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This is one of the choirs that Señora sings in. It is for persons who are at least 50 years of age. Señora almost never comes home from a practice without extolling how many talented folks there are that are members of this group.
This particular concert featured songs everyone knows from the movies, including some songs I knew but did not know were movie tunes.
Señora is sitting, just to the left of the pianist.
Enjoy! I know I did when I attended the concert.
Vanity Plate of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one in the wild that I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. When I was commuting from my home to downtown St. Louis and back, I was spending anywhere from an hour and half to two hours daily in rush hour traffic. I used the exercise of deciphering vanity plates to help pass the time… plus sometimes they are very clever and worth sharing.
This was on the back of a Kia Niro. Obviously license plate shorthand for Peace to you. A salutation/valediction we all could use from time to time.
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Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.” ~~ Mark Twain
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Word of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many on my landing page. Words have always fascinated me, and I am a fan of all types of word play, especially puns. I have a hard time not looking up a word that I am unfamiliar with or not sure of the definition. I like those authors that stretch me by throwing in unexpected terms.
And cuz I know you want to…
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Yet another example of El puta pendejo‘s ego run amok. No matter how you spin it, this is a monument, aka Arc de Trump, to the insatiable hole that is the tRump’s ego. I had no idea that it would have such a drastic and negative effect on what the National Park Service is calling the viewscape. However, it right in line with his defacement of the White House and his attempt to plaster the obscenity that is his name all over Washington, D.C. I see it as slap in the face to all veterans buried at Arlington and to Lincoln as the 250 foot tall Arc with dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and the entrance to the Arlington Cemetery.
And what a horrible waste of tax money when he the Republican party are doing their best to take away health care and social program from millions of Americans. Does his hubris, his cruelty have no bounds?
If you have been to Washington, D.C. you will know that this space is perfect the way it is.
The Romans used to march defeated armies through their arc in Rome. I suppose Cadet Bone Spur needs a place to march the defeated Iranian army through.
May Isis save us all.
From the National Park Service website:
National Park Service is accepting public comments on this project until June 15, 11:59PM MT. Learn more below and on nps.gov.
If you submitted comments to the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) or Commission of Fine Arts (CFA), please submit again to NPS. This is a new comment period for a separate government entity.
Members of the public have the opportunity to provide input on a proposed Monumental Arch at Memorial Circle on the George Washington Memorial Parkway, near Arlington National Cemetery and along the Potomac River.
The location of the proposed Arch will interrupt the highly significant relationship between the Lincoln Memorial, across Arlington Memorial Bridge, to Arlington National Cemetery and Arlington House. One of the most symbolic landscapes in Washington, D.C., the vista was designed to represent the post-Civil War reconciliation of the north and south of the United States.
It is because this viewshed carries so much meaning to the country that the National Trust has raised concerns about the proposed Monumental Arch, whose scale, location, and design will disrupt this important visual and symbolic vista. In addition, the Arch will dwarf the Lincoln Memorial and disrupt the long, open, and uninterrupted viewsheds, overwhelming the entry to Arlington National Cemetery—the hallowed resting place of 400,000 veterans and their families and a powerful reminder of American military sacrifice, selfless service, and national unity, all within sight of the monumental core of the Nation’s Capital.
While written as satire, this absolutely nails the results of the disastrous policies of this malAdministration. I have no idea how these folks sleep at night. I can only believe they no conscience, no shame, no regard for their fellow human beings. It is beyond my comprehension that after all this, there are people that still support this convicted criminal and obviously incompetent occupant of the White House.
What El puta pendejo has done to the White House is simply a microcosm of what he is doing to the United States.
May Kumugwe save us all.
Just to be clear, the background picture is by 18th century Dutch painter, Aert Schouman, possibly a self portrait. Or so AI tells me. AI also identified it as a meme currently circulating. I won’t get into the fact that the definition of meme has changed from its coinage in the late 20th century by Richard Dawkins to its current usage as crap circulating on the Internet. Language evolves and changes.
May Deep Thought save us all.
There is a lot of food for thought in this video.
It has struck me for sometime now that folks are more than willing to outsource their cognitive work to computers or other people. With the invasion of AI (Artificial Intelligence), things are only going to get worse, much worse.
And no, the irony of my finding this video on YouTube is on not lost on me. After all there is a reason that the YouTube rabbit hole is a well known phenomenon. Nor is the irony of the authors of this video pushing their other videos to keep you engaged. Nor is the irony of my silly little blog screaming into the black hole of cyberspace, although I try very hard to keep my facts straight.
If you saw any of the Alien movies you will remember the Facehugger aliens. I am not sure there is a lot of difference between them and our cell phones.
Although I worked in technology for 30 years, I am beginning to feel more and more that we have opened up Pandora’s box with computers.
And so it should not go.
Well, maybe not a real conundrum as I have only celebrated the holiday sporadically. Every few years I will go to a fireworks display, usually at the suggestion of someone else. Although when I lived in Tulsa, my apartment complex was right on the Arkansas River. Every year they had a fireworks display put on from a bridge about a 5-minute walk from my apartment. I simply stepped out onto to my patio to watch. The last few years we have stayed home as Prancess Lily is so terrified of fireworks that Robin does not want to leave her alone. When the muchachos were younger we made a little bigger deal of it, but those times have passed.
My problem is this. This is the semiquincentennial of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Normally, I would think this grand and a cause for celebration. However, El puta pendejo aka the current occupant of the now defaced White House, is dead set on making this event about him. A real President might be the head cheerleader of such a celebration, but he/she would step aside and let the celebration be the most important thing. Given the current state of this country, I see no reason to be celebrating. (I started to write our country, but I feel like my country has been taken away from me.) The United States of America, as currently manifested, is not a country to be lauded. Maybe there is a way out of this depressing morass, but if the billionaire’s puppet known as the Republican Party and the Religious Right have their way it is only going to get worse.
The 250th anniversary of the United States of America is feeling more and more like another thing that Cadet Bone Spur has put his reverse Midas touch on. And I certainly do not want to celebrate anything Trumpian.
And so it should not go.
Quote of the Day… not actually daily, but whenever I encounter one I think worth sharing and there are not too many in sequence. I like quotes as they frequently distill a piece of wisdom into a brief passage, or make other points very succinctly – such as the witticisms of Oscar Wilde.
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.” ~~ Franz Kafka
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