@NYCVG

Climate chaos has arrived. The Arctic ice has been showing the case for years. No need for charts nor data tables. Just use your lying eyes.
2.5 min
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MhcPvX7enA]

I like this 6 min time lapse of glacial melt too.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzhT_7g0qpA]

I also agree with your "Hillary won the popular vote" meme.

Glad you came by this morning!

I'd like to add the behavior around, "Hillary won the Popular Vote by 3 million" to your list.

That endless refrain was another de-legitimizing tactic along with Russia Russia Russia.

On another topic, I removed the last flowerpot from my balcony on Sunday November 1. This is almost unbelievable if you've grown up and planted in the NE where floral bloom of annuals was usually from Memorial Day to Labor Day.

Don't need a scientist to know which way the climate's going...

@Anja Geitz

Especially western ones. Sorry, no help here.

Does anyone know the name of this colorful plant?

@edg

if you really love your country you are willing to criticize.

Sadly I think we've gone off the cliff, but maybe there's hope with the people's party. In a similar effort in the UK they are creating a Workers party which is a good bit more socialist in nature. Both are interesting efforts though.

Glad you came by. Be well!

If you love your country, you will point out its flaws and work to make it better. Jingoistic exceptionalism proves nothing except the limitations of the person espousing it.

Great essay. Keep up the good work.

@enhydra lutris

corporate oligarchy. As I often parrot, the corporate capture is complete. Another common rant I harp on is the "pandemic managed for profit". Did you hear about the Pfizer CEO sell his stock after the vaccine announcement. I'm not happy about it. But like the title of the this weekly...I accept defeat.

I'm hiding in the holler and gardening. Well, I am helping the peoples party with little real hope. Wish I could be more proactive and positive but ....

Thanks for the visit and comment. Hope all is well with you and yours there on the left coast.

That is really a great piece of art by Mr. Fish.

What is patriotism. It has been said that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel", but many have observed that it is more like the first. It also seems more and more conflated with Nationalism, but that is another matter.

“Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit it is the first.”

-- Ambrose Bierce.

I tend to prefer George Bernard Shaw as more to the crux of the matter:

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.

I'm not sure how much it is a US thing, nor how recently it arose, nor whether the media and advertising somehow caused it, but our language and expressions have become absurdly infantile with respect certain emotion laden words; "I love ice-cream, the Yankees, Oreos, Bullwinkle, Doritos, Nikes, etc." and "I hate brocolli, the Red Sox, rye bread, Grey's Anatomy, Marcel Proust, Nikes, etc." WTF? Really? And, of course, the USA, love it or leave it, fer sure.

What is the US? 50 states? An empire? A Democracy? An Oligarchy? I submit that it is, today, almost entirely myth. There is a narrative, a mythological history and mythological basis and foundation, a mythological set of ideals and motives and the like. I really cannot speak as to the wisdom of some sort of emotional attachment to a myth, but will assert that rejection of the reality of a myth is not tantamount to "hate". One cannot learn from history if one does not first learn history, and, with that goal and aim in mind, it behooves us to expose and tear down the myth, supplanting it with historical reality to the extent that we are able to ferret out said historical reality.

be well and have a good one

@smiley7

Hope the real estate deal is going down with ease!

I hate the COVID changes but we need to hold the course through this winter. Vaccines do loom on the horizon, perhaps becoming wide spread next summer. None the less I wonder what a "new' normal will look like. I know I'll be glad to resume our music sessions!

Well, best of luck with all your business. Stay well and be as healthy as possible. I try and fail to limit my drinking to two glasses of wine.

Edit to add: The drill driven harvester is common on market gardens here too.
https://www.farmersfriend.com/products/harvest
Ain't cheap. For home use hand harvesting is fine. Commercial production is another story.

Love the salad harvester in the French farm clip. Neat.

Take 5,000 d3, 30-50mg zinc, lots of b's, drink vinegar with mother, c on occasion plus, unfortunately, a host of prescribed meds for the comorbidities.

Did i mention alcohol, lots of that on occasion, too; like last evening, boy what a hang-over today; paying the piper for my over-indulging.

Have been fortunate to have 3m's N95's, but am running low. Don't really go out much, drive-thru for most things. No plans for the holidays. Not going to return to the ski mountain this winter; will miss playing Santa on skis and the children and my long-time students, but it's not going to be a safe environment covid-wise.

The quote below brought a smile:

For the Rev. Franklin Graham, the scathing editorial in Christianity Today last year calling his friend Donald Trump “a leader of grossly immoral character” and urging that Trump be “removed from office” was heretical.

To Graham, it was bad enough to read such an attack on Trump. But the insult was compounded by the fact that Christianity Today had been founded by his recently deceased father, Billy Graham, the revered evangelist often called America’s Pastor. So Franklin fired back at the magazine with a powerful riposte to his millions of social media followers:

"I hadn’t shared who my father @BillyGraham voted for in 2016 but because of @CTMagazine’s article, I felt it necessary share now. My father knew [Trump], believed in him & voted for him. He believed Donald J. Trump was the man for this hour in the history for our nation."

That was too much for another Billy Graham descendant, his grandson Aram Tchividjian. In a response to his uncle’s post, Tchividjian wrote with withering sarcasm:

I’ll never forget that day in 2016 when my grandfather @BillyGraham, shrugged off the symptoms of Parkinson’s and hydrocephalus, got up out of bed for the first time in a year, drove down to the polling station, and cast his vote. What a glorious memory!

@magiamma

After a day of teaching you have no idea what if anything you accomplished. Building and growing things gives you almost instant gratification. It drives that feedback so you do more...a lot like art too. Despite the falling empire we can have some fulfillment.

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Thanks for the roundup. Facism and racism vs war and more war. fuckthisshit. and furthermore and moreover...

yes to d - 5k/day, c, zinc, magnesium glycinate. all good.

I would add again, shallots. I T raw w banana or pomegranate or whatever. Really takes down the mucus and temp, clears cough.

Out to the garden finishing the dispersion chamber. Adding flagstones to the edges and then planting long bladed sedge around the edge and juncus and fortnight lily on the edges where the water will flow. dayum. good stuff. thanks for all ya do buddy. really appreciate it. Take good care.

@mimi
I'll check that out. Nobody knows election fraud better than Greg IMO.

Embedded above is another great push back conversation with Max and Aaron that was good.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AWTYGZnkvk]

Hope you're having a nice day. Beautiful here. All the best!

[video:https://youtu.be/XcgS6Z8Arn0]

I am still listening to it and it deals with the voter fraud in detail, a fraud against the voters. Mass purge of votes from voters of color... may be of interest to you as you are all inside those issues.

@on the cusp

to preserve old varieties. Had a friend back in college that was into heritage apple varieties. Wish that we had all those different genotypes growing here. Grateful for the few varieties that I do have.

Hope all is well in your garden and your new building is progressing toward completion!

researching a case for purposes of defeating a claim against my clients on a specific theory. They absolutely can.
The problem is, if my clients absolutely do not owe Party X, they will absolutely clear the way for Party Y to kick their butts.
I put the file away, explained to my client that my hands are tied, he is in real jeopardy, and we need to calmly mediate a settlement.
So, my pot roast is in the oven, time to have some beer, read up on some of these interesting links!
One good thing about gardening I managed this week is to save the last pear from an aged, heritage pear tree. The seed will be planted, I will have the sweetest pears around. The tree is approximately 75 years old, and those pears would be impossible to find now.

@Pluto's Republic

So dead on in so many ways.

I am lucky to be connected to the mountain and my little piece of it. You put yourself into building a home, barn, garden,... homestead. It has its own positive feedback loop.

During my teaching career I suggested having the kids in rows of desks was setting them up for a life in the factory line or in the case of my teaching community a life in the sock mill. I had my kids at tables in teams solving problems. Some have told me it changed their lives. Others have said they didn't like my scene. You reach those you can. We are called to play the tune we hear.

Thanks for your insightful comment!

...or the dirt clod it sits on. I cannot even imagine what that might feel like. I’m not indigenous to these lands. I felt a connection to the ground only once. I was in a garden in Paris wandering alone, when I was gripped by a sensation of profound belonging, as if I was standing on the bones of my ancestors. I felt the future, too. I wonder if Native Americans have that feeling under their feet? I hope they do.

I would not lift a finger to "fight" for it. I cannot imagine why anyone would do that. It's a delusional application. As far as I know, no other nation has bothered to come here — in the middle of nowhere — to take this dirt clod away from the white people who committed genocide to live on it. I have no idea why people have fought in US wars, other than conscription. The Ruling Class tricked them into throwing their lives away for nothing. Nobody is trying to take this cursed country away from them.

There are things about American culture that I really like. The culture is much too short and local to have any anthropoligical significance. It’s flying by the seat of its pants and improvising along the way. But it is driven by instincts that reveal an amazing spirit of decency and fellowship at its core. The diversity of the American gene pool produces an abundance of talent, although most if it is untapped and undeveloped. (In my mind, I connect this resource to the rate of incarceration in the US.) The role of the artist is to tap into the spiritual interface, and use what they find there to produce works that can transform and evolve the culture and the people in it. The "spiritual interface" — for lack of a better term — has been dormant for awhile now. New art trends toward the post modern and trite. You can hear it in the music.

Mostly, I feel terrible for Americans, stumbling around with their brain injuries, struggling to be a part of something that has meaning. American culture and politics have long been scripted virtual realities. The faux democracy is constructed like a gaming maze. People run the same commercially sponsored maze over and over again, year after year. Each time they are in the maze, people are convinced the maze is going to end in a different way. They vote over and over again thinking that it will chance the trajectory they are on. The more they interface with this process, the more their life force is diminished.

I don't want them to wake up from the trance of their daily lives, because they do not wake up with their critical faculties intact. They cannot process the parts of reality they do see, so they patch it together in a fragmented dream, glossing over the illogical gaps. Ultimately, they bind themselves to a demagogue narrative filled with demons and traitors and foreign enemies. They embrace illogical plots that seem to be working against them personally. It's so sad. They find solidarity with the psychopaths who walk amongst us, and become addicted to the intoxicating neuroproteins produced by hate.

Livestock should never be awakened into the anguish of awareness. They should never be exposed to realities that they cannot understand or accept. They are the meek and the blessed. They produce the laborers and the occasional rare talent every culture needs. They are the tiny tribes and wandering herds that carried Homo sapiens across a million years of evolution into the present.

Unfortunately, science and technology bloomed much too early in this species. This magic arrived while this species was still transiting the fantastic narratives of its own primitive religions. This was a fatal error: A half-baked species with the technology to poison the planet, who also have a profound belief in divine intervention. Their greedy reptilian brains continue to express the ancient proteins that assure them there is a god who loves them and watches over them. They are saved! They are free to surrender to god the responsibility for their horrific sins against nature. Again and again, their God forgives them.

I understand and accept this defeat

@randtntx

very dry for November, a normally wet month. No rain due till maybe next week.

What can I say? Chaos reigns supreme?

Really doesn't matter what I say it is a chaotic future we face.

Thanks for dropping by!

Lookout. I enjoyed the French family farm video and, as smiley noted, that is a cool machine that picks the greens. I would not be able to rationalize spending money on it but picking greens is labor intensive and time consuming. I've often thought how nice it would be to speed up the process.

I'll work my way through some of your offerings here throughout the week. Much appreciated.

I have fenugreek and calendula to plant today. I tried sowing the seeds for both earlier in September but did not have much luck, so will try again. The weather is great here although we need some of that rain you have been getting. Have a good one.