World Leader Pretend

Reach out for me and hold me tight
Hold that memory
Let my machine talk to me, let my machine talk to me
Let it say Covfefe


NPR report
El Lobo's job to secure a safe entry into the United States is getting less dependable.  He may have to open up a little store or sell cars.  For now he must charge more, $4800, to paddle his clients across the Rio Grande on inner tubes and scale a metal fence in Brownsville, TX.
 
I can't spend near that much for a vacation!

El Lobo shows the interviewer his friction burns on his inner arms that he got when he shimmied up an iron pole and slid down the other side to tie a rope to haul over his clients.
El Lobo says we can spend the exorbitant amount of US tax dollars to build a wall, "But we'll just climb over it!"

A union official of the National Boarder Control Council response:

"I would say the guy's probably a little full of himself," he says of El Lobo. "I mean I think that a wall is a barrier for him.  Does it stop him?  No.  Does it slow him down?  Yes, it does.  If there was no wall, he wouldn't have any bruises and he'd get his traffic across that much easier."

I need Fred Armisten and Bill Hader to create something out of this.  People are paying for the worst vacation ever.  El Lobo says a wall will not deter him nor or his clients.  US Boarder control official says the wall will not work, but dude will get bruises, so win.

For now, without the wall, there is a dramatic decline in illegal border crossing.  I guess a mix of extra border patrol and Trump not wanting them is enough to pass on El Lobo.  I don't want the fucking wall, I'm for legalizing and regulating drugs and aligning with our southern neighbor so that the people who don't really want to leave don't pay for a shitty vacation.

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Better than War

I might think of a better series title, but for now this is the start of a series about things on our planet that we should experience instead of enduring war.  This is an effort to have a positive online presence to counteract the profiteering over fear and hatred.  ISIS and Alt-Right do not have the answers.  Neither do I.  It's our job to figure it out for ourselves, but I think love plays a big part in it. Happy Saturday.

We should pull out, Dude

We need to pull out of war in the middle east (and anywhere else)
Our presence in the cradle of civilization,
impregnates hate and fear.
Users are weaponizing this turmoil against humanity.
The United States is fueling the weapon.
For fuck sakes!  All humans are on a planet in a solar system in a galaxy in the middle of, as far as we know, infinite space.  We are on this planet for a short amount of time and shorter for some and especially those in war zones.
How dare the U.S. government (or any other government) decide how another human on our planet should experience it!  Let us experience the earth and relationships without military conflict!
I'm even talking to you little tribal war bands.  Stop it.
It's one thing for ancient tribes to protect their territory because they didn't know better.
We do.  To continue these deadly disputes is futile and a waste of our time.
We should use our time on earth to discover.  Discover what?  Whatever the fuck you want.
But do no harm.

 

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Who who who-who

In the wee hours last night I heard an owl's song outside my window.  After research this morning, I can confirm it was a Great Horned Owl.  How thrilling!  This is the first time I have ever had an owl wake me up.  May it be good luck to my travelers.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Great_Horned_Owl/sounds

Update:  it's not a Great Horned Owl.  It's a Barred Owl!!!

star bday

hi my boy!  you are five!
five points in a star!  the sun is a star!
happy birthday dear son!
you are a star!

we will have fun at your baseball party!  good choice!

Back Channel?!!

Conversations between Flynn and Kislyak accelerated after the Nov. 8 vote as the two discussed establishing a back channel for communication between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that could bypass the U.S. national security bureaucracy, which both sides considered hostile to improved relations, four current U.S. officials said.

from Reuters

Guess who's gonna cry?

MagNeatosphere

Wise words Wednesday

Clowns ARE nightmares. My son, one week until 5.

HBD Shea Buttah!

I hope all your dreams come true!

To commemorate, here's a little Holy Shit for Holy Shit Tuesdays, the Birthday edition--

Later, during the post-war boom, other American companies (notably General Mills) developed this idea further, marketing cake mix on the principle of convenience, especially to housewives. When sales dropped heavily in the 1950s, marketers discovered that the cake in a box rendered the cake-making function of housewives relatively dispiriting. This was a time when women, retired from the war-time labor force, and in a critical ideological period in American history, were confined to the domestic sphere and oriented towards the freshly blossoming consumerism in the US.^[9] In order to compensate for this situation, the marketing psychologist Ernest Dichter ushered in the solution to the cake mix problem: frosting.^[10] Since making the cake was so simple, housewives and other in-home cake makers could expend their creative energy on cake decorating inspired by, among other things, photographs in magazines of elaborately decorated cakes.

Ever since, cake in a box has become a staple of supermarkets, and is complemented with frosting in a can.

-per wikipedia

The cake mix problem was solved by frosting.  I'm in shock.

It's Digestible!  Uh?

See? Problem Solved.

Mother's Day wish

truth justice peace

what's the end game?

Trump just admitted he obstructed justice.
The Republicans remain tight-lipped
Because they are corporate whores, mob whores, money whores
They have more money than they will ever spend in a lifetime
They don't care about the future, so all that's left is power.
But it seems like it's only the power to say no
So again, it doesn't make sense.
Isn't the power of yes more...powerful?

Meanwhile, the guy in charge of the law of the land committed perjury twice
and is committed to making money off private prisons by keeping them open
and making it easier once again to throw a lot of people (mostly minorities) in them
Sessions is a liar and must go.  It appears my snake charm has not yet taken effect.
Republicans???  What is your end game?

Meanwhile, the administration in charge of our land has a too many connections to
the Kremlin.  A crime syndicate running and terrorizing the country of Russia that has committed an act of war towards the US, Britain, Netherlands, France and Germany so far.

While our so-called leaders of the world play games, the people of the world pay the price.  As a white US citizen with US Revolution/Frontier ties, I have a natural tendency for a fiery, cowboy disposition. Types like mine ride free and say fuck you to oppressors.  Of course being white, our types had that luxury, which should never be a luxury, but a goddamn right.  It's in me nonetheless.  

No country should meddle in other country's elections nor administrations.  And I get it, the US govt did it and does it.  And maybe it is kind of sweet justice for those countries that the Kremlin gave us a taste of our own medicine.  Maybe it is.  But we don't have to like it, nor do we have to take it.   I know a lot of the minority people in the US might not have the same type of fire as a white person with US Revolution/Frontiers ties.  I think they have more.  Struggle can suck the life out of you, but it can also make you stronger.  Those of us who have always had the pleasure of freedom need to stand with those that suffered a struggle the white race doesn't understand.  Together we can be powerful and claim our own world.  Against these bullshit games.  We are on a beautiful, amazing planet static in space.  We can't even comprehend our existence.  Let's not waste our time on earth being pawns in these so-called world leaders games.  Fuck you game players.  I'm not a part of your game.

8th Birthday Song

Happy Birthday SRB!

Hang ten Winston!

Happy birthday Juicy!!!  We love you!

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Cute

Campaign Finance reform is crucial

Citizen's United must be overturned.  We need to get the influence of money out of our government.  The poster boy is Mitch McConnell, Senator "Leader".

My favorite Whitehouse!

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse.

Clapping for Clapper.  Thank you for emphasizing the threat that the Kremlin poses to the world.

You don't want your NSA director compromised by the Russians...

Senator Dick Durbin, thank you for championing an independent committee.  Meager resources for the current most important issue to our country.  So nice to hear a clear voice after the bullshit by a certain republican texan..which by the way can fuck himself...fuck you for shaming Ms. Yates for doing her job.  You should be ashamed for doing a terrible job at this interview and who the hell knows what else.

Yes!  Thank you again Sen Durbin!!  Thank you for listing all the secret things that General Flynn was privy to after the White House was warned about the Kremlin compromise.


Fucking hell!!!  Ted Cruz...  restroom break.  I'm not subjecting myself to this bullshit.
....God, does anyone like this dude?  Yeah, my break wasn't long enough...  yes!  someone groaned.  Everyone groans when it's  Cruz's turn.

Yep yep yep!  Sen. Klobuchar.  yep.  Independent investigations.  We cannot let foreign countries interfere in our democracy.
Clapper.. huge deal. they will continue to do it and why not.

Hmmm...Sasse...intriguing...that's how it's done, Ted Cruz.  Bipartisan and Russian focused.

Sen. Coons looks really familiar...
Seriously, how is it that I like every democrat?  Am I that partisan or are they across the board the most focused on protecting the US?
god, it's driving me nuts...who is it?

The fuck? Sen. Kennedy??  Stop.  This is about Russia.  Stop this!  Russia and US elections you piece of obstructionist shit!  This is happening.  Most Republicans could give a shit about the topic.  Oh. Oh yeah.  Wax too metaphysical.  you happy clam.. Jesus fucking Christ... Louisiana??!!  You don't have time, Sen. Kennedy, but you choose to focus on the topic that is not on topic.  What a waste of time.  If that's your plan, Sen. Kennedy, then job well done.  Fuck you Sen. Kennedy.

I had to pick up my daughter, but continued to listen to the hearing in my car on my phone.  Al Franken....how can I love you anymore?  Really?  Also, Blumenthal, mwah.  Thank you for being sane and, I dunno, CARING!

Sally

Holy Macron Batman!

Thank you France!!!  Let's do this!  On to Allemagne! Oui!

crane dream

Ok a lot of stuff went on in my dream so I might not remember everything.  The fact that I had such a vivid dream makes me happy that I may have received some decent sleep...if those two things correlate.  I still slept in terrible positions, so I'm not entirely rested.  Thanks to my 23 month old, I'm running on nearly two years of interrupted sleep.  Not kidding, not one fucking night of sleeping all the way through.  My son had at the very least 100 days by now and obviously that is not great either.  I'm a breeder of sleepless babies.  Anyway, my dream:

I don't remember why..maybe it was a storm or a flood...can't grasp it yet, but two large owls, a large..eagle? and some other birds or animals were in trees outside my home-that really wasn't my home, but kind of had a slight feel of my childhood home.  I was calling for my husband to look at them without being loud so I wouldn't scare the animals away even though the windows were closed.
I never summoned him.
I connected with him later and while I was telling him about the experience, we noticed atop an enormous tree was another bird that looked pretty large, but was hard to tell because of the distance and the enormity of the tree.  I said something like, "See, like that" indicating my story about the other birds in the tree right outside the window.
As we looked up, trying to identify the bird, the bird moved and began to take flight.  My husband said something like "I think it's a crane." and then we noticed the size was much larger than the cranes we are used to seeing.  I said something like "It's a great white crane!"(it was a sandhill crane) with much excitement.  The human sized crane flew up and then down towards us as we took in it's markings and beauty.

Then the crane turned into a human with wings and flew around and landed.  The crane human may have nodded or indicated something positive towards us.. yes!  I remember her giving us a double thumbs up. I may have given a double thumbs up first and she reciprocated??  Seems familiar.
Anyway...way cool dream.

Whoa!  I can't believe I found this pic!

S'il vous plait France

Vote for Macron for the Win on Dimanche!

This is too close for comfort.  In Sororite and Fraternite, Liberte and Egalite!

Listen to your man, Montesquieu.  Don't be like US, Don't let in Despotism!  Paix et amour.