I recently had a little spat with some people on Facebook who claimed that Poland was "democratic" despite its banning the Communist Party. Their proposal, here, appears to be that banning parties is totally democratic because we don't like them. My response:
Good morning, good people! I hope everyone is doing well, and those of us that will experience freezing temps this weekend will take note of the 3 minute tutorial that LO brought to us in his WW last week. Now, just because the video features southerners saying and doing unusual freeze prep in your opinion, in our southern opinion, it is what my friends and neighbors are saying and doing right now in preparation for tomorrow night. I have been listening to them for days. In the office, in the grocery store, in the courthouse...
Refresher course below:
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.
In the film era of photography, camera settings were limited to shutter speed, aperture, and film speed. Not much to go wrong there. Today's digital cameras are small computers, and the settings you can program into how the camera functions are in the hundreds. And like all computers/programs, you get bugs and glitch's. One of those glitch's popped up when I went to the zoo Wed. morning. When I turned the camera on and looked through the viewfinder, there was no color. Everything was B&W. That was something I didn't expect since the last time I used the camera a few days earlier, everything in the view finder was in color. One of the hundreds of programing options available is to save your preferred camera settings on a memory card (which I've done) so when a glitch happens you can throw that memory card into the camera (which I did) and reload your preferred settings. Color restored. Crisis averted. It was a beautiful day weather wise. Sunny and mid 70s. A big plus was there were very few people visiting the zoo that day. The big minus was the animals were being very camera shy. Now if only there was a setting on the camera to make the animals less camera shy.
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Morning - a few subjects I found interesting this past week which have the potential of effecting our future.
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It's a slow burn.
The US is being asset stripped, slowly but surely. To quote Hemingway in his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises:
"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
"Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."
We're all feeling the pinch from that long time vehicle of wealth distribution, inflation. We feel it with every purchase we make. It can be caused by many factors but the end result is the same. Ask yourself this: Where does the extra money go when prices rise because of inflation? The money doesn't just disappear. Who benefits?
Inflation is just one aspect of the fleecing we are being subjected to, albeit probably the most obvious as we live it everyday. It's a slow drain.
That is the "gradually" aspect of Hemingway's quote in the context of this essay.
New! And Old!
A few days ago one of the advocacy groups I'm involved with and following led me down a rabbit hole to another advocacy area which I'd never even knew about, ever. And it's IMPORTANT. I'm sure many of you know about this, but I didn't realize that there were groups fighting Ageism, fighting against the images our society (and many other societies) make about old people, and how societies treat old people.
Artwork from Growing and Older (link below)
What a great rabbit hole! I'm just getting started and already much of the stuff I'm learning from these groups has lifted up my spirits, making me feel as good about myself and what I can do. I'm setting some possible goals, new goals for the next few years. Good stuff! Below are some of the sites I've found. There is much more out there, for sure!
Friend, I’ll explain everything here.
Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House
You
Friend - I’m looking to cut a deal with you.
Our thin majority is facing one of the biggest multi-pronged attacks we’ve ever faced.
The Democrats are signaling something TERRIFYING. I need you to read this.
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