Week-long Welcomings from Moosylvania: Feb. 19th through Feb. 25th

February 18, 2017 JanF Community 221

Welcome to The Moose Pond! The Welcomings posts give the Moose, old and new, a place to visit and share words about the weather, life, the world at large and the small parts of Moosylvania that we each inhabit.

Welcomings will be posted at the start of each week (every Sunday morning). To find the posts, just bookmark this link and Voila! (which is Moose for “I found everyone!!”).

The format is simple: each day, the first moose to arrive on-line will post a comment welcoming the new day and complaining (or bragging!) about their weather. Or mentioning an interesting or thought provoking news item. Or simply checking in.

So … what’s going on in your part of Moosylvania?

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  1. Good morning, Meese! In the 50s and sunny (with patches of clouds) in Folsom. The severe floods and such didn’t really materialize in my area, although there was a thunderstorm yesterday, but other areas in interior NorCal / central California were affected by floods, most severely San Jose and an area near Manteca / Tracy. Hoping for a bit of relief so that people can return to their homes and rebuild.

    A question for JanF, Denise and others who post tweets – WYgalinCali and I (and Batch) have had trouble getting embedded tweets to appear properly. Is there anything that we can do to get it to be more reliable?

    • I love seeing the Town Halls – it is democracy in action. I hope that those whose congresscritters went into hiding remember that fact in 2018 and vote them out of office. It is not okay to stay away just because you don’t want to hear the unpleasant truth that the standardbearer of your party is a vulgar pig who has populated the White House with nazis and white nationalists. And that the health care program you are about to repeal will literally kill some of the people who would like to talk to you. They didn’t mind when the town halls were filled with anti-Nancy Pelosi activists screaming “take your hands off my Medicare”.

    • I saw clips from Tom Cotton’s town hall on Twitter. You have to give him credit for at least showing up – he got an earful and we got some pretty good footage of what resistance looks like.

  3. Good morning, meese! Thursday …

    It is 46 degrees in Madison and the expected daytime high is 46. Rain is in the forecast. Tomorrow and Saturday, freezing rain and flurries.

    “This is not Trump’s America”

    “Goooodbyeee raaacists!”

    That was the blunt — and unquestionably sarcastic — message one heated passenger delivered to a man and a woman as they were being kicked off a United Airlines flight Saturday evening for causing a disturbance that was blamed on racist comments.

    The confrontation on Flight 1113 from Chicago to Houston began several minutes earlier, when a Pakistani man and woman wearing traditional clothing were boarding the plane, according to VHF affiliate KHOU.

    Don’t let the haters win.

    I will be offline with intermittent Internet for the next few days. I will probably be able to phone in my check-ins but won’t be able to do much site admin. PLEASE stay out of trouble. :)

    See all y’all later!

    • Oh, noes!!! I hope Dixie gets funded. slksfca is indeed a lovely gentleman.

      p.s. Can you retest your newfound powers of embedding? I tweaked a setting to make sure I would not unleash holy hell and I want to make sure you are still empowered.

    • Dixie’s almost funded – but this is a losing battle. Her kidneys and liver are going down. The funds will cover her treatment and that will extend her life and comfort for a little while. So while I’m not going to bring it up on DK anywhere, Good Thoughts/prayers/whatever for slksfca to support him through this are going to be just as important.

  7. Short work day, I have eye doctor this afternoon. It is ridiculously warm for February — I’m wearing sandals & short sleeves, not even a sweater this morning. And today’s high: 90. But yeah, global warming is a conspiracy theory. Wish I had a time machine to go back to the ‘60s or so & beg people to teach real science in school — and all the schools, everywhere, to every kid & keep teaching it.

    So, my Indivisible Town Hall without my gerrymandered congresscritter has reached capacity. I may go hang out in the parking lot. I think it’s fantastic.

    Playing Snow Patrol’s In the End in my head: “in the end, in the end, there’s nothing more to life than love, is there?”

    • We’re going to our “with or without him” town hall tonight here in MN. Our little bit to help keep the pressure on.

    • We had good science in the ’60s – we were doing the Space Race to the Moon after all. It started going down with Nixon after we got to the moon and Reagan pretty much finished it off. There were lots of environmentally sound programs – including small solar water-heating businesses – started in the late ’70s that were defunded in the ’80s. Bill brought some them back in the 90s but 1994 happened and he was fighting the R congress on too many fronts from then on. Ditto Obama – he brought back and expanded on them but… 2010 elections and here we are.

  8. Good Thor’s Day morning, Meese! It’s an absolutely beautiful day here in NoVa, with a flawless blue sky and woodpeckers pecking away at our brand-new solar-efficient roof. Current temp. is 53 F., going up to 72 F. Might go for a walk this p.m. as dinner will be a no-brainer—salad with roast chicken strips.

    Spring is definitely on the way: daffodils have already popped out on the neighbor’s lawn, the birds were celebrating loudly yesterday in the eaves of the Trader Joe’s store when I approached, and the grass is greening. We’re well below par for rainfall in the last six months, so I’m afraid summer will be a scorcher again.

    Saw a TV clip about Tom Cotton’s town hall. Heh. He did get an earful! At least he showed up, which is more than The Woman Comstock, our 10th Congressional District Rep. did. What a coward!

    Wishing a good day to all at the Pond and Beyond! It’s funny how a bright, sunny day makes everything seem better.

  9. Good morning. It’s going to be 20 degrees colder today, but still in the upper 40’s. Showers later.

    Off to twitter to see what the miserable people are doing to this country today.

  10. Started the day at 55 with fog in Fay., AR – heading for 80 today but after sundown a front’s moving in and it will be a slow downhill slide to a Saturday morning low below freezing. I hope not as much below freezing as they forecast because everything is blooming – the Bradford pear in my backyard that doesn’t usually bloom until the end of March, dogwoods down the street – everything. Hold the good thought. We did get enough sunshine yesterday that i generated 13 KWHs – first time since early last October – and we’re over 200 KWHs for the month. Aren’t going to make the over 300 KWHs we got Feb 2016, but will be better than the Feb 2015.

    Got some urgents on my community list – not only gtghawaii’s rent in 5 days, but Avalonbear and AlexandraLynch are still $500 short for the utilities and no time is a good time to be without electricity but especially not if it powers you water pump. So I’ll be over at DK as much as I can trying to figure out more places to put that information. sigh. But this is my Resistance to the evil ones.

    Gotta go. Work beckons and I need to check into rto’s Village post for a minute. Bright the day and wind to thy wings, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}

  11. Trying out embedding another tweet. I had to use the desktop site version of Twitter, not the mobile.

  12. Good morning, 37 and cloudy in Bellingham. The sky and the water are the same shade of grey outside my window but spring flowers are blooming on the back porch, and I hope to bring spring to the front porch today.

    This is the best “good news” I can find this morning……

    Abandoning policy plans, Trump’s ‘fine-tuned machine’ stalls

    If the White House wants to inspire confidence in the president’s competence and understanding of events going on around him, the fine-tuned machine may need a new engine.

    • It is my hope that we can stop or slow down most of the Republican agenda. If we can get back one house of Congress in 2018, we may be able to salvage enough good government to have a foundation to build on when we take back the White House.

      We will find out soon if the American people like the reality of “shake things up” as much as they liked the rhetoric. There are some things better left unshaken.

  14. anybody know Alexandra Lynch and avalon bear well enough to know where to send out a fundraiser request? This winter between goofy weather and health issues they basically ran out of money before the utilities got paid – they needed $700 and have raised $220 but I’ve got a $240 match offer to cover the rest if we can just raise that $240 – they only have PayPal – theladyherself1971 at yahoo dot com which of course makes it harder to track, too.

    They’re long-time Kossacks (like over 10 years) but IAN and Community Fundraisers are my only overlapping groups. Any ideas would be gratefully accepted. They need the electric to have water. Thanks, bf

  15. Good morning, dear Meese.

    MPLS/St Paul weather: Hmmm, the ‘worst snowstorm this winter’ seems to have suddenly wandered off to the south of us. Yesterday, at work meetings we’re rescheduled and plans made by many to work from home today. Events we’re cancelled around the metro area as everyone planned for a winter hunker-down.

    • I am not home but it says light freezing rain and 34 degrees in Madison with snow this afternoon.

      Don’t you love the fauxstorms? One time our suburban school districts cancelled school based on an expected “storm of the century” that was a few inches at most. Heck, when I was young, we used to walk to school in blizzards – uphill both ways! Kids nowadays, get off my lawn.

      • Walked to school in blizzards backwards, uphill both ways, carrying boulders – and had to kill rouge bears that broke into the first graders classroom.

  16. Good morning, meeses! Friday …

    It is 48 degrees in the middle of the country with an expected daytime high of 51. Cloudy skies are in the forecast.

    I only caught bits and pieces of news yesterday but I was glad to see that for one entire day there was NOT a breaking news email about some new awful thing that the thin skinned yam and the Republican administration had done – some new attack on democracy or initiative to crush the spirits of decent people. I did see that Rinsed Probiscus called up Jim Comey and told him to fix the post-election like he fixed the election. NOT shocking … but shocking that it appears that Comey said no!

    See all y’all later!

  17. Good Friday Morning Meese

    46 here in Saugerties going up to a rainy 69. All the rapidly melting snow os causing local flooding in my area.
    News from school was not good – according to one report – all adjuncts will be terminated and then will find out if rehired over the summer – one by on. Full time faculty will see their course loads increased and class sizes will swell.

    I’m not going to wait around to see if I have a job – am now looking at Speaker’s Bureaus – since I do about 10 speaking events each year that fall into my lap – I may was well go about it in a more systematic fashion
    I have three for next month – one at Univ of VA, one at Lehigh in PA and the big event is in Pittsburgh – where I get to team up with my long time friend.

    One a different note – the racist murder in Olathe KS had=s my husband and me pretty upset. Nadhiyr – my husband already gets a lot of very ugly looks (he looks Indian or Pakistani – not Puerto Rican)

    I have to admit I was pleased to see a young brother take down the Confederate flag from a flag waving racist protest outside the place Bree Newsome was speaking.

    • God bless Muhiyidin d’Baha. I teared up when I saw him courageously launched himself into the air.

    • Denise, desolate to hear about the adjunct professors being fired! When is your speaking engagement at the University of Virginia? Are you coming to Washington, DC, any time?

      I too am sick about the murders in Olathe yesterday. I fear for my tenant. He is from South India, which makes him a target for the bigoted. He’s going on a business trip next week, too. Not sure where, but I hope it’s not to a red state.

      • Speaking on Sat Mar. 18 – doubt I’ll get into DC this trip – most of my time is being spent on travel to and back from VA

    • {{{Denise}}} – Healing Energy and Holding the Good Thought for you revenue stream. You might make more money doing speaking gigs than teaching considering how diddly your salary is there. Healing Energy for our nation – Grandmother Moon hide and protect us from the Evil Ones. (I lived in Olathe, KS for 4 years – it wasn’t that bad in the mid-1990s. The Rs have really given the Evil permission to come out from under their rocks.)

      • thanks Sis – I would – the total fees for the 3 in March are more than I earn in a year teaching :)

        I had family who lived in Olathe – sigh. No location is safe from this kind of violence.

    • Ha! will go and see if they covered the U.S. Rep. Elise M. Stefanik protest town hall in my state – she wouldn’t show up

  19. HAHAHAHA!! Hey, Gary Johnson voters, hows that “leave my toke aloooone” working for you?

    During his press conference on Thursday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was asked whether the Trump administration plans to crack down on states like Colorado and Washington that have legalized recreational marijuana.

    Spicer signaled that the Trump administration will break with the Obama administration’s policy of not enforcing federal law criminalizing marijuana in states that have taken a different approach.[…]

    In response to a follow-up question about whether “the federal government [is] going to take some sort of action around this recreational marijuana in some of these states,” Spicer said that while it’s “a question for the Department of Justice,” he does think “you will see greater enforcement of it.”
    […]

    “If the administration is looking for ways to become less popular, cracking down on voter-approved marijuana laws would be a great way to do it,” [Marijuana Majority ‘s Tom] Angell said.

    Indeed. But they won’t care … this is not about popularity, it is about inflicting the Republican agenda on Americans as quickly and completely as possible – Americans too stoopid to understand the two-party system. Bernie or Busters get Wall Street running the country and Libertarians get their marijuana laws overridden by federal stormtroopers.

  20. Looong visit with eye doc yesterday. He’s been my doc since I was in 7th grade. He’s a Republican of course. My eyes haven’t changed this year, and the precursor to macular degeneration has not changed at all, so yay for that. (eat foods with lycopene, people — you do not want macular degeneration) There’s one minor thing that we’re trying daily lenses for a while for, but it’s truly minor.

    So, the Orange Shitgibbon said something stupid again yesterday…. A month in & I’ve reached terror exhaustion. Here, have some pretty, soothing U2, Ordinary Love

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