It rained yesterday. That was very exciting. Cells marched through the area bringing straight line winds and then thunder and lightning. I realize that this is old hat for most of the country, but rain in March is pretty wonderful.
There was lightning, I scraped this off the neighborhood Facebook page.
I took this earlier while we were sitting in a huge backup of traffic on La Cholla trying to get home. It's a nice sky.
The fruit trees have decided to bloom. I don't understand their timing at all. The scent over there is really strong. And they're covered in bees.
This is the first of the three waves of steenking yellow trees, the dreaded Acacia. There are four of them in close proximity to the house. Which reminds me I need to go squirt Flonase up my nose to help with the seasonal allergies.
Today is overcast and gloomy. The sun is unable to burn off the clouds.
From twitter we read the following.
The
US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre
of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage
constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a
civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.
Jason Hickel
You
know, the reality is that there are basically only two countries right
now that actually know how to fight drones at scale – Ukraine and
Russia.
So Ukraine really had two options. Either help the Gulf states intercept
those drones, or step aside and watch them go to Russia for help
instead.
And let’s be honest – Moscow would happily take that money, because as
we’ve already seen, Russia doesn’t really care about its allies, even if
it’s Iran. So says Saint Javelin
The Strait of Hormuz remains mainly closed. A few brave souls have turned off AIS and run the strait and have not been sunk. The price of everything continues rise. Thanks 47!
So, on that happy note, I will arise and go now.
Ukrainians are also not assholes like the republicans, so they will help.
ReplyDeleteThey hopefully can use that knowledge SAS a bargaining chip. In January, Heather Cox Richardson made the comment that with all the pushback against ice, the authritarians would double down. She said that the next few months would be horrible. Worse than we could imagine. She was not wrong. It makes me so sad that our stupid decision is affecting the world.
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DeleteTrump tried his hardest to pass off the school bombing as someone else. But it didn't work!
ReplyDeleteI see the potential for Iran, China, and Russia setting up against the rest of the world. And we have IQ45 to thank for that. If he had been satisfied (and I say that facetiously), with intimidating, harassing, imprisoning and deporting brown people we wouldn't be facing another world war. Hopefully cooler heads will prevail!
ReplyDeleteThe international courts will be busy for years to come dealing with the crimes of the current administration.
Have you heard the rumor that there have been many more troop casualties than are being reported? That these deaths are being reported overseas but not stateside? I believe so much news is being suppressed. I no longer know what to believe.
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