Arkansas Granny
Arkansas Granny's JournalLet's play Clue - Version 2024
https://x.com/davematt88/status/1837249294270607842?t=-755TN_4CetmfVrYO0x6bg&s=19I realize this is purely anecdotal, but I don't see Trump signs all over the place like I did in 2016 and 2020.
As I've been driving around town and in rural areas of this deep red state, I have been watching for campaign signs. I see a lot of signs for local and statewide candidates, but I can't recall the last Trump sign I've seen. In 2020, people around here were littering their yards with signs, driving around in trucks with multiple flags and stickers and wearing MAGA hats and t-shirts. This year, nada.
To be fair, I'm not seeing Harris/Walz signs either, so I don't know if this is a good sign or not, but it does seem like the enthusiasm for Trump is waning, at least in my neck of the woods.
Scoop: Generals come to Harris' defense on Afghanistan
Why it matters: The withdrawal has emerged as a major campaign issue in the lead-up to Tuesday's presidential debate, with Harris coming under fire from former President Trump, House Republicans and parents of victims of the Abbey Gate suicide attack, which killed 13 American service members.
The push to defend Harris comes from retired military brass, including three with four-stars: Admiral Steve Abbot, who served as deputy homeland security advisor to George W. Bush, Gen. Lloyd W. Newton and Gen. Larry R. Ellis, who has never previously endorsed a political candidate.
Some of the military officials are also fanning out on TV this week to defend Harris' record, two people familiar with the plans told Axios.
https://www.axios.com/2024/09/09/generals-defend-harris-us-withdrawal-afghanistan?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
I wonder if this will have any effect on the MAGAts. Sadly, I doubt it.
Has anyone else been to the Penzey's Spices website and read this?
https://www.penzeys.com/shop/about-republicans/
About Republicans
As we’ve now said on our first-ever About Us page on our website, there’s something unique about humankind’s relationship with spices that time and again have caused spices to be a driving force for change. We live in a time calling out for change and for solutions to the very real problems our country and our planet face. There’s two very different futures ahead for us totally dependent on whether we solve these problems or not. With so much at stake we feel obligated to use the unique position spices hold in our lives to try to help promote the solutions to these problems as best we can.
Watching the slow decline of the Republican Party over the last half century, and the steep decline/bottom falling out over the last decade, it can be easy to see the nonsense that has overtaken the party as pretty much random. Once you start seriously looking at the problems America and the world face and who and what are standing in the way of solving those problems, it quickly becomes clear there is nothing random to what the Republicans are promoting.
I don't go to that site very often, so I don't know how long that has been up. This statement is definitely worth the read.
What Qanon promised . . .
https://x.com/MalcolmNance/status/1828478695532638663Mods: If this is not the correct forum, please delete.
I told you last week about my friend and her daughter who are registering to vote
for the first time in years.
Now another friend tells me that she and her husband have made their first political donations ever to Harris/Walz.
I hope more people are doing the same. It would be great to see Arkansas go blue again.
Woo hoo! Just got a call from a friend. She and her daughter are going to register to vote next week
so they can vote for Harris/Walz. They had not renewed their registration after moving several years ago, but Kamala's speech last night really inspired them.
Update: Last week I told you about the Mockingbird nest outside my window.
I've been checking on the nest every couple of days. Yesterday all four nestlings were still there and cheeky enough to give me the stinkeye when I peeked in on them.
Today I hadn't seen any activity from the adult birds, so I went out to check. The nest is empty! I checked the ground around the bush and saw no signs of babies on the ground, so I assume they have fledged and flown. They only spend 12-13 days in the nest after hatching. Since they were pretty well feathered out last week when I first looked at them, I suppose it was time for them to go. I hope they all made it safely.
I hope this is prophetic.
https://x.com/rdaily/status/1817232120449794402?t=IJsj13rWlHEXACbl3ilyxA&s=19It's official. The mockingbirds have 4 nestlings in the bush outside my window.
I noticed them bringing nesting material a few weeks ago. One of the parents has been chasing other birds out of the area for several days, including a couple of crows that were much, much larger. Over the last few days they have been making numerous trips in and out of the bush with insects dangling from their beaks.
I didn't want to disturb them, but I finally took a look and I could see the nest deep in the branches and when I nudged one of the twigs one slightly, 4 little heads with gaping mouths popped up out of the nest. Hooray!
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