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Good morning, good people! I hope you are all in fine fettle, and have fun plans for the weekend.

A couple of guys came by this week to help remove the heavy stuff from the office. There are files and file cabinets to remove, and the contents of the office kitchen and some closets remaining. I have until Oct. 9 to get that done. We put lots of furniture inside the house, and it will take some time to find the pieces a permanent place. What we will have in spades is time. We are not letting this overwhelm us.

Happy Friday everyone. Well, we made it through another week of endless wars, rising inflation, a collapsing economy, and a country on the brink of financial disaster. Not to mention an environment that's slowly burning up the planet. As bad as it is, it's not all doom and gloom 24/7. Tell us what you did this week to put a smile on your face and forget about the doom and gloom. My go to is to get out with the camera and take photos, What's yours?

After photography, watching or listening to sports is another way I tune out the doom and gloom. At the top of the list is baseball. I'm a real happy camper. The San Diego Padres qualified for the post season with their win last night. Who and where they play in the opening round of the playoffs will be determined over the last three days of the regular season. Whether they play at home or on the road, I'm just happy they will be playing in the post season

Earlier this month the camera club went to La Jolla Cove for our monthly outing. Each month we have a photo challenge based on the location of where we are shooting. Since La Jolla Cove tends to have a lot of sea and shore birds, this months photo challenge was birds. The Blue-footed Booby is a rare visitor. Normally they are not found this far north, but because of the expanding warming ocean temps in the Pacific due to the developing El Niño, the Booby's food source has moved north with the expanding temps and the Booby's have moved north with them. There have been sightings from San Diego to as far north as the Port of Los Angeles.

Juvenile California Gull

The Wikipedia has a decent write up. I think of this as Chuseok, the Korean harvest moon festival, but the other Sino-centric cultures have their own versions of the Chinese festival.

中秋节 / Mid Autumn Festival

The three branches of government are supposed to be equal, right?

In my humble opinion, the President is too powerful, Congress is worthless, the Judiciary has stepped beyond its boundries.

And they all are as corrupt as hell.

 — Shimon Shmueli

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"the Zionist billionaires don't expect there to be an America after Trump, or at least they're acting that way" -- Moe Tkacik, on Katie Halper's show

In a recent thread on Facebook, someone asks, in response to a Nathan Robinson comment arguing that the US is the world's biggest terrorist: