HeiressofBickworth
HeiressofBickworth's JournalHey to all my friends in the Lounge UPDATE
I'm going on vacation tomorrow and being the old grandma that I am, I will have no lap-top, no smart phone, no means whatsoever of accessing DU, my favorite website. Sure, you might say that hotels have wifi, but in the cheapie places I'll be staying, it would be doubtful and I don't have the gadgets anyway. I'll be driving from my home just north of Seattle to my best friends home in Sacramento. I've driven every year for the past five years and before that, for over 20 years I took the train to Oakland, bus to San Francisco, ferry to Sausalito and a bus to Novato where she used to live.
Over Labor Day weekend, Sacramento has their Gold Rush Days. My friend and I dress up in period costumes and walk around Old Town -- the organizing group calls us "strollers". We add ambiance. If you are curious about Gold Rush, google Sacramento Gold Rush Days. This will be our 11th year for Gold Rush. I just never get tired of it. Where else would a man tip his hat to a lady? I'm not sure which of my costumes I'll be wearing -- I have just a few. One year I made (from a copy of an original 1830's pattern) an Overland Trail dress which had been outlawed in some towns because it had a pleated back that flared out and scared the horses.
So, the car had an oil change, new windshield wipers, car wash/wax and is all gassed and ready to go. I'll pack up tonight and be on my way in the morning. I'll be gone about 10 days.
So, all you Lounge Lizzzards -- don't do anything interesting until I get back to read about it. I'll miss your stories and comments.
UPDATE: Not sure if this is going to work, but hopefully, attached is a website showing me and my friend in our costumes. We posed for this for the company from which we purchased the dresses. I'm the short one. http://www.recollections.biz/LinJoy.htm
The religious right wing may not care
about the fate of individual brown-skinned Christians, but in an oddly opposite way, they relish the persecution and deaths of groups of Christians in Moslem countries. It gives them fodder for their hate and it satisfies some inward need to feel that they are in grave danger of suffering for their religion. Because that's what they think they need to do -- suffer for their religion. So they invent persecution in the US and relish it in other countries. Total fucking nut jobs.
And don't dismiss the political end -- suffering Christians can be used as a ploy to get the US involved in yet another war.
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