@NCTim both called The Iguanas. I couldn’t see the video, apparently it’s not approved for viewing in Germany.

When would you be needing someone to cover OT posting?

P.S. Glad to hear your spirits are higher and starting to do that soaring thing again.

#1 You are on top of the news! Perhaps you could pinch hit for me, when I go wandering. Hey, you're a lizard, do you know The Iguanas?

@mimi  
Lies die Lügenpresse durch und glaube. Oder vielleicht besser nicht?
Emphasis on “Lies”

Anis Amri, a Tunisian whose asylum request had been denied, is the man who drove the truck into a crowd at the Berlin Christmas market. In the following interview with Green party expert for security Christian Ströbele, the possibility is raised that Amri’s surprising freedom of movement despite being wanted for a whole list of crimes might have been due to his status as some kind of U.S. intelligence asset.

https://www.taz.de/Christian-Stroebele-zum-Fall-Amri/!5407898/

The next article addresses the possibility that vote-count irregularities in the state of North Rhine–Westphalia’s recent election cheated the right-wing populist party AfD out of a significant number of votes legitimately cast for it.

https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Sind-der-AfD-Stimmen-bei-der-NRW-Landta...

More than 10 percent of the Erststimmen (a vote directly for a candidate), but 0.0 percent of the Zweitstimmen (a second, separate vote for a party; total determines the proportion of seats that party gets in parliament)? One doesn’t have to like the AfD to see that something’s very fishy there.

#1 #1
(added a paragraph from the link below I found somewhat important)
[video:https://youtu.be/A8s4DJmVAc4]
I am 'racist' now:
Reminded me of what some Africans call themselves and are masters off in participating, the transmitters of radio-trottoir talk on the market places ...

In most cases, such as in Zaïre, Congo, and Gabon, the press is owned or controlled by the state, and everything that is published for people's consumption is selected and censored by one party rule machine. [7] Because dominant/official political and social discourse is monopolized within the constitutional framework of the party, press organs such as Salongo and Elima in Kinshasa, L'Union in Libreville, were not allowed to contradict or to challenge the official news reports or the state system. Therefore, those who are not involved in the party turn toward rumor, or more specifically, radio-trottoir.

My interest in this phenomenon is in the way radio-trottoir signifies the ideas and the feelings of the people as it resists official discourse and conventional mass media. I view radio-trottoir as a text of class struggle against political and economic oppression. As a mode of representation, it is a private transcript jettisoned to public space in direct opposition to official reporting. As I hope to show, artists in general, and playwrights especially, recuperate the machine of radio-trottoir and use it to voice their criticisms and attacks on the powerholders. What is the credibility of radio-trottoir in a country such as Zaïre? To what extent do art and performance contribute to canonizing radio-trottoir as the voice of the oppressed for social and political action (at least in discourse)? What about the threats of censorship? And how do artists bypass them? These are the cultural/critical issues that make rumor and radio-trottoir significant.

lotlizard, I love green Iguanas.

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But, maybe that's only me and maybe that's not a good way to be. I don't know. I've never quite gotten the hang of the basics. You seem to have a good handle on living your life, so maybe go with your gut.

#5 Whether the feistiness is a symptom of anger or upturn. It feels normal, since I was always a little feisty.

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#6

@QMS the rest of the house thought a transformer blew until I told them.

#10 Yes, that sounds like ball lightning. I've seen it myself a couple of times, once right out my window in Ann Arbor, bouncing around inside the canopy of tree branches. Haven't seen one pop yet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

@lotlizard
and thanks for the poem.

#11

Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee,
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!

I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,
Has broken nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!

I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
’S a sma’ request;
I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,
An’ never miss’t!

Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!
An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,
O’ foggage green!
An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin,
Baith snell an’ keen!

Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste,
An’ weary winter comin fast,
An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell —
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro’ thy cell.

That wee bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble,
Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter’s sleety dribble,
An’ cranreuch cauld!

But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an ’men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!

Still thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me
The present only toucheth thee:
But, Och! I backward cast my e’e.
On prospects drear!
An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!

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That's a different story.

#11