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Historical Perspectives

We have no concept of the history of the countries we attack and coup. This week the Don declared Iran as the most evil country on Earth. Sorry Don, the most evil country is your BFF, Israel, with the US in a close second. We're about to send Israel thousands of 4000 pound bombs to finish destroying Gaza. That's evil. We consider Yemen as a primitive culture, but it is a 5000 year civilization and is the culture which spread Islam around the world. Someone this week defined Hubris as a mix of ignorance and arrogance. That's pretty descriptive of the US.

Afternoon folks!

There's some interesting stuff to listen to this weekend here, starting off with what is arguably Jimmy Witherspoon's best album followed by a great compilation of recordings of Chicago Jazz and blues outfit, The Harlem Hamfats with vocalist Rosetta Howard - give it a shot. After that is a zydeco album from Boozoo Chavis and then it's on to blues rock with albums from Canned Heat and Roy Buchanan. Finishing off is a really solid album from The Radiators.

Enjoy the tunes and have a great weekend!

Good morning, good people! Hope you are all in fine fettle!

To start with the bad news, the damn love bugs are still swarming us, still messing up cars, and still the talk of the town. In fact, they are even in the Houston area, which is 60 miles away. This is Round Two, Week Nine.

To transition to good news, I can finish up my active files in a couple of weeks. We start moving out office furniture this coming Wednesday. Also, my grocery store price comparison is holding steady.

And in a bad new/good news happy ending, Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream is the top seller in Texas. It is made at a creamery in Brenham, and it is absolutely delicious. Best tasting Vanilla ice cream EVAH. Except it doesn't contain vanilla. It is flavored with villinen, a petroleum product, with some adverse side effects. So, Breyer and Hagen Daaz are waiting for my sampling. I only eat ice cream 3 or 4 times a year, but when I do, I don't won't to eat an oil refinery by-product. Same with medicine, btw.

September 17 in 2011 began Occupy Wall Street. Which was a fail from the start. Because nobody ever actually occupied Wall Street. They just sat in a park. Where the police allowed them to be. This spread to sitting in parks in other locales. Mostly cities. After a couple months, a fair number of people were arrested, on various charges, amounting to Stop Being Here. And then everybody’s concern turned to their legal cases, rather than what caused them to sit in the park.

Happy Friday everyone. Well, we made it through another week of endless wars, rising inflation, a collapsing economy, and a country on the brink of financial disaster. Not to mention an environment that's slowly burning up the planet. As bad as it is, it's not all doom and gloom 24/7. Tell us what you did this week to put a smile on your face and forget about the doom and gloom. My go to is to get out with the camera and take photos, What's yours?

Other than photography, I love SciFi, supernatural, quirky crime and dark humor (books, tv, movies) and sports as diversions from the doom and gloom. Right know I'm on the 8th book of a nine book scifi series (The Expanse series) written by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck, collectively published under the pen name James S. A. Corey. Governments from around the solar system must come together to stop an ancient alien artifact from destroying the human race.

I wasn't sure what photos I was going to post tonight but since these guys have been hanging around for the last month dripping salt water all over my desk I figured it was time for them to make an appearance.

These were shot on three different days at three different beaches. #1 & 5 were taken at Moonlight beach in Encinitas, #2,3,6,7 were taken at the Ocean Beach jetty and #4 & 8 were taken south of La Jolla Cove.

Folks, do you ever get tired of the political bullshit to the point that you just want to walk away from it all?

Yeah, me too.

Have you ever asked yourself why you haven't walked away from it all already?

Yeah, me too.

But yet, here we are. Still pointing out the bullshit as we see it.

Why is that? Why do we do it?

I certainly can't speak for anyone else, but I can speak for myself.

I'm drawing a blank, so here are a few memes. Hopefully you haven't seen all of them already.