It's raining (at last!), so incursions from the real world are unlikely to stop me finding links to share.
Power failures, on the other hand...we have far too many aerial cables in my part of the world, and unfortunately our State government has allowed people to spray poisons that weaken trees, even the stumps and roots of long-gone trees, by promoting the growth of fungi, which has the ultimate result of encouraging trees to topple across those aerial cables. And across the roads linemen drive on to replace broken poles and cables.
(I wrote that in the morning; then I spent the afternoon cleaning up someone else's mess, anyway.)
Election 2025
The Party of the (dear, cute, lovable, loyal, hardworking, friendly) Burro digs in and acts like the Party of the Stupid Jackass:
Feelings about those Least Essential Employees in the Capitol can productively be vented at the polls next week.
Politics
What are the Ds acting like jackasses about? Obamacare is what. On that hill they'll die--everyone MUST be forced into the insurance racket so that the insurance racket can keep cranking up medical bills HIGHER and HIGHER and HIGHER!!!
Leave NO patient and doctor a chance, e.g., to consider a case of "depression" objectively, recognize that most "depression" has a physical cause and when a physical examination fails to find one the cause is usually something trivial that resolves itself within six months, and decide to "treat the depression" with diet and exercise...when the insurance company is willing to pay for ever more expensive and dangerous drugs that may, in 1 to 5 percent of cases, cause homicidal insanity and cost several additional lives, but generally make nine out of ten people say they feel a mild "high." There's no end to the profits for the corporations in making sure nobody "has to suffer" the process of finding a simple physical cure that completely eliminates their "depression," when they could just get hooked on those expensive, addictive pills!
And glyphosate? Well, it is fading off the scene, anyway, because it's been overused to the point where people can see it's only acting as a fertilizing agent for kudzu and jimsonweed, but why even talk about banning it when the corporations can have so much fun marketing...I've noticed something recently. The most advertised patent medications make it hard to remember what's prescribed for what because they're all prescribed to cover up symptoms of glyphosate reactions. So help me. Is "Jardiance" for diabetes, for kidney failure, or maybe for skin rashes? Is "Rinvoq" for bleeding bowels, for asthma, or maybe for attention deficiency? Bleep do the reported uses of these drugs have in common? How exactly do these drugs function as antidotes for glyphosate reaction? We don't know that but we do, according to the obligatory disclaimers that are gabbled out while the upbeat music and "Ask your doctor to prescribe this pill for you today!" messages rattle on, know that most of them can kill you. But they're sooo profitable for the insurance industry! After all, when a drug is dangerous, the rate of adverse reactions can be statistically lowered by not actually including the drug in every single pill...
Aaron Guile, who's been posting poems at DVerse only recently, entered the blogosphere as a cartoonist and did an excellent cartoon image for this, years ago. Under "fair use" I have a right to post the cartoon here but youall need to explore AG's blog anyway. See the cartoon in its natural habitat at:
Right at the top of the page.
(Scrolling will disclose many other political opinions with which many readers won't agree. I don't either. We need this. People not necessarily agreeing with each other on other issues, not necessarily agreeing with a candidate or a party, agreeing on one specific thing at a time--that's what's made American Democracy work.)
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