OT ~ Welcome to Saturday!

Submitted by smiley7 on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 4:00am

Sit-a-while
on swinging porch
where tin-dippers and
sweet water
in cool touches
meet lips
from hand dug wells.

Good morning good people,

Have a smile today.

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

~ William Shakespeare

Another busy week, topped off by a busier weekend. Down the mountain in the heat, offline, dealing with no good choices stuff and lots of labour.

Hoping you all have a great weekend and conversation; the porch is yours, see you next week!

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Submitted by eyo on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 6:06am

I Love You, California

Cloverdale art student wins national congressional art contest

Ortiz’ winning piece, created in markers, is titled “I Love You, California” and is a dramatic image of a female face imposed on a fire-colored background, with many natural pieces of the California environment created in her features.

“(I started it) when the fires started. I wasn’t too concerned with the fires when they first started, but then when you start seeing all the dust and smoke everywhere you start to worry about your town, your family and people in Sonoma County,” she said. “I just needed an outlet to let it out. (Outwardly,) I was ignoring the whole thing, like the fire didn’t exist, but on the inside I was terrified and I just kind of let it out.”

“Also, during that time I had a greater appreciation of Sonoma County and where I live,” she continued. “I saw the valleys and the rivers and the vineyards and I was like ‘Wow, this place is beautiful, how come I never noticed this?’ So I drew that piece to show how beautiful Sonoma County and California can be, especially the parts you never see. And, also, how the fire brought more importance to Sonoma County and how people were noticing it more. I just like wanted to show how brave the people are and how beautiful this place is.”

I Love You, California
-- Jaslyn Ortiz, Cloverdale

right on sister
peace

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 7:41am

Good morning everybody. Thanks for the OT and summer

sonnet, smiley7. It doth make one to smile, even sitting in the dark with a CAlifornia Towhee outside the window giving out the incessant sharp chee, chee, chee ad infinitum. Soon the sun will rise and the scrubbies will drown her out. Dunno if that is good or bad.

Farmers' market today and my week to cook starts tomorrow. With luck I'll have fresh caught Pacific Salmon from Half Moon Bay to open the week. I have to see how badly constrained my pizza making will under my new regimin, shrooms are ++, but the rest ...

Everybody 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 --

Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 8:02am

Ha, that's my approach

@enhydra lutris to pizza as well. Shrooms yes, most toppings O.K. but the rest, sadly, no.
Happy cooking el. Its so hot here its hard to muster the will to cook, but it must be done. Have to harvest my last few greens before they cook themselves independently of my efforts.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 8:11am

Well, I used to eschew all the "low this and that" and "reduced

@randtntx whatever" stuff, but now I can't. Surprisingly, so far the worst thing might be the San Marzano tomatoes I use in my sauce - hellacious salt bomb. If I skip all the sausage/pepperoni/salami and go with sparsely applied lean ground beef, it looks doable, though I don't really have good numbers for my sourdough crust. Can't be too bad though.

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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 --

Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 8:45am

I know what you mean

@enhydra lutris about not chewing all that. I have come to the conclusion that everyone is different and what dietary restrictions work for some, make no difference to others. Some can tolerate salt just fine but not all. So, we all have to experiment on ourselves to see what works. It can be hit or miss and slow going. There are always conflicting guidelines. At times it seems I have to eschew everything. Or it could just be that the old body is falling apart in general and has nothing to do with diet.
So we all have to pick and choose what we can chew (sorry, can't help myself). I have to say though, sourdough crust sounds so damn good.

Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 9:50am

Definition of abstain

@enhydra lutris by Ambrose Bierce:
''Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.''

Submitted by randtntx on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 8:32am

Thanks for the porch

smiley. Hang in there through your "not good choices" week and your "down the mountain" heat. Take care of yourself and as my family always reminds me, hydrate.
My preoccupation lately is water. I know you have recently had excessive amounts but here we have have had the opposite. Right now I am in sympathy with Larkin.

Water by Philip Larkin

If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.

Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;

My liturgy would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench,

And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly.

Submitted by detroitmechworks on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 9:16am

So glad I left California...

Yeah, so California dispensaries have started keeping customer profiles... supposedly for sale to others. Oh man, they might as well admit that they're keeping track for the DEA so when it's declared illegal again they can round up all the undesirables...

I'm starting to think that true freedom means nobody keeps records...

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I do not pretend I know what I do not know.

Submitted by eyo on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 9:45am

Chinese hackers steal

Chinese hackers steal sensitive Navy program data

WASHINGTON — Cyberattacks sponsored by the Chinese government infiltrated a U.S. Navy contractor’s computers, allowing digital thieves to access sensitive data related to secret Navy projects on a submarine anti-ship missile.

The information stolen was stored on the contractor’s unclassified network despite being “highly sensitive nature,” according to information obtained by the Washington Post.

According to the report, 614 gigabytes of material on a closely held project known as Sea Dragon were taken. Contracted for the military organization Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Sea Dragon aims to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines.

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maybe bong hits will rescind OPCOM

The “real alliance” is that which unifies and reunites North and South Korea through dialogue against foreign intrusion and aggression.

The US is in a state of war against the entire Korean Nation. And what this requires is the holding of bilateral talks between the ROK and the DPRK with a view to signing an agreement which nullifies the Armistice and sets the term of a bilateral “Peace Treaty”. In turn this agreement would set the stage for the exclusion of US military presence and the withdrawal of the 28,500 US forces.

Moreover, pursuant to bilateral Peace negotiations, the ROK-US OPCOM agreement which places ROK forces under US command should be rescinded. All ROK troops would thereafter be brought under national ROK command.

Bilateral consultations should also be undertaken with a view to further developing economic, technological, cultural and educational cooperation between the ROK and the DPRK.

Without the US in the background pulling the strings under OPCOM, the threat of war would be replaced by dialogue. The first priority, therefore would be to rescind OPCOM.

peace

Submitted by earthling1 on Sat, 06/09/2018 - 12:48pm

I grew up in SoCal

and have explored most of it over the years. Indeed, a beautiful place.
Although I now live in the Pacific Northwest, I would live there again if the taxes allowed. And the property values moderated.
I still lovingly, LOVINGLY I say, refer to it as "Land of Shake n' bake".
Congrats to Jaslyn Ortiz.
Thanks for the OT, Smiley.

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Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.