OT ~ Welcome to Saturday!

Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.

Good morning good people!

Still nursing a dislocated shoulder from last Friday, but made a bargain with Doctor allowing me to return to work today; a shot in the shoulder and endure Smile and return for MRI in six weeks for a closer look at rotator cuff damage and surgical assessment. Luckily, i catapulted off my skis up top on a steep and landed on my forehead, the hardest part of my body. The first time in a long career of skiing i had a sled ride down with the ski patrol, i've been fortunate.

Play in the music, hoping it takes you were you'd like to be:

“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
~ Lewis Mumford
Today's art: William Jacob Hays, 'The Gathering of the Herds,' 1866.
Have a great day, everyone!
The stage is yours...

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smiley7's picture

thanks for the music and memories and rest in peace.

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Happy Saturday! Please take care of that noggin smiley7, I am giving thanks for hard heads this morning, hope you get good rest and feel better soon.

I am having great difficulty finding a list or anything about the raids. At least I have popcorn, the good healthy bobs redmill white kernels, with coconut oil and a whirly pop. heavenly

The audits come two weeks after California Attorney General Xavier Becerra warned business owners they could face fines of up to $10,000 if they violate a new state law that bars them from turning over workers' records to federal authorities.

Looks like State of California vs. U.S. Government. good luck
That's almost the whole article above, if anyone else has good sources about ICE actions around here please share. There's no government transparency, shocking! ha ha not funny

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enhydra lutris's picture

@eyo
arrests resulted from the raids. However:
1) I know of no law requiring companies to keep worker's records of any kind on site.
2) I suspect the ICE raids are criminal. Did they have warrants? What probable cause?

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

@enhydra lutris good morning and thanks for commenting. What the feds (ICE) are doing is targeting the employers who don't use the e-verify system, I think? Don't know. Employers have three days to respond with worker documentation, social security numbers I-9s, drivers license, etc..

‘We will prosecute’ employers who help immigration sweeps, California AG says

January 18, 2018 02:29 PM

The state’s top cop issued a warning to California employers Thursday that businesses face legal repercussions, including fines up to $10,000, if they assist federal immigration authorities with a potential widespread immigration crackdown.

“It’s important, given these rumors that are out there, to let people know – more specifically today, employers – that if they voluntarily start giving up information about their employees or access to their employees in ways that contradict our new California laws, they subject themselves to actions by my office,” state Attorney General Xavier Becerra said at a news conference. “We will prosecute those who violate the law.”

Becerra’s warning comes as fears spread of mass workplace raids following reports that immigration agents plan to target Northern California communities for deportations due in part to the state’s “sanctuary” law, which seeks to restrict local law enforcement agencies’ ability to cooperate with immigration authorities.

people my sister's age are choosing suicide-by-train now
wtf over

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riverlover's picture

@eyo with no news followup at all. They have just disappeared AFAICT.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

@eyo So we're going down that path. It didn't take long. Set in place by previous administrations and now the precedent set to be exploited to the fullest. Where's the sanctuary. Man's inhumanity to man.

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@randtntx thanks, do you happen to know what law Bacerra is yammering on about enforcing? I looked up Senate Bill No. 54 and still can't find anything about employers getting fined $10,000 for producing I9s upon request. "That's the system."

where's the beef

I like law and order, when I can tell it serves everyone the same and not some corporate owner first and foremost.

grasshoppers for enlightenment

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@eyo I live in texas. Did you say law, i'm not sure we have that. I do appreciate hearing what is going on in your corner though. Scary stuff. May be even scarier here.

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enhydra lutris's picture

@eyo
seldom have warrants because they seldom have probable cause.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

enhydra lutris's picture

care of it. Thanks for the OT and tunes - looks like a great selection.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --

Food talking, not sure how else to put it except too much garlic in the last red bean batch made a noticeable difference in my tolerance to cool temperature. Kind of felt like I was generating heat instead of burning calories to stay warm. I like the low tech idea "heat people, not places".
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/02/heating-people-not-spaces.html
Over there is a cool photo of a human powered crane, reminds me of monty python so it made me laugh, what doesn't. cheap relief

Waiting for a batch of chick peas to cool right now, they are delicious. I tossed in a bay leaf during the simmer, from a really old jar. Love Bay, reminds me of pesky woods crowding out the doug fir on land I once knew. good times

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The more you get, the more likely to die from the next. I have had multiples including my faceplant down two stairs. Multiple facial fractures and surgery is now "needed" if I want to breathe through two nostrils. Only one works now, at times. I mouth-breathe at night and am habituated to ChapStick clones.

When my RN daughter calls and I am too lazy to answer the phone, she now re-phones to check if I'm dead. Grim. I had a fall yesterday, not on my head but hit a chair arm with a rib in my back. Ouch. I slept on my back, but doggie slept next to me. I suspect she senses something but I continue to feed her and let her run outside in an enclosed 2/3 acre. Life is semi-good.

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Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.

to mess with paradise. Slaughtering the buffalo, hollowing out our mountains and then taking the tops off of them, poisoning our rivers in the process. Some of our best artists know this and tell us routinely.

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of that Elvis Costello song, who would have thought. He's popping up again and as relevant as ever. Back to the dustbowl it is. How many homeless?

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from Townes

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Russia slams new US nuclear weapons proposal

In a new report, the Pentagon proposes increasing the military's "tactical nukes" to counter Russian threats. The Kremlin slammed the proposal, calling it "bellicose" and "anti-Russian," and vowed to defend itself.
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Anti-Russian cliches'

The Kremlin also slammed the new Pentagon report for its language and tone, which it said cast Russia in a negative light.

The document is filled "with all sorts of anti-Russian cliches" and "ends with unfounded allegations" that Moscow has breached past agreements on arms control.

The foreign ministry said Russia would "strictly respect its obligations in respect to all the international accords."

The US has accused Russia of violating a 1987 agreement between Washington and the Soviet Union by deploying an intermediate-range missile system. Moscow maintains that it has not violated the accord.

"We are on the cusp of a new era of nuclear proliferation," warned Barry Blechman, co-founder of the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan anti-nuclear proliferation think tank in Washington. "This is the great nuclear danger raised by the new nuclear policy."

Lavrov isn't amused.

Finally, Marcy Wheeler's words in the Huffington Post:
The Nunes-Ryan Civil Liberties Sham

Ok, that's enough for a while. Can't stand it anymore.

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Big Al's picture

@mimi the military industrial complex and perpetuate the militarism mindset. Trump said in his speech:

"As part of our defense, we must modernize and rebuild our nuclear arsenal, hopefully never having to use it, but making it so strong and so powerful that it will deter any acts of aggression by any other nation or anyone else,” Trump said."

I'm trying to figure out how a country that currently has enough nukes (over 5000) and delivery systems (silos, stations around the world, submarines, etc.) to destroy the world in minutes, needs more modernized systems to "deter any acts of aggression". It's like they don't have enough now but if they just had 1000 more, then nobody would dare challenge them. Or maybe 2000 or 10,000.

It's an absurd and idiotic argument.

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mimi's picture

@Big Al
I can't understand how it ended up to be supported more or less in the whole world. May be mankind didn't deserve something better than self-destruction.

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mimi's picture

[video:https://youtu.be/t59buF1bPJY]
Top 10 Times The F B I or C I A "Lost" Crucial Evidence.

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smiley7's picture

Thank you all for caring and carrying on and especially for the additional great music; it's as though we understand through the fog and i am grateful for this feedback and special feelings.

Cheers!

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LeChienHarry's picture

years ago. The first surgeon I went to, without even looking at x-rays or MRI, said of course, operate.

My primary said, no wait, get good images from a diagnostician not a surgeon and then see me again. Well, upshot was the chip of the Glenoid (rotator cuff) which came away during impact, fell back into place so neatly, it was like a china cup break. Both the diagnostician and my primary said no surgery. Let it heal. Which it did quite nicely, with no further movement impairment or long term exercises other than normal use.

I was a matter of taking really good images and seeing how well the fracture refitted after the ER guy pulled my arm back into place. Apparently that doctor was good at ski type dislocations.

Good luck.

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