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Happy Friday everyone. Welcome to Friday Night Photos your once a week escape from the day to day insanity of the world we live in. Post any photos, memes, music or whatever else you find of interest that helps tune out the madness.

After cool temps and rain most of last week, it's been sunny skies and very warm temps this week. Today's forecast is for low 80s along the coast and mid 90s inland where I live. Temps are not the only thing on the rise. Gas has gone up 20¢ to $4.29 a gallon in the last few weeks.

Every year from the beginning of February until mid March the Navy's flight demonstration team the Blue Angels are based at NAF El Centro in the Imperial valley. Each morning just after the playing of colors at 8am they have a practice session that last about an hour. Last Thursday another member of the camera club and myself drove out to catch that mornings session.

Why the obsession with history, faith practices, business models, news and politics? One could say to know the past, brings understanding to the present and improves projections into the future. Another way to phrase the evolving puzzle of self or a population group: How I got here, where I am and imagining future possibilities.

Sometimes it is simply for self preservation and a moderately safe future. The US safety net has become an illusion for any US citizen falling from middle class to poverty. As a general rule citizens seem to have been willing to provide funds for a safety net it is just the nonprofits and governments to often use up or save money for themselves.

She Said It for All of Us!

A day or two ago Caitlin Johnstone wrote a great piece about how this time the war will be entirely different than the previous wars. Joe Shikspack highlighted the piece in his Evening Blues yesterday. I’d read Caitlin’s piece a bit earlier via an email from Caitlin and agreed with everything she wrote. Everything.

The propaganda and lie telling to get ‘us’ to support a stupid idiotic war is so blatant. So repetitive. I’ve heard it all my life. Surely TPTB could improve on this a bit?

From Streetartutopia.com

A mighty Imperial Armada has gathered around a planet country threatening total annihilation should the rebels not surrender.

I took a crack at this once before, and a lot has happened since then.