For me, Summer ends when kids go back to school.
But that aside, got lots of outdoor time (hopefully more to still come), finished some songs, wrote music for a few more.
Back to work soon. But for now I'll enjoy the time I have until Tuesday.
2025-08-29
Time for the Fair?
That is, the Washington State Fair?
Of course, I always knew it as the Puyallup Fair; and still refer to it as such.
2025-08-27
The image that should forever be associated with Microsoft.
https://cdn.geekwire.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/microsoft-sign-protest-2048x1367.jpg
Why?
Microsoft under fire for silencing Gaza dissent with FBI help
The actions came as tensions over Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza spread into the corporate world. At Microsoft’s annual Build developers conference in May, an employee interrupted CEO Satya Nadella’s keynote address, accusing the company of enabling Israeli war crimes through its Azure cloud services. The worker, Joe Lopez, was later dismissed, according to CNBC.
FINALLY - someone says it out loud!
https://mondoweiss.net/2025/08/how-the-un-could-act-today-to-stop-the-genocide-in-palestine/
A UNGA resolution adopted under Uniting for Peace could -
1. Call on all states to adopt comprehensive sanctions and a military embargo against the Israeli regime. While it lacks the power to enforce sanctions, it can call them, monitor them, and supplement them as required.
2. Decide to reject the UNGA credentials of Israel, as the UNGA did in the case of apartheid South Africa.
3. Mandate an accountability mechanism (like a criminal tribunal) to address Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, apartheid, and genocide.
4. Reactivate the UN’s long-dormant anti-apartheid mechanisms to address Israeli apartheid, and
5. Mandate an armed, multinational, UN protection force to deploy to Gaza (and, ultimately, to the West Bank), acting at the request of the State of Palestine, to protect civilians, open entry points via land and sea, facilitate humanitarian aid, preserve evidence of Israeli crimes, and assist in recovery and reconstruction.
That's right - take away their UN membership and kick out Israel, as was the case with Apartheid South Africa.
It was 20 years ago today, that disaster struck for millions in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina.
A disaster that could've been prevented.
https://blackagendareport.com/why-we-remember-katrina
Hurricane Katrina first struck the United States on August 25, 2025 making landfall in Florida as a Category 1 hurricane, the least powerful storm in that designation. But after being downgraded to the category of tropical storm, it gained strength as it traveled into the Gulf of Mexico and again reached hurricane status, making landfall again in Mississippi and Louisiana on August 29, 2025.
Residents of Mobile, Alabama, Gulfport and Biloxi, Mississippi, and New Orleans and other Louisiana cities were all devastated by the storm surge. Twenty years later when we think of Katrina it is the images from New Orleans, where large portions of the city are below sea level, which come to mind. Those who were unable to evacuate were stranded and the levees which were constructed to protect New Orleans were either topped by the storm surge or gave way altogether. The Lower Ninth Ward, home to a majority Black population, was flooded. The official number of deaths caused by hurricane Katrina was 1,392 people, mostly in Louisiana and Mississippi, but also in Alabama and Florida.
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