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?