Hekate
Hekate's JournalA cozy relationship. Such a good foundation for business transactions such as selling your country.
Hmmmm.
This is such a pile of barnyard byproducts it almost reads as though someone is using...
... Google translator while tongue is planted firmly in cheek.
Want to try again?
Watched the fire top the ridge the other night, as the ash fell like a light snow...
Fortunately we are not getting sundowners, so the fires are (as the Fire Chief said) fuel-driven and not wind-driven. All day today we had a light breeze from the ocean, so I was able to open the house and cool it off.
But you never know.
On the first day of this fire that started at Lake Cachuma, all the campers were evacuated lickety-split -- so much so that any number of tents and some RVs were left behind and went up in flames. All the campers -- that is, except the 90 or so kids plus 40 adults who were at a summer camp around a bend in the road. They were trapped and told to "shelter in place." There were some fire-professionals there. And finally, after several hours, they were able to be rescued and some buses from the Chumash Tribe drove in and took them out.
Good luck and good neighbors.
Fires are a fact of life in California. When we had the Gap Fire 7 or 8 years ago it was in the foothills just in back of our tract. Practically a dozen people gathered in my neighbor's driveway to follow its early progress, including a houseful of college students who passed the time landmarking their young lives by the major fires they had witnessed.
Any child knows fires respect no boundaries. Any child knows that firefighters are special, that they risk their very lives to protect us and our homes. That includes the volunteers and the prisoners who volunteer.
The long droughts have weakened the trees of the forests in So Cal, so in many cases they've become infested with bark beetles and are now dead. The Central Coast where I live is a lot of chaparral. It's all fuel.
Fires respect no boundaries. It's all-hands and mutual aid agreements not just in California but throughout the Western states. It's expensive as hell. We need our tax money to come back to us as per agreement in order to manage what Nature deals out.
It takes a special kind of stupid, a special kind of entitled asshole, to squat in Washington appointing Cabinet members tasked with destroying the very departments they are supposed to run.
Gods help us.
OK --Time to praise Dems for speaking out. Ted Lieu just now!
Eric Swallwell earlier today
Tim Kain used the T-word yesterday
Auntie Maxine!
Diane Feinstein
Nancy Pelosi
Dems "clamoring" for Jared the K to lose his security clearance (yay!)
Check in as you see our people speaking up. They are doing it all the time, rumors to the contrary be damned.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
.... I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the news unfolding about Junior's emails.
In that room were the 3 top people of the Trump campaign: Manafort (aka Fixer of Governments found surplus to requirements by Putin), Jared the K (aka the Prince Consort), and Junior (aka Beavis).
Now we have a real, live, paper trail (as soon as all the emails are printed out, and they have been) proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a quid pro quo arrangement between the Russians and the highest levels of the Trump campaign.
"Collusion"? How about Treason.
Yoo-hoo! Republicans, where are you?
Nancy usually knows exactly what she's talking about. When she says "Yet," she means it.
She doesn't mean she thinks your idea is a bad idea. She doesn't mean she disapproves of your idea.
What she means is (and she says it in words of one syllable) that the votes are not yet there to accomplish what you (and so many of us) want accomplished.
If the votes were there, she would round up the Democrats and get it done. But they are not. We are a minority party in Congress, and she is working with what she's got.
If the votes had been there for impeachment, it would have been on the table. I do not know what is so hard to understand about that.
If the votes were there for single payer, it would have happened back when Hillary proposed it and instead got crucified. Likewise when Obama's ACA so laboriously made its way thru. Nancy Pelosi cannot manufacture votes out of thin air. But she is damn good at collecting them or holding them back when the time is right.
Speaking of holding votes back: anybody remember how many Democrats in the House voted for Trumpcare?
Zero. Zip. Nada. And that would not have happened without the skills of Nancy Pelosi.
Every reference the pervert makes to women and blood is a reference to menstruation...
Women disgust Tinyhands.
Breastfeeding: "She was disgusting!" Needing to take a bathroom break: "It was disgusting!" Daring to disagree with him, even gently: "She was bleeding from her eyes. From her (smirk) wherever." Getting all in his face after a year of ass-kissing: "They were asking to see me for three nights. But she was bleeding badly from her -- facelift! -- and I said no!"
Note that the men involved are never the target if there is a woman present that he can "hit back 10 times harder." Also note the pattern of disgust aimed at women, and the repeated references to blood. That bit psychologically is always about menstruation and how frightening it is to some men. Claiming disgust is an attempt to deny the man's fear and disempower the woman with shame and fear, and by extension all women.
We went from Barack Obama to this unevolved pig. I will never get over that.
Trump, bellowing, targeted "Little Katy Tur right over there" at his rallies...
The MAGA-hats turned in her direction, also bellowing. The Secret Service (!) were sufficiently concerned that on one occasion they personally escorted her out to her car at the end.
Trump was encouraging violence against someone he perceived as vulnerable, a young newswoman who dared to question him and speak out of turn. He did it on purpose -- his silence was not one of cowardice but of satisfaction.
This is his pattern.
Who says things like that? An unhinged misogynist. Women disgust him. How many times ....
...does he have to say it?
All of women's natural bodily functions -- remember the young lawyer taking his deposition? She planned ahead for a nursing break. He didn't want to let her leave -- she finally had to tell the people in the room *why* -- and he said publicly and often that "she was disgusting!"
Breaks were planned at the debates, and the women's restroom was miles away from the stage, while the men's was practically around the corner. Hillary was belated: I remember the comments from the moderators then, the mockery here -- and later on, Tinyhands Trump sneering that she was "disgusting."
How many times does he have to say it?
The continuing references to women bleeding are an unsubtle reference to menstruation, which some men are disgusted by, and afraid of. They can't admit the fear, so they go with the disgust. Sigmund Freud would have loved a peek inside Tinyhands' head. This one's a classic. Being challenged by a woman in ANY way will being out the blood-taunts. The sneers. The disgust.
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