On Saturday, our friend divineorder suddenly collapsed and passed away while bicycling and birding in Costa Rica with his wife jakkalbessie. Jakkalbessie is now sorting out a variety of details and preparing to return home. She has help from both some local friends and family who can join her if needed.
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February 18 is the 49th day of the year
Prickle-Prickle, Chaos 49, 3185 YOLD (discordian)
And let us not forget 13.0.6.4.10 by the Mayan Long Count
Yes, Bernie continues along on his trajectory towards throwing his hat into the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primary ring...
Via Politico on Saturday afternoon:
Bernie Sanders records video announcing 2020 campaign
By HOLLY OTTERBEIN
Politico
02/16/2019 01:38 PM EST
After the MSM made their pre-election pivot from Trump's mega-free airtime, to HRC's mega-free airtime (which grip to this day has not been diminished).
Apologia: which in the old days meant explanation, rather request for forgiveness. I am analyzing politics, essentially an on-going coup d'etat.
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When I’d first seen this report at aljazeera.com yesterday, I’d wondered about its accuracy, bias, etc: ‘‘India considers action against Pakistan after suicide attack, India’s foreign ministry said US supports New Delhi’s right to self-defence against cross-border attacks, aljazeera.com (with video featuring Sir Namasté Modi), but I’d also seen the Nuclear Clock even closer to midnight, as this seemingly intractable Elephant in the Room, Kashmir, between two nuclear powers…looming once again.
This is the anniversary of the start of the Kali Yuga -- the age of quarrel and strife. According to one computation, we have but 427,000 more years of this shit. The good part of that is that Kali is in charge, though, frankly, she doesn't seem to be kicking ass on evildoers the way that one would hope she would. Ah well.
Enjoy! 
President Trump made a spectacular claim the other day.
The big buck came through the other day. In, as they say, the broad daylight. Bold move. For a guy like him. A guy the shooters would like to kill, then cut off his head and put it on a wall. But he moved with unconcern. And why not? He'd been in the fire.
He was the first deer I saw, after the fire. On the Friday. Or maybe the Saturday. I came off the porch and round the side of the house, and there he was. He was moving stiff. Because of the vision problem, I couldn't tell if he'd been burned. "Don't be burned!" I cried. I couldn't have borne it. If he'd been burned. But as I got to know him, over the next couple of days, I learned he had not been burned. He was just worn out. Because it wasn't just the people, who ran, in the fire.
then you'll be the "socialist" bogeyman for life.
Check out this piece from Thursday:
The I Ching or Yi Jing or Book of Changes, as the case may be, can e thrown with yarrow stalks or coins. Yarrow being scarce this time of year, I used coins, a choice which nay have influenced its the reading it proffered. It said -
