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The Dahlia photos I posted this month are from bulbs
which have been in the owner's family for generations!
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"With a Picked Lock and a Threatened Indictment, Mueller’s Inquiry Sets a Tone"
ReplyDeleteAnd having set the tone, the orchestra and chorus can now cooperate to produce inspiring music...
Alan
Headline from the Washington Post: "What fall? 90-degree heat in the Great Lakes headed toward D.C.
ReplyDeleteUnseasonably warm weather is set to linger over Washington through the end of next week."
Autumn came suddenly about a week ago--high temperatures fell into the 70's, and we even had a bit of rain the other night. I have retired my summer pajamas for the season, and changed to flannel! Maybe we will put the electric blanket on our bed this weekend. Hope things aren't too toasty for others here. I don't mind if the political weather gets hot in the White House, though.
Alan
P.S.: After they figured out what it means, it seems some folks in the chattering classes thought that Kim Jong Un insulted The Great Orange One by calling him a dotard; but since when is the truth an insult? I recall the remarkable differences revealed in TV interviews of Trump 20-30 years ago and today; the mental decline revealed in his speech patterns is both obvious and considerable. He belongs in an elder care home.
It's 90+ deg and there are leaves on the ground (although from only one particular type of tree). But that's not terribly unusual in Chicago.
Deletehttps://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/strange-experience-watching-melania-trump-192857172.html?.tsrc=fauxdal
ReplyDeleteFrom the article:
"On Wednesday, we saw some of those incongruities on display as Melania took her place and began to speak. At first blush, she seemed larger than life — a voluptuous ship of state propelled by shocking-pink sails. But look again and listen: the First Lady seemed uncertain, her face contorted as if on the verge of tears for a few minutes. As she invoked the importance of “human dignity” and “leaving no one behind,” Melania’s soft voice quivered, her eyebrows rising into an upside-down v of distress."
Also from the article:
"In this disconnection between messenger and message, her obvious discomfort in the role thrust upon her, and — as we saw on Wednesday — the estrangement she can display even from her own high-fashion costumes, Melania reminds us that she represents the most incongruous and ill-fitting presidency of our lifetimes. Like Melania at sea in her big-pink dress, the president seems to have donned a costume for a role that far exceeds his capacities.
Melania faltering over her words reminds us of a president who seems unaware (or worse, heedless) of the import or ramifications of his language. Like Melania, the president performs a troubling distance from what he is called upon to do. These are not missteps in the era of Trump, they are its hallmarks. The First Lady’s public appearances incite unease because they are not decorative interludes in this presidency but symptoms of its deepest truth."
Oh, my. It's a hackneyed observation that fashion designers hate women. But the main thing is how distressing it is to watch a victim of continuing domestic abuse who doesn't have what it takes to either leave or throw the bum out, but continues to comply. Or so it seems to me.
DeleteAlan
The time when an abused woman finally leaves her abuser is the most dangerous time - the time she's most likely to be killed. Also abusers cut their victim off from family and friends and control the money so she has nowhere to go, nobody to turn to and no money to make a life for herself and children (if any). Usually the abuse is so gradual the victim doesn't realize how trapped they are until it is too late to escape without great peril.
DeleteIn Melania's case, I believe she and Donald had already agreed to divorce and then he got elected and she had to stay. As big a bully as he is I'm sure he has her pretty frightened too.
From an e-mail received today from Tim Canova:
ReplyDeleteThis is yet another important reason we’re running to remove Debbie Wasserman Schultz from Congress. Wasserman Schultz has taken thousands upon thousands of dollars from big private health insurers and drug companies. And while most House Democrats have cosponsored H.R. 676, the Medicare For All bill introduced by Rep. John Conyers, Wasserman Schultz remains a hold-out! I pledge that, when elected, I will cosponsor and fully support this important legislation to help all Americans.
This evening the Trumpite on Medium got fed up and washed his hands of me. In all honesty, I did not acquit myself well. On the other hand, it's hard to fight a hydra while standing on quicksand. For instance, how do you deal with someone who consistently claims that absolutely nothing you say is fact, none of the links you offer contain facts, that on the contrary all you say is opinion and emotion while, at the same time, claiming that he himself deals exclusively in facts. I didn't handle myself all that well. Still, I learned a very important lesson. Never, under any circumstances or provocation whatsoever, feed the trolls!
ReplyDeleteBINGO. You did well to stand your ground, and to be the one standing at the end. And you do well to learn that hard lesson. Some of these people are PAID to do what they do. You, however, stood there honourably I salute you.
DeleteThanks, Listener. Wouldn't have earned many points in a debating club or rhetoric class, but I really appreciate your support.♥
DeleteGreat! Just what we need. (NOT!)
ReplyDeleteHere’s something I thought of posting, but don’t think I did:
ReplyDeleteRocket Lab [Click], a private startup in New Zealand, took all of four years to develop a rocket capable of putting satellites into low earth orbit. They plan to launch a rocket a week; they use 3-D printers to manufacture the rockets, including the engines! Now here’s a thought—if they can do it, almost any country can.
—Alan
P.S.: They have had one test, a nearly perfect launch thad did achieve orbit; they plan two more test launches this year, then to commence commercial launches. (Specializing in numerous small satellites per launch.)
Delete--Alan