A Big Agave and the Usual Perfidy and Malfeasance

It was 95F today.  95!!!  We were out of the house at 9:30 on the bikes, it was a warm ride.  It's going to cool back down in the coming days and happy we are about that.  Apparently I have quit taking photos, I guess there is nothing interesting in my line of sight.  Here is an agave growing in the back yard.  He's different from the Paryii strain.  This strain is susceptible to Agave Snout Weevils.   Our old neighbor lost three large plants to the weevils.  They burrow in, lay eggs, and the off spring hollow out the plant.

By now, we all know about the Signal call that Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in Chief of Atlantic Magazine, sat in on.  Apart from the astonishing fact that he was added to a top-secret, need to know chat stream, is the fact that it was held AT ALL on Signal.  Talking about imminent bombing of a foreign country is supposed to occur in a SCIF.  We know that the people on the chat were using private cell phones, because Signal is never installed on government computers.  Witkoff was in Russia while on the call.  Russia!  The people who snoop everything.  An undercover CIA agent was on the call, and was referred to by name by Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA.  I hope this person is brought home, they're blown as an agent.  Europe now knows the degree to which the US government feels disdain for them.  I do hope they're smart enough, and efficient enough, to quit talking and start making weapons.  We can not be trusted.  A week before this call, the Pentagon put out a mass mailing that Signal is not secure, and don't use it.  They're using Signal because it self deletes in one to three weeks.  So much for the Official Records Act.

Greenland recently held elections.  Currently they have a caretaker government, and while they are forming new coalitions, they don't want visitors.  The US administration tried to say Usha Vance had been invited by the Greenland government, they posted on Facebook that no such thing happened.  Now JD Vance is going up on Friday, he says:  "We want to reinvigorate the security of the people of Greenland because we think it’s important to protecting the security of the entire world.” “Unfortunately, leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long. That’s been bad for Greenland — it’s also been bad for the security of the entire world. We think we can take things in a different direction, so I’m going to check it out.”  I am so certain Greenland and Denmark are interested in Vance poking around in their defenses.  The Hill article is here.  The Greenlanders are planning to protest the visit.

47 has been writing executive orders.  The Constitution gives the states authority to run their elections.  47 has decided to ban mail in voting.  That will end up in court.   He's also going after law firms that he thinks were after him.  

So, same day, different shit from the nation's capitol.