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“Creating an alternative reality has been the solution for my mental health. I find reality a bit depressing with death and all, politics, war, celebrities, etc., and that all the stars are so far away we can never really get to know the universe.” -- Mark Jenkins

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Hey, it's Wednesday! Another opportunity to refine the mind in a midweek kind of way.

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Potpourri, scrambled eggs and smorgasbord on the menu today .. all you can eat for .99%

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A Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert King jam from 1983 ~ about 1 1/2 hours worth

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Since this is an open thread format, bring whatever ya got to the table to share.

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dumpster diving by Mark Jenkins
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1904 - Salvador Dali, surrealist painter was born
1858 - Minnesota is admitted as the 32nd U.S. state
1888 - Irving Berlin, composer was born
2012 - Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation
1928 - General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady, NY)

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Ukraine has cut the flow of gas to the EU, shutting down one of the largest pipelines going through the country. Wonder if the EU will blame Russia for Ukraine's (Nulan's) actions? I bet so.
Russia is stll fulfilling it's contracts by shifting flow to other pipelines. Will they be cut off? Stay tuned.
Here's Alex AM recap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZkNQD9CfNw
Features this clip as his clown world leaving the sky news host wondering if we are the baddies.
https://t.me/ostashkonews/11001
30 sec is about right for this joke...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU&t=20s]

Turned dry here, only 0.3" so far this month and none in sight until at least next Tuesday. Having to water the garden already. Oh well less disease and insects maybe?

Hope your chores are going well and all the boats are afloat!

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

We are getting the wet from the sky that is missing you.
Still cool in the night time ~ 40's and windy around the clock.
Have the 54' in the water, finishing her up finally. She's going on a
ship to UK out of Baltimore next week. Bye bye.
Now it's full time push on the 46'. Got my cleaning gal back up
from Jamaica starting on that one, which is a big help.

Best regards ..

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The Russians finally get to openly celebrate this important date that has so much meaning for them due to the great sacrifice that is part of almost everyone's family history.

Victory parade in Mariupol, Ukraine. 09 May, 2022. Watch

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@CB

Victory Day in the Ukraine

  • U.S. new aid to Ukraine rises to $40 billion,
  • Victory Day events in the former Ukraine (JOIN THE FESTIVITIES!!!),
  • Switchblades have failed,
  • Even the “realists” are in Medazzaland,
  • The Azov prepare to die like men…NOT!
  • This ship will founder (the U.S. economy has failed, and so has MAGA)
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Classic Jam video.

Organizational day with chores and errands here, ever evolving attempt at getting stuff done without fixating on same while also keeping track of all my must do daily type stuff. Aggrh!

Too many balls in the air at one time for too long, but it looks to be winding down rsn, so I just need to maintain and remember all the routine everyday stuff.

Enough of that, sunny but cool, birds and floweers doing their thing, so everything's cool.

be well and have a good one

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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 --

@enhydra lutris

have never been a good juggler
when too many balls are air bound
most seem to fall down

hope the daily affairs stay afloat

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of this, a little bit of that. No scrambled eggs though. Thanks for the OT QMS.

Sounds as if you have cool temps compared to ours. We're hitting the triple digits already. Not as bad as Pakistan and India though. https://www.firstpost.com/india/imd-predicts-fresh-heatwave-spell-in-del...

Glen Greenwald on spending our money wisely (not).https://greenwald.substack.com/p/biden-wanted-33b-more-for-ukraine?s=r

We have long ago left the realm of debating why it is in the interest of American citizens to pour our country's resources into this war, to say nothing of risking a direct war and possibly catastrophic nuclear escalation with Russia, the country with the largest nuclear stockpile, with the US close behind. Indeed, one could argue that the U.S. government entered this war and rapidly escalated its involvement without this critical question — which should be fundamental to any policy decision of the U.S. government — being asked at all.

That has left the traditionally left-wing argument about war opposition to the populist right. “You can’t find baby formula in the United States right now but Congress is voting today to send $40 billion to Ukraine," said Donald Trump, Jr. on Tuesday, echoing what one would expect to hear from the 2016 version of Bernie Sanders or the pre-victory AOC. “In the America LAST $40 BILLION Ukraine FIRST bill that we are voting on tonight, there is authorization for funds to be given to the CIA for who knows what and who knows how much? But NO BABY FORMULA for American mothers!” explained Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Christian Walker, the conservative influencer and son of GOP Senate candidate Herschel Walker in Georgia, today observed: “Biden should go apply to be the President of Ukraine since he clearly cares more about them than the U.S.” Chomsky himself caused controversy last week when he said that there is only one statesman of any stature in the West urging a diplomatic solution “and his name is Donald J. Trump.”

Looks like it's dumpster-diving for the usians since our $ goes to those oh-so-nice war-mongers.

Hope you're doing well up there in your neck of the woods, have a good one.

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@randtntx That was a particularly good article.

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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