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Good “morning”, Motley Meese! The week begins …
Morning low of 30 degrees in Madison WI with an expected daytime high of 46. Partly cloudy skies are in the forecast.
Have a great day, all y’alls!!
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Good Sunday Meese. 20 going up to 41 here in the Catskills.
First day of Women’s History Month.
I’m going to focus my Sunday sermon’s this month on Black Women’s History
So much of it still not very well known. I’m learning as I go.
My thoughts on South Carolina
Puerto Rico
Apparently, no one at Twitter understands leap year. The tweets from yesterday (February 29, 2020) render on embeds as March 1, 2020. The tweet does show properly when you get there. Date handling is pretty basic – it should be embarrassing to them but it won’t be: they are too busy fluffing Bernie and Trump to make sure the 2020 election is ratfked.
Dee—are you telling us that PR residents, even though they are American citizens, can’t vote in presidential elections?
Will read your Sunday sermon during quiet time this afternoon. Mr. Kindergartener is with us now. :)
What propelled Joe Biden to victory is that the voters in South Carolina are focused on one issue: health care. Sanders wants to blow it all up and Biden wants to adjust and improve what we have now. Not just conservative and moderate Democrats but, really, all sensible people want the second option.
Nancy Pelosi pointed this out in her press conference on Thursday (see Fighting Back) when she was asked about Bernie Sanders’ toxic coattails:
Both guys running to destroy our current system of health care are going to lose bigly – first Sanders then tRump.
Good day yesterday — knocked on doors for about an hour & a half. Most weren’t home, of those I talked to most were friendly undecided. Today: make tea, church, maybe 30 minutes at the gym but that’s really it. My friends December have a charity single out: Miracle Drug, raising money for a children’s hospital in Glasgow.
Thank you for knocking on doors and engaging prospective voters, another!
Sunday sermon
Good Sun Day morning, Moosekind, and a jolly good one it is, as well! Best I’ve felt in a long time. One can only suppose the Rethugs’ ratf*cking didn’t work in South Carolina. At any rate, I am very pleased. Also, it happens to be a lovely, sunny day here in Ashburn, 36 F. with no wind as yet. Yesterday was screechingly cold and windy! The high will be 51 F.
The four of us may go for a walk this afternoon. We took Monty to the vet yesterday and he’s lost 2 pounds on his new diet! Yay! We’ll keep it up. He’s walking much better, even running at times, doesn’t yelp in pain any more, and seems in much brighter spirits. He still can’t jump onto the sofa to sit beside Daddy, though. Bummer.
We have Mr. Kindergartener with us today. I’m having a little rest, as I worked so hard this morning, making three different breakfasts. Tuesday morning it will be four different breakfasts. Grandma is far too indulgent with her grandchildren.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to Super-Tuesday. Today’s little chores include uploading a story to my website and visiting Trader Joe’s if it’s open. The founder died on Friday, poor man. May he rest in peace.
I am so happy that Biden simply walked away with South Carolina! Take that, bernie, Butty, and Bloomie!
Wishing a peaceful Sunday to all at the Pond.
March is coming in cloudy in Fay., AR – temps aren’t bad (58 heading for 65) but the wind is brisk to say the least. So out of the wind is more or less comfortable (wearing a sweater) but in the wind it’s not. We finished out February with 224 KWHs, so 2020 just barely produced in 3rd place for the life of the 4K system. On a 5-point grading system that would be a ‘C’ – LOL. March is gonna be a slow start – but each sunny day will be able to produce at least 2x what the max was Samhain to Imbolc so that’s good. The “meet or beat” for March is 421.7 KWHs but reaching 400 (2nd place as it were) is my hopefully realistic goal.
Welp, Joe took SC. That’s a very good thing and hopefully has shifted the dynamic away from bernie as folks are seeing who the Dem Base is voting for. Stopping bernie is why I voted for Joe. Heaven knows which way AR will actually go – the younger set (I’m not sure the appropriate designation but the late 20s to late 30s crowd) is going for Warren. I hope we don’t split the vote enough to give it to Putin’s other puppet.
Sending what money I can and all the Energy I can Channel out to my family – local and internet. That’s all I can do and I need to quit jumping on myself because I can’t do more. But it’s hard. Some of it’s survivor’s guilt I know which isn’t rational at all. But then emotions never are. Meanwhile I’ve still got to get the floors done. We’ll see if I have the energy to vacuum (which it badly needs) after I’ve swept (which I have to do first to get up stuff too big for the vacuum) or if I’m gonna call it done with the sweeping. I’ll get over to DK for Dee’s Sunday Sermon as soon as I get that done. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, 40 and cloudy in Bellingham. Ava and I had fun sorting and organizing the closet full of family “stuff” yesterday. It was especially nice to share the history of the quilts, and to hear her say….” the women in this family really know how to make things.” I’ve been washing and repairing them but even I was surprised to see how impressive the folded stacks looked. It’s nice to know they are safely stored and accessible now.
Between the closet project, the SC primary, and the coronavirus cases in Wa State yesterday was a busy but tiring day. I needed a nap, and then it was early to bed and slow to wake up this morning.
Best wishes to all on this first day of March.
John Lewis in Selma
“Speak out. Get in the way.”
Good morning, meeses! Monday …
It is 30 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 39. Mostly sunny skies are in the forecast.
Mayo Pete is done, Klobuchar will be next (she will stay in long enough to be Favorite Daughter in the Minnesota primary). Elizabeth Warren will likely not drop out – she will stay in as the “Liberal – Not Bernie” in case Sanders says something even stupider than he already has or keels over after a finger-jabbing rant in one of the debates. It is a two-person race now and it will be interesting to see if Biden has the chops to take on a narcissistic asshole who wants to be king. It will be a good test for the general election where he would take on another narcissistic asshole who wants to be king.
It is terrifying that our health care system allowed COVID-19 to spread undetected for 6 weeks in Washington state. We are such a stupid country that we let an anti-science party take over our government and destroy our medical readiness. The Republicans own this by not reining in their president and now we have a government that is not only unprepared but one that lacks credibility – no one will (or should) believe anything that comes from Trump’s government, a government run by a man who attacked the National Weather Service for accurately reporting about where a hurricane could strike and altered the map with a Sharpie to soothe his damaged ego.
Busy day here as I try to get ahead of March projects. I made progress on the two hottest projects and will finish one of them today (taxes) and, I hope, get a good chunk of the second one done.
See all y’all later!
Someone said this was a good speech. Storing it here to watch later.
UPDATE: This is important.
He is really the only candidate left from the Democratic Party Wing of the Democratic Party.
Monday Meese. 32 going up to 56 here in Saugerties NY.
Puerto Rico
Women’s History Month
I was honored to have my interview selected to kick off Women’s History Month by Black Women Radicals
Excellent choice by Black Women Radicals!!
Congratulations, Sister Denise! You rock!
Would you mind if I mentioned this to Freddie of Urban Intellectuals, Inc.? If he plans to bring out another deck of flashcards of black women activists and influencers, you should certainly be among them!
wow! okay :)
Good Moon Day morning, Moosekind! It’s 34 F. here in Ashburn on a partly cloudy morning that will cloud over completely later today. The high will be 62 F. for a welcome change, with rain beginning some time or other.
Busy, busy day in the offing as I never did get my story uploaded yesterday (oh, well, March is a long month). Mostly I cooked and shopped at Trader Joe’s. Did a little laundry but didn’t finish it.
This morning I’m going to Reston to wash the dog’s beds in the huge laundromat machine, then have lunch with Darling Niece at her house. After that I’ll go to Younger Son’s house to wait for the children’s school buses. I’ll bring them back here for a sleepover because tomorrow their schools will be closed for the election. I want Mr. K. to accompany me to the polls here and Miss Pink Cheeks to accompany Grandpa. Virginia law states that 15-and-under children can accompany adults to the polling booth.
Must get the Early Morning Tea for Dearly Beloved, who is still sleeping. Wishing all at the Pond a good day and oh, dear Goddess, PULEEZE let Biden beat bernie in the primary tomorrow! You never know with Californians.
Cheers, dears.
Took today off, going to go knock on doors this afternoon. For now I’m eating breakfast & watching Stargate. Warm day — I’ll need sunscreen this afternoon.
It’s 59 heading for 65 and cloudy right now in Fay., AR – actually feels almost pleasant because there’s no wind. The sun’s tried a couple of times to come out but the clouds moved swiftly to cover the hole it was shining through. sigh. We started March yesterday by getting almost to 6 KWHs. In Dec that would have been great. Knowing that’s less than half of what can be produced on a March day means not so great. But it’s a start. We have to average 13 a day to reach 400. We shall see what we shall see.
Joe really is the last Dem representing the Dem Wing of the Dem Party. I can’t put my heart into his campaign but I can put some time and money into it. (I truly do not know what I will do if bernie manages to steal the nomination with a plurality – or even a majority based on his rigged rules the DNC accepted to placate the bros. A less immediately deadly version of the Munich Agreement with Hitler, that was.) And of course work on the down-ballot races. One more we shall see what we shall see.
My various friends are holding on. How good or bad that is depends on what Time is bringing as they are standing still. Sometimes Time brings healing. More often Time just brings more bills and exacerbation of the original problems. How much of that is because our colonizer society is set up that way I will leave folks to guess. I will help as best I can and Channel Healing/Helping Energy to everybody who accepts it. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, 40 and raining in Bellingham. Thanks to COVID-19 my life in the PNW isn’t as removed from the rest of the country as I often feel it is. So far there are no reported cases in Bellingham, but Snohomish County is just south, and British Columbia is just north so I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. Fortunately I do trust our local and state government officials to be diligent and to tell the truth. A sad comparison to the response from our national government.
An interesting thread from Jeremy Konyndyk…….https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/1234180123244580864
Another thread, sharing his credentials and links to other experts…..https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/1234344769146494977
Best wishes to all on this rainy Monday morning.
Good morning, meeses! Tuesday, Super Tuesday in fact …
It is 30 degrees in Madison with an expected daytime high of 43. The weather widget says that we will get a dusting of snow this morning and then clear skies this afternoon.
Nate’s polls predict a big Sanders win in California but that Biden has gained about 7 points and appears likely to pass the 15% threshold to earn some delegates. The Californians I know are going to vote for Biden but that is only because I don’t hang out with berners (they are like MAGAts, to be avoided at all costs). There are 14 states voting today so the headline will not likely be “No one can stop Bernie Sanders now.” I do hope that Bloomberg will drop out when he sees that his money can’t buy him a nomination and that we have a moderate in place. I want to see Elizabeth Warren stay in so that those leaning towards Sanders have a home when they are finally sick of the bernbros – my daughter wants to vote for her on April 7th when Wisconsin holds their primary.
When I saw the endorsements come in one after another – and quickly – I wondered if Barack Obama was circling the wagons for Joe. A The Hill article suggested that he spoke with Mayo Pete – I wonder if he also spoke with Beto? I am pretty sure that President Obama does not want the Democratic Party taken over by a man who is not even a Democrat and who is willing to destroy our party for his ego-driven revolution. When I look at the Supreme Court and the damage they are planning, I get ticked off at Sanders all over again for his ratfking of the 2016 election. It will be interesting to see where we end up after the dust settles. I do think that Biden’s handlers need to limit his public appearances – if he continues to show signs that he can’t remember basic things like what’s in the Declaration of Independence, no amount of lipstick will get this pig over the finish line (to mix a few metaphors). So much is going to depend on who he picks as a running mate – if it does not generate enthusiasm, we will have an uphill battle. I was watching the people who dropped out as they put forward their endorsements and I see people who can help a President Biden repair the damage done to the federal government by the Republican vandals. Just no red state electeds, please! The Obama administration took two red state governors for his cabinet – let’s not make that mistake again.
I am keeping an eye on the spread of COVID-19 and hoping that those who say it is like a more severe flu are right. I do worry about those who are high-risk including moose friend princesspat. :(
See all y’all later!
Super Tuesday Meese. 46 and raining here in the Catskills going up to an unseasonable 59.
Rumors abound (fingers crossed)
Biden is going to Oakland today – where Kamala launched her campaign.
Puerto Rico