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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 39 degrees in the Desert Southwest 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 59. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
Good Sunday Meese. 24 here in Kingston, going up to 41. Stayed up to watch the South Carolina Democratic primary results. As I expected, the bullsh*t prognosticators on cable news and the pun-idjits who have been pushing the line that Black people – especially Black men were not gonna turn out ( and that many would be voting for Trump) were dead wrong. As was all the polling they’ve been hyping.
I’m sittin here laughing my a** off at the Twitter responses
Polling:
Polls are garbage. The narrative the media wants to push is that “Joe Biden is endangered” because they need the horse race to survive. That anyone would give Dean Phillips more than 2% in the polls shows how unserious they are.
Yup. They had Philips on MSNBC this morning. Ugh.
I’m totally sick of the media. Dearly believes everything he sees on MSNBC, CNN, and in the WaPo. The latter is so blatantly anti-Biden it’s a joke. If MVP ever becomes POTUS, they’ll crucify her in print.
I hate them so much I’m going to think about something pleasant.
I have to spend time daily – de-programming hubby from all the MSNBC he watches everyday
I will never forgive them for fluffing up Bernie “Coathanger” Sanders in 2016 and giving his “movement” the power to hand the presidency and the Supreme Court to tRump.
Good morning. We’re having the kind of weather that makes people move here (and then they experience our 6-month summer and cry). Have a meeting about Reproductive Justice this morning, and I’m cooking beans. Made tea and pasta salad yesterday. Going to have to go to Amarillo this week, my aunt passed away. She was a sweet lady and I want to be there for my cousin.
Sorry about the loss of your aunt.
{{{anotherdemocratic}}} Healing Energy to you & your cousin. Safe travels. moar {{{HUGS}}}
Sorry about your aunt, Becky.
With over 37 million Mexican Americans in this country – it’s important that we teach about Black Mexican history – that gets erased
OMG, Dee, he was just 17 when he was killed? Poor lad.
It’s 49 going to 52, socked in cloud cover and might actually get some more rain (got an inch yesterday). The PV system is off and the lights are on. It’ll probably be on a little bit as the sun gets higher & able to push a little more light through the clouds. Yesterday we generated 1.86 KWHs and the m-t-d at 20.95 is not on track.
I’ve got my Sunday chores done, am eating my oatmeal, and heading over to Xitter, Spoutible, & Bsky to start my boosting day. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good Sunday morning, Moosekind! It’s a gloriously blue and yellow morning here, 37 F. on its way up to 54 F. I just took a cake out of the oven. All of a sudden, I don’t feel like making chicken soup. I want Mixed Grill for tonight’s dinner, so in a little while I’ll be off to the store yet AGAIN.
One of my writers fell and broke her wrist and her knee, poor darling. Another writer couldn’t resist the offer of a half-price cruise, so there will be just 10 of us on Thursday. Sigh.
I’m very glad of the win in SC yesterday and hope POTUS wins bigly in Nevada on Tuesday. I don’t seem to get a much done as I hope to every day.
Wishing a lovely Sunday to all at the Pond!
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 44 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 68. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast. Right now the skies are clear and I can see the stars over my mountains and the pretty waning crescent moon (25% illumination). I have not seen her for several days because of the cloud cover – she is a sight for sore eyes!
This looks like a good week to skip the news. The Georgia prosecution blowing up (good luck finding a jury that will convict after the embarrassing lack of professionalism from the Fulton County DA), the DC Circuit apparently having a difficult time deciding if there are any limits to the power of a sitting president to commit crimes that he then has permanent immunity for (goddess help us if they rule that way), and the depressing state of Congressional “governance” with the Halls of Congress filled with grifters, seditionists and ignoramuses. I need to figure out a way to read the headlines for the next 10 months without feeling a terrible sense of doom.
I am ready to hit the ground running in February, starting with a realistic to-do list and a plan. I realized that we are about a month away from when people will change their clocks and I will need to get up an hour earlier to get early morning work done on my client’s computers during the work week. I sense more naps in my future.
See all y’all later!
Monday Meese. 27 here in Kingston going up to 39. Went to sleep early and woke up late night as usual and did watch some Grammy clips – have played this one multiple times:
Tracy Chapman
Puerto Rico
Did my walk/run. Three minutes is a whole lot longer than two. (4 repeats — was supposed to be 6) of 3 run, 2walk. Ugh. Anyway, in the office, added caffeine to my tea. My boys were on the Grammys last night — not the whole song but maybe enough of it that people will want to check it out. And Tracy Chapman, wow. Her voice is still just as awesome.
Good Monday morning, Moosekind! Feeling quite cheerful as it’s another blue-skied day with the sun lighting up the trees in the grey woods. I can see patches of frost through the bare trees, even at this hour (9:15 a.m.) and the sun shining on the pool of water. It’s 33 F., on its way up to 50 F.
Made a “To Do” list nearly as long as my arm. Let’s hope I actually DO some of it. I’m trying to get rid of one thing a day until I have sufficient time to get rid of lots of things every day. Good old Swedish Death Cleaning!
Nothing much to say except that we’ll probably have rehearsal tonight. In fact, I should call K. and see how she is. There are a couple of other people I ought to inquire about as well.
Talked to M’Daughter last night. Her mother-in-law is so ill with heart disease the doctors won’t even let her get out of bed in the ICU. I think it’s called tachycardia. We talked a little about the family reunion in April. She and son-in-law can’t wait to move to Massachusetts! He’s getting ready to retire from Apple. She might put in some time, once they’re settled, into hiring someone to put the letters of her adoptive father (my uncle) into a book. She has about a hundred of his letters from Vietnam, which he wrote to his wife.
Like Jan, I can’t stand the news, watching it or reading it. I get a completely different picture on Twitter and on Orange from what the mainstream media has to say. I had an awful dream or flash the other night of seeing a headline, “GILEAD ARRIVES!” No, no, no! I’ll go to war first, even at my age.
Well, that’s all for today, folks. Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
If they dare institute Gilead, we will be quite fierce raising our arms in protest. We will all become Raging Grannies, filling the legislative chambers with our chanting and daring them to kick our septuagenarian and octogenarian asses out!
Indubitably!
It’s 36 heading for 59 and sunny. Yay. Yesterday we generated 1.2 KWHs and the m-t-d at 22.2 is most certainly not on track. We shall see what today brings.
It’s takes a lot of hunting to find things to be happy about these days. But my son thinks he can reprioritize things and get the wiring fixed in his old house (built in the 1920s) so that part’s good. And his health, mental as well as physical, is getting better. Has been, slowly, over the 6 years since he became a Sikh, but is now quite obviously so. Nothing magic about becoming a Sikh, but he found the spiritual ‘family’ he’s looked for all his life and that started him on the path, doing the work on diet and exercise. And that’s good.
Hands are creaky, of course, but nothing unusual. Off to start my boosting day. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Tuesday Meese. 24 going up to 38 here in Kingston.
Puerto Rico
The Holocaust Memorial in San Juan, Puerto Rico, is located across from the capitol building — just a few feet away from a stark memorial commemorating the 17 Puerto Ricans who were murdered in the “Massacre de Lod” or Lod Massacre, a terrorist attack at Israel’s Lod Airport (now Ben-Gurion International Airport) in 1972.
The Puerto Ricans were Christian pilgrims on their way to see holy sites in Israel — and were slaughtered as they waited for their luggage.
This story documents why some people have not gotten the FEMA money they were supposed to get post Hurricane Fiona in 2022- this really pissed me off. Will be writing about it for Thursday Caribbean Matters
OMG, that is so sad about the Christian pilgrims in 1972. May their spirits rest in peace.
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday …
It is 55 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 57. We are going to get hit with the aftermath of the atmospheric rivers hitting California. It will not be as dramatic (thankfully!) but we will get quite a bit of rain in the valley over the next two days and snow in the mountains, as much as 2 ft in the White Mountains. This morning it was overcast so no pretty little crescent moon and brilliant stars for me to view – but they were there and I thanked them.
Republicans are craven aholes. The deal they spent months negotiating is displeasing to their cult leader and will be voted down. Apparently now even the lead Republican author will vote against it. Goddess help the Ukrainians whose future aid was tied up in this bad bargain. And fie on any Democrat who votes for any Israel-only funding – it will gain you no new friends and you will lose the respect of those who supported you. The border deal was terrible anyway except for the money to speed up the asylum process. Everything I read suggested that the organizations giving humanitarian aid to migrants thought it would be bad for the people they were helping. Republicans hope the border situation gets worse so that their candidate can “ride to the rescue” and send troops to shoot and kill border crossers. Bastids.
I have to get a few things done as I have an errand that will require me to be gone all morning.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. So glad I have 2 wfh days. Today’s workout is just a 30 minute walk, so I’ll do that later. I’m not going to Amarillo after all because even weekday flights would be $600 round trip, then a hotel…. so I texted my cousin that I love her and I’ll think of something to write on her online memorial page. For now, I’m getting ready to work.
Good Tuesday morning, Meese! It’s another sunny, blue-skied day in Ashburn—how this does lift one’s mood—with a current temp. of 34 F. and a projected high of 50 F.
If I hadn’t already known Chris Christie was a FLAMING anal aperture, I would know it now. Dearly had the TV on this morning, and CC told George Step-in-Awfulness (aka “Pipsqueak”) that Thing was the only person who can beat Biden in November. ~!@#$%%^&*! Uh, no.
My phone is telling me the Supreme Court won’t let Thing be a candidate. We shall see, as our Bfitz says. Meantime, Jose Andres has FINALLY, thank Goddess, been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. It’s about time! No one, in my opinion, has ever deserved it more.
Yesterday on the news I saw that war and drought are causing famine in Ethiopia and babies are starving. If MEN would stop fighting and put their minds to irrigation, desalination, and stuff like that, they could grow food to feed the starving. For Goddess’ sake, the Nabateans did it in B.C.! There aren’t many places in the world drier than Petra and its environs, but the Nabateans captured every drop of moisture. They even had a swimming pool, if you please.
But enough of this historical chitchat. Dearly expects me to read his mind, and it is so irritating. This morning he wanted to know the full name of a “savings account.” I finally worked out that he meant a mutual fund that we both own. That’s not a “savings account.”
Oh, well. I do hope I can start on the taxes today and find one empty wall in this apartment. I just found out that a regimen of sitting “wall squats” will lower blood pressure. All the treadmilling and weightlifting and walking I do hasn’t done a thing for my blood pressure, so I might try it.
That’s enough from me, Meese! Wishing a good day to all at the Pond!
It’s 44 heading for 65 and sunny again. Yesterday we generated 11.65 KWHs and the m-t-d at 33.88 isn’t on track but it gained some.
We’re predicted for clouds but no rain & 60s for the rest of the week. This is April weather. Or used to be. Complete with the evening dilemma about whether or not to do a fire because although the overnights are in the 20s it doesn’t drop low enough to not fill the house with smoke unless I open the windows until bedtime. But we’re supposed to get at least down in the 50s starting Sunday. So March weather. Ahem. Oh well. I’d best get to my boosting chores. Holding the Good Thoughts for everybody. {{{Meeses}}}
Good morning, 43 and mostly cloudy in Bellingham today. I’ve been preoccupied with my friends cancer recovery and her husbands need for an urgent surgical repair to his back so I didn’t realize I’ve been so absent. Seeing them struggle has made me worry about our choices to just live here for as long as we can but that’s what we are doing. Oh well, RonK’s birthday is coming up so we’ll have a family party at our son’s house this weekend and I have yet another chocolate fudge pecan cake to bake. So life does go on and we’ll do the best we can. Best wishes to all.
Wednesday Meese. 23 degrees here in Kingston NY, going up to 41 and sunny.
Puerto Rico
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 44 degrees in Tucson 🌵 with an expected daytime high of 48. Mostly cloudy skies are in the forecast although I did see a bright planet high in the east-northeast sky this morning. I think it is Saturn but I don’t know. The clouds were hugging the mountaintops. We will get one more day of for-sure rain and then possible rain tomorrow.
The DC Circuit finally got moving and issued their ruling on presidential immunity. It turns out that they are unconvinced that the only punishment available to a president who commits crimes in office is to impeach and remove him from office. It is laughable on its face and to their credit they did not laugh. I wish they had moved a little more quickly, we need this trial to be scheduled before the nominating convention to allow the Republicans the opportunity to change nominees if he is convicted. The Circuit Court said that the only appeal will be to SCOTUS, they will not issue a stay of their order if tRump wants the full circuit to hear it – they know that it would be a blatant delay tactic. SCOTUS would be smart to choose to not hear the case and let the ruling stand. The DC Circuit was thorough, there is really no need to relitigate it except if they want to further solidify their place in history as the hackiest hacks ever to sit on the Supreme Court.
I finished a couple of early morning client projects and have to decide if I will do one more or spend some time catching up on accounting. I am leaning towards accounting because it does not take much brain power. These sun-less days are not inspirational.
See all y’all later!
Good morning. I had a super restless night last night — my watch says I got up 5 times. Sigh. Good political news yesterday. Goal for today: exercise, and hope for more good news.