Punxsutawney

I’ve got a feeling that it’s hitting their base hard and starting to backfire. Or maybe corporate America wants people out and spending money they don’t have.

This country is broken.

Have sold the working people of this country out so they could make a buck. Whether it’s scumbags on the corporate side like Jack Welch or Carly Fiorina, or their equivalent on the political side like the Clinton’s, Obama, Biden, or Romney and the rest of the Rethuglicans. Or my local idiot rep who thinks that exporting potatoes is the economic…[Read more]

The Democratic Party is never more organized than when they are opposing an actual liberal.

Run a blue berry farm and after picking I asked what % of their crop they lost and  they estimated at least a third which agreed with my range of 25-50%.

Xmas tree farms have a  lot of damage and many lost young seedlings.

There’s damage to timber as well but it may be years before we know how much.

She’s made her decision, time to live with the consequences, wrong though they may be.

Probably not my place to say, but hey, if the shoe fits…

Perfect casting there.

How to keep sociopaths out of power without behaving like one. And outside of Caitlin, try having a conversation about the problem. My brothers think I’m crazy if I bring it up.

I guess the only solution I have is not to have them in my life, whether a relative or boss, easier said than done.

See the beginning of my tag line.

Hope whoever took insurance on that U-Haul, though I suspect the insurers won’t cover this.

Have the longest commute of my life since at least 1984 and hating every minute of it. At least I can work from home a couple days a week.

Figures…

And more using the drug war to achieve police state aims. You can bet your bottom dollar that the majority of those forced into this bs were brown skinned.

Literally, a couple 10″s short. That’s too close for comfort, even if that is next century. And that’s a lot of land and people that are going to be underwater for a very long time.

Portland has warmed about 2.5 degrees since the 60’s-70’s.

Still, yesterday was the only day I haven’t run A/C in the last 10 or so.

Reflect that sun back into space. Not very photogenic though. Wonder how many years it will be before the summer skiing here on the Mt Hood Palmer glacier is done.

If anything. But as far as the GOP and their neoliberal friends could care less.

This time, aided and abetted by the drought and global warming.

And oddly, both western Oregon and Washington are predicted to be one of the areas most resilient to climate change.

But yeah…

My son is in Seattle and doesn’t have air conditioning. His SO and him have been putting ice packs on their necks to keep cool.

Insanely hot for these parts.