Meanwhile...

 

“Someday", you said you'd do it yesterday; Yesterday, you said you'll do it today. Today, if you push it to tomorrow, it's likely tomorrow, you'll shift it to "Someday"! Do it now!” 

~Israelmore Ayivor

  Daily Drive 365

Trump wants to delay his case in Atlanta for as long as he can. I sincerely hope the judge turns him down FULL STOP. I want to live long enough to see that traitorous MF go off to jail before die. He took my sanity. He took my health. I need to see him be handed his ass by Lady Justice!

And don't you just love that chyron?

Because, Of Course.

 

“That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
 

― Stephen King,

  The Stand

 

Elon Musk wants Trump's attention so much, I am actually embarrassed for him! Ever sense he took ownership of Twitter he has been actively ruining it. He has lost money. He hasn't paid his bills. Hasn't paid some techs he fired at the beginning of the year. Rebranded Twitter X, I still haven't figured that move out yet! He put a giant X on the Twitter building, without permission from the city of San Francisco. He refused to turn over Trump's DMs to the DOJ and was fined $300,00 for his efforts to block them. I could go on but why?

 

Musk has already deleted that post and has one of his engineers speaking with the community to try and have a summit! So who knows? Fucker. The joke is really on him. It's a requirement that to feature a social media app in the Apple Store and Google Play, it has to have a block feature for security reasons. Foolish man. If it is carried out I still have the choice of riding it out like I have all along, or pulling the plug. I am sure what I will do. Complacency seems to be my friend. After all there is the Mute button.

 

"The muting is better, anyway. More like burying them alive."

 

~Michael McKean

Twitter 8/18/23

 

 

 

 

Of Course He Did!

 

“In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.” 

― Richard M. Nixon 

 

 

It cost 10 cents for a copy of the New York Daily News, in 1973! Today I think it costs around $3! It was a lot cheaper to watch Nixon fall, which makes sense because the fall of Donald J. Trump cost him, his co-conspirators, and the rest of America so much more the the time we all wasted in the early 70's watching Nixon deteriorate. And so it goes, on Monday, August 14th, Trump was indicted yet again, but this time it was in the state of Georgia, it was on charges of trying to steal the 2020 election, and again he has 19 co-conspirators, including Rudy Guiliani. RICO charges for everybody! Yep, that's right...Trump and his band of halfwits, are just like John Gotti, without the brain, intelligence or sense of patriotism.

The newest case against Trump will be a lot different than the previous three, because if nothing else, there are so many conspirators that can turn against him. I think its a strong possibility Guiliani will turn, if for no other reason, then because Trump has stiffed him for work done while Giuliani was assisting Trump in his attempts to overturn the election. Guiliani should have known better. He was a former prosecutor who put away some of the biggest crime bosses of the Mafia. He expanded RICO definitions, so he can't claim ignorance of his own actions.

The irony that it was Richard Nixon signed into law the RICO act, on October 15th, 1970, and Trump loves dropping his name, and showing off a picture of the two of them, and sharing a letter, in the most basic of sense, that Nixon once wrote him. What would Tricky Dick think of Donald Trump today? It's fascinating that Nixon and his cohorts were not charged on RICO violations. It seems like the set criteria was present. Lots of folks went to jail for the conspiracy, yet they weren't charged that way. I will have to do more reading about that. I have a deep curiosity about Watergate, always have, so that will be time well spent. Perhaps it had to do with the prosecution of the co-conspirators without Nixon being named directly as the head of the criminal enterprise. 

That is certainly not the case here. Trump was named all the way at the top, with his toadies bringing up the rear. We will see what unfolds for everyone over the coming days, months and GOD HELP ME, years! He has until Friday the 25th, at noon, to turn himself in for processing at the Rice jail in Atlanta. Between now and the he has scheduled a big press conference for Monday, that he says will bring irrefutable evidence of his innocence. He, so far, hasn't mentioned if it will exonerate his co-conspirators. As of this morning, his currently lawyers were frowning on the idea. Also next week is the first republican debate. Chris Christie will be there, will Trump? And as I said, he has until noon next Friday to turn himself in.

Next week will not be dull! Will Trump give his speech on Monday? My guess is no. Will Trump show up to the republican debate? My guess is yes. Will Trump show up for processing at the Rice jail in Atlanta, my guess yes, but if he pulled an O.J. and ran around the streets of Atlanta with his head on fire, that would be highly entertaining also. Decisions, decisions. But can't you just see him in the back of a big, black SUV,  starring out the back window pitifully, with Walt Nauta driving? Oh sure you can!

Well, that was quick. While I was composing this post, he changed his mind about his big fancy news conference. Sigh. Seems his lawyers "prefer" he not admit to even more crimes! Doh!

Doggone IT! I was going to get cannoli to enjoy while watching.

 

 

The Mary Tyler Moore Show Season 1 Episode 18 Second Story Story

 

 

"Enter, stranger, but take heed

 of what awaits the sin of greed,

 For those who take, but do not earn,

 Must pay most dearly in their turn,

 So if you seek beneath our floors,

 A treasure that was never yours,

 Thief, you have been warned, beware

 Of finding more than treasure there."

 

~J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

 

Flag Etiquette, 4th Of July, And How Do We Fix The Damage?

 

"One flag, one heart, one land,

 one hand, one nation evermore."

 ~Oliver Wendell Holmes 

 

Happy 4th of July 2023

 

Here is the Flag Code, please take it to heart, and think about it when you are throwing a party and deciding what your "patriotic" decorations are going to be. There is a right way and a wrong way to celebrate America, please choose the way that doesn't degrade the living symbol of our nation.

Flag Etiquette

https://www.usa.gov/flag

Dallas, Texas 2020

January 6th 2021

U.S. Capitol Riot 

 

America after Donald J. Trump.

 

 Whether he eventually goes to jail or not,

 how do we fix the damage he has caused?

 

Sigh.

Okay, Here Goes... Part 2: Unbearably Stupid And Incredibly Dangerous

 

"There doesn't have to be a process, as I understand it... if you're the president of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, 'It's declassified." Even thinking about it, because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to wherever you're sending it. And there doesn't have to be. You're the president, you make that decision. So when you send it, it's declassified. We--- I declassified everything."

 

 

 

~Donald John Trump 

September, 2022

 

 

 

On June 13th, Donald John Trump was finally arrested for taking classified documents from the White House, when he left office and storing them at two his various homes. For what reason? Hell if I know! I don't know. Maybe to brag? Maybe to impress women? Maybe to sell to a hostile foreign nation for money? Any of those things could be true! He has never had a consistent explanation since this story erupted in the press last year. But what I do know is that he was asked, nicely, and given a lot more leeway than other folks in the same position have been given, to return them to the National Archives. He chose not to, despite telling the powers that be, including his lawyer, that he had returned everything. Big surprise, he lied. Let me repeat... HE LIED! So now he is under arrest again, under among other statutes,the Espionage act, because he just can't bring himself to NOT BE STUPID! Since his arrest, he has continually changed his story in the press, which is fine, because it's not going to help his case, at all, and frankly I don't wish him any good luck at all! He is incredibly dangerous, and he needs to go to prison. It seems like there is some kind of light at the end of the tunnel, but the true glee I thought I would feel, is instead, just plan relief. 

Its going to be a long hot summer.

 

 I just wish Treat could be here to watch it all play out. He genuinely cared about this country and I think he wanted to see the Trump years out, wherever it took us. Carl Reiner did too, and I still miss his wisdom daily. I will think of those two men as go along, and of course, as each verdict is read. Carl, Treat, you are in my heart, today and every day.

 

 

Okay, Here Goes... Part One: Autumn Friends

 "Death ends a life, not a relationship"

 

~Mitch Albom

Tuesday's with Morrie

 

I said I have two things to share. One will obviously be about the second indictment and subsequent arrest of Donald Trump. That took place on Tuesday, June 13th, but something happened before we all got there. On Monday, June 12th, Treat Williams passed away. It broke my heart into tiny pieces. It was sudden. An accident that never should have happened, but happen it did all the same. A motorist turned into his path, and Treat never had a chance to stop. He was on his motorcycle, and the wearing of a helmet did not prevent other injuries from happening. I thought I would be seeing a tweet from him about the arrest of Trump, but no, he was just gone in the early evening of June 12th. As I sit here writing this it still seems really odd, and surreal that someone so in touch with the joys of life, who still marveled at so much, and who got so much out of the smallest of things, and simplest of moments, is no longer here. 

 

I had followed him on, Twitter, for the better part of a decade. He made me laugh. He made me reconsider my opinions from time to time. I enjoyed seeing his photos from various sets he was on. Movies and tv shows alike. The man never sat down when it came to his craft. I loved seeing his home and family. His property in Vermont was nothing short of paradise. And the trips he took with his various airplanes took my breath away, especially his flights over Vermont during the autumn. From the sky you could get lost in every single color you could imagine, demonstrating autumn wasn't always about earth tones, autumn was vibrant and joyful and beautiful. It was all... so damn amazing, so much so, that the thought of that amazing life being gone so fast, was never in my mind. Why would it be? He was one of the few, if not the only one at times, that didn't dwell on the negativity of life, but rather how to handle it by searching for the light and the joy.

 

That's not to say that he didn't have his moments. Trump could have gotten to Gandhi. One such moment, I don't even know exactly why he tweeted it, but suddenly Treat tweeted, "Shut up and do your job, you big fat baby!" which I have to say, delighted me to no end! I laughed and laughed and used about 200 laughing emojis in the reply form. Sheesh. Maybe my reaction was a little too much, but I felt that way all the same. He had just expressed, what I had always wanted to say, except it was now coming from one of the nicest folks around, which in my mind made it fabulous. It was funny, and appreciated. Then one day, sometime later, I left a comment about one of his autumn flights over Vermont, and something kinda nice happened, if not downright magical, he answered me! A great big movie star answered me, and I blushed, I really did. Treat said he was, "proud to know me". Wait... we know each other?

 

It took me a little while to consider that. It never dawned on me that he knew I was even there, let alone... gulp... know me. Or... yikes... was "proud to know me." Now what? Are we pals? Are we friends? How did he come to that assessment? Was it the things I said in my rambling comments? It's not like one could ask, that would be rude! Imagine this... "Hey buddy... whats that nice comment all about?" Twitter can be a strange place sometimes. Friendships are made fairly easily, and then just as easily folks can disappear from your timeline, for all kinds of reasons, it's never really been something I take too seriously. Life just happens, and it happens on social media too, only with walls that are invisible, but that are as strong as any wall can be. I like walls when it comes to celebrities. On my best day, as a fangirl of 61, I can sound like a nutty stalker, or a childish girl of 16, amazed at the talents of Shawn Cassidy. Who I also follow by the way.

 

So he answered me a few more times, and wished me a "back at you" at Christmas one year, and sweetly sang for us during Covid-19, at my request, although I think he had thought of it first, and was merely,  again, taking the time to answer me. But it was nice. It was always nice. He made folks feel at ease. He made me feel at ease. He felt like a friend. I guess that's okay, right? Do a few interactions over Twitter make you a friend or does the word "hello" followed by a lifetime of happy lunches and intimate sharing of ideas? Things can get fairly deep and philosophical on Twitter, so I know enough to believe we were of like minds, so maybe that is enough, to consider him my friend in the most basic sense of the word. I looked forward to his silly tweets and his opinions. I had respect for him and maybe that is enough.

 

In any case, I know I will miss him forever, he was my friend. He has left a hole in me. No one fills the holes left inside our hearts when loved ones pass, it's the part of us that belonged to someone special. To fill that hole is too much like replacing them. Some folks are irreplaceable. Treat was a part of me, but I will always have the movie, Hair, to watch in the moments when I am feeling blue about things. As scary as things ever got with the world, he had a way of looking at it and reminding us, we could make it through, and we were all connected as part of the tribe. I was so very lucky to connect with such a good person. And how lucky I was that an extraordinary man was proud to know me. I sure hope I made him smile once in a while, because I was so proud to know him too.

 

Goodnight, Treat

God's speed.

 

 

Limp

“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.” 

  ~Anne Lamott  

 

A lot has happened since we last spoke. The next few posts will explain, but this post is about being tired. I am tired of settling this condo. I feel like I have been packing and unpacking for two years, and there is a reason for that... I HAVE. Trump makes me tired every day, which is really nothing new, and add to it all is a feeling of incredible loss and deep grief over the death of a man very special to the world and to me personally. Grief is such a personal thing, we can all feel it, but we do so in such different personal ways. As I said, I will speak more about all this in the coming days, but for right now, sigh, I just have a headache and my eyes hurt, and I just need to rest and clean my house, and yes, continue with my project of unpacking and letting go of all the things preventing me from moving on to a healthier place.

Presented Without Comment...

 

PER ABC News...

 

 

The arraignment is scheduled for

 Tuesday, June 13th 2023 in Miami, Florida.

 

 UPDATE: The BIG BABY speaks...

 

 

Two Presidential Candidates And A Blond...

 

"Bad times have a scientific value.

 These are occasions a good learner would not miss."

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

Just three things...

 

1. Marjory Taylor Green used the word, "decorum."

 

2. Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, announced his candidacy for President of the United States on Twitter today, with Elon Musk by his side. A fun idea I guess, if only Twitter hadn't continually crashed the announcement and interviews. When will Elon Musk learn that firing all the tech engineers is a bad thing, if you want to play King Shit in the tech/ world? And when will Republicans learn that Elon Musk is a fraud? Oh wait! Oh well, here is what it looked like as a screen shot...

This is funny too, but in the best way possible...

3. Former President Donald John Trump sent a letter, yesterday through his lawyers, to Attorney General Merrick Garland. It can be read in it's entirety below, but I will sum it up right here, right now. It reads...

"PLEASE DON'T PROSECUTE ME!"

 

Did you ever get the impression that you weren't the only

 one with a brain short-circuiting?

 

 

 

Spring Into Autumn

 

"I think the seasons complete me... for once autumn comes I can fall freely along with every leaf. I don nit have to bloom, yet I must die in ever delicate line of October."

 

~Laura Chouette

 

 

About a month ago, or so, we paid a visit to one of my favorite autumn trees, the gorgeous Judas tree in Ione, California. We had a lot of rain this past winter and a little into the spring, so it gave the tree plenty of water that it had been missing due to drought conditions. I am, hopeful that it will produce a beautiful display of autumn color come the fall. It was sad to see it so dry last year, and have no way to help it. Now there is a lot to look forward too.

 

Ione, California

Autumn, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Haunting Desmond Road

 

"It was that time of dusk when there is a—deepening of the interior shadows. It is a melancholy time: all you need do is switch on one lamp and the inside and the outside will separate, held apart by the reflections in the glass, and evening will begin.” 

 

~Rudolph Delson

Maynard And Jennica

It was getting dark, so it could have been most any bird that haunts Desmond road, but I really believe it was the Red-winged Blackbird, that was sitting on that fences post being silhouetted against that dimming light of day. Photogenic, and singing so beautifully. I have come to love those birds, who are always the highest in numbers of the perching birds. Spring fills the air with the sounds of the last migrating birds, and then becomes deafeningly silent for those depressing summer months with nothing to do, but dread another day taking place. I think I have mentioned this before... I hate the spring and summer with a great passion! The upside, however, is that we are a season away from autumn! I don't count the season I am in when counting. That sounds a lot better than it's 4 months away. 4 is more than 1. Anyway, here are some other photos I have done along Woodbridge and Desmond roads and on a recent trip to Knights Ferry.

 

Woodbridge Road

Desmond Road

Knight's Ferry

It's really lovely out here, but I wish it was already autumn.

A Third Of The Year

 

"Don't waste time beating on a wall,

 hoping to transform it into a door."

 

~Coco Chanel

 

 

So, it's been almost two months since we have last talked, and in that amount of time a lot has happened. One of my favorite things, which actually might be one of my favorite things for the rest of my life, Donald Jessica (John) Trump was finally arrested by the District Attorney of New York City, Alvin Bragg. In this  case, there are multiple cases against him at the moment, involves the hush money payment made to Stormy Daniels, during the 2016 Presidential campaign. He cheated, of course, but this time it is all coming back to haunt him.The next case, which will go to the jury next week, is the E. Jean Carroll defamation case. It will be a part of history soon, so I don't want to go into detail right now. I have the full complaint against him, if I can get it to embed in this post. I am not terribly savvy at that kind of thing. But all of his arrests are important to me, as will be his subsequent arrests and, I am sure, convictions!

 

 

So, why is this particular thing so damn important to me, that I am writing an entire post about it? Because I have been waiting to see this lawless criminal have his day. The chickens have finally come home to roost, just as they did for Rupert Murdock and Fox News, in the defamation suit brought by Dominion!  Trump lied about the election having been stolen, to their network, and then FOX new anchors repeated them on air, despite knowing and in some cases believing it all to be a lie. LORDY, there are tapes! Carlson is gone from the network now, a huge relief for the truth, why Laura Ingram and Hannity remain is a mystery! Perhaps they will be removed when they reach the lawsuit brought by the other voting machine company they disparaged, Smartmatic. Here's hoping they will be brought down. It's possible Maria Bartiromo, the other Fox news liar will be fired next. There is nothing behind her eyes anymore. She is simply a Trump cultist, and that's all that remains of here "soul".

 

Now, let me explain why there is a lovely Bonaparte's gull at the top of a post like this. You see, he represents hope. I have been doing a lot of birding since January. There have been a lot of birds that I didn't find last year, and in fact so many, that recently I exceeded my number from last year. Presently, I am at 136, besting last year by four. So I know I will end the year with many more, because there are easier to find during the summer and fall. Birding has healed me from a lot of the bad things that have happened the last few years, and really the decade. The first move, the hideous depressing second move, the mental break I suffered, Covid-19 (Omicron) the loss of taste and smell and other LONG-COVID symptoms from last year. The stress of purchasing the condo, and the sudden loss of money we had in the account we had saved from the sale of the house.

We are okay. We have fun birding and finding a bird as beautiful as the Bonaparte's gull excited me greatly. I had never seen one, and so it is always a thrill to discover a bird I haven't seen before. Despite finding so many birds, there has been a dreadful bird virus devastating the bird populations, but it seems like they are fighting back because I am finding more and more of the species that have been most affected, so that's awesome. The Pacific Flyway is closing for the year, but I am sure when it begins again in September, there will large numbers of my favorite avian friends. September is a glorious month for birding. I will never forget the sound of 4 Sandhill cranes arriving in Lodi, over Woodbridge road. It just filled my heart!

While DJT remains in the news, and will for some time to come, I have found some peace. The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers that have been arrested for their part in the January 6th attempted coup, have all be found guilty and that is a healing event as well. Perhaps we will hear GUILTY in regards to Trump as well, but if we do, it will be a while off from now. There is still a long way to go, before I am completely me again. But hey, another big step forward is that my eating has returned to nearly normal. I am able to have salad again! That was huge! And we ate out at Red Robin the other day, another victory! The fish and chips were amazing. To make a long story short, I am beginning to feel alive again, and I owe my bird friends, and all their beauty for helping me along the way. Well, that and the occasional GUILTY verdict!

 

It's all good. And Autumn is only a season away! We are two thirds through 2023, there is a lot more to come.

 

 

Me