December 12, 2014

Thank you, City Light!

More Rain, Wind, Flooding, Landslides:

KING 5 - Jeff Renner - 12/11/14

Very strong, gusty winds tonight, easing after midnight.

A High Wind Warning is posted for most of western Washington. Gusts to 75 mph will be possible along the coast, 65mph for the NW interior, and to 60 mph over the Puget Sound region.

TONIGHT:

Mostly cloudy to cloudy with showers and possible thundershowers, in addition to locally damaging winds. Sustained winds of 20 to 40 mph are likely over Puget Sound, and 25 to 45 mph from Whidbey Island north. Peak gusts could reach 50 to 60 mph over the Sound, and 60-70 mph from Whidbey north. Winds are likely to begin diminishing after midnight to 2 am...

Wind 23mph S
Humidity 49%
Pressure 29.36"
Visibility 10mi
Currently 59°
Feels like 59°
Overcast

This has been building all week, with the wind gusting, lights blinking on and off until finally the darkness enveloped us, leaving us with only the sound of the wind and rain hitting the windows.

The power was off about an hour and the City Light crews just got it back on as is their job when the rest of us are dry and cozy, they are wet and cold, and handling potentially lethal power lines that cannot be tamed by anyone else through the night. Hearing the fire trucks barreling up and down the avenues... but for now we're out of the darkness:



Darkness, Darkness ~ The Youngbloods

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow
Take my head and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence of your deep

Darkness, darkness, hide my yearning
For the things I cannot be
Keep my mind from constant turning
Toward the things I cannot see now
Things I cannot see now
Things I cannot see

Darkness, darkness, long and lonesome
Ease the day that brings me pain
I have felt the edge of sadness
I have known the depth of fear

Darkness, darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away, take away the pain of knowing
Fill the emptiness of right now
Emptiness of right now, now, now
Emptiness of right now

Darkness, darkness, be my pillow
Take my hand and let me sleep
In the coolness of your shadow
In the silence, the silence of your deep

Darkness, darkness, be my blanket
Cover me with the endless night
Take away, take away the pain of knowing
Fill the emptiness of right now
Emptiness of right now, now, now
Emptiness of right

Darkness, darkness!
Emptiness, emptiness!
Oh yeah

As always, feeling fortunate to be out of the elements. Happy Holidays.

December 9, 2014

I was going to focus on this part of the article:

Meanwhile in Austin, Police Chief Art Acevedo discussed the downtown shooting involving Steve McQuilliams, using it as an example of why he thinks Texas needs stricter gun laws. But Governor-elect Greg Abbott is pushing for an open carry law and more is coming down the pipeline at the Texas Legislature. All of which are not in Acevedo’s favor, KXAN reports.

I can totes relate to Abbott. How can Santa Claus Open Carry if it’s not legal? Who wants their child to have their first CHRISTmas in a world where Santa isn’t packing a gun just like Jesus did?

The Houston Police have had it with Open Carriers:

Naturally, Abbott is doing everything he can to make the problem Open Carry is causing for police and private citizens, more of a problem because freedom from tyranny and stuff.

December 8, 2014

May every blessing surround our beloved President.

November 28, 2014

Not just the cities: 'The suburbs dream of violence...

Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.'

~ J. G. BALLARD

November 28, 2014

Tears soften hard hearts. Thanks, Devonte! May you be surrounded by love, always!

November 28, 2014

I made it through, despite the gales all week long. Snow tomorrow, so I must go out in it again.

Have a great weekend, steve.

And I appreciate you giving us a heads up as to what is going on in this group...



We won't get anything like that, I hope, but east of here the ski resorts are opening up.

ETA: It's snowing now, not waiting for the weekend after all...

November 28, 2014

Like the lyrics:

A lot of people don't have much food on their table

But they got a lot of forks n' knives

And they gotta cut somethin'.

~ Bob Dylan

And these, too:

As through this world you travel,

you'll meet some funny men;

Some will rob you with a six-gun,

and some with a fountain pen.

~ Woodie Guthrie

It's better to deal with an out and out villain than a quiet liar. And as a small time rural banker told me when I asked why they fussed so much over a small loan, he said people steal a thousand times more with a fountain pen than with a gun. Ain't people clever...

November 28, 2014

Cultural Christian. Otherwise...

I belong to no one. I will not dance to anyone else's tune. I say this without malice.

November 28, 2014

Finally a president says the truth and ends the lying. Thanks, Obama!

And uh, they are calling him a lame duck?

This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

~ President Obama

November 27, 2014

Obama Pardons Turkey In Stunning Abuse of Executive Power (XP)

^^^This is how it begins^^^

This week, President Obama will pardon a turkey in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday. The Office of Legal Counsel has released a 4,000-page memorandum setting forth the constitutional and statutory justifications for this controversial executive action, rooted largely in the authority granted to him under Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, as well as the Eighth Amendment and also the Perdue Family Farms Charter. Moreover, as the OLC memo notes, presidents have been pardoning turkeys for decades. As the OLC opinion further indicates, the president’s constitutional authority to pardon turkeys may well date back all the way to the Lincoln administration, pursuant to President Lincoln’s son Tad pleading with his father to let the turkey destined for the family’s Christmas dinner live. Lincoln cheerily allowed the turkey to roam the White House, and the family feasted on a Tofurky in its stead.

Obama’s Republican critics were quick to denounce presidential claims that the turkey pardon authority rests squarely within the enumerated powers of the executive branch. Sen. Ted Cruz published an op-ed in Politico titled “Obama Is Not a Monarch” in which he excoriated Obama’s plan to pardon the turkey as “lawless.” In it, Cruz posited that despite widespread popular resistance to turkey amnesty, “President Obama appears to be going forward. It is lawless. It is unconstitutional. He is defiant and angry at the American people. If he acts by executive diktat, President Obama will not be acting as a president, he will be acting as a monarch...”

House Speaker John Boehner tweeted, “The president has said before that ‘he's not a king’ & he’s ‘not an emperor,’ but he sure is acting like one.” Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum called the turkey pardon “just another in a long line of power grabs by this administration.”

And Michele Bachmann, in a Nov. 20 email fundraising appeal for her PAC, charged President Obama with going far beyond giving lawless turkeys amnesty, affording them the actual rights and privileges of full citizenship: “What could more fundamentally transform our nation than making our precious American citizenship—and the rule of law—merely commodities to be dispensed with as our Imperial President sees fit, flooding our land with illegal turkeys which will forever alter our way of life?” Bachmann also added that the newly pardoned turkeys would soon be able to vote: “The Democrats are licking their wounds after their terrible defeats this month, and are viewing these millions of illegal turkeys as the delicious shock troops for their leftist agenda...”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/low_concept/2014/11/white_house_thanksgiving_will_the_president_s_turkey_pardon_start_a_wave.html

VIDEO of the scandalous event:



to Derek V:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025878899

Go by and give one of our new members a Rec!

Will be posting more pictures and videos this afternoon. The turkey's name is Cheese and his alternatve Mac was also pardoned.

Can anyone tell if Cheese is smiling? Will this be investigated as by the new Senate as TurkeyGate in 2015?

BOG POST: You know the drill!