June 16, 2025

Drumph is so egotistical he thinks AF1 should squat down to receive him.

Is that very last flight to Florida scheduled yet?.........

June 9, 2025

It's a righteous rant you have there.

At 77, not looking forward to three more years of this insane shit. Remember when we were foolish enough to think it couldn't get any worse than Nixon/Agnew?

Fighting depression, arthritis, and an extremely tight budget, the GOP is not helping my retirement and mood. That's not how politics is supposed to work. I'm finding some peace in music, my flower garden and repairing anything that's broken for friends and family.

Thank you for your service in 'Nam..... I barely missed being drafted by virtue of the lottery in '69 but many of my class of '65 classmates were not so lucky. I hope the VA is treating you OK.

Love your story about your grandson. Just got to witness my granddaughter's HS graduation with great joy but I worry about what her future will hold, even with her excellent grades.

Peace!........

June 9, 2025

Anyone else smelling a rat relating to the LA demonstration violence?

I keep having flashbacks of the violence and property damage during the Minneapolis George Floyd protests in 2020 and during some Black Lives Matter protests where right-wing thugs infiltrated the peaceful protesters.

Many of those wingnuts wore garb to conceal their identity and even used umbrellas to hide from security cameras. Some carried hammers to break out storefront windows, while others were later proven to have been provocateurs organized via right-wing web sites who stirred anger among protesters.

See: https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-helped-ignite-george-floyd-riots-identified-white/story?id=72051536

and: https://www.yahoo.com/news/far-extremist-shot-minneapolis-police-184300735.html

Yes, this is the GOP we're dealing with today and it's been proven to be violent many, many times before. I also have no doubt Russia and other international actors are helping to stoke this violence through provocations on social media.

KY

June 6, 2025

TiO2 is also used to whiten paper products. Possibly in food packaging?

I know it's used to provide ultra-white color properties for "slick" magazine and newsprint pages, so there's a potential for it being an additive for food packaging. I did not see that possibility mentioned in either of the articles.

I hope these organizations check for TiO2 content in fast food packaging, especially Chinese take-out containers. I believe a lot of America's food packaging product are now made overseas and probably with little or no controls.

I ran into TiO2 as an air pollution control systems field service engineer back in the 90s. The damn stuff built up on precipitator discharge electrode nail tips in a form that looked like golf balls and was almost impossible to remove!

KY

May 25, 2025

My place has hundreds of the shells all over everything.....

here in the Louisville area. I've collected a few for my microscope hobby and pointed out the pencil-size holes in the lawn to my son from which they came. They always create quite an uproar along certain stretches of I-64 that are walled on both sides where the interstate was cut through some hills.

The live adult insects that are perched are actually quite fun to mess with, almost like they enjoy the attention!

From Wikipedia on periodical cicada:

The term periodical cicada is commonly used to refer to any of the seven species of the genus Magicicada of eastern North America, the 13- and 17-year cicadas. They are called periodical because nearly all individuals in a local population are developmentally synchronized and emerge in the same year.

Magicicada species spend around 99.5% of their long lives underground in an immature state called a nymph. While underground, the nymphs feed on xylem fluids from the roots of broadleaf forest trees in the eastern United States.[4] In the spring of their 13th or 17th year, mature cicada nymphs emerge between late April and early June (depending on latitude), synchronously and in tremendous numbers.[5][6] The adults are active for only about four to six weeks after the unusually prolonged developmental phase.[7]

The males aggregate in chorus centers and call there to attract mates. Mated females lay eggs in the stems of woody plants. Within two months of the original emergence, the life cycle is complete and the adult cicadas die. Later in that same summer, the eggs hatch and the new nymphs burrow underground to develop for the next 13 or 17 years.

Thanks for the post! It's quite a ritual event in our area.

KY

May 19, 2025

I'm grateful to President Biden and VP Harris for four years of mental and emotional peace.

Also for the knowledge we were going forward every day, not backwards, and for looking forward to reading the news each morning, not dreading it..


KY.........

May 6, 2025

Ann's web site...

Here: https://anntelnaes.com/

Her books available via links here: https://anntelnaes.com/books/


Loved her wit and artistry for many years........

May 5, 2025

What we're seeing may be normal behavior for a psychopath.....

and many mental health professionals believe he is one, along with being a hard-core narcissist.

This term, he has a different group of enablers along with a manifesto (Proj. 2025), along with the knowledge this is his last term. So, if they're going to burn it all down, it could be their last chance for decades. From what I've read, these circumstances can drive a psychopath to do some very radical and destructive.things.

In a normal, sane world, serous efforts to remove him would be well under way by now. However, we know what happened to those efforts during the last term......

April 28, 2025

National Hurricane Center 2024 Tropical Cyclone Reports have been posted

Observed posted at: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

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Tropical Cyclone Report for Hurricane Milton: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142024_Milton.pdf

NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT
HURRICANE MILTON
(AL142024) 5–10 October 2024
John L. Beven II, Laura Alaka, and Cody Fritz
National Hurricane Center
31 March 2025

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Tropical Cyclone Report for Hurricane Helene: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL092024_Helene.pdf

NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER
TROPICAL CYCLONE REPORT
HURRICANE HELENE
(AL092024)
24–27 September 2024
Andrew B. Hagen, John P. Cangialosi, Marc Chenard1, Laura Alaka, and Sandy Delgado
National Hurricane Center
8 April 2025

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A lot to digest at 72 and 107 pages, respectively. With TFG in power, these may be among the last we'll see for years, if ever again...... .

KY.........

April 18, 2025

FSU student who knew suspected shooter says he was removed from club for white supremacist views

Source: NBC News

FSU student Reid Seybold described locking down with classmates during the campus shooting, hiding under desks and hearing the door handle rattle. He texted loved ones goodbye, fearing for his life. Seybold later learned the suspected shooter was Phoenix Ikner, someone he knew from a political club at his former college, where Ikner was asked not to return due to white supremacist views.

Read more:

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Another Florida Fascist and white supremacist.

RIP to those past, speedy recovery to those wounded and peace be with all affected families.

:KY......candle: