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Tower of Lies

Seems like everything that comes out of the Donald's mouth is a lie these days. Add to that his cabinet lying time after time... whether it is Bessent saying he doesn't understand why fuel prices are rising, to Hogsbreath saying Ukraine has Russia on the run, to Lutnick saying he doesn't remember his trip to Epstein Island. It isn't just the administration. Seems most of the beltway class is addicted to lying. The media compliance facilitating the falsehoods point to the Zionist control of the MSM. None the less it seems most folks understand they are being lied to, but it is so common it has become accepted. Eventually the tower of lies will collapse under it own weight like a house of cards.

螢雪之功 (Yíng xuě zhī gōng) ( 형설지공 in Korean ). An interpretation of the four character idiom is achievement by firefly and snow. It is a reference to two Chinese classical stories in which poor children without the means for candles or lamps of some kind, study diligently in their absence. The stories are said to have originated in the Jin Dynasty. One story is that a prominent scholar Che Yin as a poor child gathered fireflies in a cloth bag and studied by their light.

Afternoon folks!

We've got a heaping helping of blues for you this week, starting off with a great album from Piano Red as Dr. Feelgood with the Interns. After that it's some harmonica fun from Charlie Musselwhite and then some soul-blues from Johnny Rawls and Otis Clay performing a tribute album of O.V. Wright tunes. Then it's on to an early Bo Diddley album followed by a folk-blues revival era album from blues piano player and guitarist Henry Townsend with Backwards Sam Firk. We finish up with a live ep from Richard Thompson.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! I hope you are al in fine fettle this morning!

Well, folks, in case you think of Texas as all cowboys and rodeos all the time, please check out our Ren Fest.

I only went to the Festival once, when it was a new thing. A friend was a ballet dancer who got a paid gig to dance at the grounds, so I went to see her, had some woman read Tarot cards and predict my future.

The Festival is coming soon, is fairly close by, so who knows? I might want to see some jousting.

Skip the first 2 minutes of this video to see something besides the vlogger's costume choice.

Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

Earlier this month the camera club went to Miramar Reservoir located in the north-east area of the city. There's a 5 mile paved road and a dirt trail closer to the shoreline that runs around the reservoir. All but the first 2 photos were taken while I was walking on the dirt trail. It was a beautiful morning with blue skies and temps in the high 70s when we arrived and low 80s when we left a few hours later.
Oh for those days of cooler temps. It's been a week of three digit temps with a high of 105 Wed. The power grid got over stress that evening and the power went out for about an hour from 8:45 to 9:45 PM. It's bad enough I don't have A/C, now I didn't even have fans. Thankfully the temps had dropped to a mere 90° by the time the power went out and it was restored in a little less than an hour and I got my fans back and got some air circulating and was able to cool off.

Mallard Mania

Today my friends, in random sequence, I present to you, more of my semi-cognitional meanderings.

• You can't use conventional methods of understanding to understand non-conventional thinking. Sane people don't understand insane people. Logical people don't understand illogical people. Conventional, sane and logical thinking doesn't cut it with when analyzing a non-conventional, insane, and illogical politician or government. That's where a lot of political analysts, experts and talking heads get it wrong when they suggest that they've got this shit all figured out. It's like getting in the mud and wrestling with a pig.

This group, the Nice Liberals with Big Egos, re-emerged recently, making big splashes in social media:

Anti-Iran letter published in the Guardian receives backlash and withdrawals

What's Ordinary?

While listening to 'old' music (Is it really that old, really?) the other day, I had one of those epiphanies when one realizes that the lyrics to a good song can mean something different depending upon where the listener is in their life. The song is 'Ordinary World' by Duran Duran. I was definitely a Duranie when I was young; I still am. This is one of three songs that Simon Le Bon, the lead singer of Duran Duran, wrote about the loss of his best friend. I never realized that, until I suddenly heard it with a different frame of mind. I was sobbing as the song played and I heard the words so clearly in my mind, and my heart.

Ordinary World by Duran Duran