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  Well, here we are because Trump once again backed off. Someone on Bluesky got upset because others are calling it TACO Tuesday as if we're making light of the situation. I understand. I'm on the fence about using gallows humor or any kind of humor when we are faced with truly dark events. But, it also shows how absolutely insane Donald Trump is right now. He threatens to annihilate a civilization, then backs off. Tariffs, Greenland, healthcare and social security, all boasts of attacking, then backing off. He acts like a mafia  crime boss who expects everyone to cower and obey. Back and forth because it means nothing to him because it's all a game. He's still living the life of a tv reality host whose only life goal is to win the popular vote. We know he is absolutely insane and just because he has backed off for now with Iran and Greenland and tariffs and social security, doesn't mitigate how critical a situation we are in. I really felt like crying all day yeste...

  It's been interesting reading the feeds on Bluesky. Some, like myself are completely sickened by Trump's threats to destroy an entire civilization. I'm not feeling any warm fuzzies for the Iranian government who are using women and children to protect nuclear power plants (if that information is correct) I realize there's not much we can do and we have to carry on. We need to take the kids to school, plan dinner, pay bills, continue on as if a lunatic isn't in charge of this country. Then I see feeds about food and baseball and homages to people who have been dead for thirty years. Right now my head is spinning, my heart is breaking and my anger is going to be misplaced because it has to go somewhere.  It seems we have a few possible solutions to end this insanity. I saw one feed which read that the military might just refuse to murder people tonight. That's a dream and very unlikely. The second is for TACO Trump to back off. The third is to unalive him. I pre...

  This was kind of neat, watching Artemis 2 travel to the far side of the moon. Everything seems to be going well with the exception of a broken toilet. Just watch The Big Bang Theory, season 2, episode 23, where Howard is in the same predicament. Some interesting facts you might not know about the moon. One: It's not made of cheese. It does have a lot of craters from objects slamming into it, though. Did you know the moon is slowly moving away from Earth? It is! Twelve astronauts have stepped on the moon and those footsteps will be there for millions of years. The Artemis 2 crew isn't landing but I believe they have gone farther than any other humans before them.  'A Trip to the Moon ,' a French science fiction movie was released in 1902. It was 14 minutes long. My kind of movie.  Ralph Kramden never fulfilled his promise to send Alice to the moon. The Honeymooners only ran for one season.  "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's amore....

  Another woman was murdered by someone she knew, a man she had once loved, a man who thought she was his property and refused to let her move on. She had done everything she was supposed to do to protect herself and her children and had gone to court seeking a restraining order last month. On April 1, Makayla Plaza was stabbed to death because she was denied the restraining order by a Kenosha county judge, even though there was evidence of domestic violence. As of this post, the name of that judge is not known, but I will find it because everyone must know who failed this woman. When a woman goes so far as to finally get the courage to go into a court room to get help from authorities, believe her!!!!  You are just as culpable in her murder as the man who stabbed her. You were standing right next to him as Makayla cried out for help. You have blood on your hands you can never wash away. This story won't go away. I didn't even know the victim yet this has enraged me. I can on...

  We think we know the person we are close to, but I never believed that. People keep secrets, like Woody Kelly . I remember him because it was big news in the town I was living in shortly after my marriage. Antioch was just a blip you usually drive through to get elsewhere. I know because when I was a child that was our route to the North Woods. Not much happened in the Winter season but it was a tourist attraction in the summer as resorts opened for business on the various lakes in the area. The disappearance of Woody Kelly was big news. It is still a mystery regarding what happened to Kelly. He was last seen taking a test ride on a boat, refusing a request by the mechanic to ride along. The boat was later found abandoned in Waukegan, twenty miles away. The first impression would be that Kelly fell out of the boat and drowned. The second reasonable conclusion, and one most Antioch citizens believe, was that he took off to start a new life. Kelly was a con man. He was the Bernie M...

  Easter Sunday. The pineapple cubes are skewered into the ham. Sweet potatoes and cornbread are baking in the oven. Little Jimmy is teasing the cat with his bolo bat as the adults whisk their whiskey and soda with their fingers. Suddenly, everyone's phone starts screeching as the emergency broadcast system blares out this alert... "This is not a test. JD Vance is now the acting president until further notice. Do not be alarmed. Everything is fine. There is nothing to worry about. Stay tuned for updates, but it's all good." Grandma Bernice immediately starts wailing while Grandpa Frank wakes from his snooze and tells her to zip it. Uncle Buck yells as Father Flanagan confiscates the remote to switch to the national news. The vigil begins. The ham is forgotten and the charred remains are remembered days later. The false alarm of a car horn going off politically divides the household as Aunt Betty and cousin Gerty prematurely start dancing. Brother Robert E. Lee shoots ...