Happy 100th Birthday, Jimmy
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 10/01/2024 - 9:58am
Jimmy Carter turns 100 today.
A hundred years of caring, sharing, and helping the poorer among us to have a life.
Unlike all other Presidents who holed up in their compounds, ranches, or penthouses after their stint in the White House, Jimmy continued to serve people all over the globe.
If he wasn't building houses for the poor or monitoring elections in countries around the world he was negotiating the release of political prisoners in foreign countries.
Through all the faults of his four year Presidency, nothing obscures the good this man has done in a century of service to humankind.
Happy Birthday, President Jimmy Carter.
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Good morning e1. This would've been my elder brother's
birthday as well. He, however, didn't make it this far.
We're prepping for a mini road trip, 9 days without getting N or E of Topaz Lake NV, or much south of Santa Maria. Half of the time we'll be in or along the Eastern Sierras and half the time along the coast. Weather and temps will be all over the map and some of the time will be in VRBO type places meaning we need to take food and we're taking the car instead of the truck, so packing is really a conundrum.
Very hot here yestereday, today and perhaps longer, as in 100 or so. Slowly pruning apricot, then grapes will follow.
The world continues sick, mad and crazy, especially the empire/hegemon.
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 --
Hope you have a good trip
Sounds like fun.
We are going to finish up our garden harvesting and put it to bed (pardon the pun) for the winter. And then think about taking off for a few weeks going south.
I'm thinking Morro Bay. Been awhile since we've been there.
A lot depends on the weather, increasingly more difficult to predict. We are supposed to have El Nino conditions this year.
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Where do you usually stay in Morro Bay, or do you camp? n/t
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 --
Today is National Day in China
75th Anniversary. It's also Armed Forces day in South Korea, 76th anniversary.
Is this what people watch on regular US tv programming?
"Brace for impact!"
In the drama I don't know what the background is for the US to have three warships in the Taiwan strait at the same time. As I understand the A2/AD military strategy as described in publicly available US Navy related publications, this situation concentrating forces close to China is understood to be quite risky and normally is to be avoided. Of course, I don't know what the outcome is in the drama. Does the drama have Chinese subtitles?
Earthling1, I'm still absorbed in the The Korean War: A Civilian's Recollection video from the link you posted. It's very interesting. I knew a couple of South Koreans who went through this experience on the other side of the front in Seoul. I never got to hear a detailed read out of the refugee experience such as portrayed in this video.
This Arirang video of Armed Forces Day events in South Korea looks and sounds like a KCNA broadcast from North Korea. The Washington Times noted the similarity. It's no coincidence. South Korea is returning to its authoritarian posture during the dictatorships. A recent editorial in the Hankyoreh pointed out that Yoon doesn't have the authority under the conditions of the US-South Korea alliance to respond during wartime. OPCON of all ROK military forces comes under US control in wartime.
語必忠信 行必正直
The trouble with kibbles….
He rescued all of them, kept 3 and found homes for the others.
After the icky news for so long it’s nice to have a happy story.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
That vid is hilarious
And a happy ending, yay!
Thanks.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Meanwhile,
Iranian missiles are raining down on Tel Aviv.
Time for an Adult Beverage.
https://x.com/runews/status/1841158123614072928
https://twitter.com/i/status/1841157510029345263
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Bkinky, Netenyahoo and lindsay Graham are smiling as they
got their wish.
Edited to add:
Wowzer!
Iran showed that it has missiles that Israel couldn’t stop and instead of Israel backing off it doubled down.
I saw a few tweets of Israelis thinking that they are once again the fcking victim. No you’re not.
“When out of fear you twist the lesser evil into the lie that it is something good, you eventually rob people of the capacity to distinguish between good and evil.”
~ Hannah Arendt
Godd morning, E1
Theoretically, that is.
Iran fired missiles into Tel Aviv. Now what will Israel tell us to do?
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981