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It’s 49 heading for 66 and cloudy/rainy again. Yesterday we generated just under 2.5 KWHs and the m-t-d is a very not on track 21. The PV system, like my brain, is on but just barely.
I can’t brain well enough to even comment on the news. Except I agree with Jan about bernie & his cult followers. And our ability to do anything about it without a solid 60+ majority in the Senate. When I get enough energy I’ll be angry. Right now I’m just depressed. Just because we knew it was coming, it’s no less of a jolt that it’s here. And the other laws – contraception, marriage equality, interracial marriage, and the like – that we know are going down on this Court’s watch. That we also can do nothing about without both president and solid majority in Congress.
Little sleep. I just finished breakfast and haven’t gotten on the treadmill yet. I need to find the energy for that too. But I guess while my breakfast settles I’ll head over to twitter and get started. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, 50 and light rain. My eyes are blurry and my mind is full if swear words so I’ll try to keep them to myself. It’s hard to feel positive re our country right now.
I got sidetracked with a painting project yesterday so a lot of laundry is waiting for me today. Best get on with it. Take care everyone.
Wednesday Meese. Light rain here in Kingston, 49 going up to 63.
Okay – I am going to be petty – am up early gloating over Nina Turner’s overwhelming loss to Shontel Brown – and reading the hilarious tweets about it.
Also good news
Nina Turner is a “perineal” loser? Does that mean what the dictionary says it means…oh, never mind!
It’s FANTASTIC that she lost! She can buy some wool and knitting needles and knit mittens with Bernie.
It’s bloody wonderful that the Robert Regan lost!
Thanks for the good nudes—er, news—Dee!
Puerto Rico
Good Wednesday morning, Moosekind, and, as always, May the Fourth be with you! It’s 59 F. in Ashburn and raining heavily in a most satisfactory manner. During the night I was awakened by a flash but groggily thought, “It’s an airplane or Superman, we never have lightning,” and went back to sleep. We’re more than 2 inches under for the year to date, so let it rain, let it pour! The high today will be 80 F., or so they allege.
Had a decent, drugged night’s sleep—this time it was a nighttime cold pill—and am now feeling quite full of energy. I emailed the Raging Grannies here at the Home yesterday and suggested we jump in the car at midnight and go demonstrate in front of the Supreme Court. Didn’t get any takers. It would be an hour’s drive from here, whereinell would we park, would we be beaten up by the “pro-lifers”? Too many ifs.
This morning I am to have my blood pressure checked but I fear it will still be high, despite taking the medication. I am incandescent with fury over the Supreme Court decision. Damn that hideous old diseased offspring of a one-eye camel Alito and the rest of his Ilk! Wait until we women take over one day. We’ll ban Viagra on the grounds that impotence is God’s will, or if it’s still legal, we’ll make them wait three days, then consult three doctors (who must have hospital admitting privileges), who must issue a unanimous opinion, and then the impotent fella will have to go counseling and work in a day care for 30 hours’ community service. That would give him a chance to see what sex can lead to.
Enough of that judicial chitchat, however. Being a cynic, I have no great hopes that the effing Supremes will change their minds, nor do I have any hope that people will turn out to vote Democratic or allowed to vote if they do.
Not much else to say this morning. Here’s hoping for a deliciously damp day, and wishing all at the Pond a good day.
Our only hope is to get a Sinemanchin proof Senate and pass the laws we need to redo the Supreme Court. The current SCOTUS is the bastard child of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump and is as political as the House and the Senate. Nice try, Founding Fathers, but you didn’t reckon with the ascendance of a completely insane and dysfunctional political party – there is no balance of power when one side steals Supreme Court seats and steals elections. The die was cast in 2000 when Bush did not beat Al Gore but SCOTUS decided to put party over the will of the people. That can’t be undone and we are reaping that whirlwind every single day.
Hot & muggy here. We might get some rain tomorrow. I worked really hard yesterday. Today, there are Star Wars movies to watch while I work.
It’s 53 heading for 68 and overcast. Again. Off and on rain but totally cloudy. sigh. Yesterday it cleared off around 4 and we did generate 7.2 KWHs which is at least a bit more than what I use in a day. The m-t-d is 28 – not only is it not on track for 500, it’s not on track for 300.
Lousy sleep so not braining very well. Lack of sunshine doesn’t help either of course. My hands are cold but so far are functioning relatively well. Aji’s still dealing with chronic acute pain – prayers up the new treatment she starts next month will dial that pain back so she can get some sleep. About the only thing that gives her the energy to function right now is anger. Amelia’s sleep patterns are messed up. She can’t seem to sleep at night but the lack of sleep at night means she has to sleep during the day which contributes to the lack of sleep at night. I heard from my friend who’s got my old job. The Chair has COVID. (I’m trying to remember how old her daughter is – I keep thinking of her as the little girl she was when Dr. Morimoto joined the faculty. LOL. She’s got to be in her late teens or early 20s now. I’m pretty sure the whole family is vaxxed.) So far my friend’s OK. So far. She’s vaxxed and masks whenever she leaves home. But very few others are. And universities, like public schools, are petri dishes anyway for just about any virus out there.
Wildfires still burning, gaining ground, in NM. War still raging, but at least the Russians don’t seem to be gaining ground, in Ukraine. Other places too, of course, for both wildfires and war. Those are just the ones that show up in my twitter feed. Prayers. Nothing else I can do.
Heading for twitter – I’ll set things up there while my breakfast settles then get on the treadmill. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, meeses! Wednesday …
It is 55 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 84. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
Good news from Ohio with Shontel Brown keeping her seat. We don’t need any more berners in Congress, they have done enough damage. I also think that J.D. Vance will be a better target for Tim Ryan than the other Republicans who were in the primary. If I were Tim Ryan, I would put Vance’s “I really don’t care what is happening in Ukraine” on a loop with pictures of bombed out hospitals and orphaned children in the background. It is hard to believe that Ohioans really think an opportunistic rich celebrity with more money than brains represents their values. Certainly a race to watch.
This this this from Adam Serwer: Alito’s Plan to Repeal the 20th Century: If the conservative justice’s draft opinion is adopted by the Court, key advances of the past hundred years could be rolled back.
Even if this draft is not adopted, it lays bare the contempt that the Republican Party and their minions on the court have for women, for people of color, for the poor and indigent, for everyone who is Not Them. I wish there were a way to get people to understand this. In Wisconsin, the Democratic governor has said he would pardon anyone convicted under the draconian law that will make abortions felonies when Roe is reversed. It will be interesting to see if that animates the right more than the left. Sadly, I suspect it will make the right-wing more energized to vote.
I have a lot of things on my to-do list today that required driving around so I need to get my day started.
See all y’all later!
Good morning, 47, clouds and light rain. The ground is still to cold to plant the veggie garden so RonK is tending to his starts indoors and I’m not even thinking about planting flowers yet. The winter pansies and hellebores are still blooming so that’s good enough for now.
I’ve started and not completed so many tasks I can easily fill my day by just wandering around and doing a bit here and there. Best wishes to all.
Thursday Meese. Sunny, 48 going up to 69 today.
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That’s a terrific tweet! Thanks, Dee!
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Puerto Rico
Good Thursday morning, Meese! Pleased to report that my blood pressure has dropped a LOT since I’ve gone on the medication. My ankles are not swollen, which is apparently a side effect. My ankles are skinnier than most person’s ankles anyway, so no big deal.
I have to get ready for my booster jab. Then, while I’m still upright, I need to nip over to Trader Joe’s and get some Wild Berry Yogurt Drink and Spring Cupcake Mix. Karl is coming this weekend for a sleepover after all.
I have several questions this morning: 1. Are the police going to stop every car containing a male adult, a female adult, their teenaged daughter and their teenaged son from driving over the border from Texas to New Mexico? Are they going to demand when the woman and the girl had their last period? Are they going to ask for proof? How will the proof be provided: an instant pregnancy test or by displaying used sanitary napkins or tampons?
Same applies to every woman and teenaged girl boarding an airplane from Mississippi to Illinois. “Where are you going? Why are you traveling when school is still in session in Mississippi? Your grandmother is on her deathbed? What’s your grandmother’s number? Wait here in this room while I speak to her. Hey, Grandma, you on your deathbed?”
Are they going to go through EVERY PIECE OF MAIL in households containing girls and women? Are they going to knock on the door like Ceaucescu’s Romanian police and ask the dates of their last periods? Apparently they can find out through cell phone data if a woman has contacted Rebecca Gomperts, provider of abortion pills by mail (Plan C), so are we all going to download Tor as a browser and receive visits from the FBI because we ain’t leavin’ no tracks? Are we going to use an encrypted instant message system? I don’t even know the names of encrypted email and instant message systems.
Back here at the Home I’m hoping to go to Celtic concert of “Lusty Month of May” music. It’s May and I’m…well, I was.
It’s another ugly gray morning in Ashburn, as gray as the mood of all the sane women in this country. Temperature is hot under the collar, which is 59 F.
Wishing all at the Pond a good day and wishing a constipation spell on every single Rethug legislator, which I shall not lift for a year.
I am getting my booster today also, adding a Moderna to my Pfizers as recommended. My first booster only gave me a sore arm (although for longer than the first two Pfizers); I have seen various reactions to the 2nd booster from sore arm to actively sick. I have set aside time to recover if it is the latter.
The Republicans, supposedly the party of “keep government out of my bizness!”, have become literal nazis, spying on Americans and demanding fealty to their christo-fascist nationalism. Maybe the extremism is their way of keeping Democrats out of red states where they may dilute the hate vote. Who would want to live in a state where a woman who they think terminated her pregnancy will be charged with murder? Who would want to live in a state where if you were lying on a hospital table dying from childbirth, your doctor would need to (quickly) find two other doctors to approve aborting the fetus that is killing you? I think that the simple-minded white women who voted in droves for TFG and his cult do not realize what they have done to themselves and their children. Goddess help us.
Good morning. Only working a half day today, going to a movie this afternoon. I have plenty of leave time and need a break. We got rain last night, more today if we’re lucky.
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Good morning, meeses! Thursday …
It is 59 degrees in Tucson with an expected daytime high of 88. Sunny skies are in the forecast.
So it begins – Republican Senators are now bemoaning that they do not take any comfort in the fact that abortions aren’t taking place in their states and are signalling that they will need to prepare legislation to ban abortion nationwide to ensnare those leaving. If there is anyone left who thinks that the repeal of Roe means sending the question to the states to decide is where it stops is not paying attention. If the Republicans get the trifecta again – House Senate Presidency – there will be no place in America where women can get a legal abortion and they will likely be charged with murder if they leave the country pregnant and come back not pregnant. Unfortunately, in 2022 America, there is no majority rule and the minority party, the party willing to destroy the Constitution and literally tear down the government to stay in power, will decide. Voting rights should have been Job One – we will come to regret not using all of our political capital on fixing our broken electoral process.
I have a busy day that includes driving around and I need to get two things done before I leave.
See all y’all later!
It’s 58 heading for 70, overcast, with off and on rain. It’s on at the moment but slowing to sprinkles. (We are supposed to get a little bit of sun between the rain spates. A very little bit.) Yesterday we managed 3.9 KWHs – Monday & Wednesday combined just about total what I use in a day – and the m-t-d is 32. Most certainly not on track even for 300. Which is a month that has the potential (never reached, it’s true) for 600 that’s a bit upsetting/unhelpful. We’re supposed to get a week’s sun starting Saturday. We’ll see what that brings.
I managed 8 hours of sleep – mostly certainly not in a single chunk – and didn’t get out of my bedroom until after 8. Which is why I’m a bit late getting online. I haven’t checked on anything or anybody yet. Holding the Good Thoughts that if things haven’t gotten better, at least they haven’t gotten worse.
I need to get on the treadmill. Then I’ll get over to twitter and Dee’s diary at DK. Bright the day, Meeses. {{{HUGS}}}
Good morning, 50 and cloudy. My old maple trees are in full leaf now with the seed pods still beneath them. I love seeing the contrast of the leafy green color and the lichen covered trunks and branches of the trees.
I’ve been slower recovering from all the family events in April but I guess that’s to be expected as I get older. Don’t like it though! I’ve nearly got all the beds changed, laundry done, table linens washed, etc but it’s been a chore. I’ll work at my desk today as it’s easier on my legs. Best wishes to all.
Friday Meese. 50 going up to 6o with rain here today.
Can’t even begin to deal with all the crazy being proposed to mess over women – even more pissed at women supporting this shit.
I stopped being surprised at how ignorant the Stepford white women who voted for Donald Trump at the rate of 60% to 40% are. They are willingly returning the advances that women have made since the 70s, the ability to control their own lives. They are male-defined in that they believe that all their power comes from their connection to men, denying their own agency, and they will become chattel if need be. You can’t fix that level of stupid.
I am going to make sure that I keep a reserve fund so that I can get my daughter out of the country if it gets too terrible here.
Very sensible! I wish I could get Plan B and keep it for Miss Pink Cheeks if she ever needs it. She already has a passport and a decent sum in an account I’ve saved for her. We also have relatives in Kent, so she would not be without friends if she suddenly had to fly to the U.K.
Puerto Rico
Good morning. I had a good time at Doctor Strange yesterday, lots of twists and surprise guests. And wow did we get rain. It’s even cool this morning. Won’t last, they’re predicting 100s this weekend. Second earliest ever.