Let's hope he passes all the drug tests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Tour_de_France?wprov=sfla1

Then we can all celebrate

When I see people post like this.

https://youtu.be/-vhWWY6mUuw

It's a grim reminder that even progressive people can be duped.

Warren is only running to split the progressive vote im the 1st US Democratic Party Presidential ballot vote. Then the superdelegates can come in and fix things for an establishment-approved candiate who will lose to Trump.

Well the twilight of the trip approaches.

Not like I have a lot to show for it. The family is happy but I never really am.

Maybe someday I will be happy and enjoy things.

Someday.

Part 2 of the trip off to a rousing start.

Took 2 hours to get bags and exit YVR.

Then checked into a hotel which would be fine if you beamed in from the USS Enterprise. Any type of travel vehicle (like say a car) and one would have to dismantle it to get it in their parking garage.

All this for one fucking night of sleep.

Well, part 1 of my trip is coming to an end.

This was essentially the trip back to see the folks that I was shooting for four years ago. Times and people and events have transpired/changed since then (the only things that do).

The next couple of hours will be hard - saying goodbye - but as always, I will have to be strong for everyone.

Plus there's the flight and part 2 of our trip to still come.

Lots of difficult conversations.

Hopefully understanding and positive outcomes will follow.

More to come someday.

Lost respect for a lot of so-called 'progressives'.

https://youtu.be/gVP5gPVuvE0

Including Ms. Gabbard.

Here on the east coast ...

... Long day ... Lots of new faces for some ... Lots of issues for all of us.

Speaking of Consortium News ...

Holy shit - https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/20/cons-j20.html

Consortium News website taken down by a malware attack after streaming program defending Julian Assange

By Kevin Reed
20 July 2019

A glimmer of hope despite a bleak future.

https://consortiumnews.com/2019/07/19/as-costs-of-climate-crisis-grow-protest-movement-escalates/

As Costs of Climate Crisis Grow, Protest Movement Escalates

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Long term campaigns to decarbonize the economy and demand emergency climate policies are getting stronger, write Kevin Zeese and  Margaret Flowers.

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers
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Well, I survived the 2 weeks.

Referring to this cryptic post - https://vultcult.blogspot.com/2019/07/2-weeks-of-joy-start-today.html

Of course, that was primarily work-related.

Now let's see how I do for the next two weeks.
 

Mmm ... chlorpyrifos on fruits is tasty.

Yeah, you think that was the mindset behind this?

https://www.globalresearch.ca/epas-wheeler-keeps-brain-damaging-pesticide-legal-use-foods-kids-eat/5684093

The EPA was poised to ban the pesticide in 2017. But after the 2016 election Dow Chemical, which manufactures chlorpyrifos, set forth on an aggressive campaign to pressure the incoming Trump administration to block that decision. Dow donated $1 million to President Trump’s inauguration festivities and its CEO met privately with then-EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Soon after, Pruitt ignored his agency’s own scientists and aborted the scheduled ban.

Besides produce, there are other dietary routes that make exposure to chlorpyrifos particularly worrisome for parents. Recent tests commissioned by the Organic Center found the insecticide in nearly 60 percent of conventional milk samples tested.

The false narrative the establishment media drops.

https://fair.org/home/to-media-no-democrat-can-possibly-be-right-wing/

Corporate media are funded by the same sources that fund both parties and broadly share the same ideology, hence the reluctance to critique them. By refusing to position them on the political scale, or falsely identifying them as left of center, they are attempting to close the Overton window and prevent a leftward shift in US politics. But that does not mean that we as news consumers have to accept these framings.

Wait, what drought?

Taken as a whole, Washington’s lingering dehydration – the 13th driest July-June period ever recorded in the state – stands in stark contrast to the rest of the country. According to NOAA, the continental U.S. had its wettest 12 months on record, even as the Pacific Northwest became more parched. And with much of the summer yet to come, resolving this drought will require more than scattered showers.

http://ecologywa.blogspot.com/2019/07/wait-how-can-there-be-drought-when-its.html

Now should I be concerned when signing into Blogger.

The computer I use every day to log into Blogger now (suddenly) says it doesn't recognize me.

How embarrassing for it.

Should I be concerned that my phone is loading more than what it's telling me?

Judge for yourself and decide -

Elizabeth Warren -> Hillary Clinton 2.0.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/11/warr-j11.html

All talk, no walk.

A World Without Ice - but not in the establishment media?

2 weeks of joy start today.

And goes on till the Sunday after this one.

Let's see if I survive intact.

Celebrating the American Empire and Police State.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/07/05/us-is-a-classic-empire-and-is-becoming-a-repressive-police-state-at-home/

Cannot argue w/this -

In my view, my country has become the world’s leading “rogue” nation, dismissive of all international laws and codes of conduct, actively attacking many countries on its own authority, without the support of UN Security Council resolutions, exonerating war crimes committed by its soldiers, and committed to the first use of nuclear weapons, both as a first strike against major power rivals like Russia and China, and against non-nuclear nations like Iran, and equally dismissive of all efforts, large and small, to respond to the crisis of catastrophic global heating. At home, the US legal system has become a supine supporter of virtually unlimited executive power, of unchecked police power, and of repressive actions against the supposedly constitutionally protected free press.

My 'working' life

I'm convinced that I'll be working till the day I die.

I certainly don't have enough saved to 'retire'.

On the other hand, if one is enjoying what they do, it isn't really work, is it?

Perhaps that's the thing - what makes you happy never really feels like work. Yes, there is stress, but that comes with everything in this life.

The fact is, I'm the kind of person who wishes every day was a Saturday. I could wake up whenever I wanted and from there decide what I'd want to do that day, be it music, art, writing, movies, fucking, etc.

Solar Ecllipse in South America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipse_of_July_2,_2019

Totality viewed from La Serena, Chile

 

You know something is fucked up when the WA State Department of Ecology announces drought in a rain forrest.

Yeah really - https://ecologywa.blogspot.com/2019/07/drought-in-rainforest.html

Forks, along with the rest of the state’s Pacific Ocean coast, experienced the second driest spring on record since measuring started in 1895. In addition, we had the eighth warmest May on record which melted the mountain snowpack much faster and earlier than normal. The combination of the lack of spring rain and early snow melt has created a water double whammy for the Olympic Peninsula.

Another Canada Day

Ho-hum

Are we in World War III yet? The US Democratic Party seems to think so.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/07/01/pent-j01.html

The biggest military budget ever

Under Trump, the US military budget has gone from $619 billion in 2016 to $700 billion in 2018, $716 billion in 2019 and the $750 billion passed Thursday by the Senate.

Wonder which US Presidential Candidates voted for it?