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I just really looked at the AIDS Walk information — and it’s waaaaay early this year — September 21. Yikes. Gonna write a diary tonight to post in the morning.
Saving this here to watch on my computer in the morning.
The campaign has reposted it – from Kamala
It’s getting a great response – though I just spent about 45 minutes reporting and blocking slimy trolls
Obviously they have a bunch of bots ready to post their slime on any tweet from her or her campaign. Too bad, really, it ruins the platform for everyone.
Of course they do. It worked to cow Hillary supporters. Not this time.
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 70 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 88. Sunny skies with a chance for thunderstorms later in the day.
I watched a bit of the House drama yesterday. I am glad that House Democrats chose to give Nancy Pelosi “permission” to call Trump’s remarks racist. I tell you, I would not last long in that environment – I found myself wanted to punch that Collins’ guys face and – JHC!! – Sean Duffy is such a tool! Pundits were saying that the resolution will really get under the Orange Orshole’s skin – he hates any diss even though he pretends to welcome our scorn. It is now permanently in the Congressional Record that he is both a bigot and a buffoon.
See all y’all later!
Wednesday Meese. 74 and raining here in Saugerties NY going up to 89
Op-Ed on Puerto Rico – WaPo
By Julio Ricardo Varela, founder of Latino Rebels and co-host of the “In The Thick” political podcast with Maria Hinojosa.
Diary is done, orange version will be up in a few. They switched hosts for the website again, and I have to figure out how to do the e-mail thing. I’m hoping my diaries can raise most of my donations. The vote in Congress yesterday — condemning Pelosi & Swalwell for talking about the Cheeto’s words but not him, no never him; can never criticize the Dear Leader. Music is in the AIDS Walk diary (Pink — it was a near thing between her Get This Oarty Started & BEPs Let’s Get It Started, but she won out, U2 & Snow Patrol — I tried to think of an INXS song to use, but couldn’t come up with one)
and here’s the orange version: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/7/17/1872314/-AIDS-Walk-Austin-is-early-this-year
I went to Nancy Pelosi’s web site and the link to her remarks was broken. I wonder if they have to package them differently because of the brouhaha?
Good Woden’s Day morning, Meese! It’s a rather nice day outside, with pale sunlight and partly cloudy skies. The current temp. in Ashburn is 77 F., on its way up to 96 F. with thunderstorms expected later today. We’re in the middle of a heat wave. This is probably going to be the hottest week of the year.
Tremendously tired after my evening minding the five girls, but it was very successful. We played games rather than watching a movie or using devices. Somewhat to my surprise the Dictionary Game was a great hit, with some of the girls arranging their earned chocolate chips in patterns after they correctly spelled the words I picked at random. Anyway, the noise made by a gaggle (a giggle?) of girls has to be heard to be believed.
Have to quickly eat breakfast and get dressed to drive my friend to the lawyer’s office. Then she wants to take me to lunch. After that I have to get my face waxed to avoid looking like the Werewolf of Ashburn.
DoReMI, I mailed the recipe to you this morning—was too tired and headachy to remember to do it last night.
Does anyone know why Arizona and Wisconsin, especially the latter, are considered the tipping points for the 2020 election? Also: RIP, Justice Stevens. He was 99.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Wisconsin got very close last time, elected a Democratic governor in 2018 but then earlier this year the low turnout allowed a completely awful right-wing judge to win a 10 year term on our Supreme Court, replacing a liberal. He won because the Republicans dumped money and resources into the race and they swamped us with the hate voters from the Green Bay area. They are hoping that is the way to win 2020 and they may be right! We have to vote because their base is more motivated than our base – I think racism is a potent fuel.
Summer’s back – “overnight” low of 75 was at midnight, which is also the current temp, and we’re heading for mid 90s (??? heat index). I’ll be closing up the house shortly. Would have already except the breeze is cool. Been a busy day already. Aside from my usual get up, feed cats, deal with litterboxes routine I also fed the dogs across the street, got gas while it was still relatively cool, and bought (a whole package because…) AAA batteries as the one in my bedside clock finally died. I did manage to get my own breakfast – need to keep the blood sugar balanced – even though I wasn’t hungry. Yesterday we got 17.5 KWHs and the m-t-d is 271 so that’s good.
Yesterday I got a bit of a scare. Apparently the storm door didn’t latch properly when I was coming in with a cleaned cat box. Cloud and the Twins slipped out. I didn’t realize it until I saw a cat that “looks just like Cloud” sitting on my back step staring at me. There was the “wait a minute – that is Cloud” freak out. I let him in then searched for how he got out while I did a “cat check” – no Twins. Once I found the door ajar, I closed/latched it then went out back and called the little boys. I didn’t really expect anything – calling cats is, ahem – but they appeared out of nowhere by the back fence and high-tailed it for the house. Rennie came straight to me to be picked up and put inside. I did have to talk to Freddie for a minute before he’d let me pick him up and put him in. At least I don’t have to worry about Murf “escaping” any more. He sat on top of a stack of wood on the porch watching the world go by the entire time. I’m so glad I put flea goo on everybody Monday!
We have got to secure our election process. There’s always been a strain of fascists by whatever name in our country. Never enough to win a fair election – but then they’ve never depended on fair elections. They’ve always depended on keeping everyone except WASP supremacists from voting. And once they got ownership of the MSM they had a propaganda machine Hitler would have drooled over. Of all the evils going on – and there are many – the first priority has got to be getting the power to stop them. Secure elections and breaking up the media monopoly/propaganda machine can keep us in power long enough to repair the damage and then make some progress toward that “more perfect union” at the foundation of our Constitution. Until then we’ll occasionally get in long enough to clean up an economic mess – we of course will do a bunch of other stuff while we can, but we’ll only be allowed to stay in until the economic mess is cleaned up. Than the Rs will take over again and from the point they left off march us further into the fascistic hell.
Gonna tour the internets then close up the house. and coffee, of course. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, Meesefolk; 70 when I got up and heading to a cloudy, but not rainy, 84 today. This will be the last of the decent-weather days until next week. Friday is supposed to reach 97, so I suppose I need to be thinking about buying another fan for the house. We had one for the LR and one for the kitchen, but one of them died; sharing the remaining one isn’t working out all that well.
I’m buried in work and will be for the next several days, so gotta run. Good day to and for all!
Good morning, 61 and raining in Bellingham. I had a needed quiet day yesterday……took a long nap, went to the nail salon, and just generally avoided people. I’m going to try to do more of the same today :)
Best wishes to all.
Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 72 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 90 (heat index 100). A huge thunderstorm is moving through the area right now and the forecast suggests that there will be more later.
Good lord, what idiots we have in the House of Representatives! Yes, let’s propose Articles of Impeachment based on “we don’t like the cut of Trump’s jib” and then watch it go down in flames (as it should) making a mockery out of the impeachment process. That 95 Democrats signed onto that idiocy is embarrassing. That the vote was forced by Republican Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tells you everything you need to know – the optics are terrible, the meme of “impeachment is partisan” is set and now every serious impeachment inquiry has to first get past that hurdle. The opportunity has been destroyed by the Gohmert-brained fools in our own party.
Nice touch by Trump’s campaign staff to pivot from “lock her up” to “send her home” for his North Carolina rally. That will be useful in 2020 when he faces off against Kamala Harris, daughter of immigrants. His base will love it.
See all y’all later!
Thursday Meese.
70 and raining here in Saugerties NY going up to 77. Writing for deadline – got delayed following events in Puerto Rico.
Sis, PR was finally mentioned on World News Tonight yesterday! Lots of demonstrations going on, it’s incredible. Wish that good-for-nothing guv would resign!
I made it to 10% of my goal amount raised yesterday! WooHoo! The news is awful, the Talking Cheeto is awful, but I know some darn good people. It’ll hit 100 again today, and through the weekend — but the weather people are quite excited about a cold front & rain on Tuesday. We might have overnight lows in the 60s!
Good Thor’s Day morning, Moosekind! It’s 77 F. in Ashburn, going up to 98 F. today. When I woke up just before dawn the sky was covered with gray clouds but by six, when I took the dog out, the clouds were dissipating. At this writing we have clear blue skies and sunlight.
Had a weird time driving my friend to the lawyer’s office yesterday, involving a missed turn on the way to her house and wrong directions from Dearly Beloved. Still, we managed to arrive 20 minutes ahead of the 11 o’clock appointment because we had set off so early. She took me to lunch at the Amphora, so we didn’t get home until 2 p.m. Later I went for my waxing appointment, which was not fun.
Still feeling completely overwhelmed by the amount of housework I have to do before my guests arrive for tea on Saturday. I hate housework!
Also, I just can’t help feeling depressed about what’s going on with the Thing administration. Every day there is some fresh horror and the news media assure us he’ll be reelected because of course, there are no voters more important than what our BlogGoddess Jan refers to as “butthurt white supremacists.”
As if all this weren’t enough, Greenspring, which is a “sister facility” of the one where I live, has experienced an eruption of a nameless respiratory disease. So far it has been confined to the Garden Ridge building, which houses the ill, those needing rehab, assisted living, and memory care. Three of the elderly patients have died and more than 20 staff have fallen ill. My friend reports that all social events have been curtailed (no lectures, movies, musical events, and so on), there’s a limitation on visitors, and even the restaurants are having difficulty. The Powers That Be say it’s not Legionnaire’s Disease. I don’t see how it can be anything else, myself. We’re having a heat wave, the air conditioning is on full blast, people are breathing recirculated air all day—the contributing factors are legion.
Time to get on with the wretched housework. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
Yikes! An “unnamed respiratory disease” that kills is definitely cause for alarm. I hope they get to the bottom of it quickly!!
Yikes! on the respiratory disease. I hope they’ve contained it – and can cure it. Healing Energy.
It’s 74 outside and 76 inside so I’ve got all the windows open and fans going to bring a little more coolth in before I close up for the day – in an hour or so, if I’m lucky. Forecasted high is low 90s, heat index 10 above that. sigh. We got 21.5 KWHs yesterday and the m-t-d is 292.5 – expect the same generation today which is good. I had a lovely 2-1/2 hour chat with Horsefeathers last night – very little politics, very little DK, and a whole lot of cats. 😹😹😹
From what Jan said above, that phone call apparently kept me from seeing that 97 Dems fell into the R trap. Hopefully that will not stop the investigations. Impeachment was always going to be seen a partisan because the Rs would play it that way & their MSM propaganda machine would make sure everybody got the point. I’ve been pretty sure for years that the actual point of impeaching Bill Clinton was to make it impossible for us to impeach an R president no matter how evil, corrupt, incompetent, or treasonous. As long as the Clinton impeachment is in living memory any move against an R by Dems will be portrayed as partisan payback. Which apparently Nancy Pelosi knows and obviously nobody of the “younger” generation understands – or believes when told. But investigations if continued can bring justice later even if it can’t bring relief now.
Various friends in financial difficulties – and all of those financial difficulties have their root and most their current circumstance in medical bills, even as they aren’t being “cared” for at all. I can see the appeal of M4A – especially if you are defining the M as comprehensive and free healthcare, neither of which it happens to be. But I outgrew my belief in unicorns a long time ago. We could have gotten comprehensive universal healthcare back in 1994. Didn’t happen and we mostly know why. Expanding ACA until it gets there is the best path – once we can stop the Rs from trying to kill it. Aji, Amelia, Fineena, jtg… none of them would have to do fundraisers or depend on the kindness of strangers to just effen keep living if we had universal healthcare like Australia (I was discussing this with Mopshell last week – & heaven knows she knows considering how much the uses their health system). One more thing that’s “just not right” about our country. Not even counting the descent into evil we’re doing at the moment – active evil with the concentration camps and passive evil with Puerto Rico (& other disaster areas not being restored).
I’ve got stuff to do. Which is good or I’d slide down into a pit of despair myself. So Coffee and get to it. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
59 and partly cloudy in Bellingham. I either have moose issues or I’m not awake enough to properly post my random thoughts. I suspect it’s me, and I’d best find some coffee and start over.
Best wishes to all.
Good afternoon, Meesefolk; 66 when I got up this morning and going up to 90. Until a cold front moves in on Sunday, 90 is the low end of what we’re expecting. Somehow, I don’t think I’m getting a lot of work done in the gardens this weekend.
I have state auditors in the office for the next few days, so my presence here and anywhere on social media will be virtually non-existent. I spent the morning at home getting my head ready and reminding myself over and over that this is not adversarial. When I arrived at work, my boss told me he had locked away a bunch of information, because “they don’t need to see it.” So much for this not being adversarial. ;( The truly ridiculous thing about his attitude is that there’s no need for it; we’ve nothing to hide, because I make sure everything is done on the straight and narrow. It’s just the boss being stupid…he’s a narcissist, a control freak, and a libertarian-leaning extreme conservative, so this is just him being difficult “on principle.” It also means that the auditor will be leaving him a lengthy list of documents he wants to see, so I hope he enjoys working until midnight. I told the auditor flat out what was going on, because it’s so damn stupid. We’re not talking proprietary information, we’re just talking about information he suddenly has decided they’re going to have to pry the information from his cold, clingy hands.
And that’s my day today and for the next few work days. Good day to and for all!
Libertarians are the worst because their entire belief system is based on a myth that refuses to see the community that holds them up and sustains them. I have been known to terminate conversations with them by saying, “OK. We’ll drop you in the taiga with some clothes and tools you didn’t make and you go at it. I’ll send flowers if they ever find your body.” Conservatives are just emotional 2-year-olds (It’s mine because I want it) but can be reasoned with – even if only by giving them a shiny object to replace the thing/land/resource they’d claimed that the community actually needs. Good luck. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, meeses! Friday …
It is 75 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 91 (heat index 106!). A storm started at about 2am which worried my dog and made it impossible to go back to sleep. That wave lasted about an hour and a half, there was a slight pause and now a wave of heavy rain has started! Today we are under an Excessive Heat Warning and once again I thank the goddess that I have an air conditioned home. I am not sure what people without air conditioning do. Many years ago in Wisconsin, air conditioning was an option on a car and no one’s home had central air. Now it is a necessity.
The CNN debate stages are set and I am looking forward to reading about the Bernie v Warren one. He seems intent on trashing everyone so “she is a good friend and we have worked on many issues together” will give way to “only I can fix it.” The second night is all the people of color and Joe Biden – should be frisky!
This latest “concern” of the Republicans that “send her home” is somehow bad for their party is hilarious. The “concern” is bs, they love that their base does not have to interpret the dog whistles to hear their white nationalist calls. That tRump felt he had to deny that he was basking in the chants spawned by his tweet is confusing to me – why? Is there still a contingent of Republicans who don’t feel comfortable with full-throated racism?
The son of Antonin Scalia, a man who did believe that child labor laws are Constitutional, will become the next Labor Secretary. The last Labor Secretary was apparently not pleasing to anti-labor lobbyists and business groups. Because of course “Department of Labor” in a Republican administration must become the “Department of Employers” where workplace safety and the rights of workers are secondary to providing cheap uncomplaining labor to businesses.
See all y’all later!
Hot day & weekend coming — though some of y’all will be hotter than Texas. If you don’t have a/c find a place that does. Excessive heat warnings are no joke. Today’s plan: make it through 8 hours of work. We’ve had 2 major computer glitches that resulted in patrons getting books they definitely didn’t order — and they are very unhappy. Understandably so, for a lot of them, this is their only entertainment & someone who likes nice, sweet Christian Fiction to get a cartridge full of Sandra Brown & Michael Connelly instead…. Or like one person I talked to, he got the AA Big Book, I assured him it really was totally random. Anyway, talking to unhappy people is hard. I’ve been putting cocoa nibs in my overnight oats, and I wore my watermelon socks, because they make me happy.
For heat relief, I give you Snow Patrol’s Shut Your Eyes
Shut your eyes and think of somewhere
Somewhere cold and caked in snow
I once placed an order for a book and ended up getting a hateful screed by Bill “Faux Christian” Bennett. The place I ordered it from (Amazon or Barnes and Noble) said I could keep it and I said “can I please send it back?”
Ours are audio books that we send out on a cartridge that plays in the player we send them. There may be some people at Diana’s home who use it (visual or physical impairments that prevent you from reading qualify you for the service). Anyway, how it’s supposed to work is: we put into our system their favorite types, authors, etc and when they send a book back, we send a replacement. One glitch just sent crazy random books out, the 2nd switched people’s preferences around. So we have many unhappy people, and a lot of extra work to do to fix things.
Friday Meese
74 here in Saugerties NY – going up to 90.
Woke up to this on my weather page:
Puerto Rico
Added to the hashtags #RickyRenucia, and #RickyVeteYa now trending is #RickyDictador
Good Freya’s Day, Meese! It’s already 83 F. this hot, beautiful day in Ashburn, going up to 100 F. Yes, dangerous heat.
I’m due to leave in 55 minutes for an all-day excursion to Tudor Place, which apparently is an El Biggo mansion in DC. Why anyone thinks it’s a good idea for old ladies to tramp around “the lovely gardens” in this heat, I don’t know. I keep hoping I’ll get a phone call canceling the excursion, but it hasn’t happened so far.
If someone faints, we’ll all have to come home. Should I do it? Stay tuned.
Having an apoplectic fit at the idea that all the wipipo are going to be on the debate stage one night and all the people of color the next night. Sis Dee said on Twitter she’s not going to watch the first night. Solidarity and sisterhood! (Raising fist) I won’t either!
Got to run, gotta get ready to go. Feeling considerably less stressed: went to Wegbucks last night and got ALL the ingredients for afternoon tea tomorrow! And guess what, they had tarts! Naturally, I bought those. They also had a small pot of mint, much to my delight, as we had unsuccessfully visited Lowe’s and Home Depot in search of that. The mint, having had a little drink, is now happily basking in the sunlight on the screened porch, along with the lavender, parsley, and basil. ‘Course, NO ONE is going to want tea on the porch in 100-degree heat! Pooh.
Wishing a good day to all at the Pond. Later!