Monday, May 17, 2021

A Missing Tiger is an American Mystery - The 1/6 Insurrection? No Mystery There - Investigate It But Beware: It Will Be Dark, Very Dark

 Hello Fellow Travelers!


 An American Mystery:  Life/Death, A Crime? Where's that Baby?

    24 Hrs. Later:  Found Him! Happy Kitty!  No Catnapping!  Mystery Solved!  

The 1/6 Insurrection?  No mystery.  Very obvious, very documented and very, very sad.  Brave people died.  The mindless thugs who contaminated  some of our most revered structures, historic landmarks, and assaulted (and killed) the skeleton security force on duty were many, many things. They were/not and never-will-be "mysterious".   Those were criminal cretins who stormed the Capitol at the repeated demand of the "F*&%ing Moron-In-Chief" (Rex Tillerson said it, not me).  To learn that a real investigation is going to commence to investigate the violent mob does not generate feelings of revelations and resolution.  Instead, I know the results of any real investigation of the 1/6 riot will reveal facts more depraved and evil than anyone imagined.

We made Trump an ex-experiment-in-horror in November of 2020. It's May of 2021 and he's still here!  I mean, what's it going to take to get rid of this guy?  I'm an American, I thought he probably cheated in 2016, but I held my nose and gave him a fair chance.  I didn't say anything in 2016 when he won, I wasn't happy but I accepted it.  What I didn't realize is he is a toxic dump who will say anything, do anything, lie/cheat/steal/blackmail anyone; he's weaseling around  his inevitable loss by claiming the election was "rigged" (it wasn't) and it was "stolen" (nope).  The fact is Trump is a loser!  He LOST!  Deal with it, we've moved on.

Some of us have waited  for that horrible racist, that insatiable black hole wearing a human suit to spin off into oblivion. It's past time for him to go.   Now children are being blown up in Gaza.  Now, as I write.  Biden can stop the killing with a phone call.  OK, but we're responsible, do you think Trump will give those families comfort or at least cash? Of course not.  So thanks, Citizen F@#kface!  (all me!) Thank you, Jared!  Trump is visually the Opposition's dream.  Not viable.  Not camera ready.  Have you seen him lately?  He's looking more like Jabba-the-Hutt than ever!  We have to move on to other dangers that are currently beyond our control.  A Russian based (backed) successful blackmail of the longest oil pipeline in the Eastern Seaboard took place this week and is a heads-up of the future of cyber crime.  The Earth is heating up and the CDC Director said "We're all doomed!"  She really said that!  Haha?  I don't think she was kidding, either...

I do have questions about that hillbilly-horror/invasion though:  why was it so easy for the killers/traitors to get in to the Capitol?  Why was it so simple for those yokels to drag their knuckles into Speaker Pelosi's office? Remember the deserted hospital Don Corleone was in (The Godfather)where the crooked police captain had pulled all security?  1/6 had that feel-old school movie mob move)  The thugs overwhelming the scant police assigned to the Capitol had communication and seemed to have a destination.   Why was the Capitol so eerily shortstaffed? I know the answers will fill us with dread but this could be the spark of a redemptive bonfire.

 I like this country a lot. Americans make mistakes but we learn from our mishaps and repair the damage.  We try to leave the world a little better than we found it.  Those people in Texas worked together to find that big cat and relocate it to a tiger sanctuary in Northern Texas!  How great is that?  Neighbors looking out for each other, a lost kitty who'd gotten a little too big and some kind folks gave the kitty a new home with other XXL kitties. The local police enabled the tiger-transfer - it was a community coming together to help.  That's how I see this country; good-hearted and growing, changing, helping wherever we can.  We don''t need to become great, we are pretty great.  We (well not me) elected a really, really, bad President.

We apologize.  Have a cookie.

       

Wednesday, May 12, 2021

An Irish Rose By The Bay

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                                        Fire with Blue Stones On A Deck - And a View of SFO
                                                  Fire with Blue Stones!  AND  a View!

You want to hear where I spent Mother's Day?  Of course, you do!  I went to San Bruno.  I may not have the ability to walk (or speak, or use opposable thumbs, yada, yada...) but I am very blessed by who my in-laws are.  Especially my mo-in-law, she's way cool!  I won't embarrass her by using her name. No, on second thought, WTH- She's great and everyone should know it.  Rose always has a smile, a joke, something good to eat.  Her house smells like wildflowers,  She's dialed into most of "the family"  and has the latest news.  She buys fresh, shelled, crabmeat just because she knows I like it.  Rose was born in Ireland; she has a lilting accent a wicked sense of humor.  She always has a cookie around. I am more grateful this year to have her in my life.   


I've written before about my collection of colored glass.  I have a lot of glass, all hand blown.  Rose has given me several pieces of Waterford crystal from Ireland.  Waterford is the only glass I prefer for decor or occasions.  It's a kaleidoscope of color, the shapes and cuts are precise and unique.  Waterford has an added benefit - the lead crystal is heavy.  My delicate, fragile French pieces turn into lethal shards with my slightest touch.  The Waterford pieces don't shatter, they seldom even. tip over. 


I am always looking at the darker side of things, what's really going on and who's behind it.  I expect to see the worst in humanity and my grimmest predictions are sadly, usually exceeded.  Even I need to to breathe once in awhile.  At Rose's house there is only light and warmth.   Good things to eat and good times to have.-  reminders for what is possible.  I have a feeling we'll need all the great memories we can gather and use them to guide and inspire.  I fear there are some very dark days ahead of us...We'll all need hugs and direction - I know where I can get some of both.