I feel I am not the most capable or reliable person to fulfill responsibilities that come with posting regualarly an Open Thread on Fridays. I admit for me open threads are empty threads.
All you get with me is a outlandish ignorant, who can't write Englixh, doesn't know anything USian and has a foobar personal life that knocks me out more often then not.
Do you really want to dels with me? I advise you not to. I don't foresee a satisfying perfoemance from my side.
Anyhow I hope you tell me about all the typical Garman stuff that goes through your mind.
All have a good Friday and a wionderful weekend. Tthy forecast a sunny one in my parts of the world and woods.
Germany is as interesting to US folks as the US is to Germans.
I often catch your DW news clips on youtube, and find y'all are subjected to as much BS propaganda as we are. Here's one example... Russia Bad -
Russia: Crackdown on opposition and independent media | DW News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACirOGEvGo (4 min)
Yet rarely a word about the US/UK torture of Julian perhaps the world's best journalist.
The stench of hypocrisy is powerful on both sides of the pond!
Take care and have a good day. Thanks for the OT and keep up the good work!
I feel I am not the most capable or reliable person to fulfill responsibilities that come with posting regualarly an Open Thread on Fridays. I admit for me open threads are empty threads.
All you get with me is a outlandish ignorant, who can't write Englixh, doesn't know anything USian and has a foobar personal life that knocks me out more often then not.
Do you really want to dels with me? I advise you not to. I don't foresee a satisfying perfoemance from my side.
Anyhow I hope you tell me about all the typical Garman stuff that goes through your mind.
All have a good Friday and a wionderful weekend. Tthy forecast a sunny one in my parts of the world and woods.
Bye for now.
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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
@Lookout
Uncle Sam. And most Germans don't know anything about the US other than Burgers, Icecream and amazingly weirdo reactions from some of the uncles and their brothers.
And they are pretty racistly too. So, no suprise for me.
Our evening news just said the US planes from Kabul bring refugees directly Ramstein now. But I just heard passing by the TV set without time to listen in.
Germany is as interesting to US folks as the US is to Germans.
I often catch your DW news clips on youtube, and find y'all are subjected to as much BS propaganda as we are. Here's one example... Russia Bad -
Russia: Crackdown on opposition and independent media | DW News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACirOGEvGo (4 min)
Yet rarely a word about the US/UK torture of Julian perhaps the world's best journalist.
The stench of hypocrisy is powerful on both sides of the pond!
Take care and have a good day. Thanks for the OT and keep up the good work!
@mimi
The US Military did not plan for any aspect of what's going on.
Clearly, their great strength is a hallucination.
#1.1
Uncle Sam. And most Germans don't know anything about the US other than Burgers, Icecream and amazingly weirdo reactions from some of the uncles and their brothers.
And they are pretty racistly too. So, no suprise for me.
Our evening news just said the US planes from Kabul bring refugees directly Ramstein now. But I just heard passing by the TV set without time to listen in.
Many thanks for posting today. All are interesting topics worthy of discussion and consideration.
Inspiration for essays seems to ebb and flow for me. Lotlizard has offered to help when she can.
The 'blessing of the fleet' is an annual tradition in these parts. Perhaps gay ships are exempt?
We are expecting hurricane Henri to hit here in about 48 hours, so I have to do the preparation dance for my yachts .. drop sails, haul and hog tie.
saw ‘em at strawberry at the old Camp Mather back in ‘11 or ‘12.@QMS
Grabbed two or three cd’s at the time.
Good Times
Ya dun gut, Mimi!
There’s something good to be said about crazy old German Ladies!
Many thanks for posting today. All are interesting topics worthy of discussion and consideration.
Inspiration for essays seems to ebb and flow for me. Lotlizard has offered to help when she can.
The 'blessing of the fleet' is an annual tradition in these parts. Perhaps gay ships are exempt?
We are expecting hurricane Henri to hit here in about 48 hours, so I have to do the preparation dance for my yachts .. drop sails, haul and hog tie.
@Tall Bald and Ugly@Tall Bald and Ugly
I stop coming here. Heh. Kind words from you, but you really should not encourage me to say something. It messes up the dinner.
saw ‘em at strawberry at the old Camp Mather back in ‘11 or ‘12.#2
Grabbed two or three cd’s at the time.
Good Times
Ya dun gut, Mimi!
There’s something good to be said about crazy old German Ladies!
"Germany’s health minister has criticised the Roman Catholic Church for refusing to bless same-sex unions." This is never going to change unless and until U.S. officials do the same and the U.S. mainstream media hold this pope accountable for this and child sex abuse.
@Betty Clermont
a visit from our local female pastor, who took her bike to passed by to wish her a happz birthday wishes to my now 79 year old sister. That was a nice suprise. Other than that I so far never went to church, no matter which one.
I know God loves me anyway, if I come or if I don't come.
"Germany’s health minister has criticised the Roman Catholic Church for refusing to bless same-sex unions." This is never going to change unless and until U.S. officials do the same and the U.S. mainstream media hold this pope accountable for this and child sex abuse.
@NYCVG
hi, I am in CA. Wouldn't it be funny if the Ds lost first Cuomo, and then Newsom? Bi-coastal Ha ha! Never mind. TGIF
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“The retrieval of people located in the civilian part of the airport was not made possible by partners responsible for security at the airport.”
The government also claimed that it could not tell people to go to the airport for the first plane as there was no guarantee that the plane would be there.
“Due to the extremely dangerous situation on the access routes to the airport, especially in the evening and at night, it would have been an unacceptable risk to life and limb of the people on site to call on those to be evacuated to proceed to the airport before the landing permit was issued and before access was secured by Bundeswehr forces,” the Foreign Office added.
How do people get out if the Taliban jams up every exit point? HOPE. At the end of that article it says:
Berlin estimates that 2,500 local employees who worked with German troops or at the embassy, as well as their family members, need to be evacuated from the country.
Another 2,000 Afghans, such as human rights activists or employees of non-governmental organisations, also need to be brought out of the country.
The number swells to 10,000 if their family members are included.
up your way. Was ok here until this week, but were back in the orange sky zone now.
be well and have a good one
#4 hi, I am in CA. Wouldn't it be funny if the Ds lost first Cuomo, and then Newsom? Bi-coastal Ha ha! Never mind. TGIF
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“The retrieval of people located in the civilian part of the airport was not made possible by partners responsible for security at the airport.”
The government also claimed that it could not tell people to go to the airport for the first plane as there was no guarantee that the plane would be there.
“Due to the extremely dangerous situation on the access routes to the airport, especially in the evening and at night, it would have been an unacceptable risk to life and limb of the people on site to call on those to be evacuated to proceed to the airport before the landing permit was issued and before access was secured by Bundeswehr forces,” the Foreign Office added.
How do people get out if the Taliban jams up every exit point? HOPE. At the end of that article it says:
Berlin estimates that 2,500 local employees who worked with German troops or at the embassy, as well as their family members, need to be evacuated from the country.
Another 2,000 Afghans, such as human rights activists or employees of non-governmental organisations, also need to be brought out of the country.
The number swells to 10,000 if their family members are included.
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 --
@eyo
Yes. Cause for Joy!!!! Dancing in the streets! Cuomo has not a single supporter or friend left in the (D) party in NY.
I have no opinion about Newsome.
On that bit from Germany, omg they sound as mealy mouthed as our gov't spokespeople do. I'll read it again, maybe I've misinterpreted.
#4 hi, I am in CA. Wouldn't it be funny if the Ds lost first Cuomo, and then Newsom? Bi-coastal Ha ha! Never mind. TGIF
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“The retrieval of people located in the civilian part of the airport was not made possible by partners responsible for security at the airport.”
The government also claimed that it could not tell people to go to the airport for the first plane as there was no guarantee that the plane would be there.
“Due to the extremely dangerous situation on the access routes to the airport, especially in the evening and at night, it would have been an unacceptable risk to life and limb of the people on site to call on those to be evacuated to proceed to the airport before the landing permit was issued and before access was secured by Bundeswehr forces,” the Foreign Office added.
How do people get out if the Taliban jams up every exit point? HOPE. At the end of that article it says:
Berlin estimates that 2,500 local employees who worked with German troops or at the embassy, as well as their family members, need to be evacuated from the country.
Another 2,000 Afghans, such as human rights activists or employees of non-governmental organisations, also need to be brought out of the country.
The number swells to 10,000 if their family members are included.
TIL (today I learned) that the eight-nation alliance that invaded China to crush the Boxer Rebellion is exactly the countries in today’s G-7, if you subtract Austria-Hungary. No wonder if over there they’re kinda ill-disposed to having the “rules-based international community” lecture them about freedom, equality, and human rights.
TIL (today I learned) that the eight-nation alliance that invaded China to crush the Boxer Rebellion is exactly the countries in today’s G-7, if you subtract Austria-Hungary. No wonder if over there they’re kinda ill-disposed to having the “rules-based international community” lecture them about freedom, equality, and human rights.
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Rainfall Observed at Peak of Greenland Ice Sheet for First Time on Record
Temperatures at the summit of the ice sheet rose above freezing at around 5:00 am local time on Saturday, "and the rain event began at the same time," NSIDC noted. "For the next several hours, rain fell and water droplets were seen on surfaces near the camp as reported by on-station observers."
The anomalous rainfall at the ice sheet's peak marked the start of a three-day period during which "above-freezing temperatures and rainfall were widespread to the south and west of Greenland... with exceptional readings from several remote weather stations in the area," said NSIDC. "Total rainfall on the ice sheet was 7 billion tons."
The warmer-than-usual temperatures caused significant melting of the ice sheet, with melt extent peaking at 337,000 square miles on August 14.
Blessing guinea pigs might make sense in certain parts of the Andes, where they are food, lots of people bless their food, I have actually observed such blessings being said, even in restaurants.
I wonder it the almost empty German Flugzeug was maybe a safety test, to see if an Airbus could safely take off from an airport in the presence of US troops in a conflict zone. After all, we blew Iran Air Flight 655 out of the air as it was taking off even though it was a regularly scheduled commercial flight & later claimed that we thought it was attacking us.
be well and have a good one and have auch a great Wochenende.
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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 --
but I was reminded of the half empty lifeboats from the Titanic. We never learn, do we.
O-Tschrift. Danke.
Blessing guinea pigs might make sense in certain parts of the Andes, where they are food, lots of people bless their food, I have actually observed such blessings being said, even in restaurants.
I wonder it the almost empty German Flugzeug was maybe a safety test, to see if an Airbus could safely take off from an airport in the presence of US troops in a conflict zone. After all, we blew Iran Air Flight 655 out of the air as it was taking off even though it was a regularly scheduled commercial flight & later claimed that we thought it was attacking us.
be well and have a good one and have auch a great Wochenende.
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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
of course, snark. I was just taking a poke at our willingness to attack civilians but, only those from non-aligned or non-absorbed nations. We would never blow up a German airliner (unless, of course, we thought it was carrying a journalist critical of the US).
but I was reminded of the half empty lifeboats from the Titanic. We never learn, do we.
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of course, snark. I was just taking a poke at our willingness to attack civilians but, only those from non-aligned or non-absorbed nations. We would never blow up a German airliner (unless, of course, we thought it was carrying a journalist critical of the US).
Of 153 shelter residents who were potentially exposured, 83 were fully vaccinated before the outbreak, according to the city alert.
Of 114 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, 66 were fully vaccinated. Fifty-two of the positive cases were from the delta variant strain.
“Sequencing to confirm the delta variant strain within cases at SJH (Samuel Jones Hall) is ongoing,“ the city alert said.
My speel check flagged the "exposured" word above. It's almost like a robot wrote that article instead of a person. GPT-3 generated news, yet another Bill Gates patent cult job killing "innovation". You will rent your local computer generated news text and be happy. Smile.
Anyone else hear Majel Barett's voice reading that last line about sequencing? If Putin KGB propaganda is so bad for the mind, what do you call Hollywood? Incipient cesspool of insidious shit? And Newsom's spousal unit has a profitable career there, serving up identity to the masses. PU the inside of my head is packed full of Hollywoodisms. oh well Hey! Kool-Aid! LOL
Of 153 shelter residents who were potentially exposured, 83 were fully vaccinated before the outbreak, according to the city alert.
Of 114 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, 66 were fully vaccinated. Fifty-two of the positive cases were from the delta variant strain.
“Sequencing to confirm the delta variant strain within cases at SJH (Samuel Jones Hall) is ongoing,“ the city alert said.
My speel check flagged the "exposured" word above. It's almost like a robot wrote that article instead of a person. GPT-3 generated news, yet another Bill Gates patent cult job killing "innovation". You will rent your local computer generated news text and be happy. Smile.
Anyone else hear Majel Barett's voice reading that last line about sequencing? If Putin KGB propaganda is so bad for the mind, what do you call Hollywood? Incipient cesspool of insidious shit? And Newsom's spousal unit has a profitable career there, serving up identity to the masses. PU the inside of my head is packed full of Hollywoodisms. oh well Hey! Kool-Aid! LOL
Good luck
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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 --
@eyo
hmm, what would you prefer, to inhale smoke or to smell fouly dirty water from a small lake you live at and enjoyed you whole life, so full with weirdo see weeds even a boat can not cross the water. Story told to me by an friend of my sister, who lives at that part of Berlin.
Yack.
I hope you can cope with all of what is happening around you. So happy to read you again.
Peace and love, for sure. Keep fighting on going on.
I'd burn it but it's a Spare the Air Day today. Heh. It's all greek theater to me anyway. A comic tragedy.
Of 153 shelter residents who were potentially exposured, 83 were fully vaccinated before the outbreak, according to the city alert.
Of 114 confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, 66 were fully vaccinated. Fifty-two of the positive cases were from the delta variant strain.
“Sequencing to confirm the delta variant strain within cases at SJH (Samuel Jones Hall) is ongoing,“ the city alert said.
My speel check flagged the "exposured" word above. It's almost like a robot wrote that article instead of a person. GPT-3 generated news, yet another Bill Gates patent cult job killing "innovation". You will rent your local computer generated news text and be happy. Smile.
Anyone else hear Majel Barett's voice reading that last line about sequencing? If Putin KGB propaganda is so bad for the mind, what do you call Hollywood? Incipient cesspool of insidious shit? And Newsom's spousal unit has a profitable career there, serving up identity to the masses. PU the inside of my head is packed full of Hollywoodisms. oh well Hey! Kool-Aid! LOL
@mimi@mimi
, oh dear. I had to stop posting with all the terrible shit piling up in the mckinsey wine caves nearby, too much negativity harshing my buzz.
Bay City News, News Partner
Posted Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 8:44 pm PT
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that blue-green algae can cause a variety of symptoms, depending on the type of exposure. Individuals who ingest the algae or contaminated water may experience sore throat, headache, muscle weakness or even pneumonia, while coming into skin contact with the dangerous bacteria can cause swelling or blisters.
Chris Brokate stomps down on a trailer full of garbage and debris that he and volunteers collected from an encampment along the Russian River in Cloverdale, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Brokate is retiring from his duties and will be moving to Ecuador to live with his brother.
The homeless camp under the bridge was swept away and huge boulders placed there instead. The people who lived there did not get housing, they just got their home wrecked. There are burn scars all over the River Park path.
“The only thing that’s really saving us from seeing massive amounts of trash from coming down the river is this drought,” he said.
A wine industry analyst who asked not to be named placed the deal at less than $1 billion but added that it would be hard to put a good estimate on the value of the transaction without knowing more about the equity stake Coppola received from privately held Delicato, noting it was an unusual arrangement.
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“Whenever you have big transactions taking place, it tends to make people stop and think and say, ‘Should I be doing something,’” he said.
J.P. Morgan Securities served as an adviser to Coppola on the sale.
WTF did Francis and family do during the Bay Area homelessness crisis, except take big tax deductions for charity balls? BALLS!
~Om~
Peace and Love
#9 hmm, what would you prefer, to inhale smoke or to smell fouly dirty water from a small lake you live at and enjoyed you whole life, so full with weirdo see weeds even a boat can not cross the water. Story told to me by an friend of my sister, who lives at that part of Berlin.
Yack.
I hope you can cope with all of what is happening around you. So happy to read you again.
Peace and love, for sure. Keep fighting on going on.
@eyo
til I understood that it is an American Russian river, I feared, I am losing my mind. ok, that would not be news, I have lost my mind quite a while ago.
All the best to you.
Thanks for comments plentiful with news I never heard about. Have a good one.
#9.2#9.2, oh dear. I had to stop posting with all the terrible shit piling up in the mckinsey wine caves nearby, too much negativity harshing my buzz.
Bay City News, News Partner
Posted Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 8:44 pm PT
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that blue-green algae can cause a variety of symptoms, depending on the type of exposure. Individuals who ingest the algae or contaminated water may experience sore throat, headache, muscle weakness or even pneumonia, while coming into skin contact with the dangerous bacteria can cause swelling or blisters.
Chris Brokate stomps down on a trailer full of garbage and debris that he and volunteers collected from an encampment along the Russian River in Cloverdale, Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Brokate is retiring from his duties and will be moving to Ecuador to live with his brother.
The homeless camp under the bridge was swept away and huge boulders placed there instead. The people who lived there did not get housing, they just got their home wrecked. There are burn scars all over the River Park path.
“The only thing that’s really saving us from seeing massive amounts of trash from coming down the river is this drought,” he said.
A wine industry analyst who asked not to be named placed the deal at less than $1 billion but added that it would be hard to put a good estimate on the value of the transaction without knowing more about the equity stake Coppola received from privately held Delicato, noting it was an unusual arrangement.
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“Whenever you have big transactions taking place, it tends to make people stop and think and say, ‘Should I be doing something,’” he said.
J.P. Morgan Securities served as an adviser to Coppola on the sale.
WTF did Francis and family do during the Bay Area homelessness crisis, except take big tax deductions for charity balls? BALLS!
~Om~
Peace and Love
As I told you before, we get NO news about Germany over here, so this is great.
RE blessing guinea pigs: Not that this has anything to do with me, but the best thing to come out of the pandemic has to be Christian clerics performing baptisms with Super-Soakers: https://www.hawleyumc.com/post/soacially-distanced-baptism
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In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
As I told you before, we get NO news about Germany over here, so this is great.
RE blessing guinea pigs: Not that this has anything to do with me, but the best thing to come out of the pandemic has to be Christian clerics performing baptisms with Super-Soakers: https://www.hawleyumc.com/post/soacially-distanced-baptism
As I told you before, we get NO news about Germany over here, so this is great.
RE blessing guinea pigs: Not that this has anything to do with me, but the best thing to come out of the pandemic has to be Christian clerics performing baptisms with Super-Soakers: https://www.hawleyumc.com/post/soacially-distanced-baptism
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Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
I read somewhere this week in the wall-to-wall coverage of Afghanistan that US troops were shooting into the air/ground to keep people away from outbound planes while they made sure the canine units/dogs were boarded. I'm very for dogs, but this exit is a mess.
And I do wish we could tell what is really going on. Fog of war indeed.
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@Dawn's Meta
since yesterday. I will try to check tomorrow. Of course, Germans and their dogs, the dogs come before their wives and their children. /s
Germany.
I read somewhere this week in the wall-to-wall coverage of Afghanistan that US troops were shooting into the air/ground to keep people away from outbound planes while they made sure the canine units/dogs were boarded. I'm very for dogs, but this exit is a mess.
And I do wish we could tell what is really going on. Fog of war indeed.
I am a manual laborer kind of super woman who does everything on her own and certainly doesn't work with or in front of computers.
I still wait for the day, when I can do that. Seems like a comfortable job. Sitting down and searching news and talking smartly about everything. That must be paradise ...
I think I have to say thanks and go now, because I have to read the news... ahem.
I am a manual laborer kind of super woman who does everything on her own and certainly doesn't work with or in front of computers.
I still wait for the day, when I can do that. Seems like a comfortable job. Sitting down and searching news and talking smartly about everything. That must be paradise ...
I think I have to say thanks and go now, because I have to read the news... ahem.
I have been there twice, love your country.
I am in San Antonio, Texas, within walking distance to The Alamo. Germans, like every other foreigner, come to pay their respects to the besieged soldiers. I visit the Alamo in the morning, then visit all the cool River Walk places in the afternoon.
Take good care, and take care of your sister, as I do my older brother.
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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The disaster and its causes, victims, and aftermath are already being forgotten, just as suddenly as the torrents of water themselves arose. Afghanistan has totally pushed the story out of the news media’s, and thus the public’s, narrow and jittery zoom-lens focus of awareness.
Did a lot of those 180 people die because Germany’s party-centered politics doesn’t produce enough leaders with vision, determination, and integrity, like Kotoku Wamura? Then again, perhaps no nation, society, or system anywhere does.
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Hi there, as I said above,
I feel I am not the most capable or reliable person to fulfill responsibilities that come with posting regualarly an Open Thread on Fridays. I admit for me open threads are empty threads.
All you get with me is a outlandish ignorant, who can't write Englixh, doesn't know anything USian and has a foobar personal life that knocks me out more often then not.
Do you really want to dels with me? I advise you not to. I don't foresee a satisfying perfoemance from my side.
Anyhow I hope you tell me about all the typical Garman stuff that goes through your mind.
All have a good Friday and a wionderful weekend. Tthy forecast a sunny one in my parts of the world and woods.
Bye for now.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Don't sell yourself short!
Germany is as interesting to US folks as the US is to Germans.
I often catch your DW news clips on youtube, and find y'all are subjected to as much BS propaganda as we are. Here's one example... Russia Bad -
Russia: Crackdown on opposition and independent media | DW News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ACirOGEvGo (4 min)
Yet rarely a word about the US/UK torture of Julian perhaps the world's best journalist.
The stench of hypocrisy is powerful on both sides of the pond!
Take care and have a good day. Thanks for the OT and keep up the good work!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
heh, we Germans are too scared to criticize the mighty
Uncle Sam. And most Germans don't know anything about the US other than Burgers, Icecream and amazingly weirdo reactions from some of the uncles and their brothers.
And they are pretty racistly too. So, no suprise for me.
Our evening news just said the US planes from Kabul bring refugees directly Ramstein now. But I just heard passing by the TV set without time to listen in.
https://www.euronews.com/live
El Adid in Qatar is FULL
The US Military did not plan for any aspect of what's going on.
Clearly, their great strength is a hallucination.
NYCVG
I'm quite sure that DoD, both uniformed and civilian
Thought that the pullout order would be rescinded at the last minute. perhaps spme CIA concocted atrocity failed to come off.
Even the WSJ called it "Saigon on Steroids".
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Guten Morgen (or Moin) Germany
Many thanks for posting today. All are interesting topics worthy of discussion and consideration.
Inspiration for essays seems to ebb and flow for me. Lotlizard has offered to help when she can.
The 'blessing of the fleet' is an annual tradition in these parts. Perhaps gay ships are exempt?
We are expecting hurricane Henri to hit here in about 48 hours, so I have to do the preparation dance for my yachts .. drop sails, haul and hog tie.
question everything
Good tune,
saw ‘em at strawberry at the old Camp Mather back in ‘11 or ‘12.
Grabbed two or three cd’s at the time.
Good Times
Ya dun gut, Mimi!
There’s something good to be said about crazy old German Ladies!
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
When the C99p folks read crazy old German ladies stuff
I stop coming here. Heh. Kind words from you, but you really should not encourage me to say something. It messes up the dinner.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Thank you for including this:
"Germany’s health minister has criticised the Roman Catholic Church for refusing to bless same-sex unions." This is never going to change unless and until U.S. officials do the same and the U.S. mainstream media hold this pope accountable for this and child sex abuse.
Betty Clermont
de nada, I am not catholic anyway, but we got
a visit from our local female pastor, who took her bike to passed by to wish her a happz birthday wishes to my now 79 year old sister. That was a nice suprise. Other than that I so far never went to church, no matter which one.
I know God loves me anyway, if I come or if I don't come.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Bravo, mimi
for taking on this task!
I was very interested to hear about the German plane that left Afghanistan with only 7 evacuees.
This does not square with my notion of German efficiency. Are there ongoing plans to evacuate more people?
NYCVG
Follow the link to local dot de regarding German efficiency
hi, I am in CA. Wouldn't it be funny if the Ds lost first Cuomo, and then Newsom? Bi-coastal Ha ha! Never mind. TGIF
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How do people get out if the Taliban jams up every exit point? HOPE. At the end of that article it says:
WAT
As if... WTF? Never mind.
Food Not Bombs
Peace and Love
Good morning, eyo, good to see you. How's the smoke
up your way. Was ok here until this week, but were back in the orange sky zone now.
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 --
Smoke days
thanks, yes we have more smoke up here now. Maybe some is from the Cache fire in Lake County too, it's eerie.
The California education system is in collapse, and orange is still not my favorite color. Oh well.
keep going
Lost Cuomo?
Yes. Cause for Joy!!!! Dancing in the streets! Cuomo has not a single supporter or friend left in the (D) party in NY.
I have no opinion about Newsome.
On that bit from Germany, omg they sound as mealy mouthed as our gov't spokespeople do. I'll read it again, maybe I've misinterpreted.
NYCVG
Nationalhymne von Neuseeland / Aotearoa／New Zealand nat’l anthem
First verse = language of the Maori, second verse = English.
[video:https://youtu.be/mhCgcZ0efAA]
[video:https://youtu.be/9YX_8jXWccU]
And: here’s a good summary of the history of China’s “century of humiliation” (audio and transcript, in German):
https://kenfm.de/chinas-jahrhundert-der-erniedrigung-von-rainer-rupp/
TIL (today I learned) that the eight-nation alliance that invaded China to crush the Boxer Rebellion is exactly the countries in today’s G-7, if you subtract Austria-Hungary. No wonder if over there they’re kinda ill-disposed to having the “rules-based international community” lecture them about freedom, equality, and human rights.
Seems like that first video left off this part:
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 --
The state of my existence...
I'm a freeborn man.
Says so right on my birth certificate.
Says so right in the USA birth certificate too. Right?
great, I try to be a free woman, but my birth certificate
doesn't say anything like it. I feel stuck whereever I am. So who cares? Great music, JtC
https://www.euronews.com/live
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Guten Morgen mimi. Das ist ein sehr gut
O-Tschrift. Danke.
Blessing guinea pigs might make sense in certain parts of the Andes, where they are food, lots of people bless their food, I have actually observed such blessings being said, even in restaurants.
I wonder it the almost empty German Flugzeug was maybe a safety test, to see if an Airbus could safely take off from an airport in the presence of US troops in a conflict zone. After all, we blew Iran Air Flight 655 out of the air as it was taking off even though it was a regularly scheduled commercial flight & later claimed that we thought it was attacking us.
be well and have a good one and have auch a great Wochenende.
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 --
Maybe the nearly empty plane was a test,
but I was reminded of the half empty lifeboats from the Titanic. We never learn, do we.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Morning LOL. That part of my comment was,
of course, snark. I was just taking a poke at our willingness to attack civilians but, only those from non-aligned or non-absorbed nations. We would never blow up a German airliner (unless, of course, we thought it was carrying a journalist critical of the 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 --
May be if it would carry a critical journalist like Assange? n/t
https://www.euronews.com/live
Newsom recall ballot arrived USPS yesterday
I'd burn it but it's a Spare the Air Day today. Heh. It's all greek theater to me anyway. A comic tragedy.
Gov. Newsom sells Marin County home for $5.9 million
BAM! Right in the face. Newsom don't care THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH for every one at or below his precious 'median income' gauge. His profits created the homeless. DUH.
...
Second COVID-19 death reported at Santa Rosa homeless shelter
My speel check flagged the "exposured" word above. It's almost like a robot wrote that article instead of a person. GPT-3 generated news, yet another Bill Gates patent cult job killing "innovation". You will rent your local computer generated news text and be happy. Smile.
Anyone else hear Majel Barett's voice reading that last line about sequencing? If Putin KGB propaganda is so bad for the mind, what do you call Hollywood? Incipient cesspool of insidious shit? And Newsom's spousal unit has a profitable career there, serving up identity to the masses. PU the inside of my head is packed full of Hollywoodisms. oh well Hey! Kool-Aid! LOL
Good luck
Hey don't knock Kool-Aid, I recall the Airplane
passing out some absotively fantabulous juice at a New Year's Eve concert at Winterland one year.
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 --
Hi eyo, nice to see you here,
hmm, what would you prefer, to inhale smoke or to smell fouly dirty water from a small lake you live at and enjoyed you whole life, so full with weirdo see weeds even a boat can not cross the water. Story told to me by an friend of my sister, who lives at that part of Berlin.
Yack.
I hope you can cope with all of what is happening around you. So happy to read you again.
Peace and love, for sure. Keep fighting on going on.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Toxic algae in the Russian River
, oh dear. I had to stop posting with all the terrible shit piling up in the mckinsey wine caves nearby, too much negativity harshing my buzz.
https://patch.com/california/healdsburg/toxic-algae-russian-river-reside...
...
Wah
Russian River guardian Chris Brokate marks end of watch in Sonoma County
The homeless camp under the bridge was swept away and huge boulders placed there instead. The people who lived there did not get housing, they just got their home wrecked. There are burn scars all over the River Park path.
Sunny outlook. Rats jumping from sinking ships is what it feels like to me... apocalypse what? Hell yeah this is class warfare! Edit: to add linky.
rancis Ford Coppola Winery to be acquired by Napa-based Delicato Family Wines
WTF did Francis and family do during the Bay Area homelessness crisis, except take big tax deductions for charity balls? BALLS!
~Om~
Peace and Love
Dear lady, you confused me with your Russian River...
til I understood that it is an American Russian river, I feared, I am losing my mind. ok, that would not be news, I have lost my mind quite a while ago.
All the best to you.
Thanks for comments plentiful with news I never heard about. Have a good one.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Wunderbar!
As I told you before, we get NO news about Germany over here, so this is great.
RE blessing guinea pigs: Not that this has anything to do with me, but the best thing to come out of the pandemic has to be Christian clerics performing baptisms with Super-Soakers: https://www.hawleyumc.com/post/soacially-distanced-baptism
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
How’bout Nashville fundie churchgoers covering Weird Al Yankovic
[video:https://youtu.be/e9iC-1fxbUY]
reminds me of talking heads
back in their better days. tunes and words to think about ..
evangelists? most I know won't dance, evil sins and all.
thanks!
question everything
Oh that
is Awesome!
Thanks!
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Mimi, well done. Thank you for the news and views from
Germany.
I read somewhere this week in the wall-to-wall coverage of Afghanistan that US troops were shooting into the air/ground to keep people away from outbound planes while they made sure the canine units/dogs were boarded. I'm very for dogs, but this exit is a mess.
And I do wish we could tell what is really going on. Fog of war indeed.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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I am so sorry that I had no time to follow any news
since yesterday. I will try to check tomorrow. Of course, Germans and their dogs, the dogs come before their wives and their children. /s
https://www.euronews.com/live
Hi there, thank you for all your kind comments,
I am a manual laborer kind of super woman who does everything on her own and certainly doesn't work with or in front of computers.
I still wait for the day, when I can do that. Seems like a comfortable job. Sitting down and searching news and talking smartly about everything. That must be paradise ...
I think I have to say thanks and go now, because I have to read the news... ahem.
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go now
remember this? 1965
but please come back: 1968 - We were almost kids then.
question everything
Thanks for the Germany perspective, mimi
I have been there twice, love your country.
I am in San Antonio, Texas, within walking distance to The Alamo. Germans, like every other foreigner, come to pay their respects to the besieged soldiers. I visit the Alamo in the morning, then visit all the cool River Walk places in the afternoon.
Take good care, and take care of your sister, as I do my older brother.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
More than 180 people died in last month’s flooding in Germany
https://apnews.com/article/europe-environment-and-nature-floods-1dfe1d6d...
The disaster and its causes, victims, and aftermath are already being forgotten, just as suddenly as the torrents of water themselves arose. Afghanistan has totally pushed the story out of the news media’s, and thus the public’s, narrow and jittery zoom-lens focus of awareness.
Did a lot of those 180 people die because Germany’s party-centered politics doesn’t produce enough leaders with vision, determination, and integrity, like Kotoku Wamura? Then again, perhaps no nation, society, or system anywhere does.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1386978/The-Japanese-mayor-laug...
A laugh for you mimi
Good Morning !
1.
link
1. “I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.”
—Mitch Hedberg
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12. “I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford. Then I want to move in with them.”
—Phyllis Diller
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21. “Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring: ‘How to Build a Boat.’”
—Steven Wright
https://parade.com/940913/parade/funny-quotes/