Hekate
Hekate's Journal"The puppy had a name. Say its name: Cricket! " Reading from Gnome's book was priceless, just priceless.
I'm bawling, and I'm passing it on. TY so much for this, yellow dahlia
Ali Velshi had me crying this morning.His monologues are often powerful. But this one touched on so many points of joy and hope....and spoke to the many faceted troubles of the times in which we live. And did I say hope!
https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/ali-velshi-democracy-is-built-by-people-who-show-up-even-when-the-odds-say-they-shouldn-t-251615301960
Rick Wilson: A Great Night -- Don't Blow It
?si=PahPhcHFy3m36zFYHate to break it to you, but they both lacked the sine qua non of American presidential qualifications: a penis
We elected a Black man, for God’s sake, despite the firehose of racist sewage aimed at him. Yes, Barack Obama is brilliant — but above all, he is a man.
Hillary Clinton was massively qualified for the job. Just contemplate her resume for a minute. A lot of her law school classmates thought she could be President — not necessarily Bill. The Right Wing clearly saw her as a threat from the get-go — they have been using her as a non-stop punching bag and boogyman ever since Bill ran for governor of Arkansas. They will even after she’s in her grave (may that be decades from now) .
Kamala Harris is not so much a mixed-race woman as she is — a woman. She’s qualified, my God is she qualified, a hundred times more than Trump. She, like Hillary, lost by the narrowest of margins — but a loss is a loss, and we all lost.
I don’t like it. It’s been devastating. I’m pretty old, and there have been times I could just see the goal in sight. I loved Obama, and I thought the fact that we elected him twice was a sign that we as a nation were growing up. Apparently not so much. And as for a woman president — after experiencing Trump and MAGA, I don’t think I’ll get to see that happen. You’ll have to make it happen.
DUers periodically bring up the fact that other countries end up with female leaders. But afaict all or nearly all are in parliamentary systems, which operate differently than our system in crucial ways, coalitions and compromises among them.
Direct Relief: Standing with Caribbean Communities in the Path of Hurricane Melissa
Emergency Medical Shipments Underway in the CaribbeanStanding with Caribbean Communities in the Path of Hurricane Melissa
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https://www.directrelief.org/2025/10/direct-relief-scales-up-caribbean-support-as-hurricane-melissa-slams-jamaica/
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Hurricane Melissa — now the second-strongest storm ever recorded — is churning through the Caribbean, with Jamaica directly in its path. Winds exceeding 185 miles per hour, storm surges up to 13 feet, and as much as 40 inches of rain threaten to devastate the island and surrounding nations. The storm has already caused deadly flooding and landslides across Haiti and the Dominican Republic, claiming lives and displacing thousands.
There’s no overstating it: the impacts of Melissa will be catastrophic. Thousands are expected to lose access to healthcare and safe drinking water, and many will face serious physical and emotional trauma in the weeks to come.
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So, do they get dress uniforms now with shiny jackboots? Must be such a thrill terrorizing children...
…and kicking in the ribs of senior citizens — do they have to take drugs first to achieve the proper state of mind?
We used to wonder, we American post-war children, what happened to the German people? How could they have done what they did, how could the bystanders let it happen? There must have been something uniquely awful about them — and it would never happen here.
My late MIL used to say that, from the perspective of her family and others she knew growing up in Vienna, it was unbelievable that the Germans could change like this. They were leaders in Science, Medicine, Music, Literature, the Arts. (Sound familiar?)
Yet as the Anschluss approached, she was the one who organized passports, train tickets, and necessary papers to get her parents, her two married sisters, and their families, out of Austria and into Belgium. (I can’t remember where her brothers were at that point) Even so, few of the family survived the Nazi takeover of Belgium.
How? Why? Well, we are finding out now, aren’t we?
Very close to my 100,000th post. I’ll let this stand for now.
The ghosts of the USSR must be laughing like hell frm beyond the grave at how stupid we have become.Stupid stupid stupid
Thx for the link. I remember that incident brutally well. I recalled it when I saw the photo of Trump yukking it up with Lavrov in the Oval right after DJT got inaugurated the first time. Wondered how many bugs his guests left behind.
Trump has been as effective as any nuke — more so, really.
They are dismantling the security infrastructure around the Executive branch
Reply to Botany (Original post)
Sat Oct 25, 2025, 06:11 AM
The White House complex may end up completely unusable due to inability to secure communications. See
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/PDF/MagazineArchive/Documents/2012/September%202012/0912embassy.pdf
Sorry to keep reposting this link, but it explains the risks involved better than anything I can write. They want it dismantled before he dies.
I think it's deliberate.
Rick Wilson on razing the Epstein Ballroom/whorehouse to the ground on Day One of next Dem POTUS
Energizing, to say the least. Enjoy.
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