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1) About Kyle Rittenhouse: I really don't care if the mainstream media is "telling the truth" about him, or not. What was important to me was that the situation deteriorated so rapidly that he ended up killing people, probably in self-defense, but still. "The streets" used to be the imagined location where the revolution was going to happen. They were, after all, an important part of the French Revolution. Now it's this. That's the source of my complaint.

The song the Englishers know as “Carol Of The Bells” was originally not a Christmas carol, nor were there any bells in it. It was a song of the new year, which arrived in April, there in Ukraine, where the song was born, and it was called “Shchedryk,” which may mean “bountiful,” or maybe “the generous one," or, maybe, something else again.

The tale it tells comes from before the Christians came to Ukraine to change the calendar; when, at the new year, which was then in spring, a swallow flies into a farmer’s house, and there says to the man: Hey, go out and look at the sheep pen, the ewes are all happy, there are sheep babies, you have a lot of livestock, that’s good fortune, and you’ll make good money selling them, and, if not from that, then from all the grain that you have. And then the swallow says the farmer should be happy, not only because of that, but also because “you have a dark-eyebrowed wife.” With “dark-eyebrowed,” in Ukrainian, a synonym for “beautiful.” And you gotta figure these people know what they’re talking about, because, it is generally acknowledged, among the white people at any rate, that Ukraine, it produces, the most beautiful wimmins, in all the world.

Cooking and Eating Edition

The summer and fall crops are harvested and with the holidays looming we've been planning meals. We ate the first of this years sweet potatoes this week. We have some butternut squash waiting to become soup. A turkey and a variety of local meats from the mountain are stored in the freezer. Fresh lettuce and parsley in the garden, with cabbage, broccoli, and greens coming on strong. This is a good time of year to celebrate the Earth's bounty.

Some of these terms have made it into popular culture. Acapulco Gold, Michoacán Cream, Jarilla Sinaloa.
They've all gone away. These days it's Mexican custom agents that are making the drug seizures.

And we're damned proud of it.

So they let off Kyle Rittenhouse with, well, nothing. As a commentator on Facebook said: "The Rittenhouse decision has basically deputized white supremacists to kill protestors with impunity. Political violence on a new scale and register is coming our way." Remember, as I said earlier, that political alliances run America.

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

Happy Friday everyone. As always, past whatever you got.

There was a lunar eclipse last night. I was hoping to get some photos of it to post tonight, unfortunately Mother Nature did not cooperate. I requested she play Johnny Nash; I can see clearly now. Instead she chose Pink Floyd; Obscured by clouds. So, no eclipse shots to post tonight, just the regular old moon.

Almost Full. Nov. 14th, 2021