Travelin' light
Good morning everyone.
A fine, foggy, frigid morning here in the high 30s, but no rain or snow. Still sans a heater, so stokin' the fire is the first chore. Then start the coffee a-perkin'.
Went down to the waterfront last night to watch the Christmas boats parade up and down the Columbia in all their lighting and glory. I know the yachties and blow boaters really enjoy this annual ritual, there were dozens of them, but with the cost of fuel these days it's got to be pretty expensive.
But I and crowds of others sure appreciate the dazzling display of lights on the water.
It was cold but we were bundled up well and had a nice hot thermos of hot chocolate.
The Syrian debacle continues to shake out and it looks like the Russian bases there will remain. It's hard to tell who the winners and losers are with so many factions in the country and stirrers outside.
This is going to take awhile.
So lets just sit back and relax, the threat of Armageddon is lessoning as the evangelicals are busy getting all showered and dressed up for the big event.
I wonder, do they pack a bugout bag for this? Will they take their C-PAP with them? Their Magic Kingdom Card?
Naw, I've never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul.
Thread is open, what going on? HEh Heh
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This is a test.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
LOL
Don't know what I did but;
A fine, foggy, frigid morning here in the high 30s, but no rain or snow. Still sans a heater, so stokin' the fire is the first chore. Then start the coffee a-perkin'.
Went down to the waterfront last night to watch the Christmas boats parade up and down the Columbia in all their lighting and glory. I know the yachties and blow boaters really enjoy this annual ritual, there were dozens of them, but with the cost of fuel these days it's got to be pretty expensive.
But I and crowds of others sure appreciate the dazzling display of lights on the water.
It was cold but we were bundled up well and had a nice hot thermos of hot chocolate.
The Syrian debacle continues to shake out and it looks like the Russian bases there will remain. It's hard to tell who the winners and losers are with so many factions in the country and stirrers outside.
This is going to take awhile.
So lets just sit back and relax, the threat of Armageddon is lessoning as the evangelicals are busy getting all showered and dressed up for the big event.
I wonder, do they pack a bugout bag for this? Will they take their C-PAP with them? Their Magic Kingdom Card?
Naw, I've never seen a hearse pulling a U-Haul.
Thread is open, what going on? HEh Heh
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
@earthling1 Gosh what memories!
Gosh what memories! Back in the day when we last lived in Austin on a small 8x34 foot houseboat, our marina would have a lighted boat parade. Great fun. After the parade came back to the marina and everyone put out food and we wandered up and down the marina. In the morning one of the big boats cooked us all breakfast tacos! Hope you stayed warm and had a wonderful time.
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
Hello jakkalbessie
How nice to hear from you. I'm glad to be able to spark some good memories for you.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
You came through fine...
Sorry for the issues.
Rainy here today so I have time inside. Was dry enough for Trade day this AM but it was empty, although I did buy some avocados.
Hope the tech issues are easy to resolve. Thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I must have compromised the
something in the header. At least I didn't lose the script.
Damn Russian/Chinese hackers did it.
Yeah, we are in for the day too, waiting for my blower parts to come in.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
It took me a while...
to figure it out, but you forgot to add the ">" greater than bracket at the end of the header image code. You either forgot it or accidentally deleted it.
I suspected it was there somewhere.
I accidentally deleted it. Alls well that ends.
Thanks JtC
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
It's easy to do...
I've done it myself.
Hey g'mornin
the boat parades are also a big
thing on the ICW in So.Fla
it always amazes me there are so
few collisions ~ drunken sailors heh
cold and drizzly here in the NE also
thank the wood gods for the burnables
a blazer sounds good about now
cheers!
question everything
Yeah, the Sheriff was patroling
throughout the parade coordinating the occasional tug pushing barges through.
Thanks for stopping in and the pic.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Everything is in turmoil here
The restoration effort has begun at the wrecked house (again). The weather isn't cooperating because it's very humid, which doesn't help. The reconstruction of the inside walls is reaching a critical stage, and I'm apprehensive about it.
Ms. So's church had to move, basically was forced out by the congregation that owned the former building they used for several years. They wanted more money and imposed unacceptable limitations on use of the building, like the kitchen. A Korean church needs a kitchen. I consider the pastor there a friend, even though I don't go to the services anymore. I used to enjoy them, the social contact with the local community, trying to understand the hymns and homily without using the translation service they have for non-Koreans. I wasn't able to go for a couple of reasons, one of which was smokey's resistance to being left home alone after the first Ian flood.
Some one asked me how's it going yesterday, when I took a walk in the neighborhood w/o smokey of course. I've been better. He said it's all relative my friend and pulled his shirt up to show me either a bullet wound (veteran?) or surgical wound, I wasn't inclined to inspect further. Yes, it can always get worse, that's what I'm finding out in the recent sequence of unlikely happenings. We all have some kind of scars, I think.
I'm glad Ms. So still has an active community around her to lighten her burdens.
Today's South Korean political news is reflected in this screenshot:
Vote today in the National Assembly to appoint a permanent special investigation team to investigate the martial law/ coup attempt by Yoon and company. It's a significant vote for a couple of reasons. First the votes for the legislation exceed the number needed to overcome a veto by Yoon (over 200 out 300 members). According to the report, there were 188 votes from the majority democratic party, the conservative reform party of Lee Jun-seok, the progressive party, etc., for 188 votes. No doubt this would include Cho Guk's small innovation party which typically votes with the democrats. The total vote in favor was 210, so this means 22 assembly members from the minority ruling PPP nominally Yoon and Han's party (the US and Japan favored party) voted for an independent special investigation of the coup attempt. (There were 14 abstentions).
The three parallel investigations already ongoing right now, are effectively controlled by the executive office, Yoon and Han. The prosecutors because of their past and current relationships with Yoon and Han, have obvious conflicts of interest. This has been the problem with prosecution reform and Yoon's administration all along. Their dictatorial control of the national prosecution service. All prior special investigation bills to get around their vise like control of the prosecution service passed by the assembly were previously vetoed by Yoon.
The second implication of the 22 defections from the president's party, is that it suggests that perhaps a larger number of defections from the president's erstwhile supporters will allow a 2/3 vote to impeach Yoon in the near future.
Thanks for the OT Earthling1.
語必忠信 行必正直
I see Yoon is prohibited
from leaving the country. Does that include his wife also?
I can just see her leaving Yoon to burn while she leaves with all the loot.
"I'll be in Paris' honey when you get away".
Hope you get your place back together soon. Thanks for the update.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Yes, that's right
I hope that's enforced.
Haven't heard anything about Kim Kon-hee, the First Lady. I haven't seen anything reported that indicates she was involved in the coup attempt (yet). I think she potentially could be given a no-exit order on the basis of the Myung Tae-kyun scandal which was in the news lately before this coup thing came up. She had refused an appearance before a legislative inquiry into the matter. This is where she and Yoon allegedly interfered in PPP party nominations in some elections. This is unlawful in South Korea. The president is not supposed to direct the party on electoral matters.
I thought the raids on Korean Election Commission offices by special forces at the very outset of the coup attempt may have been related to the Myung Tae-kyun scandal. I'm not inclined to believe that now. Allegedly, Yoon was planning to impugn past general election results in which the Democratic Party gained a strong majority in the National Assembly, in order to declare their control of the assembly invalid, and call for new elections.
This is from TK of The Blue Roof, a respected Korean-American analyst of Korean affairs:
語必忠信 行必正直
Good afternoon, e1
It is gonna get near freezing here for a couple of days, then warm up to 89 deg. this weekend. Quite a temperature swing.
I have been reading up on the CEO murder case. The perp made it so easy to get caught, he should have just turned himself in, but there is no distraction in that.
Israel's continuing genocide and theft of territories in Syria and Lebanon can fade from view while we get excited about a hand written manifesto. Trump ordering Putin around is also news for another day.
Call me cynical or a conspiracy theorist, but at the same time, a defense attorney in 17 murder cases, but I do not believe Mangione is the shooter.
Every detail is starting to look manufactured.
Oh, well, I have a boring afternoon in probate court, hope there will be no shootings. Probate is the most likely body of law to put parties and court personnel in danger. People who get cut out of the will get revenge.
Enjoy your day by the fire, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Definitely some strange stuff about nyc shooting
One person pointed out that of the two pictures taken before the shooting, the shooter was wearing a light then black backpack. Some discussion in gun community about the jamming gun. Best explanation is that the suppressor was homemade but lacked some spring mechanism to force back the slide of the pistol. So the slide had to be manual racked back on each shot. But does this guy seem like somebody to make his own suppressor?
Maybe one of the most curious is how the shooter showed up in front of the hotel just when the CEO was walking by.
And really, Luigi was hanging out at a McDonalds when he had a head start in fleeing NYC.
The Mangione arrest
has a whiff about it. The guys a College grad. Too many dumb moves to be such a smart guy.
And I personally think the more land Israel seizes in Syria the more ticked off the HTS will become. And the same with Türkiye. The HTS and their allied groups are every bit as formidable as the Taliban. This may not end well for Israel or Türkiye.
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
lol….
United has put out its talking points for the staff when they talk to customers about their CEO and his death.
"Remind them that they have access to healthcare…"
Yeah I think that’s the issue. People are paying for healthcare, but they are being denied it.
It’s funny. Take a look.
Ken says that he has a copy of the manifesto.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
I hope some good
comes from this unfortunate death. Like a creeping realization in boardrooms nationwide that their decisions can have foreseen consequences.
A kind of "duh" moment.
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Good morning, cold here, for us, 40 at sun-up.
Water heater died late yesterday, 50 gallon that sits on a pedestal so we had somebody do it for us - showed up at about 8-ish and pretty much just left, which blows up the morning, especially the chores that involve water. Now to play ketchup.
Syria has fallen, but the question is "Is it gone?", or will there be some chunk of the globe still bearing that name. Other questions include "how long until Israel eats Lebanon with Syria gone?" Will the US piece become an official US territory, perhaps "U.S. Petrostan" or some such?
El Trumpo, meanwhile, want's a "ceasefire" in Ukiestan, NOT peace, mind you, but a temporary cessation of the Ukie collapse. Does he actually believe that he has some leverage regarding the matter, and how will he abuse it?
Ah well, way behind on today's chores and projects, so
be well and have a good one
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 --
Have to agree about Trump
Whatever gave him the idea that he or anyone in the West have an ounce of credibility? We are agreement incapable and we cannot keep an agreement that we infrequently stumble into.
America has never kept an agreement, period.
Thanks for dropping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Woke Religion: A Taxonomy by Shellenberger
Saw a table put together by Michael Shellenberger where he puts into table form basically the fundamental issues in what he calls woke religion. He summarizes them and gives tabular info and basic causes, etc from the view point of those who believe. You can copy the file and if in windows can convert it to a pdf file for scrolling and zomming.
Now some may disagree with his entries but could be useful. BTW it was Shellenberger who worked with Matt Taibbi on going through Twitter internals on their censorship activities. In Congressional hearings he said he voted for Hillary. He has been active on the anti-censorship side.
https://x.com/shellenberger/status/1865446737172988326/photo/1
The problem I have with him is that he believes that there
is a far left. Lots of writers from the right think that…idjits. The far left died decades ago. Actually it was assassinated by centrist dems. Shitlibs might call themselves liberals, but they don’t have an ounce of far left and what it stands for anymore. I’d call most members here can be considered far left in the definition of what it should be.
Anti war, pro humanity. And no worshipping of Neo Nazis or Zionazis.
My 5 cents.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
A simple quiz. Can you spot the difference between the truth
and a bald-faced lie?
Just a guess but this could be the final result?
I can't spot the truth anymore
because it's been so long since I seen any.
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
somewhat telling in the labelling
.
of the lands surrounding Is Real Hell -
it goes from DMZ to buffer zones to
occupied territory like clockwork
question everything
So folks are questyioning the facts surrounding
Lee Harvey Mangione, how different pics look like different folks and how the story seems too pat, as in patsy - - I ask you, when has the gubmint ever lied to any of us?
be well and have a good one
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 --
umm, maybe since the day before always?
.
they still don't quite have the sport
down pat yet, so constant practice
is required. Not yet seamless.
some observers become suspicious
of the motives, tho
question everything
Our little Xmas village
It’s got little houses of various Santa's Workshops and I remember going to it as a young one with so much excitement. Fond memories of my grandpa buying us hot chocolate while we waited to sit on the Jolly Man’s lap and tell him what we wanted for Xmas.
It’s on the list as one of the 20 best Xmas places in the country.
The city jail is on the left. It’s one of the few sandstone buildings left in Ogden. One of 3.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Ehh?
.
Apparently communism is responsible for 100 million deaths worldwide…I doubt that they want to tell us how many deaths capitalism has caused or including our Russian roulette health care system or our military exceptionalism….or any of the things that happen under it.
And for gawd’s sake why is this important? Bueller?
Link
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Are we being conditioned
to welcome a dictator from the far-right perhaps?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
sure sounds like it
.
.
the only thing socialism threatens
are the capitalist oligarchs
where is Joe McCarthy when they
need him? Perhaps being resurrected
under a new guise?
question everything
Is Ms Salazar
insinuating Fascism is acceptable?
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
SK National Police Agency serving warrant on Yoon's office
South Korea police raid President Yoon’s office over martial law declaration
My understanding from more recent broadcast reports, including a YTN "live" report, is that the special investigation team from the National Police is meeting opposition from the presidential security staff. According to them, so far the search team has not been permitted to enter the presidential office building to search. It seems there is some kind of discussion/argument going on. The special investigation team says it cannot enter the secured facility without the consent of the presidential security guard because it is a "secure facility." It sounded as if the presidential office was making a suggestion to "prepare a voluntary submission" of documents. They also seem to be taking the position that under no circumstances will materials from the official residence guard office/ security room be allowed to be searched.
語必忠信 行必正直