April 7, 2023

The Blackburn Report

I just saw this in my email… even though I have requested over and over again to be taken off the list:

Once again, we see two tiers of justice at work. Make no mistake: if the former President’s name were anything but ‘Trump,’ he would not be facing these charges. After Hillary Clinton violated federal election law when she covered up how her campaign spent thousands of dollars to secretly spy on President Trump, she was handed a slap on the wrist. President Trump’s arraignment is a gross abuse of power by a blue state government to fabricate the outcome they’ve wanted since 2015. They have thrown the rule of law out the window at the expense of American democracy. It’s unprecedented, unnerving, and un-American.

What a vapid piece of shirt. She’s right that there are two tiers of justice, but she’s wrong about how it works. If any other person in the country had done what TFG has done, they’d have been behind bars years ago. She also forgets how many years were spent investigating Hillary, only to come up with a nothing burger. I think I’m going to puke. If you write to her, you’ll get a form letter back, thanking you for taking the time, blah blah blah.

I am so fed up with Tennessee, Republicans, fascism, and all the other shit going on, not to mention the brainless idiots who buy this rot.

April 2, 2023

We lost our Weeping Willow tree last night.

This spring has been the windiest spring we've had since we moved here in 2006. I don't mean a little windier, either. We have just about everything on the porches tied down, which we never had to do before.

Yesterday was intolerable for me and the horse. She doesn't eat on windy days and I can't even stand to hear the wind. If I go out in it, I get dizzy. It was that bad. But we had escaped the worst. Our daughter lives an hour north of us and called to tell me yesterday evening that there were trees down everywhere and roof shingles on the ground.

It's not windy now, but it's still cold. We notice a while ago that our Weeping Willow tree is down. We planted it in 2009 and it was so young that we had to give it "training wheels" (tree stakes) to hold it up for the first few years. It grew into a huge stately tree. And all it took to bring it down was a windy night. It brought a huge clump of sod with it and I have no idea how we're going to clean it all up. We don't have a tractor or any farm equipment.

I'm truly frightened that this is just a taste of things to come. The weather seems to be more unpredictable every year, almost as if Mother Nature is fighting back. Is this, and worse, what's in store for us as we try our best to kill the planet?