to make me feel crapppy. I am so grateful for the vaccine and the boosters.
Thank you, thank you! WG, Adam an everyone else involved in returning (temporary)BJ (jackaltariut) back. Talk about withdrawal. As others have said; where in the hell can I go for snark or good info, depending on the news item.
@OpieJeanne: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that! Hope you are soon feeling more like yourself.
(And, at least — Murphy willing — you’ll have the Sunday Morning Garden Chat to look forward to… )
opiejeanne, I’m sorry to hear that! Hope it doesn’t get any worse, and you get better very soon.
Ukraine continues to be such a source of inspiration. For them to fight off the Russian invasion, to outright beat the fuckers, and resume their history as a free and independent nation, would absolutely be a light to the whole world.
And it would be one of history’s tragic ironies for the US to have assisted Ukraine to regain and keep its freedom if we wind up throwing ours away.
@opiejeanne: Iām so sorry! I hope you feel better soonest! Our household has been testing for Covid way too often: The grandkiddos are constantly bringing home colds, upper respiratory infections since the masks mandate was lifted. So far negative for Covid; just hoping that doesnāt change before schools out for summer!
Opiejeanne – are you in the group where paxlovid would apply? Is it too late for it? I’ve read it works really well but haven’t run into anybody yet who’s used it.
@Opiejeanne: I hope you feel better soon!
I was happy yesterday to see this temporary B-J replacement but Iām even more happy today to see all the commenters. Getting the news from websites and other blogs isnāt the same. Thanks to WG for wading through FYWP themes and to Database Adam and others who knew where the spit and baking wire should go. And of course to JGC for everything.
Oops missed the last y in my nym.
So glad to see Balloon Juice is back!
Hope you will soon be better @opiejeanne.
Thanks everyone. I will find out about Paxlovid when I let my doctor know that I’ve tested positive.
Sudafed seems to help a lot.
Very good to see this “Balloon-Juice-On-The-Road.”
@opiejeanne
Kid had if for Christmas(a present from her BF), for her(vaxed and boosted) it was like a bad cold with coughing. Sorry to hear you got it, I’m pretty much masking up all the time I’m in public.
@opiejeanne how you get through it softly and quickly!
I missed you a lot, can’t wait to have the old place back and THANK YOU to WaterGirl and OtherAdam for making this available.
Friday food thread plus Friday night music thread?
DĆ©jĆ vu!
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@opiejeanne
Yikes. Take care of thyself.
@opiejeanne
Heal up. Treat yourself to indulgences! Sudafed is a also fav of mine in times of congestion & malaise.
Kiddo rebounded well from COVID (age 6). His mother is climbing more slowly out of it. (Both vaxxed and boosted as permitted)
Remember that time Rudy! refused to meet with the January 6 Committee unless he be allowed to record the meeting on a personal device, no doubt to doctor up as he and his propagandist pals over at Fox saw fit, ready for MAGAt consumption?
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“WASHINGTON ā Rudy Giuliani, one of the most prominent promoters of former President Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen election, testified Friday before the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 riot, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
One source told NBC News that the onetime Trump attorney met with the Democratic-controlled House committee for roughly nine hours, including breaks.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/giuliani-meets-jan-6-committee-nine-hours-rcna29925
Photo posted online of 6 Florida middle schoolers holding up letters to spell slur, community members irate
[…]
At the school board meeting, a woman who said she has grandkids at the school, Hidden Oaks Middle, said the students involved “should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
“The R on the end is blood. How do I know these children were not sitting at home thinking about coming to school with a mass murder on these children,” she said.
She turned her attention to the school board.
“You all will sweep it under the rug. Thatās not happening on my watch,” she said. “You’re going to hear it until you get some results. You sit in those seats too damn comfortable for me.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/photo-posted-online-6-florida-middle-schoolers-holding-letters-spell-s-rcna29806
Give that lady a standing O!
I really wanted to watch Eurovision this year, but having spent the afternoon enduring the emotional ups and downs of Liverpool FC’s second Cup victory of the season on penalties over Chelsea, and with my better half in Manchester at a comedy show with the ladies from work, it just felt a bit odd to be watching the whole thing on my own. So I watched Strange New World’s instead.
@opiejeanne
Urgh. I had it a few weeks ago. Two weeks of feeling like crap, but it passes.
Now the Monkeyplague Variant, that’s a whole different story…
FYI: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/05/20/breaking-news/archbishop-pelosi-will-be-denied-communion-over-abortion/
“The conservative Catholic archbishop of San Francisco said today that he would no longer allow U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to receive Communion because of her support for abortion rights.
[snip]
Cordileone said he told Pelosi in the April letter that she must either repudiate her support of abortion rights or stop speaking publicly about her Catholic faith and that if she didnāt, he would have no other choice but to declare she is not allowed to receive Communion.
[snip]
‘After numerous attempts to speak with her to help her understand the grave evil she is perpetrating, the scandal she is causing, and the danger to her own soul she is risking, I have determined that the point has come in which I must make a public declaration that she is not to be admitted to Holy Communion,’ he wrote.”
@TonyJay: That was quite a match! Will be pulling for the Reds and Aston Villa this Sunday.
@eclare
From your mouth to the FSMās noodly appendage. All hail the Klopp Machine!